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Darius Rucker is expanding his NFL-themed clothing line. 

For the second consecutive year, the singer has partnered with Fanatics for a line of activewear licensed by the NFL featuring “styling touches” by the singer.

Among the new pieces in the fall 2022 line are a black jacket boasting the Miami Dolphin’s logo on the arm, in honor of his favorite football team; a Green Bay Packers fleece black hoodie; Seattle Seahawks sweatpants; and a white button-up shirt with the New England Patriots logo.

“Sitting there with all your team stuff on, I’m honored to do it and proud to do it, but I think [the collection is] also stuff people are going to love,” the hitmaker says. “For me football’s not just about the game, it’s about all that stuff, too. It’s about tailgating, getting ready for the game with your friends, whether you’re sitting in the house or going to the game. It’s a whole experience.”

Darius launched the line in 2021 with 22 pieces and has since added 27 items from 32 NFL teams. 

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Lewis Capaldi has spent most of the time he’s been working on new music joking about how it might be a “massive flop,” but thankfully, that hasn’t come to pass. His long-awaited new single “Forget Me” has debuted at number one on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart.

“Forget Me” is Lewis’ first chart entry in nearly three years and only the third single this year to debut at number one. One of the other two was Harry Styles‘ “As It Was,” so Lewis is in good company. Overall, it’s his third number one in his home country following “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go.”

Speaking to OfficialCharts.com about his achievement, Lewis joked, “I can’t thank everyone enough for doing this with me and getting it to this point — even though I did most of the work!”

“This one goes out to all of you, the people who love me, and especially to my enemies,” he continued. “May you all perish in flames and know nothing but eternal suffering. Goodbye!”

He was a bit more serious on Instagram, writing, “I love you all thank you for making this possible for me.”

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It seems safe to call Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard‘s Stadium Tour a success.

The outing, which also featured Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts on the bill, took in a total of $173.5 million from 1.3 million tickets sold, according to Billboard.

Since Billboard began tracking tour data in the late ’80s, neither Mötley Crüe nor Def Leppard had grossed as much money or had sold as many tickets on any other previous tour.

Both bands’ previous peaks as solo headliners averaged between 10,000-11,000 tickets sold and never more than $1 million earned per show. The Stadium Tour, meanwhile, averaged 37,520 tickets sold and $4.96 million earned each night.

For Mötley Crüe, the tour marked their return to the live stage after playing their “final” show on New Year’s Eve 2015. The concert was preceded by a “cessation of touring” contract, which was meant to legally prevent the “Dr. Feelgood” rockers from touring together again. Upon announcing their return, the Crüe declared that they’d voided the contract.

Adding to the buildup was the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed the Stadium Tour from its initially scheduled 2020 launch to 2022.

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A riot occurred at the Vancouver Breakout Festival on Sunday after it was announced that headliner Lil Baby had canceled his performance.

Social media videos show festivalgoers destroying tents, throwing garbage and breaking equipment.

“Following an announcement that the headliner at BreakOut Festival would not be performing, fans turned their disappointment into anger, doing significant damage to the PNE Amphitheatre and parts of Hastings Park,” festival organizers said in a statement, according to Complex. “At this time our first priority is for the safety and wellbeing of our staff as many were deeply affected by the reaction of guests and behavior that ensued.”

The promoters posted on Instagram that the “Drip Too Hard” rapper arrived at the venue but was “too sick to perform.”

On Monday, Lil Baby apologized for not performing in an Instagram Story.

“I have been going so hard these past few months without any breaks that it finally caught up with me and my body completely shut down. I owe you guys big time and will for sure make up for it soon,” the Grammy winner wrote.

His next concert appearance is scheduled for October 8 in his hometown, Atlanta. Six days later on October 14, Lil Baby will drop his third studio album, It’s Only Me.

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Selena Gomez, the latest artist to have her very own documentary, has released the first trailer on her Instagram.

“My Mind & Me. We don’t get along sometimes and it gets hard to breathe… But I wouldn’t change my life,” she teased in the caption, adding the doc arrives in November.

The trailer shows Selena over the years — from wiping away tears to celebrating major moments of her life. All clips represent fragments of her complex story from the past six years. The trailer offers no narration and allows the fleeting glimpses into Selena’s life to do the talking. White words then appear on the screen, declaring, “Every breath a breakthrough.”

Among the many major events that happened in Selena’s life since 2016 were her final breakup with on-again-off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber, the reception of a life-saving kidney transplant from best friend Francia Raisa, the launch of Rare Beauty and her global effort to normalize conversations on mental health with Wondermind.

An official press release teased a synopsis of the upcoming doc. “After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness,” it begins. “This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.”

Alek Keshishian, the director behind Madonna: Truth or Dare, is helming the documentary, which hits the Apple TV+ streaming service on November 4.

This is Apple’s second jaunt with Interscope Films and Lighthouse Management + Media following its Emmy-nominated documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.

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For the first time in their career, Ghost has a song on the Billboard Hot 100.

The track “Mary on a Cross,” which was originally released on Ghost’s 2019 album Seven Inches of Satanic Panic, enters the all-genre chart this week at #90.

As for how a three-year-old Ghost song — let alone one that was never included on a proper album — made it onto a ranking nowadays dominated by pop, rap and country, the answer is, of course, TikTok. “Mary on a Cross” has gone viral over the past couple months thanks to a Stranger Things-themed post.

Ghost released their most recent album, Impera, in March. It includes the singles “Hunter’s Moon” and “Call Me Little Sunshine,” both of which hit #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, which Ghost has led a total of five times.

You can catch Ghost on their current tour in support of Impera, which concludes this week. Mastodon and Spiritbox are also on the bill.

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After August Alsina claimed that Tory Lanez assaulted him at a concert Saturday night, the Los Angeles Police Department opened an investigation into the accusation.

“We are aware of the allegations that the defendant attacked artist August Alsina and are investigating these claims,” a spokesperson for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office told Billboard in a statement. “The allegations are serious and will be thoroughly examined.”

A Twitter video shows that Alsina ignored a handshake from Lanez backstage at the Arie Crown Theatre in Chicago. In the final half of the video, as Lanez is seen walking away, a man off-camera commented, “Tory says he knocked August Alsina’s a** right out with one punch.”

The Chicago Police Department tells Billboard they received a report of a “30-ye[a]r-old male” being “punched in the face by a 30-year-old male after exiting a building in the 2300 block of S. Lake Shore Drive,” the location of the Arie Crown Theatre, on Saturday at approximately 11:30 p.m.

As previously reported, Alsina posted an Instagram photo of himself in an elevator with blood streaming from his mouth. In the caption, he claimed that he hadn’t said any “disrespectful words” but was suddenly punched by Lanez. Tory denied the incident, telling DJ Akademiks, “I don’t know if he is doing a promo—I don’t know what that n**** is talking about.”

Lanez is currently out on bail after being charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion following a July 2020 pool party in the Hollywood Hills. He is charged with felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, personal use of a firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. The Canadian rapper faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

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Lil Nas X is seeing double at Madame Tussauds — that’s because he’s the latest celebrity to get the wax figure treatment.

The Grammy winner celebrated the Hollywood debut of his wax clone on Tuesday. The figure celebrates the iconic golden Versace suit he donned to last year’s Met Gala. Designers went all in and even replicated the nail art Lil Nas X wore in 2021.  

Other attention to detail additions include the Versace earring he rocked to the event, as well as the choker he wore underneath the suit. “Are we twins or what? I knew this was going to be good but this is like, scary amazing,” he said in a statement.

Lil Nas X shared a side-by-side view to his Instagram, where the jokes wouldn’t stop rolling. “Never thought i would get the pleasure of meeting myself,” he quipped. “The sexual tension was too much to bare [sic].”

Fans were quick to point out they had a hard time figuring out who was who because the figure was so lifelike.  “Okay that’s too realistic because I couldn’t figure out which one was real,” one fan expressed in the comment section. Another remarked, “This [is] so freaky.”

Others noted they thought the real Lil Nas X — who was dressed in all black and a long, blonde wig — was the wax figure at first.  

Madame Tussauds said Lil Nas X earned his wax figure because of all his contributions to music, fashion and pop culture.  

Fans can interact with the lifelike statue now at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood, California.

In the meantime, get ready for new Lil Nas X music. His song “Star Walkin’,” which is the theme for League of Legends‘ 2022 Worlds Tournament, drops Friday at midnight.

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