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Black Eyed Peas reunite with Fergie for birthday celebrations

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Several members of Black Eyed Peas — including Fergie — turned 50 earlier this year, and they finally managed to reunite to mark the occasion.

On Saturday, Fergie posted a photo of herself hanging out with her former group mates Taboo, will.i.am and Apl.de.Ap. Together, they made up the group’s most successful lineup, thanks to hits like “Let’s Get It Started,” “I Gotta Feeling,” “Boom Boom Pow” and “Where Is the Love?”

“Finally got to break bread and celebrate our milestone birthdays together. What a special night with my brothers, filled with so much love,” she wrote. Fergie turned 50 on March 27. Will.i.am hit that milestone on March 15, while Taboo turned 50 on July 14. Apl turned 51 on Nov. 28.

“The best one yet!!! And I’m so happy,” will wrote in the comments. Apl added, “Sharing milestone birthdays with the family that’s been through so much together.”

Taboo wrote, “This is a beautiful way to start this holiday season w/ my familia.”

Fergie left the group around 2016, though they remained on good terms. She released her solo album, Double Dutchess, in 2017; she hasn’t put out an album since. In the comments, fans began clamoring for the foursome to reunite.

Black Eyed Peas have put out three albums since Fergie left, scoring a few minor hits like “Ritmo.” Their 2010 single “Rock That Body” went viral on TikTok in 2025.

Riley Green repeats a Taylor Swift milestone with his latest #1

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Riley Green now has his sixth #1, as “Don’t Mind If I Do” with Ella Langley tops the country radio airplay charts in both the U.S. and Canada.

While it’s his second #1 with Ella, following the CMA Award-winning “You Look Like You Love Me,” it’s also the second #1 in a row Riley’s written by himself, after “Worst Way.” He’s the first artist to accomplish that feat on the Billboard Country Airplay chart since Taylor Swift did it in 2011 and 2012 with “Sparks Fly” and “Ours.”

Riley kicks off 2026 with a January appearance at Luke Bryan‘s annual Crash My Playa getaway, before heading to Australia for five dates in March.

He starts his Cowboy As It Gets Tour April 16 in Southaven, Mississippi.

Nick Jonas ushering in 2026 with a new song

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Nick Jonas has been performing his new solo single, “Gut Punch,” live during the Jonas Brothers tour, but he’ll officially drop it on Jan. 1. It will be the first official taste of his upcoming solo album, Sunday Best.

Nick made the announcement at an intimate “Sunday Best Brunch” event in Toronto on Sunday, during which he was joined by brother Franklin Jonas and Canadian singer/songwriter JP Saxe, who worked with Nick on the album. You can hear a clip of the song on Instagram.

During the event, Nick performed his previous solo songs “Jealous” and “This Is Heaven,” “Gut Punch,” another new song called “I Need You,” and the JoBros song “I Believe.”

Sunday Best, Nick’s first solo project since 2021’s Spaceman, is due Feb. 6.

Paul McCartney and Elton John pay tribute to ‘Spinal Tap’ director Rob Reiner

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Paul McCartney and Elton John have paid tribute to director Rob Reiner following the news that Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday.

Both musicians had cameos in Reiner’s last film, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which came out in September.

“What a tragedy the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, is,” McCartney wrote on Instagram next to a photo with Rob. “It is so shocking in many ways but for me especially so, because over the last year I had been working with him. He directed me in ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’. He was such an upbeat, lovable man.”

McCartney added, “Life can be so unfair and this tragedy proves it. His father, Carl Reiner, was a great humourist before him and Rob followed in his dad’s footsteps doing a terrific job making many great films. I will always have fond memories of Rob and the idea that he and his wife will no longer be in the world with us is heartbreaking.”

Elton shared a message about Rob and his wife on his Instagram Story, writing that he was in “disbelief” over the news of their deaths.

“They were two of the most beautiful people I’d ever met and they deserved better,” he added. “My thoughts are with them and their loved ones.”

Carl Carlton, ‘Everlasting Love’ and ‘She’s a Bad Mama Jama’ singer, dies at 72

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

R&B singer Carl Carlton, best known for singing the hit tracks “Everlasting Love” and “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked),” has passed away at the age of 72.

“RIP Dad, Legend Carl Carlton singer of She’s a Bad Mama Jama,” his son Carlton Hudgens II wrote on Facebook. “Long hard fight in life and you will be missed.”

“Everlasting Love” was a top-10 hit for Carlton, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. The tune went on to be covered by a variety of artists, including U2, Gloria Estefan, and Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet.

“She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked),” released in 1981, hit #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also peaked at #2 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart. It earned Carlton a Grammy nomination for best R&B vocal performance, male.

‘Closer’ to new music? Trent Reznor is ‘prioritizing working on Nine Inch Nails’

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

It sounds like Trent Reznor‘s New Year’s resolution is to record new Nine Inch Nails music.

“We are working on new stuff and we’re excited to work on it, and we are prioritizing working on Nine Inch Nails over just taking on every single thing that comes up in the other category,” Reznor tells Consequence.

“Beyond that, I can’t say much,” the “Closer” rocker adds. “But the difference between now and a year ago is the fuse has been lit and the desire is there.”

Reznor’s other projects include his film scoring career with bandmate Atticus Ross, though the duo’s latest soundtrack for the movie Tron: Ares is billed as a NIN project.

The most recent non-soundtrack Nine Inch Nails albums are 2020’s Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts.

Nine Inch Nails’ other upcoming plans include the second U.S. leg of their Peel It Back world tour, which launches in February.

On This Day, Dec. 15, 1967: The Who releases ‘The Who Sell Out’

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, Dec. 15, 1967…

The Who released their third album, The Who Sell Out, a concept album created to sound like a broadcast from one of the popular pirate radio stations in the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

In addition to songs, it featured jingles, PSAs and commercials that the band wrote and recorded for real products like Heinz Baked Beans, Medac acne cream and Odorono deodorant.

The album included The Who’s highest-charting U.S. single, “I Can See for Miles,” which peaked at #9, as well as music that was later reused for their 1969 album, Tommy.

The Who Sell Out went to #13 in the U.K. and made it to the top 50 in the U.S. It is often included on lists of the greatest albums of all time.

Birthday girl, ‘Showgirl’: Taylor Swift’s album is back at #1

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl is still showing out on top of the Billboard 200.

The album, released in October, marks its ninth nonconsecutive week atop the charts, but it’s not the album that’s spent the most time on top in 2025. That honor belongs to Morgan Wallen‘s I’m the Problem; it was #1 for 12 nonconsecutive weeks.

While Swifties spent the weekend streaming Taylor’s new Disney+ docuseries and concert special, she turned 36 on Saturday. Her dancer Kameron Marlowe, who is heavily featured in episode 2, posted a photo of himself and Taylor laughing during rehearsal.

“It’s been three years now that we’ve gotten to have this moment,” he wrote in the caption. “And each year my love for you grows deeper and deeper. You are such an astounding human being!!”

“I’m honored to be in your orbit,” he continued. “The laughs. The love. The affirming. The care. The generosity. I just— thank you! Here’s to a lifetime of more of these moments together. Happy Birthday, gorgeous!”

Taylor spent her Sunday watching fiancé Travis Kelce and his Chiefs take on the Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. She was seen in a VIP suite with future sister-in-law Kylie Kelce and her daughters, who she shares with husband Jason Kelce. Taylor is captured picking up one of her future nieces in footage shared on social media.

The Chiefs lost the game 16-13, knocking them out of the playoffs; quarterback Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL.

Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun & Debby Ryan welcome new baby

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun and actress Debby Ryan have welcomed their first baby together, a girl named Felix Winter Dun.

“A moonbeam baby has arrived,” Dun writes in an Instagram post published Saturday. “She is a sweet baby girl and I love her. Debby labored and gave birth in our bedroom under a bright full moon and snow outside; Felix arrived right into my hands.”

Dun calls the experience “The coolest thing I’ve ever witnessed,” adding, “Debby is unbelievable.”

“I examined and announced to the room that Felix Winter Dun is a girl,” Dun writes. “I kinda thought she was a boy the whole time, but what a way to start off life already surprising me.”

“There is not a single thing I’d ever change about her, except her diaper,” Dun continues. “She can do truly whatever she wants in life, but I’ve got some extra drumsticks and practice pads ready just in case. I love you Felix.”

Dun and Ryan got married on New Year’s Eve 2019.

Dun’s Twenty One Pilots bandmate, Tyler Joseph, has three children with wife Jenna Joseph.

A new Dun baby wasn’t the only Twenty One Pilots-related news to come out of the weekend. The “Stressed Out” duo also earned their 13th #1 single on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart with “City Walls,” a track off their latest album, Breach.

Twenty One Pilots are now tied with Cage the Elephant and Green Day for the third-most #1 hits in the history of Alternative Airplay, which began in 1988. Red Hot Chili Peppers have the most, with 15, while Linkin Park is second with 14.

Mariah Carey to perform at Olympics opening ceremony

December 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Mariah Carey is heading to Italy in February for the Winter Olympics.

The diva, who just wrapped up her Christmas residency in Las Vegas, will perform at the opening ceremony for Milano Cortina 2026 on Feb. 6. After that, she will warm up in Dubai, where she’s booked to perform on Feb. 7 as part of a festival that also features Bryan Adams, Seal, Diana Ross and Ricky Martin.

In other Mariah news, her Here For It All Holiday Special, which streamed live from Las Vegas on Apple Music on Saturday night, is now available on demand. It features Mariah performing all her holiday hits as well as a medley of classics, including “Emotions,” “Hero,” “Fantasy,” “Always Be My Baby,” a full performance of “We Belong Together” and more.

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