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Hey, men — Amen! Sabrina Carpenter has scored her second #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Manchild.”

This is Sabrina’s first #1 hit to debut on top of the chart; her previous #1, “Please Please Please,” rose to the top from #2 on June 29, 2024. Billboard notes that since that date, Sabrina has been the only female artist to do the following:

— Hit #1 as a solo artist, without any collaborators

— Hit #1 with a song that isn’t a Christmas tune

— Score two #1 hits

“Manchild” is the first single from Sabrina’s upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, due out Aug. 29. Her most recent album, Short n’ Sweet, contained two hits in addition to “Please Please Please”: “Espresso” and “Taste.”

Sabrina co-wrote “Manchild” with the same collaborators as “Please Please Please” — Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff. She and Antonoff co-produced the song.

After two weeks at #1, Alex Warren‘s “Ordinary” slips to #2, but remains on top on Billboard‘s Songs of the Summer chart.

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Bailey Zimmerman may be on the New to Country Tour this summer, but his recent Gold and Platinum certifications prove he’s already got some serious cred.

Backstage at CMA Fest’s Sunday night show, he picked up eight new plaques. “Rock and a Hard Place” is now six-times Platinum, while “Religiously” is quadruple Platinum. “Never Comin’ Home” has just hit the Platinum milestone, while “Change,” “Fix’n to Break,” “Get to Gettin’ Gone,” “Never Leave” and “Chase Her” have just hit the Gold standard.

Judging by his track record, Bailey’s likely to pick up some more once his second album, Different Night Same Rodeo, drops Aug. 8. 

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Brad Paisley is taking his truck to Canada — his Truck Still Works Tour, that is. 

The “Whiskey Lullaby” hitmaker is extending the trek, adding nine new dates in November and December. Presales start Tuesday, before tickets become available to the public on Friday. Look for openers to be announced soon. 

The Truck Still Works World Tour launched in May and already has three sold-out weekends under its belt. Brad resumes his run with Walker Hayes in July. 

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Slim Thug confronted an alleged stalker who he caught sleeping in his garage. He shared a video of his encounter with the woman, who had seemingly settled into the garage with her suitcase.

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The B-52s and Devo are teaming up for a new co-headlining tour.

The 2025 Cosmic De-Evolution tour will consist of 11 dates, kicking off Sept. 24 in Toronto and wrapping Nov. 2 in Houston. The tour, with special guest Lene Lovich, will serve as “both bands’ continuing concert farewells,” according to a press release.

The B-52s went on a farewell tour back in 2022, but Fred Schneider revealed what changed his mind about this trek.

“In 2022, I swore I’d never get on a tour bus again but we were careful to say to our fans that we would still perform in special situations that don’t require all of the awful tour travel,” he says. “[W]hen we were offered the chance to do a small run of shows with Devo, we all said this is an extraordinary opportunity we couldn’t say no to.”

The B-52s’ Cindy Wilson revealed that discussions for the tour began after the two bands performed together at the SNL50 concert in New York City.

“Believe or not, we’ve never done more than a festival or two together in all this time,” she shared. “This will be amazing and I can’t wait for The B-52s to share these stages with Devo!”

Added Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, “It was either fate or luck or the SNL anniversary that brought us all together to create this amazing chance to go out on tour. All I can say is Cosmic Devolution is REAL!”

Presales begin Monday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday morning. 

A complete list of dates can be fond at TheB52s.com and ClubDevo.com.

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Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong took a moment out of the band’s headlining set at England’s Download Festival on Friday to criticize President Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump and his administration is a fascist government,” Armstrong declared in fan-shot footage of the Download performance. “And it’s up to us to fight back.”

Armstrong also encouraged the crowd to chant “you fat bastard” at Trump.

Previously, Armstrong altered the lyrics to songs including “American Idiot” and “Jesus of Suburbia” to criticize Trump and Vice President JD Vance, as well as Elon Musk.

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Ed Sheeran‘s legal accusers said, “Let’s Get It On” — again — but the U.S. Supreme Court said no.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition by Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns part of Marvin Gaye‘s hit 1973 song “Let’s Get It On.” SAS had sued Ed, claiming that his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” ripped off Gaye’s song, but that case was dismissed in November by a lower court.

Structured Asset Sales then asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. That was the petition, obtained by ABC News, that the court denied on Monday; that means the earlier ruling will stand. 

However, Billboard reports that Structured Asset Sales has yet another case against Ed, which focuses on the recorded version of Gaye’s song, as opposed to the sheet music, which was the focus of the earlier case. The head of SAS told Billboard that other case will now proceed in federal court.

As you may recall, in 2023 a jury cleared Ed of plagiarism in a third suit, which was filed by the family of the song’s co-writer, Ed Townsend. Since then, Ed has said in interviews that he now films every one of his songwriting sessions to document his creative process, as insurance against future lawsuits.

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Alex Warren isn’t a father, but he just got an amazing Father’s Day gift.

On Instagram, Alex posted a photo of himself posing with a red Mitsubishi 3000GT sports car, as well as a photo of his late father posing with the same car. “I have the best wife ever… my dad passed away when I was a kid but when he was my age he bought this car and had to sell it when my mom got pregnant,” Alex wrote.

“She found it and bought it and surprised me. I am the luckiest man in the world,” he added. It’s no wonder that Alex’s wife, Kouvr, inspired his #1 hit, “Ordinary.”

Kouvr posted video of the moment when Alex saw the gift; his jaw visibly drops. She titled the video, “I surprised my husband with his dad’s old car,” and captioned it, “The look on his face is worth more that anything in the whole world I’m so glad that he gets to experience the same thing that his dad did when he was his age.”

In other Alex Warren news, he’s revealed the title of the new song he’s been teasing, which features BLACKPINK member ROSÉ: “On My Mind.” No word yet on when it’ll be released. 

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