On the new chart dated May 31, Swims’ June 2023 single is still doing fantastic, sitting just outside the top 10 at No. 11. This is the song’s 92nd total week on the chart. 63 of those weeks have been spent in the top 10, which is also a record.
There’s a lot going on with this week’s Hot 100 even aside from Swims’ remarkable feat. For one, after a 13-week run, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” is no longer No. 1, as they’ve been usurped by Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s recent collaboration “What I Want.” The song comes from Wallen’s new album I’m The Problem, and thanks to the project, Wallen now has an incredible 37 total songs on this week’s chart. That’s a new record, breaking the previous high mark set by… Wallen, who had 36 songs on the chart simultaneously for a week in 2023, following his album One Thing At A Time.
The “Von Dutch” singer has been logging past titles from the horror movie franchise on Letterboxd ahead of watching the latest entry, Final Destination Bloodlines. She shared her thoughts on why they’re so much fun — and so financially successful — in a new TikTok video.
“The reason that I love these movies is that they really just are about hot people getting killed,” she said. “You know, there’s no sort of like moral backbone to the story. It really is just like they’re hot, they’re cursed, and they deserve to die. And these films do like so well, like no matter who’s in them.”
Charli also pitched an “It Girl version” of Final Destination starring herself, Rachel Sennott, Alex Consani, Gabbriette, Romy Mars, Quenlin Blackwell, and Devon Lee Carlson. She also suggested a “scream queen, like Jenna” (presumably Ortega) and an “OG scream queen, like Sissy Spacek.” As for the director, Charli pitched horror movie auteurs Ti West, Coralie Fargeat, Robert Rodriguez, or David Fincher.
Ultimately, what matters the most is watching “hot people die in the most brutal ways and play with some unbelievable dialogue.”
You can watch Charli XCX’s Final Destination TikTok here.
Way back in late February, it was announced that on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated March 1, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” had risen to No. 1. It stuck around for a while, too, for 13 total weeks. Finally, though, the end has come to a run: Three months later, on the new Hot 100 dated May 31, “Luther” experienced a significant fall down to No. 1.
This is thanks primarily to Morgan Wallen. His new album I’m The Problem is a hit and it landed on the Hot 100 in a big way. The Tate McRae collaboration “What I Want” debuts at No. 1, making it McRae’s first chart-topper. Next is Wallen’s “Just In Case” and “I’m The Problem,” then Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” then Lamar and SZA.
McRae is now the seventh Canadian woman to go No. 1, following Celine Dion (who’s done it four times), Nelly Furtado (three), Carly Rae Jepsen, Avril Lavigne, Alannah Myles, and Anne Murray (also one each).
Wallen, meanwhile, is the first country artist to have the top three songs simultaneously, and just the sixth artist to ever do it, after The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Drake, Lamar, and Ariana Grande. He has a whopping 37 songs on this week’s chart, which is the most ever.
Portland rapper Aminé just released his third solo album, 13 Months Of Sunshine, inspired by his Ethiopian heritage. Supported by singles “Familiar,” “Arc de Triomphe,” and “Vacay,” the album is named after the longtime motto of the Ethiopian tourism industry. And now, Aminé looks to bring that philosophy to the world, extending the summer sunshine right into the back half of 2025 with his 13 Months Of Sunshine tour. Starting just days after his own Best Day Ever Festival in September, Aminé will hit 22 cities in North America before hopping the pond for a run of shows in the UK and EU in November.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 30 at 9am local time, with artist pre-sale beginning Wednesday, May 28 at 7am local time. You can sign up for the pre-sale and find more info at aminemusic.com. See below for the dates.
9/13 – Portland, OR @ The Best Day Ever Festival
9/14 – Portland, OR @ The Best Day Ever Festival
9/16 – Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater #
9/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic #
9/19 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater #
9/20 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre #
9/23 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues #
9/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall #
9/25 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre #
9/27 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium #
9/29 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom #
9/30 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live – Moody Theater #
10/2 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works #
10/3 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy &
10/5 – New York, NY @ Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage &
10/6 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia &
10/7 – Washington, DC @ Echostage &
10/8 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway &
10/10 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY &
10/11 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY &
10/12 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS &
10/14 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed &
10/16 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit &
10/18 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave/Eagles Club &
10/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis &
11/24 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre %
11/28 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma %
11/30 – Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel %
12/2 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz Manchester %
12/3 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton %
12/5 – Zurich, CH @ Komplex 457 ^
12/7 – Warsaw, PL @ Progresja ^
12/9 – Frankfurt, DE @ ZOOM Frankfurt ^
12/10 – Hamburg, DE @ Große Freiheit 36 ^
12/11 – Luxembourg, LU @ den Atelier ^
12/12 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max ^
12/14 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt ^
12/15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max ^
12/16 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall ^
12/19 – Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen ^
12/21 – Stockholm, SE @ Fållan ^
+With Lido
=With Sango
%With Tommy Gold
^With Niko B
Thanks to Shaboozey, everybody at the bar is gettin’ educated on the history of the country music.
During the 2025 AMAs on Monday, the “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” artist presented the award for Favorite Country Duo Or Group with singer Megan Moroney. “Country music has been an important part of AMA history. The very first year of this show, the award for favorite male country artist went to the great Charlie Pride,” he said, reading from a teleprompter, while she added, “That same year, favorite female artist went to Lynn Anderson, and this award went to the Carter Family, who basically invented country music.”
Shaboozey gave Moroney the side-eye for the Carter Family comment before laughing and continuing on, but he expanded on the meaning of the glance on social media the following day (May 27).
“Google: Lesley Riddle, Steve Tartar, Harry Gay, Defoe Bailey, and The Carter Family…” Shaboozey wrote on X. In follow-up posts, he added, “When you uncover the true history of country music, you find a story so powerful that it cannot be erased…,” and, “the real history of country music is about people coming together despite their differences, and embracing and celebrating the things that make us alike.”
A24’s Materialists managed to squeeze the presences of Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans into the same frame without the world collapsing upon its access. That should be enough incentive for Celine Song’s Past Lives followup to help bring romance back to the movies.
The film’s setup presents a classic love triangle with a modern twist. Dakota Johnson is a matchmaker who meets a rich dude (Pedro Pascal) at a client’s wedding. Chris Evans happens to be there as well while portraying her working class ex, and of course the promo conveniently bypasses how exes are exes for a reason. Hence the following A24 description: “A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.” From there, the audience will be left wondering which man will win the matchmaker’s heart for good, and even better, this movie will not receive a too-obvious Valentine’s Day-themed arrival.
When Does A24’s Materialists Arrive In Theaters?
June 13. To build up to release, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal recently talked via Elle about how Celine Song was inspired to write this movie by her previous work as a matchmaker, and Dakota talked about the dilemma presented by loving somebody:
“I’ve never dated anybody. I’ve had boyfriends, but I have never been on a dating app. I just don’t know that world. So, it was so interesting and intriguing. It’s the most beautiful side of humanity, but it can also be the most ugly. Loving someone is the most scary and beautiful thing you can do.”
She’s still dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, by the way, so Dakota’s doing more than alright in the romance realm. Is it trailer time? Sure. After this movie introduced a Japanese Breakfast tune, the latest trailer is a cute take on those “priceless” Mastercard credit card ads of yesteryear:
The Lox are the perfect act for a starring role in Red Bull’s ongoing Spiral Freestyle series. The trio is still going strong after 30 years — arguably, stronger than ever, as both independent artists and entrepreneurs — and are one of the few rap acts of their generation to be regularly invited on (and dominate) internet-favorite platforms such as Spiral, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, and Verzuz. The latter could be called the origin point of their resurgence over the past few years, as it gave fans a front-row seat to experiencing the three rappers’ dynamic friendship, the core of their continued camaraderie.
While at Red Bull Spiral Studios to shoot the freestyle, Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, and Styles P took some time out to chat with Uproxx about their impressive longevity in the rap business, the brotherhood that has kept the group together all this time, and which of the products from Styles’ health-focused Juice For Life bar would pair best with the titular energy drink.
What made you guys want to do the show? Like, somebody reached out to you and you were like, “This is a dope concept”? How did that whole process get started?
Sheek: Our manager, Mike Brink, had reached out saying you guys are interested in doing it. And everybody’s been hitting us to do freestyles, and we’ve been passing on everything. We just thought the Red Bull experience would be the dopest thing. The dopest sh*t, you heard?
Jadakiss: Also, we have a new project coming out, so it fits. It goes with the rollout.
What can you guys tell me about the new project?
Sheek: It’s dope.
Jadakiss: It’s fire.
Sheek: The content is incredible as far as our wordplay showing that we’re grown what we talk about, but not grandpa-ing it out.
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You guys have been recording and releasing music as a group for over 30 years now, and a lot of your peers either age out or they get into “grumpy old man” mode, and they don’t really stay relevant. But you guys stay relevant. You’re doing Spiral, you have the podcast, you guys did Verzus, and you guys showed that you were able to really connect with an audience that didn’t necessarily even up on your music the way I did. What’s been the secret sauce that kept you guys relevant?
Styles: I think it’s the fact that we are true emcees and true fans of what we do and true fans of hip-hop, so we respect our peers. We definitely respect those who came before us and we respect those who are coming behind us. So, I think our love and our craftsmanship gets us that extra nod.
Sheek: And we listened, too. We hear what’s going on out there.
Jadakiss: We embrace what’s going on. We ain’t put ourselves in a bubble. We have kids, we have sons and daughters and beautiful kids that also help us. They blasting out of their room what’s going on. They putting us on to what’s out there, what’s up and coming. Mixed with our knowledge and not getting in grumpy, grandpa old-man mode, that helps us create and helps us grow. Of course, we stay in our lane to stick to what we do, but just to know what’s going on is always helpful.
Speaking of what you guys do, obviously you guys are kind of that wave of very punchline-heavy, wordplay-heavy, lyrically focused artists. People my age, people your age, don’t really appreciate a lot of what the kids are doing. A lot of what the younger artists… yelling and screaming and rage music. Why is it so important, with where the kids are, for you guys to keep doing what you do?
Sheek: Guys like y’all, it’s a nation that needs us to keep going.
Styles: It’s a bunch, man.
Jadakiss: And it is what we learned. It is what we came up on. There’s always ways to evolve. You should never switch. You can’t switch the foundation. If you buy a house that’s a fixer-upper, you’re going to leave the same foundation and just change the roofing, then change the siding and change some things, but the foundation will remain and that’s how we feel about hip-hop. We love it, and we embrace it and this and that, but we stick to what we know. We just switching the seasoning in the cabinet a little bit.
Sheek: We understand that assignment, man. Hundred percent. You know what we going for.
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Jada, do you have a favorite Sheek Louch line? Do you have a favorite Styles P line? Styles: Do you have a favorite Sheek line? Do you have a favorite Jada line?
Styles: I can answer you: no.
Jadakiss: I do not have a favorite line. I mean, we really like family, we just happen to be a group. We don’t sit around and listen to each other’s songs like that. We help each other. We compliment each other, and we salute each other and use each other as crutches.
Sheek: Exactly what he said. “You murdered that verse, man. We got off. But you murdered that verse.” We say some shit like that to each other.
Styles: We here for the cause of the group. There’s always going to be inside friendly competition. That’s what makes the songs good, but at the same time, you trying to make some capital and gain some equity and do some shit big around here.
What’s the best part about being in a group that has been around for so long? What are some of the benefits to your careers that being able to say “The LOX” as a name still means something after 30 years of having done this together?
Styles: I mean, for me to come in and be able to share a lifestyle with your brothers that you imagined and dreamed of making it together, and then making it together and then conquering land and taking over the world together. You have a story that you could look back on and laugh and enjoy times and say who you enjoyed it with. That’s the whole purpose of this hip-hop shit.
Sheek: I actually love the fan reaction when we do shows. It’s packed, and it’s sold out, it shows that, like, “Man, you guys still love us.” That’s when you know. They sing it word for word, and we keep doing bigger things, and even when we switch it up, let’s say like a Tiny Desk, and you on a show with a live band and all that, and they still love it, and they still want certain things from us.
Red Bull Spiral Studio
Since you guys are at Red Bull, you’re doing the Red Bull Spiral and you guys are big into juicing, smoothies and all that, what kind of juice or smoothie really pairs best with a Red Bull?
Jadakiss: A bark!
Styles: Nah, with a Red Bull, if I was going to drink something with a Red Bull, I’d make it like a lemon grapefruit ginger mixed with the Red Bull.
Sheek: That’s kind of what I was thinking. Can’t be an Armageddon. Grapefruit, ginger ale… can’t be no peanut butter.
Jadakiss: You heard that? Lemon, grapefruit, ginger, Red Bull. No peanut butter, no bananas, none of that.
Thank you so much for sharing your time with me. If you guys have anything else you want to talk about, now is the time.
Sheek: New album coming soon!
Jadakiss: New LOX hats online.
Styles: Make sure you cop Kiss Café, make sure you cop Farmacy For Life. Make sure you cop Juices For Life. Make sure y’all take care of yourselves, and we love y’all.
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You can check out the Red Bull Spiral freestyle above.
For the past couple of months, British soul singer Joy Crookes has been releasing the new singles from her upcoming second album, Juniper. Starting in January with “Pass The Salt” featuring Vince Staples and following up in February with “Mathematics” featuring Kano, the rollout continued in March with “I Know You’d Kill” and finally, earlier this month, with “Carmen.” Today, Crookes revealed the title and release date of Juniper: September 26, as well as a slate of UK tour datesto support the new album — her first since 2021’s breakout debut, Skin.
Ahead of the announcement, she wrote on Instagram, “To try and explain this album has proved way more difficult than I thought, and I think that’s essentially because this album narrates an extremely difficult time in my life. To say it was full of ups and downs would be an understatement, this was a violently turbulent time full of moments of total hedonism where I felt extremely alive but also sadly full of periods of pretty crushing despair and extreme anxiety. Ultimately I had to confront darkness, drag myself out of the trenches and work so hard to get to a better place. It was painful and at moments seemingly impossible, but I did it, I’m here and once again music was my savior. The silver lining to a really dark cloud is ‘Juniper’, a body of work that I love and am very proud of. I’m so grateful for my relationships, my connection with music, my collaborators and my mates. I found a lifeline and solace in all these things. I can’t wait to set this album free into the world.”
Juniper is out 9/26 via Speakerbox/Insanity. You can find more info here.
While Janet Jackson and Rod Stewart received career awards at the 2025 American Music Awards, the performances and award wins themselves gave audiences a look at where music is heading for the foreseeable future. That’s both a figurative and literal characterization: multiple artists, including Alex Warren, Benson Boone, and Reneé Rapp, used their performances to promote their current projects (both Boone and Rapp have albums coming this summer, while Warren is riding the wave of his September release, You’ll Be Alright, Kid).
But on the other hand, despite zeitgeisty wins for SZA and Eminem, many of the breakouts involved artists who appear to be flying under the radar while still having outsized impacts on young audiences. As one of the few fan-voted award shows, unlike, say, the Grammys, which require professional connections, annual dues, and cultural cachet for participation, the AMAs are a slightly better way to place a finger on the pulse of where listeners are — Twitter Stan wars meddling with certain results notwithstanding.
Consider Gracie Abrams’ surprising New Artist Of The Year award win over chart dominators like Chappell Roan, Shaboozey, and Tommy Richman, or Billie Eilish’s Artist Of The Year win over cultural attention magnets like Kendrick Lamar, Morgan Wallen, and Sabrina Carpenter. Doechii’s win for new category Social Song Of The Year with her TikTok-favorite hit “Anxiety” also continued the Swamp Princess’ fascinating rise to the upper echelons of rap and the streaming and sales charts.
However, the show having so many categories begs the question of which awards are televised and why. For instance, Favorite Country Duo Dan + Shay were actually in attendance to collect their award, but Favorite Male Hip-Hop Artist Eminem(??????) was not, while neither Favorite Male nor Female Country Artist (Post Malone, Beyoncé) was broadcast, and Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist (it was Megan Thee Stallion) also went unaired. Meanwhile, the Album and Song of the Year categories are both new, so it’s understandable that they weren’t part of the broadcast… but then, why were they added to the slate? Billie Eilish won both, by the way.
However, setting aside those questionable decisions, the other half of the performances, those honoring musical legends like Janet Jackson, Gloria Estefan, and Rod Stewart (and yes, even Jennifer Lopez, who has been a megastar in the past 20 years, despite her down year) were immaculate showcases of the sorts of talents that many of the younger honorees should hope to be. While some on social media found J. Lo’s six-minute dance medley confusing, it was also exactly the vehicle to display the sort of technical craftsmanship that even allows someone to share the stage with artists 25 years junior over 30 years into a career.
Some other fascinating trends of the evening: The era of the single genre star may just be at its end. In nearly every genre category, if a crossover artist was nominated, they won. Beyoncé and Post Malone took home country awards (Favorite Female Country Artist and Country Album Of The Year for her, Favorite Male Country Artist for him), while Lady Gaga was declared Favorite Dance/Electronic Artist for her work on Mayhem. Also, I’m not sure The Weeknd necessarily qualifies as R&B, but there he is, atop the Favorite Male R&B Artist category, along with an R&B Album Of The Year win for Hurry Up, Tomorrow.
It certainly looks like the future will continue to be dominated by genre dilettantes, by earnest singer-songwriters and vulnerable, yet tough rap queens, and somehow, inexplicably, by Eminem’s faceless gagge of Mountain Dew swilling fanboys, who refuse to acknowledge any other MC no matter how corny his concepts get (truly, we are in Trump’s America now). Benson Boone will keep backflipping into America’s hearts, Reneé Rapp and Chappelle Roan will continue their all-out assault of grrrl-powered, bi-panic-baiting outcast anthems, and Beyoncé will continue doing anything she damn well pleases. The American Music Awards will continue to live up to their name: the music that largely represents America, sincere, diverse, hopeful, maybe a little bit cheesy, and always ready to put on a show.
In 2017, Grizzly Bear released Painted Ruins, and a few years later, in 2020, they went on hiatus. There hasn’t been much news out of that camp since then… until today (May 27): The band is reuniting for a brief run of US tour dates, they announced.
In October and November, Grizzly Bear is set to perform in Brooklyn (for three nights), Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland. The general on-sale for tickets starts May 30 at 10 a.m. PT, and there are various pre-sales as well. Find more ticket information here.
In 2023, the band’s Ed Droste spoke with GQ about his decision to step away from music, saying:
“It was something that was bubbling underneath for a while for me. It was just a couple long stints on the road where I had a look-in-the-mirror moment being like, ‘Do I still really want to be doing this in the next five years?’ I slowly came to terms with the fact that I wanted to try something different. I don’t want to sound like I wasn’t having fun. I still enjoy making music and I enjoyed performing, but there were some negative aspects of it for me that started to outweigh the positive for my mental health and my physical health. I just decided to take control of my life, and this has honestly been so much healthier for me, and that’s just a me thing. That was just something I needed to do for myself.”
Check out the list of tour dates below.
Grizzly Bear’s 2025 Tour Dates
10/13 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
10/14 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
10/16 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
11/08 — Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed
11/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium
11/18 — San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
11/19 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
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