Britney Spears speaks out on social media following the news of her divorce from Sam Asghari. Travis Scott stays on top of the Billboard 200 with his latest album 'Utopia' for the third week in a row, while Oliver Anthony Music's controversial viral song "Rich Men of Richmond" goes to No. 1. Everything you missed this weekend at KCON LA 20223. We learn five things about Jon Batiste and get to know Pedro Capó a little more through a game of Never Have I Ever and more!
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00:00 Britney's bouncing back after divorce drama.
00:03 We've got a new leader on top of the charts.
00:05 Billboard takes you inside K-Con LA.
00:08 We learn five things about John Batiste
00:11 and Pedro Capo plays Never Have I Ever.
00:14 (upbeat music)
00:17 Things are drying up here in LA
00:18 and we've got a brand new episode of Billboard News.
00:22 I'm Tetris Kelly, it's Monday, August 21st
00:24 and let's get things started with a Britney update.
00:27 Britney Spears hears you talking and she don't care.
00:30 Amidst divorce, Britney is living her life
00:33 and still releasing her book.
00:34 Britney is truly free and we like what we see.
00:37 Last week, news broke that Britney Spears
00:39 and Sam Asghari were headed for divorce,
00:42 citing irreconcilable differences.
00:44 Sam posted he wishes her the best
00:46 and Brit posted herself,
00:48 "Six years is a long time to be with someone,
00:50 "so I'm a little shocked, but I'm not here to explain why
00:53 "because it's honestly nobody's business."
00:56 (upbeat music)
00:58 Well, Britney, we want more and she gave us more.
01:06 Our queen was not happy after paparazzi photos of her
01:09 with a buzz ball leaked, so she had a night out, posting,
01:12 "When you go to meet up with a so-called friend,
01:15 "then you have to wait in the car
01:16 "and need to use the bathroom.
01:18 "I knew paps were tipped off.
01:20 "So what does a bitch like me do?
01:22 "I put my green dress on and show up at my friends.
01:25 "I invited my fave boys over and played all night."
01:28 Play with me, Britney.
01:30 And will her book change after the divorce news?
01:33 TMZ is reporting there won't be any changes made
01:35 to the memoir to reflect Britney's divorce
01:38 and the book will be released as is.
01:40 The Woman in Me is available October 24th.
01:44 I'm still recovering from an amazing weekend at K-Con.
01:47 Let's relive some of the fun.
01:49 (upbeat music)
01:55 - Hey, what's up?
01:56 Billboard is here at K-Con LA 2023.
01:58 We're talking to fans, your favorite artists,
02:00 and showing you everything you missed this weekend.
02:03 - Every year, the lineup gets more and more exciting for us.
02:06 - Seeing my friends experience the same kind of joy,
02:09 like that's probably the best part.
02:10 - This is my first time here,
02:11 but it's just so many people with the same
02:14 or similar interests and just good vibes, fun, good music.
02:18 ♪ I'm drunk in the back of the car ♪
02:19 - Yeah.
02:20 ♪ And I cry like a baby coming home from the bar ♪
02:22 ♪ Oh ♪
02:23 ♪ La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la ♪
02:26 - You've been hanging out in LA at K-Con,
02:28 so how's the LA experience has been?
02:30 What have you been doing in your free time?
02:31 - Actually, my favorite tattooist, he's living in LA.
02:35 I just tattoos him, you know what I mean?
02:37 - Did you get something new this trip?
02:39 - Ah, not now.
02:40 - Okay, okay.
02:41 - Yeah, yeah, last trip, yeah.
02:43 - So tell me, who you guys are excited to see at K-Con?
02:45 - Zero Bass Y.
02:46 (laughing)
02:47 ♪ We're going straight to the top ♪
02:49 ♪ (speaking in foreign language) ♪
02:51 - So how's it feel to get all the love at K-Con this year?
02:53 - Honestly, it's our first time at K-Con LA,
02:56 and it's just really a unique experience
02:58 hearing all these supports and these fan chants.
03:01 It just means so much.
03:02 We love you guys from the bottom of our hearts.
03:04 You guys are the best.
03:05 You guys keep us motivated.
03:06 We love you.
03:07 - There's so many other great K-Pop artists here today,
03:09 so who are you guys excited to see,
03:11 and would you work with anybody that you've seen at K-Con?
03:13 - Our bro, Psykers, yeah.
03:14 (laughing)
03:15 Our bro, Psykers.
03:16 ♪ Slow it down, make it bounce ♪
03:18 ♪ (speaking in foreign language) ♪
03:21 - Yeah, our brother, AP's performance.
03:24 - Bouncy?
03:25 - Yeah!
03:25 - Yeah, it's fire, it's fire.
03:28 - Tell me about these outfits, 'cause you guys look great.
03:29 What was the inspiration?
03:31 A little bit of race car going on?
03:32 - Oh yeah, this is like a race car concept,
03:35 but we wanted to put energy into our performance as well,
03:38 so we put like red colors and also sparkles, bling bling.
03:41 You know, we need the bling bling for the big stages today.
03:44 - Oh, well you guys are blinging.
03:45 ♪ And we don't need no fire 'cause we already hot ♪
03:49 - What are you doing outside of K-Con?
03:51 Are you guys hanging out?
03:51 Did you get to see the city?
03:52 - After the concert, maybe some drink.
03:56 - Nice, I want the same.
03:58 - Yeah, with barbecue.
03:59 - Check back next week for our full K-Con coverage.
04:06 Let's learn a little more about Jon Batiste.
04:08 Here are five things you should know about him.
04:10 - Hello, I'm Jon Batiste,
04:12 and this is five things you might not know about me.
04:15 (upbeat music)
04:18 I just learned how to swim last year.
04:23 Still working on it, but I know how to swim now.
04:25 I was a basketball national champion
04:29 before I was a jazz musician,
04:31 before I became an artist in high school.
04:34 I love, love, love listening to the Spice Girls.
04:39 It's an amazing group.
04:43 I always put my albums out based upon people in my life
04:46 and markers in time.
04:48 For instance, like my last album
04:49 was my maternal grandmother's birthday.
04:51 The next album will be my grandfather's birthday.
04:55 My first instrument when I started playing music
04:59 before the piano, before even the drums, was the bongos.
05:04 And I had a set of bongos that you could put right here
05:10 in your lap and I would play those.
05:13 And I only knew one pattern.
05:15 And I played that same pattern for two years.
05:18 And those are five things you didn't know about me, I hope.
05:21 - It's that time of the week,
05:22 so let's talk about the charts.
05:24 We have a historic new leader on the Hot 100
05:27 that comes with some controversy
05:29 and a new debut that I can't get enough of.
05:31 Plus updates on the Billboard 200.
05:34 It's Monday, let's run down our charts.
05:37 ♪ Richmond, north of Richmond ♪
05:39 ♪ Lord knows they all just wanna have total control ♪
05:44 - We have a brand new number one song,
05:46 by the way, of "Richmond, North of Richmond"
05:48 by Oliver Anthony Music.
05:50 Not only is it his first number one,
05:52 it debuts in that spot.
05:54 It may seem like the song came out of nowhere,
05:56 but there were tons of conversation online
05:58 surrounding the song and its meaning.
06:00 Where some are saying it represents all Americans,
06:03 while others see it as a blatant call
06:05 to the north-south divide of the Confederacy
06:08 and the Civil War.
06:09 What?
06:10 I mean, what do you think?
06:11 ♪ It's a damn shame ♪
06:13 ♪ What the world's gotten to ♪
06:15 ♪ For people like me ♪
06:18 ♪ People like you ♪
06:20 ♪ Singing tonight ♪
06:21 ♪ It's a bad idea, right ♪
06:23 ♪ Singing tonight ♪
06:25 - Fuck it, it's fine.
06:26 We've all said it, right?
06:27 Olivia's new single, "Bad Idea, Right"
06:29 from upcoming album "Guts" debuts on the Hot 100
06:33 at number 10.
06:34 Over on the Billboard 200,
06:35 Travis Scott's "Utopia" notches a third straight week on top,
06:39 while Karol G's "Mañana Será Bonito"
06:42 "Bichota Session" debuts at number three.
06:45 Before I let you go, we played a little
06:46 "Never Have I Ever" with Pedro Capo.
06:49 Let's take a look.
06:50 - Hey, this is Pedro Capo,
06:52 and this is "Never Have I Ever."
06:55 (upbeat music)
06:58 Oh my God, of course I have.
07:01 I'm only with a human being.
07:02 (laughs)
07:04 No, I have not.
07:06 Have I clocked it?
07:07 Yes, but I've worked with it.
07:09 Roll up your sleeves and get to it.
07:11 There's a plumber in you too.
07:14 I have.
07:15 Specifically, I just moved,
07:16 and the one that I was in for the last three years,
07:19 in the beginning, had a lot of paranormal activity.
07:22 Things would move, lights would go on and off,
07:24 I would catch stuff from the corner of my eye.
07:27 The TV, I would take the remote batteries off
07:29 and just try to, why is this happening?
07:32 It would move, and it was almost like a Ouija board.
07:34 Like, it would say stuff through the titles.
07:37 Eventually, we came to peaceful resolutions.
07:40 They never bugged me anymore.
07:41 Every now and then, I'll have a light,
07:43 and not how I used to have,
07:45 that I called a yes and no light.
07:47 Sometimes I'd be thinking of something,
07:48 or I got a phone call or an offer,
07:50 and it would turn off, you know?
07:52 I wouldn't rule everything by it, but yeah.
07:55 Oof, I have.
07:57 That was 1918, the first time it happened.
08:01 We had some weed in the car, we got pulled over.
08:03 Somebody tried to hide it, it was a stupid move,
08:05 and we got caught.
08:06 So, no charges, because it was an illegal search.
08:11 Cut.
08:12 - That's today's show.
08:13 Make sure you come back tomorrow
08:14 for our interview with Erika Jayne,
08:16 and we learn five things about Killer Mike.
08:19 I'm Tetris Kelly, and this is Billboard News.
08:21 (upbeat music)