Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma won big last night at the Billboard Latin Music Awards. We run down new music from Drake, K-Pop girl groups IVE and aespa, Omar Apollo and more. Billboard takes to you to a P!nk concert, an intimate conversation with Kylie Minogue at the Grammy museum and more in All Access. K-Pop girl group (G)I-DLE talk about their first EP in English, the fan reaction to “Queencard” their experience touring in the U.S. and more. Mỳa goes Speed Dating and shares her favorite vegan dish, celebrity crush and more.
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00:00 Today we sit down with G-Idle,
00:02 talk new music from Drake and all the queens of K-pop.
00:05 We take you to the Billboard Latin Music Awards
00:08 and all over LA to the biggest concerts
00:11 while we go on a speed date with Maya.
00:13 (upbeat music)
00:16 Happy Friday, it's October 6th.
00:18 I'm Tetris, it's Billboard News
00:21 and we're getting close to the end of our Latin Music Week.
00:24 But before we get into all the things today,
00:26 let's update you on some new music.
00:28 Drake drops "For All the Dogs" after several delays
00:31 and lets his son Adonis take center stage.
00:34 ♪ The restaurant clears out ♪
00:35 ♪ Faint echoes of Lauryn Hill ♪
00:37 ♪ I say we gotta talk about us ♪
00:39 ♪ I feel like Jordan Peele ♪
00:40 Plus he's got collabs with Bad Bunny, J. Cole, Lil Yachty,
00:44 SZA and Sexy Red.
00:46 More new tracks throughout the show,
00:48 but for now, let's get into our top stories.
00:51 Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma are victorious
00:54 and both hit the stage.
00:56 (singing in foreign language)
01:00 While Karol G gets candid.
01:09 (speaking in foreign language)
01:12 The Miami area was scorching
01:16 during the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
01:19 And we have all the details on the superstar evening.
01:22 (singing in foreign language)
01:26 With seven wins each, Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma
01:31 tie for the title for most awards during the night.
01:34 But it was Bad Bunny who took home artist of the year.
01:37 (speaking in foreign language)
01:41 (speaking in foreign language)
01:45 And there were show-stopping performances.
01:57 From Teenie, Manuel Turizo, Mark Anthony and so many more.
02:01 (singing in foreign language)
02:04 Elsewhere during the ceremony,
02:06 Karol G was awarded with the Spirit of Hope Award.
02:09 (speaking in foreign language)
02:13 Which was established in 1996
02:18 in honor of the late Selena Quintanilla.
02:21 For a full list of winners, head over to billboard.com.
02:24 - Jesse Murph recruits country king,
02:27 Jelly Roll for a wild one.
02:29 ♪ And cowgirls don't cry ♪
02:31 ♪ Got me wide, wide open ♪
02:33 ♪ Gotta put it back on the menu ♪
02:35 ♪ Pushing back a hundred and two ♪
02:38 - I had so much fun hanging out with the idol
02:40 right here in the studio.
02:42 Check out just a taste of what we discussed.
02:45 Talk about your new music, "Heat" is out.
02:47 It's your first full English language album.
02:49 So why now?
02:50 Why'd you decide to do it?
02:51 - It's our debut EP in the US.
02:54 So we're super excited about this.
02:56 And we just wrapped up our US tour.
02:58 And you know, our fans, they've been so supportive.
03:01 We think that it's about time to, you know,
03:03 give them back and be more connected to them.
03:06 So we came up with this album, "Heat."
03:09 So yeah, we hope they can like it.
03:11 - And what else can you tell us about the project?
03:13 - Yeah, we really had so much fun working on it.
03:15 We're quite nervous because it's our first, you know,
03:18 English and we all recorded fully in English.
03:20 - Yes, exactly. - So it's quite challenging.
03:22 - All the songs, you guys can have my word,
03:25 it's really totally different styles
03:27 that we never have been tried.
03:29 So I think it's gonna be cool.
03:31 I hope our fans can love it.
03:32 - Very new and fresh.
03:33 - You will love it too, I'm sure.
03:34 - Oh, I can't wait.
03:34 - Okay, do you guys have a favorite track yet?
03:37 - My favorite song is "Touch Me."
03:40 - "Touch Me." - "Touch Me."
03:42 - Because it's so...
03:45 - Oh.
03:46 - Cheer. - Oh, cheer!
03:47 - Yeah, it's a cheer song. - Cheer and calming.
03:49 - For me, of course, "I Want That."
03:51 ♪ I want that all my big black SUV ♪
03:53 ♪ I want that, I want that ♪
03:55 - This song is gonna, you know, just gonna kill.
03:57 - Oh, she did this right away.
03:58 That's some choreography.
04:00 - Kind of, yeah, kind of.
04:02 - Well, I like that you write and produce
04:03 a lot of your own music, which is really cool.
04:05 So how do you feel that's different
04:06 than if other people were writing your songs?
04:08 And how is it to be involved in production?
04:10 - That's so cute, it's like a diary.
04:23 - Oh, yeah.
04:24 - Your music themes are also very mature.
04:26 You guys are so sexy and cool.
04:28 - Oh.
04:29 ♪ Why you think 'bout me ♪
04:30 ♪ 'Cause you feel so real ♪
04:32 ♪ I'm hot, I'm hot ♪
04:34 ♪ My boobae, boobae ♪
04:36 - Like, what do you think makes you guys
04:38 different than other K-pop groups?
04:40 Or like, why do you think it's harder
04:41 for a lot of K-pop groups to be as empowering as you guys?
04:44 - Well, since I think we keep making our own music
04:48 and we just, you know, express ourselves at the moment.
04:52 And now we're not teenagers anymore, we are like 20s.
04:56 So I think that's kind of different.
04:58 'Cause we are so like straightforward
05:01 to the music, like be honest.
05:04 - It seems like today's the day for K-pop girl groups.
05:06 In addition to (G)I-DLE,
05:08 (G)I-DLE continues their comeback with "Off the Record."
05:11 ♪ Off the record, night ♪
05:13 ♪ This late night conversation ♪
05:15 ♪ (speaking in foreign language) ♪
05:17 - And aespa returns with a Japanese track, "Zoom Zoom."
05:21 ♪ I'm a zoom, zoom in on ya ♪
05:23 ♪ I'm a zoom in on ya ♪
05:24 ♪ Zoom, zoom, (speaking in foreign language) ♪
05:26 ♪ Zoom, zoom, (speaking in foreign language) ♪
05:28 - While Latin Music Week was jumping off,
05:30 LA was also the place to be.
05:32 We take you on the town.
05:35 A pop girlie gets greedy.
05:37 A pop queen gets candid.
05:39 As a new voice in country impresses
05:41 and Tiesto lights up the sky.
05:44 LA is busy in this week's Billboard All Access.
05:48 (upbeat music)
05:50 Tiesto took over LA State Park last Saturday
05:53 for a night filled with dancing and good vibes.
05:57 ♪ Big bass line gonna make that shake ♪
05:59 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
06:01 - Last night, Take McRae took her new Billboard Hot 100 hit
06:04 to the stage at Hollywood's Palladium.
06:07 ♪ No you got that effect ♪
06:09 ♪ I said, let me hear it ♪
06:12 ♪ I don't want myself to be treated ♪
06:16 - While not too far away, Pinkville's SoFi Stadium
06:19 and was joined by Atlantis Morset and more.
06:22 ♪ I'm a rockstar, I'm better than what you think ♪
06:25 ♪ Tonight, I'm the girl, the girl, the girl ♪
06:27 ♪ I'm gonna rock ♪
06:31 ♪ Look who's coming now ♪
06:33 ♪ Look who's turning around ♪
06:35 - Last Friday at Novo in Los Angeles,
06:37 the soul could be felt in the room
06:39 with Jessie Murph and her passionate fans.
06:41 She treated them to her new single
06:43 with Jelly Roll, Wild Ones.
06:45 ♪ Sky's not enough ♪
06:47 ♪ I gotta thank for the wild ♪
06:50 ♪ I gotta thank for the wild ♪
06:53 - And our very own Keith Caulfield chatted up
06:55 with pop superstar Kylie Minogue at the Grammy Museum
06:58 on Wednesday about her new album.
07:01 - Now that we've pedammed and we've broke the tension
07:05 and all of that, that's just like bonus
07:09 because I felt so fulfilled and challenged
07:14 and all sorts of emotions through making the album,
07:18 like a year and a half of making it.
07:19 - Padam, padam indeed.
07:21 - It's number one in the UK, number one in Australia.
07:24 It's your biggest sales week in America in 20 years.
07:27 - I'm so grateful.
07:28 (audience cheering)
07:31 - Omar follows back with four tracks
07:35 on his new EP, Live For Me.
07:37 ♪ How you feel about the way your life is going ♪
07:42 - Getting emotionally raw on the title track.
07:47 ♪ Nothing I won't get me ♪
07:52 ♪ You don't have to do ♪
07:54 - And Maya is a legend in music,
07:57 but if you thought you knew everything about her,
07:59 you're wrong.
08:00 - Here we are with Maya and we're gonna play Speed Dating.
08:03 ♪ It's getting me, it's getting me insane ♪
08:07 ♪ I don't know what to do ♪
08:09 - Who was your childhood crush?
08:11 - Childhood crush, Michael J. Fox.
08:13 - Okay, period.
08:15 What was your dream job as a kid?
08:16 - Dream job as a kid, veterinarian.
08:18 - What is your favorite vegan dish?
08:21 - Anything curry.
08:22 - What drink do you order at a bar?
08:24 - Wine.
08:25 - What three things would you bring with you
08:27 to a deserted island?
08:28 - Water.
08:29 - Shea butter.
08:33 - Okay, I'm with you right there.
08:35 - And then watermelon.
08:37 - I'm with it.
08:38 What song do you have on repeat currently?
08:40 - I don't have anything on repeat right now.
08:43 - Wine.
08:43 - I was about to be like shameless plug,
08:45 wine featuring Bounty Killer.
08:46 - Literally.
08:47 ♪ I love it when you wine, wine, wine, wine, wine, wine ♪
08:51 - And that was "Speed Dating with Maya."
08:54 - Baby Fisher's got a new song
08:55 and I'm loving the inspo, "Madonna."
08:58 ♪ In that dress you look like Madonna ♪
09:01 ♪ And she's smoking this and turning right now ♪
09:05 And that's your Friday.
09:06 Come back next week when we take you on set
09:09 of a music video with DaBaby.
09:11 So much more happening next week.
09:13 I'll see you then.
09:14 This is Billboard News.
09:16 (air whooshing)