It’s Thursday, April 25th, and we can’t seem to get enough of Taylor Swift. The singer jetted off to a vacation with Travis Kelce, Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid. After the release of her new albums, ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Matty Healy finally responds about the songs about him in Taylor’s new album and Taylor breaks yet another record. On our cover, we have groundbreaking DJ-producer Peggy Gou and she tells us about her rise to fame. We give you an overview of all the exciting music festivals to come this summer. The TikTok Chart is in, who takes the lead? Will it be Hozier or will Alek Olsen still reign supreme? We take a look at the success of Blondie in our Chart Rewind this week and more!
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00:00 Taylor's ex, her vacation, and her broken record.
00:03 We break down the top headliners of festival season.
00:06 Peggy Goo takes over the cover of Billboard.
00:09 We run down the TikTok Billboard Top 50
00:12 and look back at a past chart topper.
00:14 Welcome to Billboard News.
00:18 We've got a lot to get into.
00:20 Here's three things you need to know
00:21 about Taylor Swift today.
00:23 ♪ 34 night loves in America ♪
00:28 The records keep breaking.
00:30 Taylor's The Torture Poets Department
00:32 became the first album to pass one billion
00:35 Spotify streams in a single week.
00:37 Oh, we are listening.
00:39 But is one of the album's rumor muses doing the same?
00:42 As the Swifties in public dissect
00:44 if songs are about Tay's ex, Joe Alwyn,
00:46 or her fling with 1975's Maddie Healy,
00:49 ET caught up with the singer
00:51 and asked did he hear his diss track,
00:53 to which he responded,
00:54 I haven't really listened to that much of it,
00:56 but I'm sure it's good.
00:58 It is good.
01:00 And can we all stop figuring out who it's about
01:02 and just enjoy the music?
01:04 I pretend it's my life.
01:05 Lights, camera, bitch, smile.
01:07 And Taylor is apparently smiling on vacation.
01:10 Travis Kelce's mom shared on QVC
01:12 saying her son sent her a pic of them
01:14 having a couples vacation with Bradley Cooper
01:16 and Gigi Hadid.
01:18 All I can say to that is double power couple goals.
01:21 Just invite me next time.
01:23 Moving on to our latest cover star,
01:24 Peggy Gu is paving her own way.
01:27 I believe that Koreans are very hard worker.
01:30 They don't like to waste their time
01:31 and they're very efficient.
01:33 And my team always say that about me,
01:35 when efficiency is a person, it will be you.
01:38 I don't like fucking around,
01:39 I don't like wasting my time,
01:40 and that comes from Korean blog.
01:43 I love this job.
01:45 I take my job very seriously.
01:47 And one of the thing that I love about my job
01:49 is that I get to tour many countries every weekend.
01:54 Every weekend, I feel like I learn a lot.
01:57 From not only the tour, by meeting people,
01:59 by going to the country, cities.
02:01 And of course, sometimes I wake up thinking,
02:04 where was I?
02:05 But I've been doing this since like 2014.
02:09 So I think traveling is like part of my life now.
02:12 Someone asked me recently, what is luxury to you?
02:16 And my answer was sleeping in your own bed
02:19 with your own pillow.
02:20 So that's the hardest part of this job.
02:24 (crowd exclaiming)
02:26 I feel like I can't stay in one place.
02:29 I get bored super fast.
02:31 I have so much energy.
02:32 So staying in one place wouldn't suit me.
02:36 Even if I wasn't a DJ or producer,
02:38 I would still be doing something that travels.
02:40 I'm back in London.
02:41 I have my work platform.
02:43 We are off our way to the studio.
02:46 I'm a very visual person.
02:47 Doing this job, I get to see, hear a lot of things,
02:51 and that inspires me.
02:52 Visuals, colors, and also I get inspired
02:55 by my supporters and fans.
02:57 They are the one who comes up with really creative ideas
03:00 and amazing groupons,
03:03 and that's where I get the Peggy Goops inspired.
03:06 Check out the full cover story on Billboard's YouTube.
03:11 We are smack dab in the middle of festival season,
03:13 and there's so many epic headliners to choose from.
03:16 Let's break it down.
03:21 Lana Del Rey.
03:22 ♪ They always say congratulations ♪
03:25 Post Malone.
03:26 And more have been announced as some of the headlining acts
03:30 of the 2024 music festival season.
03:32 And we have the rundown on all this year's highlights.
03:36 (upbeat music)
03:38 From industry veterans to chart toppers,
03:44 the headliners scheduled to hit the stage this year
03:47 vary across the board.
03:48 Take Coachella Music Festival for example.
03:51 Come April, Lana Del Rey will make her grand return
03:54 as headliner of the two weekend affair,
03:56 offering her first performance on the ground in 10 years.
03:59 Later on, she'll make her way to the beaches
04:01 of Gulf Shores, Alabama to Hangout Music Festival.
04:05 Post Malone will also make the festival circuit this season,
04:08 hitting Love & Life Music Festival
04:09 in Charlotte, North Carolina in early May,
04:12 before Governor's Ball in New York City in early June,
04:15 and Bonnaroo later that month in Manchester, Tennessee.
04:18 ♪ The best, the best, the best of you ♪
04:22 Meanwhile, Foo Fighters are also a staple
04:24 among this year's lineups at the New Orleans
04:26 Jazz and Heritage Festival, Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta,
04:30 and Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida,
04:32 all in the month of May.
04:34 ♪ A firm on this season of the sticks, ah ♪
04:38 And Noah Khan will bring his slice of folk pop
04:40 to several festivals this year,
04:42 including High Water Festival in April,
04:44 Love & Life in May, Railbird Music Festival in June,
04:47 Hinterland in August, and more.
04:50 ♪ Ain't no hollaback girl ♪
04:52 Gwen Stefani will also make a resurgence this summer.
04:55 Not only is she scheduled to reunite
04:57 with No Doubt at Coachella,
04:58 but the superstar will take the stage for solo sets
05:01 at the 3rd Annual Lovers & Friends Fest in May,
05:03 and Minnesota Yacht Club Festival in July.
05:06 For more on the lineups for the 2024 music festival season,
05:09 head over to Billboard.com.
05:12 We're Billboard, so we gotta cover the charts.
05:14 Here's who's dominating the TikTok game.
05:17 A new song takes the top spot
05:19 while another breaks into the top 10.
05:21 ♪ 'Cause I don't wanna live a lie, lie, lie ♪
05:24 ♪ Should tell my boyfriend what I've been doing ♪
05:27 Lei Banks climbs from 11 to the top spot
05:30 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50
05:32 for the chart posting April 25th.
05:34 - You know Billboard Top 100?
05:37 Why tell your girlfriend just--
05:40 - You lying, you lying, you lying!
05:41 - Tell your girlfriend has become a certifiable bop
05:44 on the talk and even debuted at number 58
05:46 on the Hot 100.
05:48 While the rest of the top 10 looks pretty familiar,
05:50 an oldie but goodie jumps to number eight from 29.
05:54 ♪ Because you're fine and you're mine ♪
05:56 ♪ And you look so divine ♪
05:59 Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love"
06:01 may have hit number five on the Hot 100 50 years ago,
06:03 but it's found a new life on the app.
06:06 ♪ Come and get your love ♪
06:09 Sitting just outside the top 10
06:13 is Billboard cover star Tyla's Jump
06:15 featuring Gunna and Skill B.
06:17 ♪ They never had a pretty girl from Joel Burke ♪
06:20 ♪ See me now and that's what they prefer ♪
06:22 Every Thursday, Billboard will bring you
06:24 the verified list of the hottest songs on TikTok
06:26 by monitoring music discovery and engagement
06:28 on the platform in the United States.
06:30 To find the TikTok Billboard Top 50 each week,
06:33 users can simply go to any sound detail page
06:35 and tap the top right button to access the charts page.
06:39 And let's throw it back to another epic chart
06:41 in today's chart rewind.
06:43 ♪ Come and get your love and it was a guess ♪
06:47 ♪ So it turned out not a heart of glass ♪
06:50 "Blondie" hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100
06:53 this week in 1979.
06:55 "Heart of Glass" was the group's first number one hit
06:58 on the chart.
06:59 Co-written by lead singer Debbie Harry,
07:01 the song brought in a new and exciting disco sound
07:04 for the group.
07:04 It was the first of four number one hits.
07:07 They later hit number one again with "Call Me" in 1980.
07:10 ♪ Call me, call me, call me, call me ♪
07:14 ♪ Call me any, any time ♪
07:17 The "Tide is High" in 1981.
07:19 ♪ Tide, but I'm moving on ♪
07:22 And "Rapture," also in 1981.
07:25 Although the group continued to see success on the charts,
07:28 it was "Heart of Glass" that led the way.
07:31 - That's it for today.
07:32 Come back for tomorrow's Friday Music Guide
07:34 and our interview with Kaytn.
07:35 I'm Tetris Kelly and this is Billboard News.
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