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The Weeknd And Ariana Grande Each Get Their Sixth No. 1 Song As ‘Save Your Tears’ Tops The Hot 100

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The Weeknd’s After Hours was released way back in 2019, but the album still has plenty of life in it. Not only that, but it’s still producing No. 1 singles: On the new Billboard Hot 100 chart dated May 8, his new version of “Save Your Tears” featuring Ariana Grande is on top. Last week, the song (then credited to just The Weeknd) ranked at No. 6. This dethrones Polo G, whose “Rapstar” falls to No. 4.

This is the sixth No. 1 song for both artists. For Grande, it comes after “Thank U, Next,” “7 Rings,” “Stuck With U,” “Rain On Me,” and “Positions.” For The Weeknd, it follows “Can’t Feel My Face,” “The Hills,” “Starboy,” “Heartless,” and “Blinding Lights.”

This makes After Hours the first album to produce three No. 1 singles since Drake’s Scorpion did it in 2018, and just the seventh album since 2010 with three chart-toppers. Another interesting trivia tidbit is that Grande is now just the second artist with three No. 1 duets, after Paul McCartney; Grande’s “Stuck With U” and “Rain On Me” are collaborations with Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, respectively.

Grande shared her response to the news, tweeting, “thank you so much @billboard @theweeknd and to everybody listening and showing so much love!!!!!! honored and so grateful.”

All The New Albums Coming Out In May 2021

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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in May. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, May 7

  • A Certain Ratio — ACR:EPA EP (Mute Corporation)
  • Acid’s Test –Strings Of Souls (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • Alfie Templeman — Forever Isn’t Long Enough (Chess Club Records)
  • Allblack — TY4FWM (Thank You 4 Fuckin’ With Me) (Crumb Records)
  • Aly & AJ — A Touch Of The Beat Gets You Up On Your Feet Gets You Out And Then Into The Sun (Aly & AJ Music LLC)
  • Angel Olsen — Song Of The Lark And Other Far Memories (Jagjaguwar)
  • Annie Hart — Everything Pale Blue (Orindal Records)
  • Arielle — Analog Girl In A Digital World (self-released)
  • Ashe — Ashlyn (Mom & Pop Music)
  • Bailey Bryan — Fresh Start (300 Entertainment/Warner Music Nashville)
  • Bebe Rexha — Better Mistakes (Warner Records)
  • Best Move — Mirror Image Twins EP (Park The Van)
  • Blue Cactus — Stranger Again (Sleepy Cat Records)
  • Buffet Lunch — The Power Of Rocks (Upset The Rhythm)
  • Century Egg — Little Piece Of Hair EP (Forward Music Group)
  • Charlie Marie — Ramble On (Soundly Music)
  • Chloe Moriondo — Blood Bunny (Elektra Music)
  • Cold Moon — What’s The Rush (Pure Noise Records)
  • The Damn Truth — Now Or Nowhere (Spectra Musique/Sony Music)
  • Daniel Bachman — Axacan (Three Lobed Recordings)
  • Dodie — Build A Problem (The Orchard)
  • Dorothea Paas — Anything Can’t Happen (Telephone Explosion Records)
  • Doss — 4 New Hit Songs EP (LuckyMe)
  • Emma Moore — The Table EP (Pilot Records)
  • Fickle Friends — Weird Years: Season 2 (self-released)
  • Fiver — Fiver With The Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition (You’ve Changed Records)
  • Fougére — Still Life (Studio Fougére)
  • Francisco Martin — Beautiful Ramblings Of A Restless Mind EP (19 Recordings)
  • GoGo Penguin — GGP/RMX (Blue Note Records)
  • Graham Costello — Second Lives (Gearbox Records)
  • Grey Mouse — A Moment Of Weakness (Addicted Label)
  • Iceage — Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
  • Ilan Bluestone — Impulse (Anjunabeats)
  • India Jordan — “Watch Out!” (Ninja Tune)
  • Jake Manzi — Whatever My Heart Allows (Missing Piece Group)
  • Kali — Circles EP (self-released)
  • Kasai Allstars — Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound (Crammed Discs)
  • Kelsy Karter — Live From Nowhere (BMG)
  • L’Orange & Namir Blade — Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group)
  • Leftover Salmon — Brand New Good Old Days (Compass Records)
  • Linn Koch-Emmery — Being The Girl (Boys Tears)
  • Lipstick Jodi — More Like Me (Quite Scientific)
  • Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell — Burn (Cleopatra Records)
  • Lucinda Chua — Antidotes 2 EP (4AD)
  • Mandy Barnett — Every Star Above (BMG)
  • Manolo Redondo — The Lost & Found EP (Violette Records)
  • McCormick — Till The Sun Comes Up (self-released)
  • McKinley Dixon — For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her (Spacebomb Records)
  • Mia Joy — Spirit Tamer (Fire Talk)
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones — When God Was Great (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  • Mighty Oaks — Mexico (Howl Records)
  • Mina Tindle — The LFO/Blogothèque Sessions EP (37d03d)
  • Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall — The Marfa Tapes (Vanner Records/RCA Nashville)
  • Model Child — Unscrewed EP (XL)
  • Moneira — Colour Visions (Jivvär)
  • Nancy Wilson — You And Me (Carry On Music)
  • Naomi Banks — Meeting Again EP (Bella Union)
  • Natalie Bergman — Mercy (Third Man Records)
  • Nelson Beer — Orlando EP (PIAS)
  • Night Beats — Outlaw R&B (Fuzz Club Records)
  • Night Heron — Instructions For The Night (Terrorbird)
  • Nous Alpha — A Walk In The Woods (Our Silent Canvas)
  • People Club — Take Me Home EP (Kartel Music Group)
  • Pile — In The Corners Of A Sphere-Filled Room (self-released)
  • The Purrs — We Thought There’d Be More People Here (Hockeytalkter Records)
  • Quintin Copper & Nas Mellow — April Dreams (Diggers Factory)
  • Results Of Adults — Interstellar Peach Delight (Cornelius Chapel Records)
  • Robin McAuley — Standing On The Edge (Frontiers Music)
  • Round Eye — Culture Shock Treatment (Paper + Plastick)
  • Salem — Salem II (Salem/Decent)
  • Sam Valdez — Take Care (B3SCI Records)
  • Sanjay — Initiation EP (Purple Condor Records)
  • Sarah Jarosz — Blue Heron Suite (Rounder Records)
  • Semi Precious — Post-Euphoria (Squareglass)
  • Senso — Drifter94 EP (Inverted Audio)
  • Shaun Ross — Shift (JEX Records)
  • The Skinner Brothers — Iconic EP (Blaggers Records)
  • Sonic Haven — Vagabond (Frontiers Music)
  • Sophia Kennedy — Monsters (City Slang)
  • Sumo Cyco — Initiation (Napalm Records)
  • Ted Russell Kamp — Solitaire (Ted Russell Kamp/PoMo Records)
  • Tommy Emmanuel — Accomplice Series Volume 1 With Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley EP (CGP Sounds)
  • Tommy’s Rocktrip — Beat Up By Rock ‘N Roll (Frontiers Music)
  • Toosii — Thank You For Believing (Quality Control/Motown)
  • Tony Joe White — Smoke from The Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
  • Travis Tritt — Set In Stone (Big Noise)
  • Weezer — Van Weezer (Atlantic/Crush)
  • Wiki & Nah — Telephonebooth (Wikset Enterprise)
  • Will Stratton — The Changing Wilderness (Bella Union)
  • Van Morrison — Latest Record Project: Volume 1 (Exile/BMG)
  • Voroni — The Last Three Seconds (Small Pond)

Friday, May 14

  • Alaina Castillo — Parallel Universe Part 1 (AWAL)
  • Alan Jackson — Where Have You Gone (EMI Records Nashville)
  • Andy Bell — See My Friends EP (Sonic Cathedral)
  • Babe Rainbow — Changing Colours (Eureka Music)
  • BALA — Maleza (Century Media Records)
  • Benito Gonzalez — Sing To The World (Rainy Days Records)
  • Caliban — Zeitgeister (Century Media Records)
  • Carl Smith And The Natural Gas Company — Burnin’ (Match Box Records)
  • The Chills — Scatterbrain (Fire Records)
  • Cory Williams — Bird Mouth (self-released)
  • Current Joys — Voyager (Secretly Canadian)
  • Damien Jurado — The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa Records)
  • The Deep Dark Woods — Changing Faces (Six Shooter Records)
  • Denm — Slum Beach Denny (Ineffable Records)
  • Fanclubwallet — Hurt Is Boring EP (AWAL)
  • Holly Macve — Not The Girl (Piccadilly Records)
  • Jesse Terry — When We Wander (Wander Recordings)
  • Johanna Samuels — Excelsior! (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
  • John Andrews & The Yawns — Cookbook (Woodsist)
  • Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane — Lost In The Cedar Wood (Transgressive Records)
  • Jorja Smith — Be Right Back (FAMM)
  • Juliana Hatfield — Blood (American Laundromat Records)
  • Kate Clover — Channel Zero EP (SongVest Records)
  • Leider — A Fog Like Liars Loving (Beacon Sound)
  • Liar Thief Bandit — Deadlights (The Sign Records)
  • Lindsay Ellyn — Queen Of Nothing (Queue Records)
  • Magic Island — So Wrong (Mansions and Millions)
  • Mandrake Handshake — Shake The Hand That Feeds You EP (Nice Swan Records)
  • Matt Berry — The Blue Elephant (Acid Jazz UK)
  • Maxine Funke — Seance (A Colourful Storm)
  • Michael Hearst — Songs For Unconventional Vehicles (Urban Geek)
  • Mob Rich — Why No Why (Republic Records)
  • Myles Kennedy –The Ides Of March (Napalm Records)
  • Natik Awayez — Manbarani (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Never Loved — Over It (Equal Vision Records)
  • Night Heron — Instructions For The Night (Terrorbird)
  • Okey Dokey — Leaky Sealing EP (Park the Van)
  • Old Sea Brigade — Motivational Speaking (Nettwerk)
  • Paul Weller — Fat Pop (Volume 1) (SuperDeluxeEdition)
  • Riley Downing — Start It Over (New West Records)
  • Roan Yellowthorn — Another Life (Blue Élan Records)
  • Rob St John — Surface Tension (Pattern & Process Press)
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela — Jazz EP (Rubyworks/ATO)
  • Ryan Downey — A Ton Of Colours (Dot Dash Recordings)
  • Sara Bug — Sara Bug (EggHunt Records/Clandestine)
  • Sarah Neufeld — Detritus (One Little Independent Records)
  • Sculpture Club — Worth (Funeral Party Records)
  • Shaed — High Dive (Photo Finish Records)
  • Smol Data — Inconvenience Store (Broken Camera Records)
  • Sons Of Kemet — Black To The Future (Impulse! Records)
  • The Steel Woods — All Of Your Stones (Woods Music)
  • St. Vincent — Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista Recordings)
  • Three-Layer Cake — Stove Top (RareNoise)
  • Zuli Jr. — Stop It God. (Nurtured Ideas)

Friday, May 21

  • 299 — The 299 Game (PNKSLM Recordings)
  • Allison Russell — Outside Child (Fantasy Records)
  • Animal Years — This Is Part Two Of An Album Called Animal Years EP (self-released)
  • Ariel Bart — In Between (Ropeadope)
  • Beach Tiger — Yenta (Southern America Records)
  • Billie Marten — Flora Fauna (Piccadilly Records)
  • Blake Shelton — Body Language (Warner Brothers Nashville/Ten Point Productions)
  • Brian Bromberg — A Little Driving Music (Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group)
  • Chai — Wink (Sub Pop)
  • Charles — Let’s Start A Family Tonight (Babe City Records)
  • Claire George — The Land Beyond The Light (Cascine)
  • Cloves — Nightmare On Elmfield (Polydor/Interscope)
  • Dayglow — Harmony House (AWAL)
  • The Devil Wears Prada — ZII EP (Solid State Records)
  • Ducks Ltd. — Get Bleak EP (Carpark Records)
  • Earth Girl Helen Brown Center For Planetary Intelligence Band — Earth EP (Empty Cellar Records)
  • Facs — Present Tense (Trouble in Mind)
  • Fiddlehead — Between The Richness (Run For Cover)
  • Fly Pan Am — Frontera (Constellation)
  • Gary Numan — Intruder (BMG)
  • Gavin Preller — There Is Wonder (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow — VWETO III (Foreseen Entertainment)
  • Gruff Rhys — Seeking New Gods (Rough Trade)
  • Herman Frank — Two For A Lie (AFM Records)
  • Hippie Death Cult — Circle Of Days (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • Holiday Ghosts — North Street Air (Gato Gordo Records)
  • Imogen Clark — Bastards EP (MGM/Potts Entertainment.)
  • James Francies — Purest Form (Blue Note Records)
  • JD McPherson — I’m Still Here (Black Mesa Records)
  • Jim McCulloch — When I Mean What I Say (Violette Records)
  • John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band — Leftover Feelings (New West Records)
  • Jon Allen — … Meanwhile (Monologue Records)
  • Lakely — Cold War (Lakely)
  • Lambchop — Showtunes (Merge)
  • Livingmore — Take Me (Nomad Eel Records)
  • Lord Huron — Long Lost (Inertia Music)
  • Lydia Ainsworth — Sparkles & Debris (Zombie Cat Records)
  • Mannequin Pussy — Perfect EP (Epitaph Records)
  • Mara Connor — Decades EP (Ba Da Bing)
  • Marinero — Hella Love (Hardly Art)
  • Mat Kearney — January Flower (Tomorrow Music/Caroline)
  • Mischa Blanos — City Jungle (InFiné)
  • The Mistons — World Of Convenience (self-released)
  • Nick Jaina — Credo (Fluff & Gravy Records)
  • Noomi — Life Aqua EP (self-released)
  • Oliver Wood — Always Smilin’ (Honey Jar Records)
  • Olivia Rodrigo — Sour (Geffen Records)
  • Para One — Machines Of Loving Grace (Animal63)
  • Patrick Droney — State Of The Heart (Warner Records)
  • Patrick Paige II — If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (Fat Possum Records)
  • Pink Chameleons — Peace And Love (Soliti Music)
  • Pixel Grip — Arena (Feeltrip Records)
  • Pop Evil — Versatile (Entertainment One Music)
  • The Reverend Shawn Amos — The Cause Of It All (Continental Record Services)
  • Robert Finley — Sharecropper’s Son (Easy Eye Sound)
  • Roddy Woomble — Lo! Soul (self-released)
  • San Holo — bb u ok? (Bitbird)
  • Sinéad Harnett — Ready Is Always Too Late (Sony Music)
  • Spang Sisters — Spang Sisters (Bathtime Sounds)
  • Starlight Cleaning Co. — Starlight Cleaning Co. (SofaBurn Records)
  • Storefront Church — As We Pass (Sargent House)
  • Sunny Jain — Phoenix Rise (Sinj Records)
  • Swallow The Rat / Clone — Split LP (Headbump Records)
  • Sylph — Silver As It Was Before EP (Mute)
  • Trapper Schoepp — May Day (Grand Phony Records)
  • Trick Or Treat — The Unlocked Songs (Scarlet Records)
  • Tuvaband– Growing Pains & Pleasures (Passion Flames)
  • Twenty One Pilots — Scaled And Icy (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra)
  • Vola — Witness (Mascot Records)
  • Waterparks — Greatest Hits (300 Entertainment)
  • We Were Sharks — New Low (Revival Recordings)
  • Yoo Doo Right — Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (Mothland)
  • Yung Mal — 1.5 Way Or No Way (Alamo Records)
  • Zoo Wees — Golden Wings EP (Capitol Records)

Friday, May 28

  • 81355 — This Time I’ll Be Of Use (37d03d)
  • Allday — Drinking With My Smoking Friends (Believe Music)
  • André Either — Further Up Island (Telephone Explosion)
  • Aquarian Blood — Bending The Golden Hour (Goner Records)
  • Austin Taft — Skeletons (Triple Edge Records)
  • Bachelor — Doomin’ Sun (Polyvinyl Records)
  • Beth Whitney — Into The Ground (Tone Tree Music)
  • Blackberry Smoke — You Hear Georgia (Thirty Tigers)
  • Black Midi — Cavalcade (Rough Trade)
  • Blood Cultures — Luno (Pack Records)
  • Brianna Perry — Boss Bitch Boulevard (Equity Distribution)
  • Daniel Davies — Spies EP (Sacred Bones Records)
  • Dawn-Song — For Morgan (2144317 Records DK)
  • Dispatch — Break Our Fall (Bomber Records/AWAL)
  • Elder Island — Swimming Static (self-released)
  • Everett Parker — Outbound Travelin’ Crazies (Liberty)
  • Ghastly — Mercurial Passages (20 Buck Spin)
  • Gizelle Smith — Revealing (Jalapeno Records)
  • Gwar — The Disc With No Name EP (P.I.T. Records)
  • Hot Mulligan — I Won’t Reach Out To You EP (Wax Bodega)
  • James Heather — Modulations: EP2 (Ninja Tune)
  • John Errol — Inferno (Flexible Distribution/Terrible Records)
  • KD Lang — Makeover (Nonesuch)
  • Kele Okereke — The Waves Pt. 1 (KOLA Records/!K7)
  • Kezia — Claire EP (Never Seven)
  • Lost Division — Cuts And Scars (Inverse Records)
  • Lou Barlow — Reason To Live (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Mark Trecka — Acknowledgment (Whited Sepulchre Records)
  • Masayoshi Fujita — Bird Ambience (Erased Tapes Records)
  • Moby — Reprise (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Mustafa — When Smoke Rises (Regent Park Songs)
  • Nathan Micay — Industry OST (LuckyMe)
  • Of Mice & Men — Bloom EP (SharpTone Records)
  • Penelope Trappes — Penelope Three (Houndstooth)
  • Rider & Rolling Thunder — On The Banks Of The Tennessee EP (Defendu Industries)
  • River Kittens — Soaking Wet (Create Records)
  • Salvador Sobral — BPM (Warner Music International)
  • Shannon McNally — The Waylon Sessions (Compass Records)
  • Strictly Elizabeth — Contemporary Construction (Data Water Records)
  • T-Tops — Staring At A Static Screen (Magnetic Eye Records)
  • Thee More Shallows — Dad Jams (Monotreme Records)
  • Theo Alexander — Sunbathing Through A Glass Screen (Arts & Crafts)
  • Toler Gibson — The Days Before (Rocket Girl Records)
  • UV-TV — Always Something (PaperCup Music)
  • Wombo — Keesh Mountain EP (Fire Talk)
  • Wyldest — Monthly Friend (Hand in Hive)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Weeknd Is Still Boycotting The Grammys Despite Their Recent Changes

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The Weeknd may never be nominated for another Grammy, but not because the quality of his work is about to drop off: After somehow being completely snubbed at the 2021 Grammys, the artist declared that he is boycotting the awards and will no longer submit his music for consideration. The Recording Academy has faced a ton of criticism over the past year-plus, but a few days ago, they announced “significant changes” to their voting process, including the elimination of “secret committees.” While The Weeknd thinks that’s cool, he says he’s still going to stick to his boycott.

In a statement to The New York Times, The Weeknd said, “Even though I won’t be submitting my music, the Grammys’ recent admission of corruption will hopefully be a positive move for the future of this plagued award and give the artist community the respect it deserves with a transparent voting process.”

Interim Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason Jr. also offered a statement, saying the changes come as part of “a year of unprecedented, transformational change,” adding, “This is a new academy, one that is driven to action and that has doubled down on the commitment to meeting the needs of the music community.”

Meanwhile, The Weeknd doesn’t need the Grammys to lock down award nods: A few days ago, he racked up an impressive 16 Billboard Music Awards nominations.

Billie Eilish Doesn’t Care If She’s A ‘Hypocrite’ For Wanting To Show Her Skin In A Revealing Cover

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We’re well into the new era that Billie Eilish is presenting with her new album. It comes with the singer ditching her trademark black and green hair for a more delicate blonde look. She’s also given us new music for it as she dropped “Your Power,” the first single from her next project, last week.

This forthcoming full-length effort, titled Happier Than Ever, is set to arrive on July 30 and while that’s still more than two months away, Eilish is already displaying her content outlook on life through a new profile with British Vogue for their June 2021 issue.

One of the many talking points during her conversation with the magazine was an emphasis on being happy in your skin and how much you of it you choose to show regardless of society’s opinion.

“Suddenly you’re a hypocrite if you want to show your skin, and you’re easy and you’re a slut and you’re a whore,” Eilish said. “If I am, then I’m proud. Me and all the girls are hoes, and f**k it, y’know? Let’s turn it around and be empowered in that. Showing your body and showing your skin – or not – should not take any respect away from you.” This follows another point she makes during the sit-down in which she says, “Don’t make me not a role model because you’re turned on by me.”

The profile also featured a photoshoot that sees the singer rocking a “classic, old-timey pin-up” look that includes a corset, a piece of clothing Eilish felt would she would be criticized for wearing.

“If you’re about body positivity, why would you wear a corset? Why wouldn’t you show your actual body?” she predicted some would say to which she responded, “My thing is that I can do whatever I want.”

While the upcoming issue won’t hit newsstands until May 7, you can read her full profile with British Vogue here.

Justin Bieber Delivered A Stripped-Down Performance Of His No. 1 Song ‘Peaches’

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A little over a year after he made his return with Changes, Justin Bieber began a new album cycle with his sixth effort, Justice. The project, which boasted 16 tracks and features from Khalid, Chance The Rapper, Burna Boy, Giveon and Daniel Caesar, helped Bieber return to the top of the album charts. It also made the singer the first male solo artist to debut a song and album at No. 1 in the same week after “Peaches” made its debut atop the singles chart. This is also the song that Bieber recently gave a stripped-down performance of, much to the delight of fans.

Bieber pulled a seat by a piano as he rocked bright pink sunglasses and dreads — the latter which caused a bit of controversy last week — to deliver the somber take on “Peaches.” While the track originally features Giveon and Daniel Caesar, this version was an entirely solo effort that gave Bieber the opportunity to show off his vocals.

The rendition was the third take of “Peaches” that Bieber has delivered over the past couple of months. He first premiered the track during his NPR Tiny Desk concert from back and March and recently joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for a classroom instrumental version of the song.

You can watch Bieber’s stripped-down performance of “Peaches” above.

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Lil Uzi Vert Supports Bebe Rexha’s Declaration To Never ‘Die For A Man’ On Their Collab

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For the last few months, Lil Uzi Vert has promised his next album is “coming soon.” If it arrived prior to today it would’ve been the rapper’s fourth full-length effort in about a year, joining projects like Eternal Atake and Pluto X Baby Pluto. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like that project will arrive in the near future, but in the meantime, fans can enjoy the Philly rapper’s latest guest verse which finds him rocking beside Bebe Rexha on “Die For A Man.” The track, which is set to appear on Rexha’s upcoming Better Mistakes album, sees her declaring that she’ll never die, change, or cry for a man. Uzi appears later on to echo similar sentiments in regards to the women who appear in his life.

Rexha’s Better Mistakes album will arrive on May 7 with additional help from Rick Ross, Ty Dolla Sign, Pink Sweats, Travis Barker, and more. Moving back to Lil Uzi, the rapper is also set to appear on Blink-182’s upcoming album. Until that arrives, the wait for his next body of work continues and it should be noted that Uzi and Grimes claimed to be in the studio “making hits” together, tracks that could very well appear on his new project.

Hit play on the video above to hear Uzi and Rexha’s new song.

Better Mistakes is out 5/7 via Warner. Pre-order it here.

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The Weeknd And DaBaby Lead The Full List Of Nominations For The 2021 Billboard Music Awards

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The Billboard Music Awards are set to air May 23 and are aimed at honoring today’s most popular artists. The full list of nominees has been revealed and The Weeknd, DaBaby, and Megan Thee Stallion are leading the pack.

The Weeknd, who was notably snubbed for a Grammy nomination this year, holds an impressive 16 BMA nominations, including Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, and Top Streaming Songs Artist. DaBaby follows closely behind with 11 nominations. Country singer Gabby Barrett holds the most nominations for a female artist with nine, but Megan Thee Stallion is right behind her with seven nods.

The Billboard Music Awards also note that while Morgan Wallen appears on their nominations list, they say “his recent conduct does not align with our core values, we will not be including him on the show in any capacity (performing, presenting, accepting).” Their decision to not include Wallen follows a viral video which shows the singer using a racial slur.

This year’s awards are based on the chart period of March 21, 2020 through April 3, 2021. Nominations are decided based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay, and social engagement, tracked by Billboard and its data partners.

Check out the fill list of nominees below.

Top Artist

Drake
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
Taylor Swift
The Weeknd

Top New Artist

Gabby Barrett
Doja Cat
Jack Harlow
Pop Smoke
Rod Wave

Top Male Artist

Drake
Juice WRLD
Lil Baby
Pop Smoke
The Weeknd

Top Female Artist

Billie Eilish
Ariana Grande
Dua Lipa
Megan Thee Stallion
Taylor Swift

Top Duo/Group

AC/DC
AJR
BTS
Dan + Shay
Maroon 5

Top Billboard 200 Artist

Drake
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
Post Malone
Taylor Swift

Top Hot 100 Artist

DaBaby
Drake
Dua Lipa
Pop Smoke
The Weeknd

Top Streaming Songs Artist

DaBaby
Drake
Lil Baby
Pop Smoke
The Weeknd

Top Song Sales Artist

Justin Bieber
BTS
Megan Thee Stallion
Morgan Wallen
The Weeknd

Top Radio Songs Artist

Justin Bieber
Lewis Capaldi
Dua Lipa
Harry Styles
The Weeknd

Top Social Artist (Fan Voted)

Blackpink
BTS
Ariana Grande
SB19
Seventeen

Top R&B Artist

Jhené Aiko
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Doja Cat
The Weeknd

Top R&B Male Artist

Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
The Weeknd

Top R&B Female Artist

Jhené Aiko
Doja Cat
SZA

Top Rap Artist

DaBaby
Drake
Juice WRLD
Lil Baby
Pop Smoke

Top Rap Male Artist

Juice WRLD
Lil Baby
Pop Smoke

Top Rap Female Artist

Cardi B
Megan Thee Stallion
Saweetie

Top Country Artist

Gabby Barrett
Kane Brown
Luke Combs
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen

Top Country Male Artist

Luke Combs
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen

Top Country Female Artist

Gabby Barrett
Maren Morris
Carrie Underwood

Top Country Duo/Group

Dan + Shay
Florida Georgia Line
Maddie & Tae

Top Rock Artist

AC/DC
AJR
Five Finger Death Punch
Machine Gun Kelly
twenty one pilots

Top Latin Artist

Anuel AA
Bad Bunny
J Balvin
Maluma
Ozuna

Top Latin Male Artist

Bad Bunny
J Balvin
Ozuna

Top Latin Female Artist

Becky G
Karol G
Rosalía

Top Latin Duo/Group

Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga
Eslabón Armado
Los Dos Carnales

Top Dance/Electronic Artist

The Chainsmokers
Kygo
Lady Gaga
Marshmello
Surf Mesa

Top Christian Artist

Casting Crowns
Elevation Worship
for KING & COUNTRY
Carrie Underwood
Zach Williams

Top Gospel Artist

Kirk Franklin
Koryn Hawthorne
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Maverick City Music
Kanye West

Top Billboard 200 Album

Juice WRLD — “Legends Never Die”
Lil Baby — “My Turn”
Pop Smoke — “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon”
Taylor Swift — “folklore”
The Weeknd — “After Hours”

Top R&B Album

Jhené Aiko — “Chilombo”
Chris Brown & Young Thug — “Slime & B”
Doja Cat — “Hot Pink”
Kehlani — “It Was Good Until It Wasn’t”
The Weeknd — “After Hours”

Top Rap Album

DaBaby — “BLAME IT ON BABY”
Juice WRLD — “Legends Never Die”
Lil Baby — “My Turn”
Lil Uzi Vert — “Eternal Atake”
Pop Smoke — “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon”

Top Country Album

Gabby Barrett — “Goldmine”
Sam Hunt — “Southside”
Chris Stapleton — “Starting Over”
Carrie Underwood — “My Gift”
Morgan Wallen — “Dangerous: The Double Album”

Top Rock Album

AC/DC — “Power Up”
Miley Cyrus — “Plastic Hearts”
Glass Animals — “Dreamland”
Machine Gun Kelly — “Tickets to My Downfall”
Bruce Springsteen — “Letter to You”

Top Latin Album

Anuel AA — “Emmanuel”
Bad Bunny — “El Último Tour Del Mundo”
Bad Bunny — “Las que no iban a salir”
Bad Bunny — “YHLQMDLG”
J Balvin — “Colores”

Top Dance/Electronic Album

DJ Snake — “Carte Blanche”
Gryffin — “Gravity”
Kygo — “Golden Hour”
Lady Gaga — “Chromatica”
Kylie Minogue — “Disco”

Top Christian Album

Bethel Music — “Peace”
Elevation Worship — “Grave Into Gardens”
Carrie Underwood — “My Gift”
We The Kingdom — “Holy Water”
Zach Williams — “Rescue Story”

Top Gospel Album

Koryn Hawthorne — “I AM”
Tasha Cobbs Leonard — “Royalty: Live at the Ryman”
Maverick City Music — “Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 1”
Maverick City Music — “Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 2”
Kierra Sheard — “Kierra”

Top Hot 100 Song

24kGoldn Feat. iann dior — “Mood”
Gabby Barrett Feat. Charlie Puth — “I Hope”
Chris Brown & Young Thug — “Go Crazy”
DaBaby Feat. Roddy Ricch — “ROCKSTAR”
The Weeknd — “Blinding Lights”

Top Streaming Song

Cardi B Feat. Megan Thee Stallion — “WAP”
DaBaby Feat. Roddy Ricch — “ROCKSTAR”
Future Feat. Drake — “Life Is Good”
Jack Harlow Feat. DaBaby, Tory Lanez, & Lil Wayne — “WHATS POPPIN”
The Weeknd — “Blinding Lights”

Top Selling Song

Gabby Barrett Feat. Charlie Puth — “I Hope”
BTS — “Dynamite”
Cardi B Feat. Megan Thee Stallion — “WAP”
Megan Thee Stallion — “Savage”
The Weeknd — “Blinding Lights”

Top Radio Song

Gabby Barrett Feat. Charlie Puth — “I Hope”
Chris Brown & Young Thug — “Go Crazy”
Dua Lipa — “Don’t Start Now”
Harry Styles — “Adore You”
The Weeknd — “Blinding Lights”

Top Collaboration (Fan Voted)

24kGoldn Feat. iann dior — “Mood”
Gabby Barrett Feat. Charlie Puth — “I Hope”
Chris Brown & Young Thug — “Go Crazy”
DaBaby Feat. Roddy Ricch — “ROCKSTAR”
Jack Harlow Feat. DaBaby, Tory Lanez, & Lil Wayne — “WHATS POPPIN”

Top R&B Song

Jhené Aiko Feat. H.E.R. — “B.S.”
Justin Bieber Feat. Quavo — “Intentions”
Chris Brown & Young Thug — “Go Crazy”
Doja Cat — “Say So”
The Weeknd — “Blinding Lights”

Top Rap Song

24kGoldn Feat. iann dior — “Mood”
Cardi B Feat. Megan Thee Stallion — “WAP”
DaBaby Feat. Roddy Ricch — “ROCKSTAR”
Jack Harlow Feat. DaBaby, Tory Lanez, & Lil Wayne — “WHATS POPPIN”
Megan Thee Stallion — “Savage”

Top Country Song

Jason Aldean — “Got What I Got”
Gabby Barrett — “I Hope”
Lee Brice — “One of Them Girls”
Morgan Wallen — “Chasin’ You”
Morgan Wallen — “More Than My Hometown”

Top Rock Song

AJR — “Bang!”
All Time Low Feat. blackbear — “Monsters”
Glass Animals — “Heat Waves”
Machine Gun Kelly Feat. blackbear — “my ex’s best friend”
twenty one pilots — “Level of Concern”

Top Latin Song

Bad Bunny — “Yo Perreo Sola”
Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez — “Dákiti”
Black Eyed Peas & J Balvin — “RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)”
Maluma & The Weeknd — “Hawái”
Ozuna x Karol G x Myke Towers — “Caramelo”

Top Dance/Electronic Song

Lady Gaga — “Stupid Love”
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande — “Rain on Me”
SAINt JHN — “Roses (Imanbek Remix)”
Surf Mesa Feat. Emilee — “ily (i love you baby)”
Topic & A7S — “Breaking Me”

Top Christian Song

Elevation Worship Feat. Brandon Lake — “Graves Into Gardens”
for KING & COUNTRY, Kirk Franklin & Tori Kelly — “Together”
Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, & Elevation Worship — “The Blessing (Live)”
Tauren Wells Feat. Jenn Johnson — “Famous For (I Believe)”
Zach Williams & Dolly Parton — “There Was Jesus”

Top Gospel Song

Koryn Hawthorne — “Speak To Me”
Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music — “Movin’ On”
Marvin Sapp — “Thank You For It All”
Tye Tribbett — “We Gon’ Be Alright”
Kanye West Feat. Travis Scott — “Wash Us In The Blood”

Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Justin Bieber Joins Jimmy Fallon And The Roots For A Classroom Instruments Version Of ‘Peaches’

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In March, Justin Bieber earned his seventh No. 1 single when the Justice single “Peaches” debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track is still doing quite well, as it is No. 3 on the Hot 100 that was revealed yesterday. Now he has put a new spin on the song by joining Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for their longstanding Tonight Show series of “classroom instruments” performances.

Bieber starts out by playing the track on a toy piano, which actually adds a charming element to the track. From there, he is joined by Fallon and The Roots, who sport instruments like shakers, bongos, xylophones, buckets, paper bags (to tear), and other things of that ilk. Giveon and Daniel Caesar, who feature on the original track, were not involved with this performance.

Justice isn’t Bieber’s latest release, as on Easter, he dropped a surprise EP, Freedom, which features collaborations with Pink Sweats, Tori Kelly, Judah Smith, Beam, Brandon Love, Chandler Moore, and Lauren Walters. He’s also fresh off appearing in Earth Day! The Musical, a Bill Nye-hosted event that also featured Jack Harlow, Maluma, Ben Platt, Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, Cody Simpson, Steve Aoki, Tori Kelly, Zac Efron, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, and Nick Kroll.

Watch Bieber, The Roots, and Fallon perform “Peaches” above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Weeknd Hints At New Music: ‘Made So Much Magic In The Small Quarantined Room’

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The Weeknd isn’t quite done with the After Hours era yet, considering he just released a new remix with Ariana Grande. He does seem to be thinking about what’s next, though, as last night, he took to Twitter to seemingly tease new material.

He began by tweeting last night, “it’s the night-time that matters…,” followed hours later by a GIF of Bugs Bunny laying in bed, unable to sleep. He then added, “what is real?” After that, he got to teasing, writing in a trio of tweets, “made so much magic in the small quarantined room,” “nothing’s ever random,” and “now just piecing it all together… it’s so beautiful.”

Those tweets seem to suggest that something new is in the works, and a fresh album from The Weeknd in the not-so-distant future wouldn’t be a surprise, given that he discussed the possibility months ago. A Rolling Stone profile from September revealed that The Weeknd has spent time working on new music in a makeshift studio in his condo, with The Weeknd himself saying, “I might have another album ready to go by the time this quarantine is over.” He continued, “I’m guilty of wanting to outdo my last album, but it’s never like, ‘I’ve got to do the same type of song.’ I’m so happy I’m not like that. My palette is so wide. […] I’m trying to find a perfect balance with the film and the music, and so far it’s going really well. I think I might have cracked the code.”

Ariana Grande And The Weeknd Bring New Life To ‘Save Your Tears’ With An Animated Remix

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Fans of Ariana Grande and The Weeknd who appreciated the duo’s first collaboration, 2014’s “Love Me Harder,” had to wait a little over seven years to get a second song from them. That second track would wind up being “Off The Table” from Grande’s sixth album, Positions. Luckily for the singers’ supporters, they didn’t have to wait nearly as long for a third track between Grande and The Weeknd. The pair reunited for a remix of “Save Your Tears,” a track from The Weeknd’s After Hours album.

The new version arrives with an animated visual that sees The Weeknd building the ideal woman for himself thanks to an assembly line of body parts. The “Save Your Tears” remix comes weeks after The Weeknd hinted that the After Hours era, one that began with the album’s release in March 2020, was not over yet. “P.s. this chapter isn’t quite done yet …” he said on Twitter, adding, “still tying some loose ends.” Afterward, he dropped a video for “Try Me” from his 2018 EP, My Dear Melancholy, and sold an unreleased song through an NFT auction.

On Grande’s side of things, she recently connected with Demi Lovato for their “Met Him Last Night” track and shared a behind-the-scenes clip of her meticulously singing during a Positions studio session.

Press play on the “Save Your Tears” remix in the video above.