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Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem spends a sixth week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 5), earning 177,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending June 26 (down 5%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31 and has yet to cede the top slot.
With 177,000 units earned, Problem nets the largest total for an album in its sixth week on the chart since Adele’s 25 earned 363,000 in its sixth week (Jan. 16, 2016-dated chart).
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Benson Boone lands his highest-charting album and biggest week by units earned as his new album American Heart debuts at No. 2 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned. Karol G notches her third top 10-charting album with the No. 3 arrival of Tropicoqueta, and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack enters at No. 8. The latter marks the first soundtrack released in 2025 to reach the top 10, and the highest-debuting soundtrack of the year.
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Of I’m the Problem’s 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 19, SEA units comprise 168,500 (down 4%, equaling 220.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a sixth week), album sales comprise 7,500 (down 19% — it holds at No. 7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 3%).
Benson Boone bounds in at No. 2 with his sophomore full-length studio album, American Heart, earning 61,000 equivalent album units in its first week. It’s the singer-songwriter’s second top 10, highest-charting set and biggest week ever by units earned. His previous biggest week, in both metrics, came when his last album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, skated in at No. 6 with 58,000 units earned (April 20, 2024-dated chart).
Of the 61,000 equivalent album units earned by American Heart, SEA units comprise just over 30,000 (equaling 40.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise nearly 30,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales; it’s Boone’s largest sales week) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
American Heart was released as a 10-song standard album and was available via streaming services and to purchase as a widely available digital download, CD, deluxe CD boxed set with a T-shirt (sold via Boone’s webstore), two cassette variants and seven vinyl variants.
The new album was preceded by a pair of top 30-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” and “Mystical Magical.” The cuts had climbed to new peaks on the most recently published Hot 100 (dated June 28), bumping 31-27 and 30-28, respectively. Meanwhile, Boone’s breakout hit “Beautiful Things,” from Fireworks & Rollerblades, continues to chart highly — it ranked at No. 10 on the June 28 Hot 100. Aside from one week during the holidays, the track, which peaked at No. 2 in March 2024, has not left the weekly top 40 since it debuted more than a year ago, on the Feb. 3, 2024-dated chart.
In the lead-up to the release of American Heart, Boone was a guest on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (June 4), performed on CBS’ American Music Awards (May 26) and made his debut on NBC’s Saturday Night Live (May 3). Boone’s American Heart North American arena tour kicks off on Aug. 22. Before that, he’ll play a series of festival dates in America and beyond during July.
Karol G notches her third top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as Tropicoqueta debuts at No. 3 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. It follows her two top 10s achieved in 2023: MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (BICHOTA SEASON) (No. 3 that August) and MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (No. 1 for one week, March).
Of the new release’s 57,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 54,500 (equaling 74.64 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 20 songs — it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 2,000 and TEA units comprise about 500.
The album was announced on June 9 and arrived via streaming services and as a digital download for purchase on June 20. The set was preceded by the Hot Latin Songs-charting hits “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” (No. 1 for 14 weeks in 2024 — Karol G’s longest run at No. 1) and “Latina Foreva” (No. 3 debut and peak on the June 7, 2025, chart). They reached Nos. 32 and 74, respectively, on the all-genre Hot 100.
Four former No. 1s are next up on the latest Billboard 200, as SZA’s SOS holds at No. 4 (47,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 5 (37,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is a non-mover at No. 6 (35,000; down 12%) and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX rises 8-7 (31,000; down 8%).
The soundtrack to the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters debuts at No. 8 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the highest-debuting soundtrack of 2025 and the first to bow in the top 10 this year. Of the set’s starting sum, SEA units comprise 27,000 (equaling 37.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it debuts at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 3,000 (it debuts at No. 18 on Top Album Sales; it was only available to purchase as a standard download album) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
The last soundtrack to debut in the top 10 was the Wicked film soundtrack on the Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart, at No. 2. The Wicked soundtrack went on to spend eight weeks in the top 10, with four of those on 2025-dated charts (in January). Until this week, Wicked was the only soundtrack to spend time in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in 2025.
KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 on Netflix alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending June 22, KPop Demon Hunters debuted at No. 6 on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart.
Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is steady at No. 9 (30,000 equivalent album units earned; down 5%) and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s former leader $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is stationary at No. 10 (29,000; down 6%).
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Beyoncé was flying high over a hometown crowd in Houston, Texas, when her vehicle — an airborne car, a tour prop rigged up for her Cowboy Carter run — visibly started to tilt to the side during her performance of “16 Carriages” Saturday night (June 28) at NRG Stadium.
Sitting in the red car suspended in the air, Beyoncé held on and kept singing the Cowboy Carter ballad up until the end of a chorus, when she was heard on the mic directing her crew to “stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.” The song came to a temporarily halt, and fan concern over the car’s tilt — which looked quite alarming from certain angles in the stadium — could be heard in video footage uploaded by concertgoers.
In fan-captured clips from the concert, she maintained a calm expression and put on a smile while waiting for the car to descend.
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“If ever I fall, I know ya’ll catch me,” she quipped to the audience upon her return to having two feet on the ground, on stage.
“Ain’t got time to waste, I got art to make/ I got love to create on this holy night/ They won’t dim my light, all these years I fight,” she sang as she got back to the song.
Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment released a statement about the incident post-show.
“Tonight in Houston, at NRG Stadium, a technical mishap caused the flying car, a prop Beyonce uses to circle the stadium, and see her fans up close, to tilt. She was quickly lowered and no one was injured. The show continued without incident,” Parkwood stated in an Instagram Story posted early Sunday morning.
“16 Carriages” is the penultimate song on Beyoncé’s standard Cowboy Carter Tour set list.
The show, which runs for roughly three hours, kicked off in late April and is currently set to wrap by the end of July. She’ll perform at Houston’s NRG Stadium again Sunday night.
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New information in the case of Karmelo Anthony reveals more about the 17-year-old student-athlete accused of stabbing his peer, Austin Metcalf, at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2.
The new evidence, seen in court documents obtained by NBC 5, states that Anthony did “intentionally and knowingly cause the death of Austin Metcalf, by stabbing Metcalf with a knife, a deadly weapon.”
What happened between Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf at the track meet in Frisco?
The deadly confrontation between the two student-athletes happened when Metcalf’s Memorial High School team attended the track meet in Frisco with Anthony’s Centennial High School. Witnesses said Metcalf first told Anthony to move from Memorial’s pop-up tent. The two teens then got into an argument at Kuykendall Stadium and it ended after Anthony allegedly pulled out a knife from his bag and fatally stabbed Metcalf in the chest.
Police said Anthony confessed to the attack, saying, “I’m not the alleged, I did it.”
“I was protecting myself… he put his hands on me. I told him not too [sic],” Anthony said, according to police.
County District Attorney Greg Willis, who released a recorded message after Anthony was indicted on Tuesday, said his team has been presenting evidence to the grand jury for weeks.
“Today I summarized that evidence and I asked the grand jury to return a first-degree murder indictment against Karmelo Anthony, which they did,” Willis said, per NBC 5. “With this indictment, the case now moves formally into the court system.”
What did surveillance video reveal about the fatal encounter between Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf?
Surveillance footage reviewed by NBC 5 didn’t clearly show the people involved in the fatal encounter at the track meet, but it shows a crowd scattering quickly after somebody in a black suit approached a person with a yellow poncho near a tent. The video shows people around the tent running in all kinds of directions while others in the stadium still didn’t understand what was happening. Some people who appeared to be trainers were also seen running across the field to the tent where the chaos was happening. A police cruiser and an ambulance arrived at the scene a short time later.
NBC 5 stated that the Frisco school district only allowed the media to see the video under strict conditions. Per the outlet, reporters were not allowed to take a copy of the video or record the footage, but they were able to see it with a district representative present. The district also didn’t allow reporters to pause or rewind the footage, NBC 5 reported.
What’s next in the case of Karmelo Anthony?
Anthony’s trial date hasn’t yet been set, but attorneys for both parties are expected to meet Judge John Roach in the next few weeks. While he is now released from jail after posting a $250,000 bond, Anthony is placed on house arrest. The 18-year-old is required to remain under a parent’s supervision or another adult representative at all times.
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National monuments and national parks are at risk of disappearing under the Trump administration.
Earlier in June, the Justice Department gave presidents the ability to make changes for the first time since the 1930s, according to CBS News. Some land is reportedly being considered for mineral extractions, while efforts to repeal DEI could affect national monuments.
What national monuments could be affected?
There are 138 National Monuments in the United States and they are all at risk of being sold for parts. This includes monuments commemorating figures of the Civil Rights movement, like the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.
Till became a symbol of the movement after the 14-year-old was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.
“Images of Till’s badly decomposed body in that open casket really sparked the modern civil rights movement,” Alan Spears, the senior director of cultural resources and government affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association, told CBS News.
There are three sites for the monument: One is where Till was found in Graball Landing near Glendora, Mississippi, the second is where the trial was held in the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi and the other is where Till’s funeral took place at Chicago’s Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ.
Why does the Trump administration want to challenge the existence of these monuments?
Experts say it is made in an effort to erase American history and as part of the administration’s work to repeal D.E.I.
“We are seeing this effort to erase and reverse history and historic preservation,” Spears said. “This is turning quickly into a dream deferred.”
Former President Joe Biden designated the three sites as part of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument as protected monuments in 2023. President Trump is now attempting to reverse these decisions.
“People don’t like to look at their past when it shows a negative light of who we are, and I can understand that nobody likes to look at their own personal past that may have a negative light, but we also know that in order to learn from our own history, we also have to learn from our past mistakes,” former National Park Service Director Chuck Sams told CBS News. “And we, as Americans, have never been actually scared to do so, and I don’t think we should be now. We look at our past, and we know that from our past mistakes that we have become stronger.”
National parks are also at risk under the Trump administration
The federal government has proposed nearly $1 billion of budget cuts for the National Park Service. This means over 300 park sites may have to close, according to Spears. This could affect the National Monuments located within the parks, such as the Grand Canyon. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tāh Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, which surrounds the area around the canyon, is being considered for sale due to the presence of uranium.
Other monuments located in California are also being considered for revocation or partial sale, like the Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.
Not only are these sites a part of American history, but they also offer a significant economic impact due to tourism.
Every $1 invested in a National Park site gives $15 back to the communities where they are located, according to Spears.
“That’s an enormous, enormous return on investment,” he said.
Olivia Rodrigo welcomed Ed Sheeran to her stage for a surprise duet of “The A Team” in London on Friday night (June 27). Together the two pop hitmakers, guitars in hand, strummed and sang Sheeran’s debut single for the U.K. crowd at Hyde Park’s BST (British Summer Time) concert series, where Rodrigo was performing ahead of a headlining slot at Glastonbury later this weekend.
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Post-show, Sheeran shared footage of the moment on Instagram. The performance video shows the two musicians harmonizing on the chorus of “The A Team.”
“Been a fan of Olivia’s since Drivers License blew my mind back at the start of 2021,” he wrote. “Both albums are no skips for me, I’m a proper fan. We first met at the rock and roll hall of fame back in 2022, sat next to each other with her mum and my dad and went on to hang and keep in touch from there.”
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Of his Friday night plans, Sheeran said, “Was gonna go watch the show anyway but she hit me and asked to sing The A Team with her, which was such a buzz. That song turns 15 this year, and I remember playing it to rooms with no one in it in 2010, so to still be playing it to new fans with one of the brightest stars of the next generation is an honour and a privilege. Rock Glasto headline Sunday @oliviarodrigo , UK loves you x.”
“you are the best ever ed!!! appreciate you so much. last night was a blast,” Rodrigo commented on the post Saturday morning.
Also spotted at Rodrigo’s Friday gig was a smiling Sabrina Carpenter who enjoyed the show from the balcony, as seen in photos published by the Daily Mail.
“The A Team,” first released in 2011, was Sheeran’s first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 16 in 2012.
Sheeran previously praised Rodrigo’s 2021 breakthrough hit, “Drivers License,” as a flawless debut single, and noted both her debut and sophomore full-length albums, Sour and Guts, are “unskippable… it’s just, as a record, just a great record.”
Watch the Rodrigo-Sheeran performance clip courtesy of Ed’s Instagram below.
Belgium rolled out the blue carpet Saturday (June 28) for Rihanna and other stars who turned out for the world premiere of the new Smurfs movie. Rihanna produced Smurfs and voices Smurfette in the summer family film, a live-action animated reboot that […]
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