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Stevie Wonder Shares Poignant Response to Longstanding Rumor He's Not Really Blind
Stevie Wonder has used an appearance at a recent concert to address the longstanding conspiracy theory that he isn't actually blind. Wonder – who has been performing since the age of 11 and scored his first Hot 100 chart-topper with 'Fingertips' at 13 – has long been noted for his status as a blind man, having lost his vision weeks after his birth. More from Billboard Kesha Makes Chart-Topping Debut With New Album '. (Period)' Rauw Alejandro Gains Big: 'Carita Linda' Takes No. 1 Spot on Latin Airplay Chart Pusha T on Drake's 'What Did I Miss?': 'Just Not for Me' However, his prolific output and tireless work in the music industry over the past 64 years has resulted in a half-serious theory that Wonder can in fact see. Though often shared as a tongue-in-cheek rumor, Wonder's ability to navigate the world around him has resulted in many of these theories coming to light. In 2019, former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal shared a tale of Wonder recognizing him in an elevator, while comedian and actor Anthony Anderson once recalled how he challenged Wonder to a basketball game. 'What y'all don't know is, Stevie can see,' he told Stephen Colbert in 2016. 'It's just an act.' Now, at a recent tour stop in Cardiff, Wales for his Love, Light & Song U.K. tour, Wonder used an opportunity to speak to the crowd to dispel the enduring speculation. 'I must say to all of you, something that I was thinking, 'When did I want to let the world know this?' But I wanted to say it right now,' Wonder began. 'You know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth. 'Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,' he continued. 'Now, that was a blessing because it's allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight. See people in the spirit of them, not how they look. Not what color they are, but what color is their spirit?' Wonder has not released a new studio album since 2005's A Time to Love, though since 2008, he has spoken about a new project titled Through the Eyes of Wonder, which has been described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man. 'What I want to do with our live performances is to create visuals that [give] my take on how I see the world and how most various things affected me,' he explained at the time. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
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15-07-2025
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Britney Spears Did Not Actually Adopt a ‘Beautiful Baby Girl,' Despite Her Claims
Britney Spears did not adopt a child, contrary to what the pop superstar recently said on Instagram. In a post shared to her Instagram on Saturday (July 12), Spears claimed that she had 'adopted a beautiful baby girl.' More from Billboard Britney Spears Speaks Out After Lighting Cigarette Mid-Flight on Airplane Kesha Makes Chart-Topping Debut With New Album '. (Period)' Rauw Alejandro Gains Big: 'Carita Linda' Takes No. 1 Spot on Latin Airplay Chart 'Her name is Lennon London Spears,' the singer added at the time, captioning a video of herself dancing in a pink leotard and wide-brimmed hat. 'Lennon today has on adorable dress !!! It says I'm NEW HERE !!!' Billboard, however, has since confirmed that Spears did not actually welcome a new child through adoption. She may have just been trolling fans all along, having peppered her caption with winky-face emojis. The musician is already a mother to two boys, sharing 20-year-old Sean and 18-year-old Jayden with ex-husband Kevin Federline. Her post comes a couple weeks after she shared a mirror selfie with Jayden, who looked all grown up while towering over his famous mother. Though Spears and her kids had for years been largely separated from each other following Federline's move with the boys to Hawaii, she and her youngest have been spending more time together ever since reuniting last Christmas. 'He is 6'3 and his hands are so big now !!!' Spears wrote of Jayden on Instagram in June. 'How long am I going to be in shock ??? It's so incredibly crazy, it's not even funny !!! I'm blessed !!! Just please be careful with my heart too !!!' And while Spears' claim that she'd become an adoptive mother was surprising, it's not the first time she's said something on social media that turned out to be untrue. Last December, she told followers that she was moving to Mexico to escape 'cruel' paparazzi and even said that she was in the process of 'house hunting' there; however, The Hollywood Reporter later confirmed that she wasn't actually leaving her home in the United States. Months later, it looks like Spears might again be trolling fans about moving. In her post about adopting 'Lennon,' the performer also claimed, 'I've decided to move to Italy' — a statement she also punctuated with a few winky-face emojis. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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15-07-2025
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Lizzo Calls Out ‘Thin-Presenting' People Who Body Shame Others: ‘It Is Not Your Place'
Lizzo has had enough of people policing other people's bodies, no matter what size they are. In a recent TikTok, the singer-songwriter shared a message for certain 'thin-presenting' people, who she says need to stop telling others what they should or shouldn't do with their bodies. 'I have to say something,' she began, addressing the camera in a turquoise workout set. 'It is not your place to criticize or shame people in bigger bodies.' More from Billboard Lizzo Shares Before & After Photos, Reveals 'Truth' Behind Weight Loss Kesha Makes Chart-Topping Debut With New Album '. (Period)' Rauw Alejandro Gains Big: 'Carita Linda' Takes No. 1 Spot on Latin Airplay Chart 'It's not your place to criticize how they choose to live in that body [or] how they choose to change that body,' Lizzo continued. 'Especially if you were in a bigger body and you are now in a smaller-presenting body, it really feels inappropriate for you to speak on somebody whose body is changing. You of all people should understand that bodies change.' The hitmaker went on to say that her reason for making the video had 'nothing to do with me and my feelings,' emphasizing that she instead wanted to speak up for other people who have been 'getting their feelings hurt' by comments about their physical appearance online. 'People forget that the body positive movement was about radical self acceptance,' she explained. 'It wasn't just about people in bigger bodies, it was about people in disabled bodies, queer bodies, Black and brown bodies. When body positivity got commercialized and gentrified, it just became synonymous with the word 'fat.' Now if a person in a bigger body decides to change their body and get smaller, all of a sudden, they're not body positive anymore.' 'To all of my bigger-bodied people, do what you want to do with your body,' she concluded. 'Don't let nobody try to bully you. Don't let nobody try to shame you. Don't let nobody try to cancel you.' Lizzo's post comes as the star has been more and more open about her own weight loss journey — or, as she prefers to call it, 'weight release.' After suffering back pain caused by her weight putting pressure on her spinal discs, the Yitty founder embarked on a quest to become more active and eat healthier, something she opened up about in a recent Women's Health cover story. 'It's okay to release weight,' she told the publication. 'It's okay to gain weight after you've released weight, because what you're not going to do is shame me if my body changes again and I get bigger.' Shortly after the interview was published, Lizzo shared side-by-side before and after photos of her body on Instagram. 'I work my a– off, training 3x a week, daily sauna & cardio, adding animal protein back into my diet, hiring a chef who helps me meal prep and keeps track of what I put into my body in a calorie deficit, cutting out sugary Starbucks & full fat sodas & potato chips,' she wrote in her caption at the time, clarifying once again that she didn't achieve her slimmer figure by taking Ozempic. Watch Lizzo's TikTok below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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15-07-2025
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Rauw Alejandro Gains Big: ‘Carita Linda' Takes No. 1 Spot on Latin Airplay Chart
Rauw Alejandro scores big this week as 'Carita Linda' climbs 6-1 on Billboard's Latin Airplay chart (dated July 19), marking his 12th champ overall and third as a soloist. 'Carita Linda' rallies 6-1 on Latin Airplay with the Greatest Gainer honors, given weekly to the song with the largest gain in audience impressions among the ranking's 50 songs. The single takes the lead after a 28% gain in audience impressions, to 8.7 million, earned in the United States during the July 4-10 tracking week, according to Luminate. The audience growth ejects J Balvin's 'Rio' from the top, which drops to No. 3 after one week in charge, through a 4% decline (to 7.7 million impressions). More from Billboard Kesha Makes Chart-Topping Debut With New Album '. (Period)' Pusha T on Drake's 'What Did I Miss?': 'Just Not for Me' Travis Scott Gets Inked With a Tiger Tattoo in Eerie 'DUMBO' Video: Watch Released April 10 on Duars/Sony Music Latin, 'Carita Linda' arrived as a standalone single following the release of Rauw Alejandro's fifth studio album, Cosa Nuestra, which gave the Puerto Rican a second No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart in November 2024. The song premiered during the opening night of his Cosa Nuestra Tour in Seattle, on April 5. Rauw clinches his 12th career No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart in just five years since his first chart-topping hit, 'TBT,' with Sebastián Yatra and Manuel Turizo (July 2020). With the latest achievement, Rauw surpasses Daddy Yankee as the male artist with the fifth-most No. 1 hits in the 2020s. Plus, Rauw joins an elite group of male artists with the highest sum of No. 1s this decade. Here is the group of winners: 21, Bad Bunny20, J Balvin18, Ozuna14, Myke Towers12, Rauw Alejandro11, Daddy Yankee 'Carita Linda' also rebounds to its No. 1 peak on the Latin Pop Airplay chart, for its fifth week atop. Fuerza Regida Claims First Solo No. 1: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Fuerza Regida secures its first No. 1 without a collaborator —among six career champs, all within a two-year span— on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart with 'Por Esos Ojos.' The song breaks new ground with 7.3 million audience impressions, up 14%, earned during the tracking week ending July 10. 'Por Esos Ojos' joins two other Fuerza Regida songs which have ruled for one week in 2025: 'Tu Boda,' with Oscar Maydon (February) and 'Me Jalo,' with Grupo Frontera (April). The new single was released on Feb. 11 as the lead single of Regida's ninth studio album, 111XPANTIA, the group's second champ on Top Latin Albums which holds strong atop the Regional Mexican Albums chart for a 10th consecutive week. All charts (dated July 19, 2025) will update on tomorrow, July 15. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
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15-07-2025
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Kesha Makes Chart-Topping Debut With New Album ‘. (Period)'
Kesha's new studio album . (Period) makes its mark on Billboard's charts, as the set debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Vinyl Albums and Top Dance Albums (chart dated July 19). . (Period) is her first independently released album after a career with Kemosabe/RCA Records. The set was issued through the singer's own Kesha Records label and distributed by Warner Music Group's indie distribution arm Alternative Distribution Alliance. All charts dated July 19 will be posted in full to Billboard's website on July 15. More from Billboard Rauw Alejandro Gains Big: 'Carita Linda' Takes No. 1 Spot on Latin Airplay Chart Pusha T on Drake's 'What Did I Miss?': 'Just Not for Me' Travis Scott Gets Inked With a Tiger Tattoo in Eerie 'DUMBO' Video: Watch With . (Period)'s debut at No. 1 on Top Album Sales, it marks the singer-songwriter's first No. 1 on the ranking since 2017's Rainbow, and third leader overall. She also topped the chart with her debut effort, 2010's Animal. Overall, . (Period) marks her fifth top 10 on the ranking. . (Period) also debuts at No. 3 on Indie Store Album Sales, No. 3 on Independent Albums and No. 17 on the overall Billboard 200. On the latter, it's her seventh top 40-charted album. In its first week of release . (Period) earned 23,000 equivalent album units in the United States, in the tracking week ending July 10, according to Luminate. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 15,500, with vinyl purchases totaling nearly 11,000 (her best sales week ever on vinyl). The album was issued across seven vinyl variants, including two signed editions. Equivalent album units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. On the Top Album Sales chart, Kesha is one of just two debuts in the top 10. KATSEYE's BEAUTIFUL CHAOS holds at No. 2 (12,000 sold; down 59% in its second week), while the rest of the top six titles are former No. 1s. Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet jumps 19-3 (9,000; up 71% after the release of a new vinyl variant), ENHYPEN's DESIRE : UNLEASH rises 8-4 (8,000; down 19%), Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem climbs 11-5 (7,000; down 12%) and Lorde's Virgin falls 1-6 (6,500; down 84% in its second week). Vulfpeck notches its best sales week ever and first top 10 as Clarity of Cal debuts at No. 7 with 6,500 – nearly all from vinyl purchases. Pressed in just one edition, the set also starts at No. 3 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart: Barbra Streisand's The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two falls 4-8 (just over 4,000; down 77% in its second week), the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack jumps 21-9 (a little more than 4,000; down 6%) and Charli xcx's Brat bounds 45-10 (4,000; up 72% after a new CD variant was released). Billboard's Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales charts rank the week's top-sellers on vinyl, and at indie and small chain record stores, respectively. The Top Dance Albums, Independent Albums and the Billboard 200 rank the week's most popular dance, independent and overall albums, by equivalent album units earned, respectively. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
