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01-04-2025
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Get an Inside Look at Billboard's Women in Music 2025: Photos
This year's Billboard Women in Music took over the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., on Saturday evening (March 29), and it was a celebration of female talent, support and accomplishments over the past year. Doechii received the prestigious Woman of the Year Award, and when she took the stage to accept the honor, she explained the importance of events like Women in Music. 'This is our motherf–king night to rightfully come together to acknowledge each other, support each other and to celebrate,' she explained. 'We are the creators, we are the executives, we are the innovators who are just as central to this industry as the men. Clock it.' More from Billboard Owning Their Power: Anycia Talks Joining Forces With GloRilla and Karrahbooo for 'Never Need' Charlie Puth and BTS' Jung Kook Share Behind-the-Scenes Footage From 'Left and Right' Video: Exclusive BTS Share Secrets From the Set of 'My Universe' Video With Coldplay in New Making-Of Clip Additionally, Tina Knowles accepted the inaugural Mother of the Year award for uplifting and supporting her superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, throughout the years. Other star-studded honorees of the evening included aespa (Group of the Year), Ángela Aguilar (Breakthrough Award), Erykah Badu (Icon Award), GloRilla (Powerhouse Award), Gracie Abrams (Songwriter of the Year), JENNIE (Global Force Award), Megan Moroney (Rulebreaker Award presented by Crown Royal Whisky), Meghan Trainor (Hitmaker Award), Muni Long (Rising Star Award Presented by Honda Stage) and Tyla (Impact Award presented by Bose). Global Women of the Year are ANNA (Billboard Italy Woman of the Year) and Charlotte Cardin (Billboard Canada Woman of the Year). As expected, the night was filled with female empowerment, as the attendees smiled and posed together for pictures during the ceremony. See all the inside look photos exclusively via Billboard below. Best of Billboard Drake's Historic Chart Week: How He Matched The Beatles' 57-Year-Old Record How Elton John Keeps Up His Hot 100 Hot Streak With Dua Lipa Duet 'Cold Heart' Pink's 'All I Know So Far' Has Us Looking Back at the History of Live Music on the Charts
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11-02-2025
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Charlie Puth Sends Ye Urgent Message About Antisemitic Twitter Spree and Swastika Shirt: ‘I BEG You to Stop'
Charlie Puth has a very urgent message for Ye: STOP. The 'Left and Right' singer took to his Instagram Story on Monday (Feb. 10) to implore the artist formerly known as Kanye West to stop selling a t-shirt commemorating the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews. '@ye The message you are sending out to the world is incredibly dangerous,' wrote Puth. 'Please man, I beg you to stop. You are selling a T-shirt with a Swastika on it, and MILLIONS of people are influenced by you. Please I BEG you to stop, PLEASE.' More from Billboard A Timeline of the Consequences Ye Has Faced for His 'WLM' Shirts & Antisemitic Hate Speech BLACKPINK's LISA Says First Day of 'White Lotus' Shooting Was Rough: 'I Was Like, 'I Can't Remember My Lines' Tems to Headline Billboard Presents The Stage at SXSW London The call seems unlikely to land with the rapper whose once praised, prodigious skills as a musician and culture mover have been overshadowed, again, by his embrace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Nazi symbolism and virulent antisemitic messaging. Puth's plea came after Ye went on a four-day hate spree on X beginning last Friday, in which he posted dozens of all caps screeds every hour that included homophobic, ableist and antisemitic slurs. He capped things off on Sunday night with a Super Bowl commercial for his Yeezy brand that aired in a handful of markets and took fans to a site that at present is selling only one product: a white t-shirt featuring a swastika. Ye's promotion of Nazi symbolism drew yet another rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which warned that such antisemitic behavior from a person with a large social audience is both dangerous and irresponsible at a time when attacks on Jewish people have been on the rise. 'As if we needed further proof of Kanye's antisemitism, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website — a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika,' read the group's statement. 'The swastika is the symbol adopted by Hitler as the primary emblem of the Nazis. It galvanized his followers in the 20th century and continues to threaten and instill fear in those targeted by antisemitism and white supremacy,' the group that works to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate and bigotry continued. 'If that wasn't enough, the T-shirt is labeled on Kanye's website as 'HH-01,' which is code for 'Heil Hitler.' Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since last week. There's no excuse for this kind of behavior. Even worse, Kanye advertised his website during the Super Bowl, amplifying it beyond his already massive social media audience.' West's barrage of hate speech included declarations such as 'I'm a Nazi' and 'I love Hitler,' as well as offensive tweets targeting people with disabilities, Taylor Swift and Super Bowl halftime performer Kendrick Lamar. He also petitioned Donald Trump to free disgraced Bad Boy Records founder Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who is in jail without bail awaiting trail in New York on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution charges. The rapper's lauding of Nazis and Hitler also drew a rebuke from former Friends star David Schwimmer, who on Saturday implored X owner Musk to ban Ye from the platform. 'This is so 2022. We can't stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk,' the Jewish actor, 58, wrote on Instagram to the world's richest man, who himself was accused of making a gesture that many said evoked the Nazi straight-arm salute at one of Trump's inaugural events last month. 'Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That's twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence. His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.' Ye was booted from X (then still known as Twitter) in October 2022 for antisemitic posts, briefly reinstated in November of that year and then re-suspended that month after posting an image of a swastika intertwined with a Jewish star. Musk reinstated West's account eight months later. West, who capped off his manic post salvo by sharing uncensored porn clips, appeared to sign off from X on Sunday night, just hours after his Super Bowl ad promoting the swastika shirt aired. 'I'm logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon [Musk] for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board,' Ye wrote before the account went offline. At press time it did not appear as if Musk had responded to West shutting down his account and it was still unclear if the move was West's choice or if the account had been suspended by X; a spokesperson for West had not returned Billboard's request for comment at press time. West's music and fashion empire went into free fall in late 2022 and early 2023 when he went on a series of similar hate-filled, antisemitic rants that included a threat to go 'death con [sic] 3″ on Jewish people, as well as repeated praise for Hitler and the parading of the white supremacist phrase 'White Lives Matter' on shirts at Paris Fashion Week. In quick succession, Ye was dropped by the Gap, Adidas, Balenciaga and his agents at CAA and has his social media accounts suspended or revoked in a fallout so complete that the once — and according to him, again — billionaire said in February of last year that he nearly went bankrupt. 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
