Month: September 2023

Kimberly Perry and her husband, Johnny Costello, have welcomed their first child together, son Whit Costello. Whit was born Aug. 26 at 4:01 p.m. in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Welcome to the world Whit,” Perry said in a statement, posted to her social media. “I feel like in one short week Dad and I have moved from a season of BLOOM into a SUPERBLOOM. Our lives have become sweeter, our days have become so much fuller, our sleep has gotten shorter – but our house has truly become a home. We can’t wait to show Whit the world – this bus baby is ready to roll.”

For Perry, this year has been a time of wonder and creation, personally and professionally. In addition to welcoming baby Whit, Perry signed to RECORDS Nashville earlier this year, as well as with Warner Chappell Music and Nicolle Galyon’s Songs and Daughters Publishing. With her work as part of the sibling trio The Band Perry on hiatus, she also released her first solo country EP, Bloom, via RECORDS/Columbia.

Perry revamped the storyline of The Band Perry’s 2011 hit “If I Die Young” — which was a solo write from Perry — working with Galyon and Jimmy Robbins to craft “If I Die Young, Pt. 2.”

“I didn’t want to rob anybody of their experience with the original version because it’s a song that meant so much to so many different people in their time of loss,” she previously told Billboard. “There have been a lot of comments that Part 1 ‘really validated my feelings in that moment, but I’m so grateful to have the Part 2, because it’s like we’re healing our inner child.’ It’s almost like the love letter back to all who fell in love with that original version. It’s this message of, ‘Hold on. Life gets sweeter as we live it.’”

See Kimberly’s photos of Whit here, here and here.

TWICE‘s Ready to Be Tour is still in full swing, and now fans in Brazil can get tickets to an extra date.

The K-pop group — Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu — announced via X, formerly known as Twitter, that tickets for the new concert were officially available to purchase.

The expansion will see the K-pop stars heading to Latin America — first with a previously announced stop in Mexico City at For Sol on Feb. 3, and now two dates at São Paolo’s Allianz Parque Feb. 6-7. São Paolo initially received a single concert date, but due to high demand, the tickets sold out just hours after becoming available to purchase, with the second Feb. 7 date being added. The feat earned TWICE the title of being the first K-pop girl group to sell out a stadium show in São Paolo.

Though the first São Paolo date is sold out, the Billboard Women in Music honorees revealed that tickets for the second date will be available to purchase starting Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. local time.

TWICE will hit a few more countries before embarking on the new leg of its tour — the girl group is currently on its U.K. and European portion of the tour, which kicks off with two dates at London’s O2 Sept. 7-8 and will make additional stops in France and Germany.

See Twice’s tweets below.

Foo Fighters break the record for the most top 10s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Under You” climbs from No. 11 to No. 9 on the Sept. 9-dated survey.

“Under You” sprints to the top 10 in its fifth week on the chart, giving the Dave Grohl-led rockers 31 top career 10s.

That solely marks the most in the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey’s 42-year history, snapping Foo Fighters out of a tie with Shinedown.

Most Top 10s, Mainstream Rock Airplay
31, Foo Fighters
30, Shinedown
29, Five Finger Death Punch
28, Godsmack
28, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)
26, Disturbed
26, Metallica
26, Van Halen
25, Papa Roach

Foo Fighters first hit the Mainstream Rock Airplay top 10 with their debut single “This Is a Call,” which reached No. 6 in August 1995. They currently have a streak of five straight top 10s going, dating to “Waiting on a War” in 2021.

Of those 31 top 10s, 12 have reached No. 1, most recently the six-week ruler “Rescued,” the single prior to “Under You” from Foo Fighters’ latest album, But Here We Are.

Previously, “Under You” extended Foo Fighters’ record for the most top 10s on Alternative Airplay (30) and gave the band sole possession of the most Rock & Alternative Airplay top 10s (16, dating to the chart’s 2009 inception).

Concurrently, “Under You” jumps 8-3 on Alternative Airplay and 29-20 on Adult Alternative Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it remains at its No. 2 high with 5.6 million audience impressions, up 16%, Aug. 25-31, according to Luminate.

On the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs list, “Under You” rises 11-9, returning to the top 10 for the first time since it reached No. 8 on the June 17 ranking, when But Here We Are made its chart start. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 371,000 official U.S. streams Aug. 25-31.

But Here We Are, Foo Fighters’ 11th studio set, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Alternative Albums chart dated June 17 and has earned 127,000 equivalent album units to date.

Colombian singer and rapper Gloria “Goyo” Martínez was among the artists who attended the Victoria’s Secret World Tour premiere event, which took place on Wednesday (Sept. 6) in New York. After walking the pink carpet, Goyo performed her new song “Tumbao” from her forthcoming album, her first as a solo artist (following a successful run with hip-hop fusion collective ChocQuibTown).

Other attendees included Doechii and Doja Cat, who will be headlining the Victoria’s Secret World Tour, which marks the company’s return to TV since its last televised runway show in 2018. The fashion show/documentary is set to air on Prime Video on Sept. 26.

The Victoria’s Secret World Tour will feature global creatives from multiple cities, including Bogotá, Lagos, London, and Tokyo. Goyo — who will also perform during the actual documentary — is part of The House of Bogotá alongside fashion designer Melissa Valdes, filmmaker Cristina Sánchez Salamanca, painter Lorena Torres and dancer/choreographer Piscis. According to the film’s official website, the “dynamic artistic forces from the fashion, film, design, music, and visual fields will converge to showcase their work that centers on the appreciation and beauty of womanhood.”

A teaser of what viewers can expect from the show was released on Aug. 30, in which a slew of models who are set to appear in the show pose in a series of lit-up pink tunnels. Among the stars set to walk in the show are Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Honey Dijon, Imaan Hammam, Iris Law and Lila Moss. Additionally, beloved VS Angels Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge and Adriana Lima will also return to the catwalk.

Purchase tickets to the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week here.