Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile" secured a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart dated Jan. 25, 2025, and Mars is ready to party. "THANK YOU ALL!" he wrote alongside a cheers emoji and a screenshot of this week's top 10 on the chart.

Illini’s buzz section gives their thoughts on some of the new songs, albums, EPs and music videos from this past week.

The lineup for the Grammy's this year is packed with talent, yet certain songs, albums and artists stood out especially.

The Sun newspaper reports that Grammys bosses are desperate to get Gaga and Bruno Mars to sign on the dotted line to belt out their mega-hit Die With a Smile. Their collaboration is already up for two awards on the night of 3 February,

'EoO' itself stands for the ending syllable of "perreo", which is a term for a popular reggaeton dance. According to NBC News, it's a sexual-style dance "with erotic hip movements, and in which, when dancing in pairs, the man usually places himself behind the woman with their bodies very close together.”

"Influencer marketing is not going away, and marketing dollars are not going to stop flowing into the creator economy," Berkowitz said. "But if TikTok is banned, they'll certainly shift that spend to other platforms. Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat will probably benefit the most."

Reality TV stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag sued the city of Los Angeles this week, claiming mishandling of the water utility made the fire that destroyed their home and the Pacific Palisades neighborhood "inescapable.

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier,

The song ascends to the top of the radio ranking, also becoming Mars’ 11th leader, the most among male soloists.

In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship,

The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Feb. 1, we look at whether the surging quasi-title track from Bad Bunny’s latest will be able to get over the top on the chart.