One of the most memorable moments of this year’s Lollapalooza — Earth, Wind & Fire joining Sabrina Carpenter as a surprise guest — came together in less than 24 hours, according to member Philip Bailey.

In a post-festival interview with Vulture published Tuesday (Aug. 5), the frontman revealed that his band only had a day’s notice before their big moment on stage, with Carpenter’s team reaching out to the 1970s/80s icons with an invitation, flying them into Chicago on a private plane and hosting them for rehearsals all within a 24-hour time period. “We had to really turn this thing around,” Bailey told the publication.

“We hopped a plane at seven in the morning, went in, and had the rehearsal,” he continued. “It was very quick and kind of sketchy. I was almost concerned about it. But by that evening, they had dialed everything in, and [Carpenter] did her homework on what verses she was going to take. We went out there and floated on all that energy.”

“She’s very cordial, very kind, and very approachable,” Bailey noted of the Gen Z singer, whose work he hadn’t previously heard aside from smash hit “Espresso.” “Her energy and our energy were very compatible and complementary to one another. How she puts her show together, in terms of how it accelerates and builds, was fantastic.”

The interview comes three days after Earth, Wind & Fire took the stage with Carpenter, who closed out the entire 2025 festival by headlining the last of its four days on Sunday (Aug. 3). The other headliners included Tyler, the Creator, Rufus du Sol and Olivia Rodrigo, while Doechii, Gracie Abrams, KATSEYE and dozens of other artists also performed over the weekend.

During Carpenter’s set, it came as a total surprise to her crowd when — in the middle of her usual setlist of tracks from Billboard 200-topping album Short n’ Sweet — Earth, Wind and Fire’s “Let’s Groove” started playing over the speakers. “We can just let loose, right? We can just groove,” the Girl Meets World alum said moments before the soul singers walked out on stage. “I thought, ‘Why not bring out my friends from Chicago?’ Give it up for Earth, Wind & Fire!'”

The musicians went on to perform “Let’s Groove” and “September” together. Summarizing the whole experience, Bailey added to Vulture, “We were honored to be asked and very appreciative to her and to her fans for embracing these moments we were able to share.”

Carpenter is now gearing up to release her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, on Aug. 29, following a whirlwind year of breakout success thanks to Short n’ Sweet. So far, fans have only gotten to hear one of the songs on the LP — “Manchild,” which dropped in June and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — but the vocalist did recently unveil the full tracklist.

Myke Towers and Quevedo propel “Soleo” to the top of Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as the song jumps a spot to No. 1 on the list dated Aug. 9.

Their first collab, “Soleao” (which translates to “sunny” in English), was released May 20 on One World International/Warner Records/Warner Latina. It leads the way in its ninth chart week, after an 11% growth in audience impressions, to 9.1 million, across U.S. panel-contributing Latin radio stations in the tracking week of July 25-31, according to Luminate.

Towers claims his 15th Latin Airplay champ, and third consecutively of 2025, after one-week rulers “Otra Noche,” featuring Darell (February), and “Degenere,” featuring Benny Blanco (May).

Further, Towers adds to his satchel of wins as he accomplishes a third trio of No. 1s in a single year. Rewind to 2021, when (after landing two early chart-toppers, for that matter) the Puerto Rican delivered a streak of three straight No. 1s: “Bandido,” with Juhn; “Pareja del Año,” with Sebastián Yatra; and “Bésame,” with Luis Fonsi, that June, August and November, respectively. In 2024, Towers replicated the success with another trio of consecutive No. 1s: “Borracho y Loco,” with Yandel; “La Falda”; and “La Capi,” between that February and May.

Meanwhile, Quevedo makes a comeback to No. 1 on Latin Airplay. He previously led, for four weeks, with “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,” with Bizarrap, in 2022.

Beyond its Latin Airplay coronation, “Soleao” likewise lifts 2-1 on Latin Pop Airplay. There, Towers tallies a third No. 1 and Quevedo, his first. Further, the song adds a second week atop Latin Rhythm Airplay.

Banda Carnaval Ignites Regional Mexican Airplay: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Banda Carnaval secures its eighth No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay, and second of the year, as “Ya La Hice” bounds 9-1 with 6.6 million audience impressions, up 47%, in the tracking week. The act’s “Pude” led for a week in March.

“We are deeply grateful to our fans for taking ‘Ya La Hice’ to No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart,” Banda Carnaval tells Billboard. “This song represents a very special moment for us, and seeing it connect with people in this way fills us with pride and emotion. Thank you to everyone who has made it their own, to the composers for this great story, and to our team who continues to believe in our music. Let’s go all the way with Síganme Tirando!”

“Ya La Hice” earns Greatest Gainer honors, awarded to the song with the largest week-over-week increase in impressions at the format. Leading the charge during the tracking period are Univision stations, with standout support from KSCA-FM Los Angeles, KLNO-FM Dallas, and WOJO-FM Chicago.

Ice Cube‘s latest movie is off to a slow start on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. According to 15 critics (and counting), War of the Worlds so far has a zero percent rating on the Tomatometer scale, while thousands of moviegoers have given it at 14 percent rating on the Popcornmeter.

One review in particular, from Variety‘s Peter Debruge knocked the film for essentially doubling as a commercial for Amazon, writing, “Even with a Prime subscription, you have to sit through two minutes of ads to watch 90 more of what amounts to a feature-length commercial for all things Amazon,” while another from The Telegraph‘s Ed Power wasn’t really into all the screen time Cube got, saying, “It is silly, shoddy and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he’s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment.”

An adaptation of H. G. Wells’ classic 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, this version is an Amazon Prime production directed by Rich Lee and also starring Eva Longoria. Cube plays Will Radford, a surveillance expert at the Department of Homeland Security, and most of the movie takes place on his computer screen as he deals with a hacker and an alien invasion while trying to keep his family out of harm’s way.

The synopsis on Prime Video reads as follows: “A gargantuan invasion is coming with this fresh take on the legendary novel of the same name. Renowned actress Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and actor Ice Cube, along with Michael O’Neill and Iman Benson, for a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy.”

Cube’s son, actor O’Shea Jackson Jr., replied to a tweet on X of a video clip from the movie in which an Amazon Prime delivery person tells Cube’s character to cop a USB from Amazon, so he can deliver it via Prime Air with a drone. “I truly can’t believe this adaptation of War Of The Worlds is actually a real film with a real budget and Ice Cube is actually in it,” a fan posted, with Jackson replying that the movie was “Shot during the pandemic. Released 5 years later.”

Billboard has reached out to Ice Cube’s team for comment.