Stella Lefty, whose breakthrough hit “Boston” is No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for a second consecutive week, has left Disruptor Management, according to sources.

Disruptor helped guide Lefty’s ascent from unknown artist to one of 2026’s biggest breakthroughs and one of the year’s most successful acts. With the two-week No. 1 status of “Boston,” Lefty became the first solo-billed woman to have a debut single spend multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart since Gretchen Wilson, whose “Redneck Woman” spent five weeks at No. 1 in 2004. The song also peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Long Way Home, Lefty’s debut album, reached No. 11 on the Billboard 200. She will also embark on a sold-out tour in November.

Disruptor director of A&R and management Zach Horowitz, who had managed Lefty with Disruptor CEO Adam Alpert, told Billboard in June that he found Lefty online while he was still in college a number of years ago and she was a burgeoning singer-songwriter from Chicago.

“What a lot of people don’t realize is that we’ve been building Stella’s fan base for years. Support runs with [several acts], fan pop-ups in New York and L.A.,” Horowitz told Billboard. “We’ve always wanted to super-serve the people who were there from day one. Those fans became the foundation, and as the project has grown, it’s felt like a real community rather than just people streaming songs.”

Lefty also made a recent change with her press representation, switching from Align to Nashville-based Sweet Talk PR.

Lefty’s tremendous success has come with a vicious backlash. As the daughter of billionaire Groupon founder Eric Lefkofsky, she was labeled a “nepo baby.” Online critics have questioned her country authenticity since she is from Chicago. She also has been criticized for her songs sounding too similar to other artists, though she has credited songwriters like Noah Kahan, who received a songwriting credit on “Boston” as the song interpolates “Stick Season,” while writers Tia Sillers and Mark Selby are credited on “Summer You Were Mine” for the song’s similarity to The Chicks’ 1998 hit “There’s Your Trouble.”

Despite her online detractors, Lefty has plenty of supporters within the country music industry, including country superstar Randy Travis. After she posted a video on Sept. 22 singing an unreleased song that references country influences, including Travis, the country legend posted an encouraging message on her TikTok: “Thank you for the nod, Stella! I’ve always thought you could stand toe to toe with the very best in Nashville. Keep believing … face to the sunshine and shadows fall behind you!”

Kelsea Ballerini also showed support for Lefty after the singer made her Grand Ole Opry debut and shared a post backstage with two young St. Jude cancer patients that, incredulously, drew criticism. “Opry member chiming in!!… From different backgrounds and hometowns and generations, we can find ways to say and sing things that resonate with people that fill the seats… and that is always the goal, right?… [The Opry is] about celebration of all kinds of country music,” Ballerini wrote. “New, old, traditional, current, however you wanna say it. It’s all important.”

In August, Lefty told Billboard she was grateful to have been accepted by the country music community. “It’s so crazy to be so embraced in a genre that I’ve always loved,” she said. “Country music has been such a huge part of my life. And I feel like it’s always scary when you start making music that kind of bleeds into a genre. Country is so specific about who they embrace and how they go about things, so to be accepted in that world is truly the greatest honor.”

Disruptor, which also has a joint label venture through Sony, continues to represent a full slate of artists on both the management and label side.

Reps for Disruptor and Lefty, as well as her attorney and her label Atlantic Outpost, either did not respond to a request for comment or declined to comment.

“Danceteria Afterhours,” which has Madonna teaming up with Charli xcx, tops this week’s new music poll.

Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Sept. 25) on Billboard, choosing the club-ready collab as their favorite new music.

The ‘afterhours’ mix of Madonna’s “Danceteria,” a track that dropped this week following the July release of her Confessions II album, closed down the poll with 63% of the vote on Sunday — so, yeah, Billboard readers “wanna talk about Madonna and Charli.” It topped new releases from Taylor Swift, Tinashe, Maren Morris with Michelle Branch and more.

“Danceteria Afterhours” lines up two artists’ origin stories: the new spin adds verses from Charli to Madonna’s original recording for Confessions II, swirling her club history in London and L.A. in with Madonna’s New York City lore.

“I’m sweet fifteen in a weird outfit/ Got invited to perform at this party through Myspace/ First time ever at a party in London/ I’m kinda nervous, kinda scared/ On a makeshift stage playing songs from my iPod,” Charli recounts of her club kid days circa 2007; later, she shifts ahead to 2015: “Linked up with A. G. and SOPHIE/ Took a flight to L.A./ Where PC Music did Pop City/ This new place has a lot of new things/ Different DJs, flavoured cocaine/ Found myself through the songs I wrote/ And the songs I wrote are how we start the party.”

Confessions II launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in July, marking the star’s first No. 1 LP of the 2020s. Charli xcx’s Music, Fashion, Film debuted at No. 3 on the chart in August.

Trailing behind “Danceteria Afterhours” on Billboard‘s poll this week are Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore release (a version of the Showgirl album with four bonus tracks, led by the single “Patient Zero”), with 27% of the vote. Tinashe’s new Popstar album follows, with almost 3% of the vote.

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

Rihanna is giving fans another glimpse into life with her youngest child.

The 38-year-old Fenty mogul and mother of three took to Instagram on Saturday (Sept. 26) to share a series of adorable photos and videos featuring her 1-year-old daughter with A$AP Rocky, Rocki Irish Mayers.

The sweet gallery opens with Rocki tugging at a large wig placed on her head as Rihanna can be heard laughing in the background. In another photo, the toddler sports pink hair curlers, similar to those her dad is often seen wearing.

In one video, Rihanna takes a Louis Vuitton bag away from Rocki, prompting the toddler to cry before her mom gives it back. And in another clip, Rocki wears a generous amount of Fenty Beauty blush alongside her mom.

“Who let me have a daughter, bro?” Rihanna captioned the post.

The “We Found Love” singer’s partner, A$AP Rocky, took to the comments to show some love to his baby girl. “MY FATTY BUMS,” the rapper wrote alongside a red heart emoji.

Rihanna welcomed her third child on Sept. 13, 2025, with A$AP Rocky, with whom she also shares sons RZA and Riot Rose. The couple announced less than two weeks later on Instagram that Rocki had arrived.

Before Rocki’s arrival, Rihanna revealed she was expecting again by debuting her baby bump on the 2025 Met Gala red carpet. The couple kept the baby’s sex under wraps ahead of the birth, though they were open about hoping for a girl, with Rocky telling Elle in 2024 that they were “praying for a girl.”

Rocki made her official entry into the modeling world in April, joining her famous mom on the cover of W Magazine at just 7 months old. “She outshined me,” the singer joked at the time. “Last shoot we’ll ever do together. Who’s the high-fashion baby?”

Check out Rihanna’s cute Instagram post here.

Saturday Night Live UK is taking another jab at Ed Sheeran amid the controversy surrounding his Loop Tour.

During her opening monologue on the Sept. 26 episode of the British spinoff, Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg reflected on the end of her popular YouTube interview series, which she recently announced would conclude after more than 12 years.

On Chicken Shop Date, the English comedian sits down with celebrities for awkward, deadpan dates at chicken shops. The series has featured some of music’s biggest stars, including Paul McCartney, Jack Harlow, Charli xcx, Rosalía and Yungblud.

“I’m incredibly privileged to have done so many interviews with people like Idris Elba, Cher, and even a world-famous red-headed puppet with a hand up his a— telling him what to say,” Dimoldenberg told the audience as a photo of her alongside Sesame Street‘s Elmo appeared on screen.

She then gestured for a different photo, saying, “No, the other one,” as an image of her alongside Sheeran flashed on the screen.

The joke refers to Sheeran’s appearance on Chicken Shop Date in November 2021, when Dimoldenberg met the singer at Sam’s Chicken in London.

The SNL UK jab comes as Sheeran’s Loop Tour has faced controversy following the removal of Macklemore from the U.S. leg after the rapper made “Free Palestine” remarks during his opening set in early September. Macklemore was originally scheduled to open Sheeran’s U.S. shows but was removed from the tour following his two performances at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sept. 4 and 5, where he chanted “Free Palestine” and performed his politically charged protest track “Hind’s Hall.”

SNL UK had already poked fun at Sheeran on Sept. 19 episode, when cast member Annabel Marlow portrayed the singer-songwriter as a “fence-sitter” caught between humans and AI in a sketch featuring King Charles and a rogue AI assistant modeled after Princess Diana.

In the aftermath, Sheeran performed two shows in Philadelphia without any opening acts, telling the crowd that he wanted his concerts to focus on unity and humanity rather than politics.

Macklemore has since announced a Free Palestine Tour, with shows scheduled for Dublin on Oct. 26, Paris on Oct. 29 and London on Oct. 30. Proceeds from the concerts will benefit organizations providing humanitarian and other support for Palestinians.

Watch Dimoldenberg’s SNL UK monologue below.