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Bunnie XO is in proud wife mode after Jelly Roll scored his first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Beautifully Broken this week.
Shortly after it was announced Monday (Oct. 21) that the country star had topped the U.S. ranking — beating out other competitive new releases from Rod Wave and Charli XCX — the Dumb Blonde podcaster reshared Billboard‘s post about her husband’s feat on her Instagram Story. “You guys!” Bunnie wrote, adding a sobbing emoji. “We did it!!!!!!” the influencer added triumphantly.
Following its Oct. 10 release, Beautifully Broken opened its first week with 161,000 equivalent album units, 114,000 of which were album sales — marking Jelly’s largest sales week yet. The triumph follows his previous peak on the Billboard 200 in 2023 with Whitsitt Chapel, which bowed at No. 3 on the chart.
Bunnie has long been her husband’s most vocal supporter. Just a couple of weeks before Jelly topped the Billboard 200, the Internet personality shared a TikTok showing how she cuddles up to her husband even while he’s warming up his vocals before a show — “I’m just there for moral & emotional support,” she wrote at the time.
As Jelly’s career continues to take off, the couple is also in the midst of their IVF journey. The “Son of a Sinner” singer first revealed in June that they were pursuing fertility treatments on an episode of Bussin’ With the Boys, after which Bunnie confirmed on her own show that she’s in her “baby mama gardening era.”
“We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open,” she later added on Instagram. “And w/ all odds stacked against us, it’s already been hard and we have only just begun. We have been meeting with IVF doctors & exploring all our options to add to our family.”
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Oliver Tree’s team has provided a new update following the singer’s death in a helicopter crash on June 14, confirming that a new artist grant will soon be established in his memory to help creatives secure funding, a plan he had detailed in his will before his passing.
Accompanying a collection of photos highlighting Tree’s performances, travels and creative work through the years, a post shared Sunday (June 21) on his Instagram account revealed that the musician’s remains have been brought back to California, the state he called home and where he will be laid to rest. “His legacy will live on through his foundation/endowment named ‘Dr. Oliver Tree’s Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses’ coming soon,” the caption reads. “This is something that Oliver had put together before his passing.”
“We will make sure his wish comes to fruition so that more joy, love and art can be spread into the world, that was his final wish,” the statement continued, adding that “the constant love, support and positivity” shown by fans throughout the past week has helped his “family, friends and collaborators make it through these extremely difficult times.”
Tree was among six people who lost their lives in a helicopter collision in Rio de Janeiro. The musician was in Brazil for his The World’s First Tour run and had performed what would ultimately be his final concert on June 6 in São Paulo. The other victims of the crash were identified as passengers Lucas Vignale, Gaspar Prim and Lucas Brito Chaves, along with pilots Alexandre Souza and Charles Marsillac.
Just months before his death, Tree discussed his plans to direct his fortune and future earnings from his music toward a grant program for artists during an appearance on the Zach Sang Show. “I take no credit for anything I’ve ever done,” he said during the April interview. “Furthermore, I don’t believe that any of the wealth or things that get made from it is mine. So when I die … my will is set up so that when I pass, my family, nobody is going to get a penny.”
“If I have a wife or kids or anything, they’re not getting a penny,” he added at the time, explaining that the initiative would focus on helping artists create work rather than funding education. “I’ll get my kids through college, that’s the agreement, but there’s not gonna be a silver spoon. All the money is going to go back to artists.”
