Justin Bieber, benny blanco — Lonely (with benny blanco)

The celebrity-adjacency machine has given a five-year-old pop confessional new oxygen. Benny Blanco's marriage to Selena Gomez — and the subsequent tabloid churn comparing their relationship to Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber's — has kept both men in the same cultural sentence for months, and IBTimes UK reports that side-by-side couple comparison clips have been circulating widely on TikTok amid Gomez divorce speculation. The effect appears to be pulling listeners back to the one track where the two collaborated. Lonely is structurally spare — a confessional piano ballad built around Bieber's childhood-fame alienation, with a music video directed by Jake Schreier and starring Jacob Tremblay as a young Bieber — and its emotional plainness makes it easy to rediscover. The song re-enters the charts after a nine-day gap, now appearing across 49 country and platform charts, suggesting the gossip cycle has legs beyond a single news moment.