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Legal
Fake Taylor Swift and Rihanna vinyl lands a British bootlegger in prison
Rehan Ahmed pressed records on machines seventy years old for seven years, and police carried 18 tons of evidence out of his warehouse.
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Festivals
RTE keeps Ireland out of the Eurovision Song Contest 2027
The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has withdrawn too, and the Bulgarian contest still runs across three May nights in Burgas.
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Breakups
Mis-Teeq are said to have split again, and Su-Elise Nash says that is news to her
One camp announced the end of the reunion alongside a solo tour; another member says 2027 offers were still live.
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Business
Taylor Swift takes the first MTV VMA Artist Director honour for her music videos
MTV built a new category around a performer who directs her own clips, and handed it over five days before the ceremony.
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Releases
The Weeknd debuts the song Tokyo in Japan with the singer Yoko Takahashi
The track builds on A Cruel Angel's Thesis, and Yoko Taro supplied stage visuals from NieR:Automata and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Tours
tripleS book six North American shows including Toronto and Vancouver
The South Korean group open at Massey Hall on 11 November and close in Vancouver on the 26th, with four US dates between.
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Releases
Madonna and Charli XCX put the single Danceteria Afterhours out on 24 September
Stuart Price produced the track, which lands days before Madonna opens the VMAs for the first time in 23 years.
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Obituary
Ronnie Dove, the pop balladeer who charted 21 singles in the sixties, has died at 91
The Baltimore singer cut his hits in Nashville with the A-Team, then bought back the masters and kept selling them himself.
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Releases
YAZ turns a stalled talking stage into the single If We Don't Know Each Other
The Camden singer wrote one verse, took it into the studio with Joseph Tilley and Ryann Barnes, and left with a chorus.
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Releases
Faye Meana finishes a years-old song and makes it the single All This Time
The London singer's bossa-tinged track lands ahead of her EP I Meant To Say on 9 October.
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Tours
Mariah Carey brings her Christmas tour back to UK arenas after nine years away
Birmingham, London and Manchester get three dates between 27 November and 2 December.
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Business
Ed Sheeran breaks his silence on Gaza at the first concert since Macklemore's exit
He took the B stage out over safety fears, played with no support acts at all, and told a Philadelphia crowd he had thought about giving up music.
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Releases
Say Now bring in PinkPantheress to executive produce the single Met my match
The British trio's new track also carries Oscar Scheller, Count Baldor and Maestro The Baker on the credits.
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Tours
Celine Dion climbs on a car outside her hotel and sings to Paris
Barefoot on the bonnet after her third residency night, she conducted a street full of fans through a 1995 single.
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Obituary
Duncan Sheik, the Spring Awakening composer and singer, has died at 56
His mother told the New York Times the cause was organ failure, days after his family said he was in critical condition.
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Tours
Davido books a three-night Lagos residency at the National Theatre in December
He calls the renovated building Nigeria's Madison Square Garden, and a video for the single On the Road landed the same day.
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Releases
Carly Rae Jepsen splits her eighth album Day and Night into two halves
The record runs to 24 tracks, with the B-sides folded in rather than held back for a companion release.
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Releases
Blackpink singer Rose releases a solo single called new trick
Her last one outside the group, the Bruno Mars collaboration APT, is still the biggest solo song any member has had.
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Business
The Weeknd rules out retirement and calls the break a hibernation
Abel Tesfaye told GQ Hong Kong he had a glimpse of retirement and did not like it, after five years of albums, a TV show and a film.
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Tours
Valley book a 2027 world tour with 12 Canadian shows and a Massey Hall finish
The Toronto band open in Quebec City in February and reach London, Berlin and Paris by May.
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Business
Chubby Checker and Gil Cunningham enter the IEBA Hall of Fame on 6 October
The singer behind The Twist goes in alongside a talent buyer whose company books more than 900 shows a year.
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Releases
Ian McKellen narrates the Troye Sivan single Party, built on a Madonna sample
Gordon von Steiner directed the medieval clip. She's the Best, Sivan's fourth album, lands on 9 October.
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Releases
no na release the debut album island girl through 88rising
The four Indonesian singers call their sound Island Pop, and the 15 tracks arrive a week after a near 15-minute medley.
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Business
Singer Billy Joel is alive, his publicist says, after a Google death listing
Claire Mercuri told Newsday she had just been emailing him. The search engine had put his date of death at 17 September.
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Business
Ms. Rachel dates her first album I'm So Happy for 25 September
Twenty-three songs played on real instruments, made with her husband Aron Accurso, the Broadway composer behind Songs for Littles.
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Releases
Saina dates her EP Hotel 555 for 23 October
Darkest Hours is out now, drawn from Joe Hisaishi's Studio Ghibli scores and co-produced with zuriel, who worked on the whole record.
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Tours
Charli XCX adds a second O2 night to her Music, Fashion, Film tour
The extra show is on Saturday 20 February 2027, the night after the date already booked, and takes the run to seven.
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Business
MPs will review how the UK picks its Eurovision song as Ireland sits out
A DCMS committee wants to know who chooses the entrant and on what basis, after a third straight nul points from the public vote.
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Releases
Melissa Weikart dates her second album Contact for 23 October
Midnight Special Records puts out the twelve-track record, which the Paris-based artist wrote, arranged and produced largely on her own.
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Releases
Carly Rae Jepsen sets her Versailles video at a party in Los Angeles
Kanya Iwana directed the clip. The song comes from Day and Night, the 24-track double album that arrived the same day.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus releases her tenth album Bass Persuades under the name Miley
Ten tracks, features from Model/Actriz and Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt, and two Hollywood Bowl nights in October.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus films the Let's Get Married video at the Chateau Marmont
Mert Alas directed the black and white clip, with her fiance Maxx Morando in it, a day before Bass Persuades arrived.
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Releases
Clean Bandit, Chloe Bailey and Omah Lay put out the single Company
Jack Patterson produced the chorus and the group directed the choreography-led video. It follows Bailey's Timbaland mixtape Resurrection.
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Business
Classic Hits Radio pulls Ed Sheeran's records over the Macklemore tour row
Bay Broadcasting's Dave Kelly says listener feeling settled it, and that the station is standing with the Irish acts who walked off the bill.
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Business
Jennifer Lopez turns her Las Vegas residency into a two-hour CBS concert film
The JLo Show: Live in Las Vegas premieres on 26 November, filmed on the closing night of a twelve-show run in March.
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Releases
Kate Nash dates her sixth album Cailin and shares the single Spilt Milk
Recorded on the west coast of Ireland with trad players and produced by KoOoLkOjAk, the record lands on 22 January through Kill Rock Stars.
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Releases
hemlocke springs releases the single gloria! as the MUNA tour starts
Her first full-length album arrived at the start of the year and Stereogum made it an Album Of The Week.
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Business
Singer Zara Larsson calls a White House ICE video using her song dehumanising
The Swedish pop star answered on TikTok after immigration arrest footage was cut to Midnight Sun.
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Business
Songwriter Gregg Alexander names the second New Radicals album
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed TWO is due early next year on Universal, with Danielle Brisebois back alongside him.
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Business
La Roux says a breakdown cost the singer a decade away from music
Elly Jackson posted the account to TikTok over a remix of Bulletproof, weeks before the fourth album Old Flames arrives on 6 November.
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Business
Spotify puts Taylor Swift's whole music video catalogue behind Premium
Fifty-eight clips, from Tim McGraw in 2006 to this year's Toy Story 5 song, arrived for paying subscribers on 16 September.
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Releases
Ms* Gloom hands the J Is For Joon songs to seven remixers
Malibu, araabMUZIK, Quiet Light, Lust For Youth and Cult Member are among the guests reworking this year's mixtape.
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Legal
Sam Smith wishes they had written back to Tom Petty about Stay With Me
Petty and Jeff Lynne were added as co-writers in 2015 after publishers flagged the two choruses.
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Business
George Michael concert film The Faith Tour gets its first trailer
Two restored 1988 nights at the Palais Omnisports in Paris reach cinemas on December 11.
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Releases
Ariana Grande's new album Petal channels her anger into pop
Rolling Stone calls the rage-filled eighth LP a departure from the meticulous Eternal Sunshine, and says it works.
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Releases
Caroline Rose reveals new album "Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall"
Produced by John Congleton, the record is due October 23 on Rose's own label, SUCK Records.
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Business
Singer Beyonce gives $1 million to Colombia after the Choco earthquake
The singer's personal donation follows a 7.4-magnitude quake that killed at least 312 people, with Parkwood pointing donors to Food for the Poor and World Central Kitchen.
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Business
Brazil's Taylor Swift Law sets free water and ticket rules for concerts
Two decrees signed on 31 August require free drinking water at events above 1,000 people and force ticket sellers to show fees upfront.
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Festivals
Dua Lipa and Tame Impala reported in talks for the Coachella 2027 festival
SZA is said to lead for a remaining top slot, with BTS, Oasis and Radiohead chased.
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Business
Zhoumi will run STE, the Beijing label venture from SM and Tencent Music
The company plans to debut a Chinese idol group within two to three years.
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Festivals
KATSEYE drop off the Daisy Chain Fields festival after an ankle injury
Devon Again takes the Saturday slot at Olivia Rodrigo's Irvine event, which went on to raise $20 million for ten organisations.
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Business
Police to refer Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of K-pop label HYBE, to prosecutors
The step would close a 21-month inquiry into the company's 2020 stock market listing.
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Legal
Judge dismisses a stylist's lawsuit against singer Lizzo's touring company
Asha Daniels did not show conduct demonstrating hostility to women, the ruling found.
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Business
Rapper Doja Cat says she struggled with cocaine and alcohol in TikTok videos
She revisited the Planet Her track I Don't Do Drugs and said it did not reflect where she was at the time.
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Tours
KATSEYE's Sophia Laforteza sits out the European leg of the Wildworld tour
She misses every UK and European date through September 17, leaving four members to open in Dublin.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus announces her tenth album Bass Persuades for September 18
Ten tracks, a Model/Actriz feature and two Hollywood Bowl shows, her first public concerts in four years.
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Business
Blackpink's Lisa gets a documentary, Always Lalisa, in October
Sue Kim's film follows the singer through the year she made her first solo album, and reaches theatres on October 12 before YouTube Premium.
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Releases
Fine announces the album Jazz Dreams and shares "Everything in the Shade"
The Copenhagen musician, once of the electro-pop group CHINAH, has thirteen songs due on Escho on 23 October.
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Festivals
Report puts Dua Lipa and Tame Impala atop the Coachella 2027 festival bill
Fred again.. is tied to the poster's bottom-line slot, and the desert event has confirmed nothing.
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Tours
Ariana Grande closes the Eternal Sunshine tour with a tearful final O2 show
Forty-one dates across North America, the UK and Europe end with a 10-night London stay.
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Legal
Judge dismisses the last claims in the Asha Daniels lawsuit against Lizzo
The singer says she is relieved; the wardrobe worker's lawyer is weighing an appeal.
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Charts
Sam Smith's album Hazel Eyes misses the Billboard 200 entirely
A decade of top 10 placements ends even as the record ranks sixth in the week's new studio sales.
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Business
Singer Ariana Grande plays her final London shows in flat shoes after a foot injury
She says the cut is not a sprain or a muscle problem and she has no plans to cancel.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus drops her surname and announces the album Bass Persuades
Now billed as MILEY, the singer set a September 18 date and two Hollywood Bowl nights.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus sets her 10th album Bass Persuades for September 18
She has dropped her surname for the promo run and booked two Hollywood Bowl shows in October.
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Tours
Sombr adds 2027 tour dates across Europe, Australia and New Zealand
The You Are The Reason run opens in Adelaide in April before a swing through 14 European countries.
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Releases
Susanna Hoffs and Rufus Wainwright duet on new single "Bad Case Of Loneliness"
The Bangles co-founder's third preview of her solo record The List pairs her with a fellow songwriter.
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Business
Six crew hurt in a forklift accident after an Ed Sheeran concert in Detroit
The workers were breaking down the stage at Ford Field when equipment lost control.
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Charts
TikTok names a 15-year-old Katy Perry track its global song of the summer
Catalog tracks by Mac Miller, Lenny Kravitz and Malcolm Todd fill the rest of the US top four.
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Releases
Weird Al Yankovic puts the lost Al's Brain film and its song on YouTube
The 2009 county fair short film, with Paul McCartney and Patton Oswalt, is on YouTube now.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus lines up the album Bass Persuades and two nights at the Hollywood Bowl
Her first record for Atlantic arrives September 18, and the singer is now billed without a surname.
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Releases
Report says Justin Timberlake is planning a 2027 album and world tour
Showbiz411 sources put both under the banner The Next Move, with a March 2027 start.
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Business
Director Mary Bronstein teases a film of Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields
The one-off Irvine benefit raised $10 million, then Melinda French Gates matched it.
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Releases
Miley Cyrus drops her surname and goes mononymous ahead of a tenth album
A red Los Angeles Times wrap, a refreshed website and a new Atlantic deal all pointed the same direction.
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Releases
Alex Warren digs into his turbulent past on second album Wildchild
John Mayer, his late father's favourite guitarist, plays a solo on the title track.
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Tours
Harry Styles opens a 30-night Madison Square Garden concert residency
The run to October 31 closes the US leg of Together, Together, with fans telling NPR resale seats hit about $1,200.
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Tours
Six Ed Sheeran crew members hospitalised after a Detroit stage accident
Fire dispatch audio described a forklift injury at Ford Field around 11pm as the stage came down.
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Tours
Sombr books a 2027 arena tour of the UK and Europe after Reading and Leeds
Ravyn Lenae and Jessie Mazin support most of the run, and Suki Waterhouse opens the O2 finale in London.
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Tours
Sombr books The O2 Arena for his biggest UK headline show on a 2027 arena tour
The You Are The Reason run opens in Oslo on May 8, with the London date following on June 22.
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Releases
Angele announces the album Instinct with Justice and Caroline Polachek
Une seule vie arrives as the second preview, shot on 16mm in the south of France.
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Charts
Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World) passes two billion Spotify streams
It is her eighth song past the mark, more than any other woman, ten years on from her last album.
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Festivals
ADELA premieres a new song called Boys during her Reading festival set
The Slovakian-born pop singer introduced the track as a night out with friends interrupted by unwanted attention.
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Releases
Prince's estate releases Timeless, a ten-song album of vault recordings
Material reaching from a 1977 demo to a live take from his last tour, and one critic calling the result flat.
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Festivals
Olivia Rodrigo's first Daisy Chain Fields festival ends with $20 million raised
Melinda French Gates matched the $10 million total onstage in Irvine, and Stevie Nicks closed the night on Landslide.
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Business
Singer Olivia Dean asks why one-hit wonder is used as an insult
Man I Need passed a billion Spotify streams and topped US pop radio. She thinks a song everybody loves is a strange thing to sneer at.
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Releases
Singer Mariah Carey says new music is coming next year
She confirmed it to a fan in Beverly Hills, under a year after Here For It All reached No. 7.
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Festivals
Lola Young plays a last-minute secret set at the Reading festival
Announced hours ahead, the 3.15pm slot on The Grid was her debut at the site and ended on Messy.
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Tours
Maisie Peters on the album Florescence and her first O2 headline show in 2027
She played Reading's main stage for the first time in five years and joked about filling the arena with horses.
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Releases
Olivia Rodrigo sings Landslide with Stevie Nicks at her own festival
Alanis Morissette and Sarah McLachlan also came out, and two songs were dedicated to Dolly Parton.
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Festivals
Singer RAYE headlines the Reading festival for the first time in her career
Escapism opened, sisters Amma and Absolutely joined for Joy, and Where Is My Husband? closed the night.
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Festivals
Ayra Starr to headline the NFL London halftime show at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The Nigerian singer plays the Eagles against the Jaguars on October 11, weeks after her third album landed.
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Festivals
Slayyyter wheels singer Sombr to the Reading festival stage on a stretcher
The two stopped to drop and do press-ups on the walk from an ambulance to the main stage.
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Releases
MNEK shares the Muscle Marys.. video and reveals the BULLDOZER!! tracklist
The album is due September 18, his first since 2018's Language, and the single deals with body image.
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Business
Perrie Edwards reported to have left the label Sony Music and Modest Management
The Sun says she turned down a second solo album at Columbia and has signed with Various Artists Management.
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Business
Singer Taylor Swift gives $50,000 to a mother hurt helping at a crash site
Ashley Taunton pushed someone clear of a hydroplaning car in a rainstorm and was hit herself. The singer left a note in the fundraiser comments.
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Festivals
Charli XCX headlines Reading festival with a Music, Fashion, Film set
It was her first full UK show of the new album era, and a Leeds main stage debut followed the next night.
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Releases
Noah Kahan is credited as a songwriter on Stella Lefty's single Boston
The song took her to Number Two on the Hot 100, and her debut album turned out to lean on a Chicks hit as well.
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Charts
Katseye and Phoebe Bridgers take the top two US album chart spots
Wild sold 145,000 copies in its first week; Lost Weekend sold 83,000.
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Releases
Eli Derby follows his cover-song start with the EP LOVESHY
The Maryland singer began playing drums in church at two and now runs his own label.
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Releases
Haute & Freddy follow their debut album with the single Touch Touch
Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp came to the duo from years of writing for other people.
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Business
Halsey releases her first concert film, The Girl in the Tower
The 75-minute set was shot across a European festival run and premiered on YouTube.
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Releases
Olivia Rodrigo releases new song 'Serena Joy'
The one-off single takes its name from a character in The Handmaid's Tale and arrives ahead of her Daisy Chain Fields festival.
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Releases
underscores returns with the A/B single Unlimited Love before an arena support run
April Harper Grey pairs a live-set favourite with a Frost Children remix, then joins Charli xcx from September 11.
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Releases
JENNIE releases the three-track EP Fallen Angel after her biggest solo shows
The BLACKPINK singer follows last year's Ruby with a short, inward-facing record; the CD adds three more songs.
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Business
Warner Music Austria strikes a distribution deal with Tonherd
ADA Central Europe is part of the arrangement, and the Vienna label's studio opens up to Warner's local roster.
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Releases
Chloe Slater takes on online abuse with the single I've Never Felt So Hated
Her debut album Riot Youth follows on 9 October, and Bonnie MacRae directed the video.
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Business
Singer Zara Larsson rejects a Best New Artist push after 13 years of records
Her old label wanted to try for the category. She told Perfect Magazine the label was welcome to try without her blessing.
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Business
Zara Larsson is not eligible for a Best New Artist Grammy nomination in 2027
The pop singer said she would not want the category anyway. A nomination she already holds settles the question before her opinion has to.
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Tours
Tomorrow X Together book Steal The Wind tour dates across three continents
The K-pop group open with three Seoul nights in November before Asia, North America and Europe into 2027.
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Releases
Nick Ward lines up his second album, Year Of The Snake
Lead single Piano is built on Glenn Gould playing Bach, and the record was made between Auckland and Sydney.
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Tours
Bruno Mars adds Asia and Australia dates to the 2027 Romantic Tour
The leg opens February 13 in Perth and closes with four nights in Goyang, South Korea, in May.
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Business
Singer Olivia Rodrigo lines up Taco Bell and Grammy Museum album tie-ins
A pink lemonade Baja Blast arrives first, then a museum show built from the handmade sets used in the cure video.
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Legal
Singer Selena Gomez and her mother accused of defrauding Wondermind investors
Her lawyer calls the lawsuit over the collapsed mental health startup meritless and plans to file for dismissal.
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Business
Olivia Rodrigo built the Daisy Chain Fields festival around abortion rights
The all-women bill at Great Park in Irvine played for free, and Rodrigo said at a news conference that $10 million goes to ten advocacy groups.
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Tours
Barry Manilow pauses Las Vegas residency
He canceled his remaining August and September Westgate shows after a grueling summer tour, with the run resuming October 8.
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Releases
Beyonce reveals cover art and tracklist for B'Day 20th anniversary edition
The four-LP deluxe set, out September 4, includes a 60-page booklet and previously unreleased B-sides.
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Tours
Charli XCX teases a different show for Reading & Leeds festival
Ahead of her festival headline debut this weekend, she reviewed her 2017, 2019 and 2022 sets and promised something entirely new.
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Business
Harry Styles says the stage puts a singer in a godlike position
He told W that he showers straight after a show to wash the persona off, and had two words for reading comments.
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Releases
Mariah Carey kicks off 25th anniversary celebration of Glitter
Rochelle Jordan joins her for a new take on 'Didn't Mean To Turn You On.'
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Releases
NCT 127 release seventh studio album Blingy
The K-pop group leans further into its experimental hip-hop sound.
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Releases
Sabrina Carpenter marks a year of the album Man's Best Friend in Toronto
The one-day shop opens August 29 on Atlantic Avenue in Liberty Village with exclusive merch and a Polaroid wall.
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Business
New documentary revisits Wham!'s 1985 China tour
Mike Christie's film uses footage from George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's tour to explore its political weight.
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Charts
KATSEYE's 'WILD' hits No. 1, biggest girl group debut since 2008
The EP's 170,000-unit debut is the biggest for a girl group since Danity Kane's Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008.
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Festivals
Santos Bravos became the first Latin American band to play the KCON festival
The five members come from Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru and Los Angeles County, and they took on a BTS song to win the crowd.
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Releases
Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress sang their song Stateside live for the first time
The remix had been out for close to a year before it reached a stage, at All Points East in London, midway through Larsson's Midnight Sun tour.
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Charts
Stray Kids land the No. 1 album in the country
The album's title track, "This & That," is Stray Kids' first song ever to crack the Hot 100's top 40.
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Releases
Blackpink's Jennie announces new EP Fallen Angel
The three-song project drops Friday via Jennie's label Odd Atelier and Columbia, following Blackpink's own comeback EP Deadline.
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Releases
Sam Smith releases new album Hazel Eyes
The album explores requited love, a hopeful departure for the singer.
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Releases
Remi Wolf describes a "clean and clear" feeling behind new album Mud
The singer says a retreat with a small circle of collaborators in Big Bear shaped the record's warmer, more spacious sound.
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Awards
Madonna leads this year's VMA nominations with 11 nods
FADER staff share takeaways on a nominee slate that leans pop, legacy and white.
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Legal
Singer Ariana Grande sues to unmask hackers leaking her unreleased music
The lawsuit says hackers have accessed devices and accounts of her photographers and producers for 15 years, leaking 45 songs in 2023 alone.
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Festivals
Glastonbury festival has its 2027 headliners booked, Emily Eavis says
She also shot down talk connecting Madonna to the bill, after speculation built around her new album Confessions II.
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Releases
RIXXIA reopens her debut album NO LO ENtENDERÍAS as Deluluxe
The Mexican singer added post-punk and electropop, brought in Foudeqush and Chzter, and swapped the cover's red house for a vampire doll.
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Legal
C+C Music Factory co-founder sues rapper Freedom Williams over the group's name
Robert Clivilles wants 30 million dollars, the end of a 2015 registration and control of the Instagram account Williams runs.
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Releases
Rex Orange County brings back Daniel Caesar for the single Indecision
The ballad has a video shot in Montana and follows last year's double single, with SPIN suggesting an unannounced album behind it.
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Legal
FKA twigs wins the first stage of her trademark case against the band The Twigs
A judge found the Los Angeles duo had waited more than a decade to press their claims, applying the doctrine of laches.
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Legal
Ellie Goulding sues ex-management company over undisclosed Live Nation ties
She says her TaP Management team pushed her to work with Live Nation without disclosing the company owned TaP.
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Business
Singer Olivia Rodrigo paid a fan's last semester of college tuition
Jamie Causey said $5,000 arrived by Venmo after she posted about her costs at the University of Alabama, and she kept it to herself until she graduated.
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Awards
Madonna and Taylor Swift lead 2026 MTV VMA nominees
Madonna picked up 11 nominations largely on the strength of her Confessions II short film, while Swift earned nine for Life of a Showgirl.
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Business
Singer Jorja Smith headlines Spotify's new "Hometown" series with Nemzzz and Beabadoobee
The three artists return to Walsall, Manchester and London for one-off shows tied to new album campaigns.
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Releases
Singer Paris Jackson releases second album "Happiest Day Of My Life"
Now sober for six years, she made the record with Linda Perry and reflects on past addiction ahead of its August 21 release.
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Business
Singer Celine Dion opens up about her health battle with Stiff-Person Syndrome
She undergoes 90-minute Pilates sessions three times a week ahead of her Paris concert comeback.
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Releases
The Goods, the Oakland power pop band, share new single "Minor Key"
The song is a bittersweet farewell to someone left behind, ahead of sophomore album Goodbye Summertime.
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Tours
Singer Michelle Branch extends her Everywhere and Back Again Tour into 2027
The 17-date second leg launches February 25 in Charleston and follows a sold-out fall outing.
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Obituary
A Welsh choir sang "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at singer Bonnie Tyler's funeral
Only Men Aloud also performed Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" during the Swansea, Wales service.
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Awards
Madonna leads 2026 MTV VMA nominations
She's looking to add to her 19 competitive VMA wins when the show airs live from Los Angeles at 7:30pm ET.
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Releases
Madonna releases 15th album "Confessions II" with Stuart Price and Arca
Indie Hoy's review calls it a dance-floor meditation on healing, grief and her own legend.
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Releases
Jordin Sparks and Avello release video for dance collaboration "We Own the Night"
The American Idol winner pairs with the Orlando DJ on an EDM-leaning departure from her usual pop and R&B sound.
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Business
Carly Rae Jepsen teams with Dunham on a stage musical of "10 Things I Hate About You"
First previews are set for exactly one year out, with Tony winners Christopher Wheeldon and Tom Kitt attached.
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Releases
Ariana Grande brings out singer Cynthia Erivo for a duet at her London show
The two sang the title song from Wicked: For Good together, according to video Rolling Stone posted from the O2.
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Festivals
KCON festival draws big crowds to the Los Angeles Convention Center
Attendees lined up for Korean beauty samples and free skin analysis on day one of the three-day event.
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Releases
TikTok comedian and musician Petey USA releases new project "oooo"
Stereogum's Chris DeVille calls the release well worth a spin from an artist who keeps landing big hooks.
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Business
Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen and Lena Dunham's "10 Things" musical sets a Broadway date
The countdown is on for their musical reimagining of 10 Things I Hate About You.
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Business
BTS, the K-pop group, pulls out of the Grammys over new Asian Pop category
The band's boycott pushed Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr. to defend, then reconsider, the award two weeks later.
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Tours
Jonas Brothers announce "The Burning Up Tour All Over Again"
The 45-city arena run spans September through December 2026.
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Tours
Jonas Brothers expand their 2026 North American tour
The expansion follows the release of "Camp Rock 3" on Disney+.
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Tours
Isabel LaRosa plots North American "Dollparts Tour"
It follows the release of her new EP, "Promising Young Woman."
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Releases
Chappell Roan joins Noah Kahan onstage at the Rose Bowl for a surprise 'California' duet
Rolling Stone described her as a surprise guest at the stadium show.
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Releases
Troye Sivan announces fourth album "She's The Best," with a Nicole Kidman-starring video
It's his first release since signing with Interscope Records.
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Tours
Frankie Valli cancelled his remaining 2026 tour dates to focus on health
He responded to brother Bobby's claim this week that he had already retired.
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Releases
Humble The Great, London singer-songwriter, returns with new single "left you"
The Elton John-endorsed artist has also produced for Cat Burns and Amie Blu.
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Business
Wembley Stadium criticised over a fireworks display hours after a wildfire alert
The display ran at a show by The Weeknd at the stadium, NME reported.
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Charts
Katseye's "Wild" EP projected for a No. 1 Billboard debut
Early sales predictions from Hits Daily Double point to the group's biggest US opening yet.
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Festivals
Lewis Capaldi turns a Florence + The Machine lyric on himself at Sziget Festival
He referenced Florence Welch's 'One of the Greats' just before her headline set.
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Releases
The Quietus marks 50 years of ABBA's Dancing Queen
The essay is by Ian Wade, who revisits what the single did for the group.
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Breakups
Singer Frankie Valli denies that he has retired
His brother Bobby has apologized and said he was misinformed.
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Business
Grammys may rethink new Best Asian Pop Music category after BTS pushback
The Recording Academy said it is weighing the criticism after BTS chose not to enter next year's awards.
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Charts
Madonna notches her best UK chart placement in 17 years alongside Kylie Minogue
"Love Sensation" debuted at No. 8, becoming her 65th UK Top 10 hit.
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Reunions
Frankie Valli, pop singer, denies he's retiring after brother Bobby's false alarm
Bobby Valli walked back his post days after saying the 92-year-old Four Seasons frontman had stepped away.
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Releases
Zerb, Brazilian DJ and producer, releases new song "Faded Eyes" featuring Khalid
It's Khalid's latest in a run of pop collaborations with artists like Lauv and Ahn Hyo-seop.
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Releases
Tinashe drops the dancefloor single 'Melatonin' ahead of 'Popstar'
The track pulls from her coming eighth album and was produced by Zack Sekoff, nightfeelings, and Ricky Reed.
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Business
V of BTS gives a health update, saying he has lost hearing in his right ear
He says it has been building for two and a half years and grew worse during his military service.
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Releases
Katseye release EP "Wild," covering a Charli XCX outtake called "Bel Air"
The group powers on with new music even as two members remain on hiatus.
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Charts
Petal gives Ariana Grande the top spot on the US albums chart
The seventh US number-one album lands the same week her team confirmed she is stepping back from public life.
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Releases
Blu DeTiger kicks off a new era with single "Feel Good"
She released it hours before a packed Jazz Cafe show in London.
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Releases
Troye Sivan reveals fourth album 'She's the Best,' out October 9
The title track arrives with a Nicole Kidman video, and it follows his 2023 record 'Something to Give Each Other.'
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Charts
Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' streams spike on Spotify during the eclipse
The 1983 hit's UK streams jumped 94 percent, five weeks after the singer's death.
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Obituary
EMF keyboardist Derry Brownson has died at 55
Brownson was a founding member of the band.
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Releases
La Roux shares Lose Myself, another single from Old Flames
NME says the song deals with her auADHD diagnosis and her addictions.
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Releases
KATSEYE release their third EP, Wild
NME's review says the group are still hard to place, two years and three EPs in.
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Business
Pop star Robbie Williams says he has been diagnosed with autism
He recently topped The Beatles' record for the most UK number one albums.
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Releases
Esme Emerson release Jackie, their first new music of 2026
The pop duo say the song is about queer people who disappear too early.
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Reunions
The Weeknd, R&B singer Abel Tesfaye, says he isn't retiring the stage name after all
At a concert outside Stockholm, he told fans he tried stepping away and didn't like how it felt.
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Releases
Audrey Hobert marks her debut album's first anniversary with a Tiny Desk debut
She celebrated one year of "Who's The Clown?" with her first Tiny Desk Concert.
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Legal
Judge sends the Cascio siblings' case against Michael Jackson's estate to arbitration
The ruling leans on a clause in the 2019 settlement the siblings signed with the estate.
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Tours
KATSEYE played the Ed Sheeran-written single Animal on the Tonight Show
Four of the six members performed the day before the Wild EP arrived, with Sophia and Manon both on hiatus.
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Charts
Camila Cabello's "C,XOXO" album sees Spotify searches jump 475%
Spotify corrected the figure to The FADER, clarifying it reflects search volume, not streams.
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Releases
Singer-songwriter Audrey Hobert plays an NPR Tiny Desk set
She explains her limited patience for Friends just before playing her song Phoebe.
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Festivals
Eurovision Song Contest 2027 gets its host city and venue in Bulgaria
Burgas beat three other Bulgarian cities in a competitive bidding process.
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Business
Singer Audrey Hobert played five songs at the Tiny Desk
She dropped the ladders and trampolines she uses on tour and let the writing carry it, a week after Sue me entered the Hot 100.
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Legal
Beyonce faces a copyright suit over a sample on Alien Superstar
The claim says a sample on the Renaissance track was used without clearing it with the rights holder.
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Festivals
PC Music sets the POP CRYPT lineup with Dorian Electra and A. G. Cook
The fourth edition runs in three cities for the first time, including a London night at Colour Factory on 31 October.
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Releases
Britney Spears says new music projects are coming out this year
Two previously unreleased projects are due before year's end; no titles were given.
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Tours
Frost Children map out West Coast tour
It follows the release of their new EP "Tweaker Poem."
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Festivals
Eurovision Song Contest rewrites its rules for countries at war
Under the change, a war-involved winner could lose its right to host the following year.
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Releases
Underscores shares new video for "The Peace"
The clip pairs a smoggy soundstage with the breakup song's cigarette imagery.
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Festivals
Zara Larsson opens for Sombr's first European festival headline set at Sziget
The pop singer's own set drew a big crowd before he topped the Budapest bill.
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Festivals
Daisy Chain Fields festival locks in stage times so no sets overlap
Fourteen sets across two stages are timed so festivalgoers never have to choose between acts.
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Releases
Evan releases debut single "Ride or Die," previews solo EP "Death of Me"
The former Enhypen member headlines the Grammy Museum's Spotlight program Aug. 14 and performs at KCON LA Aug. 16.
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Releases
Jungle release new album "Sunshine"
DIY gave the record four stars, calling it consistently enjoyable without ever feeling particularly surprising.
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Tours
Pop star Charli XCX releases limited $25 Angel tickets for her North American tour
The tickets are non-transferable, sold only in pairs, and sit inside her wider Music, Fashion, Film arena run opening in Philadelphia next month.
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Awards
Singer Bette Midler named 2026 recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize
The Woody Guthrie Center will present the honor in October at Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom, with remarks from the Guthrie family.
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Lineup change
Singer Boy George threatens to sack Culture Club members who refuse his pro-Israel song
He says the pro-peace framing has been lost in the backlash, after already leaving a West End run and parting ways with his label manager over the track.
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Releases
Wasia Project unveil new track "Vogue"
The sibling duo's debut album "Nocturne" arrives September 18, with a UK tour to follow in November.
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Reunions
KATSEYE singer Sophia Laforteza announces hiatus for her mental health
It comes six months after bandmate Manon Bannerman also stepped back, and she has not yet returned.
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Business
Taylor Swift's song August pulled from a Donald Trump campaign video
Two more of her tracks have also gone quiet on posts from the president's team, NME reports.
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Releases
Jungle prepare new album "Sunshine"
It's the band's first as a trio, after singer Lydia Kitto joined full time.
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Releases
The Big Moon preview "Forever" with new single "Fun"
Frontwoman Juliette Jackson argues joy is just as real an emotion as pain.
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Releases
Bea Miller's next album, Mr. Peaked in High School, arrives with single drunk enough
The pop singer calls it the best work she's made yet, per The Line of Best Fit.
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Releases
Benny Blanco shares new single Te Olvido (La La) with Selena Gomez and Becky G
Danny Trejo smashes a pinata with a machete in the single's video, NME reports.
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Business
Joe Jonas says weak sales on his first solo album sent him to therapy
The 2011 record Fastlife peaked at only Number 15 on the US chart, NME reports.
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Business
Lionsgate targets late 2027 for its Michael Jackson biopic sequel
The plan follows the first film's billion-dollar box office run, AllHipHop reported.
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Business
Olivia Rodrigo plays a surprise Brooklyn gig and launches her own Bandcamp page
Tickets to the intimate Warsaw show sold out in two hours after being announced same-day.
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Reunions
A$AP Rocky says Rihanna is working on new music
Fans have called the long-awaited follow-up to 2016's Anti 'R9' for years.
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Business
K-pop label SM Entertainment posts a 15.4% revenue rise for the second quarter
Music Business Worldwide puts the figure at $233M and points to concerts and merchandise.
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Releases
Role Model releases follow-up album "Chuck Timely & The Hourglass"
He built the record around a rule of no synths, chasing '80s feeling without the sound.
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Releases
Audrey Nuna returns with a solo single called superHuman
It's her first solo release in two years and arrives via Republic Records with producer Cirkut.
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Releases
Madonna and Kylie Minogue confirm their Love Sensation single collaboration
The Afterhours Mix reworks Madonna's Confessions II track and follows the pair's surprise WorldPride Amsterdam debut.
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Business
J-pop label ASOBISYSTEM opens a US base in California
The move follows, on a smaller scale, HYBE's $1.05 billion Ithaca Holdings deal for BTS.
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Releases
O Slow shares new single "NO BODY"
Jacqui Miranda's project follows the track with a full-length debut in September.
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Releases
Sam Smith puts out a single called When He's Gone
It lands before the album Hazel Eyes, out August 21, and documents a relationship ending.
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Releases
Helena Gao and Shushu share new single lao wai
The song previews her EP Gao Dan Dan, out September 10, and follows her Grammy-nominated work with Zara Larsson.
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Releases
LA Priest releases single Rayon ahead of album Into The Sky
Sam Eastgate's project previews the record's opening track through a hymn to synthetic materials.
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Reunions
Ariana Grande is stepping back from the spotlight after her Eternal Sunshine tour
She has also withdrawn from a planned 2027 West End revival of a Stephen Sondheim show.
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Festivals
Boardmasters festival opens in Newquay under police facial recognition
This year's bill is headlined by Lily Allen, Kasabian and Fatboy Slim.
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Business
Boy George attacks Bandcamp for pulling his pro-Israel song
He said the platform gave in to pressure from people he called antisemites.
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Business
KOMCA now allows songs made with AI help in South Korea
A false filing can now bring a royalty hold or a terminated contract under the amended rules.
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Business
Spotify overtakes Melon in South Korea's music streaming market
A rival tracker instead still puts the homegrown platform Melon ahead.
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Releases
Pitbull and Jason Derulo team up again on the new song Privacy
That Grape Juice counts nearly 20 years of team-ups behind the release.
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Releases
Pop singer Gia Ford releases Shell from her coming album
She names Joan Didion's Maria Wyeth as a visual touchstone for the alt-pop track.
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Reunions
Pop group Pussycat Dolls line up their first show in Brazil
The group shared the news on social media, soon after launching a reunion.
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Business
Charlie Puth turned the Tiny Desk into a jazz club for four songs
He reharmonised We Don't Talk Anymore into what he called the version he wishes had come out, and rebuilt See You Again as gospel.
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Business
Eurythmics musician Dave Stewart's venture RARE Entity adds Vicky Dowdall as a partner
The artist manager takes a partner role covering business development at the venture group.
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Releases
Dark-pop singer Riah releases a one-take video called Lestat
AllHipHop reads the vampire-themed clip as a story about reclaiming personal power.
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Releases
Singer Kylie Minogue joins Madonna one night and Nick Cave the next
The pop star revived a 1995 duet with Nick Cave in Brighton, then surprised WorldPride Amsterdam with Madonna less than a day later.
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Festivals
Charli XCX plays her Music, Fashion, Film show in full at Lollapalooza festival
The pop star debuted two songs from her "Wuthering Heights" soundtrack live and closed the bill alongside the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Tours
Live Nation pulls the plug on Roxette's 40th anniversary tour
Frontman Per Gessle says the call to cancel the North American run was Live Nation's, not the Swedish band's.
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Releases
flowerovlove announces debut album Mini Skirt Warrior
The pop singer also shared new single Kiss Kiss Kiss, ahead of an arena tour opening for Niall Horan.
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Releases
Remi Wolf returns with vulnerable new single Twiggy
She debuted the song live at Newport Folk Festival with a surprise assist from Paramore's Hayley Williams.
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Releases
Rachel Chinouriri announces sophomore album I Think I Spoke Too Soon
The London singer-songwriter worked with Lucy Dacus on the follow-up to her 2024 debut, due this October.
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Business
Singer Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's diagnosis: "I am still very much here"
The 83-year-old also underwent skin cancer surgery and says the illness brought "anxiety, depression, exhaustion, an apathy."
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Charts
Madonna's new album "Confessions II" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard charts
It's her tenth album to top the Billboard 200, even though the record has barely registered on streaming or radio.
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Business
Michael Jackson biopic "Michael" tops $1 billion at the box office
Luminate data shows Jackson's US on-demand streams jumped nearly 144% the week the film opened, echoing the climb Queen saw after Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Obituary
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, voice behind "Total Eclipse of the Heart," dies at age 75
She died in a Portugal hospital months after emergency surgery, closing out a career that also produced "Holding Out for a Hero."
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Legal
Taylor Swift wins copyright case dismissal as "Eras Tour" film gets five Emmy nods
The nominations land five days after her Manhattan wedding to Travis Kelce and mark only her second career Emmy nod.
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Festivals
Justin Bieber joined BTS, Madonna and Shakira on the World Cup halftime show
Chris Martin curated an 11-minute set at MetLife Stadium that also carried Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS22 Chorus and the Muppets.
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Releases
K-pop singer Samuel releases new EP "Samuelito"
Born Samuel Kim Arredondo, the singer said recording his first Spanish-language songs made his heart race.
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Charts
Olivia Rodrigo's third album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard charts
The former Disney star's sales and streaming numbers landed all 13 tracks in the same week's top 30 songs chart.
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Festivals
Teen bands ran the stage at the Boyle Heights Youth Fest
A K-pop quintet from Koreatown and a pop-punk trio from Lancaster played the block party, which a cohort of 16 to 22-year-olds programmed themselves.
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Awards
Bruno Mars, BTS and Sabrina Carpenter each won three American Music Awards
KATSEYE, sombr and the singing voices of HUNTR/X matched them, and EJAE added a fourth for the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
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Business
Queen Latifah hosted the 52nd American Music Awards on Memorial Day
The show ran live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with BTS making a first awards appearance in four years.
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Business
The 52nd American Music Awards published a 50-category slate
Song of the Summer, Best Afrobeats Artist and two K-pop categories sat on a list built around what fans were actually streaming.
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Festivals
Photos from the 2025 Pilton Party, where RAYE closed the Worthy Farm gig
Inhaler, Revelation Roots and the Outlaw Orchestra also played the Friday fundraiser, which puts money into Pilton village funds.
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Festivals
Singer Freya Ridings and the Script topped the 2025 Glastonbury Extravaganza
The Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society and the Steve Whalley Band also played the Abbey grounds, and the festival published a photo set on 11 August.
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Festivals
RAYE headlined a sold-out Pilton Party, with Inhaler second on the bill
Glastonbury's yearly thank-you gig for villagers and workers returned to Worthy Farm on 5 September 2025, with DJ sets from Baggy Mondays and Patmandu.