via The mid-flight show: Variety · The Hollywood fallout: Variety · The stop lifted: Deadline
While the FAA's nationwide ground stop stranded more than a million travelers Friday, Hoobastank, Simple Plan, The Used and Lolo played a live in-flight concert on a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Orlando, per Variety. The band was already airborne when …
via The actual video: TMZ · The press release: PUMA MediaHub · Rival coverage: AllHipHop · The shoe page: PUMA
According to TMZ, A$AP Rocky's PUMA launch party for the Suede '94 sneaker line turned into a fight inside a Manhattan building Thursday night, the NYPD showed up to what it called a "disorderly group," and the event was evacuated. The sneaker launch is the la…
via The recap and the quote: Variety · The exploding head clip: Page Six · The residency review: Variety · The pansexual reveal: USA Today
Per Variety, Alanis Morissette told the crowd at her "Butterfly With a Machete" residency at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood on Nov. 11, "I've even had a guy ask me why I didn't lead with my sexuality. Thank you, Ben Affleck." Then the show played a clip of h…
According to Variety, Forbes pegs Paul McCartney's net worth at roughly $1.4 billion, which makes him the third-richest musician on the planet, behind Taylor Swift at $2 billion and Jay-Z at $2.8 billion. Third-richest musician. Read that again. It is a music …
According to E! News, Taylor Swift will not perform in the Dolly Parton tribute at the 2026 CMA Awards on Nov. 18 at Bridgestone Arena. A CMA source confirmed the absence, and the ceremony honoring the star who died in August goes on without her. The tribute a…
via The lineup announcement: TMZ · The 2006 tent backstory: Just Jared · The full lineup: Billboard · The official site, where the tent lives: Coachella
According to TMZ, Coachella dropped its 2027 lineup Tuesday night with Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and SZA as the three headliners, and the 67-year-old Madonna listed in her own line as "in the dance tent," playing the same nights as Dua Lipa on April 9 and 16. The…
*Brandy and Monica announced a 10-date "The Boy Is Mine" residency at Resorts World Las Vegas running from May 29 through July 17, 2027, per Variety. The announcement landed the day after the two performed the 1998 duet on "Dancing With the Stars." The pipelin…
*Garth Brooks's Sevens Network, LLC is buying Lightning 100's 100.1 FM frequency in Nashville to turn it into a new country station called FM-100, per Variety. The indie-rock station relocates to 106.3 FM with its format intact, pending FCC approval. A country…
According to People, Elton John and David Furnish's zero-alcohol sparkling wine, Elton John Zero Blanc de Blancs, hit U.S. shelves Tuesday at $25 a bottle. The launch statement says celebrations "should include people who do not drink alcohol." The machine doe…
*According to Rolling Stone, Justin Timberlake says "What Goes Around... Comes Around" was never about Britney Spears. In a new Complex video he says the 2006 hit is "a personal story from a friend's" and that the friend gave permission. He has been denying it…
via The two suits: Variety · The October Anthropic suit: Billboard · Rival reporting on the Anthropic damages: Yahoo Finance
According to Variety, Elvis Presley's music rightsholders and the publisher of Eminem's catalog have filed separate federal lawsuits against the AI music generator Suno. The Presley complaint runs 51 pages and claims Suno violates Tennessee's ELVIS Act every t…
via The statement: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety
After three sold-out benefit shows in Dublin, Paris, and London, Macklemore posted an Instagram statement naming the nine U.S. arenas that "turned us down" for his Free Palestine benefit tour, including Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, and Crypto.com Ar…
via The actual box set page: The Spice Girls Store · The vinyl version: The Spice Girls Store · The chart-side announcement: Official Charts · Fan-press coverage: Classic Pop
The Spice Girls' "The Singles Collection" lands today, thirty years to the week after "Spice" came out, per Universal Music. It is 14 CDs, 160 tracks, four unreleased songs, and a booklet with messages from all five members, packed into a white handbag-inspire…
via The record and the tour math: Variety · The press release: PR Newswire · Rival coverage and the stadium photo: Pollstar
According to Variety, The Weeknd's "After Hours Til Dawn" stadium tour wrapped at TM Stadium National in Kuala Lumpur last night, ending at more than $1.3 billion, the highest-grossing tour by a male artist in history, per the PR Newswire release. The record i…
via The lineup announcement: Variety · The film's post-release VR plans: Deadline · The lead single, official lyric video: YouTube
The 29-track companion album "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album)" was announced Monday, with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Stevie Nicks, Tyler Childers, and Jennifer Lawrence among the contributors. According to Variety, it drops November 13 on the…
via The full wrap, the Brunson banner: Variety · MSG's own press release: the banner night · Pizza Rat night two: Meaww · The 79 countries stat: 24hip-hop
Harry Styles closed his record-setting 30-night Madison Square Garden residency over the weekend with two Harryween shows, according to Variety. On the final night he performed as the New York pizza rat while Knicks captain Jalen Brunson presented a banner com…
via The announcement: Variety · Rival coverage: Consequence · Format and tracklist details: The Second Disc
The Prince Estate and NPG Records announced a 3121 Expanded Edition arriving December 11, with the original 12 tracks plus 10 more vault recordings, per Variety. It lands digitally and in 2CD + Blu-ray and 3LP + Blu-ray sets, alongside a 154-minute Las Vegas c…
A group of companies controlling Elvis Presley's music, including Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic in federal court Friday, claiming Claude was trained on 274 of the King's songs and demanding $48.6 million, per Variety. Rolling Stone reports the suit cl…
Chris Brown was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to eight months in prison, suspended for twelve, for a 2023 attack prosecutors called "vicious and unprovoked" on a music producer at a London nightclub, per Variety. The suspension means the sentence is held …
According to TMZ, Drake turned 40 on Friday at a New York hotel with more than 400 guests, a surprise Backstreet Boys set, designer handbags for the room, and a game show with a one million dollar jackpot. A birthday party is supposed to be a party. This was a…
Jay-Z played the first of two SoFi Stadium nights in Inglewood Friday, a two-hour set from the Jay-Z 30 celebration that closed with John Legend and DJ Khaled, according to Variety. Fifty-six years old, and the set list is a museum tour. Thirty years in two ho…
John Mayer is launching Sob Rock Records, a new imprint in partnership with Universal Music Group's Mercury Records, named after his 2021 album and confirmed Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The announcement lands the day before his first new sin…
A musical about Amy Winehouse is officially in development for the West End, with Broadway producer Catherine Schreiber understood to be involved and casting said to be underway, according to Variety. One source called it "the worst kept secret in theater." Ca…
via The announcement: Variety · Netflix's own pitch: Tudum · The league's statement: NFL.com · ESPN's version: ESPN
According to Variety, U2 will play halftime at the NFL's inaugural Thanksgiving Eve game on Nov. 25, the Rams-Packers matchup at SoFi Stadium streaming on Netflix, in what the league calls "a new NFL holiday tradition." The show follows shortly after the relea…
via The 50M/75M figures: Variety · Tidal's no-royalties pledge: Variety · YouTube Music's labels: Variety · The earlier policy push: Complex
According to Variety, Spotify has removed 50 million AI slop tracks from recommendations this year, a figure published in the company's "For the Record" blog, which is the name Spotify gives to its press releases. The cleanup sits on top of 75 million tracks i…
via The exclusive report: Puck · Rival coverage with the shortlist: Just Jared · International pickup: IOL
According to Puck, "multiple sources" now confirm that Jay-Z will headline the 2027 Super Bowl LXI halftime show, with an official announcement "expected soon." Roc Nation has held the halftime selection contract since 2019, and the man who has never once book…
via The deal: Variety · Rival coverage: Yahoo
John Wilson has been filming inside Harry Styles' Together, Together residency at Madison Square Garden since August, and the documentary is going to Universal. According to Variety, Universal Pictures Content Group owns the global rights and is pushing a thea…
via The tour announcement: Variety · The single and the tour: Rolling Stone · The dates and tickets: NME · The stadium math: Billboard
According to Variety, U2 has announced a 2027 global stadium tour called "Carnaval De Luz presents: The Greatest Show On Earth," kicking off Feb. 23 in Mexico City with Beck opening the first six Latin America dates, and a subscriber presale that starts before…
via The announcement: Variety · The rival coverage: Rolling Stone · The presale portal: ZachBryan.com · The record he broke: Variety
Zach Bryan announced his 2027 stadium tour Wednesday: 23 shows in 19 stadiums across North America and Australia, promoted by AEG Presents, per Variety. The tour supports his EP Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, out this week. The man who broke the att…
via The full feud: Variety · The actual quote-tweet: X · Rival coverage: Rolling Stone · Also covered: USA Magazine
Kacey Musgraves quote-tweeted Kristi Noem after the former DHS secretary took a shot at her over a politician's concert photo, with one line: "I don't think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it." According to Variety. Let's talk a…
via The chart math: Variety · Billboard's own numbers: Billboard
According to Variety, "The Life of a Showgirl" held No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week, giving Taylor Swift her 100th cumulative week at No. 1 as a solo artist. One hundred weeks. Elvis got 67. Garth Brooks got 52. The Beatles, as a group, got 132. T…
via The cancellation, reported live: Deadline · The May "great progress" update: Deadline · The February postponement that started the pattern: Deadline
The timeline is the whole story. Thursday: "I'm back!" from the stage at a welcome-back show his rep calls "triumphant." Friday: a few songs, then the exit, with "talk amongst yourselves" to the crowd. Saturday: nothing. The residency that was supposed to star…
via The drop and the Nov. 6 reissue: People · Same story, same vault: Today · The Timberlake co-write, per EW · UK coverage of the 25th edition: The Independent
Britney Spears released "She'll Never Be Me" on Friday, a song recorded in 2001 for her self-titled album that never officially came out, according to People. It is the first of five vault tracks on the "Britney" 25th anniversary edition, which arrives Nov. 6.…
via The recap: ABC News · Rival coverage: BBC · Local angle: NewsON6 · E! video recap: E! News
According to ABC News, Ella Langley's sold-out Tulsa show was canceled Friday night over a "serious security threat" after bomb-detection dogs swept the arena twice and Tulsa police said they found nothing credible. Read the statement twice. Her post says the …
via The announcement: Deadline · The second source: Variety · The retirement, 2024: Deadline · The teaser: X
Two years after saying "no more, no more," Aerosmith announced Wednesday that it will play a pair of comeback concerts at the Hollywood Bowl on October 29 and November 1, per Deadline. The announcement comes with a guest list that reads like a Hall of Fame reu…
via The cover story: THR · The tabloid spin: Just Jared · The original PDA photos: Just Jared
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia Rodrigo confirmed in this week's cover story that she is single, and called being stalked on a casual date and judged for the photos "the craziest thing." This summer she was caught on a few dates with a New York pri…
via The chart report: Variety · The No. 1 debut: Billboard · The chart itself: Billboard 200 · The video: Rolling Stone
Miley Cyrus's "Bass Persuades" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on September 28 and then plummeted to No. 157 in its second week, the biggest drop ever recorded for an album after a No. 1 debut, according to Variety. The mechanism is the chart itself. For…
via The denial itself: Daily Express · The misquoted headline: Rolling Stone · The gin launch: Yahoo Music · The interview that was misquoted: The Times
Brian May took to Instagram to deny that he said Queen will never tour again, calling Rolling Stone's "Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour Again" headline a "misinterpretation" of his interview, per the Daily Express, and adding "I made a personal decision last ye…
via The deal: Deadline · The 40th anniversary gala details: What's On Stage · The 2004 film, the precedent: Wikipedia
Universal Pictures Content Group, LW Entertainment, and Cameron Mackintosh are producing a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera for a 2027 cinema release, via Deadline. The film will capture the production's 40th anniversary gala at His…
via The actual report: Page Six · The 2019 "evil person" quote: Page Six · The feud timeline: Billboard · The show, per the reviews: Broadway.com
According to Page Six, Scooter Braun shared a rehearsal clip from his former client Todrick Hall's Off-Broadway musical "Midnight" on his Instagram story over the weekend, and the two, who fell out in 2019, are now following each other on Instagram again. Repr…
via The announcement: Variety · The new campaign site, live: bowie80th.com · Rival coverage: Far Out Magazine
According to Variety, the David Bowie estate has announced "Bowie80," a year-long run of events, exhibits, releases, collaborations and "experiences" marking the artist's 80th birthday, beginning in November and spanning 2027. A dedicated website is already li…
via The label's announcement: Billboard · The "we listened" statement: Billboard Pro · Rival coverage: BBC · The first boycott, BTS: Billboard
On Friday, JYP Entertainment told Billboard that Stray Kids had submitted nothing to the 2027 Grammy Awards, joining the boycott BTS announced in July over the Recording Academy's new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. The mechanism is the locked room.…
via The exclusive and the booth number: Variety · Rival coverage: Complex · Rival coverage: AllHipHop · The brand page: Marshall's Massacre
Eminem is debuting a streetwear collab with NERDS Clothing at New York Comic Con next week, complete with a limited skate deck, long-sleeve tee, bomber jacket, hand-embellished arcade cabinets, and an "original video game" called "Marshall's Massacre." Per Var…
Zach Bryan, 30, opened his sold-out Friday show at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium wearing a black T-shirt that read "FREE PALESTINE" over a pine tree and the words "AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN," per Page Six. That was one month after Kraft's stadium campaign dropped …
In a Rolling Stone UK interview published today, Bono revealed that Ed Sheeran resisted the humanitarian themes on "Yours Eternally," the track Sheeran made with U2 earlier this year, according to The Independent. The song features Ukrainian singer Taras Topal…
via The full story and the Instagram photos: Page Six · The necklace, on the jeweler's site: Leviev · Madonna's $2.8M VMA necklace, same jeweler: Page Six · Swift's VMA ring, also Leviev: Page Six
To mark the 25th anniversary of the "Glitter" soundtrack, Mariah Carey launched new merch, according to Page Six. She unveiled the "Loverboy" tank top wearing a $1,550,000 diamond necklace from Leviev that runs 44.71 carats with a 14-carat center stone. Do the…
via The photo and caption: NME · Billboard's take: Billboard · The BBC ruling: The Standard · The Reading Festival set: NME
According to NME, Victoria Beckham was photographed recording vocals with her son Cruz on Monday, with Cruz posting the photo under the caption "yeah we got posh back in the studio ;)" and Victoria replying with a string of laughing emojis. Neither confirmed o…
According to Music Business Worldwide, Universal Music Group filed a 52-page complaint last Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging "deceptive trade practices and blatant copyright infringement" against DistroKid, the $24.99-a-…
via The photos: Page Six · The fashion angle: Vogue · Rival coverage: TMZ · The video: Just Jared
On Friday night, Olivia Rodrigo opened her Unraveled Tour at People's Bank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut, and artificial rain turned her white sleeveless dress into a disintegrating costume change during "the cure," revealing a red corset and micro miniskirt …
via The report: The Verge · The complaint details: Startup Fortune · The earlier YouTube-scraping admission: The Verge · The original 2024 suit: The Verge
According to The Verge, Sony Music and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno, accusing its new v6 model of "model laundering" after training on user outputs from older models built on unlicensed music. The marketing, first. Suno sold v6 as …
via How to watch tonight: AP · The Monday announcement: AP · The studio announcement: Paramount · The full performer list: Billboard
According to AP, Taylor Swift will receive an inaugural "Artist Director Honors" at tonight's VMAs, a 31st trophy that makes her the most awarded artist in VMA history. The award, announced Monday by CBS and MTV, recognizes artists whose work behind the camera…
via The recap: Page Six · Rival coverage: Deadline · The kids' plea: Page Six · The concert details: TV Insider
According to Page Six, Lionel Richie, 77, announced his return to the "American Idol" judging panel for season 25 during Luke Bryan's Luke Bryan & Friends concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday, appearing on the arena's big screen while Bryan and…
via The announcement: Fashion Times · The sit-down: ELLE · The where-to-buy version: Hypebae · The jacket itself: Aritzia
According to fashiontimes, Aritzia named KATSEYE's 18-year-old Yoonchae the face of its Super Puff campaign Thursday, her first solo brand deal since the group's 2023 debut. The group already holds deals with Gap, Fendi, Pandora, and Glossier. Now the youngest…
via The filing, reported: Rolling Stone · Rival coverage: NME · The tabloid version: Daily Mail · The brand in question: Maren Wade
According to Rolling Stone, Taylor Swift's lawyers filed this week calling Maren Wade's trademark suit over the 'The Life of a Showgirl' album title 'nonsensical' and asking the judge to dismiss the case with prejudice. Wade ran a Las Vegas Weekly column, a po…
via The original report: TMZ · The canceled-venue check and the $23M: AllHipHop · The dreads backstory: The Independent · The filing breakdown: Particle
On Wednesday, Ye's lawyers asked a judge to move a discrimination trial from October 12 to May 2027, citing upcoming Russia concerts and the deportation of his former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, according to TMZ. The suit is from a former Donda Academy …
via The lawsuit story: Rolling Stone · The 2025 interview they cited: Rolling Stone · Rival coverage: CBC · The defendant's statement: X
Outkast has sued Oakland producer Silas Wilson, a.k.a. Ovrkast, in federal court in Georgia, accusing him of trademark infringement and breaching a name-change deal, per Rolling Stone. The 31-page complaint was filed by the duo's trademark holding company, whi…
via The AP story: Seattle Times · The press release: PR Newswire · Rival coverage: WWD · Rival coverage: Adweek
Gap Inc. announced Tuesday a multiyear partnership with JYT, a five-member boy band, as the first deal under its new Fashiontainment platform, per AP via Seattle Times. The deal includes a co-produced docuseries, a national mall tour starting in October, and a…
via The recap: Just Jared · The trade version: Variety · The vinyl preorder: Official Charts · The release-time explainer: Cosmopolitan
Taylor Swift announced on Instagram this morning that The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, a four-track follow-up to last year's record, drops this Friday with pre-orders already open on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon. Caption and tracklist courtesy of Just Ja…
via The recap: IBTimes · The Philadelphia wire: The Philadelphia Inquirer · The international wire: BBC · The photos: Hello!
At his Saturday show in Philadelphia, Ed Sheeran told 50,000 people at Lincoln Financial Field that the past week was one of the worst of his life. The show went on after several support acts pulled out of the tour, and Sheeran called it the best show of my li…
via The recap: E! News · The announcement: Billboard · The dark-website countdown: USA Today · The wire copy: The Washington Post
Taylor Swift announced Tuesday that a new single, "Patient Zero," drops September 25 with a 24-hour pre-order window on her website, per E! News, capping a run of coded clues that started with a cryptic Emmys sketch and a letter on her site that sprouted a thi…