Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter bring their love for dancing to the club in their new music video, which shows the two women coming together as queens of the night while joined by a special guest.
Shakira is back on the road, with the superstar kicking off the new United States leg of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour with a bang on Saturday (June 13) and Sunday (June 14) in Los Angeles.
Recently, when Harry Styles was asked what he would consider his most iconic fashion moment, the answer was definitive: a red loveheart jumpsuit paired with a plain white tee, worn at Wembley Stadium, London in June 2022. It was a surprisingly functional ‘fit for a man otherwise known for flamboyant looks, but his answer revealed much more than just what he likes to pick off the rails.
Wu-Tang Clan sparked the Knicks for a second-half comeback that is etched in the history books, as the home team overturned the biggest deficit in NBA playoffs history. Down at one stage by 29 points, the Knicks recorded a 107-106 win against the traveling Spurs are now one win away from the championship.
Cometh the hour, cometh the Wu-Tang Clan.
There was a bittersweet quality to the first show of Rush's Fifty Something Tour, which began on Sunday (June 7) at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, the same place the legendary Canadian rock outfit concluded its last tour in 2015. While elements of these two performances were of course similar, including some overlap in the setlists, this time around the group is without a key element: its late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, who died of brain cancer in January of 2020.
Drake's ICEMAN spends a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 13), earning 171,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending June 4 (down 24%), according to Luminate.
Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy, Little Steven Van Zandt, Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne, David Sancious, and more performed across two nights of the Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us concerts at Monmouth University this week, with the second night on Friday (June 5) featuring a particularly notable return — Bon Jovi’s first public performance in New Jersey since 2018.
The Cure played their first show in 18 months Friday at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, where the band performed a handful of deep cuts live for the first time in years.
During their massive 29-song headlining set, Robert Smith and company played their usual stable of hits and fan favorites before first deviating to give the “Lovesong” B-side “2 Late” its first performance since 2019.
Shakira and Burna Boy will perform “Dai Dai,” the official song of the 2026 World Cup, live for the first time during the tournament’s opening ceremony on June 11 at the Estadio Ciudad de México (Estadio Azteca), FIFA announced Thursday night (June 4).
Last night, the queen of pop surprised fans with a pop-up performance in the middle of Times Square (in collaboration with the gay hook-up Grindr, natch). At precisely 6:27 p.m., amongst a sea of tourists and Madonna stans, the star emerged on a raised platform stage tucked inside one of those huge flashing billboards, where she proceeded to perform a set of six songs—including a new single, “Love Sensation,” from her highly anticipated upcoming album, Confessions II, out in July.
Diljit Dosanjh will headline London’s Wembley Stadium on Sept. 12 for his largest-ever European concert.
BABYMETAL have released “from me to u (Jordan Fish Remix),” the second preview from their forthcoming METAL FORTH (DELUXE EDITION), due June 26 via Capitol Records.
The group announced the new tour with an Instagram post that included the message, “Still not ready to make nice.”
The group’s 16-show Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour launches Sept. 30 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, and will include stops in Chicago, New York City, Seattle and Nashville, and will wrap with two shows at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Nov. 1 and 2.
Drake claims one of the most triumphant weeks in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, led by his “Janice STFU” debuting at No. 1.
The song marks Drake’s 14th career Hot 100 leader — breaking him out of a tie with Michael Jackson for the most among solo males over the chart’s 67-year archives.
Stray Kids will make history on Sept. 11 as the first K-pop act to headline at the Rock in Rio Festival in Brazil. Now, that show will come in the midst of the group’s special series of concerts in Latin America.
BTS will make what is billed “a special appearance” at the 52nd American Music Awards on Monday, May 25. It will be their first award show appearance in four years. The group is nominated in three categories – artist of the year (an award they won in 2021), song of the summer for “Swim” and best K-Pop artist (they won favorite K-Pop Artist in 2022).
After staging a surprise show at the intimate Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles where they staged a funeral for Billy Corgan’s alter ego Zero, Smashing Pumpkins have announced an extensive North American arena tour where they’ll belatedly celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1995 double LP Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and play a second set of other songs from their vast back catalog.
At last, the words that the world has waited three years to hear: “Good evening—my name is Harry. It’s an absolute pleasure to be here with you this evening. This is Night One of the Together, Together Tour.” Harry Styles is back, all right. His Saturday-night blowout in Amsterdam officially kicked off the first Harry tour season since his record-breaking Love On Tour signed off in July 2023 — an unthinkably long layoff for the ultimate mega–pop crowd-crusher. As he quipped early in the night, “I got older and the stage got bigger.”
Madonna, Shakira and BTS will perform during halftime of the World Cup final game, Global Citizen announced first thing Thursday (May 14).
The Sunday, July 19, match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will mark the first time the FIFA World Cup final has ever featured a halftime show. Billboard understands that the show will clock in at 11 minutes.
Like a lot of artists who play the Tiny Desk, the guys in Foo Fighters carefully curated and worked through their set for weeks leading up to their appearance, even taping out the dimensions of the Desk in a practice space to puzzle-out the close quarters. But once they were in the office, they tossed most of those plans. "If you put instruments in our hands and there are people," Dave Grohl jokes, "it's fun to play!"
At Madison Square Garden Monday night, Bruce Springsteen ceded a show-defining lyric to guest vocalist Tom Morello during their cover of “Clampdown.” “Let fury have the hour,” Morello shouted, as the E Street Band channeled the Clash way more credibly than anyone could’ve imagined when London Calling and The River were both on the charts. “Anger can be power.”
As he does at every show on his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, Springsteen joined in with a harmony on the next line: “Do you know that you can use it?”
A full month before fans get to dive into Madonna's hotly anticipated Confessions II, Tribeca Festival attendees will get an early audiovisual peek into the Queen of Pop’s new era. On Friday (June 5), Madonna will return to Tribeca Festival for the world premiere of a 10-minute cinematic project, directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase (TORSO), centered around the first six tracks from Confessions II.
“I’m never satisfied ’cause I want number one. Doesn’t everyone?” Zara Larsson sings on “The Ambition,” a deep-cut on her fifth album, 2025’s Midnight Sun, that captures her hunger for pop success. Through a distorted vocal effect, she confesses, “I want it so much.”
For Larsson, achieving what she’s always wanted isn’t necessarily cause for celebration. It’s what was always meant to happen. Pop stardom is a rapidly moving target, but she’s been training for a chance to dominate pop. Larsson has witnessed first-hand the many transformations the genrehas undergone over the past decade. She understands what it means to be a star, what it takes to become one, and that the status doesn’t always last. At 28, the Swedish singer knows that anything that feels like a breakthrough might actually be a blip. Now, with four Hot 100 hits currently stationed on the chart and more cultural ubiquity than ever, she’s committed to making this moment last.
