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.
The megastars for the opening ceremony of the first World Cup game in the United States have been announced. Katy Perry, Future, Anitta, Lisa, Rema, and Tyla will headline the celebrations on June 12 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The U.S. will face Paraguay in the tournament’s opening match.
K-Pop supergroup BTS and its Mexican ARMY became one once again on Thursday (May 7) during the highly anticipated return of the South Korean giants to the Latin American country after a nine-year hiatus. For the first of three nights at the GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City, the septet dazzled its local fandom with Spanish dialogue, cowboy hats and T-shirts that read “Ciudad de México.”
Any of the touchstones you might associate with No Doubt — their Orange County upbringing, their Tragic Kingdom breakthrough, their skater-influenced style, their intraband-romance-fueled lyrics, their Jamaica-inspired recordings — were put on supersize display during the first show of their Las Vegas Sphere Residency on Wednesday night (May 6). And at the front of it all was Gwen Stefani, who is officially the first female headliner of the state-of-the-art venue, following a string of classic rockers, dance producers, country stars and boy banders taking the stage since Sphere’s September 2023 opening.
After a previous pair of runner-up results, Kehlani achieves their first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Top Hip-Hop Albums chart with their self-titled album, released April 24 on Tsunami Mob/Atlantic Records. Kehlani begins with 69,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States for tracking week of April 24-30, according to Luminate.
Chris Brown's 12th studio album, Brown, is set to arrive Friday (May 8), and CB revealed the star-studded cast that’s joining him on the LP on Tuesday (May 5), which serves as the singer’s 37th birthday.
The Virginia legend took it back to 1966 for a vintage black-and-white trailer revealing his loaded guest list by turning his features into classic R&B singers who are part of the lineup for “A Night of Soul” at the “House of Brown.”
Following her historic performances in Brazil over the weekend — which drew an estimated two million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro — Shakira announced on Tuesday (May 5) five additional U.S. dates for her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour.
Sabrina Carpenter is checking items off her pop icon bucket list at a rapid pace. After teaming up with Madonna on the bubbling dance track “Bring Your Love” from the Queen of Pop’s upcoming Confessions II album last week, Carpenter ticked off another Mt. Olympus of diva collabs at the Met Gala on Monday night (May 4) when she took the stage with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks for a meditative cover of her band’s legendary 1975 ballad “Landslide.”
The Eagles have added more 2026 dates to theirc Sphere residency, extending their run as the artist with the most dates at the Las Vegas immersive venue to 64.
Shakira gave a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night (May 2), an event that the city’s mayor said drew 2 million people to one of the world’s most iconic waterfronts.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady gaga last year, which also were attended by huge crowds that danced on the sprawling sands. For Shakira, it was part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, or Women No Longer Cry, world tour named after her 2024 album.
Foo Fighters find the middle ground between a zombie attack and a mosh pit in the new music video for “Spit Shine,” a track off their latest album, Your Favorite Toy.
Dave Grohl wrote and directed the grisly, blood-soaked clip which begins with an alert system warning: “This is not a test — a viral outbreak has occurred. It is highly contagious and potentially lethal. Please stay indoors and do not panic.” The camera then cuts to the Foo Fighters, dressed in nice, clean, crisp white outfits, performing to an ecstatic crowd similarly dressed in nice, clean, crisp white outfits. (Casting for the video was helmed by Grohl’s daughter, Harper.)
Diljit Dosanjh appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week, marking his second appearance on the U.S. late-night program — the first Punjabi artist to be on a late night T.V. show twice.
Speaking with Jimmy Fallon, Dosanjh discussed his ongoing AURA World Tour and recent performances across North America, including stadium-scale shows in Canada. During the segment, he referenced his sold-out concert in Vancouver, where he performed to a crowd of more than 55,000 attendees, making history as the first Punjabi artist to sell out the stadium venue twice.
Katy Perry is turning her Lifetimes Tour into a concert film, with Tribeca Film Festival announcing Tuesday (April 28) that it will premiere The Lifetimes Tour – Live From Paris at this year’s event.
If there was one message BTS fans wanted to deliver to the superstar band on Saturday (April 25) at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., it was this: we stayed, and it was worth the wait.
The Queen of Pop has coronated Sabrina Carpenter as the next pop princess to reign alongside her, with Madonna announcing Monday (April 27) that she and the Gen Z superstar have teamed up on “Bring Your Love,” the lead single from Madonna’s Confessions II album, following their surprise Coachella performance.
New Kids on the Block fans might have thought they knew what to expect of the boy band’s upcoming Las Vegas shows, but as Billboard can exclusively announce, the members are completely revamping their live show for their final 16 performances at Dolby Live at Park MGM.
Do you wanna dance? Good, because 50 years ago Thursday (April 23) The Ramones released their self-titled debut album, the punk rock atom bomb that blew our minds with such classics as “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Beat on the Brat,” “Judy Is a Punk,” “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend,” “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue,” “53rd & 3rd” and “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World,” among others.
