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.”
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