Many fans would freak out over meeting Bruno Mars, but the singer turned into a fanboy himself when he hosted a special celebrity guest at his recent concert in Italy. On Thursday he posted a photo of himself posing with basketball legend Michael Jordan and captioned it, "Backstage In Milan with THE GOAT."

Knowing the spotlight they'd be under once they took their relationship public, Selena Gomez offered her future husband, Benny Blanco, an out. In a new interview with the Spanish paper El País, Benny says, "We kept our relationship private for a long time, about eight or nine months. And she asked me, 'Are you sure you want to do this? I understand if you want us to just be friends.' And then I said, 'You know what? Screw it.'" He adds, "We're lucky because we both have friends and family we've known since before all this, and we're surrounded by a good group of people we love."

If you couldn't get tickets to Olivia Dean's headlining tour, maybe you can check her out at a newly announced festival. The Ocean Way Festival will take place Sept. 26-27 in Santa Monica, California. Olivia headlines Sept. 27; others on the bill include The Killers, Jack White and Sublime.

Carly Rae Jepsen has released "After All," a song and video from her upcoming album, Day and Night, due out Sept. 18. According to a press release, the song was written as Carly Rae "contemplated how motherhood impacts one’s identity, choices and perceptions." Carly Rae, who welcomed her first child in March, filmed the video while she was pregnant and shows off her baby bump throughout.

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M-I-C ... see ya real soon! K-E-Y ... why? Because Disney+ is bringing back The Mickey Mouse Club. 

ABC Audio has confirmed that Disney+ has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the legendary show, which first aired in the '50s, returned in the '70s and then migrated to the Disney Channel from 1989 to 1996.

During that last run, the show's cast included, at various times, future music superstars Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez of *NSYNC, as well as Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell.

The pilot will be executive produced by Ben Winston, whose credits include the Grammy Awards, Carpool Karaoke, The Late Late Show with James Corden and music projects for One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Bruno Mars, Harry Styles, Elton John, Sam Smith and Justin Bieber.

According to Disney+, the show will be "a showcase for today’s most talented young performers, where music, innovation, and self-expression take center stage." The 11 new cast members boast credits including The Lion King, Camp Rock 3, Young Rock, Elio and Black Rabbit.

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What do Rolling Stone icon Mick Jagger and Olivia Rodrigo have in common? They both enlisted The Cure's Robert Smith to play on their new albums.

In Jagger's new interview with Billboard, the interviewer mentioned Smith appearing on both The Rolling Stones' album Foreign Tongues and on Olivia's album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. He then asked Jagger, "What are your thoughts on [Olivia's] rock music?"

The rock legend replied, "She’s really good at it. Everyone thought she was a different kind of singer, but there’s quite a few female singers that have made that transition."

"It’s not a permanent transition necessarily, but the ability to change styles from what you think their original girly pop stuff is — it’s kind of interesting," he added.

Since Olivia has now been co-signed by Mick Jagger, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, Jack White and Talking Heads' David Byrne, we'd say that nobody should ever doubt her rock cred again.

Olivia isn't the only pop star to play on The Stones' album, by the way. Bruno Mars played cowbell on the song "Never Wanna Lose You."

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Even if you don't care about soccer, you might want to tune into the FIFA World Cup™ Final on Sunday to watch the star-studded halftime show.

The 11-minute show at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium will feature performances by Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira, BTS, Burna Boy, Coldplay alongside a children's chorus, the Muppets and members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

You can watch it all go down at 3:45 p.m. ET on Fox Sports and Telemundo. Check your local listings for broadcast and streaming details.

The performance, predicted to be the most-watched halftime show of all time, supports the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which works to expand access to education and soccer for kids globally. A dollar from every ticket sold to the FIFA World Cup 2026™ matches will be donated to the fund.

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Ariana Grande fans know she's a talented mimic, turning in pitch-perfect impressions of Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Jennifer Coolidge and others over the years. Turns out her skill also extends to mimicking British actors — specifically the ones who starred in the Harry Potter films.

In a TikTok promoting her new r.e.m. lip balm, Blur Butter, Ariana runs through impressions of Harry Potter characters Molly Weasley, Bellatrix Lestrange, Ron Weasley, Harry, Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Dobby, Oliver Wood and Moaning Myrtle.

For each impression, she delivers a line from the movie while working in a mention of Blur Butter. Among her quips are, "Dobby has been presented with the Blur Butter. He is a free elf!" and "Where's my Blur Butter, you b***?" Between impressions, she repeatedly breaks character, cracking up.

"why is she so good at everything?" commented one fan. "Wait is this actually her voice?! Her voice control is crazyyyy," wrote another. "a woman of many many talents," noted a third.

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Taylor Swift is evidently a big fan of Canadian female pop stars. 

In a TikTok posted on Wednesday, ESPN sports commentator Pat McAfee, who attended Taylor's wedding to Travis Kelce, discusses Avril Lavigne's performance of "Sk8er Boi" at the event. He said the show was "awesome" and noted that she was far from the only performer.

McAfee said it was "really cool" that after each musician's performance, "one would just call out the other and they would come up and then they would just do their [thing]." He added that Ice Spice, who appeared on Taylor's song "Karma," put on a show with "a lot of energy," before saying, "Tate, same thing." He was seemingly referring to Tate McRae, who Taylor has expressed her love for in the past.

Other artists who reportedly performed at the July 3 wedding bash at New York's Madison Square Garden include Stevie Nicks and Paul McCartney.

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Backstreet Boys return to Sphere Las Vegas Thursday night for yet another round of shows as part of their highly successful Into the Millennium residency. The last time Backstreet was at the Sphere was in early January, but according to AJ McLean, fans shouldn't expect any changes to the show.

"We're probably not gonna do anything new as far as Sphere goes, because the show itself is quite a perfect show," AJ told ABC Audio. "I mean, it really is exactly what people want, and it really encompasses exactly what we set out to do."

What the group set out to do was recreate their groundbreaking Into the Millennium tour, which ran from 1999 to 2000. It's intended for fans who were either too young to experience it at the time, those who didn't get to attend the first time around, or those O.G. fans who want to relive the experience.

They plan to do something similar starting in September in Düsseldorf, Germany, when they kick off their Into The Millennium – Homecoming: Live in Germany residency at a local stadium in that city. And that, says AJ, is where things might change. The group recently released a new song, "Bottle Up," from PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, an animated film coming out in August.

"We have talked about somehow, some way, whether maybe it's in the stadium run or something, finding a way to put 'Bottle Up' in the show somewhere at some point," AJ told ABC Audio. "We're super excited about the film."

"We actually have a show the night that it premieres," he noted of the movie, which comes out Aug.14. "So we're gonna try to find a way to go to the red carpet [in LA] and then go right back to Vegas and do a show."

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Taylor Swift has been nominated for the 2026 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. She was acknowledged in the contemporary songwriter/artists category alongside country artists Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton. Her nomination comes a month after she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The official trailer for the Wizards Beyond Waverly Place four-part finale event has been released. Executive producer Selena Gomez will make her directorial debut with the premiere and reprise her role as Alex Russo in multiple episodes. The finale event will debut on Disney Channel Aug. 4, and all episodes will be available on Disney+ on Aug. 5. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Sesame Street was inspired by RAYE for its new single. Abby Cadabby put her own spin on RAYE’s “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” for a tune called “Where Is My Lovie?” It will appear on Sesame Workshop’s Parody Party, an album of family-friendly songs inspired by major pop hits.

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If you’ve been eager to snatch tickets to Ariana Grande’s London stage debut, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer.

Ticket sales for the Stephen Sondheim musical revival Sunday in the Park with George, starring Ariana and her Wicked co-star Jonathan Bailey, have been pushed back until the fall. They were supposed to go on sale in May.

The show is still set to debut at London’s Barbican Centre in summer 2027.

In the meantime, Ari’s been busy with her Eternal Sunshine tour, which wraps Sept. 1 with a 10-night stand at London’s O2 Arena.

Last week it was learned that Ariana will no longer appear in season 13 of American Horror Story, due to changes to the shooting schedule that conflicted with her tour.

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Post Malone will be headlining the FIFA World Cup 2026 closing ceremony.

He’ll be performing just before the final soccer match takes place at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, known for the World Cup as the New York/New Jersey Stadium, on Sunday.

“At a time when sport, culture and global attention converge, Post Malone will deliver a performance designed to celebrate the tournament’s journey and ignite the atmosphere before the world's attention turns to the two finalists,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement.

The closing ceremony will also feature an appearance by Tom Cruise, as well as Italian singer-songwriter Laura Pausini, American singer and actress Nicole Scherzinger, English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams and YouTube creator IShowSpeed.

Jennifer Hudson will be singing the national anthem.

The closing ceremony will begin 90 minutes before kickoff at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Earlier in July, FIFA announced Justin Bieber as a co-headliner for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Halftime Show alongside Madonna, BTS and Shakira.

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Michelle Branch is reimagining her past.

The singer is releasing an EP, Everywhere and Back Again, that celebrates her 25-year career and revisits some of her old songs in a new way.

The first of those reimaginings is “The Game of Love,” out Wednesday, featuring New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander. The new version is produced by Alexander, who wrote and produced the original track in 2002.

The EP will also include “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted,” “Goodbye to You” and “Breathe” — each featuring collaborations with artists across different genres.

“Getting to hear these songs, many I wrote as a teenager, performed by friends and peers that I so greatly admire has been such a ‘pinch me’ moment as a songwriter,” Michelle says in a statement. “Suddenly these adolescent songs about love lost and found take on an entirely new meaning and weight when sung by artists of all different genres and in a different era.”

She adds, “Being able to celebrate a 25 year career while firmly believing my best work is still ahead of me is the dream of any artist. And having fans that have grown up beside me who are still listening and still care after all these years is the greatest gift. Thank you all for helping me celebrate.”

The Everywhere and Back Again EP comes out Nov. 6. Michelle will kick off tour dates Sept. 27 in Seattle, Washington.

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We’ve got eyes on the new trailer for KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS, a new film about the global girl group hitting theaters next month.

Set to their hit “Pinky Up,” the trailer features footage of KATSEYE performing onstage to hundreds of screaming fans and rehearsing behind the scenes. We also see interviews with the group members, with Yoonchae proclaiming at the end, “New era, new aura.”

As previously reported, the film will explore “the powerful bond between KATSEYE and their global fandom,” known as EYEKONS.

Tickets for KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS are on sale now. The film hits theaters for a limited engagement on Aug. 12.

The group’s third EP, WILD, comes out Aug. 14. Their sold-out KATSEYE: THE WILDWORLD TOUR kicks off Sept. 1.

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Ahead of his fall headlining tour, Teddy Swims has been spending the summer performing at festivals around the world. And that's fitting, because it turns out attending a festival as a teen is what inspired him to be a performer.

"One of the first concerts I ever went to was Warped Tour in 2007. And I was, like, 15 at the time," Teddy told ABC Audio. "That was the time that I discovered, like, 'This is what I want to be for a living.' That was when I really decided."

There was one moment in particular that made him decide: While he watched the prog-metal band Coheed and Cambria perform, their lead singer, Claudio Sanchez, did a stage dive into the crowd.

"I remember getting to touch his hair and being like, 'Oh my gosh, I gotta be this guy!'" Teddy recalled. In fact, he still remembers that Claudio's hair, for which he's famous, "smelled like strawberries." But he acknowledges that he can't do now what Claudio did back then.

"I'm a little too big to be out here stage diving and that's not the type of music I make," he laughed, noting that fans "would really be caught by surprise" if he did it.

"But that was when I was like, 'Guys, we have to do this. We have do this,'" Teddy remembers telling his friends. "And so that's been the dream since, is follow that." 

Teddy and his friends started their musical careers playing in metal rock bands, even though their only audience at times was "somebody's mom." Teddy eventually began posting cover songs on YouTube, which landed him a record deal. The Grammy-nominated star's headline tour, The Ugly Tour, launches Sept. 22 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Tate McRae and sombr are among those being honored at Variety’s 2026 Power of Young Hollywood event, taking place Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. Tate will receive the Triple Threat Award, while sombr will get the Songwriter of the Year Award. Actors Tyriq Withers and Malachi Barton are also being honored. 

Teddy Swims is dropping a new summer collection with White Claw. The limited-edition merch collection includes a bear-shaped pool floatie, a hoodie and a T-shirt. It goes on sale Thursday at 9 a.m. ET. As part of his partnership with the brand, Teddy will be performing at Surf Lodge in the Hamptons over Labor Day weekend.

Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club has announced its July pick: “Free” by Lea Ypi. Dua’s interview with the author — a fellow Albanian — is also available to listen to today on the book club’s podcast.

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Extra, extra, read all about it! BTS is doing a little extra promotion in the form of fake newspaper articles for their new single, “NORMAL.”

The K-pop superstars published one in the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday and another in the New York Post on Tuesday. The ads featured the headline “BTS Seen in Bathroom Amid Mysterious Late-Night Gathering” and a photo of the band wearing black suits standing in front of a row of urinals with their backs facing the camera.

“Questions have been raised following a late-night photo appearing to show all seven BTS members together in what appears to be an unexpected setting,” the copy reads. “While the gathering itself remains unconfirmed, some have questioned whether the situation was entirely normal.”

BTS will be debuting the music video and Korean version of "NORMAL," off their album ARIRANG, exclusively on Spotify on July 17 and on all streaming platforms on July 19.

The group is currently on their ARIRANG world tour. They’ll also co-headline the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on July 19.

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Shania Twain missed Taylor Swift’s wedding and it’s all Harry Styles’ fault.

Shania tells Canada’s eTalk that opening for Harry — who coincidentally happens to be Taylor’s ex-boyfriend — prevented her from attending Taylor and Travis Kelce’s nuptials at Madison Square Garden on July 3.

“Taylor Swift invited me to her wedding,” Shania said. “I couldn’t go because I was already committed to Harry’s shows. So that’s why I say that, it’s just kind of funny that that happened that way.”

She was opening for Harry during his record-breaking Together, Together shows at London’s Wembley Stadium that weekend.

Shania said she would have “done anything to be at Taylor’s wedding ... that would have been really lovely for me to be there.”

“But I was with Harry, so that’s why I’m saying if Harry ever gets married and he wants me at his wedding ... he’s going to have to ask me more in advance,” she joked.

Harry is reportedly engaged to Zoe Kravitz.

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Kelly Clarkson is among the nominees for the 53rd Daytime Emmy Awards.

Kelly’s talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, scored 11 nods this year for its seventh and final season, including outstanding daytime talk series and outstanding daytime talk series host.

The Kelly Clarkson Show has earned 24 Daytime Emmys since 2020.

Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital scored nods in the outstanding daytime drama series category, while The View, Live with Kelly and Mark and The Drew Barrymore Show are nominated alongside Kelly in the outstanding daytime talk series category. Kelly's fellow American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson was also nominated in the outstanding daytime talk series host category.

The Daytime Emmy Awards will take place Oct. 30.

Kelly announced earlier this year that she'll be ending The Kelly Clarkson Show after this season. She shared the news on Instagram and explained, "Stepping away from the daily schedule will allow me to prioritize my kids, which feels necessary and right for this next chapter of our lives."

In 2025, Kelly's children, River Blackstock and Remington Blackstock, lost their father, Kelly's ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, to cancer at age 48.

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She’s so grateful for her ex, but could they be back together? Ariana Grande continues to tweak the lyrics of “thank u, next” during her live shows, fueling speculation she might be rekindling things with ex Ricky Alvarez.

During her Brooklyn stop on the Eternal Sunshine tour Monday night, she changed the lyrics from “Wrote some songs about Ricky / Now I listen and laugh” to “Wrote some songs about Ricky/ We always find our way back.”

She previously changed them during her June 24 show in Austin, singing, “Wrote some songs about Ricky / Now they kinda slap,” and again during her June 26 show where Ricky was in the audience, singing, “Wrote some songs about Ricky/ I know he still got my back.”

The two, who split back in 2016 after dating for about a year, have been spotted hanging out recently. They were reportedly in Ariana’s hometown of Boca Raton, Florida, for July Fourth weekend.

Ariana broke up with her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater earlier this year after three years of dating.

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It's a busy summer for Myles Smith: Not only did his debut album just drop, he's doing a solo headlining tour of North America while also opening for his pal Ed Sheeran on Ed's LOOP stadium tour. For example, on Tuesday night he's performing at Ottawa Bluesfest, and Sunday night he'll warm up for Ed at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium.

This isn't Myles' first time on the road with Ed, though. He also opened for him on the European leg of his 2025 tour, and the two have shared stages multiple times at events and festivals. Since Ed's such a seasoned veteran of the road, Myles said he learned quite a few lessons from those experiences.

Asked what he took away from his tour with Ed last year that he can apply this year, Myles told ABC Audio, "I think having as much fun as you can onstage. I mean, seeing him perform at a level literally to like almost 100,000 people a night was something that I never expected to do so early in my career."

"But having that opportunity and just seeing how much fun he has, I just learned to just truly enjoy it," he laughed. 

Myles' final headlining date is Sept. 10 in LA. His last stadium date with Ed will be Aug. 29 at Detroit's Ford Field.

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Pink’s “What About Us” has joined the Spotify Billions Club. “Billions of beautiful hearts... and a billion @Spotify streams to prove it,” the singer posted on social media to commemorate the milestone. “For everyone who’s ever felt invisible, forgotten, or unheard: this song belongs to you. It stopped being mine a long time ago. Thank you x a billion.”

Madonna says she’s feeling “grateful” and “surprised” after Confessions II became her 10th #1 album. “Thank You -to everyone who has been a part of this and who has helped make this dream come true. Especially my fans," she wrote on social media Monday. "The Goodwill and positivity has been incredible. I’m still pinching myself. I can’t believe it’s # 1 all around the world.”

Benson Boone helped his sister Kaylee Boone shave her head over the weekend, as seen in photos posted to Kaylee's Instagram. She called her new buzz cut "super intentional, super powerful, & super healing." "So lucky to have so many incredible people who supported me & participated in cutting it off!" she wrote.

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