Kelly Clarkson has released her new single, "I'd Be Lyin'," her first new music since 2025's "Where Have You Been." The song includes a lyrical nod to one of her signature hits, as she sings, "I can't remember a time I was happy since you been gone." Kelly resumes her Las Vegas residency Friday night and has teased that she'll be adding the new song to the setlist.

Pentatonix has released a new original song called "Sacrifice." It's the follow-up to "Heaven On Earth," which the group dropped in March. That track marked their first non-holiday single in five years. Unlike many Pentatonix tracks, "Sacrifice" isn't a cappella. Instead, it features full production and instrumentation.

Ella Bright, who plays Hannah Wells on Prime Video's series Off Campus, sang a version of Elton John's classic hit "The Bitch Is Back" on the show. She's now released that version of the tune to digital outlets. 

"7 Years" singer Lukas Graham has released the title track and video of his upcoming album Good Times, due out Aug. 14. Like the rest of the album, "Good Times" is influenced by Celtic folk music, which Lukas heard a lot growing up. His late dad, who was Irish, booked folk musicians to perform throughout Scandinavia, and Lukas spent his childhood both in Ireland and in Denmark.

After a viral media campaign, BTS has released the music video for "NORMAL," a song from their #1 album ARIRANG, along with a Korean version of the track. The video, now exclusively available on Spotify, features the group flashing between a wild party and the morning after. At one point, they all line up in front of urinals before turning around together and zipping up in unison. The video will be available everywhere on Sunday.

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You can't rein in the power that "Rein Me In," Olivia Dean's duet with Sam Fender, has in the U.K.

The song has now racked up a 17th week at #1 on the U.K.'s Official Single Chart, making it the second-longest-running #1 hit of all time on that tally. The record holder, a song called “I Believe" by American singer Frankie Laine, was #1 for 18 weeks in 1953.

That means Olivia and Sam just have to hang on to the #1 spot for two more weeks — and the weeks don't even have to be consecutive — to break the record. But while they wait, they've already set the record as the longest-running #1 by a British act, and the longest-running #1 of the 2020s and of the 21st century overall.

"Rein Me In" originally appeared on Sam's album People Watching, but was rerecorded as a duet with Olivia when it was released as a single. 

As per Billboard, the #2 song on the U.K. chart is Oasis' iconic "Wonderwall," which has returned thanks to England adopting it as the unofficial anthem of its World Cup team. When the song was first released back in 1995, it reached #2 as well.

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Before they tied the knot on July 3, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26 million to charity. Their fans responded by celebrating the couple's wedding by donating to charity themselves.

Olivia Levin, the author of a bestselling book about the Swiftie fan community, organized an Instagram fundraiser so fans could donate to Operation Breakthrough, a charity the couple has supported in the past. She suggested donating in increments of $13.87 — combining Taylor's lucky number and Travis' jersey number — and fans did so, but others gave more.

Levin tells People, "While the Instagram fundraiser itself raised over $17,500, many fans also messaged me saying they donated directly through Operation Breakthrough’s website, bringing the total impact to more than $20,000 according to the organization.” 

Levin points out that Swifties have come together in the past to donate to charity after being "inspired by Taylor's own generosity." She adds, "To me, that’s truly a testament to who Taylor is as a person and the kind of community she’s inspired.”

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Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine tour has been going on for a while now, but she's just welcomed her first special guest of the trek.

Ari's been performing the song "Safety Net," from her album Positions, on the tour. During her Thursday show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, she brought out Ty Dolla $ign, who's featured on that track, to join her onstage. You can see the footage on the official Team Ariana Instagram account.

"brooklyn night three ... I have no words," Ariana wrote on her Instagram Story. "love you with all my heart thank you."

The surprise appearance has fans calling for other artists with whom Ari has collaborated to pop up on the tour, including her "Rain on Me" duet partner Lady Gaga and The Weeknd, with whom she's recorded several times.

Ariana's tour has so far been a totally solo endeavor. She doesn't have an opening act, and until now, nobody else has been onstage with her except her backup band and dancers. She wraps up her string of Brooklyn shows Sunday, before moving on to Boston Thursday.

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Mariah Carey is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her 1995 album, Daydream, which, she writes on Instagram, "marked an era of firsts for me."

"My first rap collaboration on the iconic 'Fantasy' remix with O.D.B., my first time working with [Jermaine Dupri], my first world tour, my first time directing a music video on my own, and so many more," she continues.

An expanded digital 30th anniversary edition is out now, featuring some unique bonus tracks.

"It's only fitting to include some 'firsts' on this anniversary edition too!" Mariah writes. "Most notably, this is the first time I've ever agreed (or rather, been convinced) to release my private writing sessions for 'I Am Free' ... and 'Melt Away' ... . I hope you enjoy this lil' glimpse into the making of these songs."

New remixes, plus live versions of hits like "Always Be My Baby," "Fantasy" and "One Sweet Day," round out the package.

On Oct. 16, the package will be available as a 3 LP or 2 CD set. The vinyl includes Mariah's full 1995 concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, as well as a number of tracks making their vinyl debuts. You can preorder those now.

A limited-edition single LP pressed on baby pink vinyl will be available exclusively on Amazon and is also available for preorder. Fans can also listen to an exclusive track-by-track explanation recorded by Mariah for the original Daydream album.

Daydream has been RIAA-certified 11 times Platinum. Among its #1 hits was "Fantasy," the first song by a female artist ever to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. A "Making of 'Fantasy'" featurette, which goes behind the scenes of the song's iconic video, premieres on Mariah's YouTube channel July 20 at 10 a.m. ET.

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Gracie Abrams' new album Daughter From Hell is out now, and she says the title is an exaggeration, but not by much.

"Brutal" is how she described her behavior as a kid to Jimmy Fallon while appearing on The Tonight Show Thursday. "That song was the last one that I wrote for the album, and it is like a, y'know, decades overdue apology to my mom, basically,” she told Jimmy. As a "defiant" child, she said her early years were a "turbulent" time for her parents.

So what did Gracie's mother think when she heard the song?

"She cried! She cried!" Gracie exclaimed, throwing up her arms in triumph. "So I win!"

Also in the interview, Gracie confirmed that she's making her acting debut in an upcoming movie, saying, "It’s happening. Yes, I leave very, very shortly.”  She didn't give any more details about the project, which is reportedly an A24 movie directed by the same woman who directed the Nicole Kidman film Babygirl.

Gracie also talked about her upcoming Look at My Life arena tour, which starts Dec. 2 in Denver, Colorado. "We get the luxury of starting square one, like, wildest dreams kind of stage and design," she said of the tour preparations.

She also shouted out her opening acts, who include, Bella Kay, Charlotte Lawrence, Japanese House, Jensen McRae, Holly Humberstone, Grace Ives and more.

"This is like my playlist. This is like the fantasy for me of being, 'There's no way they would' and for some reason they said yes," she told Jimmy. "I'm just so selfishly excited for anyone coming to the tour. I'm really excited that they get to see those artists."

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Luminate, which provides sales and streaming data to Billboard and other publications, is out with its midyear music report for 2026, and so far, women are winning.

Ella Langley and Olivia Dean lead Luminate's list of the top 10 songs in the U.S. so far this year, based on streaming numbers. Ella is #1 with "Choosin' Texas," which has racked up nearly 571 million streams; Olivia is #2 with "Man I Need," with just over 340 million streams. Ella is also #4 on the chart with "Be Her," while Olivia reappears at #10 with "So Easy (To Fall in Love)."

The top 10 also includes "Golden" by the voices of HUNTR/X, "Stateside" by PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson, and "The Fate of Ophelia" by Taylor Swift. As for the men, only Alex Warren, Bad Bunny and Bruno Mars managed to claw their way into the top 10, with "Ordinary," "DtMF" and "I Just Might," respectively.

Men fare better when it comes to the top 10 albums of 2026 so far, with Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem holding the #1 position, and his previous album One Thing at a Time at #10. Other top-10 albums came from Noah Kahan, BTS and Bad Bunny, but Ella and Olivia are both in there too, as is Taylor.

And when it comes to songs that are tops on U.S. radio this year, Bruno leads the charge with "I Just Might," but Olivia is the only artist with two songs in the top 10: "Man I Need" and "So Easy (To Fall in Love)." "The Fate of Ophelia," "Ordinary" "Choosin' Texas" and "Golden" are also up there, and so is "back to friends" by sombr.

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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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