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Madison Beer wants you to see what's in her locket in January.

That's the title of her new album, which will be out Jan. 16, 2026. Madison wrote and co-produced the album. It includes the songs she's released so far in 2025, "yes baby" and "bittersweet."

Explaining the album title, Madison says, "After writing [it], it feels like each song lives within this metaphorical locket for safe keeping. Each album feels like an era and once the albums are out in the world the chapter for me, usually with what I wrote about, is closed.”

Madison announced the album on Instagram by writing, "i really can’t believe i’m sayin this. this album means the world to me, i’ve never been so proud or excited about something n i am soooooo beyond excited for u to listen :’)) this project is my world and metaphorically / literally my heart."

As previously reported, Madison recently released the video for "bittersweet," which costars The Summer I Turned Pretty actor Sean Kaufman as her ex.

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Conan Gray will be taking his latest album, Wishbone, on the road in 2026.

The "Vodka Cranberry" singer will kick off his Wishbone World Tour Feb. 19 in Minneapolis and will travel across North America, wrapping up March 20 in LA. Conan will then head to the U.K. and Europe before traveling down under for shows in New Zealand and Australia. The tour is set to end Oct. 8 in Perth, Australia.

The Wishbone World Tour follows Conan's Wishbone Pajama Show Tour, which traveled across the U.S. and Mexico earlier this year. He wrote on Instagram, "bringing this album on tour to you has been the greatest joy of my life, and i can’t believe i get to keep Wishbone’s story continuing through next year!!" 

You can sign up for presale tickets now at conangray.lnk.to/tour. The general sale begins Oct. 24 at 9 a.m. local time. VIP packages will also be available. For more info, visit conangray.com.

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Billionaires supporting billionaires: We love to see it.

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Selena Gomez revealed some key advice that her BFF and fellow billionaire Taylor Swift shared with her. 

“She said, ‘If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room,'” the Rare Beauty founder said. As a result, she makes sure to surround herself with "really incredible people” and isn't afraid to ask questions.

But Selena also noted that when it came to Rare Beauty, she had to make sure she was working with people who understood what she wanted to do.

“I think a lot of people would have preconceived ideas of what I’m good at, and I should stay in my lane and I should do what I’m here to do,” the singer and actress said. "But what I’m here to do is make a difference.”

Rare Beauty is currently valued at an estimated at $2.7 billion, according to Fortune. But Selena said she's not resting on her laurels.

"[When] something great happens in my life, I expect something bad to happen,” she said. “Instead of being present and saying, ‘Okay, wow, we’ve done a great thing,’ which I do, but I’m always thinking, ‘Okay, but if this could go all go away tomorrow, so how can I make sure that doesn’t happen?'”

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Mgk has announced a world tour in support of his new album, lost americana.

The international outing includes two North American legs, the first of which runs from Nov. 18 in Glendale, Arizona, to Dec. 19 in Tampa, Florida. Mgk will then head to Europe, Australia and New Zealand in early 2026 before the second North American leg launches May 15 in Wheatland, California. The tour will then conclude July 1 in Ridgefield, Washington.

Wiz Khalifa will also be on the bill, and openers include Julia Wolf, Mod Sun, honestav, Beauty School Dropout, DE'WAYNE and Emo Night, depending on the date.

Presales begin Sept. 22 and tickets go on sale to the general public on Sept. 25 at noon local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Store.MachineGunKelly.com.

Lost americana, the follow-up to 2022's mainstream sellout, dropped in August. It includes the lead single "cliché."

Mgk announced lost americana with a trailer narrated by Bob Dylan.

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Mariah the Scientist will be going on tour in support of her new album, Hearts Sold Separately, home of her Hot 100 single "Burning Blue." She'll be kicking off the new year on the road with 36 dates scheduled from January to April. 

The trek starts with a European leg beginning in Paris on Jan. 12; its North American leg starts Feb. 13 in Miami Beach. Other cities on the schedule include New York, Toronto, LA, Houston, Boston and Las Vegas. The tour will come to an end on April 10 with a hometown show in Atlanta.

Fans can purchase their tickets via the Verizon presale in select cities on Tuesday. There will also be other presales going on throughout the week. Remaining tickets will be sold to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time at livenation.com. Hearts are sold separately.

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In 2024, "Symphony," Zara Larsson's 2017 collaboration with Clean Bandit, went viral on TikTok after people started using it to soundtrack videos that paired imagery of a happy dolphin in a rainbow-tinged sea with incongruous messages like "I have social anxiety," "I'm depressed" and "I'm scared of people." It became so popular that Zara started performing the song in concert with similar dolphin-themed visuals. 

When the dolphin image first went viral, people compared it to the artwork of Lisa Frank, who's known for her happy, rainbow-hued animals, including dolphins. Now Zara has teamed up with Frank for a special edition of her new album, Midnight Sun, due out Sept. 26.

The limited-edition CD package features an animated version of Zara frolicking in an underwater paradise of dolphins, plant life and musical notes. You can preorder it now.

Zara says the collab "feels like serendipity — a full-circle moment in the best way." She adds, "From the ‘Symphony’ dolphins that trended on TikTok with so many people noting the Lisa Frank vibes, to an actual collaboration with the icon herself. It’s a little surreal."

Frank adds, "What started as fans making the connection online has now had its defining moment. Her new album is like color in sound, and blending our universes feels like the perfect way to bring that cultural phenomenon to life.”

By the way, the original dolphin artwork in the meme was by Christian Riese Lassen.

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Mariah Carey has performed on stages all over the world, but on Sept. 17 she'll be singing a very unusual place: the Amazon rainforest.

Mariah is part of a concert called Amazônia Live – Today and Always, which is set to take place atop a floating stage on the Guamá River in Belém, Brazil, a city known as the "gateway to the Amazon."

The concert, produced by the team behind the Rock in Rio concerts, is designed to raise awareness about how important it is to preserve the rainforest. For one thing, according to the organizers, it's an important step in reducing carbon emissions. A documentary will capture the event, as well.

The event will take place a week before Mariah releases her new album, Here For It All.

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Having conquered the worlds of rock and occasionally pop, Shinedown is now setting its sights on country music.

The "Three, Six, Five" band will be making its debut at the Grand Ole Opry on Oct. 10. Starting in 1925, the Opry is one of the longest-running radio broadcasts in U.S. history. Also airing online and on TV, it features live performances from the Grand Ole Opry House east of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. While it usually includes established and rising country stars, artists outside the genre sometimes appear, as well.

"We're beyond excited to make our Opry debut,” says Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers. "Being a kid from Tennessee, most of my early memories were watching the Opry show every weekend with my grandmother and never considering standing on that legendary stage to even be an option. Now that it is, we couldn't be happier to be a part of such a historical year of Opry history."

The band's appearance is part of the Opry's 100th anniversary celebration, which is taking place throughout October. Get tickets at Opry.com.

Shinedown recently hit #1 on the rock chart with their latest single, "Killing Fields," following the #1 success of "Three, Six, Five" and "Dance, Kid, Dance."

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It's a busy weekend for Zara Larsson: She's opening for Tate McRae in Philadelphia on Saturday, and on Sunday, she'll attend the MTV VMAs, where her video for "Pretty Ugly" is up for best choreography.

"I was so, so happy because it was my first song that I released from this era," she says of the nod. "And it's very different from what I've released before. It's quite obnoxious, but I just felt like it would do a lot for me artistically."

The song and the video, choreographed by Zoï Tatopoulos, are "a lot of energy," Zara notes. "It's kind of this song where I just kind of kick the door down, and having that recognized at the VMAs is really big for me."

As for her stint opening for Tate, the "Crush" singer thinks she and the Canadian pop queen are a "match made in heaven."

"I feel like our fans really kind of overlap ... obviously, they bought tickets to see Tate ... a girl who is such a performer, and that's what I strive to be," she says. "[We both] dance a lot, sing up-tempo pop songs, so I feel like [fans] are really enjoying it."

Plus, it's a good advertisement for her own Midnight Sun tour in early 2026: "I can be like, 'If you want to see the full thing, come and see me!'" she laughs, adding, "I do feel like this whole era is some sort of reintroduction to, especially, America because I really haven't been touring much here at all."

"I just wanna give the crowd everything I can," says Zara, who plans a show that mixes "warm and organic" and "cool futuristic:" "It's gonna be fun to see how we're gonna mix those two things." 

Tickets are on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

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In the original version of her video for "Tears," Sabrina Carpenter ends up killing her boyfriend by impaling him with one of her stiletto heels, explaining, "Someone has to die every video." But Sabrina has now released the video with an alternate ending, but, spoiler alert, the guy still dies.

In the alternate ending, Sabrina's boyfriend, who we assume perished in the car crash in the opening of the clip, staggers toward her, saying, "Babe! I'm so glad you're OK. I've been looking everywhere for you." Then lightning strikes very close to him, startling him.

"Woah! That was close!" he says.

"I'd say so!" Sabrina agrees, before warning him, "Oh, you should probably move over."

At that very moment, a huge tree, presumably struck by the lightning bolt, falls over and crushes him.

"I told him to move over," Sabrina shrugs.

The bulk of the video finds Sabrina in a Rocky Horror Picture Show-inspired situation, partying in a spooky old mansion with a bunch of odd-looking characters, led by Colman Domingo in drag. You can see some behind-the-scenes photos of the making of the clip on Sabrina's Instagram.

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