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The Weeknd is now the $1 billion man.

The singer's ongoing After Hours Til Dawn Tour just put tickets on sale for 2026 dates in Mexico, Brazil, Europe and the U.K., bringing the trek's overall gross to more than $1 billion across 153 shows since 2022. As it made its way through North America twice, as well as Europe, the U.K., Latin America and Australia, it's sold 7.5 million tickets.

All that means that the tour is now the top-earning trek by a male solo artist in history. It's just the latest milestone for the run, which had already broken records for attendance and number of shows in multiple cities.

The tour has also benefitted a variety of causes. The Weeknd has donated proceeds — more than $8.5 million so far — to his XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen.

The stadium tour is set to wrap up in Portugal in September.

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Charli XCX has given us our first look at The Moment, a kind of alternative history of the release and promotion of her world-beating 2024 album, Brat, based on her own original idea.

At first glance, the newly released teaser trailer looks like a regular documentary, as we see Charli designing her tour, going on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, trying on outfits, performing and meeting fans — but she seems uncomfortable throughout it all. As Charli told Vanity Fair recently, she plays "sort of a hell version of myself" in The Moment. "It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.”

In one scene, Charli and her team are getting ready for a performance when a dummy with long dark hair falls from the ceiling and crashes to the floor, breaking into pieces. "Is that me?" she asks. "That's supposed to be you, yeah," she's told.

In another scene, a member of her team tells her, "You're not gonna die after an album cycle." Charli responds, "I might!"

The Moment director Aidan Zamiri told Vanity Fair that the film is what would have happened if Charli had made "entirely different choices" during her Brat era. It co-stars Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander Skarsgård, and arrives in theaters Jan. 20.

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One ongoing gag in the new Disney+/Hulu film A Very Jonas Christmas Movie is that Kevin Jonas keeps telling his brothers that he wants to sing lead on a song. Now, his dream has come true in real life.

Kevin has finally released "Changing," his first official solo single, after debuting it live at Boston's Fenway Park back in August. In a statement about the song, Kevin says, "To me, it’s evocative of going through the motions with life and continuously trying to improve yourself. Life keeps changing, and the song is a positive reinforcement of that idea."

Kevin sings in the song, "This coffee's cold like these same old conversations/So I keep on changing, oh, I keep on changing/Maybe I'm jaded/Maybe I'm chasing the highs to escape/So I keep changing."

"It says, ‘Don’t let things get stale,’ which is embodied in the ‘coffee’s cold’ line," Kevin notes in his statement. "You need to know when to move onto the next thing and you also need to keep moving no matter what the situation or relationship is.”

He adds on Instagram, "My first solo single is finally here. Words can’t describe how much this song means to me. Being able to share it with you all now has never felt more right. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped bring this song to life and to all of you for listening, supporting, and being part of this journey with me."

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David Archuleta was busy this year, releasing a bunch of music, going on tour and prepping his memoir, Devout, for a February release. He's also just released a new Christmas EP, My Only Wish, and scheduled LA and New York residencies to promote it. Why put himself through all of that?

"Cause I'm crazy," David jokes. "My manager was like, 'What if we wait 'til next year so that we can properly set it up?' At the time I was like, 'No, I want to do it this year because I'm in the mood now.'"

He laughs, "But now it's like, sometimes you give yourself too much work to do."

One track on the EP, "Wish at the Top of My List," teams David with another American Idol alum, Jordin Sparks, for a collaboration that's been a long time coming.

"We've been talking for over a decade to do a duet," David says. "To hear her singing on a song that I wrote, like, singing with me ... it just made me feel so good."

And there's another song of David's out there you may have heard: He co-wrote "Wish That You Were Me," sung by Beanie Feldstein's pop star character THĒ in season 5 of Only Murders in the Building. David's friend John Hoffman, the OMITB showrunner, is a fan of David's song "Crème Brûlée" and asked him to write a similar song for the show.

David says John told him the synopsis of the season, the character they were developing and the kind of song they needed. 

"And I'd never written, really, to fit another character," David says. "And I was like, 'That sounds fun.'"

"I was kind of like creating this little bit of a sassier character in my own music with 'Crème Brûlée,'" he explains. "So it was just fun to channel a little more extreme version of that." 

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No more complaints from fans that Olivia Rodrigo is "anywhere but the studio." In an Instagram dump of photos captioned "November," Liv is very clearly in the studio: She's seen standing in front of a microphone in a vocal booth and pouting. Fans were thrilled, writing in the comments, "OR3 IS COMINGGGG" and "OR3 IS CLOSER THAN WE THINK."

AIR Shop is offering BLACKPINK fans the chance to win two tickets to see the K-pop superstars at the Tokyo Dome in January. If you sign up for a free membership on the platform, which offers more than 40 million concert, sports and theater tickets worldwide, you can be one of five fans to win tickets to one of the group's shows on Jan. 16, 17 or 18. You have until Dec. 13 to enter, but travel and hotel aren't included.

John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls has joined the lineup of Freezingman 2026, a two-night benefit held Jan. 9-10 in Madison, Wisconsin. The benefit, which will also feature members of The Go-Go's, Portugal. The Man, The Bangles and many others, raises money for epilepsy research and children with special needs.

Victoria Beckham may not be interested in doing a Spice Girls reunion, but she doesn't mind singing her group's hits with her son. Cruz Beckham posted a video of himself playing the Spice Girls hit "Viva Forever" on acoustic guitar as Victoria sings along with him. Fans were thrilled, with one commenting, "omg Cruz thank you for bringing mom back to singing." Another wrote, "I love this so much. See, Posh CAN sing!"

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This album will be "Popular" with parents of crying babies.

Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande is coming out Nov. 21 from Rockabye Baby, the world's leading lullaby brand. It features 13 of Ari's biggest hits transformed into gentle instrumental tracks played on glockenspiel, xylophone and vibraphones. They're all designed to send your little one off to sleep and have you saying, "thank u, next."

You can watch an adorable animated video for the lullaby version of "7 rings" now.

Here's the track list:

"7 rings"
"thank u, next"
"One Last Time"
"Into You"
"Popular"
"Love Me Harder"
"Santa Tell Me"
"no tears left to cry"
"God is a woman"
"break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored"
"Dangerous Woman"
"Positions"
"we can’t be friends (wait for your love)" 

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Demi Lovato married musician Jordan "Jutes" Lutes in May, and she credits the universe for bringing them together -- sort of.

Speaking to Who What Wear, Demi explains, "I had been in past relationships where I thought, 'Oh, this is the long game!' But I hadn't taken care of myself yet. The universe rewards you when you do the therapeutic work on yourself, [and] I had to do the work."

"Because of that, the universe provided," she adds. "I got myself ready for a life by myself, and then I was able to share it with somebody else."

Demi met Jutes while she was making her 2022 rock album, Holy Fvck, which she says was a low point for her emotionally.

"I opened up to him because I was going through a really rough time when I made Holy Fvck. I had just come out of treatment, and I was newly sober and raw with my emotions," she says. "I had nothing to medicate with. He was there for me as a friend, helping me get through this deep depression I was in."

She said after they co-wrote her "vulnerable" song "Happy Ending," she realized she felt "safe" with him, even though at that point they were still friends.  Eventually they began dating, and after two years together, he proposed in December 2023.

"I'm really happy. I told my husband today, 'I've never been more in love with you. I didn't know my love could grow for you more so than it already has,'" Demi shares. "The timing was perfect."

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Taylor Swift's appearance on fiancé Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast, which to date has racked up 24 million views, has just been chosen as one of the top podcast episodes of 2025 by Apple Podcasts — and Travis reacted to the news on the pod's latest episode.

After Travis' brother, Jason Kelce, announced the news on Wednesday's New Heights installment, he added, "What is beating that one?!"

"She's just so magical," Travis responded.

"There's nothing f****** coming close to that," Jason argued. "Thank you, Apple, for putting us up there for doing pretty much nothing and just having the famous person in the world hop onto our show."

Travis grinned at that.

The episode ranked #3, beaten by an episode of The Telepathy Tapes at #1 and Crime Junkie at #2.

Taylor name-checks New Heights on the song "Wood" on her album The Life of a Showgirl. During her Aug. 13 appearance on the podcast — which, we later learned, was taped on the day she and Travis got engaged — she expressed her gratitude for its existence.

“This podcast has done a lot for me,” she said at the time. "I owe a lot to this podcast. This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago.”

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Who could take issue with kids singing an empowering anthem like "Golden"? Some British parents, apparently.

The BBC reports that Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, where students range in age from 4 to 8, has banned the singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs because some parents are "deeply uncomfortable" with some of the songs' references to demons. 

In a message to parents, the school said some parents are concerned that the songs don't fit with the school's "Christian ethos," because demons are associated with "spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness." The parents were instructed to ask the kids not to sing the songs "out of respect for those who find the themes at odds with their faith."

But one student father told the BBC, "I thought it was ridiculous. My daughter is very into K-pop and her and all of her little friends love it." The father noted that the kids at the school sang the songs at "after-school clubs," adding, "It's just a harmless ... nice little thing for them to do to get their confidence up."

According to the BBC, the school's head teacher sent a follow-up message saying that even though some parents had responded by highlighting the positive messages in the songs, the school is trying to be sensitive to those who found the songs' themes "challenging."

He added that he wasn't telling parents that it's wrong to watch the hit Netflix film or listen to the songs at home. "Our role will simply be to help children understand that some of their peers may hold different views and to explore how we can respect and support those peers in upholding their faith," he wrote.

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For quite some time, Kesha has been performing an updated version of her signature song "Tik Tok" with changed lyrics that reflect the downfall of Sean Combs, formerly known as P. Diddy. But if you're wondering why she hasn't put that new version out on streaming services, it's because she can't.

Speaking to the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Kesha explained, "I am not allowed to release it yet. But at my shows, just so everybody knows, the lyrics have officially changed to ‘wake up in the morning like, "f*** P. Diddy."’ And that stands for all that I can’t say.”

In the interview, Kesha talks about "Tik Tok" and her debut album, Animal, which is marking its 15th anniversary. Because of her protracted legal action against Dr. Luke, the producer of Animal, Kesha said it's only now that she feels comfortable looking back on the album.

“I love that I was so playful and that I just didn’t give a fuck," she said. "What a fearless bad b****. I have so much love for her. She had no idea how painful that was gonna be, to be so imperfect in front of the whole world."

As for "Tik Tok," Kesha notes, "I’m so grateful for that silly f****** little song, ’cause I’m like the dopamine doula to the drunk people on the dance floor," Kesha said.

However, her self-described "stupid" lyrics on that song, as well as the vocal effects used on Animal, led to one big regret.

"I kind of pride myself in being smart and being able to sing, and for the whole world to think I couldn’t sing and I was stupid ... like, that was hard for me," she shared.

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