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When you were writing letters to Santa, Olivia Rodrigo was writing Christmas songs. The singer has released the first holiday song she ever wrote, at the ripe old age of 5. The song, called “The Bels,” is up on TikTok now.

And speaking of Christmas, Mariah Carey’s sophomore holiday album, 2010’s Merry Christmas II You, is now available on a special vinyl to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The vinyl, available exclusively at Amazon, features “When Christmas Comes,” “All I Want For Christmas Is You (Extra Festive)" and “Oh Santa!"

Just in time for holiday shopping,Taylor Swift has released a comfy, cozy TS Collection featuring sweats, PJs, slippers and more. All the items are in peachy orange tones to match herThe Life of a Showgirl aesthetic.

Tate McRae has revealed the track list for her SO CLOSE TO WHAT??? (deluxe) album, coming out Friday. The additional tracks include the previously released “Tit for Tat,” as well as “Trying on Shoes,” “Anything but Love,” “Nobody’s Girl” and “Horseshoe.”

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Charli XCX has released the music video for “Chains of Love,” a song from the upcoming Wuthering Heights movie.

The visual features Charli dressed in all white as she spins and tumbles across a long white banquet table. Things get progressively more turbulent as wind blows, the table lifts off the ground, chairs slide across the floor and glass breaks.

“Chains of Love” is featured in the official Wuthering Heights trailer. Charli created an entire album of songs for the film, which is available for preorder now and comes out Feb. 13, 2026, the same day the movie is released in theaters.

Charli previously released the song “House” off the album, featuring The Velvet Underground’s John Cale.

Wuthering Heights, based on Emily Brontë’s classic novel, is directed by Emerald Fennell and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

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Jewel isn’t just a music artist, she’s a visual artist as well.

The singer-songwriter is set to debut an art exhibition at the Salone Verde in Venice, Italy, called Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost.

The exhibition, Jewel’s largest to date, will feature paintings, sculpture, tapestry, original music and voicework exploring themes of “motherhood, feminine power and the consequences of its loss.”

“At first glance, this exhibition centers on issues of femininity, power, and ecological consciousness, but at its core it is about memory, both profoundly personal and alarmingly global,” Jewel says in a statement. “If something of a cautionary tale, my hope is that the show reminds us what it feels like to be in closer harmony, inviting us to unearth ways to reconnect us to ourselves, each other, and the world around us.”

The exhibition will be on display from May 10, 2026, to Nov. 22, 2026.

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Saturday Night Live is going out with a bang: Ariana Grande will host and Cher will perform on the last episode of 2025.

Ari will host SNL for the third time on Dec. 20, a month after her movie Wicked: For Good hits theaters. Cher, meanwhile, will perform on the show for only the second time in her storied career. The last time she graced the stage at Studio 8H was in 1987 — six years before Ariana was born.

Before that year-ending show, Melissa McCarthy will host the Dec. 6 episode with musical guest Dijon, who is a major contributor to Justin Bieber's albums SWAG and SWAG II. 

Josh O'Connor will host Dec. 13 with musical guest Lily Allen. Allen's latest album, West End Girl, has attracted a lot of attention for seemingly documenting the end of her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour.

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Goo Goo Dolls are heading to Las Vegas in 2026.

The band is set to play a five-night limited run at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas next spring. They’ll hit the stage May 15, 16, 20, 22 and 23.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT, with presales running throughout the week.

As previously reported, the band will do a hometown benefit show at Buffalo's Town Ballroom Thursday to raise money for FeedMore WNY, which provides food and skills training to residents of Western New York. Then the "Iris" hitmakers will ring in 2026 with a New Year's Eve show in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Tori Kelly is a mom.

The singer announced the birth of her first child, a baby boy, with husband André Murillo. In an Instagram post, she shared a photo of the newborn’s tiny feet as well as one partially showing the baby lying next to her two pups.

“Zayden Michael Murillo 11.11.25,” she captioned the post. “we love you so much, sweet boy.”

Tori announced her pregnancy in July in a video posted to social media and YouTube. In the video, soundtracked to a new Tori song, Tori and André dance around a house and embrace on the beach. At the end of the clip, Tori sings, “I’m ready for what comes next/ Let’s make a baby,” as she reveals her baby bump.

Tori and André began dating in 2016 and married in a private ceremony in 2018.

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Post Malone will be supporting his hometown team this Thanksgiving.

Posty will perform at the Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle Kickoff halftime show at the Dallas Cowboys-Kansas City Chiefs game, taking place on Nov. 27 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Posty, born Austin Post, grew up a Cowboys fan. Though he was born in Syracuse, New York, when he was 9 years old, he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his dad became the concessions manager for the team.

As for the other Thanksgiving Day games this year, Jack White will headline the Detroit Lions-Green Bay Packers matchup at Detroit's Ford Field, and rapper Lil Jon will perform at the Baltimore Ravens-Cincinnati Bengals game at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium.

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Teddy Swims' son is only 5 months old, but he's already teaching his old man a thing or two.

Teddy and his partner, Raiche Wright, welcomed their first child on June 23, although they have not yet revealed his name. On the red carpet at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Teddy told ABC Audio the biggest lesson he's learned now that he's a dad.

"I think for me, the biggest thing would be presence," he said. "So many times in my life, I was always like, 'I gotta go get it ... somebody else's gettin' it, I gotta be working all the time.'"

"And nowadays ... even yesterday, I'm sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, watching TV with him and knowing that this is the most productive thing I could do is just nothing with him, and just being present. And I think it's changed my life a lot on just being present with things."

Days where Teddy can sit on the couch with the baby and do nothing are becoming few and far between: After going to LA for the Rock Hall induction, he's now in Asia. He'll perform in South Korea and Singapore before heading to Dubai, and then coming back to the U.S. for some holiday shows. But he'll be slowing down a bit and focusing on new music in 2026.

"We're getting ready to write. We're taking a little bit less of touring next year, and writing and writing and writing. And I'm writing now, so we're going to see where it goes, you know?" 

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nick Jonas is the latest cast member to return for the upcoming Jumanji movie, which will be the third installment of a franchise that began with the 2017 reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Nick will reprise his role as Jefferson "Seaplane” McDonough, a pilot in the Jumanji video game. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan are also returning for the film, which is due to be released in December 2026.

A note that Taylor Swift wrote to late One Direction member Liam Payne is going up for auction. Taylor gave it to Liam on Dec. 1, 2017, when both of them performed at London's Jingle Bell Ball concert. It reads, "Liam, Long time no see! I'm so excited for you, you're crushing it out there. I'm obsessed with [your song] 'Bedroom Floor.' It's so cool to see you from afar, I'm always cheering you on. Good luck tonight! Taylor." Liam gave it to an associate as a present after he received it. It's going on the block Dec. 2 via Omega Auctions in the U.K. and is expected to fetch anywhere between $6,500 and $13,000.

The Weeknd has donated $350,000 from his XO Humanitarian Fund to the World Food Program USA, in support of the millions of Jamaicans who were impacted by Hurricane Melissa in October.

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Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile are executive producers on a new Apple TV documentary called Come See Me in the Good Light, and they've also teamed up to record a duet for the project.

The documentary, which is now streaming, is about the late Colorado Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson and wife Megan Falley, who faced Gibson's incurable cancer diagnosis together. Gibson died in July of this year. While it sounds like an incredibly heavy topic, Sara tells Variety, "It's so funny. You watch this film and Andrea is ... hysterically funny, as is Meg. So you’re laughing a lot, and it’s just a joyful, life-affirming film that happens to be about cancer."

Sara was also given the words of an unfinished poem by Gibson to use for a song for the end credits; she then tapped Brandi to turn it into a duet."Salt Then Sour Then Sweet" is streaming now.

"Andrea didn’t want to leave people with some kind of broken-hearted, achy song. They wanted a love song for Meg, and so that’s what we wrote," Sara tells Variety.

In a video on Instagram describing her involvement in the project, Sara refers to her breakthrough hit by joking, "I finally did write someone a love song -- and it was Andrea Gibson."

The song has already been nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.

Meanwhile, Sara tells Variety that she has a new record coming out early next year, which is about "pretty much about grief." "I’ve been going through a lot of loss these last few years," she explains. However, she notes that grief "cracks you open in this way that I think is really important and helpful, ultimately, if you can sort of endure what’s hard about it.”

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