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Gracie Abrams is launching The Secret of Us Deluxe Pop-Ups in celebration of her upcoming tour dates. The pop-ups, presented by American Express, will feature fan experiences to reflect Gracie’s current favorite things — including matcha. Limited-edition merch will also be available. Pop-ups will take place in New York City and Toronto from July 25 to July 27, and in Los Angeles from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3.

Kelly Clarkson is set to perform at Band Together Texas to help her home state in the aftermath of the July 4 flooding. The star-studded benefit concert, presented by country stars Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum, will take place Aug. 17 at Moody Center in Austin. 

Scooter Braun is clearing up speculation that Taylor Swift's song "Vigilante S***" is about him and his ex-wife, Yael Cohen. When asked if the song is about their divorce, he told the Question Everything podcast, "No, because I talk to Yael every day. My ex-wife is one of my best friends, so me and my ex-wife laugh about that stuff. We don't even call each other 'ex.' That's, like, my partner. That's the mother of my children."

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Reneé Rapp has released the new single “Why is She Still Here?” off her upcoming album, BITE ME, out Aug. 1. She also released a lyric video to go with it.

Jessie Murph’s new album, Sex Hysteria, has arrived. The 15-track collection features the songs “Blue Strips” and “Touch Me Like a Gangster.” Jessie is set to make her solo late-night TV performance debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on July 21.

Will.i.am is out with a brand-new single called “East LA,” featuring his Black Eyed Peas bandmate Taboo. The track, which reimagines Santana’s "Maria Maria," and the music video are a tribute to the place will.i.am grew up. 

“Numb Little Bug” singer Em Beihold is back with a new song called “Brutus,” where she sings about being envious of someone else’s life.

Max McNown has released the deluxe album Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up), featuring 11 new songs that chronicle “themes of grief, healing, love, and hope.”

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A "kiss cam" moment at a Coldplay concert has gone viral after the band's lead singer, Chris Martin, joked about a possible affair.

The band was playing a July 16 concert at Gillette Stadium in Boston when a man and woman dancing together during the show were shown on the stadium's Jumbotron.

As soon as they realized their faces were on the big screen, the woman covered her face with her hands and the man ducked out of frame, according to video of the moment posted on TikTok.

The video, which now has over 55 million views, shows Martin providing a play-by-play to the audience of the two fans' reaction to being on the Jumbotron.

"Oh, look at these two. Alright, come on, you're OK. Uh-oh, what," Martin can be heard saying as the fans hide their faces. "Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy. I'm not quite sure."

As video footage of the moment was circulated online, people quickly began to try to identify the man and the woman.

Neither the man nor the woman identified online as the people in the video have confirmed their identities.

The company where both individuals are reported to work issued a statement Thursday in response to a fake statement circulated online that purported to be from the man who was identified online as the man in the video.

"This is not a real statement," a representative for the company told ABC News, while declining to answer additional questions or confirm the individuals' identities.

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If you’ve never seen BTS live, you can at least feel like you have with their new live album. PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LIVE is out now.

The album captures some of the highlights from their PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE tour, during which they performed 12 shows across Seoul, Los Angeles and Las Vegas in 2021.

There are 22 tracks on the album, including hits “Dynamite,” “Butter” and “Permission to Dance.” Many of the songs feature new arrangements that were special to the tour.

In addition to the live tracks, the album includes a digital code for BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - SEOUL where fans can access a video compilation of the group’s performances from the final night of their three-night stand at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium, which took place in March 2022.

Earlier this month, the K-pop superstars announced they’ll be returning with new music and a world tour in spring 2026. BTS has been on hiatus since 2022, allowing all seven members — Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — to serve their mandatory military service in South Korea.

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Alex Warren is striking while the iron is hot: Amid the success of "Ordinary," he's releasing his new album, You'll Be Alright, Kid, on Friday. It features 21 songs — the ones he put on You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1), which came out in September 2024, as well as "Ordinary" and 10 new songs.

Even though there are 21 songs on the album, probably the first song people heard from Alex was "Ordinary," which made waves after he performed it on Netflix's Love is Blind in March. And Alex says he's "stoked" that "Ordinary" has become his calling card.

"It's one of the things I'm most proud of," he tells ABC Audio. In fact, he's not even fazed by the prospect of having to perform the song forever, which his pals Jelly Roll and Ed Sheeran warned him he'd have to do.

"Jelly and Ed both said to me, 'Hope you're excited to sing this song for the rest of your life,'" Alex tells ABC Audio. "And I am stoked. I love it. This is by far the best song I've ever written in my entire life. And there's some really good ones in this album, but 'Ordinary' will always stick with me as one of those records where I'm really proud of it."

"And I'm proud of the people I wrote it with. Like, it's truly, it's all of our favorite song. I think there's something really special about this record that'll last for generations." 

In addition to "Ordinary" and the Jelly Roll duet "Bloodline," You'll Be Alright, Kid includes "On My Mind," a collaboration with ROSÉ he released in June, and another single called "Eternity."

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Simon Cowell is hoping to recreate the magic of One Direction.

The music mogul has a new show with Netflix, Simon Cowell: The Next Act, where he’ll try to find the next boy band superstars.

Simon helped launch the careers of One Direction and girl groups Little Mix and Fifth Harmony. He’s served as judge on a variety of music competition series, including Pop Idol, American Idol, The X Factor and The X Factor UK, and Britain’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent.

According to Tudum, the new unscripted series will give viewers “an even more intimate look at Cowell’s process and unparalleled ability to identify and foster talent.” The six-episode series will follow the process “from raw open casting calls to the release of the group’s debut single.”

Simon Cowell: The Next Act will debut on Netflix in December.

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Carly Rae Jepsen is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her album Emotion with a one-night-only show in Los Angeles in August.

The plan for the evening, as she details on social media, is to play the album front to back. She also promises “some extra special guests and surprises,” and says fans will “leave sweating and satisfied cause we aim to dance out allllll of the emotions!”

Carly adds a note for fans to “dress the hell up” for the show. “It’s a PARTY,” she writes.

The show will take place at The Troubadour on Aug. 19, with tickets going on sale Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

Emotion, released on Aug. 21, 2015, features the tracks “I Really Like You” and “Run Away with Me.”

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Miley Cyrus has debuted the new video for her Something Beautiful track “Walk of Fame.”

In the clip, out Thursday, the singer sports a silver mini dress and high-heeled boots as she steps out onto Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. She struts, dances and writhes on the stars that line the streets as she sings, “I walk the concrete like it’s a stage.”

Miley is set to receive her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the coming year.

“To now be cemented on this legendary boulevard, surrounded by the icons who inspired me, feels like a dream,” she wrote on social media after the honor was announced. “This moment will live forever, thank you to everyone in my life who made it possible. I am grateful to share this star with you.”

Something Beautiful was released May 30, with the visual companion to the album debuting on Disney+ and Hulu July 16.

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Ed Sheeran is helping Chris Hemsworth face his fears in a new season of Limitless: Live Better Now.

In a new trailer for the show, we see Ed challenge the Thor actor to play drums for a crowd of thousands of people on Ed’s stadium tour.

The clip then shows Chris learning to play the instrument and admitting that he’s "struggling." We also see shots of him taking the stage with Ed at National Arena in Bucharest, Romania.

"The moment I walk out and see how big that arena is, I'm starting to think, 'I gotta get out of here!'" he says.

The National Geographic series follows Chris as he challenges himself to do things outside his comfort zone in an effort to strengthen his mind and body.

Limitless: Live Better Now premieres Aug. 15 on Disney+ and Hulu.

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Jessie Murph's new album, Sex Hysteria, is out July 18. The first song she released from the album, "Gucci Mane," was raw and vulnerable, as are the other songs on the album. While it makes her feel better to share her feelings, Jessie's nervous about everyone else hearing it.

"I think like any time I'm creating music, I feel lighter the second I make it. But I think another step in that process is putting it out and giving it to the world," she tells ABC Audio. "I think maybe once that happens, I'll feel a little lighter, but ... I'm also very scared."

"I mean, some of the songs are very personal and vulnerable. ... But it's definitely cathartic to make them, for sure."

Some of the new songs sound very retro, matching her current early '60s fashion aesthetic: She's wearing huge hair and makeup that recalls Elvis Presley's wife, Priscilla Presley. She says she's always been "fascinated" by the couple.

"That time period I think is such a beautiful time period, and the way the hair was big and the glam — and everything was so glamorous and beautiful," she explains. "I've just always been super drawn to that ever since I was a little girl. And I was just waiting ... to be in the right phase of life to write the songs that would match with the era."

But the title Sex Hysteria hints at a darker side of that time.

"The word hysteria, the root word, used to be used to describe women in the '60s ... for being overtly emotional or dealing with intense emotions, anxiety, depression and stuff. They would send them to mental institutions," she says. 

"I think this album represents a lot of intense highs and intense lows, and that word has just always felt right regarding this ... so that's what we went with."

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