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Back home in the U.K., Olivia Dean has landed a 1-2 punch on the chart.

“Rein Me In,” her duet with fellow Brit singer Sam Fender, has topped the Official Singles Chart. The single also set a record for most weeks spent in the Top 40 before reaching #1: It took 35 weeks for it to get to pole position. Olivia now has two U.K. #1 hits after “Man I Need” did the trick in 2025.

Meanwhile, Olivia’s song “So Easy (To Fall In Love With Me)” is right behind “Rein Me In” at #2, and “Man I Need” sits at #4.

And on the U.K. album chart, Charli XCX scores her third #1 album with her soundtrack to the new Emerald Fennell film, Wuthering Heights. She previously topped the chart with 2022’s Crash and 2024’s Brat. Plus, three songs from the soundtrack album are in the Top 40: “Chains of Love,” “Dying for You” and “Always Everywhere.”

We should learn out how well the soundtrack did on the Billboard 200 on Sunday.

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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is the biggest-selling global album of 2025, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

The album took the #1 spots on the IFPI Global Album Chart, Global Album Sales Chart and Global Vinyl Album Chart, which saw Taylor break her own global vinyl sales record for the fourth consecutive year.

Other albums making the top-10 ranking on the Global Album Chart include the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet, Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, SZA’s SOS and Lady Gaga’s Mayhem.

“Taylor Swift topping the IFPI Global Album rankings once again is a clear reflection of the strength of her connection with fans around the world,” IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said in a statement. “This year’s results also show how truly global today’s music market is, with success being driven across streaming and physical formats by artists from a wide range of countries and genres.”

The IFPI, which represents the recorded music industry business around the world, previously named Taylor the top-selling artist in the world in 2025, and “APT.” by Bruno Mars and ROSÉ as the official biggest-selling global single of 2025.

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Megan Moroney’s long-awaited new album, Cloud 9 is out now, along with lyric videos for all 15 songs. Starting Friday in New York City, she begins her “9 Cities. 9 Days” promotional tour: She’ll travel across the country to visit nine places in all, performing some of her new songs and hits at each stop.

Megan talks about the new album in a note on Instagram, thanking fans for “the pure joy y’all brought me night after night” on her Am I Okay? tour, which coincided with her writing the album. That experience, she writes, “resulted in so may of these songs & ideas so I can’t thank y’all enough for inspiring me.”

“There’s a newfound confidence woven throughout Cloud 9 along with humor, honesty, hearbreak (duh), softness, & love,” she continues. “It’s got everything I love about country music.”

Noting that she got both Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves to appear on the album, Megan writes, “Never in a million years would I have guessed I’d have songs with [them] but I hope it inspired and and all dreamers out there to keep going. Your wildest dreams are not out of reach.”

Megan signs off by writing that she’s “feeling so excited and sooooo grateful!” and adding, “i hope you love it.”

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Gorillaz will be premiering a short film alongside the release of their upcoming album, The Mountain.

The film is called The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God. Its accompanying trailer, now streaming on YouTube, features the cartoon Gorillaz members fighting their way through a jungle as they attempt to reach the titular mountain.

“A journey that should’ve been a dream soon became a nightmare,” a creepy voice-over teases.

The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God will debut on Feb. 27, the same day the album The Mountain drops.

Gorillaz will be performing The Mountain in full during two shows in Los Angeles taking place Sunday and Monday. You can also catch them performing on Saturday Night Live March 7.

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Another year, another Tycoon Musical Festival with Chris Brown. The singer is set to return for the 2026 edition of the festival on April 4. The event will make a move to Amerant Bank Arena in Miami, Florida, after previously taking place in Detroit.

Tickets will first become available via the Live Nation presale on Saturday and Sunday. They will then go on sale to the general public on Monday.

The lineup also includes Plies, Sexyy Red, Trick Daddy and Monica, as well as performances from BossMan Dlow, Tank, Rob49 and Loe Shimmy. Additional artists will be announced at a later date.

In other Chris Brown-related news, he’s been telling fans to sit down as he works on his upcoming album, and prepares to release new music and videos in the summer.

“Stepping on S*** ALL SUMMER. Be patient with me,” he wrote on Instagram. “BROWN ALBUM COMING SOON, and make sure Yall save ya money. Summer time is next level. I’m dropping videos and songs.”

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Yungblud has released Idols II, a sequel album to his 2025 effort, Idols.

The set includes six new songs, plus the updated version of the Idols single “Zombie” featuring The Smashing Pumpkins.

“Part 1 was a journey that helped me reclaim my identity from the darkest position I’ve ever been in my life,” Yungblud says in a statement. “Part 2 is about realising that I am alive, that I am real, that this journey that I’ve been on didn’t kill me.”

“It’s about realising that you can feel invincible when you actually feel yourself,” he continues. “It’s about comprehending that my heart is beating and that my lungs are filling up with air.”

You can watch the lyric video for the Idols II single “Suburban Requiem” on YouTube.

Yungblud will launch a North American tour in May.

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Radiohead ended their live hiatus at the end of 2025 with a European tour, which marked the band’s first concerts in seven years. As exciting as that was for Radiohead fans who got to see the shows, it sounds like the band members had an equally fun time.

“It was great to revisit songs that we always felt were good and to find lots of other people now agree with us,” guitarist Jonny Greenwood tells the U.K.’s The Times. “And it was really nice to be playing and listening to [frontman] Thom [Yorke] again.”

“I’m surprised that the tour actually happened and that we all enjoyed it so much,” he adds.

Does that mean another Radiohead tour is imminent? Well, not exactly.

“Venues get booked so far in advance,” Greenwood says. “To do another we would have to decide now, and even then it wouldn’t happen for 18 months.”

Greenwood also says it was “strange not to be doing anything new on the tour,” as Radiohead hasn’t put out a new album since 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. When asked about the prospect of a new Radiohead record, Greenwood replies, “I’ve no idea.”

Meanwhile, Greenwood is nominated for an Oscar for his score of the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle After Another. As for whether he’ll attend the March 15 ceremony, he says he’s “not sure.”

“I went last time and they took me aside and said, ‘We’ve got something for you,'” Yorke recalls. “I was expecting a lavish goody bag. They gave me a chocolate shaped like an Oscar.”

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Is Jay-Z making a return to music? Fans seem to think so. The entrepreneur recently changed his name on streaming services to JAŸ-Z — which was used early in his career, including on his debut album Reasonable Doubt, which turns 30 this year. Fans also pointed out the shirt he wore at the Super Bowl, which said, “The Game needs me.” That’s a lyric from his song to “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” on which he rapped, “Can’t leave rap alone, the game needs me/ Haters want me clapped in chrome, it ain’t easy.”

A$AP Rocky recreated a scene from the 1996 film Belly to promote the Metal Collection at Ray-Ban, where he serves as creative director. He reimagined the scene where Nas’ Sincere meets DMX’s Tommy in a Harlem restaurant and learns about how he’s changed his life for the better. In the new clip, Nas reprises his role as Sincere, while Rocky puts his spin on Tommy, sharing that he’s creative director and showing off some of the sunglasses from his brand.

Fetty Wap may make music, but prison helped him think of other sources of income. He told Tamron Hall that he got his GED and took a few courses in HVAC as he contemplated a backup plan. Fetty shared the idea came after learning that some ex-prisoners were able to become financially stable and successful in this way. “You meet a lot of people that … they had legitimate businesses and making good amount of money,” he said of his interest in HVAC. “So I’m like, well, he making, like, rapper money. I’ma try that out.”

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When Luke Combs released his album Fathers & Sons, he probably didn’t know how appropriate the title would be. He and his wife, Nicole Combs, have just welcomed their third child, and it’s another boy.

In an Instagram post noting that the baby’s due date was Feb. 19, Luke and Nicole revealed that the baby, Chet Wiley Combs, arrived at some point in the last few weeks.

“Happy due date to the littlest Combs BOY! We’ve loved soaking up these last few weeks of newborn snuggles,” read the caption. In a series of photos, Nicole, Luke and the baby are seen together with Chet’s big brothers, Beau Lee Combs, born in August 2023, and Tex Lawrence Combs, born in June 2022. There’s also a photo of Chet Wiley’s tiny hand inside his parents hands.

Nicole reposted that last photo on her Instagram Story and wrote, “the little HAND you really do forget how small they are.”

Luke and Nicole announced they were expecting another baby in September via an Instagram post.

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