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As BTS gets ready to headline their Netflix concert, THE COMEBACK LIVE, on Saturday, one of their members is nursing an injury.

The band’s record label, Big Hit, has announced that RM injured his ankle during rehearsals for the concert and was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a sprain and a partial ligament tear. He will have to wear a cast and “strictly limit movement” for two weeks.

While RM will still take part in the Netflix concert, the statement noted that his “on-stage performance, including choreography, will be partially limited.”

RM shared a photo of the medical walking boot he’s now wearing on his left foot following his injury. During a live session with the group, he told fans, “I’m not able to perform right away, but I’ll be on stage … I’ll be singing and hyping everyone up. I’ll try hard to recover for the [tour], so please don’t worry because it’s not … serious.”

The special, BTS’ first full concert as a group since 2022, coincides with the release of their new album, ARIRANG.

BTS’ THE COMEBACK LIVE debuts Saturday at 7 a.m. ET.

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Many people have been inspired by Adele’s vocals, but Shakira has apparently been inspired by her concert venue.

This fall she’ll be performing a three-night residency in Madrid, Spain, at Shakira Stadium, a temporary venue that can hold more than 50,000 fans per night. The space will be similar to the purpose-built stadium space used by Adele when she played her residency in Munich, Germany, in 2024.

The three-night residency runs Sept. 25, 26 and 27, and marks Shakira’s first performances in Spain in eight years. The event will be “an immersive cultural destination,” according to a press release. In addition, Shakira will curate a series of activities across Madrid encompassing concerts, exhibits, talks, workshops, movies, food and literature, called “Es Latina.”

A ticket presale begins Tuesday via Ticketmaster, followed by the general sale March 27 at livenation.es.

The residency will mark the final dates of Shakira’s current tour, which has become the highest-grossing tour ever by an Hispanic artist.

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Latto’s Big Mama nickname has taken on a new meaning: she’s expecting her first child.

She revealed the news on her new single “Business & Personal (Intro),” where she reflects on her growth, success and resilience despite critics and humble beginnings.

“Car seat, got a kid on the way (Kid on the way),” she raps, later adding, “This baby ain’t slowing s*** down but the horsepower.” She also mentions the pregnancy in lines about “tryna hide my belly” and taking prenatal vitamins.

The music video further confirms the news, blending childhood home footage with present-day scenes. It opens with Latto painting on her bedroom floor and later shows her preparing a crib, and putting together a scrapbook with baby photos and a positive pregnancy test. In other moments, she flexes her changing body while tending to her garden and counting money.

“Business & Personal” serves as the lead single for Latto’s upcoming album, Big Mama, arriving on May 29. The cover art features her holding a baby cheetah with her baby bump on display.

Latto has not identified the father of her child. She confirmed to TMZ in September that she was in a relationship with 21 Savage, calling him “my man, my man, my man.” Fans believe he’s included in the music video, using his tattoos as clues and pointing to his baby photos in Latto’s scrapbook.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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Tim McGraw will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2026, along with singer/songwriter Paul Overstreet and bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers. 

Tim is the 2026 modern era artist, with 60-plus top-10 hits to his credit and nearly 30 number ones. 

“Everything good in my life has come from country music,” he says. “From my best memories as a kid, to meeting my wife, to this music community, to the friendships I’ve made along the way. To represent country music at the highest level is the greatest honor anyone could bestow on me.”

“I admit, I’ve imagined this moment many times through my career,” he continues, “worked towards it, thought of how I could be the kind of artist who was worthy of it. But my imagination didn’t do it justice. As I stand here, I’ll be the first to tell you I’m only worthy of it because it’s not mine alone.”

Paul will be inducted in the songwriter category, awarded every third year. He found his first success in 1982 with George Jones’ “Same Ole Me,” and notched his first #1 with the Forester Sisters’ “I Fell in Love Again Last Night.” “On the Other Hand” was the first of four number ones for Randy Travis. 

His “When You Say Nothing at All” was a hit for both Keith Whitley and Alison Krauss, and he wrote more recent hits like Blake Shelton’s “Some Beach.” He also scored his own number ones with “I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love” and “Daddy’s Come Around.” 

Ralph Stanley and Carter Stanley go in the hall as the 2026 veterans era artist. Starting their career in 1946, they became bluegrass pioneers, known for standards like “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” “Rank Stranger” and “Angel Band.” 

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise has released a new song called “Sixteen.”

The track follows the band’s 2025 album, bones, which spawned the single “Dang.”

“This track is slightly different from a lot of what bones carries, so we didn’t actually include it on the record but we’re happy that people are going to hear it,” RKS says in a statement.

You can watch a visualizer for “Sixteen” on YouTube.

Rainbow Kitten Surprise is currently on a U.S. tour, which concludes March 25 in Austin, Texas. They’ll launch another leg in July.

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The Hu has released two new songs, “The Men” and “Warrior Chant.”

“The Men,” which is accompanied by a video, reflects the “Mongolian philosophy of ‘Man’s Inner Spirit,'” band member Galaa says in a statement.

“Energy of men should always be reinforced with positiveness, strength and generosity, so this song try to encapsulate that ancient wisdom and share to the rest of humanity,” Galaa says.

Galaa adds that “Warrior Chant” “has our signature rhythm that our fans fell in love with and everyone who will listen and know us will say that it is ‘our song.'”

“The Men” and “Warrior Chant” follow The Hu’s January single, “The Real You.” The band’s been working on a new album to follow 2022’s Rumble of Thunder.

The Hu will launch a U.S. tour with Apocalyptica in May before hitting the road with Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson in August.

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Young the Giant has shared a new song called “Bitter Fruit,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Victory Garden.

‘Bitter Fruit is a song about the struggle of being calloused by adulthood with a yearning to see the world fresh, through the eyes of a child: To feel alive and present with wonder and awe,” the “Cough Syrup” outfit says in a statement. “When we wrote the line, ‘I wanna laugh and cry just like a child again,’ our engineer’s kids walked into the studio at that exact moment. It felt strangely fated.”

You can watch the “Bitter Fruit” video streaming now on YouTube.

Victory Garden, the follow-up to 2022’s American Bollywood, is due out May 1. It also includes the single “Different Kind of Love.”

Young the Giant will launch a U.S. tour in May.

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Morgan Evans’ sophomore album is titled Steel Town as an homage to the coastal city of Newcastle, Australia, where he grew up. 

Glance at the cover, which shows him sitting at the edge of the ocean as a huge ship passes in the distance, and you’d assume that’s where the photo was taken. 

With a deadline looming, however, there was no time to travel Down Under. Instead, Morgan went to Louisiana, where photographer Nick Swift was living at the time. 

“We were taking photos all around town in New Orleans,” Morgan recalls. “And at the end of the day, he was like, ‘Hey, we could do a fire on the beach.’ And we went down and set up this fire on the beach and started taking some photos.”

“And he was like, ‘Oh hang on a sec, man. There’s just a ship coming through. We’ll wait till the ship passes,'” Morgan continues. “And I turned around and there’s this massive ship in a harbor next to a beach. And it was like the perfect moment. I was like, ‘Quick, get this ship!'”

That proved to be the final element of a photo so convincing it’s even fooled some of the folks at home. 

“I enjoy telling that story. Cause even some folks from my hometown are like, ‘It looks like it, but I can’t tell exactly where it is,’ you know?” Morgan adds.  

The “Kiss Somebody” hitmaker did travel back home to shoot the video for the album’s first single, “Beer Back Home.”

The record also includes a duet with Morgan’s love interest, Laci Kaye Booth, on “Two Broken Hearts.” Steel Town is out now.  

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