Tucker Wetmore claims his first #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart as “Brunette” rises to the top.
His previous hits “Wind Up Missin’ You” and “3,2,1” both made it to #2 on the tally, in January and December 2025, respectively, while simultaneously making it to #1 on the comparable Mediabase ranking.
“Brunette” completed its climb to the Billboard pinnacle in only 23 weeks, well ahead of the 30-week average that’s held for the last decade.
The accomplishment comes on the heels of the ACM new male vocalist performing his hit on May 17’s 61st Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Jordan Lutes and Demi Lovato attend the 68th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons on Jan. 31, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Julian Hamilton/WireImage)
Demi Lovato and her husband, Jordan “Jutes” Lutes, celebrated their first anniversary on Monday, but they were apart, because both of them are currently on tour: Jutes was performing in Amsterdam, while Demi was performing in Houston.
Still, the couple made time to create sweet Instagram posts for each other, featuring many photos of their wedding day. “1 year married to the one i love the most, my best friend and my favorite human @jutesmusic,” Demi wrote. “365 days ago i stood across from u reciting my vows, thinking it wasn’t possible to love u anymore than i already do, but here we r a year later, and somehow i love u even more than that.”
Demi went on to say that it’s been the best year of her life, and listed some of the couple’s favorite activities, like, “leaving parties early to go get taco bell together” and “doing goofy s*** trying to out-weird each other.”
“these r memories i cherish and cannot wait to make more of. i love u so much.. happy anniversary baby!!” she concluded. In the comments, Jordan wrote, “I will never ever know how I ended up with someone as special as u. My favorite human and my whole universe. I love u so much baby.”
In his own post, Jordan added, “You’re SO clearly my soulmate and the best friend I’ve ever had. Can’t wait to see you and devour your face. I love you beyond words baby.”
Wet Leg has announced a deluxe version of their 2025 album, moisturizer.
The expanded set is due out July 10 and includes various bonus tracks, demos, live recordings and remixes, such as the previously released remix of “mangetout” by Charli xcx collaborator The Dare.
You can also hear a new remix of “catch these fists” by FDC DJs, made up of Fontaines D.C. members Carlos O’Connell and Tom Coll, out now.
The original moisturizer marked Wet Leg’s sophomore follow-up to their breakout self-titled album, which was released in 2022.
Wet Leg will be performing at a number of upcoming U.S. festivals, including Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands.
Cardi B, Bruno Mars and Leon Thomas were among the winners at the American Music Awards Monday night. Cardi won three awards, including best female hip-hop artist, best hip-hop song for “Errtime” and best hip-hop album for Am I the Drama?
“AMAs thank you so much for giving me three awards tonight,” she said on her Instagram Story. “Thank you so much, and I promise you, not only am I going to attend next year, I’m gonna perform. That’s word to everything. I don’t give a f*** what I’m doing.” She jokingly requested her awards be sent to her home and not her mother’s house, since her mom likes to keep and display them in the living room.
Bruno won best male R&B artist, best R&B song for “I Just Might” and best R&B album for The Romantic. Leon was named breakthrough R&B artist, while Monaleo took home the hip-hop equivalent.
“Through it all God provides. Yall know what i been through this year . The wins mean everything to me . Idk who needs to hear this but your BREAKTHROUGH is on the horizon. First NAACP now AMA . Without my supporters and my village i am dust . Thank you @amas . This award is so fitting. Pimpcess the chain breaker!” Monaleo wrote on Instagram.
Other winners included Kendrick Lamar for best male hip-hop artist; SZA, who won the best female R&B artist category; and Tyla, who took home best Afrobeats artist and social song of the year for “Chanel.”
The AMAs marked Queen Latifah’s return as host after more than 30 years. Highlights included Teyana Taylor’s performance of “All of Your Heart” and “Open Invite” featuring an appearance from Missy Elliott, as well as Busta Rhymes joining Pussycat Dolls during their performance of “Don’t Cha.”
Luke Combs joins Alex Warren onstage as he kicks off his Finally Finding Family on the Road Tour at Bridgestone Arena on May 25, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Live Nation)
Luke Combs and Alex Warren put out a live duet of the pop star’s hit “Ordinary” last year, recorded at Lollapalooza. On Monday night, the two reunited onstage to perform the song again.
On Alex’s Instagram Story, footage shows the two singing the song during the encore of Alex’s show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the first North American date of his current tour. Alex captioned the video, “HUGE thank you to Luke Combs for letting me sing your song.”
Of course, “Ordinary” is Alex’s song, but his comment likely referred to something Luke posted earlier this year.
In February, the “Fast Car” singer performed a solo version of “Ordinary” at a show in Athens, Georgia, and wrote, “Didn’t have @alexwarren with me this time but hopefully I did Ordinary justice.” Alex replied in the comments, “ITS YOUR SONG NOW LUKE.”
Luke Combs joins Alex Warren onstage as he kicks off his Finally Finding Family on the Road Tour at Bridgestone Arena on May 25, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Live Nation)
Alex Warren and country superstar Luke Combs released a live duet version of Alex’s hit “Ordinary” last year, recorded at Lollapalooza. On Monday night, the two reunited onstage to perform the song again.
On Alex’s Instagram Story, footage shows the two singing the song during the encore of Alex’s show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the first North American date of his current tour. Alex captioned the video, “HUGE thank you to Luke Combs for letting me sing your song :).”
Of course, “Ordinary” is Alex’s song, but his comment likely referred to something Luke posted earlier this year. In February, the “Fast Car” singer performed a solo version of “Ordinary” at a show in Athens, Georgia, and wrote, “Didn’t have @alexwarren with me this time but hopefully I did Ordinary justice.” Alex replied in the comments, “ITS YOUR SONG NOW LUKE.”
Alex’s show also featured two unreleased songs: “Passenger,” which he’s been teasing online, and “Same Stars.”
‘Inhuman Rampage’ album artwork. (Universal Music Oy)
DragonForce has announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band’s album Inhuman Rampage, which includes their signature song, “Through the Fire and Flames.”
The trek launches Nov. 13 in San Diego and will conclude Dec. 13 in Los Angeles. It will mark DragonForce’s first full tour with new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, formerly of the bands Arch Enemy and The Agonist.
“Alissa joining the band is an expansion of everything we’ve done up to this point,” says Herman Li in a statement. “Twenty years is a long time to do anything, let alone survive the music industry and still be so inspired to continue doing what we love.”
“Together we will honor what made InhumanRampage matter, while showing people exactly where we’re going next,” Li continues. “Having Alissa in the room changes everything. She doesn’t just sing, she makes all aspects of our music better. And she sounds incredible live! I can’t wait for the fans to see her and hear what we have been working on.”
Presales begin Tuesday at noon ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DragonForce.com.
Inhuman Rampage was first released in Japan in late 2005 before being released worldwide in 2006. “Through the Fire and Flames” became its breakout track thanks in part to its inclusion in the 2007 video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
Green Day on ‘Good Morning America.’ (ABC/Paula Lobo) Linda Perry on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
We said, hey, what’s up with this Linda Perry/Billie Joe Armstrong feud?
The 4 Non Blondes frontwoman confirms in an interview with NME that Green Day had approached her to produce the follow-up to their massive 2004 album, American Idiot.
“I had a full calendar and cancelled six months of work to do it,” Perry says. “I met with Billie Joe and we talked for three hours, and he said: ‘I watched the documentary of you talking about Courtney [Love] and you’re so interesting and I was intrigued.'”
“He was having his own meltdown, and I think life was getting to him,” Perry adds of Armstrong. “Like every artist, I think he had got to a point where you feel like I have nothing to say and need help – there’s a therapy aspect to producing too.”
However, when word that she was producing a Green Day album got out, Perry says the band was met with backlash over her past projects working with pop acts like Pink and Christina Aguilera. Instead, the next Green Day record, 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown, was produced by Butch Vig.
“Then those guys just stopped calling me,” Perry says. “I would reach out to figure out what was going on. Nobody called. I lost six months of scheduled work. That was f*****-up – all because Billie Joe’s a little p**** and got all this backlash from his fans and didn’t like it.”
She adds, “Not returning my calls was such a p**** move, and I lost a lot of respect for Billie Joe.”
Paul McCartney during The Beatles’ concert in Milan, Italy, 24th June 1965. (Sergio del Grande / Mondadori via Getty Images); Taylor Swift performs Nov. 1, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
Paul McCartney thinks Taylor Swift’s global fame is similar to the level of superstardom he once experienced with The Beatles — though he wouldn’t presume to give her any advice about it.
While appearing on BBC Radio 2, McCartney was asked how he perceives Taylor’s fame compared to that of his former group, and whether he’d offer advice to her or any other current pop superstars. “Absolutely, yeah,” the Beatles legend responded. “And you do see the parallel, y’know, like the fame and the amount of fame and the worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has and that we had. But I don’t think she needs any advice, [to] tell you the truth!”
“If she asked for it, I definitely would,” McCartney, 83, continued. “Because I’m like the older brother to that generation, y’know. Or, more like the grandad, actually.”
McCartney also shared that he recently met many of today’s female pop stars at a party thrown by his wife, Nancy Shevell, and daughter, designer Stella McCartney, whom he said are “very good at getting cool people to a party.” Guests included Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.
“I ended up chatting to them all,” he said, adding, “They’re really cool people. They’re very good. So basically to answer your question, I like their voices. If they needed any advice, yeah, I would be happy to give it, but I don’t think they do.”
