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Now, this is what you call timing: Cody Johnson sits at #1 on Billboard Country Airplay with “The Fall,” on the heels of winning his first entertainer of the year trophy at Sunday’s 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. 

It’s Cody’s 15th entry on the chart, dating back to 2016’s “With You I Am.” It’s also his third #1, following 2024’s “The Painter” and “‘Til You Can’t,” which stayed at the top for two weeks in 2022. 

“The Fall” also makes the list of songs that have taken at least 55 weeks to rise to the top of the chart. 

Justin Moore’s “Time’s Tickin'” from 2026 currently holds the all-time record with its 67-week journey. Travis Denning’s “After a Few” and Michael Ray’s “Whiskey and Rain” were the previous kings of the slow burn, having both taken 65 weeks to make it to the top.  

In addition to snagging entertainer and male vocalist honors at the ACMs, Cody performed his version of “Travelin’ Soldier” ahead of Memorial Day weekend. 

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Dan + Shay are hitting the road this fall for the first time since 2024.

The Young Tour sets out Sept. 11 from Noblesville, Indiana, and wraps Nov. 7 in Mountain View, California. The 26-date itinerary focuses on the U.S., with a single Canadian date Oct. 1 in Toronto.

In an interesting twist, only Tyler Hubbard will open that show, while Canadian Josh Ross will open the previous one by himself Sept. 26 in Uncasville, Connecticut. Josh and Tyler will both be on the rest of the dates. 

The trek is named for the pair’s new album, Young, which comes out Aug. 21. 

Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney delivered the debut performance of their hit “Say So” during Sunday’s ACM Awards in Las Vegas. 

Presales for The Young Tour start Tuesday, before tickets become available to the public on Friday. 

Dan + Shay haven’t been on tour since 2024’s Heartbreak on the Map run.  

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If you watched Sir Paul McCartney’s performances on Saturday Night Live on May 16, you may have thought that his female backup singer looked familiar. Well, she should have: It was Ingrid Michaelson.

“The Way I Am” singer has explained on Instagram how she got that gig. “I got a call on a monday [May 11] to fill in in Sir Paul Mccartney’s band for that Saturday for @nbcsnl and proceeded to have 6 days of ‘what is my life????’” she writes.

“What an honor it has been to be inside this music that has shaped me. his band and crew and team are all as lovely as he,” she continues. “[A]nd he is lovely. just as you’d imagine. even lovelier i’d say. I will never forget these 6 days for the rest of my life. I wish my father could see me now. he’d be prouder than punch.”

Ingrid backed the Beatles legend on his new song, “Days Gone By,” as well as the Wings classic “Band on the Run” and his 1980 single “Coming Up.”

Ingrid’s most recent album, For the Dreamers, came out in 2024. That year, the Broadway musical The Notebook, for which she wrote the music and lyrics, premiered on Broadway and received three Tony nominations.

Ingrid is launching her Cozy Fall Trio tour on Oct. 9 in Tucson, Arizona, during which she will sing with Allie Moss and Hannah Winkler.

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Bette Midler is set to lend her voice to Netflix’s upcoming animated film Steps, which reimagines the classic fairy tale Cinderella.

Midler will voice Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother in the flick, which will also feature the voices of Amanda Seyfried as Cinderella and Ali Wong and Stephanie Hsu as her evil stepsisters Lilith and Margot.

“The beloved Fairy Godmother, the wholesome Fairy Godmother — the one with all the good intentions — has been around for a long, long time,” says Midler. “This particular version of the Fairy Godmother has good intentions, but she’s a little bit of a bumbler, and she’s a little bit of a schemer.”

She adds, “I’m thrilled to be part of this film! And I’m thrilled to be with this cast!”

The film reimagines the relationship between Cinderella and her stepsisters, who have to team up to save their kingdom after Lilith’s actions at the Royal Ball put their kingdom under the tyrannical rule of the villainous Priscilla, who has taken over the throne.

The film’s director Alyce Tzue notes, “This story is, at its core, about two very different sisters — one who fits perfectly into this fairy tale kingdom and one who doesn’t — realizing they’re more alike than different.”

Steps is expected to debut on Netflix in 2026.

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The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

The trek, dubbed The Rats in a Cage tour after the lyric from the song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” will kick off Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio, and concludes Nov. 12 in Los Angeles.

Each show will consist of two sets. The first will feature a full-album performance of Mellon Collin and the Infinite Sadness, and the second will include songs from throughout the Pumpkins’ four-decade career.

“Staging a Mellon Collie-themed show is something we’ve discussed for over a decade, and finally the stars have aligned and exactly on the terms I’d set: which was to build a special night around its most enduring aspirations and ideas,” frontman Billy Corgan says in a statement.

Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit SmashingPumpkins.com.

Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness marked the third Pumpkins album and spawned the singles “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Zero.” It’s been certified Diamond by the RIAA, signifying 10 million units certified.

The Pumpkins teased the tour announcement with a livestreamed concert Sunday, which served as a “funeral” for Corgan’s “Zero” character.

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Noah Kahan’s new album The Great Divide is making great strides on top of the chart.

The new album from the “Stick Season” singer is spending a third week at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It’s the first rock album to spend that many weeks on top since 2013, when Noah’s friends Mumford & Sons spent five weeks on top with Babel.

But when it comes to solo artists, Noah’s feat is even more impressive: The last rock album by a solo artist to top the charts for that long was Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson, back in 2008.

Noah’s project counts as a rock album because it is eligible for and charted on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart. The songs from the album have also appeared on Billboard’s various pop charts, as well as the Hot 100.

On his Instagram Story, Noah complained that he’d just gotten his “a** kicked” on the soccer field by a “bunch of 47-year-old guys.” But, he noted, “Third week at #1 on the Billboard 200! So, y’know, all is well. I’ll take that. Very, very grateful. Very excited, can’t believe I’m still at #1. It’s f****** crazy.”

“You guys are amazing,” he continued. “It’s all ’cause of you guys streaming and buying s*** and just being dope. So I love you, still grateful … thank you so much.” 

He added that he’ll have to “hit the treadmill” this week to get back into “soccer shape.”

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Teddy Swims’ new single, “Mr. Know It All,” may sound like a standard breakup song, but he’s actually singing about a phenomenon first identified by sociologist Robert K. Merton.

Merton coined the term “self-fulfilling prophecy,” along with its flip side, the “self-defeating prophecy,” also known as “the prophet’s dilemma.” Imagine doctors predicting a flu outbreak, prompting everyone to run out and get vaccinated. Because so many people get the flu shots, the outbreak never happens — and the doctors, the “prophets,” are criticized for being wrong.

In “Mr. Know It All,” Teddy applies those ideas to love. He becomes convinced his girlfriend is going to break up with him, so he either subconsciously sabotages the relationship — the self-fulfilling prophecy — or tries so hard to save it that it creates problems — the self-defeating prophecy. Either way, the outcome is the same: She leaves him.

“If you see the future coming, like something falling apart, you can have the … That’s So Raven effect, right? Where you do everything you can to keep it from happening and that’s why it happens,” Teddy tells ABC Audio. “Versus maybe the other side is self-fulfilling … because you see it happening and that’s what happens. And so it’s like you’re kind of doomed if you do, [doomed] if you don’t.”

“Love is kind of its own contradiction in a way, that way,” he explains. “You can protect it too hard and lose it or you can know it’s coming and just lose it. … So I just kind of got obsessed with that sort of prophet’s dilemma, and that’s ‘Mr. Know It All.'” 

Sociology concepts aside, “Mr. Know It All” is the first single from Teddy’s still-unannounced new album.

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