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You can check out newcomer Carter Faith‘s cover of Addison Rae‘s “Fame Is a Gun” now.
The new album from 49 Winchester, Change of Plans, is set to arrive May 15, featuring “Pardon Me,” which is out now.
“Get to Drinkin’,” the new track from newcomer Zach John King, is out now, ahead of his high-profile 2026 dates with Morgan Wallen, Luke Bryan, Riley Green and others.
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Myles Smith and Niall Horan have released their duet “Drive Safe,” which the two artists co-wrote. The song is about being able to manage obstacles in life with help from the people around you. “Collaborations only really matter to me when they come from something real, and working with Niall genuinely did,” Myles said.
Ahead of his national anthem performance at the Super Bowl, Charlie Puth has released another song from his upcoming album, Whatever’s Clever! “Cry” features saxophone playing by Kenny G. Charlie says, “‘Cry’ is about allowing yourself to feel things fully … a reminder that expressing emotion is not weakness — it’s human, and sometimes it’s exactly what helps you grow.”
ZAYN has dropped “Die For Me,” the first single from his upcoming solo album, KONNAKOL. The song comes with an official video, which features ZAYN singing about being betrayed while braving lightning strikes, wind, rain and fire.
Tired of hearing EJAE sing “Golden”? She’s got a fresh track for you. The lead voice of HUNTR/X has dropped a mid-tempo song about heartbreak called “Time After Time.” She says the song’s melody was “stuck in my head for years, just like the person I wrote it about.”
Joji, who scored a hit in 2022 with “Glimpse of Us,” is back with his third album, Piss In the Wind, and a new single, “Hotel California.” He’ll also drop the video for one of the songs on the album, “Last of a Dying Breed,” on Monday.
Charlieonnafriday, who had a hit in 2023 with “Enough,” returns with a new song called “Never Do,” which samples T-Pain‘s 2005 classic “I’m Sprung.” “‘Never Do’ is about being really into someone and how that kind of feeling starts to change your life, your habits, and the way you act,” he says.
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Mariah Carey wasn’t the only pop star to pop up at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony: Taylor Swift also appeared, in a video message.
Taylor, wearing a sweatshirt from Polo Ralph Lauren’s official Team USA collection, addressed all the athletes competing in the Games. “I just wanted to say thank you,” she said. “Getting to learn your stories and see everything that you’ve sacrificed and all your determination and hard work and passion and everything that’s gotten you to this point where you’re so excellent at something, it’s just really inspiring.”
She added, “I am very grateful for everything you’ve done to get to this point in your life and grateful that you’ve brought us all along with you on this journey so we get to watch you do this. I just hope that you a wonderful Olympic Games.”
She ended by saying, “Wishing you all the best of luck and a safe journey, and I hope this is an experience that you will cherish for the rest of your life. Bye!”
The Olympic commentators noted that Taylor had played at Milan’s San Spiro Stadium, where the opening ceremony was taking place, twice in 2024 as part of the Eras Tour. They also plugged her new video for “Opalite.”
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Police have found a body they believe may be Lil Jon‘s son, Nathan “DJ Young Slade” Smith.
The Milton Police Department said in a statement Friday that the body was found Friday morning by divers with the Cherokee County Fire Department in a pond near Smith’s home in Milton, Georgia.
Authorities said Smith was last seen Tuesday around 6 a.m. ET after leaving his house on foot without a phone. They said at the time he “may be disoriented and in need of assistance.”
Officials are awaiting confirmation from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. The case remains an open and active investigation, and additional information will be released only after the cause and manner of death are determined and all leads have been reviewed, they said in the statement.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the Smith family during this difficult time,” the Police Department said in the statement. “The department respectfully asks the community and members of the media to honor the family’s request for privacy as they grieve and navigate this tragedy.”
Lil Jon also released a statement expressing heartbreak over the loss of his son.
“I’m extremely heartbroken for the tragic loss of our son, Nathan Smith,” he wrote. “His mother [Nicole Smith] and I are devastated.”
“Nathan was the kindest human being you would ever meet. He was immensely caring, thoughtful, polite, passionate, and warmhearted – he loved his family and the friends in his life to the fullest,” Jon continued, noting he was “a music producer, an artist and engineer, and graduate of NYU.”
“We loved Nathan with all of our hearts and are incredibly proud of him,” he added. “He was loved and appreciated, and in our last times together we’re comforted in knowing that we expressed that very sentiment to him.”
Jon also thanked those who prayed and assisted in the search, including law enforcement and emergency personnel.
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Bryan Adams has been stripping down his songs for fans.
The “Run To You” rocker recently launched a new acoustic series on YouTube, treating fans to performances featuring just him and his guitar. The latest release is a performance of the song “Hey Baby,” from his most recent album, Roll With the Punches.
Adams launched the Acoustic Fridays series on Jan. 30, kicking things off with a stripped-down version of another Roll With the Punches track “Love is Stronger Than Hate.” All performances were filmed at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada.
Released in August 2025, Roll With the Punches was Adams’ 16th studio album and his first album since 2022’s So Happy It Hurts.
Adams is currently on tour, playing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday. He also has dates booked in Singapore, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Mexico and more. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.
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Ella Mai has released her new album, Do You Still Love Me? Executive produced by Mustard, the project features 14 tracks, including previously released singles “100,” “Little Things” and “Tell Her.” Do You Still Love Me? is on streaming platforms. Fans can also purchase physical CD and vinyl editions on Ella Mai’s official webstore.
RZA reunites with Juice Crew on Bobby Digital Presents: The Juice Crew. He curated and produced the album, which “re-imagines the Juice Crew sound through RZA’s cinematic lens, blending his signature production with the crew’s storytelling mastery,” according to a press release. It’s now available on DSPs.
LeCrae is out with Reconstruction: Second Story, an album that is “deeply personal” to him. “It reflects the last five years of inner-work wrestling, and rebuilding my faith on a strong foundation,” he wrote of the album on Instagram. “I’ve always tried to be honest about the journey, not because I have it all figured out, but because I know many of us are walking similar roads.”
Other releases:
Hunxcho, Not One of Them
Mozzy, EST GEE, “Wouldn’t Hold You Up“
K Camp ft. Jacquees, “Come Back Home“
Fredo Bang, “Baby Please“
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Mariah Carey gave una performance fantastico during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on Friday.
Wearing a sparkly white and silver dress and matching floor-length feather boa, Mariah stood onstage in the middle of San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan, Italy, and sang the beloved Italian song “Volare.” The song, recorded by Domenico Modugno, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958.
It marked the first time she’s sung in Italian, which is likely why she appeared to be focusing on a teleprompter.
At the end of that track, she broke into one of her patented “whistle tones,” before segueing into her song “Nothing Is Impossible” from her 2025 album, Here For It All.
The Winter Olympic Games will stream on NBC and Peacock.
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Elton John testified via video in a U.K. court on Friday about a British newspaper’s “abhorrent” “invasion” of his and his family’s privacy.
Elton and his husband, David Furnish, are among several notable people, including Prince Harry and Elizabeth Hurley, who are suing The Daily Mail for writing articles about them based on “unlawful information gathering.” The newspaper’s publisher has denied any wrongdoing.
Specifically, Elton and David have identified 10 articles written about them between 2000 and 2015 that feature information they claim was obtained by tapping their phones, hiring private investigators and illegally obtaining medical records.
Elton wrote in his witness statement, “From a personal level, I have found The Mail’s deliberate invasion into my medical health and medical details surrounding the birth of our son Zachary abhorrent and outside even the most basic standards of human decency.”
Elton went on to write, “David and I have now seen documents proving that The Mail were digging into me during times when I was in hospital and because I was in hospital. We have also seen documents proving their intense digging into and around the birth of our first son Zachary.”
“We do not believe there could be any legitimate ways that they discovered details about our egg donor, embryos and questions of paternity. Those were among the most confidential matters in our lives at the time,” he added in the statement.
Elton wrote, “It has been truly sickening for David and me to see the disclosure in our case, with Zachary as a target when he was just born, with David and me as targets, with me as a target when I was sick and unwell.”
According to the U.K. paper The Independent, the trial is due to conclude in March.
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As Koe Wetzel gives fans a taste of his next chapter of music, he says his new track, “Time Goes On,” is “one of my favorites of the record.”
“We wrote this as an acknowledgment of how quickly life moves, whether you embrace the changes that come with it or not,” he adds.
“I could have done a lot of things right/ I could have done a lot of things wrong/ Could be pouring concrete on a West Texas street/ But I’m writing this song,” he sings. “Crazy how the years go fast/ Crazy how the hours feel long/ Even through the mistakes and the can’t get through this/ Time goes on/ The time goes on.”
Koe’s 2024 album, 9 Lives, featured his five-week #1, “High Road” with Jessie Murph, which was the most-played song of 2025, according to Mediabase.
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Bring Me the Horizon is featured on a new song from DJ Illenium.
The track is called “Slave to the Rithm” and appears on the new Illenium album, Odyssey, out now.
“That thing is fully psychotic,” Illenium tells Billboard of the track. “I haven’t made a song that aggressive ever.”
Odyssey also includes collaborations with Bastille, Kid Cudi, Ellie Goulding and Ryan Tedder.
Bring Me the Horizon, meanwhile, is preparing to launch a North American tour in April. They’re also releasing a new concert film, L.I.V.E. in São Paulo (Live Immersive Virtual Experiment), which will screen in theaters on March 25 and March 28.
(Video contains uncensored profanity.)
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