Music

People sure are happy that Bruno Mars is back.

According to Billboard, Bruno’s new single, “I Just Might” — his first solo release in nearly 10 years — earned nearly 14 million streams in its first four days of release. Those numbers, the publication says, will ensure “a major debut on next week’s Hot 100.”

Currently, Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” is #1, though she’s just released a new remix; whether Bruno will manage to knock her off the top of the chart remains to be seen.

Bruno’s entire catalog, meanwhile, has experienced a 75% increase on streaming as a result of the news of his new album The Romantic, arriving on Feb. 27.

Demand has also prompted him to add 31 new dates to his upcoming The Romantic world tour. According to concert promoter Live Nation, Bruno set the record for the company’s largest single-day ticket sales in North America. He’ll play three or four nights in cities including Vancouver; Paris; Toronto; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Amsterdam; and LA, while London will a host a total of six shows.

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Twenty One Pilots have shared the trailer for their upcoming concert film, More Than We Ever Imagined.

As previously reported, More Than We Ever Imagined was recorded during the “Stressed Out” duo’s 2025 sold-out stadium show in Mexico City.

“Being surrounded by that many people while playing a piano, it’s the closest I get to remembering why I fell in love with music,” frontman Tyler Joseph says in the clip.

You can watch the More Than We Ever Imagined trailer streaming now on YouTube.

More Than We Ever Imagined will be released in IMAX and theaters worldwide on Feb. 26. Exclusive IMAX previews begin Feb. 25. 

Tickets are on sale now. For all screening and ticket info, visit TwentyOnePilots.film.

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RAYE is nominated for best music film at the 2026 Grammy Awards, but the night before the ceremony, she’ll receive a special merit award from the Recording Academy — for a song released in 2023.

RAYE will receive the Harry Belafonte Award for best song for social change for her song “Ice Cream Man.,”  which appears on her debut album, My 21st Century Blues. The award was established in 2022 to honor writers who create “message-driven music that speaks to the social issues of our time,” according to the Academy.

“Ice Cream Man.” is a harrowing song about the guilt and PTSD that the narrator experiences following a sexual assault by a music producer. RAYE sings, “Coming like the ice cream man/ Till I felt his ice-cold hands/ And how I pay the pricе now, damn… / Everything you did, it left mе in a ruin/ And no, I didn’t say a word.”

RAYE co-wrote the song with Michael Tucker and Mike Sabath, who will be honored alongside her. RAYE and Sabath also wrote her current hit, “Where Is My Husband!”

In a statement, Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said, “This song is a powerful reminder of music’s unique ability to raise awareness, inspire change and provide a voice to those too often unheard.”

RAYE will receive the award Jan. 31 at LA’s Wilshire Ebell Theatre. That evening, other Grammy merit honors —  including Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards — will be presented to artists such as Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan, Cher, the late Whitney Houston and Paul Simon.

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If you want to know more about Gavin Adcock‘s love life, all you need to do is listen to his breakthrough hit, “Never Call Again.”

Even though the track’s laced with heartbreak, Gavin reveals he managed to find a happy ending with the person who inspired it. 

“I was dating somebody and we broke up,” he tells ABC Audio. “We were kinda in different head spaces, and then [I] tried to forget about ’em. And stuff just kept coming up where I couldn’t forget about her, and we ended up getting back together.”

Even his girlfriend’s favorite food haunted him.

“If you take somebody on a date, like my girlfriend — she’s the same girl — she loves chicken parm,” Gavin says. “If you go take somebody on a first date and they order chicken parm, you go straight to thinking about your ex.”

“It’s just all the things that make you think of that one person that you’d love to forget about, but you just can’t because you love ’em and they’re part of your life,” he says.  

“Never Call Again” is from Gavin’s Own Worst Enemy album, which came out in August. 

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Bush recently announced their Land of Milk and Honey tour, named after the single off the band’s latest album, 2025’s I Beat Loneliness, which hit #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

As for why the song “The Land of Milk and Honey” connected with listeners, frontman Gavin Rossdale isn’t exactly sure. He does know, however, that it adheres to Bush’s approach of writing songs they like and think their audience will like.

“For us, we just try and make music that appeals to us,” Rossdale tells ABC Audio. “Unlike what [producer] Rick Rubin said about how you don’t think of your audience when you make music, I don’t connect to that.”

Rossdale explains that he’s not necessarily thinking of the fans when he’s writing lyrics, but in putting the songs together, he’s conscious of what will connect with the Bush faithful.

“There’s an inner core of, like, Bush Army people that you see all the time,” Rossdale says. “So, the idea that I would make a record and just, like, forget they … exist is a bit disingenuous.”

“I do think of the people that love the band, because that’s what it’s all about,” he adds. “Without an audience, there is no exchange.” 

Rossdale will come face-to-face with those fans on the Land of Milk and Honey tour, which launches in April. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

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The songs that Olivia Dean and Tate McRae wrote for movies last year didn’t make the cut for the Golden Globes or the short list for the Oscar nominations. However, their efforts have been rewarded with nominations for the 2026 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.

The annual awards honor outstanding music supervision in movies, TV, video games and commercials, but there’s also a category called best song written and/or recorded for a film. “Just Keep Watching,” which Tate co-wrote and recorded for the Brad Pitt film F1, is nominated; so is “It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be,” which Olivia co-wrote and recorded for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Other songs in the category include two tracks from Sinners, one from the movie Materialists and “Dear Me,” sung by Kesha and written by Diane Warren, for the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless.

The 2026 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards will take place Feb. 28 in Los Angeles.

“Just Keep Watching” has also earned Tate a Grammy nomination, in the category of best dance/pop recording. Olivia is nominated, too, in the category of best new artist. Those awards will be handed out Feb. 1.

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Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of René Angélil, longtime manager and husband of Céline Dion. The Canadian icon remembered René, to whom she was married for 22 years, with a touching Instagram post.

“Mon amour, ten years without you feels like just a day, and yet each day feels like a decade,” she wrote. “Ten years without your caress, and yet every day I feel your touch…We miss you more than we can bear, but you taught us to be strong.”

She concluded, “We love you more, every day and every year,” signing the message on behalf of herself and the couple’s three sons: RC (René-Charles), Nelson and Eddy Angélil.

Céline included a photo of a piano adorned with a large framed picture of René. The manager, who passed away on Jan. 14, 2016, after a battle with throat cancer, had known Céline since she was 12 years old, and the two married in 1994.

It was a touching tribute from Céline, who has spent the past couple of weeks embracing TikTok, where she’s been sharing funny videos with fans.

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The Freezing Man benefit concert, which featured Garbage drummer Butch Vig as musical director, raised over $300,000 for the organization Joey’s Song in support of epilepsy research.

The two-day event, which took place Jan. 9 and 10 in Madison, Wisconsin, featured performances by Vig and his Garbage bandmate Duke Erikson, along with artists including Brian Aubert and Nikki Monninger of Silversun Pickups, former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, Jane Wiedlin and Gina Schock of The Go-Go’s, Vicki Peterson of The Bangles and John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls.

“It’s Joey Song’s 15th year and it is the most epic one yet,” Vig says. “We want to keep it going. I think the shows on both Friday and Saturday were fantastic. I couldn’t be happier right now.”

In its history, Joey’s Song has raised a total $2.1 million.

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