The Weeknd performs on After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour (Matthew Swensen))
The Weeknd is now the $1 billion man.
The singer’s ongoing After Hours Til Dawn Tour just put tickets on sale for 2026 dates in Mexico, Brazil, Europe and the U.K., bringing the trek’s overall gross to more than $1 billion across 153 shows since 2022. As it made its way through North America twice, as well as Europe, the U.K., Latin America and Australia, it’s sold 7.5 million tickets.
All that means that the tour is now the top-earning trek by a male solo artist in history. It’s just the latest milestone for the run, which had already broken records for attendance and number of shows in multiple cities.
The tour has also benefitted a variety of causes. The Weeknd has donated proceeds — more than $8.5 million so far — to his XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen.
The stadium tour is set to wrap up in Portugal in September.
Gary Mounfield of The Stone Roses performs onstage during day 1 of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2013 in Indio, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)
The Stone Roses bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield has died at age 63.
Gary’s brother, Greg Mounfield, announced the news in an all-caps Facebook post Thursday: “IT IS WITH THE HEAVIEST OF HEARTS THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD PASSING OF MY BROTHER GARY MANI MOUNFIELD.”
The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown posted a tribute to social media, writing, “REST IN PEACE MANi.” Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagherwrote, “IN TOTAL SHOCK AND ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED ON HEARING THE NEWS ABOUT MANI MY HERO.”
Gary played on both Stone Roses albums, 1989’s The Stone Roses and 1994’s Second Coming, and reunited with the band upon their reformation in 2011. In between, he played in Primal Scream.
Nate Smith & Tyler Hubbard’s “After Midnight” (Sony)
Nate Smith and Tyler Hubbard are getting to work to promote their new collaboration, “After Midnight.”
Though it will technically take place before the clock strikes 12, Nate and Tyler are taking over Mel’s Drive-In in Downtown Nashville on Thursday night.
From kitchen to table service, the two are ready to sling some hash to draw attention to their new song, even hawking a half-price pancake special as an extra incentive.
The fun kicks off at 8 p.m. CT and will go until the place shuts down if you wanna stop by. Mel’s is on 2nd Avenue N in Music City in the Lower Broadway district.
Teyana Taylor isn’t the only one attending culinary school. Victoria Monét has announced she’s pursuing her “lifelong dream” of becoming a chef. “I’ve been super passionate about recipes that you can pass down from generation to generation and how food makes people feel when they’re communing together,” she said in an Instagram video. She’ll take fans on the journey via her Instagram account @itschefmonet, where she’ll start a weekly Saucy Sundays series. Victoria also made it clear she’s “in the studio everyday still cooking my album!”
Drake‘s Iceman episodes on YouTube are his way of breaking out of the “redundancy of” the music industry’s traditional album rollouts. He told Complex he was intrigued by the idea of a livestream rollout, where he put his spin on the streamer world. “I have been dying to act and have been dying for a challenge,” he said. “The game is extremely calm seas right now. Nobody is rocking any boat on the water and so once we discussed a [livestream] rollout, it just sounded like the perfect mix of risk and reward for me.”
Max Bspoke to Billboard about being a free man, something he’s still getting used to. “I’m just taking my time, I’m out here. It’s real, I done woke up in my bed a couple days straight, so I can’t complain, man, you know what I’m saying? Eating good food, got my wife, got my kids — I’m seeing my kids every day — I got my electronics.” He added he’s not the same guy who went into prison. “This the new grown and gorgeous Biggavel, this is the new and improved. This the new, distinguished Biggavel,” Max B said.
Charli XCX has given us our first look at The Moment, a kind of alternative history of the release and promotion of her world-beating 2024 album, Brat, based on her own original idea.
At first glance, the newly released teaser trailer looks like a regular documentary, as we see Charli designing her tour, going on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, trying on outfits, performing and meeting fans — but she seems uncomfortable throughout it all. As Charli told Vanity Fair recently, she plays “sort of a hell version of myself” in The Moment. “It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.”
In one scene, Charli and her team are getting ready for a performance when a dummy with long dark hair falls from the ceiling and crashes to the floor, breaking into pieces. “Is that me?” she asks. “That’s supposed to be you, yeah,” she’s told.
In another scene, a member of her team tells her, “You’re not gonna die after an album cycle.” Charli responds, “I might!”
The Moment director Aidan Zamiri told Vanity Fair that the film is what would have happened if Charli had made “entirely different choices” during her Brat era. It co-stars Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander Skarsgård,and arrives in theaters Jan. 20.
Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis walk together on stage to perform as part of their Live ’25 global tour in Sydney, Australia (Chris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
And after all, will the Oasis reunion tour continue into 2026?
Vocalist Liam Gallagher appeared to tease that future shows were being planned when he declared “See you next year” during Oasis’ final show at London’s Wembley Stadium in September. Now, though, Liam has taken to social media to clarify his comments.
“You will see me next year and the year after and so on just not sure yet if it’ll be with oasis,” Liam writes. “We need to sit down and discuss these things.”
He adds, “If it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die as it’s the best thing in the world but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not.”
When asked if his “See you next year” declaration got him into any trouble in the Oasis camp, Liam replies, “There was a few tuts and raised eyebrows.”
Of course, Liam did previously say that Oasis had recorded a new album upon reuniting, only to later clarify that he was joking, so who knows? Maybe he’s joking about this, too.
The Oasis reunion tour launched in July, officially ending the feud between Liam and his brother and bandmate, Noel Gallagher. The outing hit three U.S. stadiums: Chicago’s Soldier Field, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.
The last show on Oasis’ current live schedule is set for Sunday in Brazil.
The xx has released a deluxe version of their 2009 self-titled debut album.
The expanded set includes five bonus tracks, including three covers. It’s out now on digital outlets and will be released on vinyl Dec. 5.
“Going back to 2009 has brought up so many memories – it really does feel like another world,” The xx says in a Facebook post. “This album means a lot to us, and we hope it still means something to you too. Thank you for being here, always.”
The album xx includes the trio’s breakout single, “Crystalised,” as well as fan-favorites “Islands” and “VCR.”
The xx has since released two more albums, 2012’s Coexist and 2017’s I See You, while the band’s three members —Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx — have all put out solo material. They shared in March that they were back in the studio together and are set to perform at the Coachella and Kilby Block Party festivals in 2026.
Kevin Jonas attends the New York premiere for ‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,” November, 2025 (Disney/Jose Alvarado Jr.)
One ongoing gag in the new Disney+/Hulu film A Very Jonas Christmas Movie is that Kevin Jonas keeps telling his brothers that he wants to sing lead on a song. Now, his dream has come true in real life.
Kevin has finally released “Changing,” his first official solo single, after debuting it live at Boston’s Fenway Park back in August. In a statement about the song, Kevin says, “To me, it’s evocative of going through the motions with life and continuously trying to improve yourself. Life keeps changing, and the song is a positive reinforcement of that idea.”
Kevin sings in the song, “This coffee’s cold like these same old conversations/So I keep on changing, oh, I keep on changing/Maybe I’m jaded/Maybe I’m chasing the highs to escape/So I keep changing.”
“It says, ‘Don’t let things get stale,’ which is embodied in the ‘coffee’s cold’ line,” Kevin notes in his statement. “You need to know when to move onto the next thing and you also need to keep moving no matter what the situation or relationship is.”
He adds on Instagram, “My first solo single is finally here. Words can’t describe how much this song means to me. Being able to share it with you all now has never felt more right. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped bring this song to life and to all of you for listening, supporting, and being part of this journey with me.”
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger visits The Mick Jagger Centre at Dartford Grammar School in Kent, England. (Photo By Pete Bresser)
Mick Jagger just went back to school.
The Rolling Stones frontman paid a visit to The Mick Jagger Centre at Dartford Grammar School in Kent, England, on Wednesday as part of the Centre’s 25th anniversary celebration. Jagger went to Dartford Grammar before going on to study at the London School of Economics.
“It was a great privilege for me to visit my old school today and meet some of the inspiring young students,” Jagger wrote on Instagram alongside pictures and video of the visit. “I really enjoyed getting to hear them sing and play!”
The school’s headmaster Julian Metcalf called Jagger’s visit “very special and icing on the cake.”
Jagger has been funding a project, called Red Rooster, since 2003 that covers weekly music tuition for over 1,200 local children. The students performed for him during his visit, and video posted to Instagram shows that he joined in on a performance of The Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Jagger also got a chance to talk to the students and was given a tour of the school. He was even presented a trophy to the Dartford Grammar basketball team.
Yungblud, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry perform during a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for MTV)
Aerosmith and Yungblud are set to release their collaborative EP, One More Time, on Friday. They recently released an acoustic take on its first single, “My Only Angel,” featuring actor and comedian Steve Martin, who plays banjo on the track.
The Only Murders in the Building star tells ABC Audio that the invite to appear on the song came “out of the blue.” He notes that he heard from his agent that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler was trying to reach him, so Martin told his agent to give him his number.
“(Tyler) sent me a little sample of it. And the first thing I think of is, you know, can I even play this? I’ve never played rock ‘n’ roll like that,” Martin says. “So I send him a sample of like, ‘Is this what you mean?’ And then they used it.”
And while he may have been concerned about his contribution, Martin seems pretty happy with the final product.
“I thought it was really good,” he says. “Really, it was so catchy and rock ‘n’ roll and his voice is extraordinary.” He adds, “I was impressed with myself.”
Martin’s version of the song doesn’t actually appear on the EP, but it’s currently available to stream on YouTube.
The five-song One More Time is the first new music from Aerosmith since their last studio album, 2012’s Music From Another Dimension. Prior to the EP announcement, Yungblud performed with Tyler and Joe Perry during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7 for a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.
A two-day pop-up celebrating One More Time is taking place Friday and Saturday at Complex LA, featuring exclusive merch and more.
