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If you still aren’t in the holiday mood, tune into ABC’s CMA Country Christmas Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT for a dose of tinsel, mistletoe and festive music.

Filmed earlier this year in Nashville, the 2025 installment of the annual special is hosted by Jordan Davis and Lauren Daigle. It features performances by Megan Moroney, Riley Green, Parker McCollum, Lady A, Little Big Town, legendary New Orleans outfit Preservation Hall Jazz Band, gospel icon BeBe Winans, and husband-and-wife rockers Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.

Among the performances you’ll see:
Jordan Davis and Little Big Town, “Go Tell It On The Mountain”

Lady A, “Wouldn’t Be Christmas,” “Angels (Glory to God)”

Parker McCollum, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

Megan Moroney, “All I Want for Christmas Is a Cowboy”

Little Big Town, “If We Make It Through December”

Lauren Daigle, “Jingle Bells/What Child Is This/Winter Wonderland” medley

The show will be available Wednesday on Hulu and Disney+.

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Lady Gaga is known for her elaborate stage productions, but they may never have happened if she hadn’t seen a performance by the Goo Goo Dolls when she was young.

The “Bad Romance” singer recently sat down with The Late Show host Stephen Colbert to answer his Colbert Questionnaire. She revealed that she was blown away by a certain aspect of her very first concert, which featured a performance by the “Iris” singers.

“They had snow and I was losing my mind,” Gaga said. “It was my first experience with, like, production in an arena. I was crying.” She added, “My mother was like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’”

Gaga also revealed during the questionnaire that her favorite smell is her fiancé Michael Polansky‘s neck, noting that he doesn’t wear cologne. Said Gaga, “I actually don’t like cologne. That’s my least favorite” smell.

Elsewhere Gaga shared that if she could only listen to one song for the rest of her life, she’d chose John Lennon‘s iconic tune “Imagine.”

Gaga, who was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, notes, “I grew up very close to the John Lennon memorial, so that has, like, a significance to me.” She was likely referring to Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, which features a mosaic memorial with the word “Imagine” in the center.

Finally, when asked to describe the rest of her life in five words, she offered, “It’s gonna be great, hopefully.”

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Drake was the most-streamed artist on Apple Music in 2025, the streaming platform has revealed. It shared the news on social media as part of the announcement for its year-end Replay lists.

Drake’s songs have also made a couple of Apple’s lists, including Top Songs of 2025: Global and Top 100 2025: Shazam.

“Nokia,” “Somebody Loves Me” with PartyNextDoor, “God’s Plan” and “Best I Ever Had” are included in the global top songs chart, which also featured SZA and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Luther,” SZA’s “Good Days,” Travis Scott‘s “goosebumps” and Mariah the Scientist‘s “Burning Blue.”

“Nokia” also appeared on the top 100 Shazam songs list, along with Drake and Lil Wayne‘s collaboration “She Will,” Doechii‘s “Anxiety,” and Kendrick’s “Not Like Us,” “Luther” and “Money Trees” featuring Jay Rock. Mary J. Blige‘s “Family Affair” is also on the list.

Some of Apple Music’s other Replay lists include Most-Read Lyrics, Top 100: Sing and the Shazam Global Radio Spins.

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Garbage has announced a concert in frontwoman Shirley Manson‘s hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland, marking what the band says will likely be their final headlining show in the city.

The performance takes place July 11 at Edinburgh Castle.

“To bring the band home to play the castle for what most likely will be our last headline show in Edinburgh is without doubt, one of the greatest honours of my professional career,” Manson writes in an Instagram post.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For more info, visit Garbage.com.

Garbage previously announced that their recent U.S. tour, which wrapped in November, would mark their “last North American headline tour.”

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Ellie Goulding debuted her baby bump on the red carpet for the 2025 Fashion Awards in London on Monday.

While the singer did not publicly comment on the pregnancy, a source told People she is expecting her second child. It will be her first child with boyfriend Beau Minniear; she’s already mom to a 4-year-old son, Arthur Jopling, with ex-husband Caspar Jopling.

Ellie wore a black crop top to show off the bump, paired with a long black trench, black shorts and heels.

Ellie and Caspar announced their separation in February 2024. She and Beau were first rumored to be spending time together in July, and were spotted out and about together in September.

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Sabrina Carpenter is speaking out after one of her songs was used in a video depicting ICE raids that was posted by the White House.

The clip, posted on the White House’s X account, is soundtracked to Sabrina’s song “Juno.” The singer responded to the video, saying she did not authorize use of her song.

“[T]his video is evil and disgusting,” she wrote. “Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

This isn’t the first time Donald Trump’s White House has used a pop song without permission from the artist. Kenny Loggins spoke out in October about the “unauthorized” use of his song “Danger Zone” in an AI- generated video shared by Trump on Truth Social.

And over the summer, British singer Jess Glynne decried the White House’s use of the Jet2holidays meme — which features her song “Hold My Hand” — to promote ICE raids.

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There are always a lot of musical performances on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, but this year’s edition of the ABC special is especially stacked.

The live special starts at 8 p.m. ET and will feature countdowns from New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and beyond. All in all, more than 85 songs will be performed before the show wraps up at 4 a.m. ET.

Country performers include Jordan Davis, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Tucker Wetmore and Russell Dickerson.

The lineup also includes Mariah Carey, Goo Goo Dolls, Jessie Murph, BigXthaPlug, 4 Non Blondes and Chappell Roan, with the Times Square performances yet to be announced.

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“All the Stars” have aligned for Kendrick Lamar and SZA, as they have topped several of Billboard‘s year-end lists. Their song “Luther,” off K. Dot’s GNX album, leads the year-end Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.

It entered both charts at #3 on Dec. 7, 2024. It made its way to the top position two weeks later, where it stayed for the remainder of the 2025 chart year (Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025).

Other tracks to make the top 10 Hot Rap Songs of the year include Kendrick’s “TV Off” featuring Lefty Gunplay, “Not Like Us,” “Squabble Up” and “Peekaboo” featuring AzChiki. Drake‘s “Nokia,” Doechii‘s “Anxiety” and Tyler, The Creator‘s “Sticky” with Lil Wayne, GloRilla and Sexyy Red were among those that also made the cut.

As for the songs that made the top 10 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, they include SZA and Kendrick’s “30 for 30,” Leon Thomas‘ “Mutt,” and The Weeknd and Playboi Carti‘s “Timeless,” which dominates the year-end Hot R&B Songs chart. 

That list also features Mariah the Scientist‘s “Burning Blue,” Summer Walker‘s “Heart of a Woman,” Chris Brown‘s “Residuals” and Kehlani‘s “Folded.”

SZA’s solo album SOS ends the year atop the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums year-end list and is followed by Kendrick’s GNX. His album good kid, m.A.A.d city is also on the list, as are Tyler’s Chromakopia, and PartyNextDoor and Drake‘s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.

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The 2025 edition of Bowl for Ronnie, the annual charity celebrity bowling tournament held in honor of the late rocker Ronnie James Dio, raised over $85,000 for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.

The event took place Nov. 13 at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California, and featured bowling teams made up of musicians, including Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt.

Other rockers who attended Bowl for Ronnie include Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach and his bandmate Frederico Delfino, Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson, George Thorogood and former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clark.

Dio died of stomach cancer in 2010 at age 67. The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has since raised over $2 million for cancer research and education.

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