Jason Aldean is sticking around at the top, as “Don’t Tell on Me” notches a second week at #1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay ranking.
It’s his first multiweek #1 since “Trouble with a Heartbreak” stayed at the top for three weeks in May 2022. Overall, it’s his 13th chart-topper to stay for two weeks or more.
The Georgia native now has 27 number ones, giving him the fourth most trips to the pinnacle in the chart’s history. He’d previously been tied with Luke Bryan, Alan Jackson and George Strait for the honor.
Kenny Chesney has the most with 33, while Blake Shelton’s 30 puts him at #2. Tim McGraw’s at #3 with 29 chart-toppers.
Overall, this is Jason’s 50th Country Airplay entry.
Crowds wait outside Yankee Stadium, July 12, 2026, after large groups of people stormed the gates of a Jay-Z concert, prompting the New York Police Department to lock down the venue. (WABC)
A Jay-Z concert at Yankee Stadium erupted in chaos Sunday night after large groups of people rushed the gates. The New York Police Department placed the venue on lockdown, which delayed the show for hours.
The security breach occurred before the final concert of Jay-Z’s three-night stand at the iconic baseball stadium in New York’s Bronx borough, authorities said.
Disorder broke out when large groups of people pushed and shoved their way through lines of fans waiting to get in and charged through security checkpoints and entrances, a law enforcement source told ABC New York station WABC.
In a joint statement released on Monday morning, concert promoter Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium said “hundreds of individuals in large groups” who did not have tickets to the performance “stormed over peaceful ticket holders, and in some cases, breached security.”
“As a result, gates at all entrances of the Stadium were closed for an extended period of time,” the joint statement said. “With the thoughtful guidance of the NYPD, gates were reopened cautiously and carefully to ensure the safety of those inside and outside.”
The concert was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET, but thousands of fans waiting outside weren’t allowed to enter Yankee Stadium until around 10 p.m. ET, under tight security and with police officers patrolling the entrances.
Jay-Z didn’t take the stage until around 12:20 a.m. ET Monday, WABC reported.
According to numerous videos posted by fans from inside the stadium, the Brooklyn-born rapper apologized to the crowd for the delay.
“Outside, it’s 10,000 people outside. I don’t want to start music and people be trampled,” Jay-Z told the audience, the online videos show. “I’m really sorry for the inconvenience but I had to be sure everybody is OK.”
The concert didn’t end until around 3 a.m. ET.
The show included surprise guest performers including Rihanna, Usher, Fat Joe, Jeezy, Pusha T, Pharrell, Jadakiss and Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé.
The NYPD did not announce any arrests connected to the security breach.
Jennifer Finch of L7 performs onstage at Hollywood Palladium on January 04, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Polk/Getty Images for The Art of Elysium)
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of brain cancer, the band announced Monday.
“Following multiple surgeries and serious complications, Jennifer now requires extensive medical care, rehabilitation and professional in-home support,” L7 writes in an Instagram post. “Friends, family and L7 have launched a GoFundMe to help cover these urgent expenses and allow her to remain safely at home with the care, dignity and support she needs.”
L7 announced in May that Finch, 59, would not be joining the band on their upcoming Last Hurrah farewell tour launching in October, citing unspecified health concerns at the time.
“The Last Hurrah Tour was planned along with Jennifer when all four of us were in good health and spirits,” L7 now says. “Although she will not be able to join us for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked us to continue with the tour as planned. We will honor her request while making her care and well-being our immediate priority.”
“Jennifer is part of our family,” the post concludes. “We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.”
Brandy performs onstage during 2026 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture® Presented By Coca-Cola® at Caesars Superdome on July 04, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images for ESSENCE)
Brandy is urging her fans to be “gentler with one another” after being a victim of body-shaming.
Taking to Instagram Saturday, she posted a message suggesting that people may be looking for beauty in the wrong places.
The post comes on the heels of people commenting and speculating about her well-being and health following her visit to McComb, Mississippi, where she was recently honored.
“But life was never meant to leave us untouched. It shapes us. It humbles us. It refines us,” the singer wrote. “Every season leaves its signature upon us. And maybe that’s where beauty has been all along. Not in escaping change, but in becoming through it.”
“I’ve learned that it takes only a moment to form an opinion about someone’s appearance, and a lifetime to understand what they’ve lived through,” she continued. “So may we become gentler with one another. Not because everyone is fragile, but because everyone is carrying a story we cannot see.”
Brandy concluded by offering advice on how people can approach situations like these with greater compassion and empathy.
“Before you speak about someone’s body, before you speak about someone’s face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone’s child. Someone’s friend. Someone’s dream. Someone’s life. A soul. And souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces,” she wrote.
Tico Torres, John Shanks, Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Everett Bradley and Phil X attend the Forever Tour Kick Off – New York at Madison Square Garden on July 07, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Bon Jovi)
Bon Jovi broke out two classic ballads on the third night of their nine-show Forever Tour stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
According to setlist.fm, halfway into the concert the New Jersey rockers performed the Keep the Faith track “Bed of Roses,” marking the tour debut for the song. It is also the first time they performed the track live since 2019.
But that wasn’t the only tour debut of the night. For the final song of the evening, the band performed the Cross Roads ballad “Always,” a song they also haven’t performed since 2019.
The rest of the 22-song set was filled with plenty of Bon Jovi classics, including “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “I’ll Be There for You,” “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Bad Medicine.”
Meanwhile, night two of the Forever Tour on Thursday had one very special A-list guest in the audience. The Beatles’ Paul McCartney took in the show and later posed with the band for a photo; the band posted the photo with the caption, “Did this really happen??? Yes, it did.”
Bon Jovi returns to MSG on Tuesday, with the run concluding June 26. They then head to the U.K. for shows in Scotland, Dublin and London. A complete list of dates can be found at BonJovi.com.
Mick Jagger attends the inaugural British Museum Ball at The British Museum on October 18, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Lia Toby/Getty Images)
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger is reflecting on getting older in a new interview with The New York Times.
When asked about how it feels to be getting older, the 82-year-old rock legend simply replied, “there’s nothing good about it.”
When the interviewer suggested that wisdom is a benefit of aging, Jagger shot that down.
“I forgot all my wisdom. I might have had a couple of pearls drop, but I’ve already forgotten what they are,” he said with a laugh. “So, no, it’s not particularly pleasant.”
“You can’t do things as quickly as you want to,” he continued. “Physically you’ve got to be more careful. You know, when you’re playing football, they put you in goal a lot. I’m not very good at it!”
Jagger also touched upon the future of The Stones on the road, saying that he hopes another world-spanning tour will happen. “I’m up for doing it,” he said.
Mick added that he doesn’t think he’ll ever know when he’s played his last Stones show.
“Maybe I have! I could get run over by a bus outside of my house. You never really know, do you?” he explained. “You don’t know what’s going to happen to you in life. But I personally hope to be able to tour. I like going places. I like meeting people. I like to go to weird countries to do shows.”
Mick’s interview coincides with the release of The Rolling Stones’ new album, Foreign Tongues, which is out now. The band released visualizer videos for each track, shot in different locations around the world. The videos are now available on The Stones’ YouTube channel.
‘Marrow Deep’ album artwork. (Loma Vista Recordings; Art by Paul Romano @workhardened)
Mastodon has announced a new album called Marrow Deep.
The ninth studio effort from the Atlanta metallers is due out Aug. 28. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Hushed and Grim.
Marrow Deep also marks Mastodon’s first without guitarist and founding member Brent Hinds, who parted ways with the band in March 2025. Hinds died just five months later in August 2025 in a motorcycle accident.
Mastodon has since recruited new guitarist Nick Johnston.
“[Guitarist] Bill [Kelliher], [drummer/vocalist] Brann [Dailor], and myself are thrilled that we still have the opportunity to do this, and we’ve got other members who are just over the moon to be in the band with us,” says bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders in a statement. “That’s a magical feeling that makes us keep wanting to go to band practice. It’s reminiscent of the very beginning of our band, where all members are hungry, we’re united, and excited to get to work. And we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to do this record.”
Marrow Deep includes the previously released song “Your Ghost Again,” which pays tribute to Hinds. A second track, called “Snakes for Dinner,” is out now, and features Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
Mastodon will launch a U.S. tour in support of Marrow Deep in September.
The star-studded Live Aid charity concerts were held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
Organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the concerts featured performances by Queen, David Bowie, U2, Sting, The Who, Elton John, Paul McCartney and many others in London, while the Philadelphia lineup included Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Mick Jagger and a Led Zeppelin reunion.
Phil Collins performed at both venues, flying aboard the Concorde from London to Philadelphia, and traveling to and from each stadium by helicopter.
Together, the concerts raised money for African famine relief. They were broadcast around the world to an estimated audience of more than 1 billion people across 150 nations.
Madonna has achieved her 10th #1 album on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.
Confessions II debuts atop the tally, giving the Queen of Pop her biggest streaming week ever for an album and her largest pure album sales week in more than a decade, according to Billboard.
The album, featuring the Sabrina Carpenter collab “Bring Your Love,” is Madonna’s first #1 in the 2020s. It also makes her the first act with a #1 in the 2020s to have also claimed the #1 spot in three other decades. She’s had three #1 albums in the 1980s, four in the 2000s and two in the 2010s.
Confessions II is the long-awaited sequel to Madonna’s 2005 album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, which also reached #1 on the chart.
Last week, Confessions II topped the U.K. Official Albums Chart, making it her 13th U.K. chart-topper.
