The animated Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters topped the box office over the weekend, and now the soundtrack has officially made history on the Billboard Hot 100.
Four songs from the movie’s soundtrack are now sitting in the top 10, making it the first-ever soundtrack in the 67-year history of the chart to have four simultaneous top 10 songs. “Golden” by HUNTER/X is back at #1, and they’re also at #10 with “How It’s Done.” Meanwhile, Saja Boys‘ “Your Idol” is #4, while their song “Soda Pop” is #5.
Plus, it’s now the first soundtrack to have at least four top-10 hits since 1995’s Waiting to Exhale, which had five in all, but those weren’t all at the same time. The only other soundtracks that have ever had four top-10 hits are Saturday Night Fever,Grease and Purple Rain, but again, they weren’t simultaneous.
Tate McRae, Doja Cat and Post Malone are the latest additions to the MTV VMA performers lineup.
Posty’s tourmate Jelly Roll and Conan Gray will also be taking the stage when the 2025 VMAs air Sept. 7.
Conan, making his debut on the main stage, will perform “Vodka Cranberry” from his new album, Wishbone. Doja, who last performed in 2023, will give her new single “Jealous Type” its TV debut. Tate will make her debut on the VMA main stage, and is also up for four Moon Persons, including song of the year for “Sports Car” and best pop artist.
Posty, nominated for best collaboration this year, will perform on the show for the first time since 2018. Jelly will be performing for the second straight year; he was part of the 2024 show open with Eminem. Jelly’s up for four Moon Persons, including best alternative, best country and best hip hop.
Those artists will join previously announced performers Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren, sombr, Ricky Martin, Busta Rhymes and J Balvin.
Lady Gaga is the leading nominee with 12 nods, thanks to her visuals for her Bruno Mars collaboration “Die With a Smile” and her own “Abracadabra.” Fan voting is now open in 19 categories at vote.mtv.com.
LL COOL J will host the VMAs, which will air live coast-to-coast Sept. 7 on CBS and MTV at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. It will also stream on Paramount+.
Jon Bon Jovi and Matthew McConaughey at National Conference for Service and Volunteering, June, 2009 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images For Entertainment Industry Foundation)
Matthew McConaughey is launching a book tour in September, and he’s taking some big-name musicians along for the ride.
To promote the book, Poems & Prayers, the actor is visiting a variety of cities, and for select stops he’ll have a special guest with him. He’ll appear at King’s Theatre in Brooklyn on Sept. 16, where he’ll be joined by Jon Bon Jovi. He’ll appear at the Saban Theater in LA on Sept. 20 with special guestJohn Mayer.
According to the event website, McConaughey’s Poems & Prayers Revival Tour will “blend heartfelt dialogue, spoken word performances, music, and unexpected moments of connection.” In addition, there will be “intimate, spontaneous and honest conversation” between the actor and his special guest, designed to “put a mirror to our souls to see if we recognize each other again.”
McConaughey’s other guests include Zach Bryan, Jon Batiste and Lukas Nelson. Poems & Prayers, due Sept. 16, is described as “an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.”
Keith Urban‘s 2024 album, HIGH, starts with a short tidbit titled “Blue Sky,” which finds the Aussie superstar seeming to wake up and utter the phrase, “Just give me some blue sky, please.”
From there, the record launches into his latest hit, “Straight Line,” chosen very intentionally as the first song.
“It’s really because I love the spirit, I love the energy, the atmosphere, just the joy, the positivity of it,” he says. “And I think it’s the closest thing on the record to what it hopefully feels like coming to see us play live, that feeling of just forgetting about everything outside of the venue for two hours and losing yourself in the music and getting to another place, a higher place where everything feels good and there’s no worries, no cares.”
Appropriately, there’s also a new concert version of “Straight Line” from Keith’s current High and Alive World Tour on his upcoming live album.
Keith continues winding down his run of shows Down Under with a concert in Melbourne on Tuesday before he plays his last show Thursday in Adelaide. He picks back up Sept. 10 by heading to Canada.
Jason Bonham performs at Budweiser Stage on July 31, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)
Jason Bonham recently added more dates to his tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and he’s bound to have fans of all ages coming out to his shows.
The rocker tells ABC Audio he’s seen “three generations of people” at his concerts, some of whom have personal connections to the original band.
“I had people that were in line … in 1980 on the day before my dad passed away,” he says, referring to his late father, Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. “They’ll come and see me and they’re in tears.”
Jason was behind the drum kit the last time the surviving members of Led Zeppelin — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — played together in December 2007 at London’s O2 Arena for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. Jason says the show was a fitting end for the iconic rockers.
“They walked away with that knowing of, ‘It’s not that we can’t do it anymore, it’s just that we choose not to,’” he says. “And they left it in such a high standard.”
While Zeppelin fans would love to see them reunite again one day, Jason doesn’t expect that will happen. But he says his predictions aren’t always right.
“If you’d have asked me in 2007, in January, would it have happened again, I’d have said no then. And then later that year, I ended up playing drums with them,” he says. “So whenever I’ve said maybe, it never happened. Whenever I’ve said no, it always happened.”
Bonham’s An Evening with JBLZE Celebrating 50 Years of Physical Graffiti hits Jacksonville, Oregon, on Tuesday, with shows booked until Nov. 26 in Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at JasonBonham.net.
Brent Smith and Zach Myers of Shinedown perform at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Timothy Norris/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers will perform together for an upcoming benefit concert.
The show takes place Nov. 20 at the Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and will raise money for the cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope.
In addition to performing together, Smith and Myers release music as a duo. They put out two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, in 2020, featuring a mix of covers and originals.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Visit Shinedown.com for more info.
Shinedown is currently on a U.S. tour. They’ve released three new songs in 2025: “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five” and “Killing Fields.”
Tico Torres attends the UK Premiere of ‘Thank You and Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’ on April 17, 2024 in London, England. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Disney+
Tommy used to work on the docks, but Tico Torres is still drumming in Bon Jovi.
Torres has taken to Bon Jovi’s Instagram to deny apparent reports that claimed he’d retired from the “Livin’ on a Prayer” band.
“I’m here to dispel a lot of rumors that I’ve read,” Torres says. “People [are] calling me up, saying, ‘Did you retire from music, from the band?'”
“Well, no,” the drummer continues. “I have no idea how this stuff starts. Musicians don’t retire, especially me.”
Torres adds, “Me and the boys, Johnny [Jon Bon Jovi] and everybody, we’re still making music, [we’re] the best we’ve ever been.”
Bon Jovi writes in the post’s caption, “Heard it here first.”
Torres is one of the three remaining original members still in Bon Jovi, alongside Jon and keyboardist David Bryan. The band put out their latest album, Forever, in 2024.
Pink has taken to Instagram to correct “fake stories about me” that have been circulating online. “I do not have a song coming out called ‘Gorilla,'” she says. “I mean, I wish I did. I’m so curious.” She goes on to say, “I’m not singing for football games … it’s not happening. These are fake stories. I’m hearing from my mom, my stepmom, [my husband] Carey just asked me if this is true.” She said all she’s doing is “getting ready for back to school.” She wrote in the caption, “If you don’t hear it from me and my big mouth it ain’t true.”
A trailer has dropped for 100 Nights of Hero, one of the many new films that feature an appearance by Charli XCX. She’s in the trailer for about one second, along with co-stars Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin and Nicholas Galitzine. Charli wrote on Instagram, “i’m in a film called 100 nights of hero. this is the teaser <3 very enchanted to be a part of this. directed by julia jackman. in theatres dec 5.”
Justin Bieber was the supportive husband on Instagram, putting up a post showing wife Hailey Bieber posing for a publication called Byrdie. “Love this picture of you baby gurrllll,” he captioned it. But he drew criticism for his next post: He shared a photo of himself shirtless and captioned it, “thirstrap fa u h***.” The comments were later turned off.
Conan Gray has scored his highest debut on the Billboard 200 and the biggest sales week of his career with his new release, Wishbone. It debuted at #1 on Billboard‘s Album Sales chart with first-week sales of 53,000 copies and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. His Wishbone Pajama Show tour begins Sept. 11.
Cardi B attends Paris Fashion Week, July, 2025 (Marc Piasecki/WireImage)
Cardi B says her split from husband Offset feels like a “reset” — but not in a good way.
Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Cardi says being single at this point in her life feels like being a high school graduate who suddenly has to be “in the real world.” She notes, “I feel like I’m getting that reset again, but it doesn’t feel as good because I’m in my 30s and I shouldn’t be having a reset at my 30s.”
“Sometimes I feel like I’m in my 20s and I don’t really want to feel like I’m in my 20s. I want to feel like I’m in my grown 30s ’cause I got three kids,” she says.
Cardi also shares, “Going through a divorce is very, very tough because you marry somebody and the person that you divorcing is not that person that you married at all. It’s like, you really ask yourself, like, ‘Who the f*** did I marry?’ Like, there is no love there. There is no love.”
“I get along with all my exes. Even if we don’t talk, we never ended it on some nasty, nasty stuff,” she continues. “So I never wished them bad. I don’t wish them bad or nothing like that. [But] it has gotten to the point [here] that it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I feel like I really hate you. I think I hate you.’ And I never wanted that.”
Cardi notes, “We should be able to co-parent. We should be able to have a conversation, we should be able to ask each other advice and just become friends, but it’s not like that. I’m going through something that’s, like, ‘Wow, this is very dark.'”
While Cardi filed for divorce in July 2024, their divorce is not yet final.
112 perform in Atlanta, George in February, 2024 ( Prince Williams/WireImage)
Nineties group 112 will be celebrating 30 years of music with their Room 112 Tour, which will begin this winter and stretch into 2026.
The tour, featuring support from girl group Total and singer/songwriter/producer Case, will launch Nov. 5 in Akron, Ohio, and is set to wrap up Feb. 6 in Atlanta, Georgia. Presale tickets are available starting Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time with the password “Room112.” The general sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.com.
The Grammy-winning group was featured on the iconic hit “I’ll Be Missing You” with Puff Daddy and Faith Evans. Their other hits include “Cupid,” “Peaches & Cream,” “It’s Over Now” and “Only You.”
