FIFA World Cup™ Final Halftime Show (Courtesy Global Citizen)
Even if you don’t care about soccer, you might want to tune into the FIFA World Cup™ Final on Sunday to watch the star-studded halftime show.
The 11-minute show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will feature performances by Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira, BTS, Burna Boy, Coldplay alongside a children’s chorus, the Muppets and members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
You can watch it all go down at 3:45 p.m. ET on Fox Sports and Telemundo. Check your local listings for broadcast and streaming details.
The performance, predicted to be the most-watched halftime show of all time, supports the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which works to expand access to education and soccer for kids globally. A dollar from every ticket sold to the FIFA World Cup 2026™ matches will be donated to the fund.
If luck is on your side, you could spend One Night Only with Jordan Davis and Nate Smith.
That’s the name of Busch Light’s intimate win-your-way-in concert series, which takes place later this year in Ohio and Utah. You can’t buy tickets, and entering online is the only way to see the intimate, invitation-only free shows.
Musician Bob Dylan Performs onstage during the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas at Sony Pictures on June 11, 2009 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI)
Bob Dylan doesn’t appear to be taking a break from the road anytime soon.
The 85-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced a set of fall tour dates that will take him to Europe and the U.K.
The European leg of the tour begins Oct. 17 in Oslo, Norway, and includes stops in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy before wrapping Nov. 22 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The tour then hits the U.K. starting Nov. 25 in Bournemouth, England, and wraps with five nights at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Dec. 1-8.
Tickets for all shows go on sale July 22.
Dylan’s last tour of Europe and the U.K. took place in fall 2025.
Dylan is currently on a North American tour that hits Boston on Thursday. The tour wraps Aug. 1 in Nashville. A complete list of dates can be found at BobDylan.com.
Musician Bob Dylan Performs onstage during the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas at Sony Pictures on June 11, 2009 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI)
Bob Dylan doesn’t appear to be taking a break from the road anytime soon.
The 85-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced a set of fall tour dates that will take him to Europe and the U.K.
The European leg of the tour begins Oct. 17 in Oslo, Norway, and includes stops in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy before wrapping Nov. 22 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The tour then hits the U.K. starting Nov. 25 in Bournemouth, England, and wraps with five nights at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Dec. 1-8.
Tickets for all shows go on sale July 22.
Dylan’s last tour of Europe and the U.K. took place in fall 2025.
Dylan is currently on a North American tour that hits Boston on Thursday. The tour wraps Aug. 1 in Nashville. A complete list of dates can be found at BobDylan.com.
Brandy Norwood and Rita Ora attend the premiere of Disney Channel Original Movie ‘Descendants: Wicked Wonderland’ on July 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Brandy and Rita Ora are returning to the world of Descendants.
The actresses reprise their roles as Cinderella and the Queen of Hearts in Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, the next chapter following the success of Descendants: The Rise of Red.
Speaking with ABC News entertainment contributor Kelley Carter in an interview aired on Good Morning America Thursday, the stars shared how the new film reimagines familiar Disney characters while bringing their own friendship to the screen.
Ora said she was drawn to the complexity of playing her role.
“I did love the idea of the Queen of Hearts, you never really know if she’s pretending or if it’s real,” Ora said. “You’ve got obviously Cinderella, who is always that anchor within the movies.”
Meanwhile, Brandy added, “I did have my villain pants on … that’s new for Cinderella.”
The pair also teased a new duet, which they said is one of the moments they’re most excited for fans to see.
“It was magical. The song is called ‘The Girl I Used to Be.’ I think people are gonna love it,” Brandy said.
Ora agreed, saying, “It was my dream to be not only on a song with her, but also just in anything with her because I’ve been looking up to her since I can remember.”
Their collaboration was years in the making.
“What people don’t really know is that I met Rita when she got her start,” Brandy said. “I saw this beautiful light in her then and I see it now. And when we got a chance to do this movie together, I mean, our chemistry was just unmatched.”
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland premieres Wednesday on Disney Channel and begins streaming Friday on Disney+.
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Billy Joel played the first of two nights at New York’s historic Shea Stadium, the venue’s final concerts before its demolition.
Held at the home of the New York Mets, the show saw Joel welcoming several guests, including Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, Steven Tyler, Roger Daltrey and Paul McCartney. During the second concert, on July 18, McCartney was driven to the stage by the same groundskeeper who drove The Beatles onto the field when they played Shea Stadium in 1965.
Demolition on the venue began in October 2008.
A documentary of the shows, The Last Play at Shea, premiered in 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival and later played at Citi Field, the stadium that replaced Shea. A CD and DVD of the shows were released in March 2011.
Ghost has announced a new concert film called 2 Big to Rig.
The movie was filmed during the Swedish metal outfit’s two sold-out shows in Mexico City during their Skeletour world tour. It’ll be released in cinemas and IMAX worldwide on Aug. 26.
2 Big to Rig marks Ghost’s second theatrical concert film, following 2024’s Rite Here Rite Now. While Rite Here Rite Now included a narrative story interwoven between the concert footage, a press release says 2 Big to Rig “focuses exclusively on the Ghost live ritual.”
“From behind-the-scenes interludes showcasing the crew members that make the band’s theatrical vision into nightly reality to the only pro-shot footage of mesmerizing frontman Papa V Perpetua and his band of Nameless Ghouls on the entire phone-free tour, 2 Big to Rig is the definitive document of Ghost’s unforgettable Skeletour World Tour,” the release says.
Avril Lavigne performs onstage during Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits at Madison Square Garden on May 30, 2025 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Taylor Swift is evidently a big fan of Canadian female pop stars.
In a TikTok posted on Wednesday, ESPN sports commentator Pat McAfee, who attended Taylor’s wedding to Travis Kelce, discusses Avril Lavigne’s performance of “Sk8er Boi” at the event. He said the show was “awesome” and noted that she was far from the only performer.
McAfee said it was “really cool” that after each musician’s performance, “one would just call out the other and they would come up and then they would just do their [thing].” He added that Ice Spice, who appeared on Taylor’s song “Karma,” put on a show with “a lot of energy,” before saying, “Tate, same thing.” He was seemingly referring to Tate McRae, who Taylor has expressed her love for in the past.
Other artists who reportedly performed at the July 3 wedding bash at New York’s Madison Square Garden include Stevie Nicks and Paul McCartney.
After making an unannounced appearance on the NBC show Tuesday to play the TV debut of her new single, “Lost Boys,” Bridgers’ follow-up performance featured a stripped-down acoustic version of the track.
While Bridgers was backed by a band of children for the first Fallon set, she was accompanied by veteran musicians for the second performance.
The acoustic version also featured Bridgers quietly whispering the “one, two, three” part in the bridge, which is screamed on the original recording.
“Lost Boys” is the lead single off Bridgers’ upcoming third album, Lost Weekend, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2020’s Punisher. The record is due out Aug. 14.
Bridgers will launch a sold-out U.S. arena tour in September.
Scotty McCreery fans will be able to take a walk down memory lane when his greatest hits collection, titled 15, comes out on Friday.
The North Carolina native was only 17 when he won American Idol in 2011, and since then, he’s gone on to build his life in the public eye. He married longtime girlfriend Gabi Dugal in 2018, before welcoming Avery McCreery in October 2022 and his second son in September 2025.
But when Oliver McCreery joined the family, his big brother had big feelings about what his name should be. He was fighting for Bo-Berry McCreery, which happens to be the name of his favorite treat at Bojangles.
“Avery’s doing great, Ollie’s doing great,” Scotty says. “Bo-Berry comes out every now and then. But yeah, the Bo-Berry name is kind of starting to fade a little. But Avery is loving his little brother. I think he wants to just play tackle football with him all the time, so we have to tell him [to] be gentle.”
“But he’s a sweet kid,” he continues. “And the other day, he looked at Ollie. Ollie’s just sitting there, obviously. And he just goes up and says, ‘Ollie, I am so proud of you.’ And then he walks away — and I’m melting. He’s been a great big bro.”
15 boasts seven number ones: “Bottle Rockets,” “Five More Minutes,” “This Is It,” “In Between,” “You Time,” “Damn Strait” and “Cab in a Solo.”
It also includes Gabi’s favorite, the #2 “It Matters to Her”; Scotty’s first top 10, “See You Tonight”; plus four new recordings.
