Billy Joel hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with River of Dreams, his 12th studio album and his final pop/rock record.
The album, with a cover painted by Joel’s then-wife Christie Brinkley, was Billy’s fourth #1 and spent three weeks on top of the chart.
The album’s title track went on to become a top-five hit, Joel’s last on the Billboard Hot 100. The record also featured “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel),” which he wrote as a tribute to his daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Offset performs onstage during day 5 at Summerfest 2025 at Henry Maier Festival Park on June 27, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Joshua Applegate/Getty Images)
Once his divorce with Cardi B is finalized, don’t expect to see Offset walking down the aisle again.
The rapper tells the Full Send Podcasthe’s done with marriage. “It’s not for me,” he said. “I’ve done it, had three kids with it. It’s like a mission that’s been complete.”
He also offered some words of advice for anyone considering getting hitched. “I’ll tell you don’t get married,” Offset said. “I would say unless you’re cool with changing your life. [If] you got a partner, that’s different. Especially when it’s written and it’s a real thing.”
Offset added, “Depends on how we move, like our careers and s***, it’s just hard. … I wouldn’t tell you to get married while you moving. Wait till you get that money.”
Offset’s third studio album, Kiari, came out Aug. 22. He addresses his split with Cardi on the track “Move On.”
“Hurt People Hurt People” single artwork. (Alchemy Recordings)
Mudvayne has released a new song called “Hurt People Hurt People,” marking the reunited band’s first fresh material in 16 years.
“‘Hurt People Hurt People’ has probably been around since the beginning of man,” says frontman Chad Gray. “Certainly longer than the phrase ever existed. The endless cycle of projecting our pain onto others.”
“I think I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to break the cycle,” he continues. “We create our own suffering, our own hurt. It’s time for us to create self-love and let go of the pain. It was never ours to begin with.”
You can watch the lyric video for “Hurt People Hurt People” on YouTube.
“Hurt People Hurt People” follows Mudvayne’s last album, 2009’s self-titled effort. The group went on hiatus in 2010 before reuniting in 2021.
Mudvayne will launch a U.S. tour in September celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 2000 debut album, L.D. 50. Static-X is also on the bill.
Arianators everywhere are saying ‘thank u’ to their queen: After a not-so-subtle tease on Instagram, Ariana Grande announced on Thursday her first tour in six years.
The Eternal Sunshine Tour will visit North America and the U.K. in the summer of 2026, and will see the Oscar-nominated superstar playing multiple nights in every city. Four-night runs in both LA and Brooklyn are on the agenda, as is a five-night residency at London’s O2 Arena.
The trek gets rolling June 6, 2026, in Oakland, California, and is set to wrap up Aug. 23, 2026, in London. In between, Ari will play Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Montreal and Sunrise, Florida, in addition to the previously mentioned cities.
The tour, in support of Ariana’s album Eternal Sunshine and the expanded version, Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead, marks the first time Ari will return to the stage in a major way since her Sweetener Tour, which saw her playing to more than 1.3 million fans across 100 shows.
To participate in the presale, which starts Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. local time, sign up by Sept. 7 at 2 p.m. ET at livemu.sc/arianagrande. Anyone who signs up can join the sale, since access is tied to your Ticketmaster account. The remaining tickets will go up for sale Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. local time at ArianaGrande.com.
VIP packages will also be available via vipnation.com.
A lot has happened since Ariana’s Sweetener tour ended in 2019, including scoring seven #1 hits, releasing her album Positions, getting married and then divorced from Dalton Gomez, starting a new relationship with Ethan Slater, receiving critical acclaim for Wicked and being cast in the new film Focker-In-Law.
Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards (Todd Williamson/CBS via Getty Images)
Because Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged two weeks ago, it’s quite possible that Selena Gomez has been sitting on the news all this time. But she’s now publicly acknowledged her friend’s major life change on her Instagram Story.
Selena reposted Taylor and Travis’ announcement, soundtracked to the classic hit by Queen “You’re My Best Friend.” She captioned it, “When bestie gets engaged.” She followed that up by reposting a fan-made collage of side-by-side photos of her own engagement to Benny Blanco and one of the Taylor and Travis engagement photos, along with a screengrab of a tweet that Taylor sent to Selena on April 13, 2009.
“Real love still happens sometimes,” she wrote to Selena. “It’s not just something we make up when we’re [sic] nine. I have to believe that. You do too.” The caption was, “16 years later.”
Selena and Benny have not yet announced a wedding date, though no doubt the two BFFs will coordinate so they don’t step on each other’s dates.
Joss Ross’ “Hate How You Look” (MCA/Mercury Nashville/Universal Music Canada/CORE Records)
In July, Ontario native Josh Ross landed his first #1 on the U.S. charts with “Single Again.” Now, he’s busy prepping his debut album, Later Tonight, which lands on Sept. 19.
Expect to hear classic and contemporary country influences on the album, thanks to a family friend.
“I grew up a huge Steve Earle fan,” Josh reveals. “[He] was kinda the one that originally got me into country music through somebody I would call my uncle, he’s one of my dad’s close friends.”
“And then yeah, I listened to a lot of like Alan Jackson, George Strait,” he continues. “And then that was in the era of Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett. Those were like the new artists that I was really excited about when I was really getting into country music.”
“Single Again” made Josh the first Canadian male singer to top the U.S. country chart in nearly 30 years. His follow-up radio single is the new track “Hate How You Look.”
Cover of Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Once Upon A Time In California’/(Demon Music)
Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go‘s covers some of her favorite songs from her youth in her new album, Once Upon a Time in California, out Friday. The album features her takes on hits by artists ranging from Jim Croce, The Youngbloods and The Carpenters to The Hollies, Three Dog Night and The Association. Belinda tells ABC Audio the project has been a long time coming.
“I started thinking about it [in 2017],” she says. “I had a list of about 100 songs. And then of course the pandemic happened, and that ate up about two or three years. And then I was living in Thailand at the time, so I was commuting. And so it was hard to be consistent with the work.” All told, she says, the album took eight years.
Despite its title, not all the artists she covered on the album are from California. The title leans more into the Golden State as a concept. “I have … European friends that have this idea of California, this romance about it,” she says. “And it probably never really even existed, really.”
When it came to narrowing down the songs for the project, Belinda explains, “It had to work with my voice first. … And then of course, taking the song and keeping the integrity of a song, but changing it a little bit and making it my own.”
She notes that all the songs were ones that she would “hear quite a bit” on the radio while growing up in California.
“Music was a big part of the culture and radio was a part of the culture,” she says. “So it was every day laying in front of the speakers and singing along. And they were the songs that inspired me to want to be a singer.”
Here’s the track list, along with the artist who originally recorded the song: “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (Dionne Warwick) “If You Could Read My Mind” (Gordon Lightfoot) “One” (Three Dog Night) “Never My Love” (The Association) “The Air That I Breathe” (The Hollies) “Time In a Bottle” (Jim Croce) “Superstar” (The Carpenters) “Everybody’s Talkin'” (Harry Nilsson) “Get Together” (The Youngbloods) “Reflections of My Life” (Marmalade)
Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine-Kills Performs at I-Days Festival at Ippodromo La Maura on May 29, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images)
Ice Nine Kills‘ Silver Scream Con is headed across the pond.
A new edition of the band’s annual celebration of the horror films that inspire them will take place in London Dec. 13-14. Guests include INK frontman Spencer Charnas and David Howard Thornton, who plays the villain Art the Clown in the Terrifier movies.
The U.S. edition of Silver Scream Con takes place Sept. 12-14 in Worcester, Massachusetts. It will include the closing show of INK’s ongoing Hell of a Summer tour.
Ice Nine Kills released their latest single, the Matrix-inspired “The Great Unknown,” in July.
Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard at 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. (Disney/Michael J. Le Brecht II)
The Alabama Shakes reunion will soon officially include new music.
The “Hold On” outfit is set to release a song called “Another Life” on Friday. It will mark the first fresh material from Brittany Howard and company in 10 years.
Alabama Shakes went on hiatus in 2018, three years after the release of their last album, 2015’s Sound & Color. They played a surprise reunion show at the end of 2024 before announcing a full comeback tour for 2025.
While Alabama Shakes were inactive, Howard launched a solo career and has put out two albums.
“DeGrassi High” cast members (L-R) Cassie Steele, Shane Kippel, Aubrey Graham (Drake), and Shenae Grimes pose for a photo backstage during MTV’s Total Request Live on October 2, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images)
Drake is featured in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary Degrassi: Whatever It Takes, which takes a deep dive into the popular Canadian teen franchise.
The doc will have its world premiere on Sept. 13 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It features several former stars of the high school-set show, including the rapper, who played Jimmy Brooks in Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2001 to 2008.
“I didn’t have a great time in high school. I just didn’t really fit in,” Drake says at the beginning of the trailer. “Then one day, my mom called me and told me, ‘You got the role.’ And I just grabbed my bag and left. And man, what a wild journey that started.”
Later Drake talks about one of his on-screen kisses, noting, “She had to be one of my first kisses, for sure. Damn, I never thought about it like that.”
The Degrassi franchise kicked off with the children’s series Kids of Degrassi Street, which launched in 1979. Later offshoots focused on teenagers, with Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, Degrassi: The Next Generation and finally Netflix’s Degrassi: Next Class, which ran from 2016 to 2017.
