Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States celebrates at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Tang Xinyu/VCG via Getty Images)
Alysa Liu isn’t a just an Olympic gold medalist, she’s a one-woman streaming booster.
Three songs that the figure skater used in her routines during the Winter Olympics have experienced huge bumps in their streams and downloads, according to Billboard.
During her short program, she skated to Laufey’s “Promise,” which has seen its streams go up 67%. According to Billboard, Laufey thanked Liu at a recent show for bringing the song “such new life.”
Liu’s free skate program saw her skating to the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park Suite,” and the track’s streams went up 976%. Sales, meanwhile, increased over 4,500%. Legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, personally thanked Liu.
And at the Olympic Gala on Feb. 21, Liu skated to the PinkPantheress/Zara Larsson remix of “Stateside,” and the song’s streams increased by 88%.
Meanwhile, thanks to Liu the “Stateside” remix has hit the #1 spot on the U.S. Spotify Charts.
Riley Green & Carly Pearce (Catherine Powell/Getty Images)
The mystery only seems to be deepening with Carly Pearce, as she adds a new player to her developing musical drama: Riley Green.
On Monday she cleared her Instagram feed, save for a sultry photo that seems to show her sitting on the edge of a bed, wearing a negligee and staring off into the distance.
Then on Wednesday she promised there would be more info on Thursday, attaching a short clip of a video monitor showing a man’s hand stroking her arm and leg as she holds a glass of red wine.
“Baby isn’t doing this, the definition of insane,” she sings in the background.
On Thursday, she shared another clip, revealing the masculine hand belongs to Riley.
The audio clip remains the same, though if you listen closely, it adds a harmony from Riley. A subsequent news release teases the upcoming track without offering much more clarity.
With Riley fans excited about a video that hints at being as steamy as “Worst Way,” Carly devotees are still waiting for news of her upcoming fifth studio album, featuring the lead single “Dream Come True” and the recently released “Church Girl.”
Foo Fighters will be among the headliners for the 2026 Rock in Rio festival in Brazil.
Dave Grohl and company will take the stage in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 4. For ticket info, visit RockinRio.com.
Rock in Rio takes place over Sept. 4-7 and Sept. 11-13. Other announced performers include Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me the Horizon, Elton John and Mumford & Sons.
Foo Fighters are currently playing a run of shows in the U.K., during which they debuted a new song called “Of All People.” It will appear on their upcoming album, Your Favorite Toy. They’ll be back stateside for a couple festivals in May before launching a full North American stadium tour in August.
Your Favorite Toy, the follow-up to 2023’s But Here We Are, is due out April 24.
David Anthony Burke, aka D4VD, attends the Ottolinger Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week, March 9, 2025, in Paris. (Antoine Flament/Getty Images)
The singer D4vd is the target of a grand jury investigation involving the death of a teenage girl whose decomposing body was discovered in the trunk of his Tesla last year, newly released court filings confirm.
The court filings involve the secretive Los Angeles County grand jury investigation. They were filed under seal in California but have come to light through the court system in Texas, where D4vd’s parents and brother live.
In petitions seeking to compel the family members to testify in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman stated that D4vd is the “target” of the grand jury investigation and alleged that the singer “may be involved in the death of 14-year-old victim Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who may have been a victim of foul play.”
ABC News has reached out to D4vd’s representatives and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for comment on the filings.
The 20-year-old singer is alleged to have possibly committed one count of murder, according to the filings, dated Jan. 15. Hochman stated that the victim’s “severely decomposed, dismembered body” was found in the front trunk of D4vd’s abandoned, impounded Tesla on Sept. 8, 2025, at a Hollywood tow yard. Her head and torso were found in one bag, and her arms and legs in another, according to Hochman’s filings.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Richman subsequently commanded D4vd’s parents and brother to appear before the grand jury earlier this month. The three fought the order and an appeals court in Texas denied their petitions for writ of habeas corpus on Feb. 9. An attorney for D4vd’s mother and father told ABC News that they then filed a writ in a higher court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which issued a stay on the lower court’s order commanding their appearance in California. That matter is still pending, according to the attorney.
Grand jury testimony happens in secret and it remains unclear where the Los Angeles County investigation stands. D4vd has not been arrested or charged in the matter.
The Los Angeles County medical examiner has not released the cause and manner of Celeste’s death.
The teen, from Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, was reported missing in 2024, investigators confirmed to ABC News.
According to a copy of the death certificate obtained by ABC News, her manner of death is pending investigation and her cause of death remains listed as “deferred.” Based on the date of birth listed, her remains were found a day after her 15th birthday.
She may have been dead for several weeks before her body was discovered, police said.
Officers responded to an impound lot “for a foul odor coming from a vehicle,” Los Angeles police said.
The Tesla had been at the impound lot for two days after being found abandoned on a Hollywood street, investigators said.
The towed vehicle was registered to David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd, according to a senior Los Angeles Police Department source.
Sources confirmed to ABC News in November that the singer was considered a suspect in the death investigation.
Backstreet Boys perform at Sphere Las Vegas (Rich Fury)
Backstreet Boys announced Tuesday that they’d added six more 2026 shows to their Into The Millennium residency at Sphere Las Vegas. And they haven’t even let a week go by before announcing that they’re expanding the residency yet again.
On Wednesday, the group announced three additional shows — Aug. 13, 14 and 15. Presales are underway and the general sale begins Friday at 1 p.m. ET.
The group will perform Aug. 20, 21 and 22, which is also the birthday weekend of Backstreet’s Howie Dorough. Sharing the news on Instagram, the group noted that these dates will mark “over 50 shows at Sphere,” adding, “WOW, we can’t thank you enough for all your love and support.”
For those new shows announced Thursday, the Backstreet Fan Club presale starts Thursday at 12 p.m. PT. A Ticketmaster presale starts Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, and all tickets go on sale Friday at 1 p.m. PT via sphere.backstreetboys.com.
Some fans are stressing out over all these announcements. As one put it in the comments, “Guys, you’re killing us! Just announce everything at once.”
Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes at the Aragon Ballroom In Chicago, Illinois, April 19 2024 (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
The Black Crowes are reacting to the news that they’ve received their second nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Frontman Chris Robinson writes on Instagram that he and brother Rich Robinson are “beyond excited and thrilled to be nominated again for the R&RHOF,” noting, “It’s a great honor to be included with such talented artists.”
In an interview with Billboard, Chris says he’s friends with several of this year’s other nominees, including Oasis, who are nominated for a third time, and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden, who are also nominated for a third time.
“To have friends that are in the same thing is fun,” he tells the mag. “That’s the way it is after getting close to 40 years of doing this. To have those kinds of friendships and connections in the music business with other artists that have won the award, that are nominated, just makes it way more intimate for us.”
And while The Crowes didn’t get in last year, Chris says he’s “equally as excited” as he was with their first nomination.
“Just to be included and to be recognized and to have the opportunity last year and now this year, and you see all the artists that are on the list, it’s amazing,” he says. “It doesn’t go without the due respect that it deserves from Rich and I. We look at it as an achievement to be nominated. That we’ve been nominated again feels amazing.”
Chris says they’ll be “super happy” if they get in this year, and “we’ll celebrate the band and the people that have been in the band.” He adds that it’s also “about the fans,” noting, “They’re the origin story; they’re the ones that breathed life into a lump of clay and then this happens.”
2026 Rock Hall Nominees (Courtesy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees include not one but two bands made up of formerly feuding brothers in Oasis and The Black Crowes. Given what they have in common, it makes sense that the Crowes’ Chris Robinson would reach out to Oasis’ Noel Gallagher after the Rock Hall noms were announced on Wednesday.
“I told Noel that if we both get in he’s buying dinner,” Chris tells Billboard.
However, it sounds like they didn’t spend too much time talking about the Rock Hall.
“We instantly got to talking about [soccer],” Chris says.
Noel and his long estranged brother, Liam Gallagher, got back together to reunite Oasis in 2024 after the band broke up in 2009. The Crowes reunited in 2019 after Chris and his brother, Rich Robinson, agreed to resolve their long-held differences.
Liam, meanwhile, has continued to express his unenthusiastic feelings toward the Rock Hall, which date back to when Oasis was previously nominated in 2024 and 2025.
“I’m just not feeling this RnR hall of fame thing is that a f****** crime,” Liam writes in a new social media post.
The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be announced in April. The induction ceremony is planned for the fall.
2026 Rock Hall Nominee Pink (Courtesy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Pink has been nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and if you’re surprised at that, well, so is she.
She wrote on Instagram, “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee. How is this possible?! Look what we did together y’all!!!!! I never ever fit neatly into a box. That was kind of the whole point.”
“This nomination isn’t mine; it’s ours,” she goes on to say. “It’s for every one of us who ever felt like an outsider or underdog and found something in this music that made them feel less alone. If that’s you, make your voice heard! You can vote every day at vote.rockhall.com.”
The Rock Hall fan vote that Pink is referring to is conducted online each year. The results of the fan vote are then submitted as though all the fans together were one actual Rock Hall voting member, of which there are roughly 1,200. This doesn’t sound like it would sway the results, but as John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, told Billboard, “Sometimes, 10 or 20 votes can make the difference in an artist being inducted, so that one vote could come in handy.”
At least one Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is celebrating Pink’s nomination: Billy Joel posted on Instagram a photo of Pink singing with him onstage and wrote, “Congratulations to @pink on her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination.”
Pink is a longtime fan of Billy’s. She’s featured in his HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes and walked down the aisle to Billy’s song “She’s Always a Woman” when she got married.
Covers of Duran Duran’s ‘Duran Duran’ and ‘Thank You’ (Rhino/Warner Music)
After rereleasing their first five albums, Duran Duran is set to reissue two more.
Newly remastered versions of 1993’s Duran Duran — often called The Wedding Album because of its cover — and 1995’s Thank You will be available April 10 on two-LP and CD. The vinyl reissues will mark the first time both albums have been back on vinyl since they were originally released.
The Duran Duran vinyl will arrive with a 12-inch art card, and Thank You will come with a fold-out poster.
Duran Duran was the band’s second self-titled album; their first was their 1981 debut. The 1993 release hit #7 on the Billboard Albums chart and featured the hits “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone.”
Thank You, which hit #19 on the Billboard chart, was an album of covers, including the band’s take on Grandmaster Melle Mel’s “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It),” which has been part of their live set list for years.
Duran Duran is set to play the BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach, California, on May 1 and will then head to Las Vegas for a residency at the Fontainebleau, which runs from May 2 to 9. They also have several dates booked in Europe in June and July.
A complete list of Duran Duran shows can be found at DuranDuran.com.
Talk about a “Crazy” long time to be away: Gnarls Barkley has just released their first new music in 18 years.
The duo, made up of Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green, just dropped a new song called “Pictures.” It’s the first release from their third — and they say final — album, Atlanta, which is due out March 6.
After releasing their bestselling debut, St. Elsewhere, which featured “Crazy,” in 2006, Gnarls Barkley followed it up with 2008’s The Odd Couple. They’d always meant to make a third album, but it never happened — until Green and Danger Mouse reconnected in 2025.
“‘Pictures’ is like going back to square one, It’s a full circle moment,” says Green in a statement. “The spirit of Gnarls Barkley is always self-discovery. The sweet, the sad, and the strange. The universe, the adventure inside of yourself.”
The song itself was inspired by Green’s childhood experiences riding on MARTA, Atlanta’s public train system. “The hook of the song is literally about being on the train,” he explains. “When you are in transit it’s like a motion picture passing you by … staring out the window of the MARTA train.”
Over the past 18 years, Danger Mouse has worked with acts like Beck, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele and Portugal. The Man. He also released three albums as part of the duo Broken Bells. CeeLo, meanwhile, became one of the original judges on The Voice. Hereleased material both as a solo artist and with the band Goodie Mob.
Here’s the track list for Atlanta:
“Tomorrow Died Today” “I Amnesia” “Pictures” “Line Dance” “Turn Your Heart Back On” “Let Me Be” “Cyberbully (Yayo)” “Perfect Time” “Sweet Evil” “Boy Genius” “The Be Be King” “Sorry” “Accept It”
