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Two Door Cinema Club has announced a concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

The show takes place Sept. 27 and will feature a full-album performance of the band’s 2010 debut album, Tourist History, as well as songs from throughout their career. Phantogram will also be on the bill, among others.

“MSG is one of those bucket list venues for any artist,” Two Door Cinema Club says in a statement. “After we sold out [NYC venue] Webster Hall in 2010, we took a walk past The Garden one night and our agent said, ‘This time next year, boys!’ It only took a few extra years to get there, but here we are! We love NYC and we really can’t wait for this one.”

You can register now for a presale that begins Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. ET.

For all ticket info, visit TwoDoorCinemaClub.com.

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Morgan Wallen’s “20 Cigarettes” has burned its way to the top. The song, from his album I’m the Problem, has become his 20th song overall to hit #1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart.

“20 Cigarettes” is Morgan’s sixth #1 on that chart from the album; he also scored six Country Airplay number ones with his previous album, 2023’s One Thing at a Time. Billboard notes that Morgan is now the first artist ever to have two albums send six songs each to the top of that chart.

Meanwhile, I’m the Problem has been officially declared the second-biggest-selling global album of 2025 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. The only album that outsold it was Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl.

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Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift are showing their support for Olympic gold medalists.

Selena gave a shoutout to U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, who won gold following her free skate on Thursday. The singer shared a post on Instagram of Alysa quoted as saying “where’s my lipstick?” along with a photo of her holding a lipstick from Selena’s Rare Beauty brand.

“Congratulations @alysaxliu. (She’s just like me fr),” Selena wrote.

Meanwhile, Taylor popped up in the Instagram comments of skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who won the gold in slalom Wednesday, and became the most decorated skier in Olympic history and the first U.S. skier to win three Olympic golds. Mikaela posted a photo of herself on the slopes, captioning it with the Taylor lyric, “my advice is always ruin the friendship.”

Taylor commented, “HISTORIC,” with three gold medal emojis.

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SZA appears on the soundtrack for Disney and Pixar’s Hoppers in a song titled “Save the Day.” A die-cut vinyl shaped like the character Mabel is available for preorder at Disney Music Emporium. The soundtrack and the film arrive on March 6. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Don Toliver has taken a brief break from promoting his album Octane for a soundtrack feature. “Creepin,” which he helped to produce, is his original song for Scream 7. The movie will premiere in theaters on Feb. 27.

Yung Miami follows her surprise drop “News Flash” with the release of “Tea Time.” The song was originally teased on social media and has arrived following fan demand.

Jay-Z’s celebrating three decades of his song “Dead Presidents” by making it available on streaming services. The track drops on DSPs exactly 30 years from the day of its original release. There are also vinyl, cassette and CD editions available.

Ty Dolla $ign teams with Leon Thomas for a new song that seems to be from his upcoming album, girl music vol. 1. “Miss u 2” arrives with an accompanying music video. girl music vol. 1 is set to arrive on March 6.

Other releases:

Mozzy & EST Gee, Not a Chance in Hell

Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist, Spiral Staircases

Jorja Smith, “Don’t Leave“

Reason, Don’t Play with My Heart

Killer Mike & Lena Byrd-Miles, “Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces)“

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SZA is here to “Save the Day.”

The singer has released her new track from the upcoming Disney/Pixar animated film Hoppers.

Her contribution to the soundtrack was a full-circle moment for director Daniel Chong, who listened to SZA’s music while making the film.

“SZA’s music saved me during the making of this movie,” Chong says in a statement. “It was a lifeline during the stress of the filmmaking process, a voice that comforted and inspired me through it all. It felt so perfect to have an original song by SZA, to have her give voice to the movie and its hopeful themes.”

He says the song perfectly captures the emotional journey of the film’s main character, Mabel, an animal lover who uses new technology to “hop” into the mind of a robotic beaver and communicate directly with the animals.

The movie’s soundtrack, featuring an original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, debuts the same day as the movie, March 6. A special “Save the Day” vinyl shaped like Mabel is now available for preorder exclusively at Disney Music Emporium.

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The long saga of legal drama within the band Live now has a new chapter.

Former guitarist Chad Taylor has filed a cease and desist letter over frontman Ed Kowalczyk’s continued use of the Live band name. It comes after Kowalczyk, who formed the group with Taylor, bassist Patrick Dahlheimer and drummer Chad Gracey, claimed majority control of Live in 2022 and fired Taylor from the band. Kowalczyk has been touring as Live without the three other founding members ever since.

Taylor, who posted the cease and desist letter to his Instagram, now says, “I was not ‘fired.’ Ed never had the authority to remove me.”

“I remain a founding shareholder and director of Action Front Unlimited, Inc. — the company that owns the LIVE name and trademarks,” Taylor writes. “As of Feb 16, 2026, his rights to use the LIVE brand were revoked by AFU.”

He continues, “I won’t fight this in public. The courts will handle it. Thank you for the support while we work toward properly restoring LIVE.”

Gracey also posted the letter while declaring, “Your license is revoked.”

ABC Audio has reached out to Live’s rep for comment.

Kowalczyk previously left Live in 2009 and faced legal proceedings over his use of the band name in relation to his own solo shows. He reunited with Live in 2016.

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Back home in the U.K., Olivia Dean has landed a 1-2 punch on the chart.

“Rein Me In,” her duet with fellow Brit singer Sam Fender, has topped the Official Singles Chart. The single also set a record for most weeks spent in the Top 40 before reaching #1: It took 35 weeks for it to get to pole position. Olivia now has two U.K. #1 hits after “Man I Need” did the trick in 2025.

Meanwhile, Olivia’s song “So Easy (To Fall In Love With Me)” is right behind “Rein Me In” at #2, and “Man I Need” sits at #4.

And on the U.K. album chart, Charli XCX scores her third #1 album with her soundtrack to the new Emerald Fennell film, Wuthering Heights. She previously topped the chart with 2022’s Crash and 2024’s Brat. Plus, three songs from the soundtrack album are in the Top 40: “Chains of Love,” “Dying for You” and “Always Everywhere.”

We should learn out how well the soundtrack did on the Billboard 200 on Sunday.

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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is the biggest-selling global album of 2025, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

The album took the #1 spots on the IFPI Global Album Chart, Global Album Sales Chart and Global Vinyl Album Chart, which saw Taylor break her own global vinyl sales record for the fourth consecutive year.

Other albums making the top-10 ranking on the Global Album Chart include the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet, Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, SZA’s SOS and Lady Gaga’s Mayhem.

“Taylor Swift topping the IFPI Global Album rankings once again is a clear reflection of the strength of her connection with fans around the world,” IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said in a statement. “This year’s results also show how truly global today’s music market is, with success being driven across streaming and physical formats by artists from a wide range of countries and genres.”

The IFPI, which represents the recorded music industry business around the world, previously named Taylor the top-selling artist in the world in 2025, and “APT.” by Bruno Mars and ROSÉ as the official biggest-selling global single of 2025.

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Megan Moroney’s long-awaited new album, Cloud 9 is out now, along with lyric videos for all 15 songs. Starting Friday in New York City, she begins her “9 Cities. 9 Days” promotional tour: She’ll travel across the country to visit nine places in all, performing some of her new songs and hits at each stop.

Megan talks about the new album in a note on Instagram, thanking fans for “the pure joy y’all brought me night after night” on her Am I Okay? tour, which coincided with her writing the album. That experience, she writes, “resulted in so may of these songs & ideas so I can’t thank y’all enough for inspiring me.”

“There’s a newfound confidence woven throughout Cloud 9 along with humor, honesty, hearbreak (duh), softness, & love,” she continues. “It’s got everything I love about country music.”

Noting that she got both Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves to appear on the album, Megan writes, “Never in a million years would I have guessed I’d have songs with [them] but I hope it inspired and and all dreamers out there to keep going. Your wildest dreams are not out of reach.”

Megan signs off by writing that she’s “feeling so excited and sooooo grateful!” and adding, “i hope you love it.”

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