Yungblud on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Yungblud has long had a passionate fan base, but he had a breakthrough year in 2025 in large part thanks to his performance of Black Sabbath‘s “Changes” at the Back to the Beginning concert.
The massive show, which was announced ahead of time as Ozzy Osbourne‘s last-ever live performance, took place on July 5, just over two weeks before the Prince of Darkness died on July 22.
“It’s the greatest honor you can have as a singer,” Yungblud tells Billboard of performing at Back to the Beginning. “I dreamed of knowing Ozzy my whole life. I met him, got to know him, his family asked me to honor him, and then I lost him.”
Yungblud’s “Changes” rendition earned him a nomination for best rock performance at the 2026 Grammys.
“The fact that [Ozzy] was the one that made the world take notice [of me] … it’s just so crazy,” Yungblud says.
Yungblud also paid tribute to Ozzy at the MTV Video Music Awards in September alongside Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. He and Aerosmith then put out a collaborative EP, One More Time, in November.
In addition to all of that, Yungblud released a new album, Idols, in June.
“Idols was written about loving artists and looking up to them, and how they give you hope and courage to build your own platform to exist,” Yungblud says. “I’m just trying to unpack all of what’s happened this year. It’s f****** tripping me out.”
Terry Gowan, Will Evanovich, Chuck Panozzo, James “JY” Young, and Tommy Shaw of Styx perform during The Brotherhood Of Rock Tour at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre on July 06, 2025, in Alpharetta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images)
Styxhas announced a string of tour dates with special guest Cheap Trick.
The two bands will team up for five shows, starting May 16 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and wrapping May 24 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Styx already has a busy 2026 ahead of them. Their next show is Jan. 7 in Tucson, Arizona. They are also set to return to Las Vegas for a five-show residency starting Jan. 23 at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, where they’ll play their 1978 album, Pieces of Eight, in its entirety, along with other classic hits.
Then this summer they’ll hit the road with Chicago on The Windy Cities Tour – All The Hits … Your Kind of Tour, which starts July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A complete list of dates can be found at StyxWorld.com.
As for Cheap Trick, they’ll launch their All Washed Up Tour Jan. 24 in Madison, Wisconsin. For a list of shows, go to CheapTrick.com.
If you want a song that you can sing along to while doing fun hand motions — a song that isn’t “Y.M.C.A.” — it’s Kylie Minogue to the rescue.
The Australian dance diva has just released a video for her new holiday hit, “XMAS,” in which she demonstrates the hand motions that spell out the letters “XMAS” as she sings.
In the clip, TV news anchors all over the world are reporting on a Christmas takeover as she cavorts around a Christmas tree, dances in the snow wearing a Santa-themed outfit and boots, and lies on a map of the world, indicating all the cities where Christmas is taking place.
The song is one of four new tracks on Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), a deluxe rerelease of her 2015 holiday album.
Since she’s from Australia, where the summer season takes place in December, Kylie recently told NYLON that for her, Christmas means “bikinis, board shorts, and barbecue.” She added, “There’s no Christmas without the barbecue.” Specific to her family, though, is a jigsaw puzzle “that will live on a table, and whoever passes by adds a piece.”
50 Cent wants Eminem to make a song for the soundtrack of his upcoming movie, Street Fighter. The rapper, who will portray Balrog in the film, shared his hope in an Instagram post over the weekend. “I’m gonna get @eminem on deck to make some music for this movie Street Fighter,” he wrote. “New music on the way!” Em and 50 have collaborated on songs including “Patiently Waiting” and “You Don’t Know.”
Speaking of Eminem, Nas revealed Em passed on an offer to be part of his song “Daughters.” “At the time, you know, he had spent so much time speaking on daughters, he was like, ‘Thank you, but I told my daughter I’m not doing any more songs directly about daughters at the moment because that’s a sensitive issue with all the music I put out,'” Nas told Joe Budden. “But he was like, ‘Thank you, ’cause most people wanna do songs where they’re battling me. It was refreshing to get a record where you’re not coming for me.'”
Clipse is joining Linkin Park as a special guest on the European leg of their From Zero World Tour. They’ll be playing shows in Hamburg, Vienna, Munich, Madrid and more. Pusha T previously worked with Linkin Park on “Good Goodbye” with Stormzy and a remix of “I’ll Be Gone.”
Clipse is also set to have an exclusive conversation with BMI on Wednesday; it will take place at Analog in Nashville at 3 p.m. CT.
Peter Gabriel performs at Little Caesars Arena on September 29, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images)
The Peter Gabriel track “I Have the Touch” is featured on the soundtrack of the new Timothée Chalamet movie Marty Supreme, about a table tennis prodigy. In a post on Instagram, Gabriel says he’s delighted the song is being used in the film, particularly because he’s a fan of the sport.
“The song is rarely asked out for a dance and I have always loved table tennis,” he writes. “Now there seems to be a real buzz about the film. Although I have it in my Academy pack we are waiting to see it on the big screen in the Christmas holiday.”
Talking about his affinity for table tennis, he notes, “On tour we always have a table backstage for any of the crew or band to jump on.”
Gabriel ended the post by thanking the film’s director, Josh Safdie,and urging fans to “check it out.”
“I Have the Touch” is a track from Gabriel’s fourth solo album, Security.
In March, not long after Lady Gaga released her Grammy-nominated album Mayhem, a company called Lost Surfboards sued to stop her from selling merch with that word on it. A judge has now ruled that Gaga can continue providing Mayhem merch to Little Monsters.
In its initial complaint, Lost Surfboards said that it had been selling surf clothing and equipment emblazoned with the word “Mayhem” since 1988, because the word is the nickname of one of the company’s co-founders. The company registered the word as a trademark in 2015. The company also claimed that the Mayhem logo Gaga was using on her merch is “a nearly identical design” to its own.
However, in a Monday ruling obtained by ABC News, Judge Fernando M. Olguin said that because Gaga’s use of “Mayhem” is “artistically relevant” and doesn’t “explicitly mislead consumers as to the source or content of the challenged work,” Lost Surfboards can’t proceed with its claim of trademark infringement.
What happens next? Gaga’s lawyers will likely file a motion to dismiss the claim, but meanwhile, the lawyer for Lost Surfboards indicated to Billboard that they might consider settling.
David Bowie performing at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness, at Wembley Stadium, Picture taken Easter Monday, 20th April 1992. (Photo by Nigel Wright/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
David Bowie’s longtime pianist Mike Garson is set to celebrate his music with a trio of special shows, where he’ll be joined by an A-list lineup of rockers.
Bowie’s Piano Man: A Decade in the Stars will take place at the Sun Rose West Hollywood in Los Angeles Jan. 8-10. It will not only celebrate Bowie’s birthday, but also mark the 10th anniversary of his death.
Garson, who was Bowie’s longest-serving band member, will be joined by a lineup that includes Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, TheStruts’ lead singer Luke Spiller and Bowie touring bassist Carmine Rojas.
“David Bowie was one of the closest people in my life,” says Garson. “Nothing brings me more joy than honoring 10 years since his passing and his birthday by collaborating with this all-star lineup to carry his legacy forward.”
A bouquet is left outside of the engineering and physics building at Brown University, the site of a mass shooting yesterday that left at least two people dead and nine others injured, on December 14, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — New security video released on Monday by the Rhode Island police showed a person of interest wanted for questioning in the deadly mass shooting that erupted over the weekend on the campus of Brown University.
The video was taken shortly after Saturday’s shooting and shows a figure dressed in black walking along Waterman Street, which appears to be about three blocks north of the Brown campus, according to the Providence Police Department.
“We are sharing a video of a person of interest and plan to release additional video as part of the ongoing investigation,” the police department said in a statement, asking anyone who recognizes the individual in the video to contact investigators immediately.
The new video was made public after authorities announced that a person of interest detained early Sunday morning for questioning had been released.
In an interview on ABC News’ “GMA3” on Monday, Rhode Island State Attorney General Peter Neronha said the person initially detained in connection with the mass shooting has been “effectively cleared.”
“The evidence that we have, the scientific evidence that we have available to us, after it was analyzed, made clear that this was not someone who should be detained in connection with this case,” Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said on ABC News’ “GMA3.” “So we released him and then moved on, looking at other evidence and pursuing other leads pointing at additional potential individuals.”
Investigators are now bringing additional teams to canvass for video, analyze images, and sweep the crime scene for fingerprints as they work to build a more detailed timeline and, potentially, identify a suspect.
ABC News observed members of the FBI evidence response unit using a K-9 on Monday to canvas the area around the crime scene at Brown University. FBI agents were also viewed on campus searching bushes and raking the snow-covered ground for evidence.
“We understand that there’s a high degree of anxiety and after this individual was released last night, I understand that anxiety level has risen in our community,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley told ABC News on Monday. “But it’s no different than a day ago, which is that we’ve received — continue to receive zero credible threats to our community, Brown or the broader community.”
Smiley’s comments came as federal and local law enforcement officials were continuing their investigation early on Monday, two days after the mass shooting in an academic building in Providence on Saturday.
A person of interest in the case, who had been taken into custody early on Sunday, was released later in the day, after authorities said that there was no basis to continue detaining them.
“Tonight, we announced that the person of interest is being released. The investigation has been ongoing and remains fully active between all agencies,” the Providence Police Department said in a statement early on Monday. “Since the first call to 911, we have not received any specific threats to our community.”
Smiley wouldn’t on Monday definitely say whether the person of interest who was released was cleared of all connection to the case. He also declined to say whether the investigation was pointing toward a student or someone from off-campus.
“We cannot comment on that and we’re exploring all possible leads,” he said.
Two people were killed and nine were injured in the shooting, according to officials. The injured victims were transported to local hospitals amid a day of “devastating gun violence,” Christina H. Paxson, the university’s president, said in a statement posted early on Sunday.
“Every year, emergency responders and students drill for the unthinkable — a shooting at our schools,” Gov. Dan McKee said in his own statement. “Yesterday, that action became all too real when a gunman opened fire on a classroom of innocent Brown University students.”
The FBI and other law enforcement officials shared a short video clip of someone whom they described as a person of interest. The individual in the clip is seen dressed in dark clothing, including what appeared to be a hood, as they walk along Hope Street and take a corner heading north.
The person’s right hand appeared to be in their jacket pocket as they walked northward along Waterman Street before exiting from the frame.
Officials said they still believe the person seen in that video is a person of interest in the shooting.
The person of interest who was detained and released on Sunday was initially caught at about 3:45 a.m. at a hotel in Coventry, about 28 miles south of Providence, according to law enforcement sources and Coventry police.
Law enforcement sources described the detained person of interest as a man in his mid-20s from Wisconsin. At the time the person was detained, the individual was allegedly in possession of two guns, according to sources.
There was “no basis” to keep the person detained, Attorney General of Rhode Island Peter Neronha said.
“Sometimes you head in one direction and have to regroup and go in another,” Neronha said. “That’s exactly what’s happened over the last 24 hours or so.”
Police said anyone with information about the case can contact investigators through an online Tip Center at www.fbi.gov/brownuniversityshooting or by calling (401) 272-3121.
ABC News’ Sasha Pezenik, Luke Barr and Pierre Thomas contributed to this report.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov speaks with ABC News in Moscow Chief Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 15, 2025. ABC News
(MOSCOW and LONDON) — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told ABC News during an exclusive interview on Monday that he believes the warring parties are “on the verge” of a diplomatic solution to end Moscow’s war.
“We are prepared to have a deal,” Ryabkov said of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. The deputy foreign minister added that he hoped an agreement would be reached “sooner rather than later.”
U.S. administration officials signaled on Monday that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than ever, telling reporters on the condition of anonymity that “literally 90%” of the issues between the two warring countries had been solved.
But Ryabkov also reiterated long-held demands from Moscow that Kyiv says it cannot accept as part of any peace deal. Among those is Russian control of Crimea, which was occupied in 2014, and four other partially-occupied territories — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — in the south and east of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly ruled out territorial concessions to Russia.
“We have five altogether and we are not able, in any form, to compromise on this,” Ryabkov said of Russia’s control of the territories.
Ryabkov spoke to ABC News as both Moscow and Kyiv work with American representatives on the White House’s latest peace push, intended to secure an end to Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor which began in February 2022.
Another sticking point for Moscow has been the possible deployment of troops from NATO nations to Ukraine after the war.
He said Russia would not agree to a deal that included their presence on Ukrainian soil, even if they were there as part of a security guarantee or as members of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing,” as a group of mostly European leaders refer to themselves.
“We definitely will not at any moment subscribe to, agree to, or even be content with, any presence of NATO troops on the Ukrainian territory,” Ryabkov said.
Ryabkov — a high-profile figure within Russia’s Foreign Ministry who regularly speaks with international media outlets — has served as the deputy foreign minister in Moscow since 2008, working under Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has been in his post since 2004.
Ryabkov was among those Russian officials downplaying the threat looming over Ukraine in the lead up to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. As Russian troops massed along Ukraine’s borders in January 2022, Ryabkov said Moscow had “no intention of attacking, staging an offensive on or invading Ukraine.”
Speaking with ABC News on Monday, the deputy foreign minister refused to refer to Russia’s ongoing invasion as a war, instead using the Kremlin’s preferred phrase of a “special military operation.”
“We do what we do, we want to stop it and whether it would be stopped depends much on how people who support authorities in Kyiv recognize the inevitable outcome of our success,” Ryabkov said.
Russian officials have framed their invasion as a necessary measure to protect ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. When asked about the suffering and deaths of members of that community as a result of Moscow’s war, Ryabkov said he had sympathy for those affected.
“The whole purpose of what is being done by us there is to ensure that at least some of those people, majority of those people, find it better and find it, I would say, more appropriate to be where they belong, which is Russia.”
Ryabkov has regularly commented on various aspects of U.S.-Russian relations during the ongoing war. He has, for example, repeatedly called for renewed focus on bilateral nuclear and arms control treaties.
However, Ryabkov said this month that progress on that and topics “will only become possible for us after we become convinced of substantive and irreversible improvements in Washington’s policy toward Russia.”
Ryabkov last month told the state-owned International Affairs magazine that a new meeting between Trump and Putin was possible as Ukraine peace talks continued. “I wouldn’t rule anything out,” he said.
ABC News’ Mariam Khan and Hannah Demissie contributed to this report.
Chris Young’s ‘I Didn’t Come Here to Leave’ (Black River)
Chris Young will sneak in an appearance on Live with Kelly & Mark right before Christmas.
He’s set to play “I Didn’t Come Here to Leave,” the title track from his 10th studio album, on Dec. 23. Meanwhile, the record’s lead single, “Til the Last One Dies,” recently broke into country’s top 30.
Chris has four more stops on his It Must Be Christmas – An Acoustic Evening with Chris Young Tour, starting Wednesday in Tyson, Virginia, and wrapping Saturday in Wallingford, Connecticut.
The trek takes its name from his 2016 holiday album. In November he put out two new yuletide tracks, his cover of “Silver Bells” and the original “Christmas Ain’t Christmas.”
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