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Lady Gaga tops Spotify playlists for Pride 2026

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

It’s Pride Month, so here’s a question: If you were putting together a Pride playlist, which song by which artist would be first on your list? If you said “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, a lot of people agree with you.

Spotify has released a list of the top songs and artists on listeners’ Pride playlists this year, and “Born This Way” is the most-added song across all those playlists on the platform. The most-added artist overall is also Lady Gaga.

After “Born This Way,” the second most popular Pride playlist song is “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross, followed by Cher’s “Believe.” Here’s the rest of the top 10:

4. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston
5. “Vogue” by Madonna
6. “Dancing Queen” by ABBA
7. “I Kissed A Girl” by Katy Perry
8. “Dancing On My Own” by Robyn
9. “Rain On Me (with Ariana Grande)” by Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande
10. “Toxic” by Britney Spears

As for the top artists added to Pride playlists, the second most popular is Madonna, followed by Ariana Grande. Here’s the rest of the top 10:

4. Britney Spears
5. Katy Perry
6. Beyoncé
7. Whitney Houston
8. Diana Ross
9. Kylie Minogue
10. Dua Lipa

Spotify also split out popular Pride tracks by users’ ages. For example, Gen Z listeners really like “Red Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan, while millennials tended to choose Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam.” And Gen X listeners went with “It’s Raining Men” by The Weather Girls, “Freedom! ’90” by George Michael and “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge.

Bring Me the Horizon premieres new single, ‘Dehumanized’

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Bring Me the Horizon has premiered a new single called “Dehumanized.”

The track will appear on Count Your Blessings | Repented, BMTH’s upcoming rerecording of their 2006 debut album, Count Your Blessings. Fittingly, “Dehumanized” finds Oli Sykes and company revisiting their early deathcore sound, complete with screaming vocals.

“Dehumanized” is accompanied by an equally brutal video full of blood, torture and entrails. The clip even begins with a viewer discretion advisory reading, “The following footage contains themes that some people may find distressing.”

If you can handle that, you can watch the “Dehumanized” video on YouTube.

Count Your Blessings | Repented is due out July 10. Bring Me the Horizon will be performing it live at the 2026 Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama, in October.

Koe Wetzel can’t put ‘The Night Champion’ to bed

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Just two weeks after the release of his new album, The Night Champion, Koe Wetzel is adding five new songs to the collection.

“Anyone who’s followed me for a while knows I’m not very good at calling it a night,” he says. “With how much love the fans have been showing this album already – and knowing we had these additional songs we believe in just as much – we figured we’d go ahead and turn ’em loose while the night’s still young.”

“Magnet,” “Bad Decisions,” “Ronnie Ray,” “Rolling & Smoking” and “Meet You There” were written and recorded alongside the album’s original 11 tracks.

The cover of the new five-song addition to The Night Champion features a photo of Koe’s grandfather, Raymond Wetzel, with his Nite Champion hunting dog. It drops on Friday.

Meanwhile, Koe has a top-10 hit with Corey Kent and “Rocky Mountain Low,” with his new single, “Hurts Like You,” starting its climb.

Koe kicks off the North American leg of The Night Champion World Tour July 8 in Edmonton, Alberta.

The Beatles release iconic ‘All You Need is Love’ performance for Global Beatles Day

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Thursday is Global Beatles Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the legendary band’s 1967 live performance of “All You Need is Love” on the BBC’s Our World special. Now fans at home can relive the performance.

This year marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by The Beatles, has officially recognized the fan celebration, which was launched in 2009 by lifelong fan Faith Cohen. To celebrate, The Beatles have released a colorized version of the Our World performance to YouTube for the first time.

The performance, originally broadcast to over 400 million people across 26 countries, was shot at Abbey Road Studios with The Beatles singing live over prerecorded vocals. The band is backed by an orchestra and surrounded by such superstar friends as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Keith Moon and Marianne Faithfull.

But that’s not the only way Global Beatles Day is being celebrated.

Ringo Starr posted a message on Instagram, writing, “All you need is love, love peace and love. I send you all peace and love love love no matter what you choose. Choose love” with #GlobalBeatlesDay. Paul McCartney also acknowledged the day on Instagram, posting black-and-white shots of the band and writing, “Have a great time on what is now Global Beatles Day (good group!).”

Plus, the music collective Rockin’1000 released a video of 1,000 musicians performing “All You Need is Love” during a sold-out concert at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy. According to the video description, “(T)his song became something more than a performance. For a few minutes, there were no strangers among us. Just instruments, voices, arms around each other, and one song connecting thousands of people.”

Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ official trailer

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The official trailer for the upcoming Sense and Sensibility film has arrived.

Daisy Edgar-Jones will star as Elinor in the adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, which arrives to theaters on Oct. 16.

Also starring are Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne Dashwood, Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Margaret Dashwood and Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings.

Georgia Oakley directs the movie for Focus Features and Working Title. Bestselling author Diana Reid adapted Austen’s book for the film’s screenplay. This adaptation is “an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood,” according to an official description.

Sense and Sensibility, of course, follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. It shows the journey of their love lives, losses and financial uncertainty, all of which they navigate as complete opposites in emotional approach.

The new trailer shows off this take on the classic story, with sisters Elinor and Marianne navigating their lives and considering the possibility of romantic love.

“The man who loves me must burn with it, with all his passions, without the lightest restraint or hesitation,” Creed-Miles’ Marianne says in the trailer.

The trailer ends with Marianne saying, “I think a man ought to be at least artificially passionate or he’d be sincerely dull,” before admitting to her sister, “I require so much.”

The film marks the third Austen adaptation for Focus Features and Working Title after the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film and 2020’s Emma. Sense and Sensibility was previously brought to the screen by Ang Lee in his 1995 film starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant.

US Park Police seek to ID person in Reflecting Pool vandalism investigation

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — U.S. Park Police are seeking assistance in identifying a person wanted in connection to a “destruction of government property” investigation related to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Park Police posted on social media Wednesday a video of the alleged incident that shows a person reaching into the Reflecting Pool and appearing to pull something from the water. The video is somewhat blurry and shot from a distance. ABC News has reached out to National Park Service and Park Police about the source of the video.

The incident allegedly occurred at 3:36 p.m. ET on Friday, June 19. Park Police said anyone with information on the identity of the individual should contact their tip line.

The bulletin comes as President Donald Trump continues to blame vandals for alleged damage at the Reflecting Pool after his administration’s $16 million renovation.

The White House has yet to provide evidence that shows the alleged vandalism to the site.

“The Reflecting Pool that you’ve heard so much about, which is so incredible, it’s been gruesomely vandalized by thugs, bad people, but soon will be looking as beautiful as it looked just two weeks ago,” Trump said on Wednesday night as he kicked off Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair with remarks on the National Mall.

“In fact, I looked at it just a little while ago, it looks perfect already,” the president continued. “But we’re fixing it. The vandals got to it, they’ve largely been caught and are being prosecuted. We can’t let that happen to our country.”

The Interior Department and the U.S. Park Police, though a spokesperson earlier this week, confirmed there had been several arrests and federal citations for alleged vandalism. Trump said on Tuesday that six people had been arrested.

Trump also said earlier this week that the Reflecting Pool will be drained again for “permanent repair” around the Fourth of July.

12 charged with allegedly using drones to smuggle contraband into prisons

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Twelve individuals have been charged in what the Justice Department is calling a vast conspiracy to smuggle contraband into 10 federal prisons across the country through a coordinated drone operation.

The 17-count indictment, unsealed Wednesday, alleges that starting in September 2023, those charged allegedly used six drones to drop contraband at least 38 times into 10 federal prisons from Atlanta to Mississippi.

ABC News reported last year on the escalating security threat that drones pose to prisons.

The Bureau of Prisons has a drone alert system that notifies prison staff when a drone is nearby, according to court documents.

Some of the individuals charged in the indictment unsealed Wednesday were inmates at prisons around the country and used cellphones to schedule drops at various prisons.

The contraband was allegedly stored at what is referred to in court records as “The Lab.”

Judge again directs DOJ to address whether ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is dead

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge is again directing the Justice Department to formally address whether the Trump administration’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is dead, as the agency has claimed.

The order, filed Wednesday by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, comes after the Justice Department refused to issue a signed declaration verifying the $1.8 billion fund was not moving forward.

In her order, Brinkema said she is not satisfied with the DOJ’s contention that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent testimony before Congress is proof enough that the fund is dead.

“That the defendants have refused to accord a genuine degree of trustworthiness to their representations about the Fund not going forward is particularly concerning because of the President’s consistent support for the Fund and Acting Attorney General Blanche’s acknowledgement that the Fund remains ‘important,'” Brinkema wrote.

She is demanding that the DOJ file papers issuing another response in the coming weeks and hinted in her order that Blanche may have to answer questions about his plans for the fund in a deposition.

The $1.776 billion fund was announced in May by the Justice Department to compensate those who allege they were wrongly targeted under the Biden administration.

It was proposed in exchange for President Donald Trump agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS as well as two civil claims for $230 million related to the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office and the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate — sparking accusations of self-dealing and a bipartisan uproar over the possible use of taxpayer money to pay rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Summer Walker, Elmiene and more tapped for Broccoli City’s Holding Hands festival

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Broccoli City has created an experience for the R&B lovers around the world. The organization has unveiled the Holding Hands R&B experience, with Summer Walker at the top of the bill.

Other performers include Elmiene, Destin Conrad and kwn, with J Rich & Jabari of R&B Only and Smacks the DJ representing organizer Club 1BD also having their own sets.

Attendees can even expect art, activations, food and more.

“Bring your bae, your day ones, your family, or just yourself. Pull up under the pavilion or find your spot on the lawn with the people you love. The music is going to do the rest,” a post on Broccoli City’s Instagram reads.

A presale for tickets is currently underway.

Holding Hands is set to take place Sept. 19 at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. According to the caption, it “is going to be a movie.”

Bad Wolves tease new single, ‘Paint It Red’

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

It appears that Bad Wolves are gearing up to howl once more.

The band has shared a teaser of a new song apparently called “Paint It Red.” The track is set to premiere on June 29, and you can check out the preview via the Bad Wolves Instagram.

When “Paint It Red” drops, we will presumably learn more about who’s still in Bad Wolves alongside drummer John Boecklin following a number of departures and lineup changes in recent years. Guitarist Doc Coyle and bassist Kyle Konkiel left the band in 2025. Vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz, who replaced original frontman Tommy Vext in 2021, has been playing bass in Falling in Reverse.

The most recent Bad Wolves album is 2023’s Die About It.

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