The 61st ACM Awards (Academy of Country Music Awards)
Five-time ACM Awards host Blake Shelton will return to perform at the upcoming 61st ceremony, the Academy of Country Music revealed Friday.
ACM new male artist Tucker Wetmore and new female artist Avery Anna have secured stage time as well, along with newcomer and album of the year nominee Carter Faith.
Dan + Shay, Ella Langley, Jordan Davis, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, Zach Top and The Red Clay Strays join the rundown, too.
Superstar Shania Twain will host the show, with previously announced performers Cody Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Lainey Wilson, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert and Riley Green already on board.
The ACM Awards return to Las Vegas this year for the first time since 2022. The award show will also be back in its usual Sunday time slot as it streams live on Prime Video May 17 from MGM Grand Garden Arena.
“All My Friends” single artwork. (Sumerian Records)
Hollywood Undead has premiered a new single called “All My Friends.”
The track features Jeris Johnson, who previously collaborated with Papa Roach on a new version of “Last Resort.” It also references Hollywood Undead’s song “Everywhere I Go,” which appears on their 2008 debut album, Swan Songs.
“All My Friends” follows Hollywood Undead’s March single, “1×1,” which samples the Slayer song “Raining Blood.” The group also put out a song called “SAVIOR” in 2025.
The most recent Hollywood Undead album is 2022’s Hotel Kalifornia.
Hollywood Undead is playing a number of upcoming U.S. festivals, including Welcome to Rockville, Inkcarceration and Rocklahoma.
Lady Gaga performs onstage during The MAYHEM Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 22, 2025 in New York City. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)
Lady Gaga has just achieved something only four other female artists have done before her.
She hit #1 on Billboard‘s monthly Top Tours chart for March, thanks to some of the final shows of her Mayhem Ball tour, which wrapped on April 13. In March she took in $45.6 million over 12 shows, playing for over 154,000 fans. The only other female artists who’ve been #1 on that chart, which started in 2019, are Pink, Spice Girls, Beyoncé and Shakira.
And in case you’re wondering about Taylor Swift, she never topped the chart because she didn’t officially release box office figures for her Eras Tour.
As previously reported, Gaga’s Mayhem Ball, plus the extra shows she played in Mexico and Singapore before the official tour started, earned a total of $419.5 million in 12 months. It’s now one of the top 10 highest grossing tours by women, according to Billboard, and one of the highest-grossing pop tours ever.
In other Gaga news, we’ve got two new songs from her to listen to, thanks to The Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack, which is out now. In addition to her collab with Doechii, “Runway,” you can now hear “Shape of a Woman” and “Glamorous Life.” She worked on the songs with her MAYHEM collaborators.
And in one final bit of news, on Thursday the performing rights organization ASCAP named Gaga’s Bruno Mars Grammy-winning duet “Die with a Smile” its Pop Music Song of the Year.
Cessna Golden Eagle (Francois Joseph Berger / 500px/Getty)
(WIMBERLEY, Texas) — Five people were killed in a plane crash in Texas on Thursday night, investigators said.
Hayes County Judge Ruben Becerra said first responders received a call around 11:00 p.m. local time about a plane down in the area of Wimberley, which is roughly 30 miles southwest of Austin.
Fire and EMS crews found the downed Cessna 421C, along with the bodies of the five deceased passengers. Their identities were not immediately released.
Stacey Rohr lives in a house close to the crash site and told local reporters, including one from ABC affiliate KVUE, Friday morning that the crash rattled the neighborhood.
“It felt like an earthquake,” she said.
Although a cause of the crash was not immediately determined, investigators said preliminary information shows that there was no midair collision.
“Preliminary information indicates the aircraft was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of impact,” Becerra said in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will take over the investigation, according to the judge.
The NTSB said in a statement that the Cessna was destroyed in a post-impact fire. An investigator is on the way to the scene, according to the agency.
Preliminary flight data obtained by ABC News found that the plane took off from Amarillo, Texas, which is about 420 miles northwest of the crash area, and was in the air for almost two hours before it crashed.
More than a dozen thieves stole more than 250 cars and a million dollars’ worth of auto parts throughout the Bronx, according to the NYPD and the Bronx district attorney’s office. (Bronx DA/NYPD)
(NEW YORK) — An alleged group of car thieves who worked fast and furious at night to steal over 250 cars and auto parts in the Bronx were arrested and charged Friday, investigators said.
The Bronx District Attorney’s office indicted 16 alleged members of the Trinitarios street gang in a nearly 1,000-count indictment with grand larceny, auto stripping, and other offenses. Nine of the 16 were arrested as of Friday morning, according to the DA’s office.
The suspects would allegedly lift the target car and use power tools to remove all four tires and rims off within minutes, according to the NYPD and DA.
“These defendants allegedly worked as fast as a racetrack pit crew in the dead of night, stealing cars, tires and rims and catalytic converters worth more than $1 million on the black market,” Bronx DA Darcel Clark said.
Many of the thefts, as many as six per night, were caught on video showing a three-person crew exiting a stolen car, fully masked, with gloves, a car jack and milk crates, investigators said.
“All across the Bronx, people heading to work or school in the morning found their cars propped on crates, or an empty parking space, leaving them stranded and financially strained, the DA said.
The suspects allegedly used public parking garages throughout the Bronx to store the stolen vehicles before and after the thefts, which occurred between midnight and 5 a.m., according to the police.
Other defendants bought the stolen catalytic converters and then sold them on the black market, the indictment said. In one defendant’s home, police said they found a suitcase with $116,000 in cash.
Attorney information for the suspects was not immediately available.
Britney Spears attends the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards in Los Angeles on April 29 (Image Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images)
Britney Spears has officially been charged with driving under the influence after being arrested in March, according to the Ventura County District Attorney, who says the singer will be offered probation for a first-time offense.
The singer will be arraigned on May 4 on the misdemeanor charge, but she does not have to appear for her court hearing.
ABC News has reached out to a representative for Spears for comment.
Spears was arrested on March 4 on suspicion of driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs, according to the California Highway Patrol at the time.
A BMW 430i, which was reported for driving erratically at high speed, was located and stopped by CHP officers, according to CHP.
Once stopped, Spears, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, showed signs of impairment and took field sobriety tests, CHP said.
Following her arrest, she was released the following morning.
In a statement to ABC News at the time, a representative for the singer called it an “unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable.”
“Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long-overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life,” the statement continued. “Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
Shortly after she was released, Spears voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility.
The DA’s office said it would offer Spears a deal, known as a “wet reckless,” which allows a defendant to plead guilty to reckless driving involving drugs or alcohol and serve a sentence of 12 months probation.
“This type of resolution is common, particularly when a defendant demonstrates self-motivation to address underlying issues through rehabilitation or a drug and alcohol treatment program,” the office said.
The DA’s office said the offer is typically extended to defendants without a prior DUI history, a low blood-alcohol level and in cases with no crash or injury.
Tucker Wetmore’s mom interrupted his London show to tell him he’s the ACM new male artist of the year.
“Mom, what are you doing here?” Tucker said as Sia Gould took over the stage to introduce a video clip from Thomas Rhett, who took Tucker on tour last summer.
”I’m at a loss for words right now for the first time in a long time,” Tucker said. “I can’t do any of this without you guys. I can’t do any of this without that woman [mom] right there… Y’all made this possible. Every single person in this venue. And there’s countless more outside of this venue that I can’t sit here and name because I’d be here all night. Thank y’all so much and thank you ACMs for this amazing honor.”
The moment, which you can check out on Instagram, took place on the final night of his three sold-out shows in the U.K., where “Brunette” just spent three weeks at #1.
Tucker’s current single seems to be on track for similar success in the States, following his previous two chart toppers, “Wind Up Missin’ You” and “3,2,1.”
The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards will stream live on Prime Video on May 17 from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Cover of Peter Gabriel single “Won’t Stand Down.” Artwork by Shirin Neshat (Real World Music Ltd / Sony Music Publishing/Peter Gabriel Ltd.)
Peter Gabriel is out with the fifth single off his upcoming album o/i.
The latest track is “Won’t Stand Down,” which Gabriel notes is “a song to encourage some sort of activism.”
Gabriel says the song was initially inspired by TheElders.org, a group of people whose “currency is not based on military power, economic power or political power, but just the moral authority they have from having lived extraordinary, selfless lives.” With the song, he notes he wanted to offer “a hope that can help us start envisioning a just, peaceful and fairer world.”
“I think people generally respond much better to positive pictures of what’s coming than they do when they are bombarded and scared by negative ones,” he says. “We are much more likely to engage if we feel hope.”
Gabriel adds, “Right now, we don’t see so many positive visions of the future, at least they’re not being projected so strongly as the negative, so I think it’s really important that we start looking for visions to which we can aspire and looking for people who can provide that.”
As he did with his last album, 2023’s i/o, Gabriel is releasing a new song from o/i with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026, along with Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes handled by Tchad Blake and Mark “Spike” Stent, respectively.
Cessna Golden Eagle (Francois Joseph Berger / 500px/Getty)
(WIMBERLEY, Texas) — Five people were killed in a plane crash in Texas on Thursday night, investigators said.
Hayes County Judge Ruben Becerra said first responders received a call around 11:00 p.m. local time of a plane down in the area of Wimberley, which is roughly 30 miles southwest of Austin.
Fire and EMS crews found the downed Cessna 421C, along with the bodies of the five deceased passengers. Their identities were not immediately released.
Although a cause of the crash was not immediately determined, investigators said preliminary information shows that there was no midair collision.
“Preliminary information indicates the aircraft was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of impact,” Becerra said in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will take over the investigation, according to the judge.
Olivia Rodrigo during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by: Todd Owyoung/NBC)
You’d think Olivia Rodrigo’s life would be interesting enough to inspire her songs, but apparently, for her new album, she turned to the plotline of a TV show for inspiration.
On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Olivia said that “multiple songs” on the album are inspired by the relationship between the characters Miranda and Steve on HBO’s Sex and the City, a show that ended in 2004, when Olivia was a baby. “It’s my favorite show. I love Sex and the City,” she told Jimmy. “I think I watched every single episode maybe three times.”
In particular, Olivia pointed to a scene where Miranda and Steve — played by Cynthia Nixon and David Eigenberg — are getting back together: Miranda is crying and saying, “Steve, any time something funny happens, I just want to tell you.”
Olivia said, “I remember watching that and being like, ‘Oh, my God, I have to write a song about this!'”
Olivia and Jimmy also talked about her upcoming gig hosting and being the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. She said that her musical hero, Jack White, left a note in her dressing room, hidden in a secret location. He texted her and told her to look for it: Jimmy showed video of Olivia discovering it taped to the top shelf of a cabinet.
When Olivia opened the envelope, she found a yellow rose and a piece of paper on which the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer had written, “Kill it, kid. Love, Jack White.” “It’s my good luck charm!” Olivia told Jimmy.
Olivia revealed that on SNL, she’ll be singing her #1 hit “drop dead,” but also a brand-new song we’ve never heard before.
