Elton John performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November 8, 2025 (Kevin Kane/Getty Images for RRHOF)
Paul McCartney, Elton John and members of Queen, Oasis and The Rolling Stones are among the rockers landing on the annual Sunday Times Rich List, which is put out by the U.K.’s paper of record, The Times, and ranks the richest people in the United Kingdom.
McCartney is the rocker ranking highest on the list this year, landing at #152 with wife Nancy Shevell. They’re down from #151 last year; the couple is said to be worth over $1.4 billion.
Elton John lands at #277, up from #283 last year, with earnings of almost $640 million, while The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are at #284, up from #295, with earnings close to $600 million.
Making the list for the first time this year are Oasis brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher, who rank at #325. Thanks to their 2025 reunion tour, they’re said to be worth almost $500 million.
Finally, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor land at #334. Thanks to the 2025 sale of their back catalog, the pair are worth close to $480 million.
Miranda Lambert’s new tune, “Crisco,” expands on the sound of her previous duet with Chris Stapleton, “A Song to Sing,” with a new groove described as Urban Cowboy meets Saturday Night Fever.
“We wanted something that feels familiar but also fresh, which is really hard to do,” Miranda says. “We leaned into all the things I grew up loving about country music – Glen Campbell, Kenny and Dolly; very ’70s and ’80s.”
“It’s a fun mix of all these sides of country music that I’ve never fully explored before,” she adds, “even down to using strings in a bigger way. I almost can’t believe I’ve made this many records without really going there, but it was magical to hear how much strings can transform a song.”
Miranda will perform “Crisco” for the first time during Sunday’s 61st Academy of Country Music Awards on Prime Video.
Already the winningest artist in ACM history, Miranda goes into the night with nominations for female artist, song for “A Song to Sing,” song and single for co-writing and co-producing Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” and music event for both “A Song to Sing” with Stapleton, and “Trailblazer” with Reba McEntire and Lainey Wilson.
‘Until the Sun Explodes’ album artwork. (Atlantic Records)
Sublime has released a new song called “Can’t Miss You,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Until the Sun Explodes.
“‘Can’t Miss You’ is probably my favorite track on the record,” says Jakob Nowell, who’s now fronting Sublime in place of his late father, Bradley Nowell. “It was one of those magic songs that got written in a day. The strange chord progression was definitely inspired by my father’s songwriting, especially songs like ‘Pool Shark’ and ‘STP.'”
“Classic Sublime always had this feeling like you never knew where the song was going to take you,” Jakob continues. “I look towards my father’s work for guidance at every turn, and ‘Can’t Miss You’ is a perfect example of that.”
You can watch the video for “Can’t Miss You” on YouTube.
Until the Sun Explodes marks the first Sublime album since their 1996 self-titled effort, which was released just months after Bradley’s death. It’s due out June 12, and includes the singles “Ensenada” and “Until the Sun Explodes.”
Little Big Town will deliver the debut performance of their new song, “Hey There Sunshine,” on Sunday’s 61st Academy of Country Music Awards on Prime Video.
Their first new music in two years, “Hey There Sunshine,” follows 2024’s The Christmas Record and 2022’s Mr. Sun, and was co-produced by the band’s Karen Fairchild.
The cut “captures the … moment when healing begins” after a “season of emotional heaviness,” according to the news release announcing the track.
“Songs are truly the most profound gifts,” Karen says. “We’re honored this one found its way to us. It’s a reminder of all the beauty around us and that it’s never too late to find it.”
You can check out the “Hey There Sunshine” music video on YouTube now, as the band promises there’s more from them coming soon.
Rapper, songwriter, and icon Drake attends a game between the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Toyota Center on March 16, 2024, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Fans thought Drake was preparing one album, but he ended up releasing three. During the fourth episode of his Iceman series, he announced he’d be dropping two more albums alongside Iceman — Habibti and Maid of Honour.
The releases mark Drake’s first albums since his public feud with Kendrick Lamar, a topic he addresses repeatedly throughout Iceman.
“With Dot back in 2024 was a big piece/ So it’s like, this s*** is me, but it isn’t me/ Y’all keep on asking me what it did to me, that’s what it did to me,” he raps on “Make Them Cry.” “When I dig deep, they say dig deeper. Tell us how it felt to meet the grim reaper.”
Though Drake initially suggests there are no features on the album with the lyrics “This album better have some big features/ Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m all alone for my mental,” the project includes guests 21 Savage, Future and Molly Santana.
Elsewhere on the album, Drake opens up about his mental state after the feud.
“N****** wanna talk about a battle, I’m battlin’ patience/ N****, I battle frustration,” he says, before revealing his dad, Dennis Graham, was battling cancer. His father has since revealed that he no longer has lung cancer.
Drake also appears to address J. Cole, who backed out of his own potential feud with K. Dot.
On “Make Them Pay,” he raps, “I love you ’cause of the history, but if we bein’ real, I could never forgive you.”
The album includes an updated version of the leaked track “1AM in Albany,” now titled “Make Them Remember.” Drake also takes aim at DJ Khaled, A$AP Rocky, LeBron James, Rick Ross and Jay-Z.
While Iceman is an introspective hip-hop album, Habibti has more of an R&B sound. Maid of Honour is dance-inspired.
Ed Sheeran and Martin Garrix (Photo Credit: Louis Van Baar)
Ed Sheeran is currently out on his LOOP tour, but while he’s entertaining fans in person, he’s also raking in the bucks and dropping new material.
Ed is included on the annual Sunday Times Rich List, which is put out by the U.K.’s paper of record, The Times, and ranks the richest people in the U.K. On the paper’s list of the “40 richest people under 40 in the U.K.,” Ed ranks #14, with an estimated fortune of more than $547 million. That’s up from last year, when he was “only” worth around $494 million. However, when he’s ranked against the entire list, which features everyone of every age, he’s #306 out of 350.
Meanwhile, Ed has finally released “Repeat It,” a song he and DJ/producer Martin Garrix have been working on intermittently for 12 years. The song was teased with a billboard campaign in the Dominican Republic, where Ed performed May 9. The billboards read, “hi ed, can we please release our song? xx marty.”
Finally, Ed co-wrote “Dai Dai,” the new official 2026 FIFA World Cup Anthem, performed by Shakira and Burna Boy, which is now available. Shakira is donating her royalties from the song to Global Citizen’s Education Fund, which provides access to education for kids in underserved communities. No word on whether Ed is also donating his royalties.
Primus has released a new EP called A Handful of Nuggs.
The four-track set includes a new song called “The Ol’ Grizz” and a cover of Dio’s “Holy Diver” featuring the singer Puddles Pity Party. You’ll also find the previously released Maynard James Keenan collaboration, “Little Lord Fentanyl,” as well as a live recording of the song “Duchess (And the Proverbial Mind Spread).”
A Handful of Nuggs is out now via digital outlets and will be released on vinyl on July 22.
Primus will launch a U.S. tour on May 20 in Reno, Nevada. The bill will also include two of frontman Les Claypool’s other bands, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium also released a new album, The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, earlier in May.
:Neil Young performs with the Chrome Hearts at the Hollywood Bowl on Monday, September 15, 2025. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
Los Angeles luxury brand Chrome Hearts has dropped its lawsuit against Neil Young over the name of his latest band, The Chrome Hearts.
The brand, which has been in business since 1988 selling Chrome Hearts-branded clothing items, filed its lawsuit in California federal court back in September, accusing the rocker of trademark infringement.
In the suit, the brand claimed Young and the band’s “continued use of the confusingly similar name in commerce violates Chrome Hearts’ valuable intellectual property rights,” contending that the rockers had “intentionally and knowingly capitalized off of confusion between” the brand and the band.
The suit claimed the company reached out to Young and the band in July about its trademark rights, asking them to stop using the Chrome Hearts name, but they continued to not only perform under the name, but sell merchandise with the name on it.
The brand had wanted the court to force Young to stop using the name and grant ir damages, but on Thursday it filed a notice of dismissal of the case. No details as to why it chose to dismiss the case have been given.
Young began touring with The Chrome Hearts — organist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo — in 2024. They released their first album together, Talking to the Trees, in June 2025 and are expected to release their second album, Second Song, this year.
A bald eagle is seen on the 8th hole during the second round of the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club on March 27, 2026 in Savannah, Georgia. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — A Texas man could serve jail time after pleading guilty to shooting a bald eagle at his home in 2024, which is a violation of federal law.
Santos Guerrero, 42, has pleaded guilty to shooting and causing the death of a protected species. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 30, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.
While bald eagles are no longer an endangered species, they are still protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which prohibits the killing of eagles, according to prosecutors.
Investigators responded to a report of the incident and reviewed video footage of the eagle being shot and falling from a tree, according to prosecutors.
Investigators then matched the tree seen in the video to a tree in Guerrero’s residence. The eagle was found alive and transported to an animal hospital, but had to be euthanized due to its injuries, according to prosecutors.
The bullet caused significant damage to the eagle’s wing and the impact from the fall caused liver fractures, internal bleeding and fractured a leg, a necropsy determined.
Guerrero faces up to a year in federal prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
China’s President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump visit the Temple of Heaven on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski – Pool/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — After a second day of high-stakes meetings with China’s Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump is not committing to approving the latest round of arms sales to Taiwan and brushed off previous U.S. assurances not to consult with Beijing about those sales.
“I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period,” Trump said when asked about the arms sales by reporters aboard Air Force One.
The president’s remarks came after Xi’s stark warning that if the issue of Taiwan is handled “improperly,” then the two nations could “come into conflict,” according to China’s official state news source Xinhua. However, Xi did say that if the issue is handled “properly” then “bilateral relations can remain generally stable.”
Trump has been delaying the latest round of arms sales, for months refusing to sign off on the record $14 billion package that was approved in January 2025, despite urging from some lawmakers.
Trump also told reporters that Xi asked him if he would come to Taiwan’s defense if China were to attack, but Trump claims to have not revealed his thinking.
“That question was asked to me today by President Xi. I said, ‘I don’t talk about, I don’t talk about that,'” Trump said.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Liang Wen-chieh said they are “paying close attention” to the Trump-Xi meeting.
Earlier Friday, Trump participated in a tea and working lunch with Xi.
On Iran, Trump said he and Xi feel “very similar” in wanting the war to end and prohibiting Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“We feel very similar in Iran. We want that to end. We don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the [Strait of Hormuz] opened. We’re closing it now. They closed it, and we closed it on top of them, but we want the straits open, and we want them to get it ended, because it’s a crazy thing,” Trump said at a photo opportunity earlier Friday.
Later, aboard Air Force One, Trump was pressed on whether Xi actually committed to pressuring Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“I’m not asking for any favors, because when you ask for favors, you have to do favors in return. We don’t need favors,” Trump said.
Trump was seeking to bolster international support amid a push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. war with Iran stretches on. China is Iran’s principal oil consumer.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry, responding to inquiries to confirm whether Trump and Xi discussed Iran, sidestepped the question but reiterated China’s position that the ceasefire and negotiations should continue and that the Strait of Hormuz should be reopened.
“There is no need to continue this war that should not have happened,” a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry said. “Finding a solution earlier is beneficial to the United States and Iran, as well as to the countries in the region and even the whole world.”
“Since the door of dialogue is open, it should not be closed again,” the spokesperson said.
Before Friday’s meeting, Trump met Xi to tour the gardens at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party leadership compound.
Xi said he picked the location “especially to reciprocate the hospitality extended to me in 2017 at Mar-a-Lago.” Xi said Trump was interested to learn about the plants in the garden including the Chinese roses. Xi said he “agreed” to gift Trump seeds for those roses.
Tech and trade have also been key themes during the talks. Trump said the two leaders “made some fantastic trade deals.”
CEOs Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Tim Cook of Apple and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, among others, traveled with the president to Beijing. Trump said the business leaders joined him to “pay respects” to Xi.
The White House said one of Trump’s goals going into the summit with Xi is to secure purchasing agreements with China in the aerospace, agriculture and energy sectors and the CEOs traveled with the president to help push for that.
Trump said Xi agreed to initially purchase 200 Boeing planes, which could go up to 750 planes if all goes well. Boeing has not confirmed this deal, referring inquiries to the White House.
Trump also said China has agreed to buy “billions of dollars” of soybeans, though he didn’t get into specifics.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer had said on Friday that the U.S. expects China to buy tens of billions of dollars worth of American agricultural products in the next few years.
“We expect to also see an agreement for double-digit billion purchases … over the next three years, per year, coming out of this visit, and that’s more general, that’s aggregate, that’s not just soybeans, that’s everything else,” Greer told Bloomberg.
ABC News’ Karson Yiu, Mariam Khan, Michelle Stoddart and Kevin Shalvey contributed to this report.
