Dua Lipa performs in Belgium during her Radical Optimism tour, June, 2025 (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Getty Images for ABA)
Which pop star made the most money on the road in 2025? The same guy who made the most money on the road in 2018, 2019 and 2022.
Billboard has released its year-end Boxscore charts, ranking which tours were the most successful between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025. Among pop tours, Ed Sheeran‘s The Mathematics Tour was tops. Playing stadiums in Asia and Europe, the tour sold 1.9 million tickets and grossed nearly $215 million. His tours had earned him the #1 spot in three previous years.
Lady Gaga‘s Mayhem Ball tour was #2, grossing $166.2 million from shows in North America, Singapore and London, and selling 722,000 tickets. Dua Lipa‘s Radical Optimism tour, meanwhile, took in just over $141 million in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, selling 1.2 million tickets for the #3 spot.
Bruno Mars, who only performed in Las Vegas and Brazil during the eligible time period, still ended up at #4 on the list with $137 million. Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue came in at #5, marking her first appearance in the chart’s top 10 since 2011.
Sabrina Carpenter makes her first appearance in Billboard‘s year-end top 10, grossing just over $77 million on her Short n’ Sweet tour of Europe and North America — good enough for #6.
Here are the rest of Billboard‘s top 10 pop tours of the year:
7. Justin Timberlake, Forget Tomorrow World Tour of North America and Dublin, $76.2 million
8. Pink, Summer Carnival and Trustfall Tours of the U.S., $75.9 million
9. Tate McRae, Miss Possessive World Tour of Australia, North America and Europe, $75.8 million
10. Backstreet Boys, Into the Millennium residency in Las Vegas, $55.1 million
Keith Urban kicked off the week spreading some Christmas cheer to the patients and their families at Nashville’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
During his two-hour visit Monday afternoon, the Aussie superstar answered questions, took photos and gave an acoustic performance complete with a sing-along. He also donated guitars to the hospital’s music therapy program.
“We are truly grateful to Keith Urban for sharing his time to visit with children and families inside Seacrest Studios at Monroe Carell,” the hospital’s president, Meg Rush, said. “Keith is a wonderful friend to our hospital with several visits over the years. His thoughtful and generous gift of guitars to our Music Therapy Program will help us continue using music as added therapy to bring comfort and healing to children during their hospital stay.”
Keith seems to have a bit of time off from now through the beginning of 2026, as he doesn’t hit the road until March.
Marilyn Manson performs at Pine Knob Music Theatre on August 07, 2024 in Clarkston, Michigan. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
The sexual assault lawsuit that Marilyn Manson‘s former assistant Ashley Walters filed against the shock rocker has been dismissed, according to documents viewed by ABC Audio.
Walters first filed the lawsuit against Manson, born Brian Warner, in May 2021, months after his ex Evan Rachel Wood alleged that he’d abused her in a February 2021 Instagram post.
Walters’ suit was initially dismissed in 2022, with a judge ruling at the time that that statute of limitations on her claims had expired. Her case was revived in 2023 after an appeal, in which Walters’ lawyers argued that she’d repressed memories of Warner’s alleged assaults, and thus her claims could extend past that usual statue of limitations due to the delayed discovery rule.
However, in now dismissing Walters’ case once more, the judge ruled, “There is no triable issue of material fact.”
“Plaintiff’s claims are time barred,” the dismissal ruling reads.
“The fight is not over. This ruling only highlights the reason we stand with survivors and victims of abuse,” says James Vagnini of Walters’ law firm, Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP. “This is not a finding that Mr. Warner did not commit the heinous acts he’s been accused of. Rather, the court did not accept the reasons Ms. Walters set forth for coming forward with her claims when she did. We will continue our fierce support for Ms. Walters to ensure that perpetrators of physical, sexual and psychological abuse are not given a free pass by the legal system.”
“We are disappointed in this decision, but the fight is not over,” says Walters’ legal team with Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP. “The delayed discovery rule exists specifically to address situations like Ms. Walters’, where the abuser’s actions have prevented the victim from coming forward sooner. Abusers should not be able to benefit as a result of their abuse. Mr. Warner did not argue that he never committed these horrific acts against Ms. Walters, because he can’t. He hung his hat solely on the argument that it is too late to hold him accountable.”
“Victims deserve the ability to seek justice when their abuser has used tactics to prevent them from coming forward,” the statement continues. “This is a situation we see time and time again, and it seems the law hasn’t caught up to the science on what’s right for victims. But this is not the end of the road.”
Warner’s attorney, Howard King, says, “It’s gratifying, after all these years, to have a judge who carefully looked at the actual facts and concluded that, once again, Brian Warner was wrongfully accused. Justice delayed is still justice and is much appreciated even though it came with great personal cost. Now Brian can move on.”
Walters was one of several women to publicly accuse Warner of abuse following Wood’s initial post, along with actress Esmé Bianco and model Ashley Morgan Smithline. Bianco’s case was settled, while Smithline later recanted her allegations.
Warner denied all allegations and relaunched his career in 2024 with the album One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1. He’s also returned to touring.
If you are affected by abuse and needing support, or know someone who is, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). You can also chat online at thehotline.org or online.rainn.org, respectively.
Young Thug proposes to Mariah The Scientist onstage during Young Thug & Friends: A Benefit Concert at State Farm Arena on December 16, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
Just days after appearing on Fridayy‘s “Death Do Us Part,” Mariah the Scientist has agreed to walk down the aisle and commit to vows of her own.
The singer said yes to longtime boyfriend Young Thug when he proposed Tuesday during his Hometown Hero: Young Thug & Friends — A Benefit Concert at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Footage from the moment shows Thug getting down on one knee with an engagement ring as the words “Will You Marry Me” appeared on the arena’s big screen.
The couple embraced before Mariah told him, “Put it on,” prompting Thug to slide the ring onto her finger. When he asked for her answer, she turned to the crowd and said, “I guess I’m getting married.”
The proposal came just days after Mariah shared her hopes for marriage during an interview with Angie Martinez, saying she envisioned getting married within the next five years.
“I want to be married,” she said. “I can’t speak for everybody, but that’s what I’m doing.”
Mariah the Scientist and Young Thug were first romantically linked in 2021. She stood by the rapper during his time behind bars on RICO charges, publicly supporting him throughout the legal battle. The couple briefly split in late September following the leak of audio in which Thug admitted to cheating, but they reconciled not long afterward.
Grace Van Patten and Jackson White star in ‘Tell Me Lies’ season 3. (Disney/Ian Watson)
We aren’t lying about this.
The official trailer for season 3 of Tell Me Lies has arrived. The new season of the popular college-set Hulu drama series premieres on Jan. 13, 2026, with its first two episodes. This new season consists of eight episodes.
Grace Van Patten and Jackson White once again star as Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco in season 3. The on-again-off-again couple have “rekindled their tumultuous romance in time for spring semester at Baird College,” according to the season’s official synopsis. “While they promise things will be different this time, past indiscretions hinder their best intentions, and Lucy finds herself embroiled in a controversy she wants nothing to do with.”
The synopsis also teases that the repercussions from last school year “also force Lucy and Stephen’s friends to face their own destructive behaviors. As scandalous secrets fester around campus, vicious consequences threaten Lucy and everyone in her circle.”
The trailer starts with Lucy tearfully filming an apology video. “My friends think I’m crazy,” she then tells Stephen as they lay in bed together. “We have to be nice to each other this time.”
Cat Missal, Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Branden Cook, Alicia Crowder and Costa D’Angelo also star in season 3.
Iris Apatow has joined the cast in the recurring role of Amanda, who is a bubbly college freshman keeping a big secret.
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Ed Sheeran just can’t stop performing. When he’s not doing his own concerts, he’s singing at bars or joining other artists onstage. On Wednesday he announced in an Instagram Story that he’s doing a holiday benefit show at an intimate venue in New York City on Thursday.
The show is calledChristmas Carols with Ed and Wheatus, Wheatus being the band best known for their song “Teenage Dirtbag.” It’s taking place at the chapel at The Bowery Mission, the beneficiary of the event. The Bowery Mission has been providing meals to the homeless and needy since the 1870s, according to the event information. This holiday season it will serve over 70,000 meals.
The wait list for tickets, which cost $115, is now open. The show is Thursday at 7 p.m. ET.
Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox is the latest artist to record the theme song for the opening sequence of the Starz series Outlander.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performs “The Skye Boat Song” for the show’s eighth and final season. It’s a 19th century Scottish song, with the show’s version using the text of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem “Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone,” although the lyrics have been changed to “sing me a song of a lass that is gone.”
“I’ve loved and sung ‘The Skye Boat Song’ since I was a young girl growing up in Aberdeen,” says Lennox, referring to her Scottish hometown. “It represents such an iconic part of Scottish culture and history and it’s a real honor to have been asked to record it for Outlander’s final season.”
Outlander has used “The Skye Boat Song” in the show’s opening since its debut in 2014, although it has featured a new performer and arrangement each season. The song was recorded by Sinéad O’Connor for season 7.
The eighth and final season of Outlander premieres March 6 on Starz.
Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner is arrested in Los Angeles, Dec. 14, 2025. LAPD
(LOS ANGELES) — Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, renowned Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, made a brief first appearance in court on Wednesday.
He waived the right to a speedy arraignment. The arraignment is set for Jan. 7.
Nick Reiner was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder, with the special circumstance of multiple murders, for allegedly stabbing his parents to death early on Sunday, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty, Hochman said.
“No decision at this point has been made with respect to the death penalty,” Hochman said.
“Our hearts go out to the entire Reiner family,” Jackson said after court on Wednesday. “There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case.”
“We ask that during this process, you allow the system to move forward in the way that it was designed … not with jumping to conclusions, but with restraint and with dignity and with the respect that this system and this process deserves and that the family deserves,” Jackson said.
New videos obtained by ABC News appear to show the moments leading up to Nick Reiner’s arrest on Sunday night.
One of the videos appears to show Nick Reiner moments before his arrest near the University of Southern California. In the video, he’s wearing jeans, a striped jacket and a baseball cap. He’s seen with a red backpack slung over one shoulder as he enters a gas station and purchases a drink.
Another video shows him outside walking near a crosswalk when several police vehicles with flashing lights surround him. He can be seen in the video raising his hands.
The Reiners’ daughter found her parents’ bodies in their Brentwood home on Sunday, sources told ABC News.
A neighbor told ABC News that actors Billy Crystal and Larry David were seen at the house after police arrived on Sunday, and the neighbor said, “Billy looked like he was about to cry.”
Nick Reiner — who was living on his parents’ property, according to a former family security guard — had been open about battling drug addiction since he was a teenager. In 2016, Nick Reiner worked with his dad on the movie “Being Charlie,” which was based largely on his struggle with drug addiction.
Sources told ABC News that Nick Reiner got into an argument with his father at a holiday party on Saturday night and was seen acting strangely.
“Prosecuting cases involving family violence are some of the most challenging and heart-wrenching we face because of the intimate and often brutal nature of the crimes,” Hochman said in a statement on Tuesday.
A$AP Rocky attends the CHANEL Métiers d’Art Show 2026 on December 02, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/WireImage)
Fans may be one step closer to getting A$AP Rocky‘s long-awaited album Don’t Be Dumb. Rocky revealed the artwork for the project Tuesday, featuring a prohibition symbol in which the title of the album is written.
“SORRY 4 THE WAIT DON’T BE DUMB FINALLY HERE! THANKS TIM BURTON FOR HELPING ME MAKE THIS MOVIE! COMING SOON,” Rocky wrote on Instagram. His partner, Rihanna, responded in the comments, “Sooo f***** proud!!!! LETS GOOOO BABY.”
Burton’s name also appears on the cover art, fueling speculation about the filmmaker’s involvement. It remains unclear whether Rocky’s reference to a “movie” means the album itself or hints at an accompanying visual.
Don’t Be Dumb will serve as the follow-up to Rocky’s 2018 studio album, Testing, and has been heavily teased in recent months. Fans speculate he hinted at the release date amid his Camp Flog Gnaw set in November, where he wore a sweatshirt featuring the numbers “01162026.” Fans interpreted that as Jan. 16, 2026.
That theory conflicts with comments he made to Vanity Fair, in which Rocky suggested the project would arrive in 2025. He also revealed Danny Elfman contributed to the project.
“Danny Elfman, he just did my album with me that I’m putting out this year,” Rocky previously said. “He scored a bunch of the songs on my new album.”
While no release date has been announced, Rocky has said Burton had a good reaction to the album. “I sat and I played the album for Tim Burton, and he was f****** with it heavy,” he recalled to Billboard.
Rocky also cited Burton as a longtime influence, previously telling Vanity Fair, “I love Tim Burton, man. I’ve been inspired by him [since I was] a child.”
Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Eric Lee/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — A group of moderate House Republicans broke ranks with GOP leadership on Wednesday to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
Four Republicans signed onto House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition, giving it the 218 signatures needed to force a vote.
The decision by moderate Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lawler, Rob Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie to join Democrats comes after the Republican-controlled House Rules Committee on Tuesday night blocked amendments to extend the ACA subsidies from advancing.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has also resisted from allowing an up or down amendment vote on extending the expiring subsidies, which were Democrats’ focal point of the record 43-day government shutdown this fall.
Moderate Republicans who signed onto the petition took aim at House leadership.
Lawler, of New York, said he doesn’t endorse the Democrats’ bill as written,
“…When leadership blocks action entirely, Congress has a responsibility to act. My priority is ensuring Hudson Valley families aren’t caught in the gridlock,” Lawler wrote on X.
“Our only request was a Floor vote on this compromise, so that the American People’s voice could be heard on this issue. That request was rejected,” Pennsylvania’s Fitzpatrick said in a statement. “Then, at the request of House leadership, me and my colleagues filed multiple amendments, and testified at length to those amendments. House leadership then decided to reject every single one of these amendments. As I’ve stated many times before, the only policy that is worse than a clean three-year extension without any reforms, is a policy of complete expiration without any bridge. Unfortunately, it is House leadership themselves that have forced this outcome.”
What happens next?
The Republican-controlled House will hold vote on a clean three-year extension of the ACA subsidies; however, the vote is not expected to occur until January 2026 at the earliest given the rules for when a discharge petition can hit the floor.
The big question now is how the Senate will respond. The Senate already rejected a clean three-year extension of the subsidies in a pair of dueling health care votes last week, though several Republican senators crossed the aisle to join all Democrats in supporting it.
On Wednesday night, the House will hold a vote at approximately 5:30 p.m. on a narrow Republican health care package that does not address the expiring ACA tax credits.
Johnson needs a simple majority for the bill to pass and can only afford to lose three Republican votes. Democratic leaders are whipping their members against the bill. The vote will be tight for Johnson, who continues to navigate a slim majority.
The House GOP proposal would expand the availability of association health plans and what are known as “CHOICE arrangements;” impose new transparency requirements on pharmacy benefit managers to lower drug costs; and appropriate money for cost-sharing reductions to reduce premiums in the individual market.
