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Winners, as we know, are grinners. Ninajirachi had every reason to wear the brightest of smiles when she visited the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s studios on Friday morning, Nov. 7.
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The previous evening, the songwriter, producer, DJ and artist collected the coveted Australian Music Prize for I Love My Computer (via NLV Records), her debut album.
The AMP is essentially the Australian album of the year, and is selected by a music industry panel for its artistry, over commercial success. In addition to a trophy, the winner collects a A$50,000 check.
“I feel so awesome,” she said on the ABC’s News Breakfast. “Nothing like this has ever happened to me. It’s kind of crazy, but it’s really awesome.” Even to be shortlisted was “so flattering. But no, I didn’t expect this to happen.”
The AMP win is just the starting point for what should be a thrilling ride for the 26-year-old.
Later this month, Ninajirachi (real name: Nina Wilson) competes for two J Awards, including the triple j album of the year, and she’s in the hunt for a leading eight trophies at the annual ARIA Awards, where she’s nominated for album of the year, best solo artist, the Michael Gudinski breakthrough artist, best independent release, best dance/electronic release and more.
From Nov. 28, she hits the road for an Australia tour, including one-off shows and festivals. The world awaits. First, New Zealand in early January, then a U.S. run starting Jan. 15 with a sold-out show at Holocene in Portland, OR, plus a spot on the Coachella bill, and “some other countries that haven’t been announced yet.”
Ninajirachi will tick off a bucket list next April, when she visits, and plays, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA for the very first time. “I’m so excited for Coachella,” she enthused. “I can’t wait.”
She’s buckled up and ready for what’s next. “I really just had a good time making an album. I hope I can keep making albums that feels as good as this one did,” she explained. “I’ve been making music for a long time and I could have never predicted what this year would look like. So it’s hard to say (what the future holds). I just hope it keeps feeling as fun as it has been recently.”
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Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl (via Republic/Universal) continues to twirl on the ARIA Charts, as it enters a fifth consecutive week at No. 1 on the national albums survey, while “The Fate Of Ophelia” retains top spot on the singles tally.
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“The Fate Of Ophelia” is Swift’s 13th chart leader in Australia and, with five weeks in the penthouse, it’s her second longest leader after 2022’s “Anti-Hero,” which logged six weeks at No. 1.
The top debut on the latest ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Nov. 7, belongs to Florence + The Machine, as the British alternative pop outfit’s sixth album, Everybody Scream (Polydor/Universal) opens its account at No. 4. All of Florence’s albums have cracked the ARIA top 10, including No. 1s for Ceremonials (in 2011), and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015).
Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning returns to the top 10 thanks to the 20th anniversary edition of Tea & Sympathy (Dew Process/Universal), his debut solo album. Tea & Sympathy re-enters at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and leads the Australian Albums Chart, the Vinyl Chart and the On Replay Albums Chart.
The veteran Brisbane singer collected the most entries in triple j’s Hottest 100 of Australian music countdown in July, with four total songs, including three with Powderfinger and his solo number “Wish You Well” (at No. 57), lifted from Tea & Sympathy, a chart-topper following its release in late 2005.
Also new to the chart is Vitriol (GYRO), the debut from Western Australia rock outfit Cloning. It’s new at No. 12, arriving ahead of a national tour that gets underway later this month.
Radiohead is back in the headlines, as they prepare for another U.K. tour later in the year. The Rock Hall-inducted British alternative rock act is back in the charts, too, as Hail To The Chief Live Recordings 2003-2009 (via XL) appears at No. 15. The studio version of Hail To The Chief was released in 2023, hitting No. 2.
Paramore singer Hayley Williams impacts the chart with her independently-released solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, new at No. 24. The project is an unusual one, which collects and repackages the songs Williams dropped earlier this year across her artist pages and on streaming services.
Close behind is Frankston, Victoria indie rock band the Belair Lip Bombs, which cracks the chart for the first time with Again (Third Man Records/RK), their sophomore set. It’s new at No. 25, and is one of eight homegrown recordings on the ARIA top 50. The Belair Lip Bombs are the first Australian band to sign with Jack White’s Nashville-based Third Man Records.
Further down the list, Brisbane nu-metal band Headwreck just misses out on a top 40 berth with Attitude Adjustment (Ditto). The debut collection drops in at No. 43, for Headwreck’s first appearance on the ARIA Charts.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, just one Australian track makes the cut, Tame Impala’s “Dracula” (Columbia/Sony), which lifts 50-37, a new peak position. And just one new single makes its mark for the first time, Lily Allen’s “Pussy Palace” (BMG), at No. 50.
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Wicked fans can relive the magic of Thursday night’s NBC TV special with the official soundtrack album, which materialized at the stroke of midnight.
Recorded live at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack captures performances from Wicked stars and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, alongside Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and others.
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The collection houses 10 live recordings, including “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “The Wizard And I,” all of which are back by a 37-piece orchestra, led by Stephen Oremus, and executive music producer of Wicked and the forthcoming sequel, Wicked: For Good.
“From Broadway to the big screen, Wicked has become a global cultural phenomenon, celebrating friendship, courage and the power of standing up against injustice,” reads a statement. The new, live soundtrack “honors that legacy with a collection that bridges generations of fans and captures the emotional heartbeat of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.”
Earlier, NBC beamed out its two-hour concert special, which marked the first time fans got to watch Grande and Erivo perform “What Is This Feeling?” and several other Wicked classics live.
The spectacle, and its soundtrack, should build the buzz for Wicked: For Good, which rolls out at cinemas from Nov. 21, and is accompanied with its own soundtrack, due out on the same day. Pre-orders are here.
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack is now available now to stream via Republic Records and Verve Records. Check out the tracklist below.
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack Track List:1. Overture / No One Mourns the Wicked (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande2. The Wizard And I (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo ft. Jeff Goldblum3. What Is This Feeling? / Dear Old Shiz (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande4. Popular (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande ft. Remington Glass5. I’m Not That Girl (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo6. Dancing Through Life (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater & Marissa Bode7. Thank Goodness (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande8. Defying Gravity (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo9. Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande10. For Good (Live from the Gershwin Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Idina Menzel & Kristin ChenowethWicked: For Good – The Soundtrack Track List:1. Every Day More Wicked – Wicked Movie Cast, Cynthia Erivo ft. Michelle Yeoh, Ariana Grande2. Thank Goodness / I Couldn’t Be Happier – Ariana Grande, Wicked Movie Cast ft. Michelle Yeoh 3. No Place Like Home – Cynthia Erivo 4. The Wicked Witch of the East – Marissa Bode, Cynthia Erivo, Ethan Slater5. Wonderful – Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo6. I’m Not That Girl (Reprise) – Ariana Grande7. As Long As You’re Mine – Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey 8. No Good Deed – Cynthia Erivo9. March of the Witch Hunters – Wicked Movie Cast, Ethan Slater 10. The Girl in the Bubble – Ariana Grande11. For Good – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
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Licorice has long been sought out and snaffled for its touted benefits, which range from digestion to respiratory health and skin conditions. It’s handy, too, in the creation of music.
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Hatchie’s third studio album Liquorice, which drops today (Nov. 7) through a global arrangement with Secretly Canadian, was created on the stuff, both the sticky snacks and the tea.
“I was introduced to licorice lollies at a young age because it’s my mum’s favorite, so my taste for it was already there,” Hatchie tells Billboard.
A bag of licorice, the top-shelf gear produced Darrell Lea, was close by when Hatchie caught up with Billboard at Summa House, an airy club in Fortitude Valley, the entertainment precinct of her hometown, Brisbane.
Licorice tea, she explains, “is really soothing for the vocal cords,” something learned on tour years ago “when I was struggling with chronic laryngitis. It coats your throat which really helps with tickles, so I’ve always got some handy when I’m singing. I drink it pretty much every day now.”
Hatchie is the project of Harriette Pilbeam, one part dream-pop, another shoegaze, and which, earlier in her career, the Australian singer and songwriter depicted as a creative mashup of Cocteau Twins with Kylie Minogue.
Perhaps that’s still the case, though this new LP, reads a statement, “reflects a woman increasingly comfortable in her own skin, no longer feeling the pressure to fit into a box or prove herself, whatever that even means.”
The album, “my best work yet,” she writes on social media, is the followup to 2022’s Giving The World Away. Spanning 11 tracks, Liquorice was written in Brisbane, then Melbourne, and completed in Los Angeles, where it was recorded at the home studio of producer Jay Som (real name: Melina Duterte), alongside Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett) on drums, and her bandmate, co-writer and partner in life, Joe Agius.
Is this “peak Hatchie,” where confidence, creativity and experience collide? “God I hope so,” she remarks. “It’s taken a lot of self-discovery to get to this point of creative self-acceptance.”
The album was mixed by Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman) and mastered by Greg Obis (Dutch Interior, Slow Pulp, Wishy), and is led by the singles “Lose It Again,” “Only One Laughing, and “Sage,” which arrives today with an official music video.
The new collection is the first global Hatchie release through Secretly Canadian, which signed the Aussie act in 2021, two years after arrival of debut LP Keepsake, and on the heels of plaudits from Pitchfork, Stereogum and elsewhere.
If confusion abounds on whether Hatchie is an artist or an act, Pilbeam is happy to clear it up. “It’s closer to a band at this point,” she says. “I could never make so many decisions by myself.”
To celebrate the release of Liquorice, Hatchie announces 2026 U.S. dates at Los Angeles’ Lodge Room (Feb. 2) and Music Hall of Williamsburg (Feb. 20). See below and stream Liquorice.
Hatchie 2026 U.S. tour dates:
Feb. 2 — Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 20 — Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, NY
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Snoop Dogg is open to joining the ownership team of his beloved sporting club, Celtic.
Glasgow Celtic, that is.
Speaking with Scotland’s Daily Record, Snoopy, who earlier this year invested in English Championship side Swansea City, is ready and willing to do the same with Celtic.
“It’s something I have talked about in the past and if the opportunity was right I would be down for it,” he’s reported as saying. “Celtic is a huge club and fans want to see the best players playing in this great stadium. All the owners have got to do is ask.”
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“Huge” might be an understatement. Competing in the Scottish Premiership, Celtic F.C. is one half of The Old Firm, a name given to the historic derby matches against Rangers, which is also based in Glasgow. Celtic Park, the team’s iconic homegrown, is a beast, with a capacity north of 60,000 — fitting for a club with more than 100 major trophies, including the European Cup (now the UEFA Champions League) in the 1966–67 season.
Snoop isn’t just a casual fan. Speaking with the Record, he considered Celtic’s prospects, which is now guided on an interim basis by experience manager Martin O’Neill, following the departure of incumbent Brendan Rodgers. The future may belong to the past, reckons Snoop, who called for the return of Australian coach Ange Postecoglou, who is now available following the briefest of stints leading Premiership team Nottingham Forest.
Postecoglou captured a bunch of titles during his successful two-year reign at Celtic. “You got to give Martin O’Neill big respect, he is coming back when we need him,” the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” artist remarked. “I think you got to bring Ange back. The club are going to do what they are going to do, but the fans would love to see him back.”
Snoop, it turns out, is a man of many sports. The Doggfather founded the Snoop Youth Football League (SYFL) in 2005, which has produced numerous NFL players, and he hosted the 2025 NFL Honors.
And just last month, Snoop performed at the AFL grand final, the showpiece event for Australian rules football.
He won’t be ringing in the new year on NBC, however. After previously announcing that the hip-hop legend would host a two-hour musical variety special from Miami titled Snoop Dogg’s New Year Eve as an extension of the hip-hop icon’s larger deal with NBCUniversal, Deadline reported on Wednesday (Nov. 5) that the network has decided not to proceed with the project.
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As part of its year-long centennial celebration, the Opry will focus on the music that has made it so special with Opry 100: Country’s Greatest Songs. Out Friday (Nov. 7), the Virgin Music Group-distributed double album features 20 previously unreleased live recordings from the Opry stage.
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The collection, which highlights songs from the fan-voted Opry 100 greatest songs list, spans more than 60 years of recordings, starting with Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” captured live in 1962, as well as well-chosen covers like Ashley McBryde’s “Your Cheatin’ Heart” from 2024. There are also a pair of “Full Circle” tracks, which are mixes of two live performances featuring artists of different eras, including a 1981 take of Marty Robbins singing “El Paso” with a later performance of the same song by Marty Stuart.
Below, Billboard premieres a 2007 Opry appearance by Dolly Parton singing her classic, “I Will Always Love You,” to Porter Wagoner on his 50th anniversary of being an Opry member, accompanied by Patty Loveless and Marty Stuart.
“If it hadn’t been for Porter, I wouldn’t have written this song. It was kind of my goodbye song to Porter,” Parton says of her former musical partner.
Dan Rogers, vp and executive producer at the Opry, tells Billboard how the 20 album choices were pared down from the Opry 100 greatest songs list. “We began treating the selection process as if we were putting together a perfect night at the Opry. With every show, we seek not just to create a highly entertaining performance beginning to end, but also to celebrate the past, present, and future of country music and to showcase numerous styles under the country umbrella,” he says.
The selections are meant to take the listener on a journey. “We wanted to ensure that as the listener continues, he hears about everything Opry audiences have experienced for 100 years: Jesus, whiskey, love, heartache, and more from Patsy Cline, George Jones, Vince Gill, Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood, and their contemporaries who have been stepping up to the Opry microphone for decades.”
The Opry owns the recordings of the live performances that take place on its stage, but Rogers says the Opry worked closely “with artists, labels, and publishers to obtain any necessary rights that may be required for using the recordings. Like every piece of music being released, it takes a whole lot of communication and partnership to make it to release day with everyone on board.”
Even as the Opry looks back, Rogers says the 100th anniversary celebration is setting up the beloved institution for the next century. “Our 100th celebration, which will continue well into 2026, is about both celebrating the Opry’s past and paving a path for the next 100 years, and this project is an audio representation of that celebration,” he explains. “The music included features some of the oldest, most authentic sounds from the Opry’s early days to contemporary sounds that help make the Opry relevant for younger fans with broad tastes.”
A number of promotions will surround the project’s release, including Opry member Don Schlitz, who wrote Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” guest hosting on WSM Radio today (Nov. 6). On Friday, SiriusXM’s The Highway channel will celebrate they 100th anniversary during Music Row Happy Hour. On Nov. 8, Opry Live, which airs every Saturday, on the Opry Facebook and YouTube channels, among other outlets, will air a special, hosted by Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, that features performances of 10 songs on the album.
The Opry’s official 100th anniversary show is scheduled for Nov. 28 and will feature more than 20 members of the Grand Ole Opry, including Bill Anderson, John Conlee, The Gatlin Brothers, Vince Gill, Jamey Johnson and Ricky Skaggs.
OPRY 100: Country’s Greatest Songs Track Listing:
1. “Your Cheatin’ Heart” – Ashley McBryde (2024)2. “El Paso” – Marty Robbins and Marty Stuart (1981 / 2024) (Full circle mix)3. “Crazy” – Patsy Cline (1962)4. “Ring of Fire” – Johnny Cash (1967)5. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” – Loretta Lynn (1985)6. “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” – Darius Rucker (2021)7. “I Will Always Love You” – Dolly Parton (feat. Patty Loveless and Marty Stuart) (2007)8. “The Gambler” – Don Schlitz (feat. Vince Gill) (2025)9. “Devil Went Down to Georgia” – The Charlie Daniels Band (2015)10. “Elvira” – The Oak Ridge Boys (1980)11. “Tennessee Whiskey” – Luke Combs (2016)12. “He Stopped Loving Her Today (Full Circle Mix)” – George Jones and Alan Jackson (1993 / 2013)13. “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” – Kelsea Ballerini (2025)14. “Forever and Ever, Amen” – Randy Travis (1989)15. “Don’t Close Your Eyes” – Keith Whitley (1988)16. “Fancy” – Reba McEntire (2017)17. “Chattahoochee” – Alan Jackson (2020)18. “Go Rest High on That Mountain” – Vince Gill (feat. Patty Loveless) (2015)19. “Jesus, Take The Wheel” – Carrie Underwood (2018)20. “Mama Don’t Allow / Will The Circle Be Unbroken?” – Old Crow Medicine Show, Dom Flemons, Billy Strings, and Molly Tuttle (2020)
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Metallica knows that the easiest way to a fan’s heart is through a taste of homegrown rock.
The metal giants are currently pounding their way through a long-overdue tour of Australia and New Zealand, a six-date coast-to-coast swing for the M72 World Tour.
When the “One” rockers visited Adelaide Oval on Wednesday night, Nov. 5, the setlist included many favorites from across their decorated, Rock Hall-inducted career — plus some legendary local music.
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Fan-filmed footage shows Metallica pumped out a cover of INXS’ Billboard Hot 100 leader “Need You Tonight”. Then, a segue into the Angels’ classic from 1976, “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again,” led by bass player Robert Trujillo at the mic.
It’s a song that courses through the bloodstream of every Australian weaned on guitar music, and has somehow evolved with a call-and-respond that has passed down the generations. When the song is played, tradition requires fans to roar “no way, get f—ed, f— off.”
Of course, that happened in the City of Churches.
At the height of their powers, the Angels were the prototypical Aussie pub-rock band, a group blessed with a captivating singer, the late Bernard “Doc” Neeson, and memorable, grinding songs.
The Angels were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1998. The following year, Neeson suffered a severe spinal injury. He died in 2014 following a years-long battle with brain cancer, aged 67. Bass player Chris Bailey died of throat cancer a year earlier, in 2013. In August of this year, the city of Adelaide’s lord mayor Jane Lomax-Smith unveiled to the public The Angels Lane, close to Hindley Street Music Hall in the CBD.
INXS needs no introduction. The new wave stars climbed the highest mountain of contemporary music with six U.K. top 10 albums (including a No. 1 with Welcome To Wherever You Are from 1992) and five U.S. top 20 albums, a BRIT Award (in 1991 for best international group) and, in 2001, elevation into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Surely Rock And Roll Hall of Fame elevation is in the cards.
It’s not the first time on this tour that Metallica has dished some homestyle cooking. During the opener Nov. 1 at Perth’s Optus Stadium, the Bay Area legends served up a rendition of John Butler’s “Zebra,” which the Western Australian native responded to with his own cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
Produced by Live Nation Australia, the tour continues Saturday (Nov. 8) at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, then visits Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium (Nov. 12), Sydney’s Accor Stadium (Nov. 15) and wraps up Nov. 19 at Auckland’s Eden Park. It’s Metallica’s first Australian run since 2013.
Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies are the support on this leg of the M72 World Tour.
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Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer wins the 21st Australian Music Prize, celebrating the outstanding Australian album of original work for the past year.
The Australian musician’s debut full length album, issued by Nina Las Vegas’ NLV Records, was announced Thursday afternoon as the 2025 AMP champ, as decided by a music industry panel.
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With the victory spoils, Ninajirachi (real name: Nina Wilson) collects A$50,000 ($32,000) in prize money, courtesy of headline sponsor Soundmerch.
“Thank you so much to the Australian music prize for awarding me this year, this truly means a lot to me!! I’m so proud to have produced an Australian album,” she comments in a statement. “I Love My Computer drew from my growing up on the central coast and the Australian dance music I heard in my childhood. To sincerely contribute to the awesome story of Australian music was one of my highest hopes. I hope I can keep making albums and telling stories forever. Thank you so much, I’m so honored to receive this award.”
The AMP could trigger a gold rush for Ninajirachi in the month of November — Ausmusic month, the annual celebration of Australian music and its creators. The 26-year-old songwriter, producer, DJ and artist will compete for a leading eight trophies at the annual ARIA Awards, where she’s nominated for album of the year, best solo artist, the Michael Gudinski breakthrough artist, best independent release, best dance/electronic release and more.
Modeled on the U.K.’s Mercury Prize, the AMP launched in 2005 as a platform to “discover, reward and promote new Australian music of excellence,” and is today recognized as the most prestigious national award for the album format.
Also shortlisted for the AMP were LPs by Tropical F*** Storm, Folk B**** Trio, Mudrat, and others released during the period Oct. 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2026.
Earlier in the three-stage judging system, a longlist of 465 eligible albums was boiled down to 50 nominees, focusing on creative merit over mainstream popularity. The final shortlist of nine was announced last month.
Previous winners include efforts byThe Avalanches, Sampa the Great (twice), Gurrumul, A.B. Original, Courtney Barnett and last year’s recipient, Kankawa Nagarra for Wirlmarni.
The 22nd Soundmerch AMP is open for Australian artist albums released from Oct.1, 25 to Sept. 30, 2026.
Soundmerch Australian Music Prize 2025 shortlist:
Bleak Squad — Strange Love
Divide And Dissolve — Insatiable
Floodlights — Underneath
Folk B**** Trio — Now Would Be A Good Time
Mia Wray Hi — It’s Nice To Meet
Mudrat Social — Cohesion
Ninajirachi — I Love My Computer
Ruby Gill — Some Kind Of Control
Tropical F*ck Storm — Fairyland Codex
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All hail Daniel Caesar.
Just hours after he was crowned on Billboard’s Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Caesar stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a performance of “Who Knows.”
Wearing a red beanie and a blue hooded jacket, and wielding an acoustic guitar, the late-night musical guest commanded the spotlight for this soul-filled number.
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“Who Knows” is housed by Son of Spergy (via Hollace/Republic Records), which bowed atop the list dated Nov. 8, for his first leader. Son of Spergy, the title for which is a nod to the nickname of Caesar’s father, gospel singer Norwill Simmonds, is the fourth album by the Canadian singer-songwriter.
The collection also enjoys splashes across various Billboard tallies, including a No. 1 start on the Top R&B Albums chart, his first time atop that tally; plus a No. 4 entry on the all-genre Billboard 200, for his first top 10 visit on the main survey; a No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, and No. 11 on the Top Streaming Albums ranking.
Meanwhile, 10 of the album’s tracks crack the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led “Who Knows,” which debuts at No. 23 — his best result as a lead artist.
Caesar (real name: Ashton Simmonds) has already reaped serious rewards in his career. He won a 2019 Grammy Award for “Best Part,” featuring H.E.R.; was featured alongside Giveon on Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” which debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021; and his fruitful collaboration with Tyler, The Creator played a big role in sending the rapper’s 2024 album, Chromakopia, the leadership on the Billboard 200.
Son of Spergy was two years in the making, shaped during sessions in Oracabessa, Jamaica and at Paris’ Rue Boyer and New York’s Electric Lady studios.
“It’s about religion, but more importantly, it’s about my father,” he told Billboard of the new album. “In your childhood, your father is a lot like God. He’s the person you fear the most on earth and also the person whose love and respect you desire more than anyone else on earth. It’s the source from where all your blessings come.”
Watch Caesar’s late-night performance below.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Oasis won’t look back in anger at their first visit to Australia in two decades.
The Britpop era superstars on Tuesday, Nov. 4 wrapped up the Melbourne leg of their swing down under, a three-concert stand at Marvel Stadium which produced three sellouts, playing to 180,000 fans, reps say.
The rock ‘n’ roll stars have made themselves at home, and made their feeling clear on dodgy ticket resales, which didn’t materialize due to the state of Victoria’s tough anti-touting laws.
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Under those rules, tickets can’t be resold for more than 10 per cent above the face value, or face fines from A$908 to A$109,044 for individuals or A$545,220 to A$545,000 for corporations.
The Oasis tour was listed as a “major event,” and with it was protected under the Major Events Act 2009.
As a result, those fans were guarded from paying obscene fees through StubHub or Viagogo, which remains one of live entertainment industry’s mortal enemies.
Oasis has applauded the intervention. “It’s great to see Victoria’s Major Events Declaration doing exactly what it’s meant to — Viagogo can’t list our Melbourne shows — and that’s a huge win for real fans,” reads a statement from the band.
“When government and the live industry work together, we can stop large-scale scalping in its tracks. We’d love to see other states follow Victoria’s lead so fans everywhere get a fair go.”
The Sydney chapter of the Oasis Live ’25 tour begins Friday, Nov. 7 with the first of two back-to-back shows at Accor Stadium, tickets for which are also protected from secondary-market price gouging by New South Wales’ anti-scalping laws. In NSW, it’s an offence to resell a ticket for more than the original retail price, plus transaction costs up to a maximum 10 percent of the original price.
Those laws have “been really successful for the Melbourne show,” a rep for the band’s management tells Billboard.com. “And continues to be a really important thing for the band and team throughout the Live ’25 campaign.”
Scalpers were reportedly forced to try to sell tickets at a loss overseas because they couldn’t sell them in Australia.A limited number of tickets are available for the final Sydney shows, according to Live Nation Australia, which is producing the domestic swing, and fans can still sell tickets at face value on approved platforms, including Tixel, Twickets and Ticketmaster.
Oasis then heads to Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where the global tour wraps up Nov. 23 in São Paulo.
Read Billboard.com’s recap of Oasis’s opening night concert in Melbourne.
