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Taylor Swift has held onto the top spots on both the U.K.’s Official Albums and Singles Charts for a third consecutive week (Oct. 24).
The Life of a Showgirl retains the No. 1 on the LPs chart, while its lead single “The Fate of Ophelia” extends its reign at the summit of the Singles Chart for a third consecutive week. The latter is Swift’s longest-running No. 1 single since “Anti-Hero” from 2022’s Midnights earned six weeks at No. 1; “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)” (2023) and “Fortnight” (2024) lasted just a single week each.
In its opening week, The Life of a Showgirl smashed numerous records on its way to No. 1 in the U.K. The record had the fastest-selling opening week since 2017 with 423,00 units, trailing only Ed Sheeran’s Divide (672,000). It also became the fastest-selling album on vinyl this century in the U.K., and was named the U.K.’s most-streamed album over the course of seven days in its opening week. She’s also occupied the top spot of the Billboard 200 for the past fortnight.
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The Life of a Showgirl is her 14th U.K. No. 1 album, she also extends her lead with the most No. 1s on the U.K. Albums Charts for an international artist, and now ties for second overall with The Rolling Stones (14). The top spot is also currently a tie between The Beatles and Robbie Williams who both have 15 apiece.
Elsewhere, The Last Dinner Party score the week’s highest new entry with their sophomore album From The Pyre, which Billboard U.K. described as making “good on years of industry hype with a definitive artistic statement.” Their 2024 debut Prelude to Ecstasy peaked at No. 1 upon release.
Olivia Dean’s breakout moment continues as she takes the No. 3 spot on the Official Albums Chart with The Art of Loving, and she lands at No. 2 on the Official Singles Chart with “Man I Need”. Earlier this month, Dean achieved a rare double for a British artist with concurrent No. 1s on the aforementioned charts.
Despite a divisive response from fans and critics, Tame Impala’s Deadbeat closes the week at No. 4 and gives Kevin Parker his third top five album after Currents (2015) and The Slow Rush (2020) which both peaked at No. 3.
There’s little change on the U.K. Singles Chart as, “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters ends the week at No. 3, RAYE’s “Where Is My Husband!” lifts one place to No. 4 and Swift’s “Opalite” slips one place to No. 5.
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Not many cops can say they’ve arrested a supermodel, but Sabrina Carpenter can. The pop star added Gigi Hadid to her list of Juno girls on Thursday night (Oct. 23) as SC kicked off the final leg of the Short n’ Sweet Tour in Pittsburgh.
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Ahead of performing “Juno,” Carpenter walked toward the front of the stage where Hadid was standing and the model’s face was broadcast on the arena jumbotron when the police sirents went off. “What’s your name,” she asked. “Gigi, does that stand for gorgeous girl? Oh my God. Gigi, wow, where are you from?”
Rocking a leopard print top over a white t-shirt, Hadid replied: “Bucks County.”
Carpenter, being a fellow Pennsylvania, responded: “Bucks County? I’m kinda from there too. That’s so crazy. Maybe we are soulmates. Gigi, I’m getting so hot and flustered. Oh my God, s—t, that always happens when I get excited about love.”
The singer handed over the signature hot pink handcuffs to Hadid as the “Juno” beat began playing. “This one is for Gigi, everybody,” Carpenter exclaimed, as the model blew her a kiss.
Hadid reposted the clip of her arrest to her Instagram Story. “Guilty as charged,” she fittingly wrote.
It’s been a busy last week for Gigi Hadid, who returned to the runway as an Angel in the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Oct. 15. However, she’s far from the first famous face to be arrested by Carpenter. Some previous celebrity Juno girls include Millie Bobby Brown, Margaret Qualley and Emma Bunton.
Sabrina Carpenter will hit the stage for a second Pittsburgh show on Friday (Oct. 24) before heading to New York City next week. Watch Sabrina arrest Gigi Hadid here.
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A Jamaican man who allegedly stole and resold more 900 tickets to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour has pleaded guilty to a New York criminal charge.
Tyrone Rose, 20, was arrested in March over allegations that he used backdoor access as an employee of a StubHub contractor to steal the pricey tickets, before forwarding them to a Queens-based accomplice who resold them for more than $635,000 in illegal profit.
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At a court hearing Thursday (Oct. 23), Rose pleaded guilty to a single count of grand larceny in the second degree over the alleged scalping scheme, while a sentencing hearing on that charge was set for January. Rose could face up to 15 years in prison.
The guilty plea was likely part of a deal under which prosecutors could recommend less than the maximum. Rose was also charged with five additional counts, including computer tampering, money laundering and conspiracy, which were not included in Thursday’s guilty plea.
Swift’s Eras Tour wrapped up last year with a record-breaking haul of more than $2 billion in face-value ticket sales over a two-year run that featured 149 stops in 51 cities across 21 countries. Massive demand for tickets led to a chaotic presale in November 2022, sparking calls for ticketing reform; it also created an infamously pricey secondary market, with even basic seats selling for thousands.
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The Eras Tour has also been big business in the courtroom. Swift fans filed class actions against Ticketmaster over the presale, and the Federal Trade Commission is suing a ticket broker for allegedly using bots to buy tickets that it resold for more than $1 million in profit. Just this month, an angry Swiftie sued StubHub for giving her “inferior” seats after she dropped $14,000 on Eras tickets.
In March, Queens prosecutors charged Rose with stealing more than 900 Eras tickets while working at a StubHub contractor in Jamaica called Sutherland. He allegedly abused his position to access a restricted area of StubHub’s network that houses URLs for event tickets that have already been sold, then re-directed them to New York-based co-conspirators who resold them for a windfall.
“These defendants tried to use the popularity of Taylor Swift’s concert tour and other high-profile events to profit at the [expense] of others,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said at the time. “They allegedly exploited a loophole through an offshore ticket vendor to steal tickets to the biggest concert tour of the last decade and then resold those seats for an extraordinary profit.”
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StubHub was not accused of any wrongdoing. When Rose was arrested, the company said it had promptly reported the scheme to both Sutherland and to law enforcement when uncovered, and had replaced or refunded all affected orders. Sutherland was also not accused of any wrongdoing.
Both an attorney for Rose and a spokesperson for the Queens DA did not return requests for comment on the guilty plea on Friday (Oct. 24).
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With just one week to go before Halloween weekend, a wide range of artists fired off new music releases just in time for spooky season.
Megan Thee Stallion unveiled her second single of 2025, “Lover Girl,” a Total-sampling ode to her basketball star boyfriend, Klay Thompson. The new track leads a busy week for hip-hop and R&B releases, including new projects from Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska ’82), Miguel (Caos), Daniel Caesar (Son of Spergy), Leon Thomas (Pholks) and Halle Bailey (Love?… Or Something Like It).
Notably, Bailey’s album marks her debut solo full-length efforts following years of solo singles such as “In Your Hands” and the Grammy-nominated “Angel,” as well as acclaimed turns in movie musicals including 2023’s The Little Mermaid and The Color Purple. Thomas’ Pholks EP arrives on the heels of his “Mutt” success — and a week before his Mutts Don’t Heel Tour launches — while Caesar’s latest LP is the follow-up to 2023’s Never Enough, which became his highest charting effort on the Billboard 200 (No. 14). As for Miguel, Caos marks his first album in nearly eight years.
To coincide with Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere finally hitting U.S. theaters, The Boss shared an expanded edition of his landmark 1982 Nebraska album. The record, whose conception the Jeremy Allen White-led film chronicles, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 during its original chart run. This new 4LP version of Nebraska features acoustic demos, little-known B-sides and the six long-rumored, E Street Band-assisted “Electric Nebraska” tracks.
On the pop side, Demi Lovato returned to dance-pop stomping grounds with her new album, It’s Not That Deep, and Alessia Cara issued a deluxe edition of her Love & Hyperbole LP. Brandi Carlile is also back with a new solo album, Returning to Myself, months after sharing a joint album with Elton John, and Shenseea, Hayley Williams, Sampha, Tee Grizzley and Samara Cyn all shared new tracks.
That’s a lot of new music to digest as we enter the penultimate month of the year, but Billboard still wants to know which new release you can’t get enough of. Tell us by casting your vote in the poll below.
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When Ariana Grande emerged as the main pop girl to watch in the early 2010s, she already had two women whose careers she admired in her corner: Madonna and Beyoncé.
While appearing on a new episode of the Shut Up Evan podcast posted Friday (Oct. 24), Grande revealed how the two icons welcomed her with open arms after her music career first started taking off post Victorious. “I’m very lucky that my idols have been very kind to me,” she began.
“I remember Madonna immediately was very kind,” the Wicked star continued. “I think she was one of the first people to reach out and, like, give me a warm welcome, and it was just really cool. I was overwhelmed by it, because I love her so much.”
Madge would go on to support Ari throughout her career, even recording a voice-over for Grande’s 2018 “God Is a Woman” music video. On the podcast, the R.E.M. Beauty founder also shouted out Mariah Carey — “And then, of course, Mariah,” were her words — as a personal hero who took her under her wing. The pair have since collaborated a handful of times, including on a remix of Grande’s Billboard Hot 100-topping single “Yes, And?”
As for Queen Bey, Grande recalled how the Destiny’s Child alum extended an invitation to meet her in 2013. “Beyoncé had me come visit a music video she was shooting, and I was just there in the corner,” she told host Evan Ross Katz. “I was like, ‘Why am I here?’ It was after I sang ‘Tattooed Heart’ on the AMAs. She invited me to set to visit her, and she just was being kind — she gave me a little bit of advice, and, you know, I asked, but she was so kind.”
“But yeah, I feel like I had people I really looked up to embrace me,” Grande added. “It made me feel safe.”
More than a decade later, and Grande is now arguably in the same league as all of the personal heroes she mentioned. The vocalist has earned two Grammys and six No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, to name just a couple of her successes.
But, as revealed on the podcast, Grande recently considered quitting music. After landed a role in Wicked, she thought that 2020’s Positions would be her last album.
“I didn’t think I was gonna make an album ever again,” she shared. “When I left for London, that was kind of my secret, but I didn’t think I was going to.”
Thankfully, Grande said that playing Glinda in the movies “totally rearranged everything about [her] relationship to creating,” which would inspire her to make 2024 album Eternal Sunshine. She’s now gearing up to go on a mini tour in support of the LP in 2026.
Watch Grande’s full interview on Shut Up Evan above.
Trending on Billboard Nobody had Nicki Minaj and James Blunt engaging in a playful exchange on X on their 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Earlier this week, Minaj looked to deliver an empowering message for her Barbz on the social media platform, writing, “Idk who needs to hear this, but you’re beautiful.” Nicki’s […]
Trending on Billboard It’s hard to believe, but there are some people on this planet who are not aware of Taylor Swift. Seriously. Take, for instance, The Longest Ride actor Scott Eastwood. While doing press this week for his new romantic drama Regretting You, the 39-year-old son of legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood got razzed by […]
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Sabrina Carpenter is a tidy 5′ tall. Which might explain why she’s looking for a sky high king in a sketch that got cut from her hosting/performing stint on Saturday Night Live last weekend. The “Tall, Plain Boyfriend” bit starts out with Carpenter on a date with new cast member Jeremy Culhane, who is just boring her to tears with his dumb stories.
After faking a laugh, Carpenter looks to camera and admits, “Dating can be tough. Some guys try to hard to be funny or interesting. Especially the little ones.” Cut to Culhane doing lame bits with chopsticks as walrus teeth.
“It feels like they’re doing the most. But sometimes, you just want less. So that’s why I switched to Tall, Plain Boyfriend,” she says with a smile, walking over to a towering box, whose cover she removes to reveal vanilla vision Ben Marshall, who recently got bumped up from his gig as part of the Please Don’t Destroy digital short trio to featured cast member.
“No drama, no personality, just a long body with hair on head,” she says. “All the girlies will be jealous.” Asked what he does for a living, Carpenter brags that her beloved tall stack is “6’5″” and that’s all he needs to do. As for where he grew up, well, see previous. His name? Who cares, did she mention that he’s 6’5″?
The best part? Tall, Plain Boyfriend comes with some of the best “lukewarm” takes about everything. Sleeping? “Feels so good when you’re tired.” Life? It’s crazy, but “dogs are so fun,” right? And you know it, opening presents on Christmas is, like, “the best!”
“Because if you need a deep conversation, b–ch, listen to a podcast!,” Carpenter advises as she cuts to other satisfied girlfriends whose boyfriends don’t even know what they do. “Does Tall, Plain Boyfriend have a perfect face?” Carpenter wonders of the partner who comes pre-loaded with bland empathetic phrases like “that sucks!” and “that’s crazy” and, of course, “that’s crazy how much that sucks. “Girl, I can barely see up there! That’s none of my business,” she enthuses.
“He might not make you laugh or think, but he will make you feel tiny,” Carpenter promises..
Carpenter had a full night last Saturday, performing her Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping Man’s Best Friend single “Manchild” on a bedroom set wearing nothing but a white t-shirt and pink SNL underwear. She returned later in a bedazzled karate gi and black belt for a dojo-themed performance of “Nobody’s Son,” during which she dropped two f-bombs live on air while breaking boards and taking out fellow black belts.
Her first hosting gig — she was previously the musical guest in May 2024 — also included some memorable sketches, including “Girlboss Seminar,” a cold open featuring new fan favorite “Domingo,” the school dance “Grind Song” short and the NSFW “Shop TV: Pillow” sketch about a way-too anatomically correct neck pillow.
Watch Tall, Plain Boyfriend here.
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Trending on Billboard Demi Lovato’s “Here All Night.” The singer returns to her pop roots for her ninth studio album, It’s Not That Deep, which hits streaming services on Friday (Oct. 24). Explore See latest videos, charts and news After seemingly throwing a funeral for her pop era with the rock-tinged Holy Fvck in 2022, […]
