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Trending on Billboard Megan Thee Stallion could be playing some more “Captain Hook” at sea this year. The Houston Hottie’s boyfriend, Klay Thompson, showed off his boat’s new name over the holiday weekend, which pays homage to Megan with the SS Stallion. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The NBA star took to his […]
Trending on Billboard Rihanna has Anti on the brain this week, as the album — which remains her most recent full-length a decade after its release — has just clocked a historic 500th week on the Billboard 200. On the chart dated Dec. 6, 2025, the critically acclaimed LP ranks at No. 134, recording a […]
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Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” rules the Billboard Hot 100 for an eighth week, tying “Anti-Hero” as her longest-leading hit. “The Fate of Ophelia” has been No. 1 in each of its weeks on the Hot 100 so far, dating to its mid-October debut; “Anti-Hero” began its reign upon its arrival in November 2022. […]
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Evanescence is gearing up for their first major headlining world tour in four years. The Amy Lee-led group announced the dates for their upcoming 2026 world tour on Monday (Dec. 1), revealing a list of 47 dates across North America, the U.K. and Europe.
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The run is slated to kick off on June 11 at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Fla., before moving on to Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ontario, Quebec, Indiana, Missouri, Arizona, California, Utah, Ohio and Michigan. It will then hop over to the U.K. and Europe for summertime gigs in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London, as well as shows in Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
“This year has been so inspiring in so many ways, creating so much new music, playing some bucket-list shows and working with so many artists that give us life,” said Lee in a statement. “We are taking all of that fire and energy and inspiration and building it into an epic 2026 for our fans. Collaborating with K. Flay, Poppy, and Courtney Le Plante made me want to create a world where we could share stages together, and I’m thrilled we are going to make it happen! I can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on, and I can’t wait for this incredible tour.”
The shows will feature special guests Spiritbox and Nova Twins on the North American leg, Poppy and Nova Twins opening the non-U.K. concerts and K.Flay — who is featured on Evanescence’s latest single, “Fight Like a Girl” — opening the U.K. stops. K.Flay will also work as the support act on the tour’s final stop at the storied Red Rock Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo. on Oct. 26.
Tickets will be available starting with a Citi pre-sale beginning on Tuesday (Dec. 2) at 8 a.m. local time through Thursday (Dec. 4) at 10 p.m. local time; details for the Citi pre-sale are here. Evanescence and Spiritbox pre-sales will follow on Tuesday beginning at 12 p.m. ET, with more pre-sales scheduled throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale on Friday (Dec. 5) at 10 a.m. local time here.
Evanescence is teaming up with non-profit PLUS1 to donate $1 from every ticket to support groups providing humanitarian aid and medical relief around the world.
Check out the dates for Evanescence’s 2026 world tour below:
June 11: West Palm Beach, Fla. @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
June 12: Tampa, Fla. @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 14: Alpharetta, Ga. @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
June 15: Nashville, Tenn. @ Bridgestone Arena
June 17: Raleigh, N.C. @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
June 18: Charlotte, N.C. @ PNC Music Pavilion
June 20: Camden, N.J. @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
June 21: Mansfield, Mass. @ Xfinity Center
June 23: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 24: Wantagh, N.Y. @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
June 26: Holmdel, N.J. @ PNC Bank Arts Center
June 27: Bristow, Va. @ Jiffy Lube Live
June 29: Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre
June 30: Montréal, QC @ Centre Bell
July 8: Tinley Park, Ill. @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
July 9: Noblesville, Ind. @ Ruoff Music Center
July 11: North Little Rock, Ark. @ Simmons Bank Arena
July 12: Kansas City, Mo. @ MORTON Amphitheater
July 14: Albuquerque, N.M. @ Isleta Amphitheater
July 15: Phoenix, Ariz. @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
July 17: Chula Vista, Calif. @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 20: Mountain View, Calif. @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 22: Ridgefield, Wash. @ Cascades Amphitheater
July 23: Auburn, Wash. @ White River Amphitheatre
July 25: Salt Lake City, Utah @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 28: St. Louis, Mo. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
July 30: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio @ Blossom Music Center
Aug. 1: Cincinnati, Ohio @ Riverbend Music Center
Aug. 2: Clarkston, Mich. @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
Sept. 8: Leeds, UK @ First Direct Arena
Sept. 10: Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
Sept. 11: Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena Birmingham
Sept. 13: London, UK @ The O2
Sept. 16: Brussels, BE @ Forest National
Sept. 17: Paris, FR @ Accor Arena
Sept. 19: Frankfurt, DE @ Congress Center Messe Frankfurt – Festhalle Frankfurt
Sept. 20: Dortmund, DE @ Westfalenhallen Dortmund
Sept. 22: Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome
Sept. 23: Hamburg, DE @ Barclays Arena
Sept. 25: Berlin, DE @ Velodrom
Sept. 26: Munich, DE @ Olympiahalle
Sept. 28: Bologna, IT @ Unipol Arena
Sept. 29: Zurich, CH @ Hallenstadion Zurich
Oct. 1: Barcelona, ES @ Palau Olimpic Badalona
Oct. 2: Madrid, ES @ Palacio Vistalegre
Oct. 4: Lisbon, PT @ MEO Arena
Oct. 26: Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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Ariana Grande‘s physical appearance has been dissected by the public numerous times over the years, but amid the rollout for the Wicked movies, the speculation has arguably reached a fever pitch — leading the performer to speak out about the issue once again.
In a post on Instagram Stories over the weekend, Grande posted a clip from a 2024 interview in which she discusses the dangers of openly criticizing people’s bodies in today’s society. “resharing this from last year,” she wrote Saturday (Nov. 29). “as a loving reminder to all.”
In the interview with French journalist Sally, the R.E.M. Beauty founder discusses how her body has been the subject of public discourse since she first rose to fame as a teenager. “I have heard it all. I’ve heard every version of it, of what’s wrong with me,” Grande said at the time. “And then you fix it, and then it’s wrong for different reasons.”
“It’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on,” she continued in the December 2024 conversation as Cynthia Erivo sat next to her. “In today’s society, there’s a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all commenting on other’s looks, appearance, what they think is going on behind the scenes, or health … I think it’s dangerous for all parties involved.”
The two-time Grammy winner’s post comes amid mounting concern for Grande’s health, with people online increasingly picking apart photos and videos — including shots of the star in Wicked: For Good, which premiered in November — of her, with many pointing out that she looks thinner than she used to. Others have speculated that the star is unhealthily slender — something she’s also addressed in the past.
“There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful,” she said in a 2023 TikTok. “I know personally for me, the body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body. I was on a lot of anti-depressants and drinking on them and eating poorly, and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my ‘healthy.’ But that, in fact, wasn’t my healthy.”
“I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies — no matter what,” she added at the time. “If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is. Healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, not sexy … We just shouldn’t. We should really work towards not doing that as much.”
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50 Cent’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning documentary is set to hit Netflix on Tuesday (Dec. 2), and ahead of the explosive four-part docuseries’ arrival, 50 and director Alexandria Stapleton sat down with Robin Roberts for Good Morning America on Monday (Dec. 1) to reveal details of the opus about the Bad Boy Records founder’s fall from grace.
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The Reckoning obtained never-before-seen footage of Diddy that was reportedly slated for a doc that he was allegedly filming before the embattled Bad Boy mogul’s arrest in September 2024. One scene finds him in conversation with his legal team, imploring them to up their game.
“Listen to me, I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution,” Diddy said from what appears to be a hotel room. “Y’all are not working together the right way. We’re losing.”
There’s another scene that shows Diddy amongst the people in Harlem and then asking for hand sanitizer after getting into his car. “I been out in the streets amongst the people, I gotta take a bath. The amount of people I’m coming into contact with, that’s what I have to do,” Diddy said.
50 believes that the scene is a look into Combs’ manipulative ways. “It shows you his character,” longtime Diddy antagonist 50 told Roberts. “What’s the odds you would do that in front of a camera? That’s one of the moments he forgot he was on tape.”
A spokesperson for Combs relayed to the New York Times that they were “deeply concerned” about the inclusion of “private moments” before Diddy’s indictment that are included in the docuseries. “None of this was obtained from Sean Combs or his team, and its inclusion raises very serious questions about how this material was accessed and why Netflix chose to use it,” said Combs spokesperson Juda Engelmayer.
The G-Unit mogul pushed back against the narrative that he’s using the docuseries to needle his longtime foe instead of uplifting the victims’ stories.
“What they consider a pre-existing beef for 20 years is me being uncomfortable with him suggesting he takes me shopping,” 50 Cent added. “I looked at it like I was a tester — like, ‘Maybe you will come play with me.’”
The four-part series also includes interviews with two jurors who delivered the mixed verdict that found Combs guilty of prostitution charges in his federal trial, but dodging charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs was ultimately sentenced to 50 months in prison in October.
The Reckoning — which hits Netflix on Tuesday — will explore Combs’ federal trial and history of alleged sexual abuse. He’s repeatedly denied sexually assaulting anyone despite testimony from two former girlfriends at his trial alleging physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The doc will see contributions from former associates, friends, artists and employees who came forward to detail the world behind the Bad Boy empire.
Watch 50 Cent’s full interview with GMA below.
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50 Cent’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning documentary is set to hit Netflix on Tuesday (Dec. 2), and ahead of the explosive four-part docuseries’ arrival, 50 and director Alexandria Stapleton sat down with Robin Roberts for Good Morning America on Monday (Dec. 1) to reveal details of the opus about the Bad Boy Records founder’s fall from grace.
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The Reckoning obtained never-before-seen footage of Diddy that was reportedly slated for a doc that he was allegedly filming before the embattled Bad Boy mogul’s arrest in September 2024. One scene finds him in conversation with his legal team, imploring them to up their game.
“Listen to me, I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution,” Diddy said from what appears to be a hotel room. “Y’all are not working together the right way. We’re losing.”
There’s another scene that shows Diddy amongst the people in Harlem and then asking for hand sanitizer after getting into his car. “I been out in the streets amongst the people, I gotta take a bath. The amount of people I’m coming into contact with, that’s what I have to do,” Diddy said.
50 believes that the scene is a look into Combs’ manipulative ways. “It shows you his character,” longtime Diddy antagonist 50 told Roberts. “What’s the odds you would do that in front of a camera? That’s one of the moments he forgot he was on tape.”
A spokesperson for Combs relayed to the New York Times that they were “deeply concerned” about the inclusion of “private moments” before Diddy’s indictment that are included in the docuseries. “None of this was obtained from Sean Combs or his team, and its inclusion raises very serious questions about how this material was accessed and why Netflix chose to use it,” said Combs spokesperson Juda Engelmayer.
The G-Unit mogul pushed back against the narrative that he’s using the docuseries to needle his longtime foe instead of uplifting the victims’ stories.
“What they consider a pre-existing beef for 20 years is me being uncomfortable with him suggesting he takes me shopping,” 50 Cent added. “I looked at it like I was a tester — like, ‘Maybe you will come play with me.’”
The four-part series also includes interviews with two jurors who delivered the mixed verdict that found Combs guilty of prostitution charges in his federal trial, but dodging charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs was ultimately sentenced to 50 months in prison in October.
The Reckoning — which hits Netflix on Tuesday — will explore Combs’ federal trial and history of alleged sexual abuse. He’s repeatedly denied sexually assaulting anyone despite testimony from two former girlfriends at his trial alleging physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The doc will see contributions from former associates, friends, artists and employees who came forward to detail the world behind the Bad Boy empire.
Watch 50 Cent’s full interview with GMA below.
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Ed Sheeran may love to use a loop pedal on stage, but in life, he’s often out of the loop due to his refusal to own a phone. That’s why he found out about longtime bestie Taylor Swift‘s engagement to Travis Kelce weeks after the fact.
But after learning about the “Fate of Ophelia” singer’s big news at the same time as the rest of the world via her August announcement on Instagram, the British pop star apparently had a long conversation with Swift to get caught up to speed. Revealing that he met up with her just “a week after” he revealed to Andy Cohen in September that he’d not been privy to Swift’s engagement before the general public, Sheeran told Access Hollywood in a Nov. 28 interview, “When I saw Taylor, we had like a four-hour catch-up.”
“I’m not self-conscious about my relationship with her,” he continued, noting that he and his pal spent the time talking about “life stuff” together. “We’ve been friends for many years. We’re super close, and we see each other when we see each other. And when we see each other, we lock back into where we left off,” Sheeran added.
The two titans of pop music have indeed been close for a long time, with the pair coming together in 2012 for a collaboration on Swift’s Red album titled “Everything Has Changed.” Sheeran then joined the 14-time Grammy winner on the road for her Red Tour, and the two have teamed up on a number of tracks since.
Despite their bond, Swift forgot to tell Sheeran directly about her engagement because of his commitment to staying off the grid. “He doesn’t have a phone,” the Eras Tour headliner lamented to Jimmy Fallon in October. “And this is one thing I love about him … But when I’m going through, saying, ‘Hey, who should we call? Who should we FaceTime?’ I’m going through my texts and being like, ‘Who have I texted within the last like, month of my life?’”
But while he may have been late to the proposal news, Sheeran will definitely be at Swift’s nuptials to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end (that is, assuming the happy couple sends him an invite with the date and location by post rather than text or email). On U.K.’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show in October, Swift confirmed that Sheeran will be on the guest list and added that it will be “hard to keep” him from giving an impromptu performance at the reception.
“It’s like, Ed, if there’s a stage you know that you’ll be on it,” she said at the time. “He knows what people want, and he wants to give people what they want.”
Watch Sheeran discuss his recent catch-up with Swift below.
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It’s time to pull out those ties, suit jackets, church hats and pearls, because Nick Jonas is slipping into his Sunday Best era with a new solo album coming in 2026.
On Monday (Dec. 1), the Jonas Brothers star announced that he’s gearing up to release his first solo full-length LP in five years, Sunday Best, on Feb. 6. The 11-track project will explore Nick’s life as a husband to actress Priyanka Chopra and a dad to their daughter, Malti, according to a release.
“I’m so excited to share these new stories, candid thoughts, quiet walks home in the city, and snapshots of my life over these past few years,” the pop-rocker said in a statement. “And while this album was made over the course of the last two years, it was truly 33 years in the making.”
On Instagram, Nick shared the Sunday Best cover art, which features him looking at his reflection in a bathroom mirror while getting dressed for the day in khakis. On the wall behind him hangs a piece of construction paper with three paint handprints on it, most likely to represent the musician, his wife and their child.
Serving as Nick’s fifth solo album, Sunday Best will follow 2021’s Spaceman, which reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200. He’s released two albums with brothers Joe and Kevin since: 2023’s The Album and 2025’s Greetings From Your Hometown, both of which charted in the top 10.
As a soloist, Nick has also charted eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100 over the course of his career, including top 10 hit “Jealous.”
The singer has spent much of this year on tour with his brothers in celebration of their 20th anniversary as a band. They currently have dates scheduled through the very end of December, closing out 2025 with a performance at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on New Year’s Eve.
See Nick’s announcement for Sunday Best below.
