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Trending on Billboard Megan Thee Stallion is head over heels for Klay Thompson. The Houston Hottie gushes about her NBA boo throughout her new single, “Lover Girl,” and she delivered a stunning accompanying visual on Friday (Oct. 24). Between the stylish ’90s glamour wardrobe, sharp visuals and storytelling, Megan spared no expense in this video. […]
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BOYNEXTDOOR returned this week with their fifth mini album The Action. When the group spent time in Chicago last August for their Lollapalooza performance, fans caught glimpses of them filming a music video — signaling early on that the album would carry a ‘movie’ concept. On the day of release, the group held a showcase event in Seoul to mark their return.
The album’s title draws inspiration from the term “Hollywood Action,” referring to large-scale films — or metaphorically, to bold, exaggerated and daring attitudes. The track “Hollywood Action” is ultimately about taking action itself. During the media showcase, leader MYUNG JAEHYUN said, “We’ve worked hard, making four comebacks over the past year including our Japanese promotions. I hope that people who find it difficult to take the first step will be inspired by our actions to challenge themselves.” The youngest member WOONHAK added, “This song is for anyone who hesitates or feels intimidated about trying something new.” TAESAN elaborated, “If our last album’s keyword was No Genre, this time it’s about breaking all limits and diving right in.”
Released at 6 p.m. KST on Monday, The Action captures the emotions and moments BOYNEXTDOOR’s six members are currently experiencing. Built around the cinematic theme, the album consists of five tracks that vividly translate their present selves into sound. While their previous record No Genre leaned toward smoother, genre-fluid tracks (with the exception of the title song “I Feel Good”), this new release explores a broader range — from acid jazz and hip-hop to ballads. Sonically and thematically, it succeeds in expressing BOYNEXTDOOR’s distinctive emotional world.
The opening track “Live in Paris” reflects the creative struggles of the group, echoing the light self-reflection found in “Twenty” from their EP 19.99. The rock-driven “Bathroom” delves into the pain of a romantic relationship, reminiscent of the poetic metaphors in “Gonna Be A Rock.” Meanwhile, “JAM!” captures the members’ playful energy while keeping things ‘chillin’ within the rules,’ much like the clever self-awareness shown in the line “I never cross the line, trust me” from “Dangerous.”
Knowing how to perform freely while still respecting boundaries — that’s the essence of BOYNEXTDOOR, and it’s what sets them apart in today’s K-pop scene. From the synchronized choreography of “Hollywood Action” to the album’s varied soundscape, The Action offers plenty to see and even more to hear.
All four of BOYNEXTDOOR’s previous albums have charted on the Billboard 200, and fans are eager to see whether The Action will extend that streak. Judging by the strength of this EP, the outlook looks bright — and Billboard Korea has ranked every track on the project.
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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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Trending on Billboard The All-American Rejects have dropped off their new song, “Eggshell Tap-Dancer,” the third single off their upcoming album. The indie rock sweetheart playful new track follows the singles “Search Party” and “Easy Come, Easy Go,” which all dropped earlier this year. “‘Eggshell Tap-Dancer’ is about performing tenderness until your feet bleed,” lead […]
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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.
Selena Quintanilla is undoubtedly one of the pinnacles of Latin music. At this year’s Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami, Selena’s sister, Suzette joined director, Isabel Castro to give attendees an exclusive look at their upcoming Netflix documentary, during the “Selena y Los Dinos” Panel. Not only did Suzette, who serves as an executive producer on the film, share memories of being a band, she showed home videos from the family’s personal archive, which can be seen for the first time when the Netflix documentary premiers on November 17, 2025.
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Isabel Castro, Suzette Quintanilla, Jessica Roiz during the Billboard Latin Music Week Miami 2025 Selena y Los Dinos (Presented by Netflix) panel at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Billboard’s assistant editor Latin, Jessica Roiz, moderated the conversation which explored Selena’s meteoric rise to fame, her dreams for the future, and the impact of family on her and her career. They kicked off the panel by showing the trailer for the film. It’s full of inspiring words from Selena herself, interviews with the Quintanilla family and bandmates, and a ton of home movies. They granted Castro unprecedented access to their personal media collection and sat down for in-depth interviews in the documentary to show viewers a side of the Queen of Tejano Music which only those closest to her would know.
Suzette Quintanilla during the Billboard Latin Music Week Miami 2025 Selena y Los Dinos (Presented by Netflix) panel at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Suzette explained what it was like welcoming Castro into their world. “I gave her a key to what we call ‘The Vault’.” The director went on to describe The Vault as “a medium sized room and there are floor to ceiling bookcases with hundreds if not thousands of VHS tapes, Betacams, CDs, flash drives.” The first step in making the documentary was digitizing all of the personal footage and stringing it out before even interviewing the family.
Isabel Castro during the Billboard Latin Music Week Miami 2025 Selena y Los Dinos (Presented by Netflix) panel at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Suzette shared why this was the first documentary their family wanted to participate in and why Isabel was the perfect director for this monumental film. Four to five years ago, Suzette asked her lawyer to find someone that could help the Quintanilla family finally tell their own story. He found Castro’s 2022 award-winning documentary “Mija” and was inspired to set up a meeting between the two, over Zoom. Suzette said, “Instantly, I knew that she was going to be the person that was able to tell this story for us.” The two bonded over being big sisters and now call each other friends.
Suzette Quintanilla, Isabel Castro during the Billboard Latin Music Week Miami 2025 Selena y Los Dinos (Presented by Netflix) panel at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Fans will see Selena as a sister, daughter, and wife in “Selena y Los Dinos” through never-before-seen footage and first-hand accounts from her parents, sister, brother, husband and bandmates. In one clip shared with attendees, the family describes how they saw the joy that Cumbia music brought their community and how the entire family was essential in developing that sound. By seeing what happened behind the scenes, Castro was moved to show the importance of family in what Selena would become. She said, “I was a Selena fan, but I didn’t totally understand the extent of it until I made this project. As I was discovering that, it was really important to me that that was a main focus of the film. And that’s why it’s called ‘Selena y Los Dinos’” Suzette reaffirmed what Isabel felt while making the film saying “Yes, Selena was the star, and she will continue to be that, but there was another element that made Selena as well. And that was our family and our family band.”
Isabel Castro, Suzette Quintanilla during the Billboard Latin Music Week Miami 2025 Selena y Los Dinos (Presented by Netflix) panel at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Suzette, Isabel, and Jessica ended their conversation by discussing what they hope viewers take away from the film. For Suzette, she said “What I would love for them to take away is that we’re a normal family that started a band that became global.” For Isabel, she wants to celebrate bi-cultural identities, saying “I want people to see this and how much joy and pride there can be in not being from here or there but being from a mixture of two places. I just think that’s so beautiful.” And that diversity is seen and appreciated within Selena’s fandom. Suzette described the pride she feels for the more than two generations of fans her sister has. “Selena is not just a Latin artist. She is global. She is a global artist, and it doesn’t matter what nationality you are, you listen to her music and you’re a fan. And for that I am grateful.” There is no denying the impact Selena Quintanilla has had on the Latin music world and pop culture at large. We’ve seen the talent and charisma which made her a top tier artist and performer. Soon, you can see what made Selena a superstar at home in the eyes of her family when “Selena y Los Dinos” premieres on November 17, 2025, only on Netflix.
To celebrate the release of her debut solo studio album, Halle Bailey gets strikingly honest in the latest episode of Billboard’s Takes Us Out video series.
The six-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter took Billboard’s Tetris Kelly out to H.O.P.E. (Healthy Organic Positive Eating) in Studio City, Calif., where the pair dug into a spread of some of Halle’s favorite vegan bites. While conversing over spring rolls and green curry dumplings, the pair discussed The Little Mermaid, accepting the Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award in 2020, her first love, working with Mariah the Scientist and GloRilla, and Beyoncé‘s reaction to her debut solo album, Love?… Or Something Like It.
Released on Friday (Oct. 24) via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, Halle’s new LP features collaborations with Chlöe, Mariah the Scientist, GloRilla and H.E.R., as well as the previously released singles “Angel,” “Because I Love You,” “In Your Hands,” “Braveface” and “Back and Forth.” Notable cowriters and producers include RAYE, D. Phelps, Freaky Rob, Sevyn Streeter, BongoByTheWay, and, of course, Bailey herself.
“I hear my sister on so many songs, I think it’s the way my brain is wired,” she tells Billboard. “I hear her, I hear what she can add, like, ‘She would be good on this; she would be good on that!’ When it came to our song ‘Feel Again,’ I was like, ‘I cannot do this song without Chlöe, I need to hear her on this.’ My sister is a freakin’ cool musical genius; she travels with her equipment. She can record wherever she is because she brings all her s—t with her.”
And if there’s been one constant in Halle’s life as she navigates the music industry — outside of her sister — it’s Beyoncé, the music icon who mentored the sibling duo and signed them to her Parkwood label.
“I played this one for [Beyoncé] too,” Halle reveals. “And she was obsessed with hearing our voices again together.”
The new record arrives as Halle’s first full-length solo offering since her sister duo of Chloe x Halle took a hiatus following the release of 2020’s breakthrough Ungodly Hour album. As her older sister embarked on a career that has yielded two solo albums and buzzy music videos, Halle focused on bringing Princess Ariel to life in the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, securing safety and stability for her son Halo (whom she shares with ex DDG), and figuring out her solo sound.
Watch the latest episode of Takes Us Out 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 […]
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The records set by Stray Kids’ eight members in 2025 leave no room for doubt. The group’s fourth full-length album, Karma, released on Aug. 22, became the first K-pop album of the year to surpass 3 million copies in first-week sales in Korea. That success led them straight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking a historic milestone: Stray Kids are now the first K-pop group to send seven consecutive albums to the top of the chart.
Their touring success was just as extraordinary. Starting in Seoul in August 2024 and wrapping up in Rome the following July, the dominATE world tour covered 54 shows across 34 cities worldwide — including 27 massive stadium concerts. So it was only fitting that, after circling the globe, Stray Kids chose Incheon’s Asiad Main Stadium as the final stop. This encore concert also marked the group’s very first outdoor stadium performance in Korea.
Billboard Korea attended the first night of dominATE : celebrATE, held on Oct. 18 and 19 at Incheon Asiad Main Stadium. Only a few K-pop acts — PSY, SEVENTEEN and now Stray Kids — have ever performed there. Even before the concert began, waves of STAYs filled the streets outside. The 100-meter-wide stage lined with LED panels and the five-tier stadium holding up to 30,000 fans created a scale that was visually overwhelming in itself.
The show opened powerfully with “MOUNTAINS,” followed by “Thunderous,” “JJAM,” “District 9” and “Back Door.” Though the setlist mirrored that of the original tour, the atmosphere inside the open-air venue felt entirely new. Leader Bang Chan even remarked, “It’s hard to believe this is Korea” as the night unfolded with drone shows, fireworks and every spectacle imaginable for such a grand stage. The members’ explosive energy never waned — they performed more than 30 songs across three and a half hours.
“Seven laps around the Earth by plane.” That was how JYP Entertainment described the dominATE tour in a press release, referring to the group’s travels — 285,000 kilometers across five continents: Asia, Oceania, North America, Latin America and Europe. Departing from Incheon International Airport, Stray Kids truly went around the world nearly seven times (the Earth’s circumference is about 40,000 km).
dominATE : celebrATE was a moment where the sweat and growth of Stray Kids’ eight members — everything encapsulated in that single phrase — could truly be witnessed on stage. It was also a night that reflected their well-earned sense of ease, gratitude and an undiminished passion to keep moving forward.
Here are six reasons why Stray Kids’ encore concert in Incheon was the perfect finale.
First-Ever Live Performances of Tracks From ‘Karma’
