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If you were looking for a breezy break from the unrelenting torrent of news about the Nov. 5 presidential election, SEVENTEEN had just what you needed on Wednesday morning (Oct. 30). The 13-member K-pop boy band marked their debut performance on ABC’s Good Morning America by providing some musical caffeine via the first U.S. TV run-through of their new single, “LOVE, MONEY, FAME” from their 12th mini album, SPILL THE FEELS.
Though the song’s featured artist, DJ Khaled, was not on hand, S.COUPS, JEONGHAN, JOSHUA, JUN, HOSHI, WONWOO, WOOZI, THE 8, MINGYU, DK, SEUNGKWAN, VERNON and DINO, rocked the GMA stage with their signature mix of smooth vocal harmonies, rapping and intricate choreography as the members took turns in the spotlight for the English-language version of the song.
The performance came after the group racked up their sixth top 10-charting release on the Billboard 200 album chart with SPILL, which debuted at No. 5 with 66,000 equivalent album units earned for the week ending Oct. 24.
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The superstar group kicked off the U.S. leg of their [RIGHT HERE] world tour in Chicago last week, marking their first American dates in more than two years. The three-hour, 22-song show showcased tracks from across their four album, 12 EP catalog, including the debut live performance of “LOVE, MONEY, FAME.”
American CARATs can check them out next on Halloween night (Oct. 31) at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio (and again the next night), Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA (Nov. 5-6) and BMO Stadium in Los Angeles (Nov. 9-10); the latter will be their first U.S. stadium shows.
Watch SEVENTEEN perform “LOVE, MONEY, FAME” on GMA below.
As exciting and whirlwind as her romance was with Jonas Brothers singer and solo star Joe Jonas was, looking back on it now Sophie Turner can kind of sketch out what went wrong. In a new Harper’s Bazaar 2024 Women of the Year profile, the former Game of Thrones actress said her upcoming 2025 psychological thriller Trust — in which she plays an actress on the run after a high-profile internet scandal — “really mirrored my life from this past year.”
She said filming the movie was a very “cathartic” experience and a chance to “let out some serious anger, which was fun.” Not as fun was the end of her four-year marriage to Jonas, whom she married in 2019 in a Las Vegas wedding overseen by an Elvis impersonator that was livestreamed by Diplo.
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The couple subsequently had two children together, daughters Willa and Delphine, before Jonas filed for divorce in Sept. 2023, saying that their marriage was “irretrievably broken” and requesting shared custody of their children. Asked what went wrong in the high-profile relationship that found the glamorous jet-setting couple lighting up red carpets around the world during their union?
“I’m going through a legal process right now where I can’t really say much, but it was incredibly sad. We had a beautiful relationship, and it was hard,” Turner said of the highs of the marriage, and the lows of its dissolution. One of the reported points of contention in their split was Turner’s desire for their girls to grow up in her native England, and now that she’s back in the U.K. she told the magazine that her life feels like it’s back on the rails.
“I’m so happy to be back. It felt as if my life was on pause until I returned to England,” she said. “I just never really feel like myself when I’m not in London, with my friends and family. I was away for so long – six years – and it was when my friends were getting engaged, and when I got pregnant. I went for dinner with someone the other day, and she said, ‘I never got to touch your belly.’ We didn’t have those key experiences with each other.”
Turner, 28, said she was homesick living in Los Angeles and Miami with Jonas, revealing that the first thing she would do in every city they lived in was “find a British shop and stock up on a month’s worth of chocolate,” comfort food that helped her feel settled, but still didn’t make up for the aspects of American society she found most troubling. “The gun violence, Roe v Wade being overturned… Everything just kind of piled on,” she said. “After the [May 2022] Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the f–k out of there.”
Now she’s got her own place in West London, though Turner said she’s currently staying with a friend while the girls are with Jonas in the U.S. because being home alone without her kids is “absolute agony” for her. Turner — who can be seen now in the ITV crime drama Joan — also revealed that before becoming a mother she was “very depressed and anxious,” and used to isolate herself a lot.
“Now, I think I live my life for them. I want them to see me having a social life and enjoying work and thriving in my career and relationships,” she said. “I want them to see a hard-working mum. I’ll come back and say, ‘This is why Mummy was away – it’s because she’s doing this for you, so Father Christmas can come with a big bundle of presents.’”
In September, a Florida judge declared Jonas and Turner officially divorced and single, approving a confidential, moderated agreement between the two that split their assets and detailed spousal support and custody of their children. In January, Turner dropped her “wrongful retention” suit when the ex’s reached a co-parenting agreement.
Coldplay have notched a lot of firsts on their current Music of the Spheres world tour. But on Wednesday night (Oct. 30) in Melbourne, Australia the group did something they’ve never done in their entire quarter century run together: they played a show without one of their four founding members.
In an Instagram post that went up after the gig at Marvel Stadium, the band announced that bassist Guy Berryman was forced to sit out the gig, noting, “Tonight was the first time in our band’s history that we’ve played a show without all four members onstage. Guy was taken ill unexpectedly just before the show. Thank you for carrying us through it.”
So, instead, singer Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland and drummer Will Champion carried on, with Martin telling the crowd before the gig properly began, “I have to say, thank you so much for coming to our show today. It’s a shame but we waited for the last minute to tell you that our beautiful bass player Guy is very, very sick. And will not be (playing) for the first time. I’m sorry for you guys down here who are waiting to see Guy. He’s not going to be able to play today. We’ll have a slightly different show and we’ll do our best to make it amazing, and I know that it will be amazing because we’re in Melbourne with all of you beautiful people.”
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He added, however, that if the crowd noticed some “mistakes, and some problems, it’s because we don’t have our bass player. And we only had about an hour to figure it out. And we have figured it out. We have a strange, alien, weird friend character playing bass, or looking like he’s playing bass. So you’ll hear Guy, but you just won’t see him. Because he’s vomiting.”
Instead, Martin revealed that the band’s co-producer and engineer, Bill Rahko, would be subbing in while wearing on the signature space helmets that are part of the eye-popping spectacle that has criss-crossed the globe for nearly three years to date, grossing more than $1 billion.
Coldplay recently celebrated their first Billboard top 200 No. 1 album in 10 years. After wrapping their four-night stand at Marvel Stadium, Coldplay will move on to four nights at Accor Stadium in Sydney and three nights at Eden Park in Auckland, N.Z. before taking time off and re-booting the tour in January with gigs in the United Arab Emirates and India on their way to wrapping up the outing with a 10-night stand at Wembley Stadium in London.
Check out fan footage of Rahko on stage in Melbourne.
Next year’s emo-tastic lineup for the annual When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas has yet another stacked lineup of all your Hot Topic faves. Just weeks after this year’s event swept up all its glitter and guyliner, organizers revealed that the October 18, 2025 edition will feature the return of Panic! At the Disco, who announced their split in early 2023 and played their final shows in early 2024 in Europe.
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Not only that, but the band will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their beloved 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in its entirety, regaling the crowd with renditions of classics including “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage,” “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “But It’s Better If You Do.”
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Other acts lined up to hit the Las Vegas Festival Grounds for the show include: Weezer, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, The Offspring, All Time Low, The Used, Knocked Loose, Yellowcard, Simple Plan, Taking Back Sunday, Jack’s Mannequin, The Story So Far, Alexisonfire, Bad Religion, The Gaslight Anthem, I Prevail, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless in White, Plain White T’s, Straylight Run and many more.
Sign-up for the presale beings on Friday (Nov. 1) at 10 a.m. PT., with the general onsale kicking off on Friday at 2 p.m. PT.
This year’s WWWY fest took place on Oct. 19-20 and featured My Chemical Romance playing their landmark album The Black Parade, as well as sets from Nada Surf, 3OH!3, Neck Deep, New Found Glory, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Atreyu, Saves the Day, Silverstein, Coheed and Cambria and many more.
See the full lineup and Panic’s announcement below.
Even though he wrapped his Love on Tour outing two years ago and hasn’t released a new album since 2022’s Harry’s House, Harry Styles has definitely still got it. For proof just look at People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2024 Readers’ Choice Poll, which saw almost 350,000 votes cast in what the mag said was […]
Olivia Rodrigo is likely still on a sugar high after wrapping up her sold-out 95-show Guts world tour. So, naturally, on Tuesday night (Oct. 29) when she visited the Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon asked her to talk about two of the wildest things that happened to her on the road.
After holding up a copy of the Touring Issue of Billboard magazine with Rodrigo on the cover, Fallon dug right in on the singer’s intense road run-in with some border cops. “I got in trouble with the law for the first time in my life,” Rodrigo admitted. “We were going from Canada to, like, Portland or something. We were at border control, I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’”
Thinking it might be a border agent wanting an autograph for their daughter, Rodrigo came out of her bus at 3 a.m. to see what the problem was. “I’m delirious, and they take me to a room—and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s like, a big cop [with] a gun,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I’m, like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m like gaslighting [myself]. I’m, like, Oh, my God, maybe I was, like, arrested and I didn’t know it,” she said breathlessly.
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After being warned she could go to jail for lying to a federal officer, Rodrigo said she started to freak out, worrying she would not be let back into the U.S. “Like, I’m so scared. I’m, like, having a panic attack,” she said. After a 30-minute interrogation, the border agent looked at her again and asked her to spell her last name. “[I said] ‘Olivia Rodrigo, like, R, O, D, R, I, G, O,’ And he’s, like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you, that’s your same age, that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name’s Olivia Rodriguez.’”
Fallon also asked Rodrigo, 21, to run down some highlights of the tour, which she said included going to the Philippines for the first time, which was special for her due to her Filipino heritage. “Yeah, it was so special and everyone was so great. [And] such good singers!,” she said, remembering how her fans there sang all her lyrics back to her perfectly on pitch and in key.
Jimmy also just had to bring up one of the most embarrassing moments from the tour, a mishap in Melbourne, Australia where Olivia went crashing through a trap door in the stage. After playing the clip of Rodrigo handling the trip-and-fall like a pro, the singer said it was actually “really scary. Watching the video back is pretty terrifying. I mean, show must go on, that’s showbiz, baby.”
That said, Rodrigo said it was actually kind of a “beautiful” accident in hindsight because she had just been in the Philippines and she’d been thinking about her family and heritage and after getting shaken up by the fall she went to the hospital to make sure she hadn’t sustained a concussion. While there, she was treated by a Filipino nurse who had the same name as the singer’s grandpa, who passed earlier this year.
“And so I was like ‘wow that was him looking out for me,’” she said. “Making sure I didn’t get hurt and so I’m really happy it happened. I think it’s a beautiful story.”
Rodrigo also plugged her new Netflix concert special Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour and stuck around to play a fun game of “What’s Behind Me.”
Watch Rodrigo on The Tonight Show below.
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HYBE CEO Lee Jae-Sang has shared a public apology following a partial leak of the company’s internal “Weekly Music Industry Report,” which boasted what some have called disparaging remarks about the K-pop industry, including some young artists.
The letter stemmed from a Thursday (Oct. 24) court hearing regarding the HYBE audit carried out by the South Korean National Assembly’s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee. The Korea Herald reported that Democratic Party representative Min Hyung-bae revealed the weekly document during the heart. Reportedly spanning around 18,000 pages, Rep. Min noted that the document contains unverified rumors and at times harsh commentary on very young artists, including minors, with alleged statements including, “They debuted at an age when they’re at their most unattractive” and “Surprisingly, none of them are pretty.”
In response to the leak, a letter by Lee that was posted on the company’s official website on Tuesday (Oct. 29) offers an apology “to the artists, industry stakeholders, and fans” who were upset the the revelations.
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“This document was created as part of a process to retrospectively gather various reactions and public opinions on industry trends and issues,” wrote Lee, clarifying that it was shared only with “a limited number of leaders.” However, he acknowledged that it was “highly inappropriate” for the document to feature “provocative and explicit expressions directed at K-pop artists,” adding, “As the representative of the company, I acknowledge all the mistakes and take full responsibility.”
Lee added that HYBE is “reaching out to each agency individually to offer our apologies directly” and continued, “I am also sincerely extending an official apology to all the artists of HYBE Music Group who have been subjected to criticism due to the company.”
Lee further promised “to establish guidelines and strengthen internal controls to prevent such issues from occurring again” and added that the company has halted the creation of such documents. Near the end, he emphasized HYBE’s dedication to the well-being of all artists and its respect of the fans, committing to reforms aimed at contributing positively to the K-pop industry.
Read the full statement (with translations provided by Soompi) below:
As the CEO of HYBE, I extend my sincere apologies regarding the HYBE monitoring document.
Regarding our monitoring document that was highlighted during the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee audit on October 24, I deeply apologize to the artists, industry stakeholders, and fans.
This document was created as part of a process to retrospectively gather various reactions and public opinions on industry trends and issues. Although it was intended to be shared only with a limited number of leaders to understand market and fan sentiments, the content was highly inappropriate. The document contained provocative and explicit expressions directed at K-pop artists, included personal opinions and evaluations of the author, and was preserved in written form. As the representative of the company, I acknowledge all the mistakes and take full responsibility. I am particularly sorry and distressed about the unfounded suspicions of reverse viral marketing that are not true at all, causing misunderstandings and harm to innocent artists and individuals.
I formally and respectfully apologize to the external artists mentioned in the document who have suffered damage and distress. We are also reaching out to each agency individually to offer our apologies directly. Additionally, I am also sincerely extending an official apology to all the artists of HYBE Music Group who have been subjected to criticism due to the company.
I acknowledge the lack of awareness among the leadership who received the document and, as CEO, I have immediately halted the creation of such monitoring documents. I promise to establish guidelines and strengthen internal controls to prevent such issues from occurring again.
Once again, I apologize to the artists, industry stakeholders, fans, and everyone who loves and supports K-pop for the pain caused by this incident. As the company’s representative, I commit to thorough reflection and self-examination to rectify past mistakes and prioritize the rights of all K-pop artists and respect for fans. We will do our utmost to contribute to the healthy development of the K-pop industry.
Thank you. HYBE CEO Lee Jae-Sang
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