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Katy Perry is bruised and battered in a new promo shot for what appears to be her upcoming single, “Bandaids.” The singer who is just a month from winding down her global Lifetimes tour, posted a cryptic image on Tuesday morning (Nov. 4) featuring a somber photo of her face, seemingly worse for wear as evidenced by scratches and bruises on her forehead, cheek, lip and nose.
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With no further explanation, the image also finds her stone-cold visage bracketed by her name and the single’s title, with the caption teasing a Thursday (Nov. 6) release. At press time no additional information was available on the song, whether it’s a one-off or attached to a new album and a spokesperson for Perry had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment.
Perry released her uptempo, dance-focused seventh studio album, 143, last September, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album, highlighted by the singer’s reconnect with producer Dr. Luke, as well as songs produced and co-written by pop savants Max Martin and Stargate, featured the singles “Woman’s World — which peaked at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart — as well as “Lifetimes” and “I’m His, He’s Mine” featuring Doechii.
Perry launched her Lifetimes tour in support of 143 in Mexico City on April 23 and she’s slated to play the first of two shows at Accor Arena in Paris on Tuesday night, followed by shows in Spain, China and Japan, before winding down on Dec. 7 with a gig at Etihad Park in Abu Dhabi. The singer will then take a break and be back on the road next June for a series of festival shows Chile, Brazil, Germany, Madrid, France and Italy.
Following her split from longtime love actor Orlando Bloom in early July after dating on and off for nearly nine years — the couple share four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove — Perry, 41, made her first public appearance with new beau, former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, on Oct. 25. The couple were seen celebrating the singer’s 41st birthday with a date night at the Crazy Horse Paris, leaving hand-in-hand.
The confirmation of their relationship came two weeks after Perry joked about dating rumors during her Oct. 13 London concert, reacting to a fan sign that read, “Katy Perry, will you marry me?”
“You heard I was single? That’s interesting,” Perry responded. “You know you really should have asked me about 48 hours ago.” Prior to that, photos had surfaced of Perry and Trudeau kissing on a yacht after they were previously spotted dining together in Canada shortly after Trudeau was spotted at Katy’s show in Montreal in July.
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Halsey is on the mend after spending the night in the emergency room following her Nov. 2 show in Boston.
The singer-songwriter, who had a two-night stop in Boston for her international Back to Badlands tour, took to Instagram Stories on Sunday (Nov. 3) to share that she experienced a “minor medical emergency” after her concert at MGM Music Hall. Despite the overnight ER stay, she confirmed she would be returning to the stage for her second Boston performance as scheduled.
“Boston I’m gonna be honest with ya, after the show last night I was in the ER till 6 this morning,” Halsey wrote. “Minor medical emergency but I am A-Okay now and ready to rock tonight! But if I’m pacing myself, that’s why!” She added a thank you to the hospital staff, calling them “the absolute best team I’ve ever met.”
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The 31-year-old artist has been open about her ongoing health journey. In 2022, Halsey revealed she had been diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder, conditions that she says are now being managed or are in remission. “Both of which I will likely have for the duration of my life,” she wrote in a June 2024 Instagram post. She also lives with endometriosis and previously shared she suffered a miscarriage while on tour at age 20.
This latest health scare comes amid a particularly prolific era for the genre-blurring star. The Great Impersonator, released in October 2024 via Capitol Records, debuted at No. 2 on both the all-genre Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales charts. It also debuted atop Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts. The set earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 31, according to Luminate.
Halsey previously ruled Top Alternative Albums for a week each with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power in 2021 and Badlands in 2015.
Halsey has charted 20 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including two No. 1 hits: her 2016 Closer collaboration with The Chainsmokers, which topped the chart for 12 weeks, and 2019’s “Without Me,” her first solo No. 1. She’s also earned multiple top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, including Badlands (No. 2), Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (No. 1), Manic (No. 2), and If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (No. 2).
Trending on Billboard Carly Rae Jepsen is cutting right to the feeling with her announcement that she’s pregnant with her first child with husband Cole Marsden Greif-Neill. The “Call Me Maybe” singer hopped on Instagram on Monday (Nov. 3) to confirm that she and her newlywed husband are going to be parents. “Oh hi baby,” […]
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Hilary Duff‘s musical comeback has an official release date now. The singer announced on Monday (Nov. 3) that she will break a decade-long music hiatus on Thursday (Nov. 6) with the release of the single “Mature.”
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The 37-year-old former Disney Channel star has been preparing to return with her first new music since 2015’s Breathe In., Breathe Out. album and the cover art of “Mature” features a moody triptych of the singer staring pensively into the distance. “So happy this is finally yours to hear. Been keeping this one quiet too long,” Duff wrote in an Instagram post on Monday afternoon (Nov. 3) officially announcing the single and debuting the cover art.
Duff has spent the better part of the past decade focused on acting, including starring roles in the TV series How I Met Your Father and Younger. In addition to the new music, s parallel docuseries chronicling Duff’s long-awaited musical return and personal journey is in the works as well.
Longtime LGBTQ+ community ally Duff recently told Variety that her musical return was a love note to her queen fanbase. “You know it’s all for them. It’s just to impress them,” Duff said about excitement from gay fans about the news. In that same Variety chat, Duff teased that new music was coming “really soon,” adding that she’d been in the studio working with her husband, singer/producer Matthew Koma, and “a few other amazingly talented people.”
The doc, executive produced by Grammy-nominated director Sam Wrench (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), promises to give an inside look at Duff’s long-awaited musical return and personal journey. “Embracing the ups, downs, and everything in between, fans will ride shotgun as she balances raising a family, recording new music, live show rehearsals, and preparing to perform on stage for the first time in over a decade,” reads a release announcing the project, noting that it will feature a mix of “vérité footage, stylized interviews, performances, and videos from her personal archive.”
Duff rose to fame on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire in the early 2000s and then crossed over to pop music in the mid-2000s with Hot 100 hits including “Come Clean” (No. 35) and “Wake Up” (No. 29), with her most recent Billboard Hot 100 appearance coming in 2015 with the Breathe In. Breathe Out. single “Sparks.”
Trending on Billboard Benson Boone was forced to pull the plug on his show at Utilita Arena in Birmingham, England on Saturday (Nov. 1) at the last minute due to vocal issues. According to a BBC report, in a since-expired statement posted to his Instagram Story, Boone apologized to fans for the missed date, saying […]
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Britney Spears‘ Instagram account has once again gone dark. Fans looking to get an update on the singer via her @britneyspears Insta page — featuring the screen name XILA MARIA RIVER RED — are not me with a message that reads: “Profile isn’t available. The link may be broken, or the profile my have been removed.”
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According to a variety of reports, the Spears Insta account appeared to go dark on Saturday (Nov. 1) or Sunday (Nov. 2), two weeks after the singer’s ex-husband, Kevin Federline, released his tell-all memoir, You Thought You Knew, which features salacious and scandalous stories involving the pop star from their two-plus years of marriage.
At press time Spears had not made any comment about her Instagram retreat, which marked the latest incident of her wiping away her Instagram page. The pop star went away briefly in 2021, then again in 2022 (twice) and has periodically gone dark on her socials over the past few years. The latest retreat comes after Spears repeatedly seemed to lash out over the allegations in Federline’s book in a series of Instagram posts in mid-October in which she wrote, “Its fun to tell stories at this point because this all might sound so silly but with what garbage literally is being said about me I said why not bring SUBSTANCE to the table.” Before that, Spears lashed out in another post at what she deemed “constant gaslighting” from Federline, to whom she was married from 2004-2007.
A few days earlier, she took another shot at people who “profit off my pain,” without naming names, but seemingly alluding to her financial situation with her ex, writing, “no money from Britney for 5 years you trying to get paid that’s what general America is saying weird you both have moved on… your kids are adults it’s a different world now … why is HE SO ANGRY.”
According to People, for weeks Britney’s fans have expressed concern about the 43-year-old star’s condition as she’s continued to post her signature dance videos amid cryptic messages about the two sons she shared with Federline, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19. In addition, in a video posted on Oct. 7, Spears appeared to have bruises on her arms, bandages on both hands and on her right knee.
“Psss I fell down the stairs at my friend’s house… it was horrible… it snaps out now and then, not sure if it’s broken but for now it’s snapped in !!!,” she wrote in a TikTok post featuring her injuries.
In an Oct. 19 post, Spears also wrote about a four-month rehab stint she spent in 2018 in the midst of her 13-year conservatorship, claiming that, “I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent… I have of course moved on from that troubling time in my life and I’m blessed to be alive,” without elaborating on the time frame or nature of the reported brain injury.
Federline’s memoir features a variety of shocking claims about Spears, including allegations that she drank wine while she was pregnant with their children and did cocaine while she was breastfeeding. Spears’ team pushed back at the stories from the KFed memoir that leaked before publication, claiming that “once again he [Federline] and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James and their well-being during this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir.”
Trending on Billboard Jessica Simpson is celebrating eight years of sobriety. The singer, fashion entrepreneur and reality TV personality marked the milestone on Friday (Nov. 1) with a reflective Instagram post, sharing how giving up alcohol transformed her life and creativity. “8 years ago today I made the choice to confront, to confess and to […]
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Mariah Carey‘s welcome to the Christmas season is here. The “All I Want for Christmas Is You” hitmaker made an official announcement to kick off the holidays in partnership with Sephora.
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“Halloween slayed,” Carey says in the Joseph Kahn-directed ad that dropped as Halloween (Oct. 31) came to a close. “But now … it’s time!”
There’s one problem: Someone’s rummaged through the pop diva’s Sephora bag and pilfered the new beauty goodies she snagged for the 2025 holidays.
In the lighthearted spot, Carey demands someone spill the tea on who stole her makeup so she can ring in the season of her modern Christmas carol, and — spoiler alert — it’s not the Grinch.
It’s Billy Eichner as an overworked elf advocating for better treatment at Christmastime.
“Bad news, Mariah Carey,” the comedian taunts. “The elves are striking this year. Elf revenge for putting us through holiday hell! Santa’s helper quit. I’m pawning this so I can afford elf therapy!”
“That’s my blush, elf boy,” Carey says.
“Your lipstick? I’m taking it. No bells. No cheer. No glam. Bye, sweetie,” Eichner throws back.
The Christmas commercial comes right after Carey dropped a collection of holiday merch, like a snow globe that plays “All I Want for Christmas Is You”; a Christmas sweater, earmuffs, socks, pajamas, robe and slippers; ornaments and stockings; holiday baking supplies and a large inflatable lawn decoration. Mariah might not “want a lot for Christmas,” but she’s given fans plenty to add to their Amazon wish lists.
Watch Carey’s “It’s Time!!!!!” announcement below to find out how she saves Christmas from being canceled. Oh, and go ahead and press play on her classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the song that Christmas music lovers have listened to enough to make it Carey’s longest Hot 100 reign (with 18 total weeks at No. 1, four of which were just last year).
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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This week: Tricks and treats from Florence + The Machine’s howling latest, an early Mother’s Day gift from Tyler, the Creator and a right-on-time R&B love song from Brent Faiyaz.
Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream
We all scream for Florence + The Machine’s latest, an appropriately titled album for a Halloween release, certainly. The horrors here are not necessarily of the jump-scare variety, but more the realities of life as both a veteran pop-rock star not always given her due and as a woman facing double-standards in the music industry — one who recently endured a potentially life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, as she detailed in a recent Guardian profile. But regardless, Florence is no Final Girl, and Everybody Scream evinces the mighty strength she’s developed as a singer, artist and person: “Come on, come I can take it/ Gimme everything you got/ What else?” she goads in “Sympathy Magic.” Besides, as she attests in “Witch Dance,” “Your threats and your promises, they don’t scare me/ After all, there’s nobody more monstrous than me.”
Tyler, The Creator, “Mother”
Tyler, the Creator apparently considers his newly released bonus track “Mother” such an important of his CHROMAKOPIA experience that his new CHROMAKOPIA+ sticks it in the middle of the tracklist, not just at the end. A sympathetic song about his mom’s experience having him, raising him and trying to teach him life wisdom, the track even includes an interlude of said matriarch warning him not to get arrested, because she had no intent of bailing him out of jail. He also holds some grace for his father: “Father told me nothin’/ F–k it…. I hold no grudges, I heard he a fan.” The beat and the backing grunts are tense (and intense), but the electric piano is warm and tender.
Brent Faiyaz, “Have To.”
In what’s turning out to be an excellent year for crossover R&B, it’s a perfect time for the return of hitmaker Brent Faiyaz. Especially with a song this irresistible: “Have To.” is an immaculately produced love song about Faiyaz doing whatever has to do to be where he needs to be: “I’m in a race with time to get where I belong/ ‘Cause it feels so right after all these nights alone.” Sweetly urgent but never overly insistent — and winking enough to avoid any undue sweatiness, including multiple vocal tracks of a pitch-altered Faiyaz basically dueting with himself — “Have To.” is another big winner for Faiyaz.
Reneé Rapp, “Lucky”
Frisky, poppy, lightly grungy alt-rock certainly seems to be the musical sweet spot for Reneé Rapp, as evidenced first by her impressive August sophomore LP Bite Me, and now from her new song “Lucky.” Recorded for the Now You See Me: Now You Don’t soundtrack — sure — “Lucky” features Rapp bragging about her charmed life over propulsive guitars and occasional synth flares, even throwing in a little meta-nudge with the bridge’s “It’s almost like I’m Reneé.” Extra points for actually working the film’s title into the lyrics.
Sub Focus feat. Grimes, “Entwined”
Grimes ‘n’ Bass! As the wait continues for the follow-up to 2020’s Miss Anthropocene, Grimes has been busy with one-offs and collabs — most recently teaming up with the U.K. producer Sub Focus for this week’s “Entwined,” whose moaning, growling, frequently shape-shifting beat is the perfect bed for the Canadian alt-pop star to wail over. It might not be explicitly spooky-scary, but if you happen to be one song short on your Halloween playlist for this weekend, it’s unsettling and intense enough to be a fit.
Oklou, Choke Enough (Deluxe)
Speaking of Grimes — rising French electro-pop singer-songwriter Oklou arrived with heavy Claire Boucher vibes earlier this year on shimmering debut album Choke Enough. If that 13-track set understandably left you craving more, the artist born Marylou Vanina Mayniel reissues the set this week with four bonus cuts, including the previously released fka Twigs collab “Viscus,” the gorgeous synth ballad “What’s Good,” and the uncharacteristically acoustic (but still satisfyingly warped) “The Fishsong Unplugged.”
Trending on Billboard Some people dress up in elaborate costumes on Halloween, but this year Taylor Swift is stripping things all the way back. The pop juggernaut surprise released an unplugged version of her The Life of a Showgirl hit “The Fate of Ophelia” on Thursday night (Oct. 30). The acoustic guitar-forward “The Fate of […]
