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Trending on Billboard Reneé Rapp has been criss-crossing North America for the past month on her headlining Bite Me tour. But over the weekend, the singer and former Sex Lives of College Girls star had to pump the brakes on the final two planned gigs on the outing on doctor’s orders. Explore See latest videos, […]
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The Jonas Brothers have gotten used to being pelted with the expected waves of love and affection during their run of stadiums and arenas this year on their Jonas20: Greetings From Your Hometown tour. But those definitely weren’t just gleeful shouts of “Joe!” after the sibling trio took the field on Saturday (Oct. 24) in the middle of game two of the World Series at Toronto’s Rogers Centre to perform the song “I Can’t Lose” from this year’s Greetings From Your Hometown LP.
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In fact, the mid-game performance break at a point when the score was tied 1-1 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays as part of the annual Stand Up To Cancer tribute kind of ticked off a lot of fans who feared it was messing with the game flow and may have actually been thinking “Noooo!!!”
“If the Jays lose it’s entirely on that weird Jonas Brothers performance in the middle of the game,” one incensed fan wrote on X, with another adding, “I’m trying to watch the World Series and they doing a damn Jonas Brothers concert after the 5th inning.”
Joe Jonas heard you and the singer had the perfect response to the chorus of concern in the comments on a Major League Baseball post featuring a still pic and a video of the siblings posing on the field with the caption, “SPEECHLESS, OVER THE EDGE, JUST BREATHLESS.” Joe seemed to humorously sympathize with the confusion, commenting, “Why these guys?“
Self-deprecation aside, there were plenty of fans there to support him, with a number commenting on his comment, with one writing, “@joejonas Because they are the boys with the most beautiful soul in the world” and another adding, “@joejonas cause they’re awesome.”
MLB has been hosting the Stand Up to Cancer tribute since 2009 in which people in attendance at games hold up placards honoring those who’ve been impacted by cancer. The JoBros dedicated “I Can’t Lose” — which was the official anthem of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball coverage, with a video in support of the charity airing during July’s MLB All-Star game — to “everyone standing up to cancer.” Joe also kicked off the performance by holding up a placard for their dad, Kevin Jonas Sr., who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017.
The band’s 20th anniversary tour continues on Monday night with the second of two shows at Orlando’s Kia Center.
The pop star was at the top of her game, performing tracks from all three of her studio albums.
10/26/2025
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Olivia Rodrigo closed out her blockbuster Guts World Tour with a secret show in New York City on Thursday night (Oct. 23), playing to an intimate crowd of fans, friends, and celebrity guests inside the historic Park Avenue Armory.
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The invite-only event, hosted by American Express, featured a setlist packed with fan favorites — including “Drivers License,” “Vampire,” “Deja Vu” and “Sour” — as well as the rare live performance of “Lacy,” a track that has taken on a viral life of its own since being featured on the TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
“Ever since it was in that show, people have been chanting at me at concerts to sing this song if I wasn’t going to sing it,” Rodrigo told the crowd. “And so I’m really grateful to that show, and I’m really grateful to you guys for listening to this song and streaming it, because it’s always been one of my favorites.”
The “Good 4 U” singer also welcomed young fans from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, meeting with several attendees before the show. Proceeds from ticket sales benefited Rodrigo’s own Fund 4 Good, an initiative launched to support education, reproductive rights, and young women’s leadership programs.
Among those in attendance were Emily in Paris star Ashley Park, The Bear’s Molly Gordon, Vampire Diaries alum Nina Dobrev, makeup artist Patrick Ta, Good American founder Emma Grede, and interior designer Jeremiah Brent.
Rodrigo performed beneath the soaring arches of the Armory’s Drill Hall — a venue steeped in New York military history — which once housed the Seventh Regiment of the National Guard, the first volunteer militia to answer Abraham Lincoln’s call in 1861.
The secret concert marked the final stop on Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour, which kicked off earlier this year in Palm Springs and has since spanned over 75 dates across North America and Europe.
Rodrigo has charted on the Billboard Hot 100 numerous times. Her 2021 hit “Drivers License” was No. 1 for a whopping eight weeks. In total so far, she has three Hot 100 No. 1s and made headlines for her 2025 Lollapalooza performance, including a set during which she brought out Weezer.
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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.
Twelve albums, 12 lead singles.
10/24/2025
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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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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: Megan Thee Stallion returns with a song for the lovers, Leon Thomas and Daniel Caesar hold it down for tactile, live-feeling R&B and Bruce Springsteen revisits the same era on record probed by a brand-new Boss biopic.
Megan Thee Stallion, “LOVER GIRL”
It’s been a relatively quiet 2025 for Megan Thee Stallion, but the rap star is back this week with the loved-up anthem “LOVER GIRL.” Riding an always-appropriate sample of ’90s R&B group Total’s swooning love song “Kissin’ You,” Megan makes plenty kissy sounds of her own, while spitting about how your guy and hers are not the same: “Your n—a fantasy/ My man reality.” It’s a little bit early for Valentine’s Day — especially for Megan donning Cupid’s bow and arrow on the single cover — but if you’re in need of a cuffing-season anthem, it might just be right on time.
Leon Thomas, Pholks
It’s already been a triumphant 2025 for Leon Thomas, with a viral NPR Tiny Desk set, a big breakout win and performance at the BET Awards, and a huge crossover hit with the Billboard Hot 100 top 20 smash “Mutt.” Now, he’s capping his year with the seven-track Pholks EP, showing off even more of what he can do — including the pinched, almost D’Angelo-esque funk of “5MoreMinutes,” the woozy, early-Tame-Impala-like psych-rock of “Trapped” and the jazzy, frenetic garage rock of “Baccarat.” Wherever the music goes, it feels like it’s just spilling out of Thomas at this point, as he sets himself further apart from the R&B pack with each new release.
Daniel Caesar, Son of Spergy
Between Thomas and Daniel Caesar, it’s a big week for lush, organic-sounding new releases from R&B singer-songwriters. Caesar’s Son of Spergy (Spergy being his father’s nickname) is his first release since 2023’s Never Enough, and ranges from the delicate, pleading soul of “Have a Baby (With Me)” to the grungy fuzz-rock of “Call on Me” to the gentle, insecure acoustic balladry of “Who Knows.” Alt-folk stalwart Bon Iver shows up to bless a couple tracks, the dreamy “Moon” and the swirling, piano-led “Sins of the Father.”
Demi Lovato, It’s Not That Deep
Coming three years after her stellar rock detour set Holy Fvck, Demi Lovato‘s latest set It’s Not That Deep doesn’t take long to establish that she’s changed direction yet again: The pulsing beat and hedonistic lyrics of “Fast” showcase her once again driving in the turbo-pop lane, and sounding like she’s having a blast doing so. This isn’t an early-’10s top 40 throwback though — the rollerskating synths and tense vocals of “Here All Night” are pure Flashdance synth-rock, while “Frequency” and “Kiss” approximate the winking sung-spoken club energy of Period-era Kesha and “Sorry to Myself” is pure cathartic, Robyn-dancefloor release.
Megan Moroney, “Beautiful Things”
Megan Moroney taking on one of the biggest pop-rock hits of the decade with her own spin on Benson Boone’s breakout smash “Beautiful Things”? Not this time: The country hitmaker wrote her acoustic ballad of the same name as a note of comfort to her newborn niece, warning her: “Lies can break a fragile heart, and doubt can crush your dreams/ But honey, just take it from me/ The world is hard on beautiful things.” But Moroney ultimately tells her on the bridge not to despair: “Shine/ It’s gonna be all right/ You’re gonna all right.” It certainly feels like a future live set staple for the rising Georgia star.
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82
If you’ve been counting the days until the release this Friday of the Jeremy Allen White-starring Bruce Springsteen quasi-biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, you likely also went straight to Nebraska ’82 on your streamer of choice today. The deluxe reissue of Springsteen’s classic stripped-down swerve features not just live and bonus tracks — including an unrecognizably barebones demo version of his later chest-beating protest song “Born in the U.S.A.” — but an entire “Electric Nebraska” disc, featuring plugged-in versions of beloved era highlights like “Atlantic City,” “Johnny 99” and another, even more electric version of “U.S.A.” The whole thing is certainly a better advertisement for the early-’80s-set Nowhere than any of the film’s actual trailers.
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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LE SSERAFIM serve up their latest dish, “Spaghetti,” the third EP in a trilogy that includes a saucy new collaboration with BTS’ j-hope.
As expected, the tasty treat dropped at midnight, along with the rest of the eight-track HYBE collection, marking j-hope’s very first feature on a track by a K-pop girl group.
The powerhouse team-up was teased earlier in the week with a video on YouTube titled “The Kick,” in which j-hope dons a Matrix-esque outfit and shades while appearing underneath flashing strobe lights. The big reveal comes at the end, with a snippet of KIM CHAEWON, SAKURA, HUH YUNJIN, KAZUHA and HONG EUNCHAE hitting us with the “eat it up” refrain.
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Members of LE SSERAFIM recently caught up with Billboard Philippines to discuss how they made “Spaghetti.” The new cut “expresses LE SSERAFIM’s charm that you just can’t get away from, like spaghetti that’s stuck in your teeth,” says SAKURA. “The part where we sing “eat it up” over and over is the highlight, and since each of us members delivers it in our own styles, it adds even more playfulness to the song.”
LE SSERAFIM have been on fire of late. In March of this year, the ensemble’s HOT debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, for their fifth top 10 on the tally, which and second leader after 2024’s Crazy.
The fearless five has just completed the north American leg of their EASY CRAZY HOT World Tour, a run of shows that kicked off in April in South Korea which, according to a statement, weaves together the “unique concepts and narratives” of their EP trilogy, EASY, CRAZY, and HOT, “into one spectacular experience.”
It’s not the first time member of LE SSERAFIM have cooked up a storm with pop culture heavyweights. Earlier in the year, KIM CHAEWON featured on JVKE’s “butterflies,” featuring TAEHYUN of TOMORROW X TOGETHER, while the singers teamed up with JADE on “HOT” featuring JADE; PinkPantheress on “CRAZY”; and Nile Rodgers on “UNFORGIVEN.”
Who doesn’t like spaghetti? Chow down below.
