Pop
Page: 218
Dua Lipa is stepping into a new era following the announcement for her upcoming album Radical Optimism, but not before having her past few years of Future Nostalgia immortalized by Madame Tussauds. The museum’s Orlando location will unveil a new wax figure of the 28-year-old singer Friday (March 15), paying tribute to her Future Nostalgia […]
Meghan Trainor is all new, unveiling a fresh single, album announcement and tour dates Thursday (March 14) — but somehow, she’s staying timeless at the same time. The Grammy winner revealed that her sixth studio album, Timeless, is set to arrive June 14 via Epic Records, sharing the album cover — on which she poses […]
You can hear it in the silence, you can feel it on the way home, and you can see it in the Disney+ extended cut of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour film: “You Are in Love,” aka the third of four bonus acoustic tracks confirmed for the movie’s upcoming streaming version. The pop star announced via […]
Zayn has long been a man of few words. The former One Direction singer and solo star made a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (March 13), and in keeping with his let-the-music-do-the-talking demeanor, the 31-year-old’s mid-monologue walk-on was silent, but heady. Carrying a coffee mug and a note card, Zayn casually […]
The 2024 Glastonbury Festival will feature headliners SZA, Dua Lipa and Coldplay on the Pyramid Stage atop a packed roster that will also feature country icon Shania Twain in the “legend slot.” The June 26-30 summer classic at Worthy Farm in Somerset in South West England will also feature Glasto debuts from Avril Lavigne, Cyndi Lauper and Camila Cabello and the first-ever K-pop group main stage performance from Seventeen.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Other acts slated to perform include: Idles, Burna Boy, Little Simz, The Last Dinner Party, LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Janella Monae, Keane, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, The National, The Streets, Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party, Jungle, Jessie Ware, Justice, Danny Brown, Black Pumas, Brittany Howard, Sugarbabes, Jamie XX, Gossip, James Blake and Arlo Parks, among many others.
Trending on Billboard
This year’s festival will mark Dua Lipa’s first Pyramid Stage slot as Friday’s headliner, with the singer slated to perform a month after the release of her upcoming 11-track third studio album, Radical Optimism, which drops on May 3. Veterans Coldplay will topline Saturday night in their first Glasto since 2016, making history as the first group to headline the event five times; SZA will top the roster on Sunday night.
On X, Twain gushed about the booking, calling it “another jewel in my crown. I feel so honoured and so excited about this one! Thinking about what to wear already and tell me, what should we sing together?! Let’s make history with this ultimate dream performance!!” In an accompanying video, the “That Don’t Impress Me Much” singer said, “This is a dream come true! I have been asked about Glastonbury now for years and it’s finally coming together! I’m packing my wellies [rainboots] and my raincoat, and of course, my cowboy hat. So, I’ll see you in the beautiful Somerset countryside this summer.”
Check out the full Glastonbury 2024 lineup below.
It finally happened.
Following all the rumors and cryptic memes last fall that led to an MTV VMAs appearance and a red-carpet group photo thanks to *NSYNC’s new song for the Trolls Band Together soundtrack, fans were left desperate for a live performance from the boy band. After all, it was a band that made its name with performative music videos, blockbuster stadium tours and iconic choreography, so when fans think “*NSYNC,” they think performance. Fans were clamoring for a full tour, sure, but they really would have settled for the band singing live together just one more time.
Well, on Wednesday night (March 13), we got that one more time. More than a decade after they last performed together at the 2013 Video Music Awards as part of Justin Timberlake’s VMA Vanguard Award medley, they once again hit JT’s stage, this time for a one-night-only concert at The Wiltern in Los Angeles ahead of the Friday (March 15) release of his sixth solo album, Everything I Thought It Was.
It all started with a trip down memory lane, when DJ Andrew Hypes played a series of hit Timberlake features, including Timbaland’s “Give It to Me,” Jay-Z’s “Holy Grail” and 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology.” Justin had included this segment in his other two pre-release shows as well, at his hometown concert at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre on Jan. 19 and his show at New York’s Irving Plaza on Jan. 31. Hypes had also played a handful of *NSYNC songs at those concerts, but on Wednesday night, when he dropped the first *NSYNC song — “Gone” from 2000’s Celebrity — the curtains opened behind Timberlake to reveal his four bandmates singing harmony on the chorus.
“Ear-piercing” doesn’t properly describe the volume of the fan reaction in the room. Maybe eardrum-shattering. Or “book an appointment for your ENT to investigate the possibility of shriek-induced hearing loss” levels. This was 15 songs into an already epic concert, which included three of Timberlake’s five Billboard Hot 100 solo No. 1 hits and pretty much every other song that comes to mind when you think of Justin. But there was truly a before and after point of the concert from that moment on.
“I don’t know what to do after that,” Timberlake admitted once he was alone again onstage, before saying, “But this” and giving us one final song (what more could this crowd possibly ask for?), ending the night with 2013’s “Mirrors.”
So let’s take a step back and look at all the highlights from this concert, lest it go down in history as an *NSYNC reunion and nothing more. In fact, there were two other surprise guests who popped up during the nearly two-hour show and a host of other special moments. Below, find all the best moments – yes, of course including the reunion – from Billboard’s vantage point as a lucky crowd member at the history-making show.
Tobe Nwigwe Is the First Surprise Guest
Justin Timberlake got the old band back together when he reunited with *NSYNC on Wednesday night (March 13) during his pre-album-release show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
JT and *NSYNC made hearts race, and set charts alight, during their golden run in the 1990s and early 2000s, before going on hiatus in 2002. The boy band — or, now, man band — was back to their old ways in L.A., a full-body workout ahead of Timberlake’s Forget Tomorrow World Tour.
Tonight’s “One Night Show” will be a hard act to follow. Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Lance Bass performed their smash ’90s hits “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me” and debuted the new collaborative track “Paradise.”
Trending on Billboard
The surprise reunion was their first onstage since an appearance at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards last September. Prior to that, the “It’s Gonna Be Me” singers last strutted their stuff as the full, five-piece unit back in 2013, for JT’s Video Vanguard Award medley.
Later, in 2019, Chasez, Kirkpatrick, Fatone and Bass joined Ariana Grande onstage during her headlining Coachella set for a performance of “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” and “Tearin’ Up My Heart.” On that occasion, Timberlake wasn’t in the place.
Timberlake did return to his roots — and the studio — with *NSYNC in 2023 for “Better Place,” which accompanied the JT-starring animated family film Trolls Band Together. The track bowed at No. 25, for *NSYNC’s lucky 13th appearance on the Billboard Hot 100.
All told, *NSYNC has earned six top 10 hits on the Hot 100, including “Bye Bye Bye” (No. 4), “This I Promise You” (No. 5) and “It’s Gonna Be Me” (No. 1, two weeks). On the Billboard 200, the lads have notched four top 10 titles, including the No. 1 albums No Strings Attached (eight weeks) and Celebrity (one week).
JT’s concert acts as a curtain raiser for the release Friday (March 15) of his sixth solo album Everything I Thought It Was and the kick-off of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour on April 29 at Rogers Arena, in Vancouver, Canada.
The forthcoming album, led by the single “Selfish,” marks JT’s first solo release in more than five years. EITIW is the follow-up to his 2018 solo LP Man of the Woods, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Earlier this week, Timberlake had a debut performance of the EITIW song “No Angels” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tyla’s gearing up to release her long-awaited album following the success of “Water,” and the star took to Instagram to share a sweet moment leading up to the drop. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The singer shared a video of the social media platform in which […]
Ariana Grande paid the ultimate tribute to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in her recent “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” music video, re-creating the 2004 Jim Carrey-led sci-fi romance’s mind-wiping premise in order to forget all memories of an ex-lover. And in a new behind-the-scenes clip shared Wednesday (March 13), the pop star gave insight into how she translated the film into a personalized visual.
“This video is our own short version of the Eternal Sunshine movie, because we felt like that was the perfect thing,” Grande tells the camera in the clip, standing on set of the music video’s snow angel scene. “Both of the characters end up discontinuing the cycle of their toxic pattern.”
Trending on Billboard
Directed by Christian Breslauer, who joined Ari in talking about the project in her behind-the-scenes footage, the “We Can’t Be Friends” music video finds the singer reflecting on her time with an ex-boyfriend played by Evan Peters, whom she calls “brilliant” in the new clip. On set, the two laugh together in between takes, both giggling as Grande leans her head on the American Horror Story alum’s shoulder.
“It’s kind of about erasing the pain and only wanting the best for someone, even if it means not each other,” Grande added. “It’s not like one person’s wrong, or the enemy.”
When Breslauer observes that everyone goes through heartbreak at some point, the Grammy winner pokes fun at her own past luck with love. “Or you’ll get many,” she quips, smiling knowingly into the camera lens.
Released Friday (March 9), Grande’s new album Eternal Sunshine is gunning for a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200. It was preceded by just one single — the Billboard Hot 100-topping “Yes, And?”
The vocalist spent the weekend out and about, promoting the record on Saturday Night Live March 9. In addition to singing “We Can’t Be Friends” and another new song, “Imperfect for You,” as that week’s musical guest, she joined in on a couple sketches with Bowen Yang and host Josh Brolin.
On Sunday (March 10), she and Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo presented best original song at the 2024 Oscars, for which she showed out in a stunning, Glinda-esque pink gown. She gasped with delight upon reading that her friend, Billie Eilish, had won the category for Barbie‘s “What Was I Made For?”
Watch Grande behind the scenes of “We Can’t Be Friends” below.
The radical optimism of fans hoping for a new Dua Lipa album has finally paid off. The 28-year-old pop star announced her highly anticipated third studio album, Radical Optimism, in an Instagram Wednesday (March 13). The 11-track project — her first proper LP since 2020’s Future Nostalgia — arrives May 3. On the cover, she […]