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For Halseyâs next trick, the artist is making their last era disappear. The pop star has announced that her fifth studio album is finally complete, and its first taste will arrive in the form of a new single coming in less than 24 hours. Â
On Monday (June 3), the star shared what appears to be cover artwork and wrote on social. media, âIâm releasing the first song off my 5th album tomorrow 6/04 at 9am pt / 12 et. Before the first single comes, I wanted to share this. It means a lot to me and I love it.âÂ
They added, âLetâs try something different this time and start at âThe End.ââÂ
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The announcement comes after fans noticed last week that Halsey had unveiled a cryptic new website titled âForMyLastTrick.com.â The page boasts several illustrated badges, some of them leading to what appear to be clues about the new album.Â
One shaped like a vinyl record, for instance, leads to a Spotify playlist full of iconic songs from the late â60s and early â70s, while a drawing of a doctor X-raying a patientâs heart plays an ominous droning sound upon being clicked. The most telling badge, however, is a ticket stub labeled âThe End,â which now prompts a letter from Halsey to pop up onscreen.Â
âAs you may have guessed, I have written a new album,â their letter, dated a mysterious â6/?/71,â reads. âBut I needed some time to figure out how to say what I needed to say. You see, Iâve been holding [REDACTED] and I need to let it out.âÂ
âThereâs so much I am going to reveal on this record, but you need to know some of the story first,â the letter continues. âSo before the chaos and confetti of big singles and album releases I just need to tell you, my friend, why it all matters this time. Iâm releasing a new song on June 4. Itâs just for us.â Â
The âCloserâ singer added in her note, âLetâs start at THE END.â Â
Halseyâs new record will follow 2021âs If I Canât Have Love, I Want Power, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The About-Face Beauty founder has only dropped a few sparse singles in the three years since, including 2023âs âDie 4 Meâ and 2022âs âSo Good,â both of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.Â
In September, Halsey teased that their next album would be on the emotional side. âsplitting myself in two everyday so that I can give you my deepest wounds (and a handful of perfect joys) for the 5th time in 10 years,â she wrote on Instagram at the time.Â
See Halseyâs announcement below.
Iâm releasing the first song off my 5th album tomorrow 6/04 at 9am pt / 12 et. Before the first single comes, I wanted to share this. It means a lot to me and I love it. Letâs try something different this time and start at âThe Endâ. pic.twitter.com/kPUHCVkuEKâ h (@halsey) June 3, 2024
SZA scores her third No. 1 on Billboardâs Pop Airplay chart as âSaturnâ rockets to the top spot on the survey dated June 8. SZA previously led the list with âKill Billâ for a week in April 2023 and as featured on Doja Catâs âKiss Me Moreâ for one frame in July 2021. The Pop […]
Cher really believes her boyfriendâs strong enough. The iconic singer gave her stamp of approval to her boo Alexander âA.E.â Edwardsâ fight in Cannes with Travis Scott, after footage emerged last week.
The âBelieveâ artist took to X over the weekend, more than a week after the Cannes afterparty altercation that included A.E., Scott and producer Southside, among other team members who got involved.
Cher explained that she was âproudâ of Edwards â with whom she has been romantically linked since late 2022, after meeting at Paris Fashion Week â and said he didnât start the brawl, but was the one to end it.
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âIâm Proud of Alexander,â she gushed on X Saturday (June 1). âHe Didnât Start The fight Against 2 Men,⊠He finished it, Gotta Love Him.â
Iâm Proud of Alexander.He Didnât Start The fightAgainst 2 Men,⊠He finished it, Gotta Love Himâ Cher (@cher) June 1, 2024
Fans hopped into Cherâs replies, happy to see her support A.E. and that everything was all right in wake of the incident.
âBless him, isnât it crap all the rubbish that gets published, sad that youâve had to comment on this. Hope AE is ok and you are too xxxx,â one person responded to the 78-year-old.
The altercation went down at Richie Akivaâs Cannes Film Festival afterparty on May 23 behind the DJ booth when Scott and A.E. began to argue, but itâs unclear what exactly sparked the disagreement.
Sources close to the situation told Billboard that La Flame returned with producer Southside, and thatâs when things got physical. Following the brief tussle with punches exchanged, security diffused the fight.
TMZ caught up with A.E. last week to get Cherâs thoughts about the altercation, and he quoted lyrics from Future and Metro Boominâs âGTAâ: âLike Future say, âWhatever Iâm with, my bâh with it, too.â My woman, but the lyrics are the lyrics.â
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Cyndi Lauper is saying goodbye to the road.
On Monday (June 3), the veteran pop star announced her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, a 23-city North American trek that marks the singerâs first major run in more than a decade.
The Live Nation-produced jaunt is scheduled to launch Oct. 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and wrap Dec. 5 at the United Center in Chicago. The tour will also visit major such major cities as New York, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta and Houston. See the full list of dates below.
Special guests on the trek will be revealed at a later date.
A ticket presale begins on Tuesday (June 4) and the general onsale starts Friday (June 7) at livenation.com.
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Lauperâs farewell tour announcement arrives alongside the release of her upcoming biopic, Let the Canary Sing, which debuts June 4 on Paramount+. The feature-length film, directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood (Laurel Canyon), premiered at last yearâs Tribeca Festival in New York.
Legacy Recordings will release a career-spanning companion album that takes listeners from the singerâs early days in the group Blue Angel (âIâm Gonna Be Strongâ) through the global breakout success of âGirls Just Wanna Have Funâ and other iconic hits such as âTrue Colors,â âI Drove All Night,â âMoney Changes Everything,â âThe Goonies âRâ Good Enough,â âShe Bop,â âAll Through the Nightâ and more.
See the dates to Lauperâs Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour below.
Oct. 18: Montreal (Bell Centre)Oct. 20: Toronto (Scotiabank Arena)Oct. 24: Detroit (Fox Theatre)Oct. 26: Boston (MGM Music Hall at Fenway)Oct. 27: Washington, D.C. (Capital One Arena)Oct. 30: New York (Madison Square Garden)Nov. 1: Nashville (Bridgestone Arena)Nov. 3: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center)Nov. 6: Tampa, Fla. (Amalie Arena)Nov. 8: Hollywood, Fla. (Hard Rock Hollywood)Nov. 10: Atlanta (State Farm Arena)Nov. 12: Dallas (American Airlines Center)Nov. 14: Austin, Texas (Moody Center)Nov. 16: Houston (Toyota Center)Nov. 19: Phoenix (Footprint Center)Nov. 20: San Diego (Viejas Arena)Nov. 23: Los Angeles (Intuit Dome)Nov. 24: Palm Desert, Calif. (Acrisure Arena)Nov. 26: San Francisco (Chase Center)Nov. 30: Portland, Ore. (Moda Center)Dec. 1: Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena)Dec. 4: Minneapolis (Target Center)Dec. 5: Chicago (United Center)
Taylor Swift had a bit of a laugh with the crowd in Lyon, France, when she sang a lyric about how sheâs destined to do âgreater thingsâ than date a football player, from her song âFifteen.â The track was written when she was still a teen and originally released back in 2008.
Swift played a piano mashup of the classic Fearless track with the more recent âYouâre on Your Own, Kid,â from 2022âs Midnights, during the acoustic section of her concert Sunday night (June 2). This is the part of the show where Swift changes up the set list at each date.
On Sunday, when Swift reached the part of âFifteenâ where she looks back at her high school years from the perspective of someone whoâs been through it, fans noticeably reacted to her choice to sing âin your life youâll do things greater than dating the boy on the football teamâ right now â since the pop star has been in a high-profile relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce, tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Swift took the reaction in stride with a quick grin and laugh on Sunday.
She found humor in the âboy on the football teamâ moment after the nightâs surprise guitar performance, during which âThe Prophecyâ had its live debut. The song â found on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology â is an emotionally heavy one that took an interesting turn with the perspective from Evermoreâs âLong Story Short,â with Swift swirling her writing together in a medley of the two works.
âSome nights like tonight I try out playing a song that Iâve never played live before,â the Tortured Poets singer-songwriter announced ahead of âThe Prophecy.â (Swift holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Poets, so far spending six consecutive weeks in the top spot.)
âI looked to the sky and said, please/ Iâve been on my knees/ Change the prophecy/ Donât want money/ Just someone who wants my company/ Let it once be me/ Who do I have to speak to/ About if they can redo/ The prophecy?â Swift sings in the chorus of âThe Prophecy.â
In âLong Story Short,â she tells herself, âPast me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things/ Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing/ And heâs passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky/ And he feels like home/ If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go.â
Watch clips of Sunday nightâs surprise song performances below. Catch up with the complete list of songs played during the acoustic section of The Eras Tour here.
đč | FULL video of Taylor performing âThe Prophecyâ x âlong story shortââŒïž Insane mashup!!!! pic.twitter.com/R3NDm0ueWoâ The Eras Tour Singapore (@TSTheErasTourSG) June 2, 2024
Happy Pride from Katy Perry! As Pride Month begins, the pop star marked the occasion with a message of encouragement in the form of a heavily reworked take on the controversial â to say it lightly â grad speech given by the Kansas City Chiefsâ Harrison Butker at Benedictine College.
In a 20-minute speech on May 11, the football player condemned LGBTQ rights and attacked what he called âdangerous gender ideologies.â He spoke against abortion, birth control, IVF and surrogacy. He told female college graduates, whom he claims have been told âdiabolical lies,â to embrace being a âhomemaker.âÂ
âI would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world,â he said, directing his words to the women who were there for their college graduation.
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âfixed this for my girls, my graduates, and my gays â you can do anything, congratulations and happy pride,â Perry captioned a post on Instagram on Saturday (June 1). She shared a Perry-approved version of Butkerâs speech.
Here is a transcript of the edit of Butkerâs commencement speech posted by Perry: âFor the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles youâre going to get in your career? I would venture to guess the women here today are going to lead successful careers in the world. I say all of this to you because I have seen it firsthand: how much happier someone can be supporting women, and not saying that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. The road ahead is bright. Things are changing. Society is shifting and people young and old are embracing diversity, equity and inclusion. With that said, I want to say Happy Pride to all of you, and congratulations class of 2024.â
In a puzzling move, Butkerâs speech had also quoted a lyric from Taylor Swift (âmy teammateâs girlfriend,â he said, instead of naming names), apparently forgetting Swiftâs decades-long dedication to her career; this week Swift, still on her historic international Eras Tour, holds onto No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the sixth week in a row with her latest studio album, The Tortured Poets Department.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, the âteammateâ in reference, weighed in on the speech on his New Heights podcast after his teammateâs words went viral. Kelce said in the seven years heâs known Butker, heâs viewed him as a âgreat person and great teammate.â âWhen it comes down to his views and what he said ⊠those are his,â said Kelce. âI canât say I agree with the majority of it, or just about any of it outside of him loving his family and his kids. I donât think I should judge him by his views, especially his religious views, of how to go about life. Thatâs just not who I am.â
Watch Perryâs version of the much-talked-about commencement speech below. The star just finished her run on American Idol and has been teasing that new music is on the horizon.
Taylor Swiftâs The Tortured Poets Department spends a sixth straight and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 8), as the title earned 175,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 30 (down 54%), according to Luminate.
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Tortured Poets is the first album to spend its first six weeks at No. 1 since Morgan Wallenâs One Thing at a Time led for its first 12 weeks a year ago (March 18-June 3, 2023-dated charts). Among Swiftâs collection of No. 1s, Tortured Poets ties Folklore for the most weeks at No. 1 from its debut with six weeks each.
With 175,000 units earned in Tortured Poetsâ sixth week, the set scores the largest sixth-week for any album since Adeleâs 25 earned 363,000 units in its sixth frame (chart dated Jan. 16, 2016).
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Swift adds her 75th career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 leaders. (Sheâs tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Twenty One Pilotsâ Clancy debuts at No. 3 with the biggest week for any rock album in 2024 (in either equivalent album units or traditional album sales), while RMâs Right Place, Wrong Person launches at No. 5 with his biggest debut week (in both units and sales).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 8, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboardâs website on June 4. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Tortured Poets Departmentâs sixth-week unit sum of 175,000, SEA units comprise 133,000 (down 20% â itâs No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums; its SEA units equal 173.65 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe editionâs 31 songs), album sales comprise 41,000 (down 81%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 30%).
Billie Eilishâs Hit Me Hard and Soft is a non-mover at No. 2 in its second week on the list, earning 145,000 equivalent album units (down 57%). Itâs the largest second week for any Eilish album, a week after she scored her top weekly career total with the set (339,000).
Twenty One Pilotsâ new studio album, Clancy, bows at No. 3 with 143,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, albums sales comprise 113,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week and No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 29,000 (equaling 38.64 million on-demand official streams of the setâs songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Clancy scores the biggest week, by both units and album sales, for any rock album in 2024. (Rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboardâs Top Rock Albums chart.)
Clancy marks the fourth top 10-charting set for Twenty One Pilots. The band previously visited the region with Scaled and Icy (No. 3 in 2021), Trench (No. 2, 2018) and Blurryface (No. 1, 2016).
The new album was led by the single âOvercompensate,â which reached No. 2 on the Alternative Airplay chart in May, marking the 16th top 10-charting song for the act. The track also hit No. 64 on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100 in March. The new album was announced on Feb. 29 as the final chapter of the bandâs conceptual series which began with Blurryface.
Clancyâs first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 11 vinyl variants, signed and unsigned zine/CD journal editions and digipak CDs, deluxe CD boxed sets containing branded merch, and a deluxe digital album with four bonus live tracks.
Morgan Wallenâs chart-topping One Thing at a Time falls 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).
RM collects his second solo top 10-charting album as Right Place, Wrong Person debuts at No. 5 with 54,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 43,000, SEA units comprise 7,500 (equaling 10.16 million on-demand streams of the setâs songs) and TEA units comprise 3,500. The album yields the BTS member his best debut position on the Billboard 200, as well as his largest opening week by both units and traditional album sales.
Right Place, Wrong Person was preceded by the single âCome Back to Me,â which reached the top 30 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excluding U.S. charts. The albumâs first-week sales were supported by its availability across 13 different CD variants, all containing branded paper merch and other collectibles.
RM previously hit the top 10 with Indigo (No. 3, December 2022).
Wallenâs former leader Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 6 with 45,000 equivalent album units earned (down less than 1%); Future and Metro Boominâs chart-topping We Donât Trust You dips 5-7 (43,000; down 11%); Gunnaâs One of Wun falls 4-8 (42,000; down 25%); Noah Kahanâs Stick Season is pushed down 7-9 despite a gain of 4% (to 40,000); and Zach Bryanâs self-titled former No. 1 falls 8-10 (37,000; down 2%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
Adele blasted a homophobic fans during her Las Vegas residency show over the weekend. During her Weekends With Adele concert on Saturday (June 1), which marked the beginning of Pride Month, an audience member shouted âPride sucksâ between songs. As seen in a fan-captured video, the âSomeone Like Youâ singer briefly paused her performance at […]
The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song âWaterloo,â on Friday (May 31) got one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden from the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf.
The Order of the Vasa was handed out for the first time in almost 50 years. Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad became âCommander of the First Classâ of the order for âvery outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life.â
Sweden has several orders, including the Royal Order of Seraphim, which is awarded to heads of state and foreign royals, and the Royal Order of the Polar Star that is given to foreign citizens and stateless persons.
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The Royal Order of Vasa, which is given in recognition of personal efforts for Sweden or for Swedish interests as well as the successful performance of public duties and assignments, was dormant until late 2022, when it was reactivated after regulations opened the Royal Orders to Swedish citizens again.
Earlier this year, candidates were nominated by the public and the Swedish government and the king approved the nominees that included the four ABBA members.
The orders were awarded during a solemn ceremony at the Royal Palace in the gilded Vita Havet Assembly Rooms. The monarch handed them the order in a red box while a diploma was given to them by Queen Silvia.
âThe order you get today today is Swedenâs thanks for your exceptional efforts,â the monarch said before handing out orders to â13 exceptional Swedes.â
Andersson, Faltskog, Lyngstad, who now uses the last name Reuss walked up using a cane, and Ulvaeus received the order in an event that was aired live on Swedish media.
The Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut, by far the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest. ABBAâs melodic disco pop sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide. The stage musical Mamma Mia! based on its songs is 25 years old and spawned two movies.
Coincidentally, the 2024 Eurovision was held in southern Sweden. Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th contest with âThe Code,â an operatic pop-rap ode to the singerâs journey toward embracing a nongender identity.
The Swedish band members have not performed together live for four decades, but released a comeback album, Voyage, in 2021. The digital âABBA-tarsâ opened in London in 2022.
Two other receipients were two 2023 Nobel Prize winners: French-Swedish physicist Anne LâHuillier, and Svante PÀÀbo, who won the coveted award in physics and medicine. They were both made Commander Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar Star for âoutstanding research efforts.â
Jung Kook is gearing up for the release of new music. On Sunday (June 2), the BTS star announced that he will be dropping a new single titled âNever Let Go.â The track is set for release at 1 p.m. KST on June 7 through Weverse and BTSâ official social media channels. âNever Let Goâ […]
