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You just got half a dozen more chances to catch No Doubt at the Sphere. The Gwen Stefani-led ska pop group announced yet another extension of their anticipated 2026 residency at the eye-popping Las Vegas arena on Friday (Nov. 7), with the addition of what they said were the final six shows of the run.
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The newly added gigs for No Doubt Live at Sphere will take place on June 3, 5, 6, 10, 12 and 13. Tickets will go on sale first through the No Doubt artist pre-sale on Nov. 12 at 12 p.m. PT; fans have to sign up here by 10 p.m. PT on Monday (Nov. 10), with no codes needed. The remaining tickets will be available during a general on-sale starting Nov. 14 at 12 p.m. PT here.
The new six-pack of gigs came after the band added an additional half dozen shows last month for May 2026 to the original six-pack of concerts. No Doubt will be the first female-fronted act to headline the arena, which since its opening in 2023 has hosted U2, Phish, Dead & Company, the Eagles, Anyma, Kenny Chesney and the Backstreet Boys, among others.
“The opportunity to create a show at Sphere excites me in a new way,” Stefani said in a statement announcing the original run of gigs. “The venue is unique and modern, and it opens up a whole new visual palette for us to be creative. Doing it with No Doubt feels like going back in time to relive our history, while also creating something new in a way we never could have imagined.”
The full run of shows announced so far include:
May 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30
June 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13
Check out the poster for the new dates below.
Trending on Billboard Maroon 5 has joined the star-studded lineup for next summer’s BST Hyde Park 2026. The Adam Levine-led band will headline the July 3, 2026 show along with their friends in OneRepublic. “London, we’re coming back!! We’re excited to announce we’ll be headlining BST Hyde Park on July 3, 2026 with special guests […]
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Wicked fans can relive the magic of Thursday night’s NBC TV special with the official soundtrack album, which materialized at the stroke of midnight.
Recorded live at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack captures performances from Wicked stars and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, alongside Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and others.
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The collection houses 10 live recordings, including “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “The Wizard And I,” all of which are back by a 37-piece orchestra, led by Stephen Oremus, and executive music producer of Wicked and the forthcoming sequel, Wicked: For Good.
“From Broadway to the big screen, Wicked has become a global cultural phenomenon, celebrating friendship, courage and the power of standing up against injustice,” reads a statement. The new, live soundtrack “honors that legacy with a collection that bridges generations of fans and captures the emotional heartbeat of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.”
Earlier, NBC beamed out its two-hour concert special, which marked the first time fans got to watch Grande and Erivo perform “What Is This Feeling?” and several other Wicked classics live.
The spectacle, and its soundtrack, should build the buzz for Wicked: For Good, which rolls out at cinemas from Nov. 21, and is accompanied with its own soundtrack, due out on the same day. Pre-orders are here.
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack is now available now to stream via Republic Records and Verve Records. Check out the tracklist below.
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) – The Soundtrack Track List:1. Overture / No One Mourns the Wicked (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande2. The Wizard And I (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo ft. Jeff Goldblum3. What Is This Feeling? / Dear Old Shiz (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande4. Popular (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande ft. Remington Glass5. I’m Not That Girl (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo6. Dancing Through Life (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater & Marissa Bode7. Thank Goodness (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Ariana Grande8. Defying Gravity (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo9. Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again (Live from the Dolby Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande10. For Good (Live from the Gershwin Theatre) – Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Idina Menzel & Kristin ChenowethWicked: For Good – The Soundtrack Track List:1. Every Day More Wicked – Wicked Movie Cast, Cynthia Erivo ft. Michelle Yeoh, Ariana Grande2. Thank Goodness / I Couldn’t Be Happier – Ariana Grande, Wicked Movie Cast ft. Michelle Yeoh 3. No Place Like Home – Cynthia Erivo 4. The Wicked Witch of the East – Marissa Bode, Cynthia Erivo, Ethan Slater5. Wonderful – Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo6. I’m Not That Girl (Reprise) – Ariana Grande7. As Long As You’re Mine – Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey 8. No Good Deed – Cynthia Erivo9. March of the Witch Hunters – Wicked Movie Cast, Ethan Slater 10. The Girl in the Bubble – Ariana Grande11. For Good – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
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Licorice has long been sought out and snaffled for its touted benefits, which range from digestion to respiratory health and skin conditions. It’s handy, too, in the creation of music.
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Hatchie’s third studio album Liquorice, which drops today (Nov. 7) through a global arrangement with Secretly Canadian, was created on the stuff, both the sticky snacks and the tea.
“I was introduced to licorice lollies at a young age because it’s my mum’s favorite, so my taste for it was already there,” Hatchie tells Billboard.
A bag of licorice, the top-shelf gear produced Darrell Lea, was close by when Hatchie caught up with Billboard at Summa House, an airy club in Fortitude Valley, the entertainment precinct of her hometown, Brisbane.
Licorice tea, she explains, “is really soothing for the vocal cords,” something learned on tour years ago “when I was struggling with chronic laryngitis. It coats your throat which really helps with tickles, so I’ve always got some handy when I’m singing. I drink it pretty much every day now.”
Hatchie is the project of Harriette Pilbeam, one part dream-pop, another shoegaze, and which, earlier in her career, the Australian singer and songwriter depicted as a creative mashup of Cocteau Twins with Kylie Minogue.
Perhaps that’s still the case, though this new LP, reads a statement, “reflects a woman increasingly comfortable in her own skin, no longer feeling the pressure to fit into a box or prove herself, whatever that even means.”
The album, “my best work yet,” she writes on social media, is the followup to 2022’s Giving The World Away. Spanning 11 tracks, Liquorice was written in Brisbane, then Melbourne, and completed in Los Angeles, where it was recorded at the home studio of producer Jay Som (real name: Melina Duterte), alongside Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett) on drums, and her bandmate, co-writer and partner in life, Joe Agius.
Is this “peak Hatchie,” where confidence, creativity and experience collide? “God I hope so,” she remarks. “It’s taken a lot of self-discovery to get to this point of creative self-acceptance.”
The album was mixed by Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman) and mastered by Greg Obis (Dutch Interior, Slow Pulp, Wishy), and is led by the singles “Lose It Again,” “Only One Laughing, and “Sage,” which arrives today with an official music video.
The new collection is the first global Hatchie release through Secretly Canadian, which signed the Aussie act in 2021, two years after arrival of debut LP Keepsake, and on the heels of plaudits from Pitchfork, Stereogum and elsewhere.
If confusion abounds on whether Hatchie is an artist or an act, Pilbeam is happy to clear it up. “It’s closer to a band at this point,” she says. “I could never make so many decisions by myself.”
To celebrate the release of Liquorice, Hatchie announces 2026 U.S. dates at Los Angeles’ Lodge Room (Feb. 2) and Music Hall of Williamsburg (Feb. 20). See below and stream Liquorice.
Hatchie 2026 U.S. tour dates:
Feb. 2 — Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 20 — Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, NY
Trending on Billboard Leonardo DiCaprio starred in the One Battle After Another movie, but Katy Perry lived that title to the fullest in her “Bandaids” music video, which arrived on Thursday night (Nov. 6). “Bandaids” serves as Perry’s first solo single of 2025, as she displays emotional vulnerability while looking back on her journey in […]
Trending on Billboard As expected, it was a total eclipse of Taylor Swift on the charts and in the conversation for October — with the pop ultrasupermegastar topping both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 for essentially the entire month with her The Life of a Showgirl and its lead single “The Fate of […]
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Adolescence can be a trying, sometimes terrifying time for many teens. But on Penn Badgley’s Podcrushed podcast this week, Sam Smith revisited a particularly challenging time they went through as a young teenager struggling with painful physical changes.
“I had surgery on my chest when I was 13 years old, because I had a growing chest,” Smith told Badgley about the procedure they first talked about in a 2019 interview. “There were all sorts of reasons why, but mainly, I was just getting so teased, I couldn’t go swimming in school, and I couldn’t — like, getting changed in the locker room was hell. So I got liposuction when I was 13 years old.”
As a non-binary, queer child trying to find their way in the world, Smith praised their parents for being “hugely supportive of the whole thing, because they just saw how much it was crippling everything about me.” Describing the “brutal” years in a Catholic school at 12 while being “so obviously gay,” Smith said they were popular, “really chubby, round a pink” and totally comfortable with their queerness after coming out to a female friend at 10.
But their weight was always a burden. “My queerness was something that I could handle and could have a grasp on it, but my weight as a kid was the hardest thing for me in school and weirdly the thing I got teased most about,” Smith said.
The singer recalled that it was “just all a struggle with food and stuff. And the liposuction, it worked, but it was also a nightmare because they gave me a bandage,” describing a kind of bra that they were originally meant to wear for a month while healing that turned into a year of binding. “If I wore the bandage, it meant that I would get to the front of the lunch queue,” Smith laughed. “So I just kept this bandage on for nearly a year, and I’d be like, ‘Oh, don’t come close to me,’ and then I’d just get first at lunch and I’d eat more and eat more and eat more… so the surgery never really worked because I just love food.”
Smith has long been open about their history of struggle with body issues, including in a 2019 post in which the singer posed shirtless on a beach and described a reluctance early in their career to take photos without a shirt on. “In the past if I have ever done a photo shoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down,” Smith said at the time, adding that the near-unanimous support from fans has helped them be open about their struggle.
Smith is gearing up to kick off a 12-show To Be Free residency at the Warsaw in New York City on Nov. 26 before moving on to a 20-night residency at the refurbished Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Click here to listen to the Podcrushed Smith interview (liposuction discussion begins at 26-minute mark).
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Another Kylie Christmas is coming.
Kylie Minogue will ring in the holiday period with the 10th anniversary edition of Kylie Christmas, featuring four newly-recorded tracks.
Due out Dec. 5, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (via Warner Records) includes the new yuletide tunes “Hot In December,” “This Time Of Year,” “Office Party” and “XMAS,” an Amazon Music Original.
Pronounced X – M – A – S, the party number is available now to stream from Amazon Music, and is available as a stocking filler on CD, 7” gold vinyl and 12” zoetrope vinyl from the Australian pop princess’s official store.
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The album proper should make for a handy present for fans, and is available to preorder in several limited-edition vinyls, from candy cane to transparent red and pink and white marble color-ways. The Amazon exclusive album vinyl is a transparent green.
“Revisiting Kylie Christmas ten years on has been so much fun,” Minogue says in a statement. “Fully Wrapped has given me the chance to write and record four new songs and add a little extra sparkle – I can’t wait for everyone to turn up the volume on the new single, ‘XMAS’!”
Kylie is three decades-and-counting into her stellar career, and there’s a sense that she’s not yet hit her peak.
Raised in Melbourne, the pop veteran’s 2023 album Tension led the national charts in the United Kingdom and Australia, peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the global hit “Padam Padam,” which scooped a Grammy Award (best pop dance recording). Followup Tension II also led the charts in the U.K., Australia and cracked the top 100 in the U.S.
Kylie’s hot streak has included Las Vegas residencies, ARIA Awards; a deal with United Talent Agency (UTA) for live representation in the U.S. and Canada and acting roles worldwide; the Global Icon Award at the 2024 BRIT Awards, becoming just the second woman to win it following Taylor Swift in 2021; and the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award.
More recently, the Aussie legend was a guest on PinkPantheress’s all-star remix project of her Fancy That mixtape, which dropped last month, and she performed alongside ATEEZ for Apple TV+’s new music competition series KPOPPED.
Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) – Amazon Music Editions tracklist:1. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year2. XMAS (Amazon Original)3. Santa Baby4. Hot In December5. At Christmas6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Featuring Frank Sinatra)7. This Time Of Year8. 100 Degrees (Featuring Dannii Minogue)9. Office Party10. White December11. Let It Snow12. Christmas Isn’t Christmas Til You Get Here13. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
All other formats1. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year2. Santa Baby3. Hot In December4. At Christmas5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Featuring Frank Sinatra)6. This Time Of Year7. 100 Degrees (Featuring Dannii Minogue)8. Office Party9. White December10. Let It Snow11. Christmas Isn’t Christmas Til You Get Here12. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
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Katy Perry has long made being a charming klutz part of her brand. The singer leans all the way into that part of her personality in the brand new preview of her upcoming single, “Bandaids.” After teasing what fans assume is her next single on Tuesday (Nov. 4) with a picture of her somber face all cut up and bruised, Perry offered up a brief video preview of the song that is due out at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday (Nov. 6).
Spoiler: things get way, way worse.
Though it does not contain any actual music, the eight-second sneak peek at what appears to be the visual for the track finds Perry perishing in all the worst ways. It opens with the 41-year-old pop star sticking her hand into a garbage disposal, which she seems shocked to learn will set off a blood geyser as her unseen fingers are chewed up, blasting the white sink with gore.
For her next trick, Perry sits on the wrong end of a giant tree branch and saws away at it until the bit she’s resting on comes crashing down, followed by KP suffering a major face plant as she trips at the top of an escalator at a mall, leading to her getting seriously electrocuted while walking through a puddle at a gas station.
And sorry Katy Kats, but it does not get better. While enjoying a coffee at the Crumb Café, Perry is blasted with shards of glass from an unseen explosion, then forced to dodge gigantic tree trunks falling off an 18-wheeler on the highway and, finally, covered in dirt, bruises, scratch and bandages, Katy is blown to bits after lighting a cigarette, resulting in a massive, fiery blast.
What does it all mean? You’ll have to wait one more day to find out.
At press time, a spokesperson for Perry had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional information on whether the song is a one-off single or attached to a new album. Perry released her uptempo seventh studio album, 143, last September, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The LP, written and produced by controversial producer Dr. Luke, as well as pop savants Max Martin and Stargate, was fronted by the single “Woman’s World — which peaked at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart — followed by the songs “Lifetimes” and “I’m His, He’s Mine” featuring Doechii.
