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There’s some new kids in town on Good Morning America‘s 2025 summer concert series lineup, with New Kids on the Block, Laufey and more acts locked in to perform on the program over the next few months.
As shared exclusively with Billboard, the show’s annual string of mid-year live performances will kick off June 12, with the “Step by Step” boy band delivering what will be the last concert inside GMA‘s Times Square studio. After that, “Whole Lotta Money” rapper BIA and “No Limit” artist G-Eazy will take the stage July 18 at an outdoor venue in Indianapolis ahead of tipoff at the WNBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, and Colombian singer Manuel Turizo becomes the first artist to perform at GMA‘s new studio downtown on Aug. 1.
The next two weeks after that will see punk-rock band Good Charlotte and the Icelandic “From the Start” singer performing at the new studio on Aug. 8 and 15, respectively. Fresh off of a memorable performance at the 2025 American Music Awards, Gloria Estefan will take the stage on Aug. 22, followed by Dierks Bentley on Aug. 27, and Teyana Taylor on Aug. 29.
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“We’re thrilled to host this year’s Summer Concert Series in our brand-new, state-of-the-art studio,” said Simone Swink, senior executive producer of Good Morning America. “It’s an exciting chapter for us, and we can’t wait to welcome incredible artists and our viewers into our home, right here in the heart of downtown Manhattan.”
All of the performances listed will broadcast live during GMA, which airs from 7 to 9 a.m. ET on ABC. This year’s programming follows a 2024 lineup that featured Green Day, Carrie Underwood, Nicky Jam, Kane Brown, G-Eazy, Sofi Tukker, Megan Moroney and Old Dominion. Before that, BTS’ Jung Kook, Carly Rae Jepson, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Remy Ma, Tim McGraw and more performed for the morning show in 2025.
See the full 2025 GMA summer concert schedule below.
June 12 – New Kids on the Block
July 18 – BIA & G-Eazy
Aug. 1 – Manuel Turizo
Aug. 8 – Good Charlotte
Aug. 15 – Laufey
Aug. 22 – Gloria Estefan
Aug. 27 – Dierks Bentley
Aug. 29 – Teyana Taylor
Miley Cyrus is opening up about her music career after leaving Hannah Montana behind.
In a recent interview on The Ringer podcast, the 32-year-old pop star and actress revealed that following the end of the hit Disney Channel series in 2011, she was banned from performing any songs associated with the teen sitcom.
“After I left Disney, I wasn’t allowed to perform any of the Hannah Montana music,” Cyrus said. “It’s not like I wanted to, I mean performing ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball,’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”
But it wasn’t easy being cut off from music so tied to her early identity. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she said.
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That changed in August 2024, when Cyrus was officially inducted as a Disney Legend during a ceremony at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
“After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I was given permission to perform those songs in the future, which is pretty cool,” she told The Ringer.
Hannah Montana debuted in March 2006 and quickly became a cultural phenomenon, premiering to a record-breaking 5.4 million viewers, the highest in Disney Channel’s history at the time. Cyrus, then 13 years old, played Miley Stewart, a teenager living a secret double life as a Malibu student by day and global pop star by night.
Under her TV alter ego, Cyrus charted 20 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 as Hannah Montana. “He Could Be the One” became the biggest hit, reaching the top 10 in 2009. The show’s theme song, “The Best of Both Worlds,” also made the chart, reaching No. 92 in 2006.
Cyrus also earned three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 as Hannah Montana: Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus, and Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack.
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BMF (Black Mafia Family) is back for season four! If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the drama, it’s a great time to binge older episodes before you watch the new episode premiering on Friday (June 6).
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Want to watch BMF online? The TV series is available to watch on Starz.
BMF returns with new episodes airing Fridays. Want to watch catch up on the season? Subscribe to Starz as an add-on to Prime Video.
Right now, you can sign up for Starz on Prime Video for an additional $10.99 per month. This price is on top of your Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription price. However, Starz is offering a seven-day free trial before adding it on to your Amazon account.
For those who don’t have cable, satellite or TV via internet provider, Starz is available on Prime Video, Sling TV, DirecTV, AT&T, Verizon Fios, Hulu, Xfinity and other streamers. See a full list of partnered providers here.
Starz is offered as an add-on with Philo ($28 per month after one week free), Fubo (from $64.99 for the first month of service after a week free) and Sling (starting as low as $23 for the first month).
What time does BMF usually come on TV? The new season drops on Friday, June 6, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Starz. New episodes premiere on every Friday at the same time until the season finale on Aug. 8. You can subscribe to Starz as low as $3 per month for six months.
With Starz, you can binge previous seasons of BMF, along with the new season. And you can stream from your TV, smartphone or another compatible device via the Starz app (use ExpressVPN to watch internationally).
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From executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and writer Randy Huggins, BMF, which premiered in 2021, follows Demetrius “Meech” (Demetrius Flenory Jr.) and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory’s (Da’Vinchi) pursuit to establish a hip-hop record label as a legitimate and legal face for their criminal activities, drugs and money laundering, during the mid ’90s.
The cast of BMF also stars Russell Hornsby, Michole Briana White, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Ajiona Alexus, Myles Truitt, Steve Harris, La La Anthony, Kelly Hu and others. For season four, the TV series has a soundtrack featuring music from rapper and producer Tony K.
Starz is the home to hit original and limited series such as The Couple Next Door, Fat Joe Talks, Gaslit, P-Valley, BMF, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Power Book IV: Force and much more.
BMF season four premieres on Starz on Friday, June 6, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. In the meantime, watch a trailer for BMF’s new season, below:
“What’s the difference between love and obsession?” “Stans” have become a source of heated discussion over recent years, as some fan accounts on social media have infamously harassed, stalked or doxxed whoever dares go against their faves. Eminem, who invented the term with his 2000 hit of the same name, premiered the documentary STANS at […]
Jennifer Lopez unveiled the first look at her next big-screen role in Kiss of the Spider Woman on Thursday (June 5). In the teaser trailer, J.Lo stars as Ingrid Luna, an Old Hollywood actress whose litany of dazzling, song-and-dance roles are dreamt up by a pair of prisoners (played by Diego Luna and Tonatiuh) stuck […]
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has some sage advice for anyone who finds themselves in a difficult situation.
“If you’re going through hell,” Homme says, “keep going.”
Easy for him to say: He’s one of the few lucky souls who has left the Paris Catacombs, the subject of his band’s new film and the final home to more than 6 million deceased Parisians following an 18th-century effort to fix Paris’ overcrowded, dilapidated cemetery system. Homme has long been fascinated by the underground burial site, visited by more than a half-million people each year, and chose the dark and foreboding underground capsule as the central motif for Queens of the Stone Age’s new project Alive in the Catacombs, a concert and concept film directed by Thomas Rames and produced by La Blogothèque.
“This place is like trying to run on a sheet of ice,” Hommes explains in the accompanying documentary Alive in Paris and Before, shot by the band’s longtime visual collaborator Andreas Neumann. “You have no idea how much time has passed up there, up above, and no time has passed below. It’s the same time, all the time, every time.”
It’s easy to get lost in the maze-like film as it wanders through the subterranean tunnels and ossuaries buried deep beneath the City of Light. The film captures Homme at a low point in 2024, having to cancel a major European leg of the band’s tour due to a cancer diagnosis from which he has since recovered. Performing in the Catacombs had been a lifelong dream of Homme’s, and he pushes though the pain to delivery a carefully arranged performance of music from the band’s back catalog, “stripped down bare, without taking away what made each one wonderful,” band member Dean Fertita explains in the documentary.
The band recruited violinist Christelle Lassort and viola player Arabella Bozig to repurpose tracks like “Paper Machete,” “Kalopsia” and “Villains of Circumstance”; while each song was performed acoustically, Homme was adamant the project not simply feel like “Queens of the Stone Age Unplugged.”
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“When you go into the Catacombs, there are 6 million people in there, and I think about, ‘What would you want to hear if you were one of those people?’” Homme said Wednesday night (June 4) during a Q&A in Los Angeles following a screening of the film. “I’d want to hear about family and acceptance and things I care about. A lot of the songs we picked are about the moment you realize there’s difficulty and the moment you realize you’re past it, so a lot of the songs we picked were about letting the people down there know it’s all right and that we care about them.”
Homme said the challenges of the performance was that unlike a traditional concert where the band plays to the audience, “We’re in the belly of this thing. The ceiling is dripping and it’s an organic thing that’s really dominating.”
The Paris Catacombs were built during a time of great upheaval in French society, as revolution completely reshaped civic life and laid siege to the political fabric of the French monarchy. There are no coffins or headstones in the Catacombs, with the bones of the princes and kings mixed with peasants and non-nobility.
The band shot the entire film in one day, Homme said, securing permission from the historical group that oversees the Paris Catacombs to shoot on a day the space was closed to the public.
“We didn’t over-rehearse; we just rehearsed twice,” Homme said. “It’s not supposed to be perfect. You try to make a plan, but you go down there and all the plans are off.”
Fans can preorder the film in advance on Queens of the Stone Age’s website; fans who order the video before Saturday will also receive the mini-documentary film. Watch the trailer below:
Tiësto and Sexyy Red are revving their engines with the just-released collab “OMG!”
The slinky song, in which Sexyy Red opines about maxing out credit cards, breaking the rules and being “too high to be cool” over the Dutch producer’s woozy beat, comes from the forthcoming soundtrack to the Brad Pitt-starring racing film F1.
“Who would have thought that Tiësto would have a collab with Sexyy Red?” the producer recently told Billboard backstage at EDC Las Vegas. “No one, absolutely no one, but here it is, and it’s an amazing track. I think people will really like it. It’s super dance.”
“OMG!” has been in the works for awhile, with Tiësto playing it during a huge performance in October at the annual dance gathering ADE. The track comes from the F1 the Album soundtrack, with the corresponding film hitting theaters on June 27, the same day the soundtrack will be released.
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This soundtrack brings together a collection of musical titans including music by Dom Dolla (who’s slick contribution “No Room For a Saint” came out last month), Doja Cat, ROSÉ, Peggy Gou, Chris Stapleton, Ed Sheeran, Raye, Burna Boy, Roddy Rich, Madison Beer, Tate McRae, Don Toliver and Myke Towers.
Tiësto, a known racing fan, also makes a cameo in the film, which stars Pitt as an aging F1 driver who returns to the sport after a long absence, along with Damson Idris, Kerry Condon and Javier Bardem. F1 The Movie was directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also directed the global blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick.
Listen to “OMG!” below:
Everything definitely changes for good in Wicked‘s second part, with the sequel’s new trailer showing how Oz is turned upside down by the actions of Ariana Grande‘s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba — as well as the entry of a certain gingham-wearing Kansan.
Arriving late Wednesday (June 4) as the first Wicked film returned to theaters for one night only in North America, the For Good teaser gave fans their first full taste of what’s to come in the darker, more intense sequel. “Elphaba Thropp, I know you’re out here — just come in before the monkeys spot you,” the blonde “Yes, And?” singer says in its opening scene, stepping out onto a balcony before the green-ified Pinocchio star silently appears, spooking her.
The nearly three-minute trailer then previews how the film’s plot unfurls, with the former best friends fully stepping into their chosen fates. Elphaba busies herself trying to expose the corruption helmed by the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), while Glinda dons a tiara and becomes the people’s princess of the Emerald City, playing directly into the faux warlock’s agenda. At one point, Grande’s character walks down the aisle in a dramatic wedding dress to marry Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who leads the hunt against the banished Elphaba before appearing to turn back to the pointy-hatted heroine’s side.
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“For a while there, I thought you’d changed,” she tells him during one tense moment.
“I have changed,” Bailey whispers back.
The trailer comes as there’s still several months to go before Wicked: For Good hits theaters in November, one year after the first installment in the Jon M. Chu-directed duology premiered. The 2024 movie was a massive success, so far grossing upward of $755.9 million worldwide — more than any other film adaptation of a Broadway musical — and winning two Oscars at the 2025 ceremony.
The Part 1 soundtrack also performed splendidly, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The new For Good trailer gives fans a taste of the film cast’s takes on the second half of the Wicked stage musical’s songbook, with Grande and Erivo delivering a few emotionally charged lines of tear-jerking duet “For Good.”
“Because I knew you, I have been changed for good,” they sing over a shot of the Tony winner telling a tearful Glinda, “You’re the only friend I’ve ever had.”
The trailer also shows several clips teasing one of the most pivotal developments of the musical’s second half: Dorothy Gale’s arrival in Oz. Though viewers never see her face directly, there are shots of her in her signature blue-checkered dress, walking down the Yellow Brick Road with Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. Viewers also see the iconic foursome standing before Goldblum as he commands them to “bring me the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair published the same day as the trailer’s release, Chu discusses how he approached including the Judy Garland-originated character — who only ever appears as a shadow in the Wicked stage musical — in the films. “That intersection is the place that we were first introduced into Oz,” the director told the publication, which also shared brand new first-look photos.
“We tread lightly, but try to make more sense of how it impacts our girls and our characters than maybe the show does,” he continued. “We’re delicate.”
Watch the first Wicked: For Good trailer above.
Fuerza Regida’s Jesús Ortiz Paz (JOP), Gabito Ballesteros and Lupillo Rivera join the new reality show Pase a la Fama, set to premiere Sunday (June 8) on Telemundo. The three Mexican artists will form part of the music competition series — focused on discovering the next great regional Mexican band — as mentors, where they […]
Sinners director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson didn’t just read up on Mississippi Delta blues while making the music for the 2025 blockbuster film Sinners; they went to experience it for themselves. In an exclusive clip shared with Billboard on Wednesday (June 4), Coogler said he traveled to Mississippi for the first time while […]
