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Olivia Dean made her Saturday Night Live debut on Nov. 15, performing two songs from her latest album, The Art of Loving.
The 26-year-old U.K. singer-songwriter and BRIT School alum appeared alongside host Glen Powell, delivering an ebullient rendition of “Man I Need” and a mesmeric performance of “Let Alone the One You Love.”
Both tracks appear on Dean’s sophomore album, The Art of Loving, which reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 following its September release.
Recently nominated for best new artist at the 2026 Grammy Awards, the soul-pop artist opened her set with “Man I Need,” wearing a sparkly gold dress and backed by a full band. She followed with “Let Alone the One You Love,” performing in a flowing pink gown against a matching backdrop.
Dean has built significant crossover momentum in the U.S. in recent months, currently holding four entries on the Billboard Hot 100, including the top 5 hit “Man I Need.”
“I’ve never been somebody who has followed trends or made music because of what else was popular at the time,” Dean told Billboard. “I like old music, I like soul music, I like Motown. That’s what I wanted to make, and in my mind, I’m in my own lane in that way.”
She also recently announced The Art of Loving Tour, slated for next summer. The North American run kicks off in San Francisco on July 10 and includes stops in Los Angeles, New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Atlanta, Toronto, Las Vegas, Boston, and Houston before wrapping in Austin on Aug. 28.
SNL returns on Dec. 6 with actress-comedian Melissa McCarthy as host and musical guest Dijon.
Watch Dean’s SNL performances below, and find all the ways to stream the full episode here.
Trending on Billboard Eric Church is giving fans a preview into the cinematic concert extravaganza that his fans will see in February, when Eric Church: Evangeline Vs. The Machine Comes Alive hits IMAX theaters in the United States and Canada for two nights only, on Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 2026. Explore See latest videos, […]
Trending on Billboard Saturday Night Live is breaking in a pair of first-timers this weekend, with musical guest Olivia Dean and host Glen Powell both making their debuts. And cast members Bowen Yang and Marcello Hernandez aren’t making things easy for them. “Well, well, well,” Yang says, glaring. “If it isn’t a couple of first-timers,” […]
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Charli xcx is back with another taste of her album of music written for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the full trailer for which arrived Thursday (Nov. 13) featuring a new song from the pop star titled “Chains of Love.”
The preview opens with Emily Brontë’s famous fictional lovebirds, Heathcliff and Catherine — played by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, respectively — sitting together in the moors as the former imagines what he would do if he were rich. The latter is startled when he indicates he’d “take a wife,” setting off a montage of the couple’s tragic gothic love story.
“Why did you leave me?” Robbie says at one point as Elordi chases after her in a downpour, asking her in response, “Why did you betray your own heart?”
All the while, Charli’s anthemic, synth-powered track plays. “I know the chains of love won’t break,” she repeats in a soaring soprano melody.
The full song is now available for streaming, dropping on the same day as the trailer. It follows on the heels of “House,” which the British singer-songwriter worked on with John Cale of the Velvet Underground for her Wuthering Heights concept album. The new LP is set to drop on Feb. 13 — one day before the film premieres in theaters.
In her first-ever post on Substack, Charli recently shared how the upcoming concept LP came to be. “I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script,” she wrote in a post on Nov. 12. “She coyly suggested ‘A song?’ and I suggested ‘An album?’ because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living.”
“This collection of songs is an album, and sure, my name’s on the credits, but is it a Charli xcx album?” she added in the post. “I don’t even know. Nor do I really care to find out.”
Watch the new trailer for Wuthering Heights featuring “Chains of Love” above, and listen to the full song below.
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With a week left until Wicked: For Good hits theaters, Cynthia Erivo is setting the record straight on why some think her performances are political statements.
Appearing on the cover of GQ‘s Men of the Year issue, Erivo said that her performances in Wicked, The Color Purple and every other project she works on are inherently political simply because she is a Black, queer woman, not necessarily because she chooses political roles.
“I think inevitably, because I’m in this body with this skin, in this time, everything I do will be political,” she says. “I’ve been told so many times that I pick controversial roles, and I’m like, ‘Why? Why are the roles I pick controversial?’ I just pick a thing that I feel like I want. If I was a different person, in a different body, in a different skin, it wouldn’t be controversial.”
The near-EGOT did point out, however, that she is interested in “f–king with the narrative” of audience expectations, especially when it comes to her sexuality and gender. “I’m fascinated with the interplay between masculinity and femininity, and where we place it and how we use it,” she said. “Because I truly believe we all have both in us — and I think it’s so sexy when we can access both.”
Erivo received a wave of backlash earlier this year when she was cast as Jesus Christ in a Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar, with some on the religious right calling her casting “blasphemy.” In an interview with Billboard in June, Erivo laughed off the criticism, saying, “you can’t please everyone.”
Elsewhere in her new interview, Erivo got real when speaking about the anti-LGBTQ+ political environment of 2025, saying that “who I love and who you love” have “nothing to do with each other,” and she doesn’t understand why people feel a need to “be involved in people’s business.”
“It is about love. If people really, actually allow themselves to love, actually love, this wouldn’t be happening,” she explained. “We would want everyone to have it, wherever they could get it. Because you’d actually know what it feels like. And so when you know what it feels like, you’d want it for anyone else. Get it however you can get it, please.”
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Grab Pandy’s hand and hold on tight, because it’s almost time to jump into a new season of Gabby’s Dollhouse.
For season 12, hitting Netflix on Monday, Gabby’s stuffy BFF Pandy Paws (Logan Bailey) is singing a new song that reminds us why “It’s Good to Be a Gabby Cat,” and Billboard Family is exclusively premiering the tune and video below.
It’s the latest track from series composer and songwriter P.T. Walkley, the man behind the DreamWorks Animation show’s “Hey Gabby” theme song and countless other musical contributions (“Between all the songs and ditties, there must be at least 200 or more,” Walkley tells Billboard Family). So where did “It’s Good to Be a Gabby Cat” — which hits streaming on Friday — come from?
“The assignment on this Gabby tune was to look back through all their magical moments together that make it so ‘good, good, good’ to be a Gabby Cat,” Walkley tells Billboard. “The chorus hook came to me first, then the question was, ‘Well what makes it so good-good-good?’ So I thought back to moments of cruising through the ocean, riding horses through the old west, blasting through outer space, island hopping, playing games together, cooking together, and got as many of those memories as I could into a catchy little tune.”
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Pandy’s new song is featured in “Good to be a Gabby Cat Game Show!,” episode 5 of the five-episode new season. What makes this episode special is that the animated Gabby Cats join real-life Gabby (Laila Lockhart Kraner) in her bedroom instead of the Dollhouse for a Hollywood Squares-style game show.
It’s been a busy year for Gabby’s Dollhouse, with the six-episode season 11 premiering on Netflix back in February, followed by the Gabby’s Dollhouse Live! U.S. tour and Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie both arriving in September, as well as an immersive Gabby’s Dollhouse x CAMP experience that took fans inside the Dollhouse at CAMP stores in Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina.
All five episodes of season 12 arrive Monday on Netflix.
Trending on Billboard At an otherwise joyful celebration of Wicked in Singapore for the second film’s Asian premiere on Thursday (Nov. 13), a scary moment took place when someone in the crowd charged at Ariana Grande and forced Cynthia Erivo to step in as her costar’s bodyguard. In videos of the incident captured at the […]
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Ben Stiller was reminded of Wicked: For Good star Ariana Grande‘s prodigious talents when the singer signed on to play his future daughter-in-law in the upcoming episode in the Fockers quadrilogy, Focker-in-Law. “It’s crazy how talented [she is],” Stiller told Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night’s (Nov. 12) Tonight Show.
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“She’s so sweet. I didn’t know her before,” Stiller said, before quickly realizing that they had previously had a meet-weird on set. “Actually, I had met her before because she did a cameo in Zoolander 2 10 years ago. She was in an orgy scene we had. But I haven’t seen her since the orgy. She’s so great with comedy. She’s amazing in Wicked and she’s such a good singer, obviously, too,” he recalled.
Stiller described how Grande would wander around set humming and singing to herself, mimicking the vocal exercises the singer would do to keep her instrument prepped. He described the murmurations as “incredible, operatic… kind of soliloquy. And that’s just her humming. It doesn’t sound like I just did it. That sounds like I was possessed or something.”
Though Grande’s dramatic chops are on full display in both Wicked movies, the 32-year-old superstar who got her start in light comedy on Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Sam & Cat more than 15 years ago still has her comedy chops fully intact according to Stiller. “She’s so good with comedy. She’s just like a total natural,” he told Fallon. “I feel like she could do anything.”
Grande recently confirmed that she’d finished her time on the Fockers-in-Law set while sharing a sweet message to her co-stars and some pics from the shoot. “these past few months have been so, so unimaginably special. i love my Fockers, and i love my Byrnes… so, so very much. i will miss this bunch terribly. see you next november!” Grande wrote on on Oct. 31 in a post that featured her pointing to a nameplate with her character’s name (Olivia Jones) and hugging Stiller.
Fockers-in-Law, which also stars returning cast members Robert De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, will be in theaters on Nov. 25, 2026.
Watch Stiller talk working with Grande on The Tonight Show below.
Trending on Billboard The Devil Wears Prada is officially back in vogue, with the first teaser for the film’s long-awaited sequel arriving Wednesday (Nov. 12) featuring a perfect song sync from Madonna. In the 50-second clip, viewers are transported back to the fictional Runway magazine office in New York City as the one and only […]
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Adele is slated to make her acting debut in the upcoming Tom Ford adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel Cry to Heaven. According to Deadline, Adele, 37, will join the star-studded cast of the movie that will also be written and produced by Ford through his Fade to Black production shingle.
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Among those reportedly lined up to feature in the film set in 18th century Italy are: Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Owen Cooper, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Hunter Schafer, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannemann and Lux Pascal.
The film is reportedly in pre-production in London and Rome now, with principal photography set to begin in mid-January for a planned late fall 2026 release. At press time a spokesperson for Adele had not returned Billboard‘s request for confirmation on her debut film role.
The singer known for going off the radar between albums, has been quiet since completing her massive Weekends with Adele residency series in Munich, Germany in August 2024. Her most recent album was her fourth LP, 2021’s 30, which featured the songs “Easy On Me,” “Oh My God,” “Can I Get It” and “I Drink Wine.”
The Rice novel tells the tale of a Venetian nobleman and a castrati singer from Calabria who are both trying to make their names in the opera world. Director and fashion designer Ford has directed two other films to date, beginning with his debut, 2009’s period romance A Single Man about a gay British professor (Colin Firth) living in Los Angeles in the early 1960s.
He followed that with the acclaimed 2016 neo-noir thriller Nocturnal Animals starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney and others in a story about an art gallery owner (Adams) who receives a manuscript for a novel written by her estranged ex-husband (Gyllenhaal) which appears to mirror their failed relationship. The latter won the 2016 Grand Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and landed an Oscar nomination for Shannon for best supporting actor.
