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When it came time to make his third studio album, Learn the Hard Way, out today (Aug. 15) on MCA Nashville, ACM and CMA award winner Jordan Davis tells Billboard he “wanted to take some chances.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news The 17-song album, which follows 2023’s acoustic-leaning Bluebird Days, strikes a balance of uptempo, radio-friendly hits and more emotional songs, with moments of creative risk-taking. “I feel like songs like ‘Memory Don’t Mess Around’ feel a little bit outside of what I’ve done on past projects. And I wanted to have fun,” Davis says. “The last record I put out was pretty personal to me and covered a lot of things I never thought I’d write about. I wanted to make a record that I had fun recording and would be fun to play live. So really those were the two goals, and I feel like we accomplished both of them.” Perhaps chief among those left-of-center songs is the swampy rocker “Louisiana Stick,” featuring vocals and scorching guitar work by Marcus King. “It was not just his singing and guitar playing on it—he was a huge influence on that song,” Davis says. “I’ve been a fan of his for so long, I came into that writing session wanting to write something that felt like Marcus King making a song in New Orleans. I was listening to a lot of his music and to have him come in on this song about my home state and dip back into that style of music was special. He’s an amazing dude, a super talented guy.” Davis co-wrote 13 of the album’s songs, bringing in writers such as Ashley Gorley, Lauren Hungate, Hillary Lindsey and Travis Wood. Themes of love and loss permeate the album on songs such as “I Ain’t Sayin,’” his current Billboard Country Airplay top 10 hit “Bar None,” and “Turn This Truck Around,” the latter of which was inspired by Davis’ childhood. “I still remember my dad and his old Suburban,” he says. “Me, my brother [and frequent co-writer] Jacob and my sister fighting in the backseat and that was his go-to line: ‘Don’t make me turn this truck around,’” Davis recalls. “He would say that while taking us to school and we would joke that we need to keep fighting because we didn’t want to go to school. It was one of those days where writing songs feels like it’s second nature and it’s one of my favorites off the record and just felt fun.” Recently, both his personal life and career have been in full-throttle mode; he and his wife Kristen welcomed their fourth child, daughter Sadie, in July. This fall, he’ll bring this new slate of songs to fans on his Ain’t Enough Road Tour, which launches stateside in September with openers Mitchell Tenpenny, Vincent Mason and Mackenzie Carpenter, before heading to the UK and Europe in 2026 with Avery Anna and Solon Holt. Billboard caught up with Davis to discuss his new album, collaborations, his life off the road and more. You mentioned you were listening to a lot of Marcus King’s music while writing for the new album. Any songs or albums in particular? It was “Goodbye Carolina.” That entire project [Carolina Confessions] is fantastic, but that was the one song that, really, there was just a feel of that song. Between that and another song of his called “Homesick.” There was something that he was doing, that I was like, “I’ve got to try to do my version of that,” and what came out of it was “Louisiana Stick,” so I appreciate Marcus for that. We just wanted it to be that kind of groovy South Louisiana, a rock song. And man, he crushed it. You had some writers join you in Big Sky, Montana to write for the album. What do you love about writing retreats? I feel like when you can kind of get out of town and just really focus on going to work writing songs, that’s where I always get my best stuff. So yeah, if it was up to me, I’d write everything on a retreat, to be honest with you. Probably going forward, that’s probably how a lot of my records will be written. You have five Billboard Country Airplay chart No. 1s, and ACM and CMA Awards wins for song of the year (a CMA win for “Buy Dirt” and an ACM win for “Next Thing You Know”). What drives you creatively at this point in your career? I think a lot of it is the drive to be better. I got a chance this morning write a letter to all the writers that made this record. I think there’s 25, 26 of them, and I got to write one to my brother [Jacob Davis, a writer on songs including “Keeping The World Away”]. I told him, “The coolest thing about this is that we haven’t written our best song yet.” We can always become better performers, we can become better songwriters, better singers. There’s always something to do to get a little bit better, and I still have that. I still have that kind of chip. Maybe it makes me feel like I still have something to prove. I hope I never lose that. Have you written letters to fellow writers on your previous projects? No, I think this is the first year we’ve really done it like this. It’s just a chance for me to put pen to paper and say thank you for making this album what it is. A lot of these writers took time away from their families and traveled to Montana or came out on the road with me. So it’s just a chance for me to say thank you to ’em and kind of acknowledge the effort they put into it. You also have a duet on this album with your former ACM Honors co-host Carly Pearce, on “Mess With Missing You.” How did that come

Neil Young is unfriending Facebook. In light of reports that Meta allegedly enabled AI chatbots to engage with minors in “romantic” and “sensual” ways, the rocker’s team released a statement on his profile announcing his decision to leave the platform Thursday (Aug. 14). “At Neil Young’s request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young related activities,” reads the musician’s last-ever Facebook status. “Meta’s use of chatbots with children is unconscionable. Mr. Young does not want a further connection with FACEBOOK.” The statement did not mention whether the musician would also be leaving Instagram, which is also owned by Meta. Billboard has reached out to reps for Young and Meta for comment. The announcement comes on the same day Reuters released a report exposing questionable findings in an internal Meta Platforms document compiling the company’s AI and chatbot policies. Included in those policies were permissions for chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.” The news agency also reported Meta’s chatbots were free to generate false medical information as well as help users build arguments for overtly racist statements such as Black people are “dumber than white people.” When pressed for comment, a spokesperson for the tech giant told Reuters that the document has undergone revisions to remove the policies allowing for inappropriate dialogue with kids. Young’s statement is far from the first time he’s spoken out about his beliefs, nor is it the first time he’s called out major tech companies. In May, he released a song titled “Let’s Roll Again” that slammed Elon Musk’s Tesla. Calling on Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to build clean-energy vehicles that “won’t kill our kids,” the musician sang, “If yer a fascist, then get a Tesla/ If it’s electric, it doesn’t matter.” The icon also frequently voices his concerns with the direction of the United States under Donald Trump. Also in May, Young slammed the president for wasting energy on dissing musicians such as Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social instead of focusing on real issues, writing in an open letter, “STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT ROCKERS ARE SAYING. Think about saving America from the mess you made.” Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Adam Levine is a loud and proud girl dad. As the father of two daughters (as well as a two-year-old son), the Maroon 5 singer is not afraid to say that his girls’ musical taste sometimes shapes his own. Explore See latest videos, charts and news So when he sat down with the Sirius XM Hits 1 this week to promote his band’s just-released Love Is Like album as part of the radio streamer’s new Artist Residency program, Levine opened up about bonding with Dusty Rose, 8, and Gio Grace, 6, over their mutual obsession with Olivia Rodrigo. “I gotta do Olivia ’cause of my kids. They’ll be so excited. I mean, I’m also a fan of Olivia. I’m not shying away from the fact that I’m a big fan of Olivia Rodrigo,” he said. “I took my girls to go see Olivia Rodrigo play at the Forum last summer and she was phenomenal,” Levine added. “I was blown away. She keeps it real. She puts on a rock show. All you kids out there, she does it for real. Not too much glitz and glamor and smoke and mirrors. Just the real deal. I think she’s amazing, so I’m gonna play a song by Olivia Rodrigo.” Levine also told SiriusXM Hits 1 about the circuitous route the album’s soulful title track took to its final destination. The song, on which Levine sings in an almost rap-like cadence over a sample of the 1972 Ashford & Simpson song “Silly Wasn’t I,” was originally titled “Drugs,” but the band nixed that name because it felt too harsh. He said he was at home writing and messing around with samples when he wrote the line, “love is like drugs,” which he wasn’t sure fit his vibe. “I was like, ‘Am I really gonna do this? This is weird. This is not my normal style,’” Levine recalled thinking of the track that started out as “a joke,” but then took on a real life when he sent it to a few friends thinking they’d agree it was a dumb idea. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is dumb. I can’t do this. This is silly, right?,’” he asked them. “And every response I kept getting back was like, ‘No, this is actually really good,’ and so there’s that scary feeling of something when you’re doing something that you don’t usually do.” More confident he was on to something, Levine kept working on the track before having a lightbulb moment that what it really needed was a verse from Lil Wayne. “So we got it to his team and it’s funny because when they got it, they were like, ‘Oh, this is so sick. When is Adam gonna cut it?,’ and they were like, ‘No, that’s Adam singing in the song.’ And they’re like, ‘What?’” But for Levine, 46, who is more than three decades into his career, putting the final touches on the song was “scary” because it was definitely new territory for him. “But they loved it. Wayne loved it. His verse is crazy,” he said. “It worked out, you know?” Maroon 5’s eighth studio album also features the previously released team-up with BLACKPINK’s LISA on “Priceless,” as well as the singles “All Night” and “California” and “I Like It” featuring Sexyy Red. Maroon 5 will hit the road in the fall to support the new album, kicking off with a Sept. 19 stop at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, followed by the proper tour kick-off on Oct. 6 at PHX Arena in Phoenix. Listen to Levine’s interview and watch the “Love Is Like” video below. Source link

Lewis Capaldi has met plenty of famous people over the years and become friendly with a few of them. But in a chat with Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark on Friday (Aug. 15), the “Someone You Loved” singer revealed that when he met Justin Bieber at a “swanky” Los Angeles party thrown by Kylie Jenner (he thinks) a while back he was pretty sure the JB had no idea who he was. “And Bieber comes over to me and he’s like, ‘Hey man what’s going on?’ And I’m like ‘you don’t know who I am, ‘you don’t know my name,’” Capaldi recalled telling him. “And he’s like, ‘of course I do it’s Lewis Capaldi’ and me and Bieber have this super night, this really lovely evening together — we didn’t spend the night together, but we hang out — and me and the Biebs are going to be best pals, this is huge.” Confident that they were now besties, Capaldi said he was further shocked when Bieber said, “‘make sure I get your number tomorrow’ and I was like, ‘me and the Biebs this is huge!’” So, Capaldi dutifully texted Bieber a “sucking up his a–” message the next day: “‘just wanted to jump on Bro, and say last night was so special, great guy, so nice to hang with you, such a dude’ all this stuff,” he revealed. Here’s the thing. According to Capaldi, Bieber liked the message, but then never replied. “So if you’re out there Bieber, text me back!,” Capaldi said, admitting, “Bieber aired me.” Capaldi also uncovered the true story behind the legendary “lost” song he recorded with Calvin Harris several years ago that has never been released. While Harris had hinted in interviews that it may have gotten accidentally erased from Capaldi’s hard drive, Lewis said the real story is pretty simple: he didn’t like how he sounded. “Me and Calvin have done a song together, he was in Ibiza the same time as me. I went and recorded a version of it,” Capaldi said of the unnamed track. “He sent it to me afterwards. I avoid any conflict, avoid letting people down, I’m a people pleaser. I try and please people… This is the thing, I don’t like the song. I don’t like my version of the song, I should say.” Capaldi said he shared the track with some friends and they agreed with his assessment, but Lewis never reached out to Harris to tell him his feelings about the song. “He then messages me two months later like, ‘hate it?’ And I grew up idolizing Calvin Harris, and to tell him I don’t like his song so I just ignored that as well,” Capaldi said. “And to this day haven’t replied to him, I have seen him since, and I’d love to do a Calvin Harris song, but he has to sing on it as well.” Check out Capaldi’s interview below (Bieber talk begins at 8:20 mark). Source link

Jordan Davis earns his milestone 10th top 10 in as many tries on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Bar None” rises a rank to No. 10 on the Aug. 23-dated list. Explore See latest videos, charts and news During the Aug. 8-14 tracking week, the single increased by 14% to 17.1 million audience impressions, according to Luminate. “Bar None” was co-authored by Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps and Lydia Vaughn. Phelps coproduced it with Paul DiGiovanni. The song is the second single from Davis’ 17-song third LP, Learn the Hard Way, released Friday (Aug. 15). Lead track “I Ain’t Sayin’” hit No. 2 on Country Airplay in March. He has banked four entries on Top Country Albums, with 2023’s Bluebird Days flying highest, to No. 3. That album followed two top 20 EPs and his debut full-length, Home State, which opened at its No. 6 peak in 2018. The 37-year-old Shreveport, La., native’s 10 Country Airplay top 10s from the start of his career include five leaders. His most recent chart-topper, “Tucson Too Late,” led for one week in May 2024. His rookie entry, “Singles You Up,” dominated for a frame in April 2018. Davis will perform at the famed Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville Saturday (Aug. 16). Rhett Keeps Tab Open Thomas Rhett’s “After All the Bars Are Closed” leads Country Airplay for a second week (30.4 million, up 5%). The Rhett cowrite, his 21st career No. 1, becomes his fourth to lead for multiple weeks. His most recent such ruler, “Marry Me,” led for two weeks in March 2018. His longest reigning No. 1 is “Die a Happy Man,” which ran up a six-week command in January-February 2016. He first logged a multiweek run at the summit with his first No. 1, “It Goes Like This, for three weeks in October-November 2013. Source link

Tokischa’s hair spikes out like jagged rays of an eccentric sun, bleached in a shade of unapologetic, brassy yellow. The hairdo — teased in the dual music video for her tracks “Miami” and “Celos,” released in June — is intentionally loud. It’s a technicolor warning that something seismic is coming, a glimpse into a new phase that the Dominican star has been meticulously planning. “The hair is key in the world of the album,” Tokischa teases of her forthcoming debut. The look itself is a callback to Tokischa’s 2021 music video for the frenetic “Tukuntazo,” one of her early breakout hits, where she wrapped her curls in aluminum foil to construct the jagged shapes. “Now that I have access to wigs and a hairdresser, I can really use that hair concept and develop a character with that aesthetic, which is a rocker,” she says. Tokischa, the 29-year-old artist who helped turn dembow into a global sound — and has repeatedly fueled controversy with her sexually charged lyrics and provocative stage antics, including kneeling onstage to eat and drink from a dog dish — has built her career around bold, ever-evolving personas. From 2023’s Popola Presidente (the “president” of a fictional political party, PPL: Partido por la Libertad, with a platform of love, freedom and LGBTQ+ advocacy) to just Popola (Dominican slang for vagina), her work symbolizes empowerment through no-holds-barred femininity and subversion. Now in her Popola Super Saiyan era, she connects her spiked blond hairstyle to a futuristic, rebellious persona that matches her musical evolution. “Miami” and “Celos” were an introduction to her debut, due in mid-October, and offered a glimpse at how Tokischa is evolving within the genre. While both tracks stay rooted in her signature dembow sound, produced by longtime collaborator Leo RD, they push into new conceptual territory: “Miami” captures euphoric liberation, while “Celos” explores themes of jealousy and betrayal with sharp lyrical interplay and emotional rawness. Though the style remains familiar, the double release serves as a precursor to the alternative, rock and electro-pop influences woven into her full-length, whose title remains under wraps for now. Growing up in Los Frailes, a working-class neighborhood in Santo Domingo, the artist born Tokischa Altagracia Peralta was surrounded by bachata, salsa and merengue. “When I was a little girl, I listened to a lot of romantic music, Mexican ballads, because that was what the adults in the neighborhood listened to most,” she recalls. As reggaetón and Dominican dembow began to explode in the mid- to late 2010s, she gravitated toward the street music filling the city’s corners. Her mother, Tokischa’s biggest inspiration, introduced her to international culture, style and the limitless possibilities of self-reinvention. When she relocated to the United States early in Tokischa’s childhood to pursue a better life, she would send issues of Vogue and words of encouragement for her daughter to dream boldly. “ ‘Life in the United States is very different,’ ” Tokischa recalls her mother telling her. “ ‘Learn English, learn to be yourself, be unique.’ ” That advice shaped Tokischa’s understanding that artistic expression was never about following rules. From her early beginnings dabbling in rock, trap and rap, she was always drawn to unexpected sonic hybrids while staying rooted in Dominican street sounds. “Ever since I started making music, I started making trap because it was the closest thing to rock,” she says. “Rock has always been one of my favorite genres.” That versatility has helped Tokischa score major collaborations: In 2021, she teamed with Rosalía on the risqué reggaetón-flamenco “Linda” (becoming her first appearance on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart); that same year, she sparked global controversy with J Balvin on the provocative “Perra” (which means “b–ch” or “female dog”). The music video depicted the Colombian superstar walking two Afro Latina women on leashes, while Tokischa posed on all fours inside a doghouse. (The video, which was widely criticized for dehumanizing and objectifying Black women, was eventually removed following widespread backlash; Tokischa later said in an interview that she was “truly sorry that people felt offended. But at the same time, art is expression.”) In 2022, the Dominican provocateur was heating up clubs with a remix of Madonna’s “Hung Up” titled “Hung Up on Tokischa,” featuring the pop icon, which they performed in New York complete with an onstage kiss that sent the crowd into a frenzy. And in 2023, she paired with Sexyy Red for the raunchy house track “Daddy.” Next, Tokischa will join A$AP Rocky on “Flackito Jodye” — which he has been teasing online — from his upcoming album, Don’t Be Dumb. To date, she has released over 60 singles as a lead artist and a collaborator, including five entries on Hot Latin Songs — but never an album, or even an EP. Yet, she’s now embracing the album format with a debut crafted around a contained narrative. “This album really tells a very special story for me, a very difficult time in my life that shaped me and brought me to where I am now,” she reveals. “It’s like a diary where I recount certain experiences that I’ve never talked about before. I feel like this was the best concept for a debut album — where I can let it all out.” Her album will arrive on Tokischa’s own label, SOL, which she and her manager, Angelica Piche, co-founded in 2024 in partnership with Warner Music Latina with support from Atlantic Records. Designed as a platform for misunderstood artists, SOL reflects Tokischa’s own journey. “What drew me to Tokischa was her unapologetic authenticity and her ability to connect with global audiences through her music,” Warner Music Latina president Alejandro Duque says. “Tokischa is in a phase of creative renewal, with expansive energy.” With SOL, Tokischa is empowering the next wave of countercultural voices while aiming to cement herself at the forefront. “Lately, I’ve been a workaholic, focused on making sure everything turns out perfect so that it reflects the vision I want to share,” she says

The Weeknd is on the road, playing shows in Nashville on Tuesday (Aug. 12) and Miami Friday and Saturday (Aug. 15-16). But as he nears the end of the ongoing After Hours Til Dawn Tour, he sets a Boxscore record. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the global trek has grossed $635.5 million and sold 5.1 million tickets since launching in 2022, becoming the biggest R&B tour in history. Related In doing so, The Weeknd overtakes Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour, which brought in $579.8 million over 56 shows in 2023. This swap comes just weeks after Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour became the country record holder. In pure ticket sales, he has long passed Bruno Mars’ 3.6 million on 2017-18’s 24K Magic World Tour. The Weeknd crossed the $600 million threshold with his two performances at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on July 30-31, bringing the tour full circle after launching at the same stadium on July 14, 2022. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour is the ninth tour to hit this benchmark, and the only one by an R&B artist or a Black artist. The other eight all trade in pop and rock, from Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to Harry Styles’ Love on Tour. The same goes for The Weeknd’s R&B attendance record, making him the only genre act and only Black artist to sell more than five million tickets on a single tour. It is one of 11 tours to sell more than five million, and one of just eight to sell more than five million and gross more than $600 million. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour has sprawled worldwide, first in North America in 2022, then Europe and South America in 2023, Australia in 2024 and back to the United States and Canada in 2025. The current leg is the tour’s biggest, at $243.3 million and 1.5 million tickets through Aug. 12. That marks a 64% increase over the previous North American leg and a 54% jump over the European leg, which was the tour’s previous highlight ($158.1 million). By the tour’s final show on Sept. 3 on San Antonio, this leg’s earnings could surpass $300 million. The total tour take will approach $700 million, with ticket sales circling 5.5 million. The initial iteration of this tour may not have hit such hallowed ground. It was first announced in February 2020 in arenas in North America and Europe. But delayed by COVID-19 and then expanded far beyond, the After Hours Til Dawn Tour supports 2020’s After Hours, 2022’s Dawn FM and this year’s Hurry Up Tomorrow. Since the launch of this extended tour era, The Weeknd notched four No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Blinding Lights,” which was named the chart’s biggest hit ever by the end of its 90-week run in 2021. Two of those No. 1s were alongside Ariana Grande, including “Die for You,” which reached the top seven years after its 2016 release via Starboy. Hurry Up Tomorrow debuted atop the Billboard 200 in February with 490,000 equivalent album units, scoring the biggest week of his career with his third album to surpass 400,000. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour is The Weeknd’s longest trek, at 102 shows through Aug. 12, up from 63 reported dates on Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour in 2017. That 62% increase in the number of shows is significant, but it does not fully explain the 785% scale in total earnings, or the 508% leap in attendance. His jump from arenas to stadiums has nearly quadrupled his per-show ticket sales, compounded with a natural rise in ticket sales. Dating back to his first reported show at Montreal’s Metropolis on March 23, 2012, The Weeknd has grossed $734 million and sold 6.3 million tickets from more than 200 reported concerts. Source link

U.K. singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor is coming off a year in which she felt “like after you have a glass of champagne and you’re a bit heady.” After her 2001 disco-pop classic, “Murder on the Dancefloor,” was revived by its use in 2023 black comedy Saltburn, the song once again became a global smash, reaching the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in the United States (peaking at No. 51) and matching its 25-year-old No. 2 peak in the United Kingdom. After spending a year flaunting her new commercial appeal — including on her first-ever U.S. tour — Ellis-­Bextor returns with Perimenopop. Out Sept. 12, the album features 12 sparkling dancefloor jams as intoxicating, clever and honest as its title, as well as collaborators such as disco legend Nile Rodgers. “Thanks to ‘Murder,’ I basically just wrote a wish list,” she says, “and I completely took advantage of the fact that I could then get in the studio with people who maybe might not have [otherwise] had time.” What was the craziest moment from the entire ­“Murder” revival? That’s easy: It’s definitely the fact that I’ve now done gigs in America. In the beginning of last year, I’d never done so much as a radio interview. I started those gigs thinking, “Is this going to be a room full of people waiting for me to sing one song?” But I was met with a lot of people who clearly had been supporting what I’m up to from far away. I have to say, Perimenopop — album title of the year. How did you come up with it? For me and all my girlfriends in our mid-40s, there’s a bit of a narrative about some aspects that might sound a bit gloomy. And I just wanted something that would flip the script on it a little bit — and also invite into the room the fact that I’m not the way I was when I was 20. I think it’s also quite a good indicator of how much more ballsy I’ve gotten as I’ve gotten older. But how lucky am I that I’ve been able to have a career long enough to feel that comfortable? What was it like working with Nile Rodgers? To hear all the stories and just be imbued with someone [who] direct-line influenced and inspired me so much was really cool. I think my favorite bit was Nile talking about Madonna, and I said, “Have you seen her recently?” He went, “Yeah, we went roller skating together.” Are you liking what you’re seeing from the rest of the U.K. pop world these days? What happened with Charli xcx and brat is ­obviously so brilliant. But also what I love about it is it really lets the mask fall. And I think teenage me would have completely resonated with that. We talked about a Brat Summer, and I think in my head I was like, “Well, maybe Perimenopop is your autumn?” This story appears in the Aug. 16, 2025, issue of Billboard. Source link

Oasis paid tribute to one of Scotland’s favorite daughters during the band’s final show at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Wednesday night (Aug. 13) when lead singer Liam Gallagher shouted out Britain’s Got Talent legend Susan Boyle. Explore See latest videos, charts and news According to NME, Oasis dedicated the 1997 Be Here Now single “Stand By Me” to Dechmont, Scotland native Boyle at the show, with Gallagher telling the crowd, “This one’s for Susan Boyle.” The singer who rose to fame in 2009 after thrilling audiences with her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Misérables was blown away by the honor, thanking the band for their kind words in an Instagram post on Thursday (Aug. 14). “Thanks so much for the dedication @liamgallagher 😎 You’ve made this old girl’s day 💖,” Boyle wrote alongside a photo of her rocking an Oasis shirt and bucket hat and giving a big double thumbs up and smile for the camera. “Hope to see you and the rest of @oasis at Wembley in September for a wee bit of poznan 🙏 Big love to you all.” Oasis played three shows in Edinburgh on Aug. 8, 9 and 12 and will move on to Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday (Aug. 16) and Sunday (Aug. 17). The band’s first tour since 2009 will then make its way to North America on Aug. 24 for the first of two shows at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium, as well as gigs in Chicago (Aug. 28), New Jersey (Aug. 31 and Sept. 1), Pasadena (Sept. 6-7) and Mexico City (Sept. 12-13). Boyle seems intent on teamed up with the Gallaghers when they return to London for two more shows at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 27 and 28 after earlier selling out five nights at the historic venue in late July and early August. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Kelly Clarkson has pulled out of a planned performance at Miranda Lambert’s Band Together Texas flood benefit show in Austin, Texas on Sunday (Aug. 17). While the singer has not commented on the news, according to Taste of Country Band Together Texas revealed on its Instagram Story earlier this week the Fort Worth native will not appear due to “personal circumstances.” The full statement read: “Unfortunately, Kelly Clarkson will be unable to appear at Band Together Texas as planned, due to personal circumstances. We send out love to Kelly and her family.” Clarkson was slated to appear at the event at the Moody Center in Austin to help raise funds for the Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation in support of Texans who were affected by July’s deadly flooding. In addition to Lambert, the show’s roster includes Parker McCollum, Cody Johnson, Ronnie Dunn, Lyle Lovett, Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall, Ryan Bingham, Lukas Nelson and others; Clarkson’s name had been removed from the official poster at press time. The show will also feature appearances by Texas native actors Matthew McConaughey and Dennis Quaid, as well as baseball legend Rogers Clemens. Last month, the Guadalupe River in the Hill Country region of Texas rapidly rose due to an overnight deluge on July 4 that led to the deaths of at least 135 people, including at least 27 campers and counselors at the Christian Camp Mystic summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe. Earlier this month, Clarkson postponed the remainder of her Las Vegas Studio Sessions residency shows for August citing the ill health of her ex-husband and father of her two children, River and Remy, music manager Brandon Blackstock. Blackstock died of melanoma at age 48 on Aug. 7. The couple married in 2013 and divorced in 2022. Fans who want to support the Band Together event can make a donation here and watch the livestream on both Lambert and McCollum’s social channels beginning at 7 p.m. CT on Sunday. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link