Summer is never truly over — just ask Zara Larsson.
On the heels of her breakthrough artist win at the 2026 Billboard Women in Music Awards on Wednesday (April 29), the Swedish pop star kept the celebrations going with a special listening party for her remix album Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, on Thursday (April 30). Hosted by iHeartRadio and aired live on TikTok and radio stations around the country from the 450-seat iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, the Girls Trip album preview gave Larsson’s biggest fans the opportunity to hear a sneak peek of the remix album hours before its release.
Larsson opened the night with an acoustic performance of her Hot 100 hit “Midnight Sun” before sitting down for a Q&A with iHeartRadio host EJ. The singer shared why she decided to expand what she called the “Midnight Sun universe.”
“I think music and culture in this day and age, it moves quickly, but I’m definitely not ready to move on from Midnight Sun, for a little while at least,” Larsson said. “And I just thought, have fun. It’ll be so fun.”
The singer also shared who inspired her to take on this venture.
“People have been doing it for a long time, but I was really inspired by [Charli xcx]. I was really inspired by [PinkPantheress],” she shared. “Even though a song is out, you can still have so many different worlds and sounds around the song. If a song is good enough, it can kind of be anything.”
Girls Trip features ten remixed versions of songs from the original Midnight Sun, with features from an incredible slate of women artists. Fans in attendance at the preview, watching live on TikTok or listening from the iHeartRadio app got to hear five of the songs in full.
Before each track, Larsson spoke about how the remix came to be, its sound and the person she tapped for the feature.
The first remix of the night was “Crush” featuring Eli. Larsson then played “Blue Moon” featuring Kehlani, an artist who she shared she was a fan of for a long time. Next up was “Hot & Sexy” with Tyla, the second of the duo’s collaborations following “She Did It Again” which came out earlier this month. “Hot & Sexy” was followed by “Pretty Ugly” with JT and Margo XS, a remix Larsson admitted she preferred over the original. Then came “Eurosummer” with Shakira, who Larsson shared she has loved since childhood.
“This is legendary status going on right here because [Girls Trip] was like a little bit the talk of the town — I mean at least in the small industry of music that I’m in,” Larsson said. “And one day I got a call, it was my A&R, and he was like, ‘Shakira heard about this project and she really likes ‘Eurosummer.” And I was like, ‘let’s go.’”
The final remix fans got to hear was a crossing of Swedish pop icons: “Puss Puss” with compatriot Robyn.
“This is my Swedish icon, legend Robyn. Who else would be on this song?” Larsson said as the track began.
In between songs, Larsson also took time to answer fan questions from the audience, viewers on TikTok and radio listeners. Many of the questions were appropriately trip-themed and the singer shared her preferred ways to take a girls trip, including being both driver and DJ.
“I think the music is quite important,” Larsson said of what makes for a perfect girls trip. “The girls trip starts when you get in the car, or on the train, or on the way to the airport.”
The Girls Trip experience ended with a celebration of Larsson’s 2015 Hot 100 track “Lush Life,” which has been gifted new life online thanks to a viral dance trend. The singer invited those fans who knew the choreography to join her on stage as they danced the evening to a close.
Midnight Sun: Girls Trip is out now. Stream it below.
The Black Keys peel back the lid on Peaches!, the Grammy Award-winning rock duo’s fresh dose of blues.
Dropping at the stroke of midnight, Peaches! (via Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records) is the Akron, OH natives’ 14th studio album, and third in as many years.
The 10-track project emerged following frontman Dan Auerbach’s late father’s battle with esophageal cancer, which was diagnosed while he was staying at Dan’s Nashville pad. Bandmate and bestie Patrick Carney had the bright idea “that it would be good for Dan to have something to do,” something to lift his spirits while Dan’s dad’s health spiraled.
The studio beckoned, and Peaches grew. Its songs are said to reflect Dan and Patrick’s obsessive record-collecting habit, which they flaunt at their intimate Record Hang, all-vinyl parties. “I’d look for 45s specifically to play at the record hangs,” Auerbach explains, “but sometimes I’d find a song and think, ‘This might be fun for Pat and me to play live.’”
In support of the new collection, Auerbach and Carney share the official music video for album track “She Does It Right,” featuring a performance outside of Memphis’s Hernando’s Hideaway, directed by EJ McLeavey-Fisher and celebrated animator Kyle McCarthy.
The Black Keys are currently road-testing new material on their Peaches ‘N Kream World Tour ‘26, along with renditions of early favorites “Busted” and “Do The Romp,” plus classic hits “Gold On the Ceiling,” “Lonely Boy,” and “Howlin’ For You.”
The tour continues through October with stops along the way in New York, Chicago, Nashville, Paris, Milan and London, where the band has added a third headline show “due to demand,” on Sept. 2, reps say. The support acts for the ongoing tour are all signed to Dan Auerbach’s own Easy Eye Sound record label.
Peaches! is the followup to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers, which peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard 200, their 14th appearance on the all-genres albums chart, a tally that includes a No. 1 with 2014’s Turn Blue.
Stream Peaches! below.
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
Last week, we featured Noah Kahan, Kehlani and Suki Waterhouse.
This week, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter release “Bring Your Love,” which the pair previewed at Coachella weekend two; Kacey Musgraves releases her anticipated album Middle of Nowhere; and Sienna Spiro appears on the star-studded Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack, which is out now… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter, “Bring Your Love”
After live-debuting this alluring and hypnotic dance-pop track during Sabrina’s weekend two Coachella headlining set — during which Madonna was a surprise guest, treating the audience to a bonus 10-minute set that also included “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer” — their collaboration “Bring Your Love” is finally out. The song is sure to is start summer early, as it’s essentially sonic bait to lure listeners out of the house and onto the nearest dance floor. And this is just the beginning; Madonna’s upcoming album, Confessions II, is out July 3.
Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere
Kacey Musgraves has said her new album was largely inspired by the Mexican community, which you can hear across its tracks — including the buzzy “Horses and Divorces.” The duet made headlines long before it arrived thanks to its unexpected feature from country icon Miranda Lambert. As Musgraves told NPR earlier this year: “We’d lost touch for years and wouldn’t consider each other friends. I saw her on Instagram one day, riding one of her horses, and I was like, ‘Well, we ain’t friends, but I guess we have two things in common, horses and divorces, that’s for sure…I just randomly reached out to her…We aired out any of the old laundry. We had some laughs and wrote the song in a matter of a few hours.”
Sienna Spiro, “Material Lover”
The Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack features just a few original songs, including one from Sienna Spiro — which puts her in the company of superstars like Lady Gaga, Doechii. And while “Material Lover” (produced by Omer Fedi) is a title tailor-made for the film, the track stands entirely on its own as Spiro delivers her now signature warmth while singing about wanting the “real thing.”
Zara Larsson, Midnight Sun: Girls Trip
Zara Larsson’s collaborations album, Girls Trip, has arrived — and it delivers on that title. Released as a disc two to her 2025 album Midnight Sun, this girl-powered new edition features 10 fresh takes on the original 10 tracks. With a roster of guests including PinkPantheress, Shakira, Robyn and more, Girls Trip takes an already poptastic album to the next level.
Bella Poarch, “Ribcage”
Opening with a gorgeous string section, “Ribcage” quickly takes a turn toward alternative pop as Bella Poarch sings of watching her thoughts “turn to dust and decompose.” As Poarch said in a statement, “Ribcage” is about “the parts of yourself you try to protect and the parts that still feel everything. Writing this song helped me process a lot of emotions I didn’t fully understand before. It’s a very honest piece of me, and it felt like the right way to begin this new chapter.” The haunting track previews more new music to come.
Guns N’ Roses returned to the stage on Thursday night (April 30), putting on a career-spanning show that was as comprehensive as it was satisfying to some of the most hardcore fans that showed up to celebrate the group’s 40-plus-year career.
After a global 2025 tour that took the iconic rock band from Korea to Mexico, they kicked off their 2026 dates at the Hard Rock Live club in Hollywood, California, playing to a crowd that was raucous and eager to see the group play the States for the first time in three years, since the fall of 2023 tour wrapped with two shows at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
And the group came out on fire, running through a quick opening stretch of songs from their game-changing 1987 album Appetite For Destruction — the project that launched them into superstardom — before going deeper into their catalog, playing both lesser-known cuts and some newer tracks, including more new songs like “The General” and “Perhaps.” But it was the old stalwarts — show opener “Welcome to the Jungle” and show closer “Paradise City” among them — that got fans truly rocking and off their feet, while lead guitarist Slash showed off the chops that have made him rightfully considered one of the greatest players who has ever picked up the instrument.
While the band gears up for the rest of their tour — so far, they have two more dates in Florida in May, before more fully hitting the road in July — their tune-up ahead of F1 Miami this weekend in south Florida proved to be a mesmerizing one for their legions of fans who have been there from the beginning. Here is the set list from that first show of their 2026 run.
As Lizzo promised, she is “reclaiming” the word “b–ch” on the title track to the singer’s upcoming album of the same name. Lizzo dropped the boldly titled single on Friday (May 1), giving fans the first taste of her third studio LP, which is due on June 5.
The song, which interpolates singer Meredith Brooks’ strident 1997 Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 single of the same name, is the second taste of the album, following on the heels of the smoldering love-me-or-leave-me “Don’t Make Me Love U.”
In a statement describing the inspiration for the follow-up to 2022’s Special, Lizzo said, “Reclaiming the word ‘b—h’ is power — it’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence and unapologetic self-love. So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity, like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliott. It was only fitting to name my album Bitch because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms and because I am 100% that b—h!”
A preview of the song posted on Thursday (April 30) featured an intro from Katt Williams, who warns, “It’s a line, if you cross it, that’s your motherf–kin’ ass!,” a bit taken from the comedian’s 2024 Woke Foke comedy special in which he defended Lizzo against her detractors. The singer included Williams’ follow-up wisdom in the caption to the snippet, “You can be fat, you can be black, but you can’t be no fat black B—H, BITCH drops tonight yall ready?!” in the sneak peek that also included a short bit of the bouncy refrain, “She’s a b—h, She’s a b—h, OK?”
Lizzo first coined the latter phrase on her diamond-selling 2017 single “Truth Hurts,” in which she pronounced herself 100% that … one. She doubled-down on the upcoming LP’s profane title with the provocative cover art, which shows the singer’s right hand flipping the bird, with a miniature version of her subbing in for the middle finger, arms held high above her head in triumph.
The album’s Spotify preview page reveals that it is slated to feature 12 tracks, whose titles include “A Toast,” “Happy 2 Be,” “Don’t Make Me Love U,” “Bitch,” “She Stole My Man,” “Whose Hair Is This,” “Little Black Cat,” “Sexy Ladies, “That Grrrl,” “Too Nice,” “Like a Crime” and “Goodmorning!”
Check out the video for “Bitch” below.
Kacey Musgraves returns with her new album, Middle of Nowhere.
Across a baker’s dozen collection of tracks, Musgraves explores the range of emotions that come with post-breakup solitude and finding oneself embracing a solitary life stage.
“This album period coincided with me getting more comfortable being alone,” Musgraves recently told Texas Monthly, adding, “not as isolation, but as sovereignty.”
The album also nods to traditional Western music styles, and weaves in Mexican music elements as well, paying homage to its long-reaching influence on and connection to country music. Throughout, the album features washes of accordion, acoustic guitar and pedal steel, while embracing Texas dancehall percussion.
She also teams with artists including Willie Nelson (“Uncertain, TX”), Miranda Lambert (“Horses & Divorces”), Billy Strings (“Everybody Wants to Be a Cowboy”) and Gregory Alan Isakov (“Coyote”).
The new album is the successor to 2024’s Deeper Well, which was her fifth to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. Deeper Well‘s song “The Architect” also won a Grammy for best country song.
As she releases Middle of Nowhere, Musgraves is also gearing up for her Middle of Nowhere Tour later this year. The trek will launch Aug. 21 in Chicago, and will wrap Oct. 27 in Seattle. The tour will feature openers including Carter Faith, Midland and William Beckmann.
Musgraves also recently performed a set during Coachella, and debuted music from the new album, which Musgraves produced alongside her longtime collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk.
She will also perform during the 61st annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which will air live on Prime Video on May 17.
Stream Musgraves’ new album below:
Jason Derulo took the witness stand in a Los Angeles federal courtroom on Thursday (April 30) to deny that a session musician on his 2020 chart-topper “Savage Love” deserves writing and production royalties.
Derulo and his label, Columbia Records, are defendants in an ongoing civil trial over the credits for “Savage Love,” a viral TikTok hit from August 2020 that later hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to a remix featuring BTS. The plaintiff is Matthew Spatola, a musician, songwriter and producer who played guitar and bass on the song.
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Spatola alleges that he contributed key creative elements to the instrumentals on “Savage Love,” which sampled an earlier beat by New Zealand-born producer Jawsh 685. He’s now accusing Derulo of “cutting him out completely” from the lucrative royalties that would flow from writing and production credits.
Derulo, clad in a blue suit and grey tie, testified on Thursday that Spatola “played a beautiful guitar and bass” on “Savage Love.” But the pop singer told jurors he was the one who composed these instrumentals, and that Spatola just played what he was told.
“Mr. Spatola created absolutely nothing on ‘Savage Love,’” Derulo testified.
Derulo told the jury that he vets potential creative collaborators closely before deciding to work with them in a co-writer or producer capacity. He said that wasn’t the case with Spatola; according to Derulo, he had never even met Spatola before the musician came to his home recording studio for two sessions in April 2020.
“I would never in a million years just invite somebody off the street, that I’ve never heard what they’ve done, to come in and be a producer for me,” said Derulo.
The case, which was filed in 2023 and went to trial on April 22, highlights the prevalence — and potential pitfalls — of informal dealings between artists and their musical collaborators. It is undisputed that Spatola was paid a $2,000 fee for his work on “Savage Love.” But it’s also undisputed that he and Derulo never formally signed a so-called work-for-hire agreement.
Under copyright law, a work-for-hire agreement confirms that a musician does not have authorship rights despite contributing to a song. In this case, no such deal was signed; Derulo merely texted Spatola after the fact asking, “1K good each day?”
Spatola is now alleging that the absence of work-for-hire paperwork is proof that he deserves creative credits. Derulo disagrees — and now it’ll be up to a jury to decide which version of events is the truth.
Jurors are slated to begin deliberating on a verdict next week.
It’s a busy week on the Top Album Sales chart (dated May 2), as six albums debut in the top 10, including the ninth leader for TOMORROW X TOGETHER. The group’s latest release, 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, starts atop the chart with 67,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending April 23, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10, five more albums debut, while Ye’s BULLY and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack both score big gains.
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ZAYN’s new studio album KONNAKOL starts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, selling 24,000 copies in its opening frame. It marks the third top 10 for the singer-songwriter, all of which have reached the top three. BTS’s former leader ARIRANG dips 2-3 with nearly 24,000 sold (down 25%).
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack surges 19-4 with 19,000 sold (up 444%) after the release of two vinyl variants of the album exclusively via independent record stores for Record Store Day (April 18). Meanwhile, Ye’s BULLY bounces 31-5 with 13,000 sold (up 412%) after physical sales of the album from his webstore shipped to customers.
Pink Floyd’s Record Store Day-exclusive live set, Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975, debuts at No. 6 with 13,000 sold. PLAVE’s Caligo Pt.2 debuts at No. 7 with 12,000 sold, landing the virtual boy band its first top 10. Jeff Buckley’s 2001 album Live a L’Olympia debuts at No. 8 with 10,000 sold, following its first vinyl release and CD reissue for Record Store Day. It’s the first top 10-charted title on Top Album Sales for the late Buckley, who died in 1997.
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is pushed down 5-9 on Top Album Sales despite an 18% sales gain (to 8,000), while Bruno Mars’ Record Store Day-exclusive Collaborations starts at No. 10 (just over 8,000). Mars serves as the Record Store Day 2026 Ambassador, and the compilation includes such teamings as the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits “Nothin’ On You” (B.o.B featuring Mars) “Uptown Funk” (Mark Ronson featuring Mars) and “Die With a Smile” (Lady Gaga and Mars).
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
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After a monthlong hiatus, Formula 1 is back, as the league travels to Miami for the first grand prix in the United States in the 2026 season. With all eyes on Andrea Kimi Antonelli and George Russell with Mercedes sitting at the top of the leaderboard, McLaren’s Lando Norris and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton are looking for victory to rise in the ranks.
Meanwhile, recording artists Zedd, Nelly, Marshmello, DJ Diesel, Kane Brown and Loud Luxury are all set to perform trackside at parties during race weekend, while Guns N’ Roses are headlining the official Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix kickoff concert Thursday night (April 30) at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.
Broadcasting live from Miami International Autodrome in Miami Gardens, Florida, the F1 Miami Grand starts with Practice 1 on Friday, May 1, with a start time of noon ET/9 a.m. PT. Race weekend ends with race day on Sunday, May 3, at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT.
Where to Stream the 2026 F1 Miami Grand Prix Online, At a Glance:
- Dates: May 1-3
- Location: Miami International Autodrome in Miami Gardens, Florida
- Stream: Apple TV
Apple TV is the best way for fans to tune in to every race for the 2026 season, at no additional cost — just the subscription price at $12.99 per month, or $99 per year.
Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Miami Grand Prix.
How to Watch the 2026 F1 Miami Grand Prix Online for Free
New Apple TV subscribers can take advantage of a seven-day free trial, which is more than enough time to watch the F1 Miami Grand Prix for free.
In addition, Apple TV has all F1 races for the 2026 season. It has all warmups, practices, sprints and qualifying coverage and other extras, such as Drive to Survive (in U.S. only), with no blackouts. All races livestream in 4K Dolby Vision with 5.1 surround sound and Apple’s “Multiview” experiences.
2026 F1 Miami Grand Prix Schedule
The Miami Grand Prix starts with practice, sprints and qualifying races on Friday, May 1, and concludes with race day on Sunday, May 3. Here’s the full schedule below:
Friday, May 1
- Free Practice 1: Noon ET/9 a.m. PT
- Sprint Shootout: 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT
Saturday, May 2
- Sprint Race: Noon ET/9 a.m. PT
- Qualifying: 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT
Sunday, May 3
- Race Day: 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT