Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso performs during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Topps Final Halftime Show at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19, 2026 in East Rutherford, N.J.
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Melanie “Mel C” Chisholm got married to Australian model Chris Dingwall on Saturday (July 18) in a private ceremony in the British countryside. According to British Vogue magazine, Chisholm, 52, known as “Sporty Spice” during her Spice Girls days, wore a simple, white floor-length gown while holding a bouquet of wildflowers during the nuptials at the Country House Cumbria in the Lake District.
Most of the other Spice Girls were on hand, including Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton, Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown and Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell-Horner, though Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham was not on hand because she was in New York for the 2026 FIFA World Cup third-place game on Saturday — where England defeated France 6-4 — as well as the Spain-Argentina finale on Sunday.
The magazine reported that after Dingwall surprised the singer by popping the question while they were on holiday in Mallorca last July, they began working on their summer wedding, which included a legal ceremony in the groom’s native Australia before Saturday’s event. Though Beckham was not there in person, Chisholm checked off the “something borrowed” item on her list by wearing a dress designed by the singer-turned-fashion designer.
“I was actually having dinner with Melanie and asked her what she was up to,” Beckham told British Vogue. “She very casually told me she was leaving for Australia in two days and getting married! When I asked what she was wearing, she mentioned she had actually ordered one of my dresses but that it didn’t quite fit, and she didn’t have time to get it altered before leaving. I happened to have that exact dress in my own wardrobe and offered to lend it to her.”
The lace cami dress was one of a number of pieces Melanie’s stylist had pulled ahead of the wedding, with the bride saying it was “the best, hands down. There’s just something about her clothes… they have a real simplicity, especially the slip dresses. They’re really feminine, but in a way that feels comfortable, and very me.” Once Beckham stepped up to figure out the sizing issue, Chisholm boarded her flight to Australia with the dress in hand. “Victoria’s dress was my something borrowed,” Chisholm said. “It was very special, having her there.”
And, when Beckham heard that a larger wedding was in the works in the U.K., she said she offered to make Chisholm her “dream dress,” using the original lace cami as a starting point. “Victoria wanted to make it much more personal to me. She found some gorgeous vintage lace, and everything was really delicately dyed to the perfect shade. It’s very flattering, open at the back,” said Chisholm, who met Dingwall on the exclusive celebrity dating app Raya in 2023; Chisholm has a 17-year-old daughter, Scarlett Starr, with ex Thomas Starr.
Though Beckham could not make it to the big day, British Vogue posted a series of snaps from the wedding, including one of the happy couple walking hand-in-hand, Chisholm getting a final fitting and the singer posing with the rest of her Spice Girls bandmates.
Tom Morello, Garbage, Violet Grohl, Courtney Love and more artists are remembering Jennifer Finch, the L7 bassist and vocalist who died Saturday (July 18) following an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 59.
A family representative announced Finch’s death over the weekend, days after L7 revealed that she had been diagnosed with brain cancer and would be unable to join the band’s upcoming farewell tour.
“Jennifer’s impact on the world of music was seismic; her impact on our lives, even more so,” the representative said in a statement. “We appreciate everyone’s interest and concern, thank you for all the kind messages. We appreciate some space to heal privately during this difficult time.”
Finch’s L7 bandmates Suzi Gardner, Donita Sparks and Dee Plakas also shared their own tribute, remembering her as a “beloved bandmate, friend, and fellow troublemaker.”
“With a very heavy heart we announce that our beloved bandmate, friend, and fellow troublemaker Jennifer Finch has passed away today,” the band wrote. “She had a long courageous fight with brain cancer and was loved by many wonderful friends, musical peers and fans worldwide. We love you, Jennifer.”
Morello, guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, remembered Finch as both a key figure in the Los Angeles rock community and a generous presence within it.
“God bless her. An important fixture of the LA scene, a super cool person, a true artist with a kind and welcoming heart,” Morello wrote. “I loved, respected and admired her greatly. She will be missed.”
He also described Finch as a “powerful artist and gracious friend.”
Garbage shared a brief tribute, writing, “Godspeed beautiful Jennifer. Thank you,” while Violet Grohl remembered Finch as a “force.”
“This is so devastating, she was such a force,” Grohl wrote. “Made so many feel so seen. Rest in peace legend.”
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe also posted a short remembrance, writing, “Bless her.” Courtney Love, who played with Finch in the pre-Hole band Sugar Babydoll alongside future Babes in Toyland member Kat Bjelland, also honored Finch with a photo tribute.
Finch joined L7 in 1986 and became part of the band’s best-known lineup alongside Sparks, Gardner and Plakas. Her bass work helped drive the group’s 1992 breakthrough album, Bricks Are Heavy, which included “Pretend We’re Dead,” “Wargasm” and “Shitlist.”
Produced by Butch Vig, Bricks Are Heavy pushed L7 from the Los Angeles punk underground into the wider alternative-rock moment of the early ’90s. The band’s heavy riffs, blunt humor and political bite made them one of the era’s most distinctive guitar acts.
Finch left L7 in 1996 and later performed with Other Star People and The Shocker before rejoining L7 after the band reunited in 2014. Outside music, she also worked as a photographer, writer and visual artist.
L7 had announced in May that The Last Hurrah, the band’s farewell tour, would begin in October. Days before Finch’s death, the band said she had asked them to continue with the tour as planned.
Liam Gallagher had a blunt review of FIFA’s first World Cup final halftime show.
The Oasis frontman reacted on X during Sunday’s (July 19) performance at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., where Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, the PS22 Chorus and the Muppets appeared during the Spain-Argentina final.
“This is like a bad trip,” Gallagher wrote.
He followed with another post, adding, “It’s a good job I’ve got my spiritual socks on or that halftime entertainment could have tipped me over the edge.”
The 11-and-a-half-minute show marked the first halftime performance staged during a FIFA World Cup final. Curated by Martin, the production opened with Madonna performing “Music,” her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 from 2000, before moving through performances from BTS, Bieber, Shakira, Burna Boy and more.
Shakira and Burna Boy performed “Dai Dai,” the official World Cup song and current Billboard Global 200 chart-topper, while BTS delivered “Dynamite” and Bieber performed an acoustic version of “Everything Hallelujah.” Dudamel also conducted musicians from the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela through The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.”
The show closed with the PS22 Chorus, Martin, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and several performers returning to the field for a finale built around a giant “LOVE” stage formation and fireworks.
The halftime show brought one of the most music-heavy moments in World Cup final history to the middle of the tournament’s deciding match. It also placed FIFA closer to the kind of entertainment model long associated with the Super Bowl, where pop performance is built into the broadcast spectacle.
Gallagher’s reaction comes after Oasis’ return to stadium scale with the band’s OASIS LIVE ’25 tour, which included dates across the U.K., Ireland, North America, Mexico, Asia, Australia and South America. The band’s songs have also long lived inside football culture, with tracks including “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” becoming crowd staples far beyond rock audiences.
FISHER will bring his chart-topping dance sound back to Flemington Racecourse this year, with the Australian DJ-producer set to headline the closing party for the 2026 Melbourne Cup Carnival.
The Victoria Racing Club announced Monday (July 20) that FISHER will perform at The Elms Live Stage presented by Maccas on TAB Champions Stakes Day, Saturday, Nov. 7. The set will take place after the final race of the Carnival, with entry included in the price of a General Admission ticket.
The booking brings one of Australia’s biggest dance exports back to Flemington after his 2025 appearance helped establish The Elms Live Stage as a major post-race music destination. This year, the Off the Rails closing party will again see the rails of the famous Flemington racecourse opened after racing concludes, allowing crowds to gather for FISHER’s festival-style set.
“FISHER delivered the most electrifying and memorable performance for thousands of event goers at Flemington last year, and we can’t wait for him to return to headline the Off the Rails party celebrating the final day of the 2026 Melbourne Cup Carnival, complementing world-class racing on TAB Champions Stakes Day,” VRC chief executive officer Kylie Rogers said in a statement.
FISHER broke through internationally with “Losing It,” the 2018 tech-house track that spent 17 weeks on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart and hit No. 1 in December 2018. The song also earned a Grammy nomination for best dance recording.
Since then, the Gold Coast-born artist has become a major festival and club draw, known for high-volume house sets and an irreverent stage presence that has made him a fixture across global dance circuits.
“Last year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival closing party was epic; the crowd was electric,” FISHER said. “I can’t wait to do it all again at Flemington Racecourse on November 7. Giddy up.”
The 2026 Melbourne Cup Carnival begins with Howden Victoria Derby Day on Saturday, Oct. 31, followed by Lexus Melbourne Cup Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Crown Oaks Day on Thursday, Nov. 5, and TAB Champions Stakes Day on Saturday, Nov. 7.
VRC said more Melbourne Cup Carnival entertainment announcements will be revealed soon.
After a day of wildfire smoke that choked the air and thunderstorms that flooded parts of New York City, Sunday, July 19th dawned bright, clear and beautiful, the perfect setting for an event on which all eyes around the globe would be centered: the 2026 World Cup Final.
And with Spain and Argentina contesting the first all-Spanish-language final since the inaugural 1930 event (in which Uruguay bested Argentina), one word filled the air more than any other as fans began to mass around NYC’s Penn Station to take the trains or buses to New York, New Jersey stadium for the game: Vamos!
On the way to the stadium for the biggest — and most expensive — game of this month-long World Cup, Argentinian fans were singing loudly and joyously, with a sea of Lionel Messi jerseys far out-numbering those in Spain’s traditional red, with those supporters of La Roja nearly as unanimous as their counterparts in wearing the name and number of their 19-year-old superstar Lamine Yamal, a successor to Messi at the famed club Barcelona. But after a relatively simple transit situation (a relief after repeated warnings that things could get packed and hectic) that gave way to a media credential nightmare that left many media members stranded outside for hours in the early afternoon, Billboard made it into the stadium in time to catch the closing ceremonies, headlined by Post Malone, who closed up his brief set by bringing out Swae Lee for their smash hit single “Sunflower,” before the stadium settled into a pre-match tension that lasted until kickoff.
This, however, was not an ordinary World Cup Final: the 2026 edition was to be the first ever with a halftime performance akin in some ways to the Super Bowl, with superstars like Madonna, BTS, Shakira, Burna Boy, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, and more performing in a tight-knit 11-minute set at the half. Here, Billboard brings you through TK moments you may not have seen on TV during the high-profile event.
More new music from Gracie Abrams is arriving Sunday night (July 19). After unleashing new album Daughter From Hell on Friday, the singer-songwriter announced there are two additional tracks from the DFH sessions that fans will get to hear. Though they didn’t make the cut on the standard version of the album, “Out of Nowhere” and “Love Letter” are being made available as bonus tracks.
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The two songs will be up exclusively on iTunes Sunday night, and only “for a limited time,” Abrams shared in a social media post.
Her post included her personal thoughts on the songs, as well as her gratitude for those who’ve listened to Daughter From Hell and shared positive feedback. Abrams also offered a couple selfie video clips of herself giving a very short, but playfully dramatic, preview of “Out of Nowhere” and “Love Letter.”
“Hey SURPRISE,” Abrams wrote on her social media accounts on Sunday. “Daughter from Hell (Bonus Tracks) with OUT OF NOWHERE and LOVE LETTER will be available to download tonight at 6pm PT on iTunes for a limited time if you can believe it.”
She added, “I’m so moved to hear from those of you who are connecting with the record so far. Really truly your messages have made my heart grow ten sizes. Fingers crossed you enjoy these too. I personally love them very much.”
Daughter From Hell is Abrams’ third full-length studio album, which has her once again teaming up with producer/co-writer Aaron Dessner. The set, the follow-up to 2024’s The Secret of Us (which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart), was led by the single “Hit the Wall.”
Morgan Wallen revealed the title and release date of his next single on Saturday night (July 18), giving fans the first listen of “Been By Now.”
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Wallen played the song live for the first time at his show in Baltimore, Md., at M&T Bank Stadium and revealed it’ll officially be released on Friday (July 24), as seen in videos filmed by concertgoers. He’s currently on his Still the Problem Tour, which brings him to Ann Arbor, Mich., next weekend and then wraps in Philadelphia, Pa.
Post-show, he shared a 40-second clip of the recorded version of “Been By Now” on social media.
“If it was meant to be, we’d have been by now/ We wouldn’t have to keep trying to work things out,” Wallen sings on the midtempo track that seems to be about a relationship that isn’t progressing, even though “baby, we’re a breeze when the lights go down.”
“Been By Now” will be the country star’s first new song release since his “I Can’t Love You Anymore” duet with Ella Langley, which arrived in April, and his 2025 hit album I’m the Problem, which spent a total of 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200; it’s still appearing in the top 10 of the all-genre chart, landing at No. 3 on this week’s ranking. I’m the Problem currently leads the Top Country Albums chart (dated July 25) for the 45th nonconsecutive week — and he’s the artist with the most weeks at No. 1 in the chart’s 62-year history.
He has yet to announce any news about an upcoming studio album.
“Been By Now” can be pre-saved on streaming services here. Preview the new song via Wallen’s post on X below.
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Viva España! Spain has won the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the Spanish men’s national soccer team taking down Argentina by a score of 2-1 in Sunday’s tournament finale.
Ferran Torres scored the winning goal for Spain in extra time, in a World Cup final that also saw Justin Bieber, BTS, Madonna, Shakira, Coldplay and others perform during the halftime show.
Now, fans can celebrate the team’s win with official Spain World Cup winners merch online. The apparel and collectibles site Fanatics, has official Team Spain World Cup champions T-shirts, hoodies and jerseys available to buy right now.
As a description teases, “The Spain National Team stands atop the soccer world after outlasting the best of the best on the sport’s biggest stage. Wear the moment, relive the glory, and celebrate a team that gave everything to become champions.”
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This unisex T-shirt celebrates La Roja and their big World Cup win with the team crest on the front and a streetwear-style graphic on the back.
The 100% cotton tee is available in sizes small to 2XL. This is an officially-licensed T-shirt from the merch and apparel brand 1863FC, named after the year the first ever Football Association originated.
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You can also pick up this T-shirt in the official Spanish national team colors of yellow and red.
The T-shirt features a simple logo on the front and the year 2026 in bold on the back along with the words Selección de fútbol de España — a.k.a. the Spanish national football team.
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Celebrate the Spanish champions — or campeónes — with this official World Cup winners hoodie.
The unisex hoodie features a crest with the FIFA World Cup trophy in gold on the front and the word ESPANA and the number 26 (for the year 2026) on the back. Choose from sizes small to 3XL.
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You can pick up this official Spain World Cup jersey on the Fanatics website, now with the addition of a 2026 World Cup Champions patch.
This is an official Adidas replica soccer jersey, inspired by the same kits worn by the team on the pitch. The jersey is made from the brand’s “Climacool” sweat-wicking material, with the Adidas logo on the front and three stripes along the shoulder. This item is available in sizes XS to 2XL and is expected to sell quickly so we recommend adding to cart while your size is still in stock online.
You can see more officially licensed Spain World Cup champions merch — including Lamine Yamal jerseys — online at Fanatics.com.
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And you can pick up this T-shirt on Amazon, available in ten different colors and in multiple sizes for men and women.
This Spain World Cup winners shirt features the phrase por la victoria — for the win.
Sunday’s victory marked the second World Cup win for Spain, who also took home the trophy in 2010.
Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem leads Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart (dated July 25) for the 45th nonconsecutive week. This ups Wallen’s career tally of weeks at No. 1 to 231, allowing him to extend his lead as the artist with the most weeks at No. 1 in the chart’s 62-year history.
Wallen’s achievement is especially impressive because he has amassed this hefty total of weeks at No. 1 in such a short amount of time. He first topped the chart on Aug. 15, 2020.
Before returning to No. 1 this week, I’m the Problem spent the past 13 weeks at No. 2 behind Ella Langley‘s Dandelion. That was the longest Wallen has been locked out of the top spot since he rose to superstar status in January 2021 with Dangerous: The Double Album.
Top Country Albums originated as Hot Country Albums in the Jan. 11, 1964 issue of Billboard. Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire (The Best of Johnny Cash) headed the inaugural chart. The compilation was well-timed: “Ring of Fire” had headed Hot Country Songs for seven weeks the previous summer and had crossed over to reach the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The chart was named Hot Country LP’s from 1968 to 1984, when vinyl LPs were king.
Twenty-one artists have logged 50 or more weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums. Male solo artists dominate, as you might expect, though three female solo artists have achieved the feat, as have two groups. (One of those groups is an all-female group.) Only one Black artist has amassed 50 or more weeks at No. 1, though that may change as country becomes more inclusive.
Here’s a look at all artists who have topped Top Country Albums for 50 or more weeks.
Justin Bieber got a pep talk from Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Halftime Show. In between superstar music performances at the Spain vs. Argentina match on Sunday (July 19), Lasso walked the stadium with the Apple TV+ series’ Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) with commentary on how the entertainment was going so far — and then put Bieber on the field to serenade the world with “Everything Hallelujah.”
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“Coach, I gotta say, first half of halftime knocked my darn socks off,” said Lasso, as played by Sudeikis in the surprise appearance by the Ted Lasso actors at New York New Jersey Stadium (aka MetLife Stadium) in East Rutherford, N.J. “How the heck is anyone gonna follow all that?”
Then the Belieber within rose: “You know what I think we need? We need some heart. You know, someone who has soul. Someone who can bring the love. Ooo. You thinking what I’m thinking?”
Enter Bieber, head down and acoustic guitar in hand, ready for Lasso’s words of encouragement.
“All right, young man,” he tells the pop star. “Let’s go! It’s your big shot. OK. Listen to me. Go out there. Don’t be nervous. Nobody’s watching. Make us proud.”
The bit led into Bieber delivering a smooth performance of “Everything Hallelujah,” from Swag II. It was quieter, earnest moment in an 11-minute halftime show full of high energy in musical performances from Madonna, BTS, Shakira with Burna Boy, Coldplay and more.
TheTed Lasso and Bieber segment was shared by FOX, the network broadcasting the 2026 World Cup, on social media. Watch the clip below, followed by the full halftime show, which FOX uploaded to YouTube.