Madonna’s new song “I Feel So Free” has officially arrived on streaming services.

After debuting Friday (April 17) on iHeartRadio’s Pride station, the pulsating Confessions II track was released at midnight following the Queen of Pop’s surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella headlining set later that night.

In addition to dropping “I Feel So Free” on streaming services, Madonna also shared a trippy visualizer on YouTube.

“Thanks for coming,” Madonna sing-speaks in the opening lines of the song. “Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows/ Create a new persona/ A different identity/ I can be whoever I want to be/ Create a new persona/ Honestly I wish/ I could be like other people and just not care/ But out here on the dance floor, I feel so free.”

“I Feel So Free” is a propulsive dance track that calls back to the beat of Lil Louis’ 1989 house classic “French Kiss.” It also fits into the world of Confessions on a Dance Floor, echoing the sound of “Future Lovers” from Madonna’s 2005 electro-pop dance era.

The upcoming Confessions II is the eagerly awaited sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December 2005. The project reunites Madonna with that album’s producer, Stuart Price, who also served as music director on her 2023–2024 Celebration Tour.

“I Feel So Free” arrives ahead of the album’s lead single, which has yet to be announced, label representatives previously told Billboard. A Confessions II countdown on Spotify reveals the album will feature 16 tracks.

Confessions II will be released on July 3 and serves as Madonna’s first album since 2019’s Madame X. It also marks her first release since re-signing with Warner Records in September 2025.

From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.

Los Tigres del Norte’s Minnesota Performance During ICE Turmoil

The regional Mexican music legends performed their largest Twin Cities concert at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul on Friday (April 17) during their Los Tigres Del Mundo tour, amidst heightened tensions following ICE’s Operation Metro Surge. The band — known for championing immigrant rights — told reporters before the event that they hoped to provide a moment of joy and respite for attendees.

“The date was already set for a long time before we knew any of this was going to happen. Now, we want to help,” Los Tigres del Norte‘s Jorge Hernández said in the Minnesota Star Tribune. “It’s hard, because the city has been hurt a lot, the citizens there. Whenever you perform you want people to have fun and forget about everything going on. That’s really what we want to do there.”

Days before their show, an ICE officer was charged with assault related to the surge. The officer allegedly pointed a gun at civilians while off duty.

Ricardo Arjona’s Message to Gaby Moreno on Her Broadway Role

In a heartfelt Instagram story earlier this week, Guatemalan music legend Ricardo Arjona celebrated singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno on her role as Persephone in the award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown. “I think taking the photo was forbidden, but I couldn’t resist. My little compatriot shining on Broadway,” wrote Arjona on alongside a photo of the two warmly embracing. He continued, “Immensely proud, Gaby. Of how much you are and of how much you don’t know you are. My favorite in this masterpiece.”

Moreno, playing Persephone through the end of August, reflected on her casting in a previous Billboard Español interview: “I still don’t understand how or who it was that put my name on the list, but about a year ago, my manager got an email asking if I was available to play the role of Persephone on Broadway. I thought it was a joke at first.”

Karol G’s Headlining Coachella Set Ignites Streaming Surge

Following her headlining show at Coachella on Sunday (April 12) during Weekend 1, Karol G saw a tremendous spike in streaming activity. Her overall Spotify plays Stateside increased by +35.5%, more than doubling the global lift of +14.3%. Notably, the Tiësto assisted remix of her 2022 Coachella-debuted hit “Provenza” saw a 139% increase — which she wrapped up her set with — marking the biggest spike among her catalog, according to Spotify data shared with Billboard. California cities like Rialto, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, and Riverside reported streaming increases of over 100%, with Los Angeles at 95%. Apart from California, regions like Tucson, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Brooklyn also saw noticeable surges.

“Moments like this show how deeply connected live performances and streaming are. Following her historic Coachella set, fans didn’t just watch, they went straight to Spotify to revisit her music, driving an immediate spike in listenership, especially in the US,” Maykol Sanchez, head of music, LATAM at Spotify, tells Billboard Español. “It’s a powerful reflection of how her performance resonated with audiences and the cultural impact of her milestone as the first Latina to headline the festival.” Stream the remix below.

Ruidosa Fest Returns to New York’s Lincoln Center

Ruidosa Fest is back in New York for its third edition at Lincoln Center, taking place on July 12. Featuring performances by Lila Downs, Pabllo Vittar’s CLUB VITTAR, Francisca Valenzuela, Elsa y Elmar, and more, this free, all-day festival blends concerts, panels, and community activities. Highlights include a masterclass by Latin Grammy winner Ella Bric and a book fair that celebrates the intersection of music, culture, and creative voices. Part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City programming, Ruidosa Fest continues to champion gender equity in Latin music. For more details, visit @ruidosafest or summerforthecity.org. See the full lineup below.

After strong winds forced the cancellation of his Coachella 2026 weekend one performance last Friday (April 17) Anyma returned for weekend two on a much stiller night that allowed for the world debut of his new show, ÆDEN.

Starting a bit late at approximately 12:15 a.m. on Friday night/Saturday morning, the producer walked onstage dressed in all white, with the massive screen running the entire length of the festival’s mainstage switching on behind him. While this screen would host a varied cast of characters during the performance, it was first populated by dozens of digitally rendered columns that crumbled to the ground before rising again.

Also rising was Anyma himself, with the platform on which he stood elevating and lowering at various points of the show, a cool effect that in moments made the producer appear to be floating, to positioned in the center of a swirl of fire and at the nexus of many other onscreen special effects.

The show soon introduced a character resembling Michelangelo’s David, who busted down the columns while robot-like elements showed from under his stone artifice. The performance would go on to incorporate other such characters from the worlds of ancient art and mythology, including a Medusa-like creature, the snakes emanating from her head hissing in time with the beat, a pair of spinning characters whose muscular bodies appeared to be rendered from tree roots, a female demon and eventually, an angel — but more on that later.

The interplay of the ancient and modern art is a core concept of the Anyma universe, and one that those who saw his End of Genesys residency at Sphere Las Vegas in late 2024 and early 2025 will well recognize. Along with all the new imagery, ÆDEN reintroduced visuals familiar to those who saw the Sphere show, with the bugging eyeballs from the “Voices In My Head” segment from Sphere (and the song’s corresponding video) showing up during this same song at Coachella, but with the eyes now rendered in black and eventually appearing to drip black blood.

As it was at Sphere, Ellie Goulding also made an appearance, with the vocalist’s image cast on the screen during her 2025 Anyma collab “Hypnotized.” But while at Sphere her face essentially shape-shifted, at Coachella she was made to look like a marble statue, in keeping with the show’s ancient art themes.

Typically at Coachella, the special guests show up for weekend one and then pack up and go home, but — perhaps because they didn’t get the chance to perform last weekend due to the cancellation — Anyma brought out a host of guests including Muse‘s Matt Bellamy and Swae Lee. The biggest guest was also the one most people would have guessed was coming, LISA. Anyma and the K-Pop superstar released their collaborative single “Bad Angel” on April 8, and this show at Coachella saw them performing it publicly together for the first time.

LISA came onstage in a shimmery, diaphanous dress while imagery of her as the titular angel appeared on the screen behind her. As she walked down the stage’s runway, she declared that she’s “pretty pretty bad” for an angel, with those watching the performance via the livestream on YouTube at this point seeing a towering LISA hologram in the sky above her. For those of us in the crowd no such hologram materialized, but to be in such close proximity to the singer appeared to be thrilling enough for the people in the crowd whose hands were genuinely shaking as she walked by.

The final moments of the show featured an appearance by Joji, who came out to sing “Beautiful,” his Anyma collaboration released earlier this month. As Joji sang to the crowd out on the catwalk, a version of him rendered in stone appeared on the screen, once again juxtaposing new and old, human and digital, with “Beautiful” serving as the show’s closer.

All in, ÆDEN functioned as an expansion of the significant world-building Anyma has already accomplished, bringing in concepts of ancient art and culture and colliding them with the cutting-edge technology required to create a show of this size and scope. Presenting this show on the Coachella mainstage is certainly a win for Anyma, with having Anyma on the mainstage of one of the world’s biggest music festivals also marking a win for dance music itself.