Bulgaria has claimed its first-ever Eurovision Song Contest victory, with pop star Dara taking out the 2026 Grand Final in Vienna on Saturday night (May 17) with “Bangaranga” — a high-energy electronic anthem infused with Bulgarian folk influences that became one of the breakout performances of the competition.
Performing at the iconic Wiener Stadthalle alongside 24 other finalists, Dara’s commanding staging and viral live performance propelled Bulgaria to a historic win, ending years of near misses and intermittent withdrawals from the contest. Israel finished in second place, while Romania rounded out the top three.
Results were determined through a combined vote from national juries and viewers across 35 participating countries.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Delta Goodrem delivered one of the night’s most celebrated performances, finishing fourth with her soaring power ballad “Eclipse” — the country’s strongest Eurovision result in several years.
Her cinematic staging transformed the Wiener Stadthalle from a moonlit dreamscape into a radiant gold sunscape, reflecting the song’s themes of transformation and strength. Goodrem wore a custom couture gown by Velani By Nicky and House of Emmanuele, adorned with more than 7,000 Swarovski crystals.
“Representing Australia on the Eurovision stage and being part of this incredible community has been unforgettable,” Goodrem said in a statement. “I’m so grateful for all the love and support from home and around the world — it has carried me every step of the way. Sharing Eclipse with you at this moment feels perfectly timed, and I’m excited to continue the journey we’ve started together and to share new music with you soon.”
“Eclipse” was written by Goodrem alongside Ferras Alqaisi, Jonas Myrin and Michael Fatkin, with Fatkin also producing. One of Australia’s most accomplished performers, Goodrem has previously written songs for Eurovision winner Celine Dion and collaborated with the late Olivia Newton-John.
The Eurovision campaign serves as the launchpad for a major new chapter in Goodrem’s career. She announced her upcoming eighth studio album Pure, set for release Nov. 6 — her first full-length project in five years. The 16-track record balances piano-led intimacy with widescreen cinematic production across themes of clarity, emotion and renewal. Ahead of its release, Goodrem will preview new material through a series of intimate “Pure: Prelude” performances.
The Grand Final airs in primetime on SBS and SBS On Demand on Sunday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Baker Boy headlined the second night of NBA House Australia on Friday (May 15), closing out the evening session at The Timber Yard in Melbourne with a live performance — marking one of the more unexpected but fitting intersections of Australian music and American basketball culture in recent memory.
The Northern Territory rapper and dancer, whose real name is Danzal Baker, took the stage at 8:30 p.m. as part of the NBA’s inaugural Australian fan experience, which is running across four days from May 14–17 at the Port Melbourne venue.
The 6,000-square-metre space features playoff viewing parties, basketball challenges, an NBA 2K26 gaming zone, streetwear showcases, photo opportunities with the Larry O’Brien Trophy, and appearances from NBA players.
Friday’s programming also included appearances from Atlanta Hawks center and Australian NBA representative Jock Landale, who participated in a “Courtside Stories” fan engagement session at 12:30 p.m., and four-time NBA All-Star DeMarcus Cousins, who appeared for crossover appearances in the afternoon before hosting another “Courtside Stories” session and photo opportunities in the evening. The Sacramento Kings Dance Team and Dunk Team also performed across the day.
NBA House Australia is headlined across the weekend by All-Stars Jaren Jackson Jr. and Cousins, who are appearing across the event for meet-and-greets, fan sessions and scheduled programming.
Jackson Jr. said ahead of the event: “I know Australian fans are some of the most passionate in the world, and I look forward to celebrating the excitement of the NBA Playoffs with them.”
The NBA appearance comes during a strong stretch for Baker Boy. The six-time ARIA Award-winner recently wrapped a 10-date Australian album tour behind his second record DJANDJAY and has been debuting new anthem “CURSE” in his live sets ahead of the forthcoming DJANDJAY (Deluxe), due later this year via Island Records/Universal Music Australia.
“Everyone has been going mad for it,” Baker Boy said of the track. “You know you got something good when people haven’t ever heard the track before, but you can see the whole crowd bouncing to it.”
Written and produced in Melbourne by Baker Boy alongside longtime collaborators Pip Norman (Troye Sivan, Missy Higgins) and Rob Amoruso (G Flip, Thelma Plum), “CURSE” also features acclaimed Toronto-based songwriter and producer WondaGurl (Rihanna, Travis Scott, SZA), who joined the sessions as part of the inaugural ARIA Collab Initiative.
There are 17 new Drake music videos to watch alongside his Iceman, Maid of Honour and Habibti album trilogy release (in addition to one more already-dropped video, “What Did I Miss?” — which was filmed and shared when Drake previously teased the new music collection months ago).
While 18 videos still doesn’t make for a full visual album release when you’re looking at a three-album collection, the abundance of back-to-back fresh content for one to find and check out — exhilarating as it is for Drake superfans — might feel like a lot for the casual Drake fan to navigate, especially if they’re still taking in the combined total of 43 new songs from the artist’s trio of studio LPs just released on Friday (May 15). That’s fair, and that’s why we’re compiling all of Drake’s Iceman-era music videos in one handy place, to bookmark and watch at your leisure.
Of Drake’s newest video uploads on YouTube, all are set to tracks from his Iceman album except one. The one outlier from the fresh bunch of visuals so far is “Gen 5,” a song off of Habibti, which has an emotional Drake (pictured above) crooning in the snow, wrapped snugly in his furry parka.
Who’s to say whether Drake is done with this delivery that keeps on giving? Billboard‘s compilation will be updated if any other music videos from the album rollout pop up.
The videos on Drake’s channel first appeared throughout a pre-release day livestream before being made available to watch outside of the live event. Drake’s hometown of Toronto is heavily featured as the setting.
Notably, Drake’s 8-year-old son Adonis plays a memorable role taking the wheel in the video for “Dust,” a clip that co-stars comedian Shane Gillis as a flustered cop. Meanwhile, “Make Them Pay” stands out for its animation.
Iceman and its two full-length companions make up Drake’s first full-length solo output since his 2023 Billboard 200 No. 1 album, For All the Dogs.
Watch all of Drake’s Iceman-era music videos below, listed in the order in which they were originally uploaded to YouTube. It starts with “What Did I Miss?” just in case you did miss it upon its original release.
Sequins and sheer ruffled silks, be gone! Harry Styles brought the heady, ambient world of 2026 LP Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally to Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena on Saturday (May 16), heralding the next chapter in his live career with a transportive new show.
For Love On Tour, which ran between 2021 and 2023, both Styles and his audience embraced flamboyant fun, wearing everything from rhinestone cowboy hats, pink corsets and feather boas to garishly bright vests and all that’s in between. This time around? If opening night was anything to go by, the mood is business casual with a scrim of mischief: oversized ties, velvet flared blazers, short shorts and button-down shirts inspired by the mood and aesthetic of the Grammy-winning singer’s “Aperture” music video. Think: office siren, Styles’ version.
Throughout a 21-song set, Styles took 56,000 fans from fantasy to reality and back again in a feverish haze of new songs and fan favorites, including reworked versions of “Matilda,” a mashup of “Carla’s Song” and “Satellite,” and “Treat People With Kindness.”
Ahead of the Together, Together tour’s launch, fans (including Billboard’s editorial team) were busy speculating about what the setlist would look like. How many of Styles’ biggest smashes would make the cut? Would he dig into deep cuts, the kind he’s occasionally revived at special live shows — like 2017’s “From the Dining Table” at One Night Only Manchester earlier this year? And which, if any, One Direction goldies would make an appearance?
With the tour now officially underway, Styles will remain in Amsterdam for a further 10 shows over the coming weeks. Then, in June, he’ll head to London for a record-breaking 12 nights at Wembley Stadium, before carrying on to residencies in São Paulo, Mexico City, New York City, Sydney and Melbourne throughout the year. The Johan Cruyff Arena has even installed a permanent pillar mural to celebrate the significance of serving as Styles’ first ‘home base’ for the tour.
As with Styles’ previous tours, there’s potential that the setlist may evolve from night to night, but below, check out all the songs — and which albums they belong to — from the Together, Together Tour’s opening night.
On Christmas 2019, Drake shared something in his two-hour Rap Radar interview that anyone who paid attention to his catalog already knew. He has always been committed to two things: making melodic, R&B music for women and giving people bars on his rap records. We were introduced to him as Heartbreak Drake in his early days, and he was a lover boy before officially dubbing himself that in the lead-up to his 2021 LP Certified Loverboy.
In the past, he dedicated an entire side of an album to R&B, with the B-side of Scorpion in 2018. Last year, he linked up with his star signee PARTYNEXTDOOR for a full-length project within the genre, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. It felt long overdue for Drake to lock in solely on R&B, and while the joint effort was successful, there was the question of whether he would ever do one on his own.
Well, here we are. On Friday (May 15), when fans thought they would just get ICEMAN, the 6 God surprised them with two other albums: Habibti and Maid of Honour. The former is his first-ever melodic, R&B journey with just his name on the bill.
Sexyy Red, Loe Shimmy, Qendresa and PARTYNEXTDOOR join the ride for a display of emotions that supersedes anything Drizzy has previously done. There is a level of emoting, as well as grown-and-sexy sounds that show how much “The Boy” has evolved.
Read along for our ranking of Drake’s first-ever solo R&B album, Habibti, below.
From the moment the curtain dropped on Harry Styles’ 169-date, Billboard Boxscore-smashing Love On Tour in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in July 2023, speculation surrounding the British singer’s next move mounted. Would he truly step away at the peak of his powers? And, perhaps more dauntingly, how could he eclipse one of the defining touring achievements of the decade?
As Love On Tour expanded from North American arenas to stadiums across the U.K. and Europe, it capped the former One Direction member’s most commercially and culturally dominant era yet. Over the course of a near decade-long solo career, the success of his 2022 album Harry’s House, which scooped the Grammy for album of the year, was the exception, not the rule: Unlike earlier hits such as 2019’s “Watermelon Sugar,” which steadily built momentum throughout lockdown, lead single “As It Was” arrived as an instant global phenomenon.
What changed was that Styles evolved from a charismatic, if tentative, figure transitioning out of a boyband past into a supremely assured live performer, and Love On Tour became the stage for that transformation. By the end of the two-year trek, that reputation had become central to his identity as an artist: loose, spontaneous and visibly confident in holding an audience, adding a slinky, flirtatious edge to songs like “Adore You” or “Daylight” and leveraging them to full crowd-pleasing potential.
Three years on, and Styles stands at the cusp of the residency-style Together, Together Tour, which opened up at Amsterdam’s 56,000-capacity Johan Cruijff Arena on Saturday (May 16). In support of his Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally LP — Styles’ fourth consecutive chart-topping album on the Billboard 200 — the show is set to hit seven key global markets throughout 2026, including a mammoth 30-night run at New York City’s Madison Square Garden this fall.
Echoing the pared-back approach of March’s One Night Only Manchester performance, with a mid-show ‘Dance’ section staged in the round with minimal, pulsing production reminiscent of a Fred Again..–style setup, the new show translated that intimacy into a full-scale stadium experience. A richly-textured string section gave the more subdued moments of the setlist (“Matilda,” “Sign of the Times”) a warmer elasticity, and in comparison with the adrenalised rush of Love On Tour, much of the set was more restrained in its pacing and overall feel; not diminished as such, but matured.
As the lights dimmed, Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” — the key inspiration for Kiss All the Time…‘s “Carla’s Song” — played while swirling, multicolored visuals took full effect across the giant video grid. Styles appeared seconds later, radiant in a red silk satin bomber — and it was on from there, a fervent, dizzying two-hour trip through his musical canon.
Here are the best moments from the night.
Drake is back to his record-setting ways.
On Friday (May 15), Spotify announced that Drake has set the single-day records for most-streamed artist, album and song on the platform in 2026, thanks to his first new solo project since 2023.
The single-day 2026 album honor goes to Iceman — one of three albums the rapper dropped first thing Friday, in addition to surprise releases Maid of Honour and Habibti — and the single-day 2026 song honor is for “Make Them Cry,” the opening track on Iceman.
“On May 15th, Drake became Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2026 in a single day, ICEMAN became the most-streamed album of 2026 in a single day, and ‘Make Them Cry’ became the most-streamed song in a single day in 2026 so far,” Spotify announced across their social channels late Friday.
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The trio of albums marks Drake’s first solo project since 2023’s For All the Dogs. Last year, he released Some Sexy Songs 4 U, a joint album with fellow Canadian musician PARTYNEXTDOOR.
Before the Iceman arrival, BTS’ ARIRANG became the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2026 upon its release in March. Coincidentally, Drake name-drops the South Korean boy band on his new project, specifically on the Spotify-record-setting “Make Them Cry.” In an Instagram Stories clip posted by BTS’ V on Friday, he’s hanging out with J-Hope, dancing while listening to the song, when Drizzy spits, “I’m feeling like BTS, ’cause it took the whole career for me to be so discovered.” The two performers freeze and simultaneously look at the camera, stunned.
Hilary Duff fans can finally exhale with relief now that she’s performed “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” for the first time ever, more than a decade after its release.
The deep cut from her 2015 album of the same name made it onto the setlist of the singer/actress’ Thursday night (May 14) performance at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles for SiriusXM’s Small Stage Series. In a video captured by Billboard, Duff effortlessly belted out the fan-favorite track in a pair of jeans and ethereal pink top with a long train, her voice sounding buoyant and crystal clear.
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“I made a top 10 list of all the things I missed/ Your lyin’ eyes and lips, they didn’t make it,” she croons as the fans in the crowd sing along to every word. “And when I’m cold at night, I know that I’ll survive/ Until I feel all right, I’m gonna fake it.”
Breathe In. Breathe Out. reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200, marking her last album until Luck … or Something arrived in February and ended her decadelong musical drought. In June, she’ll embark on her Lucky Me Tour.
In an interview with SiriusXM prior to her Thursday show, Duff opened up about how intimidating it was to launch her musical comeback after spending such a long time away. “I don’t even think I had processed how scary it was, you know?” she said. “To just be on stage again and singing my old songs actually felt more comfortable than singing some of the new ones.
“There’s, like, muscle memory with those,” she continued. “But these [new songs] feel so a part of who I am now that it’s just this really cool like combination.”
Watch Duff sing “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” live for the first time below.
Freeze the world. After seeing peers cross him and taking lashes from rap fans for the better part of two years following Drake’s battle with Kendrick Lamar, the 6 God had plenty to say.
Or as Drizzy put it on Iceman opener, “Make Them Cry”: “I’m in the cut just loading rebuttals.” With the weight of Canada on his shoulders, Drake had a lot to get off his chest and the OVO boss addressed just about everything and everyone on Iceman.
Drake premiered Iceman during his episode four livestream on Thursday night (May 14), which ended with the Toronto dignitary revealing he actually had three albums on the way for Friday (May 15).
Iceman is the main attraction, a bar-heavy introspection with Drake rapping in peak form and examining all aspects of life, while Maid of Honour and Habibti lean into R&B, dance and cater more toward the ladies.
Drizzy sounds inspired and recharged on Iceman. When the stakes are raised, the greats typically deliver and Drake did that and then some with his ninth studio LP. For the first time in years, there felt like a sense of urgency from Drake, which has to be tied to the Kendrick Lamar clash and some of hip-hop turning on him after over a decade of dominance.
“What died back in 2024 was a big piece/ So it’s like this s— is me, but it isn’t me/ Y’all keep on asking what it did to me/ That’s what it did to me,” he admits on “Make Them Cry” while wearing the figurative scars from 2024.
Drake is open and vulnerable while punching back, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. That’s the cycle of human emotions. He revealed that his father is currently battling cancer, touches on his lawsuit against UMG and reunited with Future on “Ran to Atlanta,” championing that “me and Hendrix back by popular demand” as he and Pluto put their issues aside.
The 6 God seemingly had smoke for everyone that he felt wronged him in recent years, ranging from DJ Khaled to Kendrick Lamar and Rick Ross. With Drake centering his crosshairs on the opposition on Iceman, that’s where our focus will lie.
Stream Iceman and find everyone Drake appeared to diss on the album below.
It’s been much too quiet on The Avalanches front. That’s all changed with “Together” (via Modular Recordings) featuring Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, Prentiss, the first new release from the Australian electronic act in almost six years.
If you’re looking for introspective, minimal electronica, or memories of Motown, cut ‘n’ pasted into a patchwork, then you’re come to the wrong place. “Together” is forward looking, dancefloor beckoning, and has more bounce than the vertical leap test at the NBA Draft Combine.
The Avalanches, now comprising Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi and Andy Szekeres, changed the game with their debut 2000 album release Since I Left You.
Its secret sauce, slivers of hundreds of songs from the likes of Françoise Hardy, Sérgio Mendes, Raekwon, Wayne and Shuster, and even Madonna, painstakingly, surgically sewed into songs. The result, which included the title track and “Frontier Psychiatrist,” was a collection that was both timeless, and immediate. Or, as a statement from the band’s reps suggests, “a global footprint for collaborative sampology in the 21st century.”
Its followup was a long time coming, and it wasn’t a repeat. Sixteen years passed when The Avalanches finally dropped Wildflower, which immediately went to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. A third album travelled at comparative warp-speed, We Will Always Love You, which dropped in 2020 and later scooped the coveted Australian Music Prize, for the best album of the year.
In 2024, the band briefly returned with a collaboration on Jamie XX’s In Waves, with the tune “All You Children.”
“Together” may well be the starting point for another, proper release cycle. The release is part of a “Superfun” campaign, which includes an image of Chater gaming, and an official animated video for “Together,” with sees some old school hardware — an iPod and a diskette (the compact version of the floppy disk) — sprout arms, and legs, and get about their bright, happy day. Together.
The positively ancient Nokia 3310 device makes an appearance, descending from the heavens with its angel wings.
“How are you looking after your memories? At Takumi digital archives your most treasured moments are safe with us,” reads a cryptic official statement. You can even “visit Takumi today” at the website takumiarchives.com.
Jonathan Zawada directed and animated the music video, which can be streamed below.