In 2024, six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant was clearing out and organizing a room in her Nashville home after her daughter Corrina had made an observation.

“She just said, ‘Where’s your creative space?’” Grant recalls. The room, filled with paintings she’d made, art supplies, Grant’s collection of 45s and an old turntable, became her new creative oasis. “My daughter nicknamed the space ‘craftopia,’” Grant says.

Following the release of her self-titled debut in 1977, Grant become one of the leading artists who popularized Contemporary Christian music in the 1980s and 1990s, with such albums as Age to Age and Heart in Motion reaching broader audiences. She earned crossover hits like the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Baby Baby” and has collected over two dozen GMA Dove Awards.

But by 2024, it had been over a decade since her last album of original music, 2013’s How Mercy Looks From Here. Grant had been touring, but also spent the past few years weathering serious health issues, including undergoing open-heart surgery in 2020 and healing from a bicycle accident in 2022 that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. 

In that new creative space, Grant sat down and began writing lyrics that became the title track and emotional fulcrum for her new album The Me That Remains, which comes out Friday (May 8) on Thirty Tigers.

The song’s frank lyrics such as “Life cut me wide open when my head hit the ground/ Wasn’t my time for dying” take an honest look at Grant’s healing over the past few years, as well as her determination to make the most of every stage of life.

“The very first lyric I wrote for this record, I thought it was a poem, but at that time I was having pretty substantial short-term memory issues,” Grant says. “Lyrics were easy because it’s written down, but music is tough. So I said, ‘I don’t think I can do this by myself.’ But in a beautiful way, our limitations create our path.”

She began reaching out to writers and fellow artists, including her husband Vince Gill, in addition to Michael W. Smith, Tom Douglas, Mike Reid and Mac McAnally, the 10-time CMA musician of the year winner also known for his work as part of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer band.

By January 2025, she had returned to the studio with the intention of only recording a couple of songs. “It felt so organic and like, ‘Man, that was fun. I haven’t done that in a long time,” she says. She called upon McAnally and they agreed to work on recording songs when they could, heading into the studio here and there over the course of a few months.

“At one point he said, ‘Hey, we’ve got a record here. We have 10 songs.’ I guess it was as much of a surprise to me that it emerged the way it did, and it was without any work pressure.”

Though the album includes personal songs such as “The Me That Remains,” and mature looks at relationships on tunes like “‘Til We Get It Right,” the album also takes nuanced looks at society and the state of the world.

Grant teamed with Ruby Amanfu on “How Do We Get There From Here,” a song forged after the tragic 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville. Both Grant and Amanfu were part of an artist group that visited the Tennessee State Capitol in fall 2023 to talk about gun control. On their new collaboration, they wrestle with themes including accountability, communication and grief.

“A lot of artists and songwriters were invited to go and just say, ‘Is there anything we can use our platform to help shift?’” Grant says. “After being there [and] meeting with legislature on both sides, I thought ‘How does anybody get anything done?’ But I think so many times schools of thought or a change in the way someone sees something come[s] through the arts.”

After writing the first verse and chorus, she reconnected with Amanfu about their experience. “It took a year of us just trading text[s]. We were both working very hard, both traveling. Then she reached out and was like, ‘I think I’ve got the song.’ I was going into the studio that week and asked if she was in town. It was just like our orbits were so different but for a minute the planets aligned. And I’ve so enjoyed getting to know her.”

Gill joins on “Friend Like You,” Smith co-wrote “The Saint,” and Grant’s daughters Corrina and Sarah Cannon join on the album closer “The Other Side of Goodbye,” which centers on the loss of Grant’s mother, who passed away in 2011.

“The other side of goodbye can be all kinds of things, but at some point I just thought about my mom,” Grant says. “I don’t know that many people that have died that I’ve actually been in the room with — a few — but I wanted to capture the experience of being a witness to her crossing over. And that day changed the way I look at death. I was like, ‘We’ve got to reframe this.’ I said, ‘When somebody finishes their life, can we high-five them?’ And with everything in life, how you frame it has a lot to do with how you experience it.”

The Me That Remains had been finished for around six months or so when Grant and her team partnered with Thirty Tigers to release the project.

“I think we were trying to find a partner that was really interested in creating conversation. That really seems to be the focus on Thirty Tigers, just bringing together people through the arts. I’ve so enjoyed talking to [Thirty Tigers co-founder/president] David Macias and everyone has been great. It just feels a little bit kind of maverick.”

Though Grant’s new album ends a 13-year dearth of new music from the Gospel Music Hall of Famer and 2022 Kennedy Center honoree, she says she doubts it will take another 13 years before she creates new music.

“I don’t know that I’ve got a whole record right now, but I have a lot of songs I’m working on. People have sent me some beautiful songs.”

A Migos return might be on the horizon. The Migos’ Instagram account was revived on Tuesday (May 5) and made its first post in over two years, featuring a few photos of Quavo and Offset in the studio.

The post — which boasts over 335,000 likes — has only added fuel to the speculation that the Migos are back. Additional photos from Sunday’s (May 3) studio session found Offset in the booth, signaling new music could be on the way.

Speculation began last week when Quavo took to his Instagram Story, where he teased a posthumous TakeOff album, a sequel to his joint album with his late nephew and a possible Migos tribute album on the way.

“Warriors Never fold. Jobs Not Finished. TAKEOFF ALBUM. UNC N PHEW 2. LAST ????? ALBUM. REAL MIGO BLOOD RUN IN MY VEINS!!! AINT NO NEW CHAPTER JUST THE NEXT ONE,” Huncho wrote.

Offset echoed Quavo’s statement and added to the Migos’ comeback speculation. “On dat,” he wrote.

TakeOff (born Kirshnik Khari Ball) was shot and killed following a party at 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston on Nov. 1, 2022.

Quavo and Offset have been distant in recent years before reuniting over the weekend, which sent fans into a frenzy about a possible reunion.

Their last collaboration came on the Migos’ 2021 Culture III album, which was supposed to be the fourth and final LP from the Atlanta trio prior to TakeOff’s passing. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 130,000 total album units earned, according to Luminate.

On Wednesday (May 6), the full list of honorees for TME Chart’s 30 UNDER 30 “Top 30 Young Singers” was officially unveiled. As an initiative dedicated to spotlighting emerging young talent in the Chinese music scene, this year’s program features a comprehensive upgrade to its recognition system.

Based on annual performance data from the TME Uni Chart and TME Wave Chart, the selection process combined objective metrics with public voting across categorized groups, ultimately recognizing 30 young artists distinguished by their contemporary appeal and strong industry potential.

Lars Huang, Yu Zi and Zhicheng Mu ranked No. 1 in the Core Group, Pioneer Group and Rising Star Group, respectively, earning recognition as representative young singer of their respective age categories.

Categorized by birth year, the honorees are divided into three groups: the Core Group (born 1996-1999), the Pioneer Group (born 2000-2005), and the Rising Star Group (born after 2006). This tiered structure highlights young singers at different stages of development, while the open public voting mechanism enables audience preferences and listener voices to play a meaningful role in the selection process.

Since its launch, TME Chart’s “30 UNDER 30” has grown into a highly influential benchmark for emerging talent in the Chinese music industry. Guided by the principles of professionalism, fairness, and diversity, the initiative encourages young artists to stay true to their creative vision, push artistic boundaries, and express the spirit of youth through innovation — while delivering positive impact through high-quality music.

Don’t bother checking the forecast, because based on Drake‘s latest move it’s going to be an ice cold summer. In the latest chapter of the “Hotline Bling” MCs slow-but-steady rollout for his upcoming Iceman album, due out on May 15, Drake gave his Toronto mansion, The Embassy, a frosty makeover.

In a series of pics on his Drake Related site, Drake shared snaps in which the front entrance to his estate is covered in icicles and frost, including his fleet of luxury vehicles. In a testament to what fans can expect from the album, the studio space was also iced out, with snow and icicles dripping from the consoles and keyboards and covering a C-shaped couch at the center of the room.

The cold snap creeped into Drizzy bedroom, pool (with links to some “Hotline Bling” merch and his Nike Nocta collab) and kitchen. And, if you click around enough, you can land on El Chico Studios, where the rapper has hidden the “Wick Man” instrumental from his Scary Hours 3 mixtape.

The mansion glaze-over is just the latest in a string of frozen promo Drake has been doing for the album over the past month, beginning with frozen courtside seats at Scotiabank Arena for the Raptors season finale against the Brooklyn Nets on April 12. He followed that with an even more outrageous stunt in downtown Toronto, where he hid the album’s release date inside a massive block of ice. Fans descended in droves to check it out and chip away at the sculpture until police showed up to control the crowd of nearly 800 who had gotten to work on the one million pounds of ice using ice picks, blowtorches, lighters and other implements.

The tables were turned, though, by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who eliminated Raptors team ambassador Drake’s team in the first round of the NBA playoffs on May 3 in game 7, and appeared to troll Drake in the waning minutes of the contest by playing Kendrick Lamar’s iconic diss “Not Like Us” to hype up the hometown crowd and troll the rapper and Raptors fans.

“DEFROSTED,” the Cavs posted to X alongside a poster featuring the Iceman ice sculpture from downtown Toronto, swapping out a “W” inside, instead of the album release date. “Internal Findings: Cavs W Detected in Core,” the graphic read. “Final Conclusion: Cavs in 7.”

Iceman will be Drake’s first solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs, which topped the Billboard 200.

From her early, scene-stealing soapie days, through to pop superstardom, and with it the hordes of fans, red carpets, music videos, awards, and major concerts, Kylie Minogue has sure lived the life. The veteran Aussie pop star has also endured the cancer battle, the detractors, and the loss of loved ones. And it’s all there, in Kylie, the three-part Netflix documentary series, the first trailer for which has arrived.

Almost 40 years of Kylie’s glittering career are locked into two-and-a-half minutes, for a video which captures the ridiculous highs, and the gutting lows of a life lived in the spotlight.  

Nick Cave, who invited Minogue to join her on his Murder Ballads breakout hit from 1995, “Where The Wild Roses Grow,” and again on his 2014 film 20,000 Days on Earth, contributes to the forthcoming series. “Kylie is this force,” he explains in the new clip. “It’s all outward, giving.”

The trailer invites us in, as Kylie grows up on our screens and the airwaves. We see professional snaps of Kylie cuddling with her ex Michael Hutchence, the late frontman of INXS. The glamor and the smiles are immediately wiped out when the trailer explores Kylie’s battle with breast cancer, and the haters, which lurked for so many years. “We didn’t know if she was ever going to be well again,” her younger sister Dannii explains in the clip. “Music kept us going,” Kylie continues.

We also hear Kylie rip out an expletive that would make many of her compatriots proud.

The project is coming to Netflix on May 20, and directed by Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winner Michael Harte (Three Identical Strangers, BECKHAM) and produced by John Battsek’s Ventureland (WHAM!, The Deepest Breath).

As previously reported, the doc examines how she’s “faced public scrutiny, personal loss, and illness with grit and grace, earning respect far beyond her own fandom,” reads a description from Netflix.

Kylie is one of Australia’s best-selling female artists of all-time, shifting more than 80 million records worldwide. Her collection of awards is positively heaving with 18 ARIAs, induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, the Ted Albert Award for outstanding services to Australian music, the U.K.’s MITS Award, and two Grammys. She has also featured in more than a dozen films, including The Delinquents, Street Fighter, Moulin Rouge!, Kath & Kim, Holy Motors and The Residence.

Her recent hot streak has included Las Vegas residencies; a deal with United Talent Agency (UTA) for live representation in the U.S. and Canada and acting roles worldwide; the Global Icon Award at the 2024 BRIT Awards, becoming just the second woman to win it following Taylor Swift in 2021; and the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award.

In her adopted homeland, the U.K., where she’s celebrated as the “princess of pop,” she boasts 11 No. 1 albums, and in Australia, Kylie’s has tallied nine chart leaders. In the United States, Kylie has landed 12 titles on the Billboard 200, and seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including top 10s with her 1988 cover of “The Loco-Motion” (peaking at No. 3) and 2002’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (No. 7).  

Minogue was recently confirmed as the headliner for the 2026 AFL Grand Final Australian rules football championship at Melbourne’s MCG on Sept. 26, becoming the first Australian artist to headline the event since 2021.

Kobie Dee is the headline performer for the Isuzu UTE A-League 2026 Grand Final, Australia and New Zealand’s premier soccer league.

When the Sydney artist from Bidjigal Land Maroubra takes his spot during the weekend of May 23/24, it’ll mark his first time performing at a major national sporting event.

Dee is tapped for the big show just days after the release of his new single “Aim For The Stars” (via Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia), an energetic, anthemic track that was selected as the official sync for the competition’s Finals campaign, the ad for which is currently streaming on Paramount+.

“I want people to hear this song and feel like no dream is too big,” Kobie explains in a statement. “Especially young people coming from the same streets I started in. I want them to believe that they can see themselves in these spaces too. For me, ‘Aiming For The Stars’ means taking Maroubra to the world, not leaving it and just telling stories about it.”

“Aim For The Stars” was written with producer NERVE and collaborators WYES, GENE and SMAK. “When NERVE started the beat, Kobie continues, “I just went straight in with the lyrics. It was one of those moments where everything flowed and I was able to get everything off my mind.” “We dominate in sport,” he adds, “but we’re also incredibly creative. There’s so much talent in our communities that could have gone into music or sport.”

Kobie enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2025, when he was nominated for the inaugural NSW Music Prize (for “Chapter 26”); performed on stage at the ARIA Awards with Young Franco, Baker Boy, Anna Ryan and Touch Sensitive; and founded Twenny47 Studios, a creative space in the heart of his community dedicated to supporting and mentoring emerging First Nations artists.

The rising hip-hop artist’s career streams top 80 million; he has landed slots at such festivals as Splendour in the Grass, Listen Out, and Spilt Milk; and collaborated with such brands as Lacoste and GQ.

The location of the A-League final is still to be decided. Tickets will be available from 4pm AEST next Monday, May 18. The official music video for “Aim For The Stars” will drop later this month.

Delta Goodrem’s incredible music voyage will take her to warm European waters next year, when the Australian pop star embarks on special round of luxury cruise performances.

The “Born to Try” singer will helm the music program for a 12-day luxury voyage through the Adriatic and Eastern Mediterranean, setting off from Venice on Aug. 27, 2027.

While on board, Goodrem will headline three intimate concerts and a Q&A, presented by boutique travel agency Destination HQ in collaboration with Mushroom Events, the Mushroom Group division that specializes in corporate functions, major event planning, and talent bookings.

“To be able to perform on a luxury cruise while sailing from Venice to Valletta together, is something I’ve never done before,” Goodrem explains in a statement. “It’s going to be an incredibly intimate and unique experience and I can’t wait.”

The ship, Ponant Explorations Le Bougainville, will sail away with just 90 suites and deluxe staterooms across five decks, and will float on past Croatia, Montenegro through to Puglia and Sicily, before arriving in Malta.

Goodrem is a superstar in her homeland. A soapie star who signed her first record deal at age 15, Delta’s collection of silverware includes 12 ARIA Awards and five No. 1 albums including 2003’s Innocent Eyes, which logged a whopping 29 weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, making it the highest-selling debut album in Australian recorded music history. The album won seven ARIA Awards, was the highest selling album in Australia for two successive years, and yielded five No. 1 singles. Career album sales across her catalog is close to 10 million.

In 2023, after a decades-long association with Sony Music, Delta became an independent artist and label boss, overseeing ATLED Records.

Later this month, she’ll realize a dream when she represents Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, where she’ll perform her new single “Eclipse.”

Bookings and full itinerary details for the Delta Cruise are available at destinationhq.com.au or by contacting Destination HQ at hello@destinationhq.com.au.

Jack Johnson has announced a six-date Australian and New Zealand tour this November, joined for the first time by Ben Harper and John Butler as special guests performing solo and acoustic.

The SURFILMUSIC 2026 Australia & New Zealand Tour opens at Brisbane’s Riverstage on Nov. 7 before heading to Kings Park & Botanic Gardens in Perth (Nov. 10), The Domain in Sydney (Nov. 14), Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (Nov. 17), Spark Arena in Auckland (Nov. 20) and closing at Waipara Winehouse in North Canterbury, New Zealand on Nov. 22.

Artist presale runs May 7-8, with Mastercard presale from May 8-12. General on-sale opens Tuesday, May 12 at 2 p.m. local time.

The tour marks Johnson’s first return to Australia and New Zealand since 2022 and celebrates the release of the SURFILMUSIC documentary soundtrack, scored by Johnson and Hermanos Gutiérrez, due May 15.

The documentary — which premiered at SXSW in March — traces Johnson’s journey from surfer to filmmaker to musician, from his youth on the north shore of Hawaii through the making of his iconic surf films Thicker Than Water (1999) and The September Sessions (2000).

Johnson will perform alongside his long-time bandmates Adam Topol, Merlo Podlewski and Zach Gill, with fans able to expect classics including “Better Together,” “Flake,” “Inaudible Melodies,” “Taylor” and “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing,” alongside new material from the soundtrack.

The addition of Harper and Butler makes for a particularly loaded bill. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner whose catalogue includes “Burn One Down,” “Steal My Kisses” and “Diamonds on the Inside” — he has sold more than 16 million records worldwide across 18 studio albums. Butler, one of Australia’s most enduring independent artists, brings more than 25 years of hits including “Zebra,” “Better Than” and the instrumental epic “Ocean.”

Indigenous artist Emily Wurramara will perform at the Sydney show only. The tour is presented by Live Nation in partnership with Double J for Australian dates.

Johnson has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide across eight studio albums. Since 2001, proceeds from his albums and tours have resulted in more than $40 million donated to environmental, art and music education charities through the Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation and the Johnson ʻOhana Foundation, which he founded with his wife Kim.

Jack Johnson SURFILMUSIC AU/NZ Tour Dates

Nov. 7 — Brisbane, Australia @ Riverstage
Nov. 10 — Perth, Australia @ Kings Park & Botanic Gardens
Nov. 14 — Sydney, Australia @ The Domain
Nov. 17 — Melbourne, Australia @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Nov. 20 — Auckland, New Zealand @ Spark Arena
Nov. 22 — North Canterbury, New Zealand @ Waipara Winehouse

The Eagles have added more 2026 dates to their Sphere residency, extending their run as the artist with the most dates at the Las Vegas immersive venue to 64.

The new dates extend their run into the fall: Sept. 18-19, Nov. 13-14 and Nov. 27-28.

The most recent shows had ended April 10 and 11. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees had previously announced 12 shows for this year: Jan. 23-24, Jan. 30-31, Feb. 20-21, Feb. 27-28, March 20-21 and March 27-28.

Artist presale registration is available now. The  presale begins May 15 at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets start at $175 and include all taxes and fees.

The group includes Don Henley, the only original remaining who co-founded the band with the late Glenn Frey in 1971, as well as guitarists Joe Walsh and Vince Gill, bassist Timothy B. Schmit and Frey’s son Deacon.

The Eagles’ Sphere stint started in September 2024, and the band added dates a handful at a time, setting the record for the most shows with the announcement of the February dates in October at 52. The previous record belonged to Dead & Co. at 48 shows.

Billboard praised the Eagles show, writing after the Sept. 20, 2024, opening: “For more than 50 years, the Eagles have been painting vivid pictures with their music, from the dark desert highway of ‘Hotel California’ to the billion stars all around of ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’ to the cold, cold city of ‘Life in the Fast Lane.’ On Friday night, those images came to intense life at Las Vegas’ Sphere, where the technology of 2024 finally caught up to the band’s enduring artistry and created a technicolor display worthy of their classic, illustrative songs from the 1970s and beyond.”

The 2026 Met Gala has come to an end, and the stars really showed out on the red carpet (which was not actually red). Before we put fashion’s biggest behind us and start speculating on next year’s theme, let’s take a look at some of the best outfits worn on Monday (May 4).

Helmed by co-chairs Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, Anna Wintour and Beyoncé—who made her first appearance at the annual event in 10 years—the 2026 Met Gala was all about the intersection of fashion and art, embodying the Met’s Costume Institute’s spring exhibition “Costume Art” and its celebration of diverse bodies.

“Pairings between fashions and artworks will present a spectrum of connections and experiences: from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound,” reads a description of the exhibit on the Met’s website.

To complement the exhibit, this year’s Met Gala dress code was “Fashion Is Art,” a theme that left much room for interpretation. And interpret the stars did. With such an open-ended concept to play with, attendees experimented with color, texture, references, inspiration and more. No two looks were the same, unlike in previous years. Although not every look was memorable, there were certainly some red carpet showstoppers worth writing home about. In particular, 10 looks sported by musicians caught Billboard’s attention more than others. (Though many other artists wore incredible looks, too, which you can check out here.)

From SZA’s upcycled couture to Bad Bunny’s senior citizen cosplay to Beyoncé’s show-stopping grand return to the Met Gala, here are Billboard’s top 2026 Met Gala looks.