Noah Kahan’s concert at Citi Field in Queens, New York, was canceled shortly before doors Saturday night (July 18). The final call was made after the stadium’s team spent the afternoon monitoring weather patterns in the New York City area, and after issuing an initial plan earlier in the evening to proceed with the show with no opening act and an adjusted set time for Kahan.

“The show tonight at Citi Field has been canceled due to inclement weather. This was a very difficult decision to make, but the first priority is always to keep everyone safe,” the venue’s latest update said on Saturday. Rain showers and thunderstorms, with the possibility of damaging wind gusts and flash flooding, were expected into the night.

“Exhausted every option to make this happen.. love you guys,” Kahan wrote in an Instagram Story, where he shared the news.

No makeup date was announced for Kahan’s July 18 concert, which was meant to be night one of a two-night stand at Citi Field. The Great Divide singer-songwriter remains on the venue’s schedule for Sunday (July 19).

Citi Field provided details on ticket refunds for the scrapped July 18 gig: “For ticket holders: Refunds are available from point of purchase. If you purchased from Ticketmaster, you will be automatically refunded. Thank you for understanding.”

The duo’s Journey of a Lifetime Tour continues in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 24.

Martin Garrix gave fans a surprise during his Tomorrowland set.

The Dutch DJ debuted his new collaboration with U2, “Fireflies,” during his headlining performance Friday (July 17) at the festival in Boom, Belgium.

For the debut, U2 guitarist The Edge joined Garrix onstage to perform the previously unheard track, while Bono‘s vocals played as part of the song.

Garrix closed out Tomorrowland’s opening day with the main stage headline set at De Schorre.

For the final song of the night, The Edge added his signature guitar work to “Fireflies,” marking the song’s live debut before its official release.

“Fireflies with @u2 out soon.. premiered at @tomorrowland,” Garrix wrote on Instagram alongside a clip of the performance.

The upcoming single is now available to pre-save on Spotify and Apple Music.

Garrix and U2 are no strangers to collaborating. They previously joined forces on “We Are the People,” the official song of the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament, which reached No. 12 on Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in May 2021.

Garrix also produced U2’s “Your Song Saved My Life” for the Sing 2 soundtrack, while Bono co-wrote several Garrix songs, including “Angels for Each Other,” “Catherina” and “Weightless.”

It was unclear at press time whether “Fireflies” will appear on an upcoming studio albums from Garrix or U2.

U2 recently released “Street of Dreams,” the soaring lead single from the band’s as-yet-untitled next studio album, its first since 2017’s Songs of Experience. Due later this year, the album features “Street of Dreams,” produced by frequent collaborator Jacknife Lee.

It arrives after U2 released the surprise six-song Easter Lily EP in April, just two months after the band’s Days of Ash EP was released in February.

Check out Garrix’s Instagram post below.

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BTS is adding another milestone to its Spotify legacy.

On Friday (July 17), Spotify announced that the superstar group’s “NORMAL” set the record for the most-streamed K-pop music video in a single day in the platform’s history.

The streaming service revealed the achievement on its official Instagram and X accounts.

The music video for “NORMAL” was released Friday and is available exclusively on Spotify for its first 48 hours.

Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Tanu Muino, the wintry visual premiered at midnight, offering a glimpse of BTS beyond the spotlight as Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook unwind in an ornate mansion and embrace life’s simple moments together.

To watch BTS’ “NORMAL” music video, Premium subscribers in beta markets can open Spotify on their TV, desktop, iOS or Android device, search for “NORMAL” by BTS, press play and tap “Switch to video.”

“NORMAL” appears on BTS’ fifth studio album, ARIRANG, and serves as the project’s second single following “SWIM.” Interscope/Capitol Records will begin promoting “NORMAL” to pop radio during the week of July 27.

“SWIM” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April, while ARIRANG opened atop the Billboard 200. The achievements marked the superstar septet’s seventh No. 1 on each chart.

Following its March 20 release, ARIRANG became the most-streamed K-pop album in Spotify history.

BTS’ ARIRANG world tour continues with a two-night run at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on July 17-18 before the group heads to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on July 19 to co-headline the inaugural FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show alongside Justin Bieber, Madonna and Shakira.

Fans will have the chance to say goodbye to Bonnie Tyler in Wales next month, with funeral arrangements announced for the late singer.

A celebration of life service for Tyler will be held at Swansea Minster, St. Mary’s Church, on Monday, Aug. 17, at noon BST, according to a funeral notice shared by William Pressdee Funeralcare on behalf of her family.

Two days earlier, on Saturday, Aug. 15, Tyler’s coffin will be brought back to her home in Mumbles at 3:30 p.m. BST. Members of the public have been invited to line Newton Road from 3:15 p.m. BST to pay their respects as the procession passes through.

Following the Swansea service, Tyler will make a final journey through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, the village where she grew up before her unmistakable voice carried her from local club stages to international fame. The procession is expected to travel through Skewen at approximately 1:20 p.m. BST before a private family service.

Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins, died July 8 at age 75 in a hospital in Portugal, where she had been receiving treatment for an ongoing illness. In a statement previously shared on her official website, her family said she “unexpectedly passed away” as a result of the illness for which she was being treated.

The funeral notice remembered Tyler as “a warm, generous artist whose music touched generations and continues to fill dance floors and karaoke booths around the world.”

“Her legacy lives on in the timeless songs that made her a legend,” the notice added.

That legacy is closely tied to one of the most recognizable voices in pop-rock: a smoky, weathered rasp that gave “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” “It’s a Heartache” and “Holding Out for a Hero” their dramatic force. Tyler’s songs became staples not only of radio and concert stages, but of karaoke nights, dance floors, film soundtracks and decades of pop culture singalongs.

Her signature hit, “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1983. Written and produced by Jim Steinman, the power ballad appeared on Tyler’s fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night, and became one of the defining pop-rock recordings of the decade.

Tyler also found lasting success with “It’s a Heartache” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” the latter of which appeared on the Footloose soundtrack and became one of her most enduring anthems.

Across a career spanning more than five decades, Tyler released 18 studio albums, represented the United Kingdom at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with “Believe in Me,” and was made an MBE in 2023 for services to music.

Her family has requested family flowers only. Those wishing to honor Tyler’s memory have been asked to donate to Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales and Cerebral Palsy Cymru, two charities for which she served as patron.

Rick Ross stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast recently for a Patreron exclusive episode released today, and was asked by Budden why he and Drake don’t tell the public that their supposed friendship and working relationship was a “facade” this entire time. “Why y’all don’t ever say, ‘Yo, all that brotherhood S—t that we was showing y’all in the videos, and how we was carrying it, and it was collabs every summer, it was all a facade,” Budden questioned.

Ross pushed back and denied that his relationship with Drake wasn’t real and suggested that sometimes friendships fizzle out for one reason or another. “No, no, don’t get it f—ked up. Nothing about that was fake,” the Miami rapper replied. “If a n—a f—k with you, a n—a f—k with you,” he continued. “If it’s something that go left, that’s when it go left. It can go left right now on this podcast. It wasn’t fake. Before that, n—as showing love.” Budden countered by suggesting that their falling out doesn’t make sense, telling Ross, “But when we hear what happened, it don’t connect.”

Rozay further explained that sometimes things just happen that way. “Some things are not to be looking for the connection,” he replied before bringing up Budden’s own notorious falling out with former co-hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay. “That’s like me looking for the connection between the last weird n—as you used to do the podcast with. You loved them n—as, didn’t you? That’s business. You moved on. That’s what you got to do as a boss. You wish all them n—as the best if it ain’t no real pressure. Continue to do you, keep winning. But once it go left, it go left.”

Rick Ross dropped his 12th solo album Set in Stone today (July 17) and is in the middle of his Port of Miami 20th Anniversary Tour. Billboard went down to South Florida to check out the tour’s opening night. You can check that out below.

After Beyoncé’s “Morning Dew” surprise drop lit up last week’s roundup, Gracie Abrams leads this week’s New Music Friday Guide with Daughter From Hell, her moody third studio album. Introduced by the singles “Hit the Wall” and “Look At My Life,” Daughter From Hell finds the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter reuniting with longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner, while also adding Dan Nigro to the mix.

Between new releases from Grammy-winning reggae and dancehall legend Buju Banton (Too Too Bad), Teflon Don aka Rick Ross (Set in Stone), Afro-house artist Francis Mercier (Lakay), Mexican singer Oscar Maydon (Música en mi Jetski) and The Internet alums Steve Lacy (Oh Yeah?) and Syd (Beard), it’s a particularly packed week for new albums,

Other notable projects arriving this New Music Friday include Mariah Carey (Daydream – 30th Anniversary Edition), Masego (Fix Your Face), Foreigner (In the Eye of the Storm), Waylon Wyatt (Dustpiles), Niko Moon (ROOTS), Mudbaby Ru (Out the Mood), Mike Posner (Crazy Rainbow – EP), Daughtry (There And Back Again), BackRoad Gee (Live in the Flesh), Icewear Vezzo (Rich Off Pints 4), Rome Streetz (Sock It 2 My Pocket) and Nao Yoshioka (self).

Over on the singles side, pop music fave Carly Rae Jepsen leads the way with “After All,” a scintillating taste of the Night side of her forthcoming Day and Night double album. “Iloveitiloveitiloveit” breakout star Bella Kay also shared “I Deserve Better,” a poignant cut from her excellent debut album My Reckless Abandon, which dropped on July 12.

Berlin’s Marlon Hoffstadt dropped his kickdrum-anchored “Get Buck,” Carly Pearce joined forces with Molly Tuttle and Dan Tyminski for “What If You Loved Me,” ascendant Texas rockers Dexter and The Moonrocks shared “If You Could Talk” and country singer-songwriter Wyatt McCubbin released his harmonica-laced “Andy Griffith.”

This New Music Friday also features new tracks from Saucy Santana (“Quiet on the Creek”), Tinashe (“Crash Out”), Kelly Clarkson (“I’d Be Lyin”), Lil Baby (“Dead Fresh”), Pentatonix (“Sacrifice”), Meshell Ndegeocello & Cynthia Erivo (“I Knew You Were Waiting”), Leon Bridges (“Light the Way”), Lauren Alaina & Kane Brown (“Never Been In Love”), Roy Woods (“Brunch”) and Armanii (“World Class”).

Which new release this week is your favorite? Vote — or share your own pick — in Billboard‘s New Music Friday poll below.

Lil Wayne is entering the podcast space. Weezy will be teaming up with WFAN radio host Craig Carton for The Joint Venture, which will air weekly episodes starting on July 22.

The New Orleans rap legend and Carton are set to record the first episode with a live podcast taping at Fanatics Fest NYC on Sunday (July 19) featuring guests like former New York Jets star Darrelle Revis, ex-New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire and New York Giants Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning.

“The best podcasts feel like you just kicking it with your people, talking the same way you do when nobody’s listening,” Wayne, who previously hosted Young Money Radio on Apple Music, said in a statement. “I’ma light one up with the homie Craig and we gonna talk our sh-t about whatever the day brings. You never know who’s gonna pull up or where the conversation’s gonna go.”

Wayne and Carton seem like an unlikely duo, but the pair have been friends for years. As a massive fan of the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Lakers, Weezy can talk sports just as easily as he can spit a verse.

Craig Carton actually had Lil Wayne on his WFAN radio show in March, where Carton called him the “biggest sports fan” he knows.

“There’s nothing better than swapping takes with Wayne on sports, pop culture and a whole host of other topics,” Carton added in a statement. “The Joint Venture show gives us a great excuse to keep doing what we’ve been doing for years, while also having some famous friends stop by and chop it up with us. There’s no better job in the world.”

Before heading to Fanatics Fest NYC, Lil Wayne will continue his tour celebrating 20 years of Tha Carter on Friday (July 17) with a show in Chicago. Weezy’s last album, Tha Carter VI, arrived in June 2025 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Icons only! The Rolling Stones cover the latest issue of Billboard, talking about the special guests on their new album Foreign Tongues, thoughts about AI in music, their studio dynamic and more.

For the cover story, I sat down with Mick Jagger at a poolside garden in London and Keith Richards at the Django Jazz Club in Manhattan some 48 hours later. The interviews covered a lot of ground, and there’s only so much room in a magazine cover story – there were a lot of great things they talked about that we just didn’t have space to run in print.

Below, check out a few newsy, fascinating and distinctly Stonesy bits that didn’t make the cover story: you can watch some of these exchanges on YouTube, but a couple of them don’t appear anywhere else but here.

Keeping It Analog

Before the cameras started rolling, Jagger pointed to our film crew and three-camera setup and commented, “Lots of people on set. God, I remember when Billboard was an interview with a notepad.” That prompted me to hold aloft my little red notepad, which I’d actually picked up from London’s Design Museum the previous day. (I wanted to check out an exhibit devoted to Wes Anderson, a filmmaker who coincidentally has done a few Stones needle drops throughout his oeuvre.) “You do have the notepad!” Mick beamed. “So you’re a traditionalist.”

Speaking of traditionalists, Richards, in his interview, revealed he doesn’t even own a cellphone and doesn’t appreciate “the idea of being permanently available for everybody to call up when they feel like it. Nobody thinks, ‘You know, that’s damn rude — he might be writing a song, doing something else.’” I put forth a pretty believable hypothetical: “You got your manager sitting over there [off camera]. Jane [Rose] wants to get in touch with you, how does that happen?” His sly reply: “Well, it doesn’t.” After the interview, Rose took me aside and told me one word: “Landline.”

Covering Amy Winehouse

Talking about their surprisingly effective cover of Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good” on Foreign Tongues, Jagger said, “We were looking for a good song to cover from a female vocalist, and we were thinking of early people, and then we said, ‘Let’s do something a bit more recent.’ We alighted on that song. I always liked that song. I could have written it, you know what I mean? Almost. I felt that I could have written that song, because it’s like a minor-key harmonica lead. I just copied the horn lead and played it on harmonica, so it felt very organic.”

“Loved the song. Always thought that Amy was a sad story in many ways, but she was one of the best to come out of England, and probably had so much more potential,” said Richards of Winehouse, whom the Stones shared the stage with at Isle of Wight Festival in 2007 for a cover of the Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” (which the Stones recorded on their 1974 album It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll). “I’m not sure who kicked the idea off, whether it was Mick or Andrew [Watt, producer], but we said, ‘Well, you know, we used to, we started off, we were a cover band, basically, so if there’s one you wanted to cover now, what would it be?’ And Amy came out on top.”

Prejudices Against Singers in Hollywood

While interviewing Jagger, I ran something by him that Werner Herzog told Playboy in 2012. For context: Jagger was initially attached to the legendary director’s 1982 masterpiece Fitzcarraldo — in fact, Herzog began filming Fitzcarraldo with Jason Robards as the lead character and Mick Jagger playing his assistant, but Robards became so ill during the famously troubled Peruvian production that he had to drop out of the film. By the time the film was set to résumé with a new star (the mercurial Klaus Kinski), Jagger had to leave for a tour with the Stones; Herzog wrote his character, Wilbur, out of the script. (Herzog’s 1999 documentary My Best Fiend includes footage of Jagger acting with Robards.)

“Jagger is a tragic gap in the history of film,” Herzog told Playboy. “He hasn’t been praised enough as someone who could have been a great actor.”

“Could have been,” noted the ever-alert Jagger, laughing. I asked him if he wished he had more time to pursue acting back in the day.

“Yeah,” Jagger replied. “The thing is, I think if it was now, in this time frame, I would have been able to act a lot more, because there’s not the prejudice against singers. In fact, they take advantage of using the fame of someone in a film. Whereas in the days when I started acting, all the people in film hated you, and it was impossible to get a role — it just wasn’t the thing. Also, they didn’t use music in films either, hardly at all. Now we take it for granted; there’s music almost all the time. So now it’s much easier for singers to get acting parts, but in those days it was impossible. Yeah, it would have been nice to have done more,” he concluded, adding, “Thanks, Werner.”

When I mentioned his phenomenal performance in the 1970 film Performance, he noted, “It was such a long time ago. But I just did a cameo in a silent, black-and-white movie, The Three Incestuous Sisters with three famous actresses [Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley]. It was fun. I was playing a lighthouse keeper. I didn’t have any lines, because it’s a silent film — I didn’t have to worry about the lines.”

What’s Next, Musically — Maybe

“Yes, there’s loads,” Richards said when I asked him if there were songs left over from Foreign Tongues, an album that grew out of leftovers from Hackney Diamonds. “With every record it seems to spawn more than you actually want. All in different states of readiness. You say, ‘This one’s going to take a lot of work, put it on the back burner.’ Others that have just been lying around for ages as a basic idea, and it’s never quite clicked. And then you turn a corner, and there you are — suddenly that other piece you’ve been looking for, and you go, ‘That’s where you are. That’s why I waited.’”

Right before we wrapped, I asked Richards if he might ever do another solo effort, a follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Crosseyed Heart. “Talking to [drummer] Steve Jordan about that the other day,” he shared. “Not a bad idea.”

Twenty One Pilots are gearing up for one more visit to the site of their biggest live triumph. The Columbus, Ohio-bred duo announced on Thursday (July 16) that fans will get another chance to watch their IMAX concert film, Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined, beginning on Aug. 8, with streaming provided by Kiswe.

The band will also host an online watch party on Aug. 8 that will feature Q&A with singer Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun after the screening to discuss the movie that was shot in front of a sold-out crowd of 65,000 at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on the band’s 2024-2025 world tour. The special screening will allow fans to watch the film simultaneously and take part in interactive features, including a live chat. Tickets for the screening are available now; to buy tickets for the watch party click here. Following the watch party, the film, which opened in theaters worldwide on Feb. 26, will be available for on-demand purchase until Aug. 22.

In addition, 21P are releasing an accompanying live concert album, More Than We Ever Imagined (Live in Mexico City), which will be available on all DSPs on Aug. 7. The album is available for pre-order now in several limited-edition formats, including a Digipak CD, a 2LP red vinyl in a gatefold jacket and a deluxe photo book edition double-LP. The deluxe edition is a hardcover photobook with oversized accordion-fold pages with live photography and artwork, as well as a collection of oversized prints.

21P will bring it all back home on Oct. 17 with a show at Columbus’ Ohio Stadium featuring Death Cab For Cutie in front of 62,000 fans, marking the biggest U.S. headline show of their career. The duo are currently on the road on an international festival run that includes July and August dates in Europe and a late-summer/fall round in North and South America that will hit: Osheaga in Montreal (July 31), Sommo Festival in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island (Sept. 11), Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Sept. 13), Shaky Knees in Atlanta (Sept. 19), Oceans Calling in Ocean City, Md. (Sept. 26), Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas (Oct. 4 and 11), and Corona Capital in Mexico City (Nov. 21).

Check out the More Than We Ever Imagined (Live in Mexico City) tracklist below:

1. Overcompensate

2. Holding On To You

3. Car Radio

4. Tear In My Heart

5. Shy Away

6. Heathens

7. Next Semester

8. Routines In The Night

9. The Line

10. Mulberry Street

11. Navigating

12. Nico And The Niners

13. Heavydirtysoul

14. Guns For Hands

15. Lavish

16. Ride

17. Paladin Strait

18. Jumpsuit

19. Midwest Indigo

20. Stressed Out

21. Trees

The Cure’s Robert Smith is not looking forward to the Chris Martin-curated half-time show at Sunday’s (July 19) FIFA World Cup final. For the first time in its history, the final will feature a half-time show, which runs to 11 minutes of the allotted 15-minute break. Broadcasters, however, expect the total half-time break to potentially run to 30 minutes, a violation of FIFA’s own rules.

The move has been roundly criticized as has the introduction of “hydration breaks” during the first and second halves, with fans often booing the breaks in the stadium.

Ahead of the match-up between Argentina and Spain for the trophy at the New York/New Jersey Stadium, Smith has blasted the show – set to feature BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira and Madonna – and FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino in a pair of posts on The Cure’s official Instagram profile.

Sharing a description of the event alongside his own commentary, Smith’s caption reads: “The half-time show, which has been curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, will feature Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira and the K‑pop boyband BTS. Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantosser, has described the half-time show as ‘groundbreaking spectacle’ that will ‘celebrate football, music and our shared values, ensuring a legacy that transcends the final whistle.’ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH… #Breadandcircuses #MUGWANK #pleasejustf–koff.”

A few hours later, Smith clarified that while he was not criticizing the artists themselves, he was disdainful of the show as a concept and the fact that President Trump will be on hand alongside Infantino to award the winner the coveted trophy.

He added, “sigh… FOR THOSE OF US NOT QUITE GETTING IT: THE POINT IS NOT R E A L L Y ABOUT W H O IS CURATING OR PERFORMING, IT IS ABOUT THE #MUGWANK I D E A OF A FOOTBALL WORLD CUP FINAL HALF TIME SHOW… IF YOU NOW UNDERSTAND MY ‘AAAAAAAGH!’ A BIT BETTER, BUT STILL DON’T AGREE, PLEASE ADJUST YOUR RED CAP, YOUR ‘I 🖤 JANNY + DONNY + $$$’ TSHIRT AND… KNOCK YOURSELF OUT? ONWARDS… RSX PS. “Infantosser has said he and US president Trumpton will small hand over trophy on Sunday”. SADLY, THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH A’S LEFT FOR THE ‘ARGH’ THAT SHOULD FOLLOW… #breadandcircuses #pleasejustf–koff #f–kfifa #justlookup.”

Smith is a longtime fan of west London team Queens Park Rangers. On Wednesday (July 17), England crashed out of the tournament following a 2-1 defeat to Argentina, with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger caught on camera expressing his disappointment. 

The Cure is currently touring through Europe on a festival run with their next show set to take place on Friday (July 17) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.