Only a madwoman could pull together these disparate talents for a music video.
Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Laufey dropped the new music video for her single “Madwoman” on Monday (April 13), and it is truly a star-studded affair. The Slim Aarons-inspired video features breakout actor Hudson Williams from Heated Rivalry, Lola Tung of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Olympic champion Alysa Liu and Megan Skiendiel of KATSEYE.
Williams plays the heartthrob and Laufey’s purported love interest while Liu, Tung and Skiendiel portray the singer’s friends. The video begins with the group convening at a mansion for a pool day, during which they’re served cocktails by a gaggle of butlers. The four women are all dressed in bright-colored retro outfits while Williams spends much of the video shirtless in swim trunks—commanding the attention of everyone at the shindig, including the butlers.
After a dance break and group choreography number, the video transitions to nighttime where Williams and Laufey feign being a happy duo for the cameras but are clearly in the middle of a couple’s spat. Later on, Williams proposes to a conflicted Laufey who fake smiles through the moment as her friends look on and clap. Laufey attempts to escape the situation when everyone at the engagement party but her suddenly freezes. Unfortunately, her escape plan is thwarted and she finds herself back at the house where her friends, with blank eyes and robotic smiles on their faces, creepily welcome her back inside where Williams awaits.
Laufey purposefully built the “Madwoman” cast exclusively with Asian and Asian American stars, citing a desire for greater representation. Asian American actresses Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms) and Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies) even appear on the cover of magazines read by the video’s cast.
“Growing up, I felt a general lack of representation for people who looked like me in music and media. With the ‘Madwoman’ video, I wanted to be that representation,” says Laufey, who is Icelandic and Chinese, in a press statement on the video’s release. “The result is what honestly feels like my absolute dream video and exactly what younger Laufey would have loved to see.”
The Asian and Asian American representation also extends beyond the cast: the music video was directed by Warren Fu, known for working with Dua Lipa, The 1975 and others, with Evaline Wu Huang serving as production designer and Andrew Truong as DP.
“Madwoman” is a single from A Matter of Time: The Final Hour, the deluxe version of Laufey’s Grammy-winning album A Matter of Time. The music video comes after Laufey made her full-set Coachella debut on Saturday (April 11), where she also live debuted the track.
Watch the “Madwoman” music video below.
Justin Bieber’s 2026 Coachella set is generating buzz among his fellow music stars.
The 32-year-old pop superstar headlined the festival’s main stage in Indio, California, on Saturday night (April 11) with a hit-filled set that took festival-goers on a stroll down memory lane as he also showcased some of his early YouTube videos.
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“Thank God he has Premium. I don’t wanna see no ads,” Katy Perry joked in an Instagram video she posted while watching Bieber’s set from the crowd.
Perry, who wore a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “Pls don’t give me a rip off your vape no matter what I say,” attended weekend one of Coachella with her boyfriend, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The “Teenage Dream” hitmaker wasn’t the only artist to react to Bieber’s YouTube-fueled segment. Zara Larsson also shared a TikTok — seemingly filmed on her tour bus — showing her watching a livestream of Bieber’s set as he played old videos on his laptop for the audience.
“It’s giving lets smoke and watch YouTube,” Larsson wrote in the clip, where her friends can be seen watching a video of Bieber showing off his viral “double rainbow all the way” video.
“He’s in my dream blunt rotation,” the Swedish pop star captioned the post.
Bieber spent roughly 25 minutes of his Coachella headlining set going down an internet rabbit hole, pulling up once-viral clips such as “Deez Nuts” and “Double Rainbow.” He also played a string of his early hits, singing along to snippets of “Baby,” “That Should Be Me” and “Never Say Never,” as their music videos filled the screen behind him. The pop star then took it all the way back, playing the video that launched his career: his “With You” cover from 2008.
Bieber will return for Coachella’s second weekend on April 18. Check out Billboard’s full review of his opening-weekend headlining set here.
KATSEYE can check off a big accomplishment from their bucket list: performing at Coachella.
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The K-pop girl group — currently a five-piece (Daniela, Lara, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae) while bandmate Manon is on a temporary hiatus — chatted with Billboard the day after their first time playing the iconic music festival in Indio, Calif., Friday night (April 10).
“It was electric,” Lara tells Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly of KATSEYE’s time on the Sahara Stage. “Our dreams came true last night. You know, every interview, if you’ve ever asked our biggest goal it was playing Coachella. We achieved that last night. so I think it’s so much gratitude.”
“It was bonkers,” she adds, as seen in video of KATSEYE’s full interview, seen above. “We went crazy.”
One of the headline-making moments of KATSEYE’s Coachella set: welcoming surprise guests HUNTR/X to their stage for a joint performance of the massive Kpop Demon Hunters hit “Golden.”
Yoonchae was quick to tell Billboard what the experience was like from their perspective: “I was so happy to bring HUNTR/X to our Coachella stage. They were really, really nice. They were so sweet. When we started to sing ‘Golden,’ we saw a lot of the crowd was screaming — they were so excited. I was so happy about that.”
“It’s really beautiful to have a joint slay on the stage at Coachella,” Sophia chimes in.
Perhaps the biggest personal moment for KATSEYE at Coachella was the group’s live debut of “Pinky Up,” the brand-new hyper-pop single they dropped just before performing it on the big stage. (The song is their first release without Manon.)
“We absolutely love, love, love the song,” Daniela says. “To perform it for the very first time, debut it at Coachella, was fire. I looked back at the videos and I was like, ‘Guys, we ate that.’ Especially the dance break. The crowd went wild.”
Megan adds of the track, “I think it’s one of our favorites. It’s very hard-hitting, something that makes us feel confident. I think it’s probably pretty high up there.”
“Pinky Up,” the new single from global girl group KATSEYE, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.
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Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (April 10) on Billboard, choosing the five-piece’s latest song — their first to be released while member Manon is on hiatus — as their favorite new release of the week.
“Pinky Up” rose to the top in a week that saw new music streaming in from Lady Gaga and Doechii, Tiny Habits, The Strokes and more. At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, KATSEYE had earned 50% of the vote.
KATSEYE’s high-energy, hyper-pop new single — written by Justin Tranter and produced by dwilly, “hitman” bang and FRANTS — was accompanied by a dance-ready music video directed by Bardia Zeinali.
“Pinky Up” also got its live debut this week at Coachella, where the group performed Friday night.
“We absolutely love, love, love the song,” Daniela told Billboard on Saturday following KATSEYE’s show at the Indio, Calif., festival. “To perform it for the very first time, debut it at Coachella, was fire. I looked back at the videos and I was like, ‘Guys, we ate that.’ Especially the dance break. The crowd went wild.”
Megan added, “I think it’s one of our favorites. It’s very hard-hitting, something that makes us feel confident. I think it’s probably pretty high up there.”
Among the new releases trailing behind “Pinky Up” are Lady Gaga and Doechii’s “Runway,” with 12% of the vote, and Tiny Habits’ “Right in Front of Me,” with 10% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
Britney Spears has voluntarily entered a treatment facility, Billboard has learned.
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A representative for the pop star confirmed to Billboard on Sunday (April 12) that Spears checked herself in, but did not specify the reason.
No further details were provided by Spears’ rep at press time.
TMZ reports the singer entered rehab for substance abuse treatment.
Spears’ decision to check herself into a treatment facility comes just over a month after a DUI arrest.
Spears was arrested for suspicion of a DUI on March 4 in Ventura County, Calif. She was booked by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office and released from custody the following morning, March 5.
“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” Spears’ rep said in a statement to Billboard following the arrest. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
Her rep added, “Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well-being.”
Though Spears hasn’t commented on the incident herself, on March 27 the star returned to Instagram with a dance clip — alongside her 19-year-old son, Jayden Federline — to show appreciation to her fans, writing: “Thank you guys for all your support… spending time with family and friends is such a blessing. Stay kind !!!”
In a more recent post on Instagram, amid more dance videos, Spears shared a stil snapshot of herself with the caption, “When peeps try to make you larger than life… tell them to BOW if I ever showed them the fragility of my real heart.”
Sabrina Carpenter has addressed online chatter regarding her reaction to a loud, high-pitched cheer from the crowd during her Coachella performance Friday night (April 10).
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The pop star seemingly wasn’t aware that it was the trilling vocal sound known as a Zaghrouta, a chant common to various cultures that’s meant to honor and celebrate. (Music fans might recall Shakira expressed herself this way amid her 2020 Super Bowl halftime show, while wagging her tongue at the camera ahead of singing “Hips Don’t Lie.” Shakira, who is half Colombian and half Lebanese, was paying homage to her Middle Eastern roots.)
During the Coachella livestream and in video recordings circulating the internet of Carpenter on stage Friday in Indio, Calif., the Man’s Best Friend singer was seen sitting at the piano with a confused expression on her face upon hearing the sound, and heard saying, “I don’t like it.”
When someone in the crowd loudly called out, “It’s my culture!” Carpenter retorted, “That’s your culture, yodeling?” before adding, “Is this Burning Man? What’s going on? This is weird.”
On Saturday, Carpenter followed up on the comments she’d made on stage.
“my apologies i didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly,” Carpenter wrote in reply to a post on X that accused the artist of reacting in a way that was “insensitive and Islamophobic.”
The pop star continued: “my reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended.”
“could have handled it better!” she said. “now i know what a Zaghrouta is! I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out.”
A Zaghrouta is often used by women in the Middle East and North Africa as a way to express joy, and — as explained by the educational resource Arab America — is “best described in English as ‘ululation.’ It is a form of a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound representing trills of joy. It is produced by emitting a high-pitched loud voice accompanied by a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue.”
Carpenter headlined night one of the first weekend of Coachella 2026 on Friday. The lead slot comes just two years after the her debut performance at the annual festival — the time when she accurately predicted, “Coachella, see you back here when I headline” in an ad-libbed lyrical outro to her song “Nonsense.” Since then, she’s released two Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, 2024’s Short n’ Sweet and 2025’s Man’s Best Friend.
As Bruno Mars took the stage at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on April 10 to peel back the red velvet curtain on his 77-city, nine-country The Romantic Tour, he celebrated a day packed with more milestones than most artists achieve in an entire career. The spectacle of accolades included a parade courtesy of MGM Resorts, home to his record-breaking residency; a day and street named in his honor; the key to the city; a state flag from the governor; a pop-up merch shop with icon Hello Kitty; the launch of his first American football stadium tour, and a new title, “The King of Las Vegas,” among other honors.
At the first of two Las Vegas nights, the lights dimmed just before 9 p.m. The sold-out crowd was beckoned into the church of Mars via a video intro, where the evening’s spiritual leader (Mars) — a lone Romantic kneeling in prayer — casts a blessing over the audience, vowing to protect all who have entered this sacred space and promising to give the city a show “it would never forget.”
As the stage blazed into view, Mars emerged from a fragmented glow of prismatic stained glass — embedded with a single allegorical red rose — a man on a mission, ready to “Risk It All” for romance.
Choosing to open with “Risk It All,” the second single from Mars’ 2026 album The Romantic, is a surprising move — a ballad in a slot typically reserved for a big bang. But it immediately established the night’s emotional thesis: all-or-nothing love, played out in sweeping highs and funky (not-so) lows. That sense of frenzy and fever became the throughline of a cinematic concert experience that unfolded across the full 26-song set list.
Mars is a flawless performer, from his vocal range to his musical artistry and showmanship. In the live setting, he locked into his character, audience and band in a way that transcended his four albums, taking fans on an interstellar ride through his musical canon.
Here are the best moments from opening night.
Zac Brown Band now has something in common with Carrie Underwood and Lenny Kravitz.
The three-time Grammy Award-winning southern rock band will star in the opening for NBC’s Sunday night coverage of Major League Baseball.
The band’s opening segment will debut on Sunday (April 12) when the Atlanta Braves host the Cleveland Guardians in the first “Sunday Night Baseball” game on NBC.
“It’s humbling, honestly, to have our band’s name mentioned in the same breath as theirs in this context means a lot. We’ve spent many years just trying to make music that connects with people, and something like this tells you that it’s reaching further than you ever imagined,” Brown said in an email to The Associated Press.
Zac Brown Band sings a reimagined version of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Karn Evil 9, 1st Impression Part 2.”
NBC Sports creative director Tripp Dixon said the song resonated because it features an organ and the first line is “Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.”
The majors has often been referred to as “The Show.”
“Those were the two elements we felt like, holy cow, that sounds like something to build this idea around,” he said.
All three also carry the theme of “waiting all day for Sunday night.”
Underwood has done the “Sunday Night Football” opening since 2013, a reimagined take on Joan Jett’s 1988 song “I Hate Myself for Loving You”. Kravitz’s opening to “Sunday Night Basketball” uses Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation,” which came out in 1968.
The “Sunday Night Baseball” opening was shot in Milwaukee last month. A couple of seconds were featured on NBC’s opening night broadcast between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers.
“It was one of those experiences where you step back and think, how did we get here? We put everything we had into the performance and then watching it come together with the visuals, the production, it took on a whole new life,” Brown said. “The folks at NBC Sports really understood the energy we were going for. It felt like a genuine collaboration, and when I finally saw the finished product, I was really proud.”
While Dixon had more than a year to think about a “Sunday Night Basketball” open, brainstorming about baseball didn’t begin in earnest until last November, when Major League Baseball and NBC agreed to a three-year deal for Sunday night games and the wild-card round of the playoffs.
“Selfishly, it’s been just a really a fun challenge. But in terms of working with somebody, I think just not only just a familiar song, but we’d worked with Zac in a limited capacity about six years ago when he did a Thursday night tease for us on Thanksgiving,” Dixon said.
“I think just in terms of his music and trying to bring people together, it just felt like really the right fit in terms of letting them put their own spin on a classic.”
“It was a very ambitious, tight schedule. We didn’t have a lot of time to put it together, but you wouldn’t know it from what Zac came back with in terms of a song and a performance.”
After Sunday’s game, the next six weeks will be on Peacock and NBCSN before NBC takes over from May 31 through Sept. 6.
This week’s game also carries special significance for Brown, who grew up in Georgia and followed the Braves.
“Man, that is not lost on me at all. I’m a Georgia boy through and through, so having this debut on a night when the Braves are playing, that’s the kind of thing you just can’t script. Our fans know how much Atlanta means to us. To have this moment tied to our team, in our home state, it really does make it feel full circle,” he said.
Three years after lighting up the stage at Barclays Center for his first tour, Jackson Wang partied it up once more at the iconic Brooklyn, New York, venue on Friday (April 10). Not only was it a night full of explosive fun, but it also brought Wang’s own interesting psyche into focus.
The concert comes nearly a year after the release of his third solo album, MAGIC MAN 2. Wang previously talked to Billboard about how he took a year off to gather his thoughts on where he stood as an artist, but more importantly, as a human. Using his alter ego of MAGIC MAN, he explored who he really was inside — from the dark and gritty experiences of the music industry that he went through as a member of GOT7 and a solo artist, to perpetual vulnerability and ultimately, recognizing and accepting of all those complicated feelings.
“I wish I could find peace,” Wang’s raw vocals reverberated throughout the arena as he sang “Everything.” “In my mind where the doubt and the pain intertwine/ I don’t know if the life that I’m living is mine.”
The 32-year-old singer constantly proves to be an outstanding performer and creative visionary throughout all of his solo projects. While his previous two albums are deeply personal, what he cares about the most is making his fans happy.
On Friday night, Wang declared that the tour would be a form of escapism for all the attendees. He imparted some words of wisdom in a chaotic time, “The world is crazy right now. Everyone is stressed. I want you guys to treat yourselves better. [Being] selfish is not a bad thing,” before getting real with the crowd, “Sorry that this concert isn’t as commercial as you thought.”
Check out the seven best moments from Jackson Wang’s Brooklyn concert below.
Bruno Mars kicked off The Romantic Tour on Friday night (April 10) with a sold-out show in front of more than 60,000 fans packing Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
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The pop supernova lived up to his billing as the King of Las Vegas entertainment as he ran through his plethora of smash hits within a 25-track setlist, which included five songs with his Silk Sonic running mate, Anderson .Paak, who joined him midway through the show.
If there’s one thing Sin City knows how to do, it’s throw a party. Friday was an all-day celebration for Bruno Mars ahead of his Romantic Tour launch.
“Bruno Mars isn’t just a global superstar; he’s one of the most electrifying performers of our time, and over the past decade, he’s become an integral part of Las Vegas,” said Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and president of MGM Resorts International, in a statement. “From his early performances at Bellagio and MGM Grand to his record‑setting residency at Dolby Live, Bruno has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors and has created the kind of unforgettable, ‘only in Vegas’ moments that define this city. It’s only fitting that we help launch his world tour here today as we honor his extraordinary impact on Las Vegas and the energy he brings to our community.”
Bruno started the day in style with a ride down the Strip in a vintage convertible for a parade honoring his contributions to the Las Vegas entertainment scene, as April 10 was renamed to Bruno Mars Day in Sin City.
The Grammy-winning artist was given the key to the Las Vegas Strip, while Park Avenue outside Park MGM was renamed to Bruno Mars Drive. He joins a decorated group to receive the honor, which includes Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin.
As Las Vegas has been a lucrative endeavor for Bruno, he made sure to give back to the community. The singer-songwriter pledged a $1 million donation to the future Intermountain Health Nevada Children’s Hospital.
The Romantic Tour continues on Saturday night (April 11) when Bruno Mars returns to the Allegiant Stadium stage for another cinematic performance. It’s the 40-year-old’s first trek in nearly a decade and his first time taking over North American stadiums.
Bruno’s The Romantic album arrived in February and debuted atop the Billboard 200 — his second No. 1 — with 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending March 5, according to Luminate.