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.
Stephen Colbert isn’t going quietly off the airwaves. No, the venerated late-night talkshow host is going out with a series of bangs, including a late-night performance by Foo Fighters on Wednesday, and more recently The Strokes.
On Thursday night (May 14), the indie rockers set the tempo to cool for their Late Show premiere of “Falling Out of Love.” On set, Julian Casablancas and his bandmates enjoyed their own, personal stages, each of them lit and outlined with lasers, all of it set against a backdrop of classic stock images of the United States, its small towns, bright lights and natural delights.
With its unusual, heavily Auto-tuned vocals, “Falling Out of Love” is the second cut for the New Yorkers’ forthcoming seventh studio album Reality Awaits, due out on June 26, their first since 2020’s The New Abnormal.
The band will march on with their Reality Awaits 2026 tour, which gets underway June 12 at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee and wraps up Sept. 20 at Sea.Hear.Now Festival in New Jersey.
After North America, the global jaunt will visit the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America and Japan. While on the road, the band will stop by for multiple nights at Red Rocks, London’s The O2, plus Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, Paris’ Accor Arena, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and more. Support acts will include Thundercat, Cage the Elephant, Hamilton Leithauser, Fat White Family, The Garden, Alex Cameron, Geordie Greep, Promiseland and ÖLÜM.
“Falling out of Love” follows “Going Shopping,” the first single from Reality Awaits, which was recorded in Costa Rica with producer Rick Rubin and finished in studios around the world.
Colbert is in his last stretch in charge of The Late Show, which CBS is pulling the plug on due to what the network has described as “a purely financial” decision. The Strokes are among an elite lineup of final guests, including Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, President Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, and a special gathering of late-night hosts: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver.
The series finale airs May 21 on CBS at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT.
Watch The Strokes’ performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert below.
As Drake’s now-enemy LeBron James once said at his memorable opening press conference when he joined the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010: “Not one, not two, not three….”
But yes, while fans expected one album, Iceman, to arrive on Friday (May 15), Drake pulled a rabbit out of his hat and released three LPs as Habibti and Maid of Honour joined Iceman for a sprawling 43 tracks combined.
Prior to the albums’ arrival, Drake hosted episode 4 of his Iceman livestream on his YouTube channel, which played out more as a visual album for Iceman lasting about 75 minutes Thursday night (May 14).
Shot across Toronto, Drake recruited some friends to make cameos, including comedian Shane Gillis, DJ Akademiks and his son, Adonis.
The stream kicks off with Iceman‘s introspective opener “Make Them Cry,” which finds Drake wasting no time addressing the scars from 2024’s battle with Kendrick Lamar.
“What died back in 2024 was a big piece/ So it’s like this s–t 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 raps as an Iceman truck cruises down the highway.
Later on in the track, Drake also revealed that his father, Dennis Graham, is currently battling cancer. “My dad got cancer right now/ We battling stages/ Trust me when I say there’s things I’d rather be facing,” he admits.
DJ Akademiks enters the picture, hosting a radio show and making all sorts of claims backing up Drake. It’s pretty similar to what you’d hear from him on his own stream, saying Drake takes up all five slots of his top five and so on.
Aligning with the 6 God paid off for Ak, who starred in the livestream and picked up an iced-out OVO owl chain courtesy of Drake.
Moving through Iceman, Shane Gillis makes an appearance as a police officer with Adonis, Drake is shown as a mob boss with his crew in front of a government building, then walking through the snow, as bloodshed is left in his wake.
The First Lady of Toronto Chromazz joins Drizzy as part of the visual album, while Drake also shows off his fleet of exotic cherry red sports cars.
The reunion everyone hoped to see, as Drake and his What a Time to Be Alive running mate, Future, put their issues aside to reconcile. They join forces alongside emerging rapper Molly Santana — or the new Hannah Montana — for “Ran to Atlanta” (a possible nod to Kendrick’s lyrics on “Not Like Us”) and the music video appears on the stream.
“Me and Hendrix back by popular demand,” Drake raps. Military Hummers and strippers using poles surround Drizzy. The clip continues to flicker between neon-blue light and thermal effects and back to normal.
Drake throws a party for his OVO crew as “Burning Bridges” plays, which appears to find him jabbing at A$AP Rocky. “Your baby momma ain’t even post a single, damn, where she at,” he raps, before later adding. “You saw my brother, you was tryna fix it, now you drop your album and you back dissing.”
There’s plenty of smoke to go around on the menacing “Make Them Pay,” which finds Rick Ross and DJ Khaled in his crosshairs, who Drake addresses by name. He also seemingly calls out J. Cole and says “f–k a big three.”
“Dog, I was aiding Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed,” Drake fires at Rozay, who has had plenty to say about Drake on his book tour this week.
DJ Khaled and Drake also had a falling out dating back to 2024, and Drizzy lands a haymaker, putting Khaled on blast for not speaking up about Palestine.
“And Khaled, you know what I mean/ The beef was fully live, you went halal, and got on your deen/ And your people are still waitin’ for a Free Palestine/ But apparently, everything isn’t black and white and red and green,” he spews.
Previous leaks such as “National Treasures,” sans Pressa and “1 AM in Albany,” which has been renamed to “Make Them Remember,” make the cut on Iceman. 2025’s “What Did I Miss?” also stuck around, and the music video finds Drake on the back of an Iceman 18-wheeler transporting blocks of ice, while he rocks a Chrome Hearts trapper hat.
Neophyte New York rapper Stunna Sandy gets a look in the stream as part of the “Plot Twist” visual, as she rides in a dune buggy and hangs with Drizzy.
A potential bop comes next with “2 Hard 4 Radio,” which would be an ironic title if the track picks up commercial steam and ends up becoming a radio smash. The West Coast-influenced song finds Drake having fun while incorporating Mac Dre bars.
The next scenes head to the top of the CN Tower in the heart of Toronto, a strip club and inside a government building that houses the mayoral office. Drake closes up shop at an ice hockey rink and then flees to the studio. But for his final act, in a possible shot at Kendrick Lamar, Drizzy sets a streaming farm ablaze.
While all of the aforementioned visuals were pre-taped, the livestream becomes current with fireworks lighting up the Toronto sky and Drake watching on in real time. He shocks the OVO faithful with an announcement that two additional albums are on the way, dropping in an hour at midnight. With 43 tracks and three LPs, a Drizzy summer is on the horizon.
Watch episode 4 of the Iceman livestream on Drake’s YouTube account.
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
Last week, we featured Charli xcx, MUNA and Kelela.
This week: Gracie Abrams teases her recently-announced fourth album, Daughter From Hell, with its lead single; Drake returns with his anticipated Iceman — plus two more projects titled Maid Of Honour and Habibti; and Tove Lo previews her upcoming sixth album … plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:
Gracie Abrams, “Hit the Wall”
Gracie Abrams’ now longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner wasn’t playing when he spoke about the singer’s upcoming album in an Instagram caption earlier this week: “You’ll hear us expanding our musical vocabulary and pushing into uncharted waters sonically…it feels elevated in every way.” Lead single “Hit the Wall” is an airy and lyrically loaded track, with lines like, “A room full of doctors and an inkblot/ I’m drawn into headlights, have a blind spot” or, “I live in a pattern of breakdowns/ You’ll bend to my silence, it’s so loud.” The track arrives as the perfect connector for where Abrams has been and where she is heading — and proves that if this is her starting point, Daughter From Hell is surely going to hurt like hell.
Drake, Iceman
After teasing his anticipated Iceman album, Drake more than delivered — also dropping Maid of Honour and Habibti on Friday. In all, the three releases total 43 new tracks and nearly two-and-a-half hours of listening (and push his solo full-length discography into double digits). Needless to say, the artist had a lot to get off his chest since his For All the Dogs release in 2023.
Iceman focus track, “Ran To Atlanta,” features Future and Molly Santana and is one of just two tracks on the project that taps guests. Meanwhile, Maid Of Honour and Habibti are a bit more feature-packed, with artists including Sexxy Red, Central Cee, PARTYNEXTDOOR and others appearing across the tracklists. So, roll your sleeves up and get to listening.
Tove Lo, “I’m Your Girl Right?”
It’s been four years since Tove Lo released an album (her last was 2022’s Dirt Femme) and new single “I’m Your Girl Right?” reminds listeners of what we’ve been missing. The track finds a sweet spot between mid-tempo pop and full-blown dance banger — exactly what Tove Lo has always done best. The track serves as the lead single for her upcoming sixth album, ESTRUS, out Sept. 18. As the artist shared in a statement: “I know you’ve been waiting a long time and I hope it’s worth the wait. It was for me!”
Rostam, “Hardy (feat. Clairo)”
With the release of Rostam’s third solo album, American Stories, he continues to prove that patience pays off (his last album, Changephobia, arrived in 2021) and that he still has that magic touch. Standout track “Hardy” opens unexpectedly with jittery, gorgeous strings that subtly fade into piano chords — only to return again halfway through for an instrumental interlude that also features trumpet to introduce Clairo’s verse. The song then ends with the chorus that’s all about acceptance: “Some things you said to me have stuck in my mind/ And though I’ll never have the chance to say why/ Maybe the greatest art is never completed/ We only have to leave it knowing we tried.”
Jorja Smith, “What’s Done Is Done”
Jorja Smith’s sultry, silky vocals are an expected, welcomed component of all her songs — and while they do their thing on “What’s Done Is Done,” the production comes as a surprise. Loaded with heart-pounding synth and bass, there’s a creeping, electric backbone to the track that perfectly soundtracks the basement club energy Smith channels in its music video.