Post Malone has pushed back the opening stretch of his Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll, canceling the first several dates as he works to complete his upcoming album.

In a message shared with fans, Malone said the decision came after reassessing the timeline between his live schedule and recording commitments.

“Looking at the upcoming schedule… I came to the realization that what we’re trying to do, and what’s possible, isn’t really lining up,” he wrote, adding that he needed additional time to finish new music.

“The truth is, I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time to finish it before tour starts. We ain’t ready for tour just yet, so I’m making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks to get this music done.”

The postponement affects the first six dates of the Live Nation-produced tour, which had been scheduled to begin May 13 in El Paso, Texas, with additional stops in Waco, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa and Oxford, Mississippi. The tour is now expected to launch June 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina, following a roughly three-week delay.

The artist has been teasing a new project, reportedly titled The Eternal Buzz, though no release date has been confirmed. He indicated the album remains unfinished, despite earlier speculation that it was close to completion.

“That being said, I’m so sorry to the folks who were planning on coming to the few canceled shows. I was looking forward to going nuts with y’all. That THAT being said, we been making some badass s— for this double album… and I can’t wait to perform for y’all again.”

The delay comes as Malone looks to follow up a period of sustained commercial success. His 2023 album Austin debuted in the top 5 of the Billboard 200, while earlier releases such as Hollywood’s Bleeding produced multiple chart-topping singles, including “Circles,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Big Ass Stadium Tour marks a continuation of Malone’s recent pivot toward country and roots-influenced sounds, a direction that has broadened his audience in recent years. His collaboration with Jelly Roll — whose own rise has been driven by a blend of country, rock and hip-hop — reflects that crossover appeal.

His most recent album, F-1 Trillion, included the Country Airplay No. 1 “Pour Me a Drink” and the Billboard Hot 100-topping “I Had Some Help.” He has since teased a follow-up country project, telling Billboard last year that more music was in the works and more recently hinting at a possible title — The Eternal Buzz — on social media.

Barry Manilow has postponed his May Las Vegas residency dates as he continues to recover from lung cancer surgery, though the 82-year-old says he is making great progress and expects to return to the Westgate stage in July.

In an Instagram Story posted Friday (May 1), Manilow opened with, “Good news! I went to the doctor yesterday and he said I’m making great progress and look great! All the training and exercising I’ve put in is paying off. He did say, however, that I’m not quite ready for Vegas. This means I won’t be able to return for our May shows at Westgate Las Vegas.”

He also confirmed he will be ready for his June arena shows in the U.K. “The Westgate Las Vegas is my home away from home and I’ll see you all in July,” he said.

The May postponement is the latest in a series of delays since Manilow revealed his Stage 1 lung cancer diagnosis in December 2025. He underwent surgery to remove a cancerous spot from his left lung in late December and has not performed since.

The singer’s February Las Vegas residency dates were the first to be pushed back, followed by his arena tour launch dates from late February through March, and then his April arena shows — each time on his doctor’s advice that his body needed more time to recover.

Despite the setbacks, Manilow has remained determined to return to the stage. His Las Vegas residency at Westgate is scheduled to run through December 2026, and his farewell arena tour — billed as The Last Concerts — has rescheduled dates still on the books.

Named the No. 1 Adult Contemporary Artist of all time by Billboard, Manilow has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide and scored 13 No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart across a career spanning more than five decades. He is also a Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award winner and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.

In March, his new single “Once Before I Go” became a top 10 hit on the Adult Contemporary chart, making him the only artist in history to score an Adult Contemporary hit in six consecutive decades — a run stretching from the 1970s through the 2020s. His new album What a Time — his first of new material in nearly 15 years — is due June 5.

After getting in a spicy altercation at McDonald’s in April, Ice Spice is showing her allegiance to another fast-food chain. The Bronx native starred in a new Wendy’s ad promoting the company’s sizzling chicken sandwich on Friday (May 1).

“I heard Wendy’s upgraded their OG spicy chicken sandwich,” she says in the clip. “New spicy?!”

The 26-year-old drops her Ice Spice moniker to become “Ice Spicy,” and she’s got an icy chain to match the new alias. The “Deli” rapper even got some fresh ink to commemorate the branding makeover, while the thumping production of her “Thootie” single provides the soundtrack.

“New upgraded spicy chicken, only at Wendy’s,” she continues to close the clip. “Spice recognize spice.”

Members of the “Spice Cabinet” seemed to approve of the partnership. “The collab we needed, now you see how McDonald’s don’t got anybody? Wendy’s is the best to ever do it,” one fan wrote to X.

Last month, Ice Spice had some fun with her viral altercation at McDonald’s, which saw her joke that “this wouldn’t happen at Wendy’s” on X.

The Bronx rapper was involved in a physical confrontation in mid-April at a Hollywood McDonald’s when she was slapped in an “unprovoked attack” without security present, according to her attorney Bradford Cohen.

Footage of the incident, which was first posted by TMZ on April 17, found Ice Spice and a friend being approached by a patron and the situation escalated after Ice rejected her advances. The rapper was then slapped and a melee broke out, which continued outside the restaurant.

Ice ended up getting into a separate argument with a male patron outside, which got physical and ended up with the rapper on the ground.

Ice Spice’s attorney told Billboard that they will be looking to “hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions.”

“The unprovoked attack on my client has been reported to the LAPD and we will be pursuing any and all criminal and civil avenues to hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions,” Cohen stated. “We are also exploring holding the location responsible for their apparent lack of appropriate security.”

Spice’s attorney continued: “Not to mention that the individuals involved obviously did not realize that we would get the video from inside the McDonald’s where the unprovoked attack occurred. They then turned their cameras on after the initial attack as if to set our client up, and as they say on the video to ‘go viral.’ The only thing that will be going viral for them is their mugshots.”

Watch Ice Spice’s Wendy’s ad below.

Olivia Rodrigo is headed to Spain to rep Barça — and perform a one-night-only show for her most devoted fans.

The singer-songwriter is the latest artist to team up with FC Barcelona and Spotify, kicking off the partnership with the unveiling of her own blue and red striped jersey featuring Rodrigo’s logo on the front in place of Spotify’s. The announcement comes a little over a week before the the fútbol club’s El Clásico match at the newly-renovated Spotify Camp Nou, where the team will play against their rival, Real Madrid and feature Rodrigo’s jersey on the pitch.

The Blaugrana wear is also available to purchase via the Barça Official Stores in Spain and online in limited quantities as part of the Olivia Rodrigo Collection, which also includes a “Força Barça” t-shirt, hoodie, bucket hat, stickers and more.

Rodrigo and Spotify will also treat fans to an intimate, one-off concert in the Spanish city on May 8 celebrating “the fandom unique to Livies and the connected spirit which flows through the community,” according to a press release. The show will be invite-only for Rodrigo’s top fans — who will have the opportunity to attend based on their Spotify listening — and arrives a little over a month before Rodrigo drops her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love on June 12. Its lead single, “drop dead,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week and is set to be performed by Rodrigo during her Saturday Night Live debut double-duty stint on May 2.

“Seeing ‘OR’ on a FC Barcelona jersey for El Clásico, I don’t even know how to process that. It’s been so fun seeing the jersey come to life and creating a full collection with Spotify and Barca,” Rodrigo said in the release. “On top of that, getting to perform for the fans who’ve been listening since day one, in a city like Barcelona, is going to be so special. That’s everything to me. I cannot wait to see them.”

While FC Barcelona will don Rodrigo’s jersey on the May 10 match, FC Barcelona Femení will be wearing the jersey in their Liga F match against Levante on May 6.

Over the past four years, Spotify has teamed up with FC Barcelona to create artist jerseys for Travis Scott, Coldplay, Karol G, Drake and more. So far, Rodrigo is the youngest artist to takeover the uniform. Watch the trailer above.

Dame Dash sat down with Art of Dialogue recently to talked about a variety of topics, one being the discographies of his former business partner Jay-Z (two co-founded Roc-A-Fella with Kareem Burke in 1994) and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West.)

When asked who has the better catalog, the Harlem businessman answered without hesitation that he would take Ye.

“Kanye destroys Jay,” he continued. “It’s not even the same class. You know what I mean? As far as artistry goes and being creative and all the verticals that are stimulated, and the people — no one wants to dress like — Jay can’t do a clothing line. Kanye has a movement, he’s unstoppable. Kanye don’t need nobody to fill an arena. You know, homeboy needs friends. This n—a just stands up there and just, he don’t even have to rap. He just does listening sessions in a stadium.”

Adding, “Kanye is different and he’s bipolar…He’s pure art. The world should be so grateful for Kanye’s presence because he keeps things so interesting. The world would be so boring without Kanye. It’s like Van Gogh. Like any minute he could cut his ear off while he’s painting, but it’s always art. Kanye is an artist. Jay’s not an artist…I would say Jay’s just more of a — he’s cunning, and he doesn’t mind playing with the devil.”

When asked to elaborate on what he meant by “cunning,” Dame continued by saying “[Jay-Z] will make you believe he’s your brother when he really hates you. That’s cunning to me.”

Later on in the clip he also claims that nobody cares about Jay’s debut album. “Reasonable Doubt doesn’t sell sh-t. Why you think I gave it away,” he said referring to New York State auctioning off Dash’s Roc-A-Fella Inc. shares to collect on his back taxes. “That sh-t barely went gold. Nobody gives a f—k about Reasonable Doubt other than people that were there.”

You can watch the clip below.

As if having Kid Cudi as a dad wasn’t cool enough, Cudder pulled a couple of strings so his daughter and her friends could see Taylor Swift in style on the Eras Tour.

Cudi had actor Adam Scott on as a guest of his Big Bro With Kid Cudi show earlier this week, which saw the Ohio native recall making a few calls to hook his teenage daughter, Vada Wamwene Mescudi, and her friends up to see Taylor Swift on tour.

The pop supernova came through in a major way, as Swift’s team rolled out the red carpet for Vada and her friends, who got the VIP treatment for an Eras Tour stop.

“My daughter’s a Swiftie,” Cudi explained. “She texted me one day, ‘Daddy, is it possible for you to get tickets for me and my friends to see Taylor Swift?’ I was just like, ‘Let me see what I can do.’ Taylor Swift had me looking like the coolest dad ever.”

He continued: “I hit up Taylor’s team. We were like, ‘Do you have any extra tickets?’ They gave us the friends-and-family tickets, so it was a good location in the stadium. I remember my daughter texted me back like, ‘Dad, you’re the best.’ I was just like, ‘Yeah, man!’ Thank you, Taylor Swift.”

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was one of the hottest tour tickets of the century. Across 149 shows spanning 2023 and 2024, Swift’s record-breaking trek grossed over $2 billion and sold more than 10 million tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Perhaps Cudi could return the favor for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, with the “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper currently on the road for his 33-date Rebel Ragers Tour, which will make stops in Austin and Dallas this weekend.

Watch the clip of Kid Cudi talking about getting his daughter Taylor Swift tickets below.

Hilary Duff‘s “What Dreams Are Made Of” is a graduation staple — now, she can add commencement speaker to her lengthy resume.

On Wednesday (April 29), Duff addressed Northeastern University’s graduating class of 2026 at Fenway Park in Boston, delivering an inspiring speech that pulled nuggets of wisdom from her pop culture journey. She began her speech joking that she was “envious” of the graduates because her “formal education ended around third grade” due to her blossoming career as a child actor and then-teen superstar. From there, the “Roommates” singer reflected on some of the key lessons she learned as she navigated her career in entertainment.

“Just because something is a good opportunity or a good paycheck doesn’t mean it’s right,” she reminded the graduates. “By simply accepting what the world was offering to me, I was losing my own voice; I was reacting, instead of asking myself what I really wanted. That realization was a paradigm shift for me.”

“I knew I had to change my pattern of saying ‘yes,’ so I took a break from making music,” she continued. “Not because I didn’t know exactly what kind of album I wanted to make or what kind of stories I wanted to tell through my music, because I knew precisely what I wanted. But I somehow knew that I couldn’t authentically make it, yet.”

After reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with Dignity in 2007, Duff took a hiatus from her music career, shifting her focus to acting, production and penning her New York Times bestseller Elixir trilogy. She returned to the music scene with Breathe In. Breathe Out. in 2015, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 hit “Sparks” (No. 93).

“So I made a choice, and I took a step back. I pivoted. I rebuilt myself, I refilled my tank, I put effort into my relationships, into building my family and building a business,” Duff explained. “I waited until I was ready to meet the moment. I realized that saying ‘no’ wasn’t rejection, it was redirection… I took back control of what I was building, and I reclaimed my story. And I realized my own agency. I’m grateful I had the ability to take that pause… the key is that I was choosing where my energy went instead of letting others choose for me. Don’t forget to pause and appreciate how far you’ve come.”

If the stadium’s thunderous applause was anything to go by, Duff’s speech was a hit, adding another win to her collection this year. At the top of the year, Duff returned to the road on her Small Rooms, Big Nevers Tour, which led to the release of her latest album, Luck… Or Something. Co-written and co-produced with husband Matthew Koma, Luck hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and landed a radio hit in “Roommates,” which reached No. 25 on Pop Airplay.

Next month, Duff will kick off her Lucky Me Tour with two shows at iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Fla. (June 21-22). The trek will take her to amphitheaters and arenas in major cities across North America, Australia and the U.K., including New York City, Toronto and London, before concluding with two shows at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes next year (Feb. 12-13, 2027).

Check out Hilary Duff’s complete commencement speech for Northeastern University’s graduating class of 2026 below.

KATSEYE isn’t coming all the way to Australia just to talk; the two-time Grammy nominated global girl group will also deliver a one-off performance next Friday, May 8, at Melbourne’s Festival Hall.

As previously reported, KATSEYE will make its first trip to these parts for a trip that, until now, was anchored on an exclusive fan Q&A experience in Sydney on May 6. The winner of the competition receives flights, accommodation and a double pass to the Q&A, while 29 runners-up will receive a double pass for the session.

The pop act’s itinerary just got bigger, with a one-off Australia show presented by Visit Victoria’s “Melbourne. Every bit different” campaign in collaboration with American Express, Live Nation, HYBE and Geffen.

Universal Music Australia is behind the contest and the concert, a 30-minute pop-up performance. American Express Centurion and Platinum Card Members can access a select number of priority tickets for the show via the Amex Experiences App from Wednesday, May 6.

KATSEYE is hot right now, thanks to the release of their Billboard Hot 100 hit single “Pinky Up,” and their eye-catching performances at Coachella. Since then, the group has been added to the line-up of performers for the 52nd American Music Awards, on a night where they have nominations in three categories — new artist of the year, best music video for “Gnarly” and breakthrough pop artist. The AMAs are set for Monday, May 25 in Las Vegas.

A new KATSEYE EP, WILD, is due out Aug. 14 via HYBE x Geffen Records. It’s the followup to 2025’s Beautiful Chaos, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and features Billboard Hot 100 hits “Gnarly” and “Gabriela.” In Australia, “Gabriela,” “Touch” and “Gnarly” are all certified platinum, while “Debut” and “Gameboy” are certified gold.

The girl group is currently a five-piece (Daniela, Lara, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae) while bandmate Manon is on a temporary hiatus.

If you thought Olivia Rodrigo‘s next album would be stacked with love songs, wrapped in emotions raked from both ends of the spectrum, some of which are inspired by HBO’s Sex And The City, then you’d be right.

The pop phenomenon stopped by NBC’s The Tonight Show on Thursday night, May 30, where she spilled the beans on her forthcoming album, tour and Saturday Night Live gig.

“I knew that I wanted this record to be about romantic love in more of a positive sense,” she says of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, due out June 12 via Geffen Records. That’s considering her last two were “heartbroken and angsty,” in her own words. Expected love songs, “injected with a little bit of sadness and longing. And melancholy, because all my favorite love songs have that.” Those faves, she tells Jimmy Kimmel, include “Love Song” by the Cure, and “Video Games” by Lana Del Rey.

“Multiple songs” from her forthcoming album, she also reveals, are inspired by the complex relationship of lawyer Miranda Hobbes and former bartender Steve Brady, two central characters from Sex And The City. “It’s my favorite show,” she enthuses. “I think I watched every single episode maybe three times.”

It’s worth pointing out that Sex and the City concluded after six seasons on Feb. 22, 2004, a year to the month after Rodrigo was born.

Rodrigo’s new album is led by “Drop Dead,” which opened at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking her fourth title to debut in the top spot. “The song is basically about an awesome first date,” she explains. “It’s the first step in the journey of You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl. The journey definitely like ebbs and flows. It goes in lots of different places from here, but this is the first chapter.”

Rodrigo will sing “Drop Dead” and a brand new one, when she appears on Saturday Night Live this weekend as both host and musical guest.

“It’s always been a huge dream of mine,” to pull double duty on SNL, she insists. If she has nerves, she’s not showing it. And she does have a lucky charm, a gift from Jack White, which he planted in her dressing room.

The 23-year-old pop star will support her next release with the Unraveled Tour, which currently stands at 65 arena date across North America, Europe and the U.K. this fall and winter beginning with a Sept. 25 show at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Conn. “I’ve been working so hard on it,” she says during her latest late-night interview. “I’m so stoked to play these songs live.”

With You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, she resisted the temptation of going with another four letter word after Sour (from 2021) and Guts (2023), both of which logged time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. “I always knew if wasn’t going to be four letters.” She wanted to “break out,” and “didn’t want to be stuck in it,” she tells Fallon.

Watch Rodrigo’s appearance on late-night TV below.

Summer is never truly over — just ask Zara Larsson.

On the heels of her breakthrough artist win at the 2026 Billboard Women in Music Awards on Wednesday (April 29), the Swedish pop star kept the celebrations going with a special listening party for her remix album Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, on Thursday (April 30). Hosted by iHeartRadio and aired live on TikTok and radio stations around the country from the 450-seat iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, the Girls Trip album preview gave Larsson’s biggest fans the opportunity to hear a sneak peek of the remix album hours before its release.

Larsson opened the night with an acoustic performance of her Hot 100 hit “Midnight Sun” before sitting down for a Q&A with iHeartRadio host EJ. The singer shared why she decided to expand what she called the “Midnight Sun universe.”

“I think music and culture in this day and age, it moves quickly, but I’m definitely not ready to move on from Midnight Sun, for a little while at least,” Larsson said. “And I just thought, have fun. It’ll be so fun.”

The singer also shared who inspired her to take on this venture.

“People have been doing it for a long time, but I was really inspired by [Charli xcx]. I was really inspired by [PinkPantheress],” she shared. “Even though a song is out, you can still have so many different worlds and sounds around the song. If a song is good enough, it can kind of be anything.”

Girls Trip features ten remixed versions of songs from the original Midnight Sun, with features from an incredible slate of women artists. Fans in attendance at the preview, watching live on TikTok or listening from the iHeartRadio app got to hear five of the songs in full.

Before each track, Larsson spoke about how the remix came to be, its sound and the person she tapped for the feature.

The first remix of the night was “Crush” featuring Eli. Larsson then played “Blue Moon” featuring Kehlani, an artist who she shared she was a fan of for a long time. Next up was “Hot & Sexy” with Tyla, the second of the duo’s collaborations following “She Did It Again” which came out earlier this month. “Hot & Sexy” was followed by “Pretty Ugly” with JT and Margo XS, a remix Larsson admitted she preferred over the original. Then came “Eurosummer” with Shakira, who Larsson shared she has loved since childhood.

“This is legendary status going on right here because [Girls Trip] was like a little bit the talk of the town — I mean at least in the small industry of music that I’m in,” Larsson said. “And one day I got a call, it was my A&R, and he was like, ‘Shakira heard about this project and she really likes ‘Eurosummer.” And I was like, ‘let’s go.’”

The final remix fans got to hear was a crossing of Swedish pop icons: “Puss Puss” with compatriot Robyn.

“This is my Swedish icon, legend Robyn. Who else would be on this song?” Larsson said as the track began.

In between songs, Larsson also took time to answer fan questions from the audience, viewers on TikTok and radio listeners. Many of the questions were appropriately trip-themed and the singer shared her preferred ways to take a girls trip, including being both driver and DJ.

“I think the music is quite important,” Larsson said of what makes for a perfect girls trip. “The girls trip starts when you get in the car, or on the train, or on the way to the airport.”

The Girls Trip experience ended with a celebration of Larsson’s 2015 Hot 100 track “Lush Life,” which has been gifted new life online thanks to a viral dance trend. The singer invited those fans who knew the choreography to join her on stage as they danced the evening to a close.

Midnight Sun: Girls Trip is out now. Stream it below.