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Jhené Aiko has scored her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her fourth record “Westside Whimsy.” Aiko bows atop the chart with 74,000 equivalent album units, making it the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 this year and the first to reach No. 1 since SZA’s “SOS”.

It’s about 9:30 p.m. at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, roughly an hour after Ed Sheeran delivered a surprisingly lengthy four-minute speech on the controversy that has engulfed his tour since Macklemore was dropped as an opening act following his pro-Palestinian remarks.

Days before the concert, Natanael Cano’s music was already following passersby through Mexico City: fans blasted his songs outside the Granjas México neighborhood, while at least one Uber driver kept a steady Nata soundtrack running for passengers. By Friday night (Sept. 18), the city was ready.

The rapper was dropped from the trek after condemning the violence in Gaza onstage. 9/19/2026 Macklemore has been one of music’s most vocal stars when it comes to supporting Palestinians amid the conflict in Gaza over the past three years, but his stance on the issue ended up sparking a major controversy.

Ed Sheeran‘s return to the Loop Tour drew protesters to the City of Brotherly Love amid ongoing fallout. After the 4x Grammy winner dropped Macklemore from his tour over pressure around the “Hind’s Hall” artist’s Palestinian onstage remarks, Sheeran’s Saturday stop at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field was met with pro-Palestine protesters.

Nearly three years after she was fired from the Scream franchise for speaking up in support of Palestinians, Melissa Barrera sees the tides changing. The actress recently expressed how “emotional” it made her to see Fennias and Ed Sheeran‘s other openers dropping out of his Loop Tour in support of Macklemore.

Charlie Puth has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour, scrapping a number of November arena dates first announced in April. The six-date arena run was due to begin at Auckland’s Spark Arena in early November before heading to Australia for concerts in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

As part of our continuing efforts to serve the music industry and its creators, Billboard Pro now features a music industry events calendar for readers. The calendar will act as music’s most complete summary major national and international industry events, from conferences to festivals to networking mixers and more.

Eight years after her last concert in Spain, Shakira reunited with her Madrid audience on Friday (Sept. 18), kicking off a 12-date residency in front of 55,000 fans at the Shakira Stadium, a temporary venue built specifically for this event. Hours before the show, the vibrant atmosphere extended beyond the stage.

Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter best known for his shimmering Grammy-nominated 1996 debut single, “Barely Breathing,” has died at age 56. The news came a day after the singer’s family announced that he was in “critical but stable” condition in a hospital due to an undisclosed ailment. On Friday (Sept. 18).

Trending on Billboard Miley Cyrus is cranking the volume up to its fullest. The Grammy-winning pop star — now known simply as Miley — has officially released her 10th studio album, Bass Persuades, on Friday (Sept. 18). The 10-track set comes after Miley kicked off the album’s rollout earlier this month with its electrifying title […]

Trending on Billboard Dave Stewart has made a great many albums during the past 47 years — on his own, with his bands such as the Tourists, Eurythmics and SuperHeavy, or as a producer for the likes of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr and many more. Explore See latest videos, charts and […]

Trending on Billboard You can call Carly Rae Jepsen many things, but lazy isn’t one of them. Try pop star, mom, busy. The Canadian pop artist burst out the gates with her all-conquering 2012 smash “Call Me Maybe,” a song that logged nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first of […]

Trending on Billboard Rosé has a new trick. The superstar BLACKPINK singer drops her latest single, “New Trick,” which arrives with an official music video directed by Dave Meyers (Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Kendrick Lamar) and filmed entirely on Apple’s newly unveiled iPhone 18 Pro. Rosé gave BLINKS a tease of the track earlier […]

Trending on Billboard Indie record label My Block Inc. is suing distributor SRG/ILS Group over royalty accounting for Erica Campbell‘s 2023 gospel album I Love You. A Thursday (Sept. 17) lawsuit, first obtained and reported by Billboard, alleges that SRG hasn’t provided a single royalty statement to My Block, the label founded by Erica Campbell’s […]

Trending on Billboard A week after announcing their first-ever live viewing from South America, BTS dropped the high-energy trailer for BTS World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ In Buenos Aires and São Paulo: Live Viewing on Thursday morning (Sept. 17). Explore See latest videos, charts and news Cued to the hyped 2017 You Never Walk Alone track, the […]

Trending on Billboard Ahead of the hugely anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, Atlantic Records and Rockstar Games have today (Sept. 17) announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album. The album will feature 34 new songs, with the complete project dropping Nov. 19, the same day as the game’s release. Ahead of that drop, […]

Trending on Billboard Prince Royce may be disappointed that his highly anticipated collaboration with Romeo Santos, Better Late Than Never, did not receive a nomination for the Latin Grammys on Wednesday (Sept. 16). But what seems to hurt him the most is that the best merengue/bachata album category did not include a single bachata production. […]

Metallica has confirmed a series of new North American stadium dates that extend the band’s M72 World Tour into 2027. Having played 99 shows in 26 countries since its April 2023 kick-off, the Live Nation-promoted tour will resume May 8, 2027 at BC Place in Vancouver – hitting a dozen new cities for the first […]

Trending on Billboard Calvin Harris will return to Australia early next year for his first-ever headline tour. The superstar Scottish DJ and producer will go coast-to-coast for a four-city trek next February, his first in these parts as the main man. Presented by Untitled Group, Full Circle and Live Nation, Calvin Harris – Australia Tour 2027 […]

Trending on Billboard Universal Music Group is suing DistroKid over accusations that the music distributor is flooding streaming platforms like Spotify with “AI-generated slop” and “polluting the listening experience.” In a scathing lawsuit filed Tuesday (Sept. 15) in Manhattan federal court, UMG alleges that Distrokid — a huge distributor valued at more than $2 billion […]