Robyn and Zara Larsson have joined forces on “Talk To Me, Zara,” a new collaborative single that reworks a track from Robyn’s latest album.

The song is a new version of “Talk To Me,” originally featured on Robyn’s Sexistential — her ninth studio album, released in March. Larsson remixed the pulsing, Max Martin-co-produced original and added her own verse. The two Swedish stars debuted the track live at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena on July 14, when Robyn brought Larsson out as a surprise guest on the final night of the European leg of her Sexistential tour.

“Talk To Me, Zara” marks the second collaboration between the pair, with Larsson returning a favor: Robyn contributed a new mix of “Puss Puss” to Larsson’s remix album Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, released in May, which also featured reworkings from PinkPantheress, Shakira, Tyla, Kehlani and Madison Beer.

Sexistential was Robyn’s first album since 2018’s Honey and was accompanied by her first major headline tour since 2019. Robyn’s biggest cultural touchstone, “Dancing on My Own”, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording in 2011.

For Larsson, the collaboration arrives during a career upswing in the U.S. Her signature stateside hit remains 2015’s “Never Forget You” with MNEK, which peaked at No. 13 on the Hot 100, while “Ruin My Life” reached No. 20 on Billboard’s Pop Songs chart in 2018. This year she notched her first career Grammy nomination, for “Midnight Sun” in the Best Pop Dance Recording category, and returned to the Hot 100 for the first time in a decade when her 2016 single “Lush Life” went viral, capping one of the strongest chart runs of her career.

Paul Kelly is returning to Kings Cross for the first time in decades, announcing a one-night-only show at the Potts Point Hotel on Aug. 30 — steps from the long-gone venue where the Australian songwriter cut his teeth in the mid-1980s.

The Sydney neighbourhood looms large in Kelly’s catalogue and mythology, and his return carries a personal weight. The Potts Point Hotel sits beside the laneway that once housed the Manzil Room, a late-night haunt Kelly played repeatedly in the mid-to-late ’80s.

“A wee hours sticky-carpet venue, attracting all the denizens of the night — street workers, bohemians, drug dealers, desperadoes, off work musicians,” he recalled in a statement.

“We’d play three sets, starting around 1am. The painter Brett Whiteley sometimes dropped in to hear us.” Kelly noted the Manzil Room is now a block of apartments, musing, “I wonder if the residents sometimes hear our chattering ghosts, the faint distant throb of our music.”

Fittingly, a recently completed mural of Kelly by artist Scottie Marsh adorns the exterior wall of the Potts Point Hotel.

The show doubles as a launch. Kelly will release a deluxe edition of his 2025 album Seventy two days before the gig, and access to the intimate show is tied to the release — fans can secure a spot by pre-ordering the deluxe edition from Kelly’s official store or entering a ballot for tickets.

Separately, Kelly is marking the 40th anniversary of his landmark 1986 double album Gossip with a 2LP anniversary reissue.

Seventy, released last November to mark both Kelly’s 70th birthday and his 50th year in music, debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart and followed a sold-out Australian arena tour. It was his 30th studio album, extending one of the most decorated careers in Australian music.

A 17-time ARIA Award winner and ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Kelly has topped the ARIA Albums Chart with Life Is Fine (2017) and Nature (2018), and is behind some of the most enduring songs in the national canon, including “To Her Door,” “How to Make Gravy” and “From Little Things Big Things Grow.” He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for his contribution to the performing arts.

Petal, Ariana Grande‘s new studio album, tops this week’s new music poll.

Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (July 31) on Billboard, choosing the pop star’s eight full-length LP as their favorite new music.

Petal rose to the top in a week that included new music releases from Cardi B, Davido, Slayyyter and Shaboozey — plus a collab track from Erick Brian, Dale Pututi & Nesty, as well as one from Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez & Becky G — and more. By the poll’s closing time on Sunday, Petal collected 41% of the vote.

Grande’s new album made its way to fans on Friday, mid-Eternal Sunshine Tour.

It’s the follow-up to 2024’s Eternal Sunshine album, which spent three weeks atop the Billboard 200.

Arriving with Grande’s new 12-song collection was a satirical new music video that has her starring as Pepper, an actress on set playing a performer who tries over and over again to be “good enough” for her ruthless critics — and who finally loses her cool, with the help of a chainsaw. The visual is set to Petal‘s title track, which is the second single from the album; it follows the Hot 100 No. 1 “Hate That I Made You Live Me.”

On Sunday, it was reported Grande will take a break from the public eye once her tour wraps.

Trailing behind Petal on the poll: Erick Brian, Dale Pututi & Nesty’s “Efímero” lands in second place, with 26% of the vote, followed by Cardi B’s “AH HA” in third, with 18% of the vote.

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

Ariana Grande is set to take a break from the public once her Eternal Sunshine Tour wraps on Sept. 1. The pop star’s time off includes her pulling out of leading the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George, which was expected to open next summer in London’s West End.

People first reported the news — which comes just after Grande released her highly-anticipated new studio album Petal — on Sunday (Aug. 2), publishing a statement attributed to a representative for Grande. Billboard has reached out to Grande’s team for comment.

“Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour,” the statement said. “She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny. This tour has been a beautiful experience for her. She loves her fans and has loved every minute of this tour so much.”

Grande is also bowing out of her previously announced appearance in the West End revival of Sunday in the Park With George. She was set to star in the London production opposite Wicked co-star Jonathan Bailey.

She’s currently on the last month of her Eternal Sunshine Tour, which next heads to Chicago for three concert dates (Aug. 3, 5 and 6) before a show-closing, 10-date run in London that spans Aug. 15 to Sept. 1.

Petal the album just arrived on Friday (July 31), and its title track was released as the LP’s second single.

A music video debuted alongside the track that echoes real-life critiques Grande’s received from the public; recent public commentary has been centered on her physical appearance and weight.

In the visual, which plays as a short film, the performer cuts down critics — with a chainsaw — after being told she’s “not good enough” and has “no sex appeal.” Audition notes saying that she “should get some work done” turn to “too much work done.” “The way you used to be, I miss that,” one naysayer says.

“Hate That I Made You Love Me,” the album’s first single, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Post-tour, fans can see her in movie theaters in Focker-in-Law, opening Nov. 25. The comedy is the latest in the Meet the Parents series, starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.