The members of BTS take stock after a large night, shake off the cobwebs, and make themselves right at home in the music video for “NORMAL,” which is available to watch first on Spotify for a 48-hour exclusive.
Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Tanu Muino, the clip dropped at midnight and features each of BTS’ seven members, capturing them letting off stream and in “deeply personal and intimate moments,” a statement reads. If there’s an eighth wonder, it’s the stately old mansion which hosts the lads. It’s a country pile that holds secrets, dozens of empty wine glasses and flashbacks the giveaway.
The wintry video gives us the now-viral image of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook standing before a row of toilets, bringing the teaser campaign full circle, and we’re treated to a fine collection of dogs. And a swan.
“NORMAL” is housed on BTS’ fifth and latest studio album ARIRANG, and is the second single from it, after “SWIM.”
Interscope/Capitol Records will begin working “NORMAL” to pop radio as of the week beginning July 27.
“SWIM” sailed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April, as ARIRANG rolled to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The titles became the superstar septet’s seventh leader on each list.
On the live front, the BTS juggernaut is powering through the Continental Europe leg of a world tour in support of ARIRANG. Up next, concerts tonight and Saturday at Paris’ Stade De France, and on Sunday, July 19, the K-pop superstars will join Justin Bieber, Madonna and Shakira as co-headliners at the first FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
To watch BTS’ “NORMAL” music video, Premium subscribers in beta markets can open Spotify on their TV, desktop, iOS or Android device, search for and play “NORMAL” by BTS, and tap “Switch to video”. The music video will start playing right where the song left off.
For a full-screen experience on mobile, simply turn your device to landscape mode. And to return to background listening, simply press “Switch to audio.”
Stream the “NORMAL” EP below.
Gracie Abrams is raising hell on her third studio album, which takes fans along with her as she crashes out, breaks down, contemplates the past and wrestles with the dreary state of the world, while also — despite everything else — finding a bit of domestic stability along the way.
Daughter From Hell dropped on Friday (July 17), two years after sophomore album The Secret of Us made her a breakout superstar by reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with hits such as Billboard Hot 100 top 10 entry “That’s So True” and the Grammy-nominated Taylor Swift duet, “Us.” In many ways, the new record harkens back to the themes and musical sensibilities of both her 2024 LP and her debut album, 2023’s Good Riddance, with guitar and piano intermittently anchoring the songs as she touches on blame, complex breakups and unrequited love.
But there’s also an entirely new dimension to Abrams that she displays on her third effort, even if it doesn’t smack you in the face most of the time. She’s more interested than ever in playing with song structure and mixing new synth colors into her usual blend of instruments, while the title track even finds her uncharacteristically singing over punchy, distorted electric guitar. Her vocals sound stronger and more intentional than ever before, with the sonic highlights of many of the songs being her own ethereal harmonies stacked powerfully on top of each other.
And while there are a few catchy moments here and there, Daughter From Hell is arguably less pop than The Secret of Us, which might come as a bit of a surprise. With Abrams building her audience so impressively during her last album era, she in theory would have been perfectly poised to start reaching for more chart dominance with an album of splashier, statement-making pop anthems instead. Knowing that, it’s clear that Abrams is far more interested writing songs for herself and her fans, and that this was the album she truly wanted to make this time around.
In honor of the long-awaited release of Daughter From Hell, keep reading to see Billboard‘s ranking of all 16 songs on the album below.
After spending last summer playing arenas and amphitheaters, Gracie Abrams is ready for her close-up. The 26-year-old singer dropped her third full-length studio album on Friday (July 17), the 16-track Daughter From Hell. Prefaced by the introspective first single, “Hit the Wall” — which peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the new collection has been referred to by Abrams as her “favorite music” she’s made to date.
The follow-up to Abrams’ 2024 Billboard 200 No. 2 LP The Secret of Us once again finds her teaming up with The National guitarist/composer Aaron Dessner, who, along with his twin brother and bandmate Bryce Dessner, helped write and produce “Hit the Wall.” Aaron Dessner is listed as a cowriter on 14 of the album’s 16 tracks, while frequent Olivia Rodrigo producer-songwriter Dan Nigro has a coproduction credit on the fretful, am-I-doing-it-all-wrong song second single, “Look At My Life.”
Elsewhere, Mumford & Sons singer Marcus Mumford pops in for a guest vocal on the tune Abrams has said is her favorite on the LP, “What If It’s Right?,” and Abrams’ boyfriend, actor Paul Mescal, has a cowriting credit on “Imaginary Friend.” Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is listed as the coproducer of “Hit the Wall” and has a cowriting and coproduction credit on “Broke My Heart,” one of several songs on which he also contributes additional vocals.
“It’s definitely my favorite music I’ve ever made, and I feel very closely connected to it,” Abrams told The Hollywood Reporter in January. “I appreciate so much that these albums are time capsules of where I’m at in my life at any given point, but right now it does feel very like me. I hope that whoever finds it, connects with it and that they make it theirs when it’s out one day. But not yet.”
In a recent Spotify conversation about songwriting, friend Olivia Rodrigo said the Daughter From Hell song “Afflictions” is her favorite so far, calling it “pure, but also very mature. It feels like the love is very deep and not superficial.” Abrams agreed, admitting that she has a hard time writing about love and tends to avoid it if she can. “When I’ve tried to write about it before, it kind of diminishes what it actually feels like. But that [song] is super real for me,” Abrams said.
The pair also talked about the more negative relationships explored on Daughter From Hell, with Abrams saying she approached them differently than she has in the past. “I was careful about writing about conflict and pain from less of a place of pointing fingers and more so of having been on both sides, like, of both the protagonist and the antagonist of each song,” Abrams said. “There’s songs about tough friendships or a kind of a breakup … I was careless in the past writing music about how it might impact the subject, and I don’t like that. I wish I could go back and fix it. And I feel like moving forward, with this album.”
Abrams’ The Look at My Life tour will begin playing North American arenas beginning on Dec. 2 in Denver.
Listen to Daughter From Hell below.
Sienna Spiro scores her first entry on any Billboard album chart, as her debut full-length studio set, Visitor, launches in the top 10 on three rankings (dated July 18). It bows in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 (No. 9), Vinyl Albums (No. 3) and Top Album Sales (No. 4). Visitor follows Spiro’s 2025 EP Sink Now, Swim Later.
Visitor was preceded by a trio of Billboard Hot 100-charting hits from the English singer-songwriter’s album: “The Visitor” (No. 43 peak in March), “You Stole the Show” (No. 55 in February) and “Die on This Hill” (No. 19 in February). The lattermost track is Spiro’s current promoted radio single, which has become a top 10 hit on the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts.
Concurrently with Visitor’s album chart arrival, its new single “Great Expectation,” debuts at No. 91 on the Hot 100.
On the Top Album Sales chart, Visitor is one of four debuts in the top 10, where Madonna’s CONFESSIONS II starts atop the tally. Plus, THE 8 and Vernon’s V8 debuts at No. 7 while Deep Purple’s SPLAT! enters at No. 10. ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR : PART.5 falls to No. 2 after debuting in the top slot a week ago, Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love slips 2-4 and Michael Jackson’s Thriller (up 6-5) rounds out the top five.
As for the rest of the holdovers in the top 10, CORTIS’ chart-topping GREENGREEN is up one spot to No. 6, BTS’ former leader ARIRANG is a non-mover at No. 8, Jackson’s Number Ones steps 11-9.
Drake showed love to everyone attending opening day ceremonies for Kai Cenat‘s Streamer University yesterday (July 15).
Cenat was speaking to the invitees during an assembly when he announced that he had a message from the Toronto rapper.
“2026, back for another year,” Drake said via video message. “Congratulations to everybody that got accepted — all the new creators, all the veteran creators. I hope you guys make the most of this opportunity. I hope you learn something. I hope you’re able to teach each other things.”
Drake added that his OVO team had provided gifts for this year’s attendees who are staying at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas through July 20. “And behalf of us at OVO, I left you something…well, actually I left you a few things in your room to make the stay even easier,” Drake told the excited streamers. “So, shout out to Kai, Streamer University 2026. Enjoy.”
Some of the items unboxxed by the Twitch streamers include cologne, Nike clothing and OVO merch.
This is the second year of the innovative streaming bootcamp. The first Streamer University, hosted at the University of Akron in Ohio, won best streamed event at the 2025 Streamer Awards and clocked upwards of 20 millions hours watched on Twitch.
During a stream last June, Cenat revealed that he had to take legal action in order to own the name and the intellectual property to Streamer University, so that no one would be able to steal or redo the idea in its current iteration. “For Streamer University, the idea was so big that I had to take legal action into owning the idea, owning the name and making it mine because it was influencing a lot of people to just redo it, redo it, redo it,” he told the chat in 2025. “But we had to secure it and we gotta make this sh-t special. Streamer University, have full ownership. The name itself, have full ownership.”
You can watch the full stream of Streamer University’s 2026 Opening Ceremony below.
Post Malone looks to be retiring his cowboy hat, for now. Posty teased new music on Instagram on Thursday (July 16), which appears to find him tapping back into his rap roots.
“That one mofo that don’t know when to leave,” he captioned the clip, which sees Post slugging a Bud Light and puffing on a cigarette.
The unreleased track features Post’s signature melodic rapping sound that fans fell in love with on albums like beerbongs & bentleys and Hollywood’s Bleeding and could signal his sonic direction for his upcoming LP. “All my money clean, not a damn stain on me/ I would pop a bean, 2016 Stoney,” he raps on the new snippet.
“Ohhhhh this a hit,” Tyla Yaweh said in a comment, lending his stamp of approval. Fans in the comments seemed to welcome Post Malone’s return to hip-hop as well.
Post’s last rap album came with 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He leaned more into pop with 2023’s Austin and made a country pivot on 2024’s F-1 Trillion, which boasted hits like “I Had Some Help,” featuring country titan Morgan Wallen, which topped the Billboard Hot 100.
The 31-year-old has been gearing up for his next album, The Eternal Buzz, which remains without a firm release date. He first spoke about the project to Billboard at Coachella last year, where he detailed recording the LP in Nashville and already had 35 songs under his belt.
Post Malone broke out as a rapper with top 20 Hot 100 hit “White Iverson” in 2016, and blossomed into a potent hitmaker with Hot 100 No. 1s like “Psycho” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, “Rockstar” with 21 Savage, “Circles” and “Sunflower” with Swae Lee.
Listen to the snippet from Post Malone below.
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final features the two best national teams, Spain and Argentina, competing to win the 23rd edition of the international soccer tournament. The final match takes place at New York New Jersey Stadium (MetLife Stadium) on Sunday (July 19) with kickoff at 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT.
Additionally, the final match even include performances from some of the hottest names in music, such as Jennifer Hudson, Madonna, Shakira, BTS and Justin Bieber.
With the tournament final set, now is the best time to pick up tickets to cheer on your favorite team in person.
Tickets to the final match first went on sale through Ticketmaster, while the retailer’s Face Value Exchange program is an option for fans to resell tickets, if they’re unable to attend.
However, many of the dates have either sold out, or are very close to selling out, so one of the best ways to find World Cup Final tickets online is through third-party sites, such as StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, TicketNetwork, Gametime, Event Tickets Center and others. All online retailers guarantee authentic tickets in time for kickoff. Prices may also be above or below face value at times.
Where to Find 2026 FIFA World Cup Final Tickets Online
Looking for cheap seats to the World Cup Final? Here’s where to find tickets still available and on sale online.
StubHub has World Cup Final tickets available. StubHub ensures that all tickets are valid and authentic, but for whatever reason, if they’re not, you’ll get your money back. Additionally, if the World Cup Final match is canceled and not rescheduled, you’ll receive 120% in StubHub credit or be given the option of a full refund without the extra 20% credit. As of this writing, match tickets start at $8,933.
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Amid the flurry of mergers, acquisitions and asset sales that have taken place in the music industry this year, the sale of three scaled music rights catalog companies — Anthem, Iconoclast and Crescendo — is a sign that the catalog investment market is approaching a milestone.
Since 2018, when Hipgnosis Songs Fund listed on the London Stock Exchange and raised £200 million ($260 million) to invest in music intellectual property, the market for music as an “investible asset,” as Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis described it, has grown by the tens of billions.
Private equity funds including KKR and Bain have long invested in major music companies, while independent catalog companies like Primary Wave, Round Hill Music and the publisher Reservoir have been acquiring publishing rights and master recordings for decades. However, in the eight years since Hipgnosis’ listing, there has been a boom in catalog investing as more private equity firms, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, global private credit investors and family offices — to name a few — have been drawn to the annuity-like returns music royalties provide in the streaming era.
As the practice of treating music as an asset class has grown in popularity, it has also evolved, with companies from indie giants like Concord to the four-year-old music rights company Duetti securitizing their music portfolios to raise capital from debt markets. The rating agency KBRA says it has rated more than 80 music asset-backed securities with a cumulative value of $12.9 billion since 2020, and many of those, including Concord, Lyra and Canon, racked up triple the interest that was expected.
Jimmy Stone, managing partner at Alderbrook, which advises on music investing, wrote in a recent research note that market activity in the first quarter, like Primary Wave’s acquisition of indie publisher Kobalt, signals that activity is now shifting from catalog acquisitions to the consolidation of scaled companies. And the backers of Anthem, Crescendo, Iconoclast and others are attempting to seize this moment and exit their music investments on a high note.
Iconoclast, the music rights and brand development company started by Olivier Chastan and backed by the $2-trillion investment manager PIMCO, is in the final stages of a sale to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group, according to three sources. Music Business Worldwide previously reported Iconoclast was seeking a sale price around $500 million.
Chastan previously headed Iconic Artists Group, when the firm acquired rights to music by Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, David Crosby and Linda Ronstadt.
Iconoclast has acquired select music rights to more than 30 catalogs, including Diplo’s Mad Decent Publishing, David Cassidy, Marianne Faithfull, Tony Bennett and The Band’s Robbie Robertson. Music Business Worldwide wrote that Iconoclast is generating at least $25 million in annual revenue.
Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music company whose portfolio includes the publishing assets and recorded master royalties of Rush, Timbaland, and the music from the Spider-Man franchise, is also nearing a sale, to Influence Media.
The main owner of Anthem, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, previously went to market to sell the fund in 2017 and 2022, but those auctions came in below expectations. This time, around a dozen parties bid between $500 million and $600 million. Influence Media bid slightly above $650 million, sources say.
Meanwhile, global private markets investment firm Northleaf Capital is in advanced talks to sell the Crescendo catalog — which contains Pete Townshend’s publishing from his The Who repertoire; T. Rex’s publishing catalog and masters; and Ingrid Michaelson’s music assets — to Litmus Music for around $500 million, sources say.
Northleaf acquired Crescendo in 2021 after providing $500 million in funding to Lyric Capital Group in a deal that was termed a “strategic alliance.” Lyric Capital was formed by Jon Singer and Ross Cameron when they were executives at Spirit Music to buy Spirit Music and its catalog from original owner Pegasus Capital in 2018. Spirit Music is now the operational music company of Lyric Capital and serves as administrator for the Crescendo catalog. That portfolio also includes the 2014 acquisition by Spirit Music of the Cal IV Entertainment portfolio’s country hits like Faith Hill’s “Breathe,” Keith Urban’s “Stupid Boy,” Tim McGraw’s “Watch The Wind Blow By” and Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor.”
Litmus was launched in 2022 by music industry executives Hank Forsyth and Dan McCarroll with $500 million from private equity giant Carlyle Group. Its portfolio includes rights to music by Katy Perry, Benny Blanco and Keith Urban.
Stone says music catalog companies raised more than $4 billion in the first quarter this year, surpassing all of the capital acquisition funds raised in 2024.
That’s plenty of dry powder for investment deals.
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Kacey Musgraves has teamed up with Stanley 1913 for her first-ever collaboration with the popular drinkware brand, launching a limited-edition collection inspired by the Western aesthetic of her latest album, Middle of Nowhere. The eight-time Grammy winner worked with Stanley to create four everyday essentials, including a tumbler, mug, water bottle and even a pet bowl, all wrapped in a premium cow-print finish that nods to her Texas roots. As with many of Stanley’s celebrity collaborations, demand was immediate, and several pieces sold out shortly after launch on July 14.
If you missed the initial drop, there are still two items available directly from Stanley.
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Kacey Musgraves x Stanley 1913 Classic Legendary Bottle
The cow-print bottle is still in stock (as of this writing) and it features the leakproof, sweatproof, and drop-proof construction Stanley Cups are famous for.
The one-quart classic bottle pairs Stanley’s durable insulated design with an exclusive cow-print cover created for the collaboration. Made from recycled 18/8 stainless steel, it features double-wall vacuum insulation to keep drinks hot or cold for up to a full day. It’s dishwasher safe and ships in Stanley’s standard packaging. A Stanley water bottle clutch can be used alongside this product as a must-have for music festivals.
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The 2-in-1 lid keeps your pet food fresh while traveling and flips over to serve as a non-slip base during mealtime.
A cute gift idea for music-loving pet-parents, Kacey Musgraves’ Stanley pet bowl is designed for travel and everyday use. The 24-oz everyday bowl is made from recycled stainless steel with double-wall insulation to help maintain food or water temperature. The bowl is stackable, dishwasher safe and nests with Stanley’s larger six-cup pet bowl (available here for $40).
Where to Find Kacey Musgraves Stanley Cup Tumbler Online
While the sold-out 16-oz suburban mug and 40-oz Quencher tumbler are already out of stock from Musgraves’ Stanley 1913 collab, the latter has made its way to resale sites (albeit at marked-up prices).
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StockX has several Kacey Musgraves Stanley Cups available online though you’ll pay a little more than the original retail price.
The 40-oz Quencher ProTour Flip Straw Tumbler features the collaboration’s same cow-print coating and your purchase includes an exclusive charm keychain featuring a tassel, medallion, star and miniature CD case. Other features include the iconic leakproof flip-straw lid, brown-colored handle and a cup holder-friendly design. If you prefer waiting for more stock at the original price, shoppers can click the “Notify Me” button on Stanley’s product page for the 40-oz tumbler and the 16-oz suburban mug though the site has not yet announced a restock date.
Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere, was released on May 1, 2026 and topped three Billboard charts, including the Top Album Sales charts. The album features fan-favorite hits like “Dry Spell,” “I Believe In Ghosts” and “Loneliest Girl,” among others.
Gracie Abrams is bringing us heaven in celebrating her new album, Daughter From Hell.
The project marks the pop singer-songwriter’s first full-length since her Billboard 200 No. 2-debuting The Secret of Us in 2023. Ahead of her third studio set’s release, Abrams unveiled two preliminary singles led by “Hit the Wall,” which reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Look at My Life.” So far, the rest of the album’s 16 tracks are yet-to-be released — at least, not as studio recordings.
To kick off release week, Abrams hosted a free show at the Bowery Ballroom in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday (July 14) where a few hundred lucky Capital One cardholders got the opportunity to hear a handful of new songs live for the first time, plus some fan favorites (see the full setlist below). In addition to performing her prerelease singles, she sang six brand new songs from the project, including “Imaginary Friend,” which she recently revealed was co-written by her boyfriend, Paul Mescal.
A few hours before, Abrams sat down backstage to exclusively share early snippets of two other songs off the Aaron Dessner-produced project and chat about how they came to be in the Billboard original short form series, Voice Memo Demo.
Scrolling through the voice memos on her caseless silver iPhone, she eventually pulled up the original “verse-melody-pass” for what is now track 8 on the album, “Sober.” In the recording, we hear Abrams scratchily humming a soft melody a cappella, which she shared was inspired by an instrumental Dessner sent over.
“That melody isn’t even in the song anymore,” she quipped a few seconds into playing us the recording, which she said turned into a song that reminds her of something that could live on her first studio album, Good Riddance.
“Anyway, I love this song,” she continued. “It’s a song about in time, or in another life — this yearning quality. I thought about the girls who might dig a yearn.”
She also shared a similar very early recording of “Mews,” where she hums atop simple piano chords. After hitting pause on the memo, Abrams explained how the song was inspired by the London studio of the same name that it was recorded in.
“It sort of is like the most ballad-y ballad I’ve ever written, I think,” she said. “There’s something that feels classic about it that I loved right away.” She revealed the Macedonian Orchestra plays strings on the track, highlighting its build to the bridge.
She continued: “It sits in a place vocally that’s a bit uncharted for me, so stretching in that capacity was exciting.”
Daughter From Hell is out Friday (July 17).
Gracie Abrams: Live from the Bowery Ballroom in celebration of Daughter from Hell Setlist
Live debuts are bolded below.
- “Death Wish”
- “Broke My Heart”
- “Hit the Wall”
- “I Told You Things”
- “Imaginary Friend”
- “Minibar”
- “Good Reason”
- “The Knife”
- “Humming”
- “I Love You, I’m Sorry”
- “That’s So True”
- “Look at My Life”
- “Daughter From Hell”