Kehlani is pressing pause on her world tour and will focus on getting her health back to where it needs to be. The Grammy-winning singer announced Wednesday (Aug. 26) on social media that she’s canceling her next two shows in New Jersey and Maryland on the Kehlani World Tour after being hospitalized for a painful illness that made her unable to swallow.

“After two off days feeling completely normal.. ive been up all night unable to swallow & in so much pain,” she wrote. “I just left the hospital & am not cleared to sing for the next two shows. i’m so sorry Camden & DC. my team is working on a solution.”

Kehlani revealed that the trek will restart on Aug. 29 at the Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront in Richmond, Virginia.

She continued: “Breaks my heart to have to ever do this. i do everything i’m supposed to to ensure my health stays up to par & it still isn’t guaranteed. we will pick back up in Virginia.”

Kehlani had been prioritizing her health and mental well-being while on the road, as she’s been making stops at bathhouses, yoga studios and wellness centers across North America. The tour still has plenty of runway left and will be running through September and wrapping up in early October with a show in San Francisco.

The “Folded” singer is the cover star of Billboard‘s 2026 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players issue, which features Kehlani speaking with her friend and collaborator Leon Thomas. During the conversation, Kehlani dispelled the narrative that R&B is dying.

“I hate the idea that R&B is dead,” she said. “It’s never gone anywhere. People are just a little lazy in looking up new artists to dive into. There’s plenty everywhere you look. I’m finding someone I like every day.”

The 31-year-old released her self-titled album in April, which reached No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart and earned a top five debut on the Billboard 200. 

Billboard has reached out to Kehlani’s reps for further comment.

Dolly Parton built an unparalleled career in country music, charting more than 100 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs ranking and earning 25 No. 1s — the most among women all-time. But Parton, who died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80, also ventured into other genres, even finding success on Billboard’s dance charts.

Parton’s first foray into dance music came in 1978, when she released the disco-influenced country album Heartbreaker. The set reached No. 5 on the Top Country Albums chart (though it long predated the 2001 launch of Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart).

Heartbreaker generated Parton’s first dance hit in the double-sided single “Baby I’m Burnin’”/“I Wanna Fall in Love,” which peaked at No. 15 in early 1979 on the (now-inactive) Dance Club Songs chart.

Parton returned to Dance Club Songs in 1981 with another paired entry, “9 to 5”/“House of the Rising Sun.” The former served as the famed theme to the film of the same name, in which Parton co-starred, while the latter was her take on the traditional folk ballad.,

She made three more appearances on Dance Club Songs: with “Potential New Boyfriend” in 1983, bolstered by a nearly six-minute extended dance mix; her 1997 cover of Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train,” which received several dance remixes, including one featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo; and, following a two-decade-plus absence, “Faith,” with Galantis and featuring Mr. Probz, in 2020.

“Faith,” a dance reworking of John Hiatt’s 1987 song “Have a Little Faith in Me,” gave Parton a No. 1 on a dance chart at last, as it topped Dance Airplay in 2019. It also reached No. 10 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

When Parton announced “Faith” at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 2019, she noted that she was prioritizing the release of positive, uplifting music. “This world is just so dark and ugly and awful … so I’m going to make it my business to try to do songs that are more uplifting, not all Christian-based songs, but songs about better things,” she said. “Do better, and have a little more love, a little more light and don’t be so dark and dirty.”

During her lifetime, Parton topped five of Billboard’s currently published radio charts: Adult Contemporary, Country Airplay, Christian Airplay, Christian AC Airplay and Dance Airplay.

Parton’s genre-spanning exploration continued through her most recent studio album, Rockstar, in 2023. The set, her 49th studio release, earned the icon her first No. 1 on a Billboard rock chart when it spent a week atop the Top Rock Albums list. It also became her highest-charted entry on the Billboard 200 when it debuted and peaked at No. 3. The collection includes covers of rock classics and collaborations with many of the genre’s biggest names, including Lynyrd Skynyrd on “Free Bird,” Joan Jett on “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on “Let It Be.”

Troye Sivan isn’t losing a wink of sleep over the concept of first-week sales. For his upcoming fourth studio album, She’s the Best, the Australian pop star has something bigger in mind: making something people remember.

“I honest to God could not tell you what my first-week sales [are],” Sivan said during an appearance on Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. “I’ve just never really been numbers-minded when it comes to music stuff.”

Instead, Sivan said the metric that matters most to him is whether the album leaves a mark on pop culture.

“The heartbreaking thing, like rather than it only [selling] however many thousand or whatever, would be if it went by without any sort of cultural impact,” he said. “I would be devastated.”

That mind-set does make sense for the singer, given the fact that his previous era became one of the most visible queer-pop moments of the past few years. Sivan’s 2023 album Something to Give Each Other debuted at No. 20 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Dance/Electronic Albums chart, while its singles “Rush” and “One of Your Girls” helped earn him spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

The era eventually expanded beyond the album itself, culminating in Sivan and Charli xcx‘s 2024 SWEAT Tour — the kind of pop-cultural moment Sivan says he hopes he can create again.

“I think back to those moments of like the first time I watched Moulin Rouge! or the first time I saw the ‘Dirrty’ video from Christina Aguilera,” he explained. “Those things, those sort of moments, I’m obsessed with the idea of being able to try and give that to people.”

If Something to Give Each Other was Sivan’s exercise in “perfect pop,” his new album is cooking up to be something a little messier — and, in his words, more expressive.

“I do feel like this album … is the most potent distillation of the references, musical references, that have made me the person that I am,” he said.

Those references run the gamut. Sivan pointed to Janet Jackson’s “Together Again” as one musical touchstone, while describing the album as influenced by late-’90s grunge-pop á la Marcy Playground, with even some Fatboy Slim energy thrown into the mix. The result, he said, is intentionally “chaotic” and layered.

That was a deliberate departure from his old approach.

“My last album, my goal was like perfect pop,” Sivan said, describing himself as a “student of the school of Max Martin and Swedish people.” But after spending years obsessing over the mechanics of a pristine pop song, he felt a natural “pendulum swing” toward something more expressive.

“I made a lot of the album with my little brother,” he said. “I made a lot of the album at home.”

And he isn’t interested in over-explaining the new era before listeners get to experience it. Sivan said the rollout for She’s the Best will be “very quick,” partly because he wants fans to hear the project in full rather than spend months dissecting individual pieces.

“I think the album is best experienced when listened top to bottom,” he said. “It’s like a journey.”

That journey officially began Aug. 14 with the release of “She’s the Best,” the title track and lead single from the album, which arrives Oct. 9. The record is his first full-length project since Something to Give Each Other and his first new music since signing with Interscope Records.

The title track’s accompanying video, directed by Gordon von Steiner and co-starring Nicole Kidman, also gives a glimpse at the scale of Sivan’s latest visual world. The video follows previous collaborations between Sivan and von Steiner, including “Rush” and “One of Your Girls,” while bringing Kidman — Sivan’s fellow Australian and Boy Erased co-star — into this new album’s realm.

And when Sivan played an unreleased song and its video for the Las Culturistas hosts during the interview, their reaction suggested he may already be onto the kind of cultural moment he says he wants. “That’s gonna be a huge f—ing moment,” host Matt Rogers declared.

For Sivan, though, the goal isn’t simply to make a bigger pop moment than the last one. It’s to make something that lasts.

“I think to me personally this one is going to age well,” he said. “I think I’m gonna look back on it in like 50 years and be able to play a couple of the songs or all of the songs and be like, wow, I’m really proud of 31-year-old Troye for doing that.”

Watch the full interview below.