Hayden Panettiere, the actress and singer best known for her roles in Heroes, Scream and Nashville, died Sunday at age 36. While Panettiere sculpted an enduring acting career beginning as a child, her work in music was an equally memorable part of her legacy — particularly through her role as country star Juliette Barnes on Nashville.
As Juliette, Panettiere performed dozens of songs throughout the ABC musical drama’s six-season run, many of which were released commercially through the show’s soundtrack albums. Her performances weren’t simply incidental to the series. Panettiere’s recordings made their way onto Billboard‘s country charts, giving the actress a legitimate chart history of her own. Her rendition of “Telescope,” for example, became one of the best-known songs associated with her Nashville character, while recordings including “Undermine,” “Wrong Song” and “Don’t Put Dirt on My Grave Just Yet” also charted.
Panettiere’s relationship with music began long before she stepped into Juliette Barnes’ boots. As a child, she contributed vocals to several film and television projects and recorded songs for movies including Ice Princess and Bridge to Terabithia. In 2008, she released “Wake Up Call,” her first single not tied to an acting role, demonstrating that a career in music was something she could pursue separate from her work onscreen.
Remarkably, Panettiere had already reached one of the music industry’s biggest stages before she was even a teenager. Her voice work on the A Bug’s Life Read-Along earned her a nomination for best spoken word album for children at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards in 2000, making her one of the youngest Grammy nominees in history. The Recording Academy lists Panettiere as a one-time Grammy nominee, with the nomination coming when she was just 10 years old.
From a childhood Grammy nod to country songs appearing on Billboard‘s charts, Panettiere’s music career stretched far beyond what her résumé as an actress might suggest. Here are five things to know about Panettiere’s music career.
The Jonas Brothers really are taking it all over again.
After selling out their headlining shows at Madison Square Garden, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas announced Monday (Aug. 17) that their Burning Up Tour All Over Again will officially expand into a 45-city North American tour this fall. What started as a special revival of one of the band’s most iconic eras is now becoming a full-fledged arena run.
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The tour will kick off Sept. 25 at Boston’s TD Garden and make stops in cities including Toronto; Washington, D.C.; Miami; Los Angeles; Seattle; and Denver before wrapping Dec. 21 with home state show at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center.
For Jonas Brothers fans, the name is more than just a clever throwback. The original Burning Up Tour launched in 2008 and became a defining moment in the group’s Disney-era rise to superstardom. The new trek promises to revisit that era and bring the experience to fans who couldn’t make it to the band’s New York shows.
“Our last tour reminded us just how much this music means to us and to the fans who’ve been with us from the start,” the brothers said in a statement shared with Billboard. “The response was so overwhelming announcing the MSG shows that we knew we couldn’t stop at New York.”
Seemingly, the Jonas Brothers aren’t the only ones getting in on the nostaglia.
Magnus Ferrell, Franklin Jonas (yes, the fourth Jonas brother, lovingly nicknamed Bonus Jonas) and All Time Low will join the band as special guests on select dates, adding some new blood to a tour built around revisiting the past.
The announcement comes during a busy stretch for the brothers, as they were just announced as halftime performers for the NFL’s first-ever regular-season game in Australia this past week. Then came the Aug. 13 premiere of Camp Rock 3, which brought Kevin, Joe and Nick back to Disney Channel nearly two decades after the original movie helped skyrocket their careers. The sequel began streaming on Disney+ the following day.
On Sunday, the trio took another trip down memory lane when they were inducted as Disney Legends during the D23 fan event. In other words, if 2026 has felt like one giant Jonas Brothers reunion so far, they’re not done yet.
The band is even giving fans something to snack on while they wait for tickets. The Jonas Brothers have teamed up with PopUp Bagels for a limited-edition “Burnin’ Up Schmear,” a Hot Pepper Parmesan Cheese available nationwide through Aug. 26. The collaboration started after Joe Jonas slid into the PopUp Bagels account with a simple message: “Burnin’ up collab?”
As for tickets, the first opportunity comes Tuesday (Aug. 18), when eligible Spotify Premium Top Fans can access the Reserved by Spotify presale beginning at 8:28 a.m. local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday (Aug. 21) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. VIP packages will also be available, with options including premium tickets, access to a pre-show Burnin’ Up VIP Lounge, exclusive merchandise and pre-show merch shopping.
See the full list of tour dates below.
After exchanging diss tracks in the past, all seemed to be calm on the BIA and Cardi B front for much of 2026.
That all changed last Thursday (Aug. 13) when BIA doubled down on her claims made on “SUE MEEE?,” which led to Cardi unleashing on the “Whole Lotta Money” rapper hours later.
The feud stretches back to 2023, when BIA aligned herself with Cardi’s rival, Nicki Minaj, as they teamed up on “Whole Lotta Money” in 2020, and fans noticed BIA allegedly scrubbed her X account of Cardi-praising posts she had made in the past. However, BIA said they had no problems.
Still, in 2024, Cardi and BIA threw their names into the rap beef ring. BIA shaded the Grammy-winning artist over alleged similarities between BIA’s Really Her EP and Cardi’s “Enough (Miami).” She also appeared to take issue with Cardi interpolating Missy Elliott’s 1999 hit “She’s a Bitch” on “Like What (Freestyle),” which BIA sampled a year before on “I’m That Bitch.”
BIA brought the feud into the studio and released her “SUE MEEE?” diss track, in which she blasted Cardi over claims of infidelity and allegedly using ghostwriters.
Cardi eventually fired back in 2025 on Am I the Drama?‘s “Pretty & Petty,” where she mocked BIA’s lack of commercial success and referred to the rapper as Diarrhea BIA.
The clash was resurrected last week, and this doesn’t appear to be the final chapter of the Cardi B and BIA war. Here’s a timeline of their feud below.
Ellie Goulding claims in a new lawsuit that her former managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millet of TaP Management, never told her about Live Nation’s controlling stake in their firm.
The “Lights” singer initiated legal claims for breach of fiduciary duty in the U.K. on July 24, according to court records reviewed by Billboard. She’s suing both Mawson and Millet, who co-founded TaP in 2010, as well as the management firm’s parent company, HNOE Limited.
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Goulding signed to TaP in 2018 and remained there through 2025. According to Variety and Rolling Stone, which both obtained copies of the singer’s lawsuit, Goulding is alleging that Mawson and Millet pushed her during this period to do business with Live Nation for touring, merch and a documentary film.
The problem, Goulding reportedly alleges, is that nobody ever disclosed to her that Live Nation had purchased a controlling stake in HNOE in 2015 — or that Live Nation then bought out the rest of the company in 2019. Unbeknownst to Goulding at the time, the ownership arrangement allegedly subjected Mawson and Millet to contractual obligations that barred them from steering artists under their management away from doing deals with Live Nation.
According to Goulding, this meant that Mawson and Millet did not prioritize finding the best deals for her as a client.
“The defendants had a personal interest or duty in dealings between Ms. Goulding and companies in the Live Nation group, which was in actual or potential conflict with the interests of Ms. Goulding in securing the best commercial terms with whichever promoter, merchandiser or other counterparty it was most advantageous for her to deal with,” reads the lawsuit, per Variety.
Goulding is seeking unspecified financial damages in the lawsuit. Reps for Goulding and TaP did not immediately return requests for comment on Monday (Aug. 17).
Live Nation, which is neither named as a defendant nor accused of any wrongdoing, declined to comment on the case.
Rick Ross is unbeatable in Madden — at least according to him.
The Miami rapper and businessman was recently on an episode of the Complex collectibles show On Display, where he showed off his car, motorcycle and video game collection that he stores in his $50 million Miami airplane hangar.
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While showing off his arcade games, host Joe La Puma asked which game Ross is unbeatable in, and that’s when Rozay revealed he has a near-decadelong winning streak when it comes to the popular football game. “I haven’t lost in Madden in maybe eight or nine years,” he claimed. “I used to smoke, sip syrup, and now I could sit there and I could sit there while listening to a beat at the same time.”
He was then asked if he has a specific team that he plays with, to which Ross replied that he has three teams he goes to depending on who his opponent picks. “I can’t disclose who I play with,” he said. “If you ever want any smoke or if somebody wants some smoke, depending on who you are and where you from, then I’ll decide. I got three teams that I could go with. It just depends what I want to exploit you on the most.”
However, when it comes to celebrities, Ross said that he tries to avoid playing his famous friends because their ego could sometimes get the best of them. “Not really,” he replied after being asked if a celebrity has ever challenged him in Madden. “You know celebrities have egos and they know I’ll text them early in the morning, ‘I toasted you. Are you embarrassed?’ That sh– go a long way.
You can watch the full episode of Complex’s On Display below.
Puerto Rican megastar Ricky Martin and Brazilian DJ, singer and producer Pedro Sampaio will perform at the halftime show of the 2026 NFL Rio Game in Brazil on Sept. 27, the NFL’s biggest international season to date, Billboard can exclusively announce Monday (Aug. 17).
The Baltimore Ravens will face the Dallas Cowboys that Sunday at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium, marking the first NFL regular-season game in the city. The performance will be the second of a record seven halftime shows presented by American Express during the NFL’s 2026 International Games, which will span seven countries and four continents. The game will begin at 4:25 p.m. ET.
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“I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, seeing Maracanã Stadium as a place where history was made,” Sampaio said in a statement. “I never imagined that my first time performing on that field would be alongside Ricky Martin, who has always been a huge inspiration to me. “Maracanã is part of the history of both sports and music, and being part of this moment — especially at the first NFL game in my hometown — is something I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.”
The Brazilian funk artist has amassed more than 14 billion audio and video streams worldwide, according to a press release, and more than 11 million monthly Spotify listeners. He has collaborated with Latin music giants like Anitta, Pabllo Vittar, J Balvin and Nicky Jam, and was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2024.
Martin, who has sold more than 95 million albums worldwide throughout his three-decade career — and achieved a historic Hot 100 No. 1 with “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” among other chart achievements — said the performance will bring him back to “one of my favorite places in the world: Rio.” “Being part of another historic NFL event alongside Pedro Sampaio is incredibly exciting,” Martin added. “There’s nothing quite like the energy of the Brazilian people, and I can’t wait to reunite with our fans and perform live at the iconic Maracanã.”
In February, Martin joined Bad Bunny during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show to perform the chorus of Benito’s “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii.”
Tim Tubito, senior director of global game presentation, music and entertainment at the NFL, stated, “Over the past year, the NFL has embraced the global power and cultural influence of Latin music, and Pedro Sampaio and Ricky Martin each have a unique connection with fans across Brazil, Latin America and beyond.”
The performance will be broadcast live in Brazil on Globo’s channels GETV and sportv. Limited-edition merchandise commemorating the halftime show will be available at NFL Shops in Rio.
The announcement follows the previously confirmed performance of the Jonas Brothers at the 2026 NFL Melbourne Game on Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the first-ever NFL game in Australia.
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KPop Demon Hunters fans can add a collectible figurine to their everyday gear with this officially licensed backpack charm release. The collectibles come in a mysterious blind bag, which each contain one of nine sculpted character figures with a distinct pose and expression.
Each statuette includes a metal clip, so it can be attached to a backpack for school, a lunch bag, zipper pull, a set of keys or a purse. The clip-on feature makes it an easy way to personalize school gear, especially alongside the franchise’s growing lineup of back-to-school merch, including backpacks, kids Vans sneakers and water bottles. Of course it’s great for all ages, with adult Demon Hunters fans clipping these colorful charms onto their bags and totes.
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Each figure is fully sculpted in 3D and measures just under three inches in size.
The blind bag format means the character you get is completely random, with nine designs available to collect, including HUNTR/X’s Rumi, Mira and Zoey, and Saja Boys Jinu, Abby, Mystery, Romance and Baby. The clumsy but beloved Blue Tiger Derpy is also one of the characters thrown into the mix.
Each character has their own distinct features, outfits and hairstyles, and Rumi, Mira and Zoey are even carrying their iconic swords. Designed for ages four and up, the blind bag also comes with stickers and an anime-style door hanger.
The product is part of the official KPop Demon Hunters merchandise line that’s come out of the widely successful film, with new releases including everything from Mattel dolls and phone huggers to books and Little People Collector Sets.
The success of KPop Demon Hunters has extended well beyond merchandise. Netflix says the film has surpassed 600 million views, making it the streamer’s most popular original title, while “Golden” won Best Original Song at the 2026 Oscars. That momentum led Netflix and AEG Presents to announce the K-pop Demon Hunters world concert tour for 2027. Cities, dates and ticket on-sale details have yet to be announced.
After a year of performances across the globe, Bad Bunny is going out with a bang — at home.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is bringing the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour to Puerto Rico to close out more than a year of performances worldwide. According to a press release issued Monday (Aug. 17), the two-night event is scheduled for Aug. 22 and 23 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan.
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Weeks before the announcement, anticipation began to build as rumors circulated that the artist would perform once more on the island before concluding the trek. Although there was no word from the artist or his team, local outlets reported that the singer would perform at Bithorn Stadium at the end of August. Speculation intensified after Rimas Entertainment reserved dates at the stadium.
Before the concerts begin, fans will be able to enjoy an experience outside the stadium featuring a local market, activations and activities celebrating the tour’s culmination. The trek kicked off in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Nov. 21 — the first of 55 performances — following a sold-out, 30-day residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, known as “El Choli,” which generated millions of dollars for the island last summer.
From 2025 through July 2026, the artist toured across five continents, bringing his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos and the iconic La Casita — designed by the Puerto Rican artist to resemble the typical homes of the island — to audiences in 22 cities. Along the way, he invited celebrity guests to join him for house parties inside the structure.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos was released in January 2025, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 before climbing to No. 1 the following week. It became the fastest Latin album to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, doing so in just 13 days, and earned Bad Bunny the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in February. The following week, his performance at the Super Bowl halftime show helped the album return to the top of the Billboard 200 and propelled the song “DTMF” back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour is already the highest-grossing tour by a male Latin artist in history, with $467.5 million in gross earnings. In June, Bad Bunny became the first Latin artist to surpass $1 billion in career gross ticket sales.
Tickets for both performances go on sale Wednesday (Aug. 19) at 10 a.m. through PR Ticket, with a limit of four tickets per transaction.
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