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“Watch It Burn,” Katy Perry‘s latest single, tops this week’s new music poll.
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Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (June 26) on Billboard, choosing the pop star’s just-released song as their favorite new music.
“Watch It Burn” soared ahead new releases from artists including TEEKS, sombr, Gracie Abrams and Phoebe Bridgers. At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, fans took Perry to the top with 27% of the vote.
Perry lets loose her rage in “Watch It Burn,” which has her declaring in verse one, “For years, I tried to rise above/ Was only light and love/ But now I’m, ‘Shut the f— up.’” The track was accompanied by a fiery new music video directed by Christian Breslauer.
“You know I gave and I gave/ Now I’m giving up/ There’s nothing more you can take/ No, I don’t want to cause a scene/ But give me the gasoline/ Tonight’s the night, I light a match/ Throw it hard behind my back/ Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette, and watch it burn/ With the past, I’ma breathe in the ash/ Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette, and watch it burn,” Perry sings in the chorus.
“Watch It Burn” is Perry’s follow-up to “Bandaids,” which dropped in November. She last released a full-length studio album in 2024, 143, which was a top 10 hit on the Billboard 200.
Trailing just behind Perry’s single are TEEKS’ “My Boy,” coming in with 18% of the vote, and sombr’s “My Body Isn’t Ready,” with 16% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
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Alan Jackson played a career-spanning set of 24 songs at his final concert Saturday night (June 27) at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, over four decades after moving to Music City to chase his dreams of being a country music singer-songwriter.
Jackson spearheaded his special ‘Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale’ show, bringing his decades of touring to a close with a massive concert that not only sold out Nissan Stadium, but brought fans who didn’t score tickets into the stadium to pack out downtown Nashville for a livestream of the event.
Early on in the evening, before Jackson’s set, artists including Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson, Riley Green, Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood paid tribute to the country hitmaker, performing some of their favorite songs from his extensive catalog, which includes 26 No. 1 Billboard Country Airplay chart hits.
Church performed a rendition of Jackson’s heartbreaking “Someday,” Wilson performed the lovestruck “Tall, Tall Trees,” Johnson sang “Job Description,” and Thomas Rhett offered “Small Town Southern Man.”
Though rain and thunderstorms rolled through at various points during the concert, spirits couldn’t be dampened. After lightning and more rain rolled in halfway through the evening, fans showed up ready to party as Jackson took the stage to much fanfare. He led the packed audience through years’ worth of hits, from his breakthrough “Here in the Real World” to rowdy anthems like “Good Time” and classics such as “Chattahoochee” that chronicle small-town living and young love.
By the time Jackson ended his set close to midnight, waving to fans from the stage as fireworks lit up the night sky above, concertgoers were roaring their approval and cheering the artist who has given country music lovers so many enduring hits and so many celebratory concerts over the years.
Below, Billboard rounds up every song from the star’s headlining portion of the show.
See the full setlist performed by Alan Jackson at his final concert below.
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