For her next solo EP, LISA wants BLINKS to soak up the experience, sit back, and relax. Just like at the movies.
The superstar BLACKPINK singer stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a glimpse behind the curtain of her forthcoming collection, PRESS PLAY, due out Oct. 23.
“This EP is about my journey from my roots to where I am right now today,” the Thailand-born artist tells Fallon. “There’s a lot of Thai elements in the songs as well, in the EP. And every single song has their own character, their own vibe and we combine it together. It’s like a movie. So you just press play.”
The first of six tracks lifted from PRESS PLAY is “SaWaDiKa,” or “Hello” in her mother tongue. “SaWaDiKa” dropped earlier this month and notched more than 70 million views on YouTube in just 24 hours, “crazy” numbers she admits in her late-night interview, which aired Wednesday night, Sept. 16. “SaWaDiKa” crashed the Billboard Hot 100, with a peak position of No. 69.
The full tracklist for PRESS PLAY has yet to be announced, although LISA admitted track four is the next single and begins with the letter T. Thailand perhaps? “It’s a surprise for my fans,” she teases.
Like many of us, LISA had a fallback in case her K-pop career didn’t pan out. Her Plan B, she recounts to Fallon, was to be a dance teacher or to work as a performer, perhaps in a princess costume, at Disneyland.
No need. LISA’s Plan A is very much working out.
Aside from her dynamite pop music career, LISA is the subject of the feature documentary Always Lalisa. Directed by Sue Kim, Always Lalisa will open in global cinemas and IMAX on Oct. 12 before it heads to streaming on YouTube Premium later in the year. Tickets for the screenings will go on sale Sept. 9 via the film’s website.
Also, LISA made history as the first K-pop artist to hold a Las Vegas residency, with her four-show VIVA LA LISA run at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, from Nov. 13–14 and Nov. 27–28, 2026. Tickets reportedly sold out in fewer than 10 minutes. She hasn’t yet begun rehearsals, she tells Fallon, “but I’m going to start soon. I can’t wait.”
This is LISA’s year. She graced the stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony where she hit “Goals” alongside Anitta and Rema, becoming the first female K-pop and Thai artist to perform at soccer’s showpiece tournament. She also covered Vanity Fair’s Summer 2026 issue; served on the 2026 Met Gala host committee as the first K-pop artist in that role; presented at the 2026 Golden Globes; made her acting debut in HBO’s The White Lotus; and is confirmed for two Netflix projects, one sees her starring in and executive producing the action film TYGO, the other an untitled romantic comedy currently in development.
Watch LISA’s interview on NBC’s The Tonight Show.
It was just over two years ago that Céline Dion made a public vow: “If I can’t run, I’ll walk. If I can’t walk, I’ll crawl. But I won’t stop.”
The declaration was made near the end of Dion’s 2024 documentary I Am: Céline Dion, which chronicled the Canadian superstar’s battle with stiff person syndrome, a rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms.
This documentary expanded on her 2022 revelation that she had the disease and her 2023 announcement she was cancelling all of her scheduled concerts as she dealt with SPS, a condition that, in a cruel irony, stripped Dion — widely agreed to be one of the greatest singers of all time — of her ability to sing. The scene in which Dion makes this statement happens towards the end of the documentary, near another scene showing her in the midst of a harrowing SPS spasm that leaves her able to communicate only by hand squeezes. The film did not offer, nor assure, a happy ending.
And yet, there would be one. Before this week we already knew Dion had come a long way in regaining her health and her voice, via her surprise singing appearance during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In April, she announced a 16-date comeback residency at the French capital’s Plenitude Arena, with more than nine million people entering the lottery for a chance to purchase tickets for these performances and another subsequently-announced 10 show run happening at the same venue this May.
But despite what we already knew, seeing Dion in person on the second night of her residency still felt miraculous, an epic victory in a hero’s journey fit for a diva dressed in haute couture. On Wednesday (Sept. 16), Dion didn’t just walk across the stage, she sauntered and danced, looking every bit the globally beloved icon we’ve known for decades, but even more magnificent given the collective knowledge of what she’s been through and how hard she’s worked to come back for her fans, and herself.
These are five takeaways from night two of Dion’s comeback residency in Paris.
For Tinashe, opening up for an artist isn’t just about getting onstage in front of a huge crowd. She wants to know that the artist, as well as their fans, will actually give her room to be herself.
So when Harry Styles came calling, she was ready to say yes.
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Speaking at the Spotify x Coach event in New York City on Wednesday (Sept. 16), Tinashe talked about joining Styles’ on his upcoming Together, Together stadium tour, noting that she’s already opened for some of the music industry’s biggest names, including Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Beyoncé and Maroon 5.
“I reached the point where I was like, ‘I’m not gonna open for anyone unless I feel like they really understand what I’m about,’” she said.
Styles, she added, fits that criteria. Tinashe praised the singer for being “very open to the artistry” and focused on making sure fans have a good time. She points to the fact that that’s something she sees as the heart of live music and performances.
“I’m excited to be able to get up there in Phoenix,” she said, before imagining the scale of the shows. “I never perform my songs in a stadium.”
Tinashe will open both of Styles’ April 2 and 3 shows at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, kicking off the North American leg of his expanded Together, Together tour. The 2027 stadium run will also bring Styles to Pasadena, Dallas, Toronto, Atlanta and Chicago, with a different special guest joining him as a supporting act in each city.
The timing also finds Tinashe as she’s entering a new era. Her fifth studio album, Popstar, is due Sept. 25, following 2024’s Quantum Baby. Her “No Broke Boys” collaboration with Disco Lines also became her second U.S. top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 39.
Watch the full video of Tinashe’s response below.
When Drake announced plans for FOMO, plenty of theories were floated on social media by rap fans about what to expect. The 6 God’s “not so short film” arrived on Tuesday night (Sept. 15), just four months after his May trifecta of albums.
Lasting just over an hour, Fear of Missing Out is similar to Drizzy’s ICEMAN livestream, which essentially saw him turn portions of the short film into a visual album for tracks from his HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR albums.
But that wasn’t it, as Drake completed side missions throughout the clip, which featured appearances from Sexyy Red; Stunna Sandy; his mother, Sandra Graham; NBA star Kevin Durant; model Winnie Harlow; Lena the Plug; his “goth baddie” and more.
He couldn’t put together an event like FOMO without some new music, which saw him debut unreleased collaborations with Don Toliver, PartyNextDoor and Yeat.
In all, there are nine new tracks sprinkled throughout the short film, including his anticipated interpolation of Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” smash.
Following a premiere of FOMO in Toronto, Drake revealed that he’s set to hit the road again in 2027 for a world tour, which will include his first North American trek since 2023.
“Obviously, tour is coming and there’s other things on the horizon, some big shows,” he said. “We’ll be out 2027 to see everybody again across the world… We’ll see you on tour soon.”
Even after feeding fans three albums, The Boy is still clearly inspired creatively in the studio and has continued working on new ideas, but this feels like more of a care package he wanted to get out, rather than kicking off his next era.
Unfortunately, Drake made FOMO private on his YouTube page after the short film’s debut. Here’s everything we learned from Drake’s short film.
The earliest surviving television appearance of The Seekers, Australia’s most successful music export of the 1960s, has been rediscovered, digitized and shared online.
The eight-minute video captures Judith Durham, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley and Athol Guy lip-syncing to two of their own songs, “A Closer Walk with Thee” and “Myra,” for an appearance on the Graham Kennedy-hosted live variety show In Melbourne Tonight.
In the clip, Kennedy, the late Australian TV legend remarks: “There’s no gimmicks there, and it’s a great, strong voice, isn’t it?”
That performance beamed out March 23, 1964 on GTV, and hasn’t been broadcast for six decades, according to the National Film and Sound Archive, the organization that collects, preserves and shares Australia’s audiovisual culture.
“This is arguably the tape that kickstarted The Seekers’ international success,” explains NFSA senior curator Simon Smith. “Forgotten for 60 years, it’s now digitized and available for the world to enjoy.”
According to the vault, the folk-pop trailblazers sent the black and white 16mm film as promotional reel to U.K. talent agency The Grade Organisation.
The rest is recorded music history.
With their 1965 song “I’ll Never Find Another You,” The Seekers became the first Australian act to hit No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart.
Later that year, they climbed the U.K. chart summit again with “The Carnival Is Over.” In the space of just two years, they grabbed six U.K. top 10 hits, including their best-known track “Georgy Girl,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for original song and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1967, at the very peak of their powers, the four-piece performed to an audience of 200,000 — still considered the biggest concert crowd in the southern hemisphere — and they were named Australians of the Year.
Durham embarked on a solo career in 1967, and reunited with the band on several occasions, including in 2013, for the Seekers’ 50th anniversary tour. Those best-laid plans, however, took a back seat when Durham suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
She recovered, and the following year Durham and her bandmates were individually recognized as Officers of the Order of Australia.
The Seekers were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1995, they received the Ted Albert Award for outstanding services to Australian music at the APRA Awards in 2013, and they’ve had a stamp issued in their memory. Durham died in 2022, aged 79, after suffering complications from a long-standing lung condition.
The NFSA acquired the footage to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of television in Australia, a moment that was timed to coincide with the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Keith Potger, curator of Judith Durham’s estate memorabilia, donated the rare film.
Read more on The Seekers’ early days and watch the footage here.
Calvin Harris will return to Australia early next year for his first-ever headline tour.
The superstar Scottish DJ and producer will go coast-to-coast for a four-city trek next February, his first in these parts as the main man.
Presented by Untitled Group, Full Circle and Live Nation, Calvin Harris – Australia Tour 2027 will get Perth bouncing from Feb. 18, 2027 at Langley Park, then heads east for shows in Brisbane (RNA Showgrounds on Feb. 19), Sydney (The Domain, Feb. 20) and wraps up at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse (Feb. 26).
Aussie fans can expect Harris to whip out his anthems, reps say, from “One Kiss” with Dua Lipa, to “This Is What You Came For” featuring Rihanna, “Summer,” “Feel So Close,” “Sweet Nothing” featuring Florence Welch, and “Blame” featuring John Newman.
The Grammy Award-winner last visited Australia as the mainstage headliner for Festival X in late 2022, and has previously performed sets at the Stereosonic in 2011, 2012, and 2014, and the 2010 Big Day Out (Festival X, Stereosonic and BDO are no longer on the festivals calendar).
The towering EDM star (real name: Adam Wiles) boasts 11 No. 1 singles in the United Kingdom, dating back to his 2008 collaboration with Dizzee Rascal, “Dance Wiv Me.” No other dance act has more leaders on the Official U.K. Singles Chart.
His collection of career honors include two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, he owns the record for the most U.K. No. 1 singles in the 2010s (eight), and has the distinction of being the first British solo artist to pass one billion streams on Spotify.
The general public on-sale for Harris’ tour down under starts next Thursday, Sept. 24 at 1pm local time.
Full event details, pre-sale registrations, and ticketing information can be found here.
Calvin Harris – Australia Tour 2027:
Thursday, Feb. 18 — Langley Park, Perth
Friday, Feb. 19 — RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane
Saturday, Feb. 20 — The Domain, Sydney
Friday, Feb. 26 — Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
“Rajah of Rhinestones” and “Sultan of Sequins” were the two titles given to the legendary nine-time Emmy-winning and three-time Oscar-nominated costume designer Bob Mackie, and they couldn’t have been more fitting. Recognized for being behind some of the most sequined and sparkling outfits in Hollywood, Mackie — who died Monday (Sept. 14) at age 87 — has left an unforgettable mark on pop culture with his timeless work.
Mackie’s career as a costume designer spanned more than half a century. He began designing in 1961, earning his breakout gig through his work as a costume designer on the The Carol Burnett Show. From Cher’s elaborate, head-turning “nude illusion gown” and feathered headpiece at the 1974 Met Gala to Sabrina Carpenter’s iconic three-set archival Mackie look at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards and its afterparty, the designer has a number of dazzling pieces that have been seen on plenty of music’s biggest stars and inspired the work of countless others.
“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Mr. Bob Mackie passed away today,” read the statement shared to Mackie’s social media about his death. “He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer, which is all he ever wanted to do. His genius and extraordinary designs will live on forever, continuing to bring beauty into this world.”
In honor of Mackie’s iconic outfits, Billboard has compiled photos of music artists who have worn some of his intricate and beautifully designed ensembles below.
Jason Kelce got the memo: what happened at MSG stays at MSG. But that didn’t stop the former NFL great for spilling a little on his brother Travis Kelce’s wedding to Taylor Swift this summer during ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown show on Monday (Sept. 14).
Before Travis and the Kansas City Chiefs demolished the Denver Broncos 31-10 on the first Monday Night Football matchup of the season, Jason Kelce pried the door open just a bit on what the vibe was like at the New York arena for the star-studded affair whose details have remained the best kept secret in show business.
“So many awesome people, obviously, all walks of life,” said Jason, who was the best man at the July 3 affair. “The football world, celebrity world, singers from Nashville, actors, actresses, people that we grew up with in Cleveland Heights, a melting pot of individuals,” said Jason of the guest mix he described as “insane.”
Jason said the ceremony was “gorgeous,” saying the couple did an “incredible job” putting together the event that was officiated by actor/comedian Adam Sandler in what Kelce described as “in a very Adam Sandler, beautiful way.” ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, who was also at the wedding, seconded that emotion, saying of Sandler, “yes, he did.”
“And then, from then on, it was a party. It was so good seeing everybody out there,” Jason said, giving out some extra love to “all of the people that sang” and “all the people dancing. It was a very fun evening.”
While we know for sure the couple got hitched — mostly because billboards outside MSG read “JUST&T MARRIED,” very few details about what went on inside have leaked so far, other than some of the names on the guest list, which included performers Paul McCartney and Stevie Nicks, as well as Ciara, Avril Lavigne, Tate McRae and Ice Spice. Among the guests who reportedly attended were: Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Banks, Stephen Colbert, Bradley Cooper, Tom Cruise — who was seated next to Swift in a luxury box at Monday night’s Chiefs game — Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Mariska Hargitay, Liam Hemsworth, Conan O’Brien, Brad Pitt, Gracie Abrams, Jack Antonoff, Benson Boone and many more.
Even Travis has kept details sparse in the interviews he’s done since the wedding, including in a teaser clip of an ESPN interview with Chris Berman in which Kelce called the wedding the “best night of my life.” He added, “Marrying Taylor was, you know, it was more than I could have ever dreamed it to be because of all the people that showed up … and the amount of, you know, love that was in the air.”
Travis talked a bit more about the special night on the recent season premiere of his New Heights podcast with Jason, where he said, “Me and Taylor are so thankful to everybody that showed up. It was just so magical, man. Thank you to everyone at MSG that allowed us to do this. We wanted to do it somewhere where we could have a very intimate and genuine setting without a lot of distractions, we needed it to be a private feel.”
“Thank you for selling this b–ch out,” Charli xcx thanked the Barclays Center crowd on Monday night (Sept. 14). Certainly, Brooklyn made for relatively safe early territory for the alt-pop star’s latest arena trek, as few other areas in the country are more likely to intuitively grasp the combined garage rock, dingy dancefloor and high art energy that comprises Charli’s Music, Fashion, Film era.
Considering that the last time she came through Barclays was on the Brat Tour in 2025 — after visiting Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden on the Sweat co-headlining tour with Troye Sivan in 2024 — it’s not surprising that the Music, Fashion, Film Tour felt like a little less of a pop culture event, without the rush of the world’s eyes being on the scene inside the arena in quite the same way. But the overall experience might have been richer, with Charli now able to mix her grungy confessionals with her self-aware club anthems and her twinkling hyperpop gems in a way that reveals them to all be coming from basically the same place, and sounding pretty dynamite when stacked back-to-back in a brilliantly designed live set.
The Music, Fashion, Film Tour so far closely follows the live set Charli debuted at a number of festival dates — most prominently Chicago’s Lollapalooza in late July — but also makes room for a number of additional songs, as well as the odd special guest or two. (Underscores also quickly proved an inspired choice of stateside opener, with her future-forward pop songs, full-bodied delivery and impressive emotional connection doing Charli’s legacy in advanced modern pop proud.)
Charli herself kept the banter to a minimum on Monday, mostly letting the songs (and her flailing dance moves) speak for themselves — with additional emotional support from her phalanxes of backing dancers and live backing band. It all added up to a a high-point performance from a pop star who functions just as naturally as a club kid and underground rocker, with all of her personas feeding into one singularly iconic presence in contemporary music: “It’s Charli, babyyyyy…“
Here were the five best moments from Charli’s first New York-area show of her Music, Fashion, Film Tour.
She might not have been at the Emmy Awards on Monday night (Sept. 14), but Taylor Swift was still on our TV screens thanks to Monday Night Football.
Swift opted to attend husband Travis Kelce’s season-opening Kansas City Chiefs game against the Denver Broncos. She was joined by her mom Andrea, dad Scott and brother Austin in the suite, as well as her newly minted in-laws, Donna and Ed Kelce, and a surprise face: Tom Cruise.
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The blockbuster actor sat next to Swift in the suite and was spotted during the broadcast chatting up the pop superstar and even sharing a hug to celebrate a Chiefs touchdown. Cruise is clearly a friend of newlyweds Swift and Kelce, as he was in attendance at their July 3 nuptials, according to post-wedding anecdotes from sportscasters Joe Buck and Greg Olsen.
While we haven’t yet gotten a full look at Swift’s game day outfit, online fashion sleuths have already pinpointed that she’s wearing the red-and-white gingham polo dress from Guest in Residence based on the brief glimpse we’ve gotten on TV. The instantly in-demand dress appears to already be sold out in Swift’s color scheme.
While Swift chose the Chiefs/Broncos game over Monday’s Emmys, she did pre-tape a Law & Order: SVU sketch with her longtime friend Mariska Hargitay, who hosted the awards show. The sketch was all about decoding whether Swift would attend the show — seeing as she was nominated this year for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), among five nominations for Disney+’s Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show; The Muppet Show special starring Sabrina Carpenter took the prize instead.