During load-out after Ed Sheeran‘s recent concert in Detroit, six workers were rushed to the hospital after suffering injuries in an incident that is now being investigated.
According to the Detroit Free Press, The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed Monday (Aug. 31) that it was looking into what had happened two days prior in and around the Ford Field vehicle tunnel, where the injured crew members were reportedly hit by falling pieces of equipment.
In a statement shared with Billboard, the city’s fire department explained that first responders had indeed “responded to a report of an accident” at the venue late at night to provide “triage support due to multiple injuries.”
“Six adults were transported to the hospital,” it continued. “Two were taken by Superior Ambulance, who were already on site, staffing the event. Four were transported by Detroit EMS. Of those transported, no injuries appear to be life-threatening. At the time of transport, two patients were in serious condition and four were in stable condition.”
Billboard has also reached out to reps for Sheeran, who has not publicly commented on the incident.
Ford Field thanked the fire department and EMS “for their rapid response” in a statement and added, “Out of respect for the people involved and the integrity of that review, we will not speculate on the cause.”
Sheeran played in Detroit on Aug. 29 as part of his ongoing Loop Tour. The trek first kicked off in January and is set to wrap in November following several more United States dates and a Latin American stretch.
The British pop star’s most recent full-length, Play, dropped in September last year, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart.
Fallen Angel, JENNIE‘s latest solo release, tops this week’s new music poll.
Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 28) on Billboard, choosing the BLACKPINK star’s new EP as their favorite new music.
Fallen Angel rose above a number of new releases this week — from music acts including Olivia Rodrigo, Ky-Mani Marley, Alex Warren, Alabama Shakes and more. At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, JENNIE’s new EP came out on top with more than 82% of the vote.
Fallen Angel is JENNIE’s first solo collection since last year’s full-length solo debut (Ruby). Led by the single “Less Than a Lover,” the EP arrives via ODDATELIER and Columbia Records.
The Fallen Angel rollout continued Friday (Aug. 28) with the acoustic-pop leaning “Fallen Angel” (alongside a dark and dreamy music video, seen above). “Less Than a Lover” and “Fallen Angel” were released as a digital EP with a third new song, “Heaven,” on streaming services the same day.
The title track has JENNIE singing, “Hey, can’t you stay?/ Don’t leave a fallen angel out here on her own/ Find a place/ Wherever we land is where we turn into a home.”
There’s more to come from Fallen Angel.
A physical CD release, which can be preordered from JENNIE’s webstore, features three additional new songs that are not available on streaming: “Sweettooth,” “Lockitdown” and “Face” round out the tracklist, making it a six-song EP. CD orders are currently expected to ship on Oct. 30.
Trailing behind Fallen Angel on Billboard‘s poll this week are Olivia Rodrigo’s “Serena Joy,” Ky-Mani Marley’s Love and Energy, Alex Warren’s WILDCHILD and Alabama Shakes’ I Must Be Dreaming.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
Olivia Rodrigo turned a last-minute lineup shakeup into one of the defining moments of her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival on Saturday (Aug. 29), calling Alanis Morissette to the stage after Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O pulled out of the all-women event at Great Park in Irvine, Calif.
Rodrigo delivered the news of the cancellation to the crowd herself, framing it gently before revealing the silver lining.
“The bad news is Karen O is not able to make it tonight, she was one of the first people who said yes to Daisy Chain but she has a personal matter that requires her to be elsewhere,” Rodrigo said.
The good news walked out moments later. Rodrigo welcomed Morissette as the fill-in, and the two launched into “Ironic,” the enduring single from Morissette’s 1995 landmark Jagged Little Pill. Then came the twist worth talking about: partway through, they reworked the song’s most-quoted scenario, flipping its “beautiful wife” to a “beautiful husband” — a small rewrite with a pointed wink at a festival built on an all-women, queer-inclusive bill that also features Chappell Roan and Doechii.
The duet doubled as a full-circle moment for Rodrigo, who has long named Jagged Little Pill as a cornerstone of her own songwriting. She inducted Morissette into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022, and the pair previously shared a stage on Rodrigo’s Sour tour, trading verses on “You Oughta Know” in Los Angeles.
Rodrigo staged Daisy Chain Fields at a career high. Her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, debuted atop the Billboard 200 in June with 485,000 equivalent album units — the biggest week of her career and the largest week of 2026 for any solo artist. Lead single “drop dead” bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, her fourth chart-topping debut. With the release, she became just the second artist ever, after Beyoncé, to send each of her first three studio albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while landing at least one Hot 100 leader from each.
The one-day festival, which raised $10 million for nonprofits supporting women and girls, arrives just weeks before Rodrigo launches her Unraveled Tour.
Harry Styles gave a cheeky nod to ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s wedding during night three of his Madison Square Garden residency on Saturday (Aug. 29).
Toward the end of the set, he hyped up the venue’s recent history before pivoting to the joke: “We’re at Madison Square Garden, home of the world champion New York Knicks!” he told the crowd, before adding, “And they also do weddings.” The line, referencing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s July 3 wedding at the arena, drew loud cheers.
Styles and Swift dated from November 2012 to January 2013, a relationship widely understood to have inspired Swift’s 2014 hit “Style.” He reportedly received an invitation to the Swift-Kelce wedding but didn’t attend; sources told Variety at the time he was “currently on tour and will not make it to MSG.”
His fiancée, Zoë Kravitz, went to the ceremony without him. Styles was performing the London leg of his own Together, Together tour that same night, and fan footage from the July 3 Wembley show captured him singing 2017 track “Two Ghosts” — long rumored to be his response to “Style” — including the lines “Same lips red, same eyes blue / Same white shirt, couple more tattoos.”
The joke landed three days into a residency already drawing outsized attention. Styles’ 30-show MSG run — which makes up the entirety of his 2026 U.S. tour dates and continues through Halloween — opened Aug. 26 to 11.5 million presale ticket registrations in January, which Ticketmaster called the highest volume ever recorded for an artist presale.
It’s Styles’ first run of live shows since 2023, in support of his new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, released in March.
Opening night carried its own emotional weight. Styles completely overhauled his usual setlist — a departure from the largely unchanged show he’d played across 33 prior tour dates — and paused late in the set to honor Dolly Parton, who had died the day before.
“I just wanna give a proper thank you to all the musicians who have inspired me over the years,” he told the crowd. “Dolly, we love you. Thank you so much.” Her 1974 recording of “I Will Always Love You” then played over the PA as the crowd sang along, with Zoë Kravitz, Gayle King and Drew Barrymore among those in attendance. Styles closed that show with “Sign of the Times” and set-closer “Aperture.”
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Olivia Rodrigo is giving fans another shot at getting into “The Unraveled Tour” without paying arena-tour prices. Her Silver Star ticket program is returning for the upcoming North American and European run, with tickets priced at just $25 each. Requests open Tuesday, September 1st, at 3:00 p.m. ET/12:00 p.m. PT…
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KATSEYE made it to Olivia Rodrigo‘s Daisy Chain Fields festival after all, though their appearance was short.
Three of the group’s current active members — Yoonchae, Lara and Megan, who sustained an ankle injury during rehearsal that led to KATSEYE pulling out of performing this weekend — unexpectedly showed up on stage Saturday (Aug. 29) just before Devon Again, the act booked to fill in for what would’ve been KATSEYE’s time slot. The trio said they were honored to introduce nonprofit Baby2Baby, an organization that provides children in poverty with diapers, clothing and other necessities, ahead of Devon Again’s performance.
Addressing their last-minute exit from the lineup, Megan expressed, “We’re so disappointed that we can’t perform today on stage, but my ankle is on hiatus.”
“But our hearts are definitely not,” she added. “We’re sending all of our love to Olivia and this beautiful community that she built at Daisy Chain Fields. We’re so happy to be here and show as much support as we can. We love you, Olivia. Thank you for letting us be a small part of this.” (Check out a video clip that was captured of the moment here.)
KATSEYE announced on Thursday that Megan had sprained her ankle, and that they’d no longer be performing at Rodrigo’s inaugural charity festival.
“My doctors have advised me to stay off it and let it heal so I can be ready for tour,” Megan said on Friday.
KATSEYE’s scheduled appearance at the Irvine, Calif., music festival curated by Rodrigo came just after the group earned its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the EP WILD.
KATSEYE’s active lineup presently consists of Yoonchae, Lara, Megan and Daniela, who wasn’t seen on stage Saturday. Fellow members Manon and Sophia are on hiatus, with Manon focusing on her wellness and Sophia focusing on her mental health.
On Friday, Rodrigo announced that ticket sales for Saturday’s day-long music event had brought in $10 million that will go directly to 10 nonprofit organizations supporting women: Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, Baby2Baby, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, FreeFrom, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Institute for Reproductive Health and National Women’s Law Center.
Lil Nas X is mourning the death of his mother, Tameka Hill.
On Saturday (Aug. 29), the 27-year-old rapper and singer took to social media to pay tribute to his late mom.
“RIP TO THE BADDEST EVER! LOVE U FOREVER MOMMY,” Nas wrote on Instagram alongside throwback photos. “This one’s gonna hurt.”
Hill’s age and cause of death were unknown at press time. Billboard has reached out to Nas’ representatives for further information.
The “Old Town Road” hitmaker had a complicated relationship with his mother but revealed in 2020 that she struggled with addiction.
“I never really talk about my mom,” the Grammy winner told Variety at the time. “She’s an addict, so we don’t have the closest relationship. Even trying to get her better — things didn’t quite work out. But there’s still love.”
The news of Hill’s passing comes days after Lil Nas X — who recently revealed that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had entered rehab for mental health support — celebrated his “10,000th day alive.”
“So, tomorrow is my 10,000th day alive and I made it,” he said in a video shared to his Instagram Stories. “A lot of you won’t make it, but I made it.”
In mid-June, he revealed on Instagram that he had been in rehab “for a few months.” He later spent time with family in Atlanta and friends in Los Angeles to “ground myself down to Earth and get out of my head.” He added, “I have a therapist now and a psychiatrist, which is really helpful.”
Nas, whose real name is Montero Hill, has also faced legal trouble. In August 2025, he was charged with four felonies after allegedly attacking police officers while walking naked through the streets of Los Angeles. The charges will be dismissed if he continues with mental health treatment, Variety reports.









