There’s more Justin Bieber Swag for your collection.

At the stroke of midnight, the Canadian pop star shared the full live recording from his much-talked-about headlining performance at the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival, on April 11.

Released through Def Jam Recordings, Swag Live From Coachella (Weekend I) features guest spots from The Kid LAROI, Tems, Wizkid, Dijon, and Mk.gee, and stretches across 22 tracks.

It’s the companion to a performance that spurred its share of conversation on social media after Bieber spent some of the set playing and singing along to old YouTube videos of his catalog alongside his more recent hits. Whatever, it generated an impressive spike for Bieber’s streams, new and older. Following that first weekend slot, Bieber landed seven albums on the Billboard 200 at the same time, a career best for the most titles on the tally concurrently. Prior to that, the most he had on the chart at once was four, last achieved in January 2012.

Swag Live From Coachella (Weekend I) follows the Grammy Award-nominated seventh studio album Swag, which dropped July 11, 2025, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (dated July 26), and flooded the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 16 songs, led by “Daisies” at No. 2.  His first LP in four years, since Justice, Swag debuted at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums while the album track “Daisies” started at No. 1 on Top Streaming Songs. 

Then, last September, the surprise release of Swag II, which opened and peaked at No. 4 on the all-genres Billboard 200 list.

Missed it? The official livestream of Bieber’s performance on Thursday, June 25 enjoyed a special encore repeat on YouTube, and will repeat again today, June 26 at 7pm ET.

Stream Swag Live From Coachella (Weekend I) in full below.

Central Melbourne just got a high voltage artwork — a new Bon Scott mural, unveiled ahead of what would have been the late AC/DC frontman’s 80^th birthday.

Presented Friday, June 26, in AC/DC Lane, just minutes after Australia wrapped up its final round D match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the piece was created by Melbourne artist Era based on exclusive commemorative artwork by Mambo artist and Mental As Anything co-founder Reg Mombassa.

Born and raised in Scotland, Scott relocated to Fremantle, Western Australia with his family in 1952 when he was aged six. His Celtic roots are remembered with a lifesize statue, wielding the bagpipes, in Kirriemuir.

With a bad boy attitude, naughty grin and powerful pipes, Scott fronted several bands, most notably Fraternity and the Valentines, before he nabbed vocal duties with AC/DC.

Scott performed on the band’s first seven studio albums, including the legendary 1979 collection Highway to Hell. The album turned out to be his swansong. Just six months after its release, in February 1980, Scott died in London, at the age of 33, from what the official coroner’s report described as “acute alcohol poisoning” and attributed to “death by misadventure.”

AC/DC was one of the very first names read out for induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, saluted at a ceremony in 1988, alongside Dame Joan Sutherland, Johnny O’Keefe, Slim Dusty, Col Joye and Vanda & Young. Later, in 2003, the Aussie act was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. At every concert, AC/DC salutes their inspirational early frontman.

The rocker is gone, but won’t be forgotten.

“Fifty years ago, Bon Scott and AC/DC made Aussie rock history when they rolled down Swanston Street on the back of a flatbed truck – bagpipes in tow – for their iconic ‘It’s A Long Way To The Top‘ music video,” Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece told guests gathered Friday at Kinetic Cafe.

“This moment sparked a surge of cultural energy that still reverberates today. Melbourne is the undisputed home of live music in Australia, and AC/DC is part of our city’s DNA.”

The mural, he continued, is “a fitting tribute to two Antipodean cultural icons – and you couldn’t find a better home for it than here in AC/DC Lane.”

Collectors can bag their own copy on a poster, shirt, tote bag and more. Exclusive Reg Mombassa x Bon Scott 80 merch can be found at aus.bonscottofficial.com.

“The Scott family have been fans of Reg Mombassa’s artwork (and music) for many years. His visual style is an iconic piece of Australian culture. To have him create a special piece commemorating Bon’s 80th birthday is an honor and a thrill,” reads a statement from the rocker’s survivors.

Scott’s life and career was recounted in the 2022 documentary On The Brink, produced for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A batch of the vocalist’s candid letters chronicling life on the road, and the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, recently went under the hammer as part of RR Auction’s Marvels of Modern Music sale. The lot sold for more than $48,000.

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. 

Last week, we featured FKA twigs with Lil Yachty, Myles Smith, Kashus Culpepper and more.

This week: sombr returns with a new single and rising-star-studded video for it; Phoebe Bridgers shares the lead single for her upcoming third album, Lost Weekend; and Steve Lacy continues teasing his third album, Oh yeah?, with a SZA collab…plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

sombr, “My Body Isn’t Ready”

Sombr has done it again; with his latest single, he continues to give voice to the complicated feelings that come with moving on, or in this case, not being ready to (the New Yorker continues to be the sole writer of his music as well). By now, he’s proven that he can deliver a pop-rock banger just as easily a contemplative slow-burn, the latter of which best describes “My Body Isn’t Ready.” For fans who are subscribing to “sad summer,” as Noah Kahan is calling it, this song fits right in.

Phoebe Bridgers, “Lost Boys”

Opening with glitchy, distorted lyrics, “Lost Boys” quickly snaps into focus as a folky, fairly polished pop song — one that sounds right at home for Bridgers while also hinting at an expanded sonic universe for her upcoming third album, Lost Weekend, out in August. Fittingly, Jack Antonoff co-produced alongside Tony Berg (a frequent sombr collaborator) and Ethan Gruska — with vocal support from Bridgers’ Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. For its first three-and-a-half minutes, “Lost Boys” functions as a warmly welcomed lead single — perhaps hinting at a theme of feeling lost in it all — but then, Phoebe hits us with a classic Bridgers scream, showing there’s still some angst under this smoother sonic surface.

Steve Lacy feat. SZA, “is it cool?”

After launching his next album era with the airy indie-rap lead single “the feeling,” Steve Lacy’s second release “is it cool?” is a quicker hit (it’s nearly half the runtime as its predecessor). As a result, it tells a tighter story in conversation with SZA who drops in for just two verses (plus some harmonies) about the role trust plays in a partnership. “You ain’t gotta trust me to love me, baby/ ‘Cause I don’t even trust myself,” sings Lacy. Though somewhere along the way, it’s as if he realizes in realtime how uncool that really is, concluding: “Maybe I should trust myself.”

Gracie Abrams, “Look at My Life”

The second single from Gracie’s upcoming album, Daughter From Hell, continues the narrative arch of its first: that everything’s not really as great as it may seem. And while lead single “Hit the Wall” lays it out quite simply, “Look at My Life” pulls at that thread with a bit of maniacal denial, disguising harsh truths under driving pop production “Do I look high-functioning or/ Is my façade crumbling?” Abrams asks, before singing on the chorus, “Bet you can’t tell, but it’s kind of a bad time/ A new spiral every night/ Bawling my eyes out/ No, but I’m so fine.” Perhaps her third single will be the judge of that.

Katy Perry, “Watch It Burn”

With “Watch It Burn,” Katy comes full force with a new perspective (essentially, f–k it) and new crew of collaborators including Justin Tranter (the two teamed on previous single “bandaids”), Jason Gill, Kiddo and more. While the song clocks in under three minutes, there’s an defiant clarity to it — essentially proving the point that there’s nothing more for her to work out in her head or the studio. As she says herself: “I’m gonna get what I deserve…Finally I put myself first.” And what a great place to be, judging by the sound of it.

kwn, And All Pride Aside

What better way to follow up a breakthrough EP than with B-sides that present an entirely different side of its primary artist? East London R&B singer-songwriter kwn continues her ascent with And All Pride Aside, a terrific EP that blends her sensual, tongue-in-cheek side with the progress she’s made in terms of processing grief amid her rising fame. From tender tributes to her late grandfather (“Heaven’s In Your Hands”) to slick flips of ’00s hip-hop staples like Nelly’s “Hot In Here” (“Risk It All”), kwn, once again, delivers a project for all moods, while also pushing herself into new lyrical territory that plays as an authentic reflection of her personal and artistic evolution. — KYLE DENIS

TEEKS, “My Boy”

Perfectly timed for Pride Month, soulful New Zealand singer-songwriter TEEKS has unleashed “My Boy,” a tender, unabashed tribute to the innate beauty of queerness and sexuality, particularly within the framework of men of color. “My boy, pretty like a sunrise/ So strong, gentle like a butterfly/ Big shot, all the girls go crazy,” he croons at the onset over somber guitars and warbling bass. With his voice occasionally creeping into a slightly hoarse upper register, TEEKS perfectly captures the tension and apprehension that comes with exploring and pursuing a new, burgeoning — and sometimes forbidden — love. — K.D.

Madonna fans score a surprise late goal with the release of “Read My Lips,” a new addition to the Official FIFA World Cup 26 album.

“Read My Lips” is the Queen of Pop’s bilingual collaboration with Latin star Feid, and it arrives late Thursday, June 25, a “Bonus Edition” cut from the all-star FIFA World Cup collection, which now expands to 20 tracks.

Produced by Madonna, Stuart Price and Tainy, the song first reached our ears in Madonna’s Confessions II – The Film, which premiered earlier this month at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, a 13-minute visual project centered around her upcoming album Confessions II, and is now available for the first time as a complete release.

It’s shaping as a Madonna Summer. The superstar singer will drop the full length album, Confessions II, on July 3.

Then, two weeks later, on Sunday, July 19, she’ll join BTS and Shakira on stage at MetLife Stadium for the first-ever halftime show at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final.

With all the activity surrounding her short film, new music and concerts, Madonna hasn’t forgotten about her long-gestating biopic.

In a recent Interview cover story, the “Like a Virgin” singer spoke openly about why the screen project has experienced so many delays, from her perspective. “I was supposed to make a movie about my life,” she began. “I worked on my script for two years and spent two years at Universal Studios with the line producers doing budgeting and casting. We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget because I needed — I’ve had an extraordinary life. I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget.”

Confessions II, it turns out, was born from those frustrations.

The film project was first announced by Universal Pictures in 2020. After Julia Garner was cast in the starring role and Madonna worked on two versions of the script, news broke in 2023 that the project had been scrapped by the studio. In May 2025, the seven-time Grammy winner partnered with Shawn Levy to create an autobiographical series about her life, a few months after which the Weapons actress appeared to hint that she was still involved.

The actress recently appeared in Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Bring Your Love” music video, which dropped earlier in June, another teaser for Confessions II.

The Official FIFA World Cup 26 Album (Bonus Edition) features recordings by Andrea Bocelli, Daddy Yankee, Future, The Rolling Stones and more. Stream it below.

Katy Perry is setting her past ablaze on new single “Watch It Burn,” which dropped Thursday night (June 25) alongside a cinematic new music video.

As previewed in teasers shared by the pop star leading up to its release, the visual finds her wreaking havoc as a monstrous scorpion-human hybrid. On the cathartic pop-rock banger — which Perry performed before its release at both O Son do Camiño in Spain and Rock in Rio Lisboa — she sings about reclaiming her life by saying goodbye to a long-term relationship.

“Tonight’s the night, I light a match/ Throw it hard behind my back,” she sings on the track. “Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette, and watch it burn.”

The hitmaker adds in the lyrics, “I’m gonna get what I deserve … Finally I put myself first.”

“Watch It Burn” marks Perry’s first release since November single “Bandaids.” Before that came 2024 album 143, which reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200.

The new song’s lyrics seemingly nod to the singer’s breakup last year from fiancé Orlando Bloom, with whom she shares daughter Daisy. While speaking with cowriter Justin Tranter on his Unfamous podcast, Perry said, “In ‘Watch It Burn,’ I am wrestling with my darkness, but last year was pretty tough.”

“I have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life over things where I should be f—king angry about,” she continued. “What I’ve done is I pushed it down, but I should be f—king angry. I’m allowed to be angry for a f—king moment.”

Perry is now in a relationship with Justin Trudeau, whom she called “the love of my life” during a Q&A at the premiere of her Lifetimes Tour concert film in New York earlier in June. “I fly super high,” she added at the time. “Sometimes I need to be anchored. To have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole.”

Check out “Watch It Burn” below.

Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has announced a new round of speakers for its 2026 ADE Pro conference, with Josh Baker, Mochakk, Busy P, and Orbital‘s Paul Hartnoll among the latest additions to the event’s 30th anniversary edition.

The newly announced participants join previously revealed speakers including electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, who will serve as ADE Pro’s Guest of Honor, along with Mosimann, Novah and LYZZA. The conference takes place Oct. 21 – 25 in the Dutch capital and is recognized as one of electronic music’s largest global industry gatherings.

This year’s conference program is curated around three central themes: market consolidation and the future of independence, rebuilding the music industry’s relationship with big tech and collective action. The event will also spotlight Brazil, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and sub-Saharan Africa as key growth regions for electronic music.

Brazilian artists Mochakk and Solarce Brothers join the program as part of ADE’s broader focus on the country’s expanding influence in the global electronic music market. Elsewhere, Manchester-based producer and label owner Josh Baker will discuss how artists are increasingly building businesses beyond music through labels, festivals and education platforms.

Ed Banger Records founder Pedro Winter, better known as Busy P, and Because Music founder Emmanuel de Buretel will unpack their long-running partnership and the future of independent music companies. Hartnoll will appear on a panel titled The Ethics of the Sample: Collaboration, Consent and Credit Across Cultures, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Orbital’s seminal 1996 album In Sides.

Other newly-announced guests include SPFDJ, Pegassi, Mathame, Gideon Berger, Sarah Williams and Coldcut co-founder Matt Black. More speakers and sessions for ADE Pro 2026 will be announced in the coming months.

The 2025 edition of the conference featured appearances from British rapper Skepta, plus DJs Hannah Laing, Joris Voorn, Chris Stussy and Armin van Buuren. In an on-the-ground report, Billboard U.K. described ADE as “a diverse and fun-loving hub of creativity in Europe,” noting that Amsterdam was “totally taken over by the 600,000 fans and 10,000 music industry professionals who live and breathe electronic music.” 

Alison Wonderland has no shortage of tales to tell the grandkids. The Australian EDM star etched her name in the history books when, in 2018, she headlined Coachella, becoming the first female DJ to do so in what was her fourth performance in the California desert.

She’s prouder still of her seven-times headlining the “Temple of Wonderland” at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. And there’s been headline slots at Lollapalooza’s Perry’s Stage, and appearances at Tomorrowland, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Life Is Beautiful. The Sydneysider has shifted more than 800,000 headline ticket sales across her U.S. tours alone. Global streams of her music top 1.1 billion.

On Thursday evening, June 25, perhaps a moment to stand among her finest; Wonderland has been invited to present the match ball for Australia’s final Group D round match with Paraguay in the FIFA World Cup Finals, which kicks off 10pm ET at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.

“OH MY GDDD I just got asked by ADIDAS to BRING OUT THE MATCH BALL TO THE FIELD FOR THE AUSTRALIA VS PARAGUAY MATCH TOMORROW,” she writes on her socials. “I’ll wave to you all from the TV. WISH ME LUCK (have been in the studio all day so had to process haha ).”

An overjoyed Wonderland shared several snaps from the studio. In each shot, she’s wearing her Aussie green and gold Adidas track pants. One apparently captures the surreal moment she read the email with the once-in-a-lifetime request.

The Australian Socceroos will hope Wonderland (real name: Alexandra Sholler) is a good luck charm. To progress in the tournament, Australia must win or draw against the South American team. Losing isn’t an option.

The timing is perfect. Wonderland is currently on tour in the United States, the final date of which is set for this Saturday, June 27 at Foam Wonderland in Las Vegas, NV. Then, she takes her show on the road to for performances in the United Kingdom and Europe, getting underway July 10 with the Wonderland Warehouse Rave in London, all of it in support of her fourth studio album, Ghost World (via EMI). 

Speaking with Billboard ahead of her latest tour, Wonderland remarked: “I’m a perfectionist. Someone said something a long time ago, you can tell everyone you put everything into this body of work but at the end of the day the only person who will know if you really went there will be you. It sits with me and haunts me anytime I make anything. I think it’s why I push myself so hard. I think about it all the time to this day.”

Collaborators on her latest album, which dropped in December 2025, include Nina Wilson, better known as EDM producer and artist Ninajirachi, plus DJ Dave and Erick The Architect. Wonderland produced the collection with Dylan Ragland, MEMBA and QUIX. Ghost World was mixed by Tom Norris and Tristan Hoogland and mastered by Dale Becker.

RÜFÜS DU SOL will carve out another slice of history this week when the EDM act parks at Madison Square Garden, arguably the world’s most famous arena.

The Australian trio will set a new benchmark on Thursday, June 25 with the first of four consecutive sold-out shows — the most by an electronic artist at MSG, and the most tickets sold at the venue by an electronic artist.

RDS has been burning the history books of late. As previously reported, their Inhale / Exhale World Tour is recognized as the highest-selling electronic tour of all time, and multiple record-setter in Australia and New Zealand.

The Sydneysiders completed their 2025 Australia tour last November with the third of three sold-out hometown shows at Afterpay Arena (then known as Qudos Bank Arena), the country’s biggest arena, for 150,000 tickets sold across the country, lifting their overall tally to 750,000 headline tickets for the year.

Along the way, the trio became just the second Aussie act, after AC/DC, and first electronic outfit to headline Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, and played a string of high-profile festival spots, including Chicago’s Lollapalooza. All up, the lads played to some 1.5 million fans worldwide on the Inhale / Exhale World Tour, according to concert promoters Live Nation and independent Melbourne events specialist Untitled Group, which awarded the Sydneysiders with a commemorative plaque.

There will be more massive moments for RDS’ Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George, and James Hunt in the weeks ahead, including a headline spot to over 60,000 music fans Saturday, July 4 at Mexico City’s Foro Sol. This current tour has also seen RDS wind their way through a circuit of iconic baseball stadiums, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field (The Cubs), Boston’s Fenway Park (Red Sox), and San Diego’s Petco Park (Padres).

The ongoing North America ’26 trek is in support of 2024’s Inhale / Exhale (Rose Avenue Records / Warner Music Australasia), their fifth studio album, which opened its account at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart, continuing a podium finish for all their recordings in Australia. Along with that swag of historic moments, RDS have won four career ARIA Awards and six Grammy Award nominations, with a win in 2022 for best dance/electronic recording with “Alive.”

PJ Harvey is sending a message from deep space. The British singer-songwriter has unveiled “Voyager,” a sweeping new track inspired by NASA’s legendary Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977 and continue their journeys nearly five decades later.

Originally conceived during sessions for Harvey’s next album – details of which have yet to be announced – “Voyager” took on a new life after physicist Professor Brian Cox invited the musician to contribute a song to his live Emergence stage show, which hits the U.K. later this year. The track was later recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, France.

Lyrically, the track also references the late astronomer Carl Sagan, whose 1994 book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image of Earth taken from the edge of the solar system, by NASA’s Voyager 1. In it, Sagan described the planet as “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Harvey shared in a statement: “I was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the ‘voice’ of Voyager 2. I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself, ‘What it might say to us if it could?’ This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.

“The song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated,” she continued. “It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth. With these ideas as my starting point I let the song develop, and discussed an orchestral accompaniment with Dario Marianelli.

“I’m very happy with the end result, and it’s wonderful to hear the orchestral score bring such expansiveness to my music. I thoroughly enjoyed researching the history and journey of Voyager 1 & 2, and was glad to be able to quote the great Carl Sagan within the song, and his famous description of our fragile and beautiful ‘pale blue dot’.”

Harvey’s most recent studio album arrived in the form of 2023’s I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth full-length effort to date. It marked her first release with independent label Partisan Records after three decades with Island Records and followed 2016’s Grammy-nominated The Hope Six Demolition Project.

The record also earned a nomination for the Mercury Prize, adding to her long history with the award; the Dorset musician has been nominated several times overall and has won twice, for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2001) and Let England Shake (2011). She remains the only artist to have received the award on two separate occasions.