After much teasing, it’s finally been confirmed: OzzFest is returning in 2027. The festival’s official Instagram page confirmed the return of the rock and metal festival for next year and that the event will be held in Villa Park, Birmingham.
The 42,000-capacity stadium was the site of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show Back to the Beginning, which took place in July 2025. The post promised that they will share “more info on everything coming soon!” The event dates and lineup have not yet been shared.
OzzFest was devised by Ozzy’s wife and manager Sharon back in 1996 after she was rebuffed by Lollapalooza when trying to book Ozzy for a show. The festival became an annual occurrence and toured throughout the U.S. and Europe until 2008. Since then, it has taken place sporadically, most recently in 2018 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Over the years, the festival saw performances from Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Tool, Deftones, Slipknot and more. In 2024, Yungblud launched BludFest in Milton Keynes, England and was inspired by the approach his late mentor took with OzzFest.
Since Ozzy’s passing in 2025, Sharon has spoken frequently about bringing the event back. Speaking to Billboard earlier this year, she revealed that negotiations with Live Nation were under way about an event for 2027. “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people,” she said.
“We really started metal festivals in this country. It was [replicated but] never done with the spirit of what ours was, because ours was a place for new talent. It was like summer camp for kids.”
Charity concert Back to the Beginning took place at Villa Park – home to football team Aston Villa F.C. – in a place of serious significance to Ozzy; The Prince of Darkness grew up in the city’s Aston region, and co-founded Black Sabbath in Birmingham with Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler in 1968.
The event saw the final live outing for Ozzy and Black Sabbath, as well as tribute performances from Metallica, Yungblud, Slayer and more.
Fontaines D.C. has pulled the curtain back on its next era, with the Dublin-formed band’s new album, Dopamine Chamber, confirmed to arrive on Oct. 16 via XL Recordings.
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News of the forthcoming LP arrives alongside its punchy lead single, “Marianne,” which received its live debut during a headline gig at the Baluarte de la Candelaria venue, in Cadiz, Spain, on Aug. 8.
According to the press release, Dopamine Chamber was produced by James Ford, who worked with the band on its previous two albums — Skinty Fia and Romance. The album was recorded between London, the English countryside and Palermo, and sees the band embrace a darker, electronic-infused sound. Conor Curley, the band’s guitarist, said in a statement that the sonic shift and new influences is the band “trying to find stuff that pointed into the future.”
Lead single “Marianne,” the band said, was partly inspired by Netflix thriller series Ripley (2024) starring Adam Scott, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Listen to the track below.
Dopamine Chamber marks Fontaines D.C.’s fifth record to date, following Dogrel (2019), A Hero’s Death (2020), Skinty Fia (2022) and Romance (2024). The latter was nominated for the Mercury Prize and won the band the 2025 BRIT award for international group; it also peaked No. 2 the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart while becoming the group’s first entry on the Billboard 200 (peaking at No. 97).
After meeting at music college in the Irish capital in 2014, the five-piece has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed rock bands of the past decade, earning consistent critical acclaim while growing its audience and leveling up to arena-sized headline shows. Fontaines D.C. has notched multiple Grammy Award nominations across its career, starting with a best rock album nod for A Hero’s Death at the 2021 ceremony, followed by two nominations in 2025 for Romance (best rock album) and the single “Starburster” (best alternative music performance).
The band will headline Reading & Leeds Festival on Aug. 30, appearing alongside fellow bill-toppers Charli xcx, RAYE, Dave, Florence + The Machine and Chase & Status.
Beabadoobee, Jorja Smith and Nemzzz are returning to their roots for a run of new intimate live performances with Spotify.
Dubbed Hometown, the three-part series launches next month, with Smith kicking things off in her stomping ground of Walsall, near Birmingham, on Sept. 6. Nemzzz follows in Manchester on Sept. 12, while Beabadoobee will close out the run in London on Sept. 17. Venues for each show are yet to be announced.
The shows will give the trio an opportunity to perform in the cities where their respective musical journeys began. Top listeners of each artist will be invited to attend the performances, which will later be released as exclusive concert films. Spotify will also partner with each artist on supporting local community initiatives, including donations to youth organisations.
Smith, who releases her third studio album What Are The Odds this Friday (Aug. 21), said in a press release that “Walsall is where I first started writing and recording music as a teenager.” She added, “It’s where my love of music began and the people, experiences and sense of community there continue to influence my creativity today. It’s home, home is where my heart is and home is where I found my voice! I hope it’s a moment that inspires the next generation to believe that big things really can come from Walsall.”
Manchester-born rapper Nemzzz, meanwhile, is gearing up to drop new record Locked In on Sept. 4. “I’ve always made a point of celebrating Manchester and representing where I’m from, so getting to do Hometown with Spotify feels like a natural extension of that,” he said.
“There’s a pride that comes with doing it at home, around the people and places that have been there from the beginning. No matter where this takes me, I’ll always find a way to bring it back home.”
Beadoobee will follow with her forthcoming LP Pylon on Sept. 18, marking the follow-up to her twice BRIT-nominated 2024 album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves. As part of her Hometown event, she will support The Avenues, a specialist social care charity in west London.
“London has always felt like home to me, it’s where I started finding my people, making music, playing tiny shows and figuring out what I wanted to do, so Hometown feels really special,” she said.
“It’s also really cool that we’re also able to give something back to the community with [west London social care charity] The Avenues and support young people locally, that part feels really important to me.”
The Hometown series also follows a recent run of Spotify live projects that put U.K. artists and their biggest fans in more intimate settings. In May, the platform brought Skye Newman to Hackney Church for a special performance celebrating her SE9 project, with the resulting show released as an exclusive live film.
Speaking to Billboard U.K., Andy Sloan-Vincent, managing director at Spotify (U.K., Ireland, and Netherlands) explained the streaming platform’s approach to supporting homegrown talent via live initiatives: “Skye is a [Spotify] Radar artist in the U.K., which means we’ve made the commitment to develop her. She has an incredible voice; when you go into the room with her, everyone wants her to win,” he said.
“I think the reason we want to get behind artists like that is because we want the artist to win. That’s our outlook on things.”
Shakira has committed an initial $1.25 million to help rebuild schools damaged by the earthquake that struck her native Colombia, announcing the pledge during a surprise visit to one of the hardest-hit regions of the country.
The Colombian superstar traveled Monday (Aug. 17) to Quibdó, the capital of the province of Chocó, where nearly 200 schools have reported damage following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on Aug. 10, killing hundreds of people. She toured damaged classrooms, meeting students and educators, and met with Chocó’s governor, Nubia Carolina Córdoba, and Quibdó’s mayor, Rafael Bolaños, to hear about the region’s needs.
The $1.25 million commitment brings together several partners: $500,000 from Shakira and Live Nation, $500,000 from the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, and $250,000 from CAF, the development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. The funds, channeled through Shakira’s Fundación Pies Descalzos (Barefoot Foundation), will go toward rebuilding schools and getting children back into classrooms.
Philanthropist Howard Buffett, who accompanied Shakira on the visit and has partnered with her on education projects in Colombia before, announced that his foundation would separately support the reconstruction of 10 additional schools in Chocó. “When she calls, I come,” Buffett said during the visit.
Shakira framed the effort around the long-term stakes for the region’s children.
“What worries me the most is that schools are not rebuilt once this emergency is over,” she told journalists. “Every day that children don’t go to school is a day they miss out on their future.” Her foundation has operated in Chocó for more than two decades, running two schools in the region.
“It’s a place I love, a place where I’ve seen our students grow in our classrooms,” she said. “I really want to see it rebuild again.” She added that she planned to dedicate her personal efforts to rebuilding a local technological university in the province.
Chocó is one of Colombia’s poorest and most isolated regions — an area roughly the size of Switzerland where towns are connected largely by rivers and unpaved roads, complicating relief efforts. Shakira’s pledge is among a wave of commitments from Latin American artists following the disaster. Over the weekend, Marc Anthony and Chayanne joined dozens of artists at a Miami benefit concert for earthquake relief in Colombia and Venezuela, while Karol G pledged to match fan donations to her Con Cora Foundation during a three-night run at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles.
One of the most successful Latin artists in history, Shakira has long paired her career with philanthropy in her home country. She scored a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with 2006’s “Hips Don’t Lie” featuring Wyclef Jean, one of the best-selling singles of the century, and holds the record for the most Latin Airplay No. 1s of any woman, with 21. She headlined the halftime show at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final in July and was named Billboard’s inaugural Latin Woman of the Year in 2023. She founded Fundación Pies Descalzos in 1997 to expand educational access for children in Colombia.
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.
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.
After joining up with her movie friends Idina Menzel and Josh Gad on Friday (Aug. 14) to share news of an upcoming third installment of the Disney blockbuster Frozen franchise, Kristen Bell went out to the ballgame.
According to a video posted by the entertainment-forward baseball team, Bell made a surprise appearance on Saturday (Aug. 15) at a Savannah Bananas game against the Indianapolis Clowns to sing a medley of beloved Broadway hits and a Frozen favorite with Broadway star and Bananas pitcher Derek Klena (Jagged Little Pill, Dogfight).
In it, Bell, wearing a headset mic and rocking a custom Bananas jersey with leopard print cargo pants, worked her way down the steps toward the field as she sang the Frozen classic “For the First Time in Forever,” slapping hands with kids as everyone around her pulled out their phones to record the unexpected moment from the team that lives to surprise. Shaking her hips and smiling, Bell grabbed two fans’ hands and sang the iconic line, “I don’t know if I’m elated or gassy/ But I’m somewhere in that zone,” before firmly placing the women’s hands on her chest.
Just when she wondered if she might meet, “the one,” Klena — dressed in his Bananas yellow sleeveless uniform — jumped into the fray, singing the Wicked anthem “Dancing Through Life.” The 34-year-old Broadway veteran joined the Bananas in December and has been on their Banana Ball World Tour this year.
His slick dance moves were copied by his teammates, who also showed off their bat-balancing and stilt-walking expertise as the singer moved across the field on his way to meet Bell, who he promptly pulled in for a spin and a dip. They parted ways briefly before Klena began a slow walk back toward the actress singing the Bill Medley part of the Dirty Dancing theme song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life).” Bell soon joined in, taking on the Jennifer Warnes bits from the Oscar-winning, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 1987 pop classic.
The game break ended with Bell, of course, running at Klena, who executed a perfect lift as they closed the medley holding hands and reprising the first two songs. The Bananas captioned their post: “The mashup we never knew we needed.”
The day before, Bell, Menzel and Gad reunited on stage at the D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, Calif. to tease Frozen 3, which is due out on Nov. 24, 2027. Bell and Menzel, who voice, respectively, sisters Anna and Elsa, treated fans at the Honda Center to performances of “Frozen Heart,” while Gad performed the new Olaf love song “Ooooh, Samantha.”
Bell also revealed that Anna will finally marry her “mountain man” Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan Groff), while Menzel teased that “love is in the air for everyone.” Bell then playfully asked, “Everyone? Even Olaf?”
Felt the Glastonbury-shaped hole in your summer this year? Missed the massive sets and that one-of-a-kind Worthy Farm magic? Us too. After taking a fallow year in 2026, the U.K.’s festival crown jewel is calling once more – and gearing up for a blockbuster return in 2027.
The festival, which welcomes more than 200,000 fans to Somerset, south west England each June, remains one of the world’s defining stages for music’s biggest names. In 2025, headliners The 1975, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts and Olivia Rodrigo performed on a bill that spanned pop (Charli xcx, Lorde), indie (Wet Leg, Wolf Alice), hip-hop (Doechii, Loyle Carner), electronic (Four Tet, Maribou State) and beyond, showcasing the extraordinary breadth of sounds and stars that make Glastonbury unlike any other festival on the planet.
Glastonbury’s periodic fallow years – the last one took place in 2018, prior to enforced breaks in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic – allow the dairy farm on which the festival sits a chance to recover from the footprint of its enormous scale, while also giving organizers a rare window to recharge.
But the downtime also fuels many Glastonbury obsessives’ favorite pastime: speculation over who will take to the Pyramid Stage when the festival returns. The two-year gap between editions this time around has made it more intriguing than most; in the time since the festival last swung open its gates, a host of stars’ careers have accelerated or bounced back into the cultural conversation, meaning the pool of plausible headliners has grown considerably.
With that in mind, here are some of the acts who could potentially headline Glastonbury 2027, ranked from least to most likely.