Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has been hospitalized following a medical emergency, forcing the legendary British rock band to postpone two concerts in Germany.
In a statement shared on Instagram Saturday (Oct. 31), Deep Purple announced “with great disappointment” that its concert at QI Arena in Leipzig that evening, as well as its upcoming performance at Sporthalle Hamburg, had been postponed.
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“This comes as a result of a medical emergency involving Ian Gillan, which has resulted in his current hospitalisation,” wrote the band, which also features guitarist Simon McBride, bassist Roger Glover, drummer Ian Paice and keyboardist Don Airey.
Deep Purple did not provide further details about Gillan’s condition or indicate when he might be released from the hospital.
“We understand that this announcement comes at short notice and share the disappointment of all our wonderful fans that we are unable to perform in Leipzig and Hamburg.”
The band added that it is working to find a “suitable time to reschedule” both concerts. Tickets purchased for the original dates will remain valid for the rescheduled performances.
Deep Purple has been on the road for its SPLAT! world tour since late summer, with additional dates scheduled across Europe, the United Kingdom, South America and Mexico through late December.
Gillan has served as Deep Purple’s lead vocalist during multiple stints, first joining the band in 1969. He is the voice behind some of the British rock group’s best-known hits such as “Smoke on the Water”and “Highway Star.”
Gillan’s hospitalization comes just weeks after former Deep Purple bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes underwent 10-hour open-heart surgery. Hughes, who announced his retirement from touring earlier this year, shared an update in mid-October, saying he was recovering at home following the procedure.
Donald Trump is addressing the possibility of Nicki Minaj becoming the next White House press secretary.
During a recent appearance on the political commentary podcast The Benny Show, the president was asked point-blank whether the “Super Bass” rapper could trade the recording studio for the White House briefing room.
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“That’s a good idea. I think I’ll have to think about that. I’m gonna think about that,” Trump responded, before suggesting that host Benny Johnson would also be “pretty good” for the position.
The exchange comes as Minaj has become increasingly involved in Trump’s political activities, including joining him at a Michigan rally ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
At the Oct. 25 rally in Port Huron, Minaj showed her support for Republican candidates Mike Rogers and John James. Trump also acknowledged Minaj’s presence at the rally, inviting her to stand before the crowd and drawing attention to her “beautiful a—” while addressing supporters.
Minaj had traveled to Michigan aboard Air Force One with Trump and members of his administration ahead of the event. “#AirForceOneBARBIE,” she captioned a clip on X showing herself walking around the lavish aircraft.
Speculation about Minaj taking the role surfaced after press secretary Katie Zacharia left the job just five days after starting in mid-October. White House communications director Steven Cheung fueled the conversation when he shared footage of a mock interview with Minaj aboard Air Force One.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary,” Cheung captioned the video on X, tagging the rapper.
Earlier this year, Minaj also served as a judge for the Trump administration’s Million Dollar Pitch Competition, a small-business contest that awarded finalists part of a $1 million prize pool.
Harry Styles went back to where it all started for Harryween.
At Madison Square Garden on Friday (Oct. 30), the 29th night of his 30-show Together, Together residency, Styles changed into the outfit he wore for his 2010 X Factor audition and performed Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely,” the song that got him through to the next round at 16. He even repeated a line from that day, telling the crowd, “I work in a bakery,” a nod to the part-time job he held in his Cheshire hometown of Holmes Chapel.
The audition outfit was a mid-show swap. Styles opened the night dressed as Elvis Presley, while his band and dancers came as different versions of Styles from across his career. The Elvis nod tracks: the first song Styles ever recorded was a cover of Presley’s “The Girl of My Best Friend.”
On the audition itself, “Isn’t She Lovely” wasn’t Styles’ first pick. Footage released by the show in 2022 revealed he opened with Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister,” and only sang the Wonder song a cappella after Simon Cowell asked to hear him without a backing track. He was later placed in One Direction alongside Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and the late Liam Payne. Earlier this month, Styles debuted “What Is Enough,” a song written for Payne, at the same venue on the second anniversary of Payne’s death.
Costumed covers have become a Harryween tradition. At the first edition, at MSG in 2021, Styles dressed as Dorothy to sing “Over the Rainbow,” then came out as a clown the next night to cover Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” In 2022, at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, he dressed as Grease’s Danny Zuko for “Hopelessly Devoted to You.”
The residency wraps Saturday (Oct. 31) with a final Harryween show. The MSG run drew a record 11.5 million presale registrations on Ticketmaster. Styles has sent all four of his solo albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, most recently Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. in March, and has topped the Hot 100 three times: “Watermelon Sugar” in 2020, “As It Was” in 2022 (15 weeks at No. 1, the longest run atop the chart by a U.K. act) and “Aperture” this year.
Tame Impala got into the Halloween spirit a day early, covering Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose” for Australian radio station triple j’s Like A Version series on Friday (Oct. 30).
At triple j’s Sydney studios, the band reworked the 1994 ballad into a stripped-back, synth-driven take, then followed it with a pared-down version of their own hit “Dracula.”
For Kevin Parker, the cover was a trip back to the start. He explained that “Kiss From a Rose” was on the first CD he ever bought, the Batman Forever soundtrack, which also introduced him to acts including U2, the Flaming Lips and Nick Cave.
It’s Tame Impala’s fourth Like A Version cover, following OutKast’s “Prototype” in 2013, Kylie Minogue’s “Confide in Me” in 2015 and Edwyn Collins’ “A Girl Like You” in 2021.
The session caps the biggest year of the project’s career. “Dracula,” first released as a solo single in October 2025, took off after a February remix featuring Jennie, giving Tame Impala their first top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a No. 5 peak. The song also reached No. 1 on Pop Airplay and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, and spent more than six months atop Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. Tame Impala have just come off their biggest Australian tour to date, and their album Deadbeat leads next month’s ARIA Awards with eight nominations, tied with Genesis Owusu.
Tame Impala recently wrapped the Australian leg of their Deadbeat Tour, which featured multiple arena shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney before finishing with two hometown performances in Perth on Oct. 24 and 25. Parker and his band are set to return to the road in May 2027 for a string of UK and European arena dates, followed by several summer festival appearances.
Seal’s original topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in August 1995 after its Batman Forever placement and won three Grammys the following year, including record and song of the year.
Watch Tame Impala cover “Kiss from a Rose” below.
What used to be a staple of pop music — the rapper/pop star collaboration — is basically dead. However, Lil Baby is willing to do his part to have the sector be revitalized.
Baby sat down with The New York Times’ Popcast on Thursday for an extensive conversation, which spilled into his aspirations to try stepping outside of his comfort zone for a glossy collaboration with a pop star like Sabrina Carpenter.
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“I’m still in that box a little bit, but I’m more open to stepping out of the box,” he said. “The box is bigger. As I step out a little bit, the box gets bigger.
Baby continued: “Even a Sabrina Carpenter — just say, for instance, in my head, I don’t have a song on my hard drive to send to her. But if we sit there and create something, or she sends me something, I feel like I could make it work.”
Pop star/rapper collaborations have become a rarity. Camila Cabello has been attempting to keep the crossover team-ups alive. The former Fifth Harmony singer recruited Drake for “Hot Uptown” and “Uuugly,” while also joining forces with Playboi Carti for “I Luv It” (No. 81 Billboard Hot 100 peak). All three were released in 2024 and landed on her C,XOXO album, which debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.
Dua Lipa enlisted DaBaby for the dynamic “Levitating” remix in 2020, which dominated commercially, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021.
As for Lil Baby, he doesn’t have Sabrina or any pop stars on his upcoming Fresh album, which is set to arrive on Nov. 6. Fans of the 4PF rapper can expect guest appearances from Future, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez.
Watch the full Lil Baby Popcast interview below.
Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley have filed for divorce after three years of marriage, Billboard can confirm.
The 14-time Grammy-winning producer and Substance star jointly filed for an uncontested, pre-packaged divorce settlement on Friday (Oct. 30), court records show. The development comes about three months after their separation went public in July, which followed breakup rumors sparked by Antonoff attending Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce with sister Rachel Antonoff instead of Qualley.
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Billboard has reached out to Antonoff and Qualley’s reps for comment.
In recent weeks, the Bleachers frontman has alluded to the split both on and offstage. When one fan requested he play 2017 song “Let’s Get Married” at a September concert in Los Angeles, Antonoff quipped, “Read the news, brother.” Earlier in October, he told The Guardian that he’d initially felt “worried” about continuing to perform songs he’d written about Qualley on tour now that their relationship has ended, but has since found that “it’s actually been really beautiful” to do so.
Antonoff was first spotted kissing Qualley in 2021, four years after his breakup with Girls creator Lena Dunham in 2017. The musician and The Maid actress later made their official debut at the AFI Awards Luncheon in 2022 before getting married in Antonoff’s native New Jersey in August 2023, a star-studded ceremony attended by Swift as well as Lana Del Rey, Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz, Cara Delevingne and the bride’s mother, actress Andie MacDowell.
In August 2025, Antonoff released the soundtrack to director Ethan Coen’s dark comedy Honey Don’t!, which co-starred Qualley and Aubrey Plaza, marking the first time the producer-writer had worked on music for a film his wife appeared in; she appeared on the album under her musical alter ego, Lace Manhattan. Qualley was also the subject of “Margaret,” a love song from Lana Del Rey’s 2023 Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. album, which Antonoff co-wrote and co-produced.
In an interview with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show earlier this year, Antonoff compared the couple’s love affair to a romantic film, saying he knew he would marry Qualley the first second they met at a party in 2021. “I saw her and it was like a f—ing Hallmark movie that doesn’t seem believable,” he told Stern. “When I met her, I started imagining things that I’d never even imagined, like marriage.”
At the time, Antonoff said he proposed to Qualley while they were living in Paris and called her sister Rainey Qualley — an actress and singer who records as Rainsford — for her blessing.
Earlier this year, Qualley made a lingerie-clad cameo in the video for the Bleachers song “You and Forever” from the band’s Everyone for Ten Minutes album. In the clip, Qualley dances lasciviously in a white negligee in a window as Antonoff huffs down the street mumbling to himself. The actress, who trained as a ballet dancer in her teens, is also seen spinning and twirling athletically around a room in a form-hugging black dress amid clips of an agitated, disheveled Antonoff, crawling down a city street in a rainstorm.
Qualley previously appeared in the 2024 video for the Bleachers song “Tiny Moves,” which was choreographed and co-directed by the actress and filmed just weeks before their nuptials. Leading up to news of their split this summer, fans noticed that the photos Qualley had posted on her Instagram from their wedding appeared to have been scrubbed from her feed.
Mariah Carey is keeping her Lambs on their toes when it comes to her legendary unreleased grunge album, teasing in a recent “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit that the long-shelved project might just be on its way — someday.
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In the online chat with fans on Friday (Oct. 30) in honor of her Glitter album’s 25th anniversary, Carey answered questions about her pets — “I currently have 4 Jack Russells and I love them all so much!” she wrote — and whether she’d ever team up with Lenny Kravitz on a song. (“I love Lenny too… Lenny if you’re seeing this, call me!” she wrote.)
But one of the questions that got the most engagement was whether the Songbird Supreme would ever release her grunge LP from the archives. Luckily, Carey was happy to weigh in. “I get asked this about once a week,” she shared. “my answer is…#notyet (this is a hint!)”
Carey opened up in her 2020 memoir about recording a secret rock album called Someone’s Ugly Daughter 25 years prior, which she and her band had used as a way of blowing off steam while in the studio for Daydream, her fifth studio LP. Though Daydream would go on to spend six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1995, Carey released its little-known grunge counterpart under the pseudonym Chick with friend Clarissa Dane taking over lead vocals.
Ever since they’ve known about the existence of Carey’s original version of Someone’s Ugly Daughter, fans have been pressing for her to release it. “I’m so mad I haven’t done that yet,” she said in 2024 of the delay on Las Culturistas. “It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”
For now, however, Carey is focused on celebrating Glitter, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and doubled as the soundtrack to the superstar’s film of the same name. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, she also dropped a deluxe version featuring multiple bonus tracks on Friday.
“Thank you for celebrating glitter!!!” the five-time Grammy winner told one Redditor who’d asked which track on the album she’d had the most fun creating. “‘Lead The Way’ was one of my favorites to write and record and produce, but I love them all.”
Another fan asked on the forum, “Remember when you met Prince while working on Glitter and he encouraged you to finish that song you had started instead of sampling ‘Nasty Girl’ by Vanity 6 ? Will we ever get to hear that demo ?”
“It’s a song that I never finished, I have no idea where it is but I loved Prince and still do,” she replied.
It’s always possible that Carey might give the grunge album to Lambs as a Christmas present this year, though it seems unlikely as she’s spent every holiday season for the past several years focusing on her festive catalog. Her evergreen smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds the record for second-longest run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 22 nonconsecutive weeks, which only Ella Langley has surpassed with “Choosin’ Texas” clearing 25 weeks this year.
As for brand new material? “I’m always working on music and coming up with lyrics and ideas, but I don’t know numbers so I can’t tell you when exactly the next album will happen,” Carey told fans on Reddit.
New Jersey-born house producer Cevin Fisher has died following a short battle with cancer. His death occurred Thursday (Oct. 29), just three days after his 63rd birthday.
A statement released on Friday (Oct. 30) notes that Fisher leaves behind “a loving wife, children, family and friends as well as four decades of music, a global following and an enduring legacy in house music.”
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Born Kevin Fisher in East Orange, New Jersey, Fisher created a pair of Dance Club Songs No. 1s: 1998’s “The Freaks Come Out” and 1999’s “(You Got Me) Burnin’ Up.” In total, these songs spent 25 weeks on the chart. Additionally, between 1996 and 2001 he clocked another four Dance Club Songs Entries, with 2001’s “Keep It Coming” hitting No. 3.
Fisher began working in dance music at age 17, when he scored his first residency at New Jersey’s Club Zanzibar. He was behind remixes for Chaka Khan’s “Love You All My Lifetime” and Quincy Jones’ “I’ll Be Good to You.” Upon the advice of Danny Tenaglia, he began making his own music. He went on to have a four-decade career in the global house scene. In 2019, David Guetta (working under his Jack Back alias) released his take on “The Freaks Come Out” with Fisher, with the track generating nearly five million streams on Spotify alone.
A press release notes that in addition to music, Fisher was fitness enthusiast who also worked as a personal trainer and was deeply into basketball. An avid skier, he loved the Jura Mountains near his home in France. He is survived by his wife, Theresa; his children Stephanie, Cindi, Nikko and Tiffany; his stepsons, Jose and Tomas; his siblings, Roslyn, Rene, Rodney and Ronold; and his niece, Nicole.
Foo Fighters Week on Jimmy Kimmel Live came to a close in the small hours of Friday morning, with another oldie, but a goodie.
The choice of song, a cover of the late Gerry Rafferty’s classic “Baker Street,” well, it was no secret. Foos frontman Dave Grohl told us what to expect earlier in the week, during his interview with Kimmel.
For Grohl, “Baker Street” is a proper guilty pleasure. “I don’t know if anyone remembers Gerry Rafferty. ‘Right Down The Line,’ ‘Baker Street’. He was in Stealers Wheel, ‘Stuck In The Middle With You.’ ‘Baker Street’ is one of my favorite songs of all time,” he recounted. “It reminds me of being young in the ‘70s. And driving around with my mom in the front seat, with AM radio on. It is truly one of my favorite songs of all time. We’ll rock that.”
They sure did. The Foos, as they’ve done for the four consecutive nights, cranked the guitars, Grohl engaged in some gentle headbanging, and Ilan Rubin channeled Animal from behind the kit. No, the Foos didn’t augment their lineup with a synth of a saxophone player, instead lead guitarist Chris Shiflett interpreted that famous riff.
Rafferty, the Scottish-born singer and songwriter, enjoyed a global hit with “Baker Street,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, one of his six solo appearances on the chart. He died from liver failure in 2011, following a long battle with alcoholism.
“Baker Street” was the Foos’ only cover on Fallon this week, after performances of “Window” from the rock act’s 12th and latest studio album, Your Favorite Toy; 1995 ripper “This Is A Call,” from the band’s self-titled debut; and “Your Favorite Toy.”
The Foos’ world tour has this year taken the Rock Hall-inductees through North America, across Europe, and next week gets underway in Australia.
Watch Foo Fighters’ performance of “Baker Street” below.
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 LISA, Miley, Kacey Musgraves & John Mayer.
This week, Dominic Fike drops his first LP as a minted hitmaker; Mariah Carey takes another glance at her polarizing Glitter project and Queens of the Stone Age turns down the amps for its ninth album… plus much more.
Check out all of this week’s picks below:
Dominic Fike, How to Quit Smoking
It feels like one of 2026’s most-anticipated LPs, given how this was the year that mainstream-adjacent singer-songwriter Dominic Fike belatedly proved himself as a pop hitmaker, with the long-running Hot 100 hits “Babydoll” and “White Keys.” But while How to Quit Smoking is one of the autumn’s most satisfying arrivals, its relatively lo-fi, genre-agnostic vibes show how unlikely Fike’s top 40 dalliances were in the first place — including with “White Keys,” present here as something of an album centerpiece — and how another such hit is far from required for the album to be deemable as a success. Its charms are mostly gentle and acoustic, but with at least a toe kept in hip-hop, leading to winningly unpredictable moments like the Danny Brown guest verse on “Not the Spirit,” an ODB interpolation on “Not the Spirit” and a thoroughly disarming Tay-K appearance (via phone) that closes the album.
Gracie Abrams, “Here You Come, There You Go”
As Cher Horowitz once said about report card grades, it appears that album releases are just a jumping-off point to start negotiations for Gracie Abrams. After scoring the biggest hit of her The Secret of Us era in 2024 with the deluxe edition cut “That’s So True,” it feels like she could be on track for a second straight bonus high-water mark with “Here You Come, There You Go,” lead track from her upcoming Daughter From Hell deluxe edition. While that album could sometimes drift through a little unobtrusively, “Here You Come” demands your attention from its opening bass rumble and arresting opening line (“Hell froze in my bedroom”), displaying the extra bite and musical development many pop fans have long hoped to hear from her.
BigXThaPlug, Better Over Time
After hosting a hip-hop rodeo on 2025’s country-infused I Hope You’re Happy, BigXThaPlug is back in his rap bag with Better Over Time. Stacked with a starry line-up of guest artists, including Leon Thomas, Belly Gang Kushington, Lil Yachty, Glorilla, Loe Shimmy and Ava Max, BigX’s latest LP recounts the pricklier moments of remaining independent amid his mainstream surge, while also showcasing his ear for radio-minded hooks. — KYLE DENIS
Mariah Carey, Glitter (Digital Deluxe Edition)
Whether you believe Glitter to be a lost classic in the Mariah Carey catalog or a frivolous misstep, it certainly at least deserves to be given a second look, one removed from both the historic tragedies that surrounded the movie’s September 2001 release and the personal drama that took its serious toll on Carey’s career and mental health around the time. This week’s deluxe edition of the much-maligned soundtrack (to the much-more-maligned starring vehicle) may earn some reconsideration for its second disc of bonus-cut rarities — including the fragile Irene Cara cover “Out Here on My Own” and the “Firecracker”-lifting original version of lead single “Loverboy” — but just as importantly, it’ll just inspire fans to give its original 12 tracks another spin, capturing Mimi in a fun and sporadically revealing ’80s throwback moment that remains worth revisiting.
Queens of the Stone Age, Perfecth
Good news for Josh Homme’s neighbors: The volume of the ninth Queens of the Stone Age album has been kept at a relatively manageable level, with the searing riffs and punishing drums that once characterized the band now somewhat mellowed. Which is not to say Perfecth doesn’t rock, but it largely does so via groovier jams like the ’70s AM boogie of “Insginificant Other” or the acoustic shuffle of “Easy Street” — while still finding room to kick out the jams on heavier cuts like southern-fried advance single “Where the Goth Girls At?” and KISS-via-Bowie strutter “Sunday.”
Gigi Perez, “Favor”
The runtime is the first thing you notice about Gigi Perez’s contribution to the soundtrack to the latest Hunger Games movie — an epic 5:35, practically symphonic territory by TikTok generation standards. But “Favor” earns its runtime, developing patiently, swelling to a thunderous climax and even bringing it back down again, as Perez’s high-drama stylings proves a perfect match for the film series’ rousing-but-unsettling musical brand. It might get you excited for Sunrise on the Reaping, but it’ll definitely get you pumped for Perez’s hopefully imminent sophomore album.
TEEKS, Lovers Comet
Five years after sharing his 2021 debut full-length, Something to Feel, New Zealand soul artist TEEKS is back with his luscious sophomore offering, Lovers Comet. Featuring the scintillating “My Boy” and the Song of Achilles-inspired “Overdose,” Lovers Comet finds the Aotearoa singer-songwriter exploring the vast expanse of love across space, time and sexuality. This is the perfect record to usher in the cozy season. — K.D.