President Donald Trump’s fandom of Nicki Minaj has seemingly grown by the day. Trump shouted out Minaj while speaking at the Rose Garden Club Lunch, which was attended by the Queens native on Monday afternoon (July 6).

“We also have a woman that is so respected and so hot and so great and a great friend of — I don’t say conservative — I say common sense,” he said.

Trump continued to rave about the rapper: “She’s a fantastic person and she’s a woman that’s respected by everybody. And she’s got real talent, Nicki Minaj. Nicki, stand up, please. Such a great person and respected by everybody.”

Minaj drew a round of applause from those attending the luncheon, as she basked in the president’s praise while wearing a pink dress.

Nicki Minaj posted a photo with Donald Trump from the Oval Office. “Whoa!!!! #WhiteHouseBarbie with her favorite President of all time,” she wrote.

The public love affair between Minaj and Trump has blossomed over the course of the last year since the Young Money rhymer made the MAGA pivot. She’s repeatedly gushed about Trump and the president’s administration on social media.

Minaj and Trump met in January, when she spoke at a Trump Accounts Summit and labeled herself as the “president’s No. 1 fan.”

“I am probably the president’s No. 1 fan,” Minaj said. “And that’s not going to change. What people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it’s going to motivate all of us to support him more.”

She continued: “We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him. And you know, the smear campaigns. It’s not going to work. He has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him.”

More recently, Minaj wished the president a happy birthday on X after Donald Trump turned 80 years old in June. “Happy 80th birthday Mr. President,” Minaj wrote alongside a series of AI-generated images.

Minaj has remained quiet on the music side in 2026. Throughout her decorated career, the rapper’s scored 149 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 and boasts three No. 1 albums atop the Billboard 200.

Watch the full speech below. Talk about Nicki Minaj takes place just shy of 27 minutes.

Liam Gallagher has responded to Harry Kane losing his voice singing Oasis’ “Wonderwall” following England’s epic FIFA World Cup win against Mexico on Sunday night (July 6).

The Three Lions saw off Mexico at the legendary Estadio Azteca in Mexico City in a 3-2 thriller in one of the most thrilling games of the tournament. Jude Bellingham scored twice in quick succession in the first half to put the visitors in front, with the team’s captain Kane extending the scoreline with a second-half penalty. England’s Jarell Quansah was later sent off with a red card for a rash challenge, leaving England a man down for the rest of the game as Mexico scored two goals to ensure a nail-biting finale.

Following the final whistle, the England squad sang Oasis’ “Wonderwall” in front of the supporters who had made the trip to the iconic Mexico City stadium. At the 2026 tournament, it has become a tradition for the England fans and players to share a singalong of the 1995 Britpop classic, having done so following matches against Croatia, Ghana, Panama and DR Congo.

However Kane was left with little to no voice following the rendition, with the captain struggling through an interview with BBC Sport saying that “I’ve just been singing there. I can’t really talk.”

Following the interview broadcast, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher wrote on X, “It’s hard work that singing Harry Kane cmon ENGLAND cmon WONDERWALL.”

Another England player came away from the singalong wounded, with Brentford midfielder Jordan Henderson seriously injuring his wrist after falling over advertising boards on his way back from the Oasis-coded celebration with fans. He had to be stretchered off by medical staff.

England will play Norway in the quarter final round of the tournament on Saturday (July 11) in Miami.

Kylie Minogue is popular enough in her home country to spark a genuine political controversy — just ask Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who issued a public apology Monday (July 6) after nominating Minogue for all three categories in a “shag, marry, date” game on a comedy podcast.

Albanese appeared on the Bush Deep podcast with comedian Nikki Osborne in an interview released last week that also covered his dog and gifts from world leaders.

When Osborne pushed Albanese — married to Jodie Haydon for six months — into placing Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Rhonda Burchmore into the categories, he initially resisted before landing on Minogue for the sweep.

“Kylie, clearly,” he said, before confirming: “all of the above… She’s terrific.” Osborne also asked whether Albanese and his wife were “bonking like rabbits,” to which he replied: “Well, when we have time. After the footy. It’s always a good aphrodisiac, a Souths win.”

The comments drew criticism over the weekend from politicians across the aisle, including independent MP Zali Steggall, who told The Australian it was “entirely inappropriate for the prime minister to participate in such a game” and that he should have “push[ed] back, le[d] by example and call[ed] it out as sexist.” Liberal shadow minister Sarah Henderson called the remarks “disrespectful to women, embarrassing to Australians, and demean the office of Prime Minister,” while Liberal frontbencher Andrew Bragg said they were “beneath his office.”

Albanese’s office responded Monday morning with a one-line statement: “I apologise unequivocally for the comments.” Labor minister Tanya Plibersek defended him without having heard the interview, telling Channel Seven that being “a fan of Kylie Minogue… puts him in a group with millions of other Australians, including me.”

Acting PM Richard Marles noted the podcast format was simply “different” from Albanese’s usual media appearances, pointing to the government’s gender-equality record in cabinet and caucus representation.

Minogue remains one of the most enduring artists in Billboard chart history. She first hit the Hot 100 in 1988 with “The Loco-Motion” (No. 3, 27 weeks on the chart) and returned to the top 10 in 2002 with “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (No. 7, 20 weeks), the lead single from Fever, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — her career-best chart placement.

She has logged 11 total titles on the Billboard 200, including 2010’s Aphrodite (No. 19), and 18 entries on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, among them “Dance Alone” with Sia (No. 8). Her 2023 comeback single “Padam Padam” peaked at No. 7 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and became the first track to win the Grammy for Best Pop Dance Recording; it also reached No. 32 on Pop Airplay, her first appearance on that chart in nearly two decades. She is also set to headline the AFL Grand Final in September.

Dizzee Rascal is returning to Australia and New Zealand this November and December for the We Want Bass tour, joined by U.K. dance act Example, rapper Arrdee and Perth DJ Swaglord Savannah across seven shows.

The tour opens at Perth HPC on Nov. 26 and moves through Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Byron Bay before closing at Auckland’s Shed 10 on Dec. 8. Support lineups vary by city: Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney get the full four-artist bill, while Adelaide and Auckland feature only Arrdee, and Byron Bay features only Swaglord Savannah. Mastercard and Live Nation presales run July 8-9, with general tickets on sale July 9 at 1 p.m. local time via livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz.

Born Dylan Mills, Dizzee Rascal remains one of the most influential artists to emerge from London’s grime scene. His 2003 debut Boy in da Corner won the Mercury Prize, making him the youngest winner in the award’s history at 19 and the second rapper to take the prize after Ms. Dynamite the year before. The album is widely regarded as one of grime’s foundational texts.

His commercial peak came with 2009’s Tongue n’ Cheek, which produced four consecutive U.K. No. 1 singles — “Dance Wiv Me” with Calvin Harris, “Bonkers” with Armand Van Helden, “Holiday” and “Dirtee Disco” — and was certified double platinum. His 2010 collaboration with Shakira, “Loca,” topped charts across Europe and peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. He was appointed MBE in 2020 for services to music.

Example has built a near two-decade career as one of the U.K.’s most consistent rap-dance crossover acts. Arrdee broke through via his verse on Russ Millions and Tion Wayne’s U.K. No. 1 “Body Remix,” before his debut mixtape Pier Pressure reached No. 2 on the Official Albums Chart and No. 1 on the U.K. Streaming Chart.

Dizzee Rascal — We Want Bass Tour: Australia & New Zealand 2026

Nov. 26 — Perth — HPC (with Example, Arrdee, Swaglord Savannah)

Nov. 28 — Brisbane — Eatons Hill Outdoors (with Example, Arrdee, Swaglord Savannah)

Dec. 1 — Adelaide — Hindley Street Music Hall (with Arrdee)

Dec. 4 — Melbourne — Royal Botanic Gardens (with Example, Arrdee, Swaglord Savannah)

Dec. 5 — Sydney — On The Steps at Sydney Opera House Forecourt (with Example, Arrdee, Swaglord Savannah)

Dec. 6 — Byron Bay — Beach Hotel (with Swaglord Savannah)

Dec. 8 — Auckland — Shed 10 (with Arrdee)

JENNIE headlined the final night of Open’er Festival in Gdynia, Poland on Friday (July 4), delivering a 17-track set that included three unreleased songs and a clear signal that new music is imminent.

The BLACKPINK member performed “Lock It Down” — a dance-pop track about a “secret love affair” first previewed at Governors Ball last month — “Heaven,” an emotionally-charged song about heartbreak, and “Less Than A Lover,” a dreamy ballad she described as inspired by summer.

“It’s a song I wrote thinking about summer,” she told the crowd. “It feels really special to share new music with so many people. I really can’t wait to share this new music with you soon.”

The set drew heavily from her 2025 debut solo album Ruby, alongside her collaboration with Tame Impala, “Dracula,” and her collaboration with The Weeknd, “One of the Girls.” There were no BLACKPINK songs during the hour-long performance.

JENNIE has been on one of the most sustained chart runs of any K-pop solo artist in Billboard history. Her Tame Impala collaboration “Dracula” — originally released as a Tame Impala solo track last October before a duet version arrived in early February — has become one of 2026’s most dominant radio hits, reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart dated July 11, a first for both artists.

The song has also peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it has held for 37 consecutive weeks as of mid-June. Ruby debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and produced five Hot 100 entries, making her the first female K-pop solo artist to place three songs on the chart simultaneously. She has logged six total Hot 100 entries as a soloist, the most of any female K-pop solo act. Ruby has surpassed 3 billion Spotify streams.

Open’er Festival’s fourth and final day also featured performances from Addison Rae, PinkPantheress and Jade, with headline sets across the weekend from Calvin Harris, Florence and the Machine, The Cure and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Sharon Osbourne has marked what would have been her 46th wedding anniversary with Ozzy Osbourne, sharing a tribute to the late rock legend on Instagram on Friday (July 4).

Alongside a close-up photo of the couple holding hands, Sharon wrote: “Today would have been our 46th wedding anniversary. Instead, it is a celebration of a love that even death could not diminish. I miss your hand in mine, but I carry your love with me every step of the way. Forever my husband. Forever my heart.”

Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76, following a public battle with Parkinson’s disease. His passing came just 17 days after he headlined a massive farewell concert, “Back to the Beginning,” at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham alongside Black Sabbath. The couple married in Hawaii on July 4, 1982, and remained together — through well-documented highs and lows, including a brief separation in 2016 — for 43 years until his death. They renewed their vows in 2017, and together they raised three children: Aimee, Kelly and Jack.

Ozzy’s passing triggered a significant posthumous surge on the Billboard charts. “Crazy Train” — his signature 1980 solo track from Blizzard of Ozz — hit the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in its history, debuting at No. 46 with 9.2 million streams in the tracking week ending July 24, 2025.

“Mama, I’m Coming Home” re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 49, its first appearance on the chart in 33 years. His compilation The Essential Ozzy Osbourne surged to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 — a new peak from its original No. 81 — and hit No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts simultaneously. The top seven positions on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart were held entirely by Osbourne and Black Sabbath tracks.

Across a career spanning more than five decades as both frontman of Black Sabbath and as a solo artist, Osbourne sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, claimed nine solo top 10 entries on the Billboard 200 — including at least one in every decade from the 1980s through the 2020s — and scored two top 10 Hot 100 hits: “Close My Eyes Forever” with Lita Ford (No. 8, 1989) and “Take What You Want” with Post Malone and Travis Scott (No. 8, 2019). Black Sabbath’s reunion album 13 gave the band their first-ever Billboard 200 No. 1 in 2013.

Dolly Parton has a very specific thank-you request for newlyweds Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

After the couple donated $2 million to Parton’s Imagination Library ahead of their wedding, the country icon shared a video message thanking Swift and Kelce for the gift — before jokingly asking whether she could have their first child.

“Taylor and Travis, it’s Dolly,” Parton said in the video. “I was just told that you two are making a donation of $2 million to my Imagination Library. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude.”

“Now it’s evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives,” Parton continued. “So hey, when you have your firstborn, can I have it? Because that is gonna be one special baby.”

Parton also highlighted the mission of the Dollywood Foundation, saying it is “to dream more, care more, learn more, and be more,” and added that the organization would continue that mission “in even bigger ways now” with the couple’s donation.

“So thank you and know that I will always love you,” she said, briefly singing a line from her 1974 classic “I Will Always Love You.”

The donation was part of a broader philanthropic effort from Swift and Kelce surrounding their wedding. The couple donated $26 million to charities across the country, including organizations in New York City, Rhode Island and Kansas City, as well as national groups including Parton’s Imagination Library, Feeding America and the ASPCA.

Swift and Kelce tied the knot Friday (July 3) at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The couple announced their engagement in August 2025 after two years of dating.

Swift’s rep confirmed the happy news in a press release, revealing that the pop superstar and football player wore outfits designed by Christian Dior Haute Couture. The couple did not have traditional bridesmaids or groomsmen, but Swift’s brother Austin was her man of honor, while Jason Kelce was Travis’ best man, the release revealed. Actor-comedian Adam Sandler officiated the nuptials.

Taylor Swift’s wedding look included a few major designer names — and one familiar link to her record-breaking The Eras Tour wardrobe.

The pop superstar wore Christian Dior Haute Couture to marry Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday (July 3), according to a statement Swift’s rep shared with Billboard. The ceremony looks for both Swift and Kelce were designed by Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Dior Women’s, Men’s and Haute Couture Collections, in close collaboration with the bride and groom.

The dress marks Anderson’s first couture wedding dress for a world-renowned celebrity, according to the statement. Swift completed her bridal look with Cartier jewelry, while both she and Kelce wore custom Christian Louboutin shoes.

The Louboutin detail is a notable one for Swift fans. On its official website, Christian Louboutin notes that Swift wore custom bejeweled styles from the designer throughout the European leg of The Eras Tour, with the Maison creating custom and existing silhouettes in different shapes, heel heights and colorways.

Those designs included crystal-covered Eleonora Botta boots for the “Lover” portion of the show, Cate boots for “Fearless,” a custom lace-up ankle boot for Folklore and Evermore, and the CL Moc Lug loafer for “Red,” according to the designer.

The official wedding-style details follow Swift and Kelce’s Friday night ceremony at Madison Square Garden, where they married in front of family and friends. The couple did not have traditional bridesmaids or groomsmen; instead, Swift’s brother Austin served as her man of honor, while Jason Kelce was Travis’ best man. Actor-comedian Adam Sandler, whose movie Happy Gilmore 2 featured a cameo from Kelce, officiated the ceremony.

Swift and Kelce’s relationship began in 2023 after the Kansas City Chiefs tight end attended one of her shows in Kansas City and later revealed on New Heights that he had hoped to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it. The couple announced their engagement in August 2025 with Instagram photos from Kelce’s flower-garden proposal, captioning the post, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

Over the course of their romance, Swift penned several songs that are almost definitely about Kelce, including “So High School” and “The Alchemy” from 17-week Billboard 200-topping album The Tortured Poets Department, as well as Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits “The Fate of Ophelia” and “Opalite” from The Life of a Showgirl. 

Official photos of Swift’s bridal look had not yet been released as of Friday evening.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have finally tied the knot on their love story, getting married in front of friends and family at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday (July 3). A sign, which MSG shared a photo of on Instagram, outside of the world famous venue confirmed they had exchanged their vows. “JUST&T MARRIED!” read the black text over pink background.

Swift’s rep also confirmed the happy news to People, revealing that the pop superstar and football player wore outfits designed by Christian Dior Haute Couture. The couple did not have traditional bridesmaids or groomsmen, but Swift’s brother Austin was her man of honor, while Jason Kelce was Travis’ best men, the statement to the magazine revealed. Actor-comedian Adam Sandler officiated the nuptials.

The couple’s nuptials come a little less than a year after they announced their engagement following two years of dating. In August 2025, they shared photos on Instagram from the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s flower-garden proposal — as well as Swift’s massive diamond ring — and wrote adorably, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

Fans have since been impatiently awaiting the big day, with speculation over the wedding’s date and location reaching a fever pitch in June as reports started surfacing that Swift and Kelce would use MSG as their venue on Fourth of July weekend. More commotion over the event came with the news that it would coincide with NYC’s most severe heatwave so far this year, with temperatures reaching triple digits on the day they said “I do.”

“If you happen to be getting married at Madison Square Garden, you will be staying inside and you will be staying cool,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani joked at a press conference about the extreme weather days before the wedding. “I think it’s a good example to set for the city at large.”

Swift and Kelce have been together since the summer of 2023. After the football player attended one of her Eras Tour shows in Kansas City that year, he grumbled on his and brother Jason’s New Heights podcast about his failed mission to meet the 14-time Grammy winner backstage, where he’d hoped to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it. The episode caught the attention of Swift’s mom, Andrea, who encouraged her daughter to give Travis a chance.

“I call up my resident expert on Kansas City Chiefs, my cousin Robin, and I go, ‘Tell me about this guy named Travis Kelce,’” Andrea recalled in an episode of Swift’s Eras Tour docuseries on Disney+. “She goes, ‘Oh my god, he’s the nicest guy, and you know what? He really loves his mom.’ And I went, ‘Ding ding ding.’”

Swift and Kelce hard-launched their relationship shortly after that, with the hitmaker attending one of Kansas City’s games to cheer on her then-boyfriend from a box suite. That would be the start of many Arrowhead Stadium visits for Swift, while the football player began attending a series of Eras shows across the globe. During one of her stops in London, he even joined her on stage for a surprise cameo.

“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there, and we don’t care,” Swift told TIME for her 2023 Person of the Year interview. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

Over the course of their romance, Swift penned a number of songs that are almost definitely about Kelce, including “So High School” and “The Alchemy” from 17-week Billboard 200-topping album The Tortured Poets Department, as well as Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits “The Fate of Ophelia” and “Opalite” from The Life of a Showgirl. Swift first announced the latter album on New Heights; while she was busy recording the episode, a crew was secretly setting up a romantic proposal scene outside.

Now, as the couple closes out their engagement era and steps into a new chapter as husband and wife, they’re making sure to spread the love. One day before their nuptials, Swift’s rep announced that the pop superstar and Kelce had donated $26 million to a variety of charities located across the United States in cities with special meaning to them, including their hometowns as well as Nashville and Kansas City, where Swift and Kelce respectively began their careers.