Nearly three decades after “You’re Still the One” became Shania Twain’s signature love song, the country-pop classic is getting a decidedly different kind of second life: a dance makeover from Zedd, wrapped in the sugar-coated interactive universe of Candy Crush.

For Twain, the alteration of the song’s anatomy is less about changing a classic than watching it continue to evolve. “You’re Still the One,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1998 — Twain’s highest-charting song on the all-genre tally — has been a fixture of weddings and anniversaries for a long time. Now, with Zedd’s production and Candy Crush’s fantastical Candy Country setting, Twain sees the light of another beautiful chapter for the classic.

“It’s a great, new, exciting platform for the song, for my classic, and I’m flattered by it,” Twain tells Billboard.

The song, originally released on Twain’s 1997 album Come On Over, spent 42 weeks on the Hot 100 and became a major country-pop crossover hit for the singer. It also earned Twain two Grammys, for best country song and best female country vocal performance.

The song is now getting a fresh, new sonic identity. The new version, releasing as part of Candy Crush’s Music Season 2026, keeps Twain’s original vocal while Zedd gives the track a dance-oriented production. Its accompanying interactive music video drops fans into Candy Country, a surreal Western-inspired world filled with hidden clues and rewards, including opportunities to win VIP trips to meet Twain or Zedd on tour and pieces inspired by their looks.

The idea initially caught Twain off-guard. Obviously, “You’re Still the One” has its fair share of remixed versions, but the combination of Zedd’s production and Candy Crush’s visual concept took the idea somewhere she hadn’t anticipated.

“I would never have thought of that myself,” she says of the Candy Country concept. “So I was excited about it. And it takes the song to a whole other place. It takes it to a different universe, is a good way to put it.”

That sense of discovery is part of what made the collaboration so appealing to Twain. Instead of just replacing the original recording altogether, Zedd was able to build around her existing vocal, allowing for a song that fans have known for nearly 30 years to sound different without losing its most recognizable parts.

“I was really flexible. I’m just like, you know, ‘Do your thing!’” Twain says. “’You’re Zedd for a reason, and I’m excited about what you’re gonna do about it.’”

For Zedd, the opportunity was extremely exciting because he grew up listening to Twain’s music.

“I was super happy Candy Crush brought me and Shania Twain together,” Zedd says. “She’s a legendary artist and I grew up listening to her music, so being able to collaborate with her on a new version of such an iconic song has been really special.”

Twain says Zedd’s approach struck the balance she was hoping for, which was a substantial sonic shift that still lets listeners immediately recognize the song underneath it.

“He really did respect ‘You’re Still the One,’” she says, noting that the new track retains her original vocal. “It’s just a very, very, very classic song and vocal with Zedd’s musical magic.”

That idea of a classic song finding new life through another artist brought another iconic collaboration to Twain’s mind: Whitney Houston’s 1992 recording of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” Twain points to the dramatic differences between Parton’s original and Houston’s blockbuster rendition as an example of how a song can change dramatically while remaining fundamentally itself.

“There’s a difference between [producer David] Foster and Houston’s version compared to Dolly Parton’s original,” she says. “It’s so different, but it was still the classic song that remained.”

Twain sees something similar happening with “You’re Still the One.” Her original vocal remains at the center of the new recording, but the song is now being filtered through Zedd’s electronic production and Candy Crush’s interactive world.

And for Twain, that evolution isn’t just happening now: She says she’s watched “You’re Still the One” develop a life of its own as different listeners have claimed it for their own experiences. “Every generation of listeners that take this song on, takes it on for different reasons,” she says.

She has seen parents and children connect through it, young couples embrace it as a love song and longtime partners return to it for anniversaries. In that sense, the song has already been reinvented countless times — not even just musically, but emotionally as well. “It really makes it fun for me to observe and watch what has become to so many other people,” Twain says. “And that’s made it — it’s just given so much more depth to its meaning, to me, as the writer.”

That may be the most meaningful part of revisiting the song for Twain: getting to watch something she created become something she no longer entirely owns. “You watch it become other people’s personal experience,” she says.

Now, Candy Crush is giving “You’re Still the One” yet another identity. Fans can search the accompanying video for hidden clues and blue sugar stars, turning the familiar act of watching a music video into an interactive hunt.

For Twain, that song’s next evolvement is part of the fun. “I’m watching it now go to another journey, part of its journey, another phase of its journey,” she says.

And she’s apparently more than happy to let that journey continue. Asked whether the experience has made her interested in revisiting more of her catalog through new sounds and collaborations, Twain doesn’t hesitate.

“Absolutely. I really look forward to more of that,” she says.

She points to other examples of artists reimagining her catalog and says she enjoys seeing how songs can shift when they are brought into new genres or mediums. For her, the possibilities extend beyond music itself, into film and theater and other forms of creative expression.

“I just love to watch it morph and adapt to new platforms and to new genres,” she says. “I just think it’s a never-ending journey creatively.”

To illustrate what she means, Twain compares the process to visual art: an artist can return to the same subject repeatedly, creating another interpretation without erasing what came before.

“Once there’s a concept, it can just be a never-ending, beautiful cycle down the generations,” she says.

For “You’re Still the One,” that cycle is now taking the song from a ’90s country-pop staple to a dance track to an interactive gaming experience, while Twain’s original voice remains at the center of it all.

After nearly 30 years, she isn’t trying to decide what the song should become next. She’s just enjoying the ride.

“It’s on a real fun journey,” Twain says.

The 2026 Global Citizen Festival is getting even bigger. Alicia Keys, Victoria Monét, YEONJUN and YOSHIKI are among the roster of stars set to take the stage at the event, which returns to New York City’s Central Park on Sept. 26.

Keys will perform alongside a group of special guests, while Monét, YEONJUN and YOSHIKI will make their Global Citizen Festival debuts. They join a previously announced lineup that includes Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and TOMORROW X TOGETHER. More performers are expected to be announced ahead of the festival.

The event will also feature appearances from Bill Nye, IZA, Jordan Fisher, Katie Couric, Lais Ribeiro, Marcus Samuelsson, Naomi Watanabe, Nomzamo Mbatha, PJ Sin Suela and Vladimir Duthiers.

For Keys, returning to the festival carries some hometown significance.

“There’s nothing like standing on that Global Citizen stage in the middle of Central Park, in my city, with people who love the world enough to show up for it,” she said in a statement. “Every time we come together, something shifts.”

This year’s festival is built around Global Citizen’s efforts to address issues connected to extreme poverty, with campaigns focused on education, supporting smallholder farmers and expanding access to electricity. Fans can earn free festival tickets by completing action-based challenges through the Global Citizens app.

New Yorkers also have opportunities to earn points through local volunteer efforts throughout September, including urban planting, beach cleanups and food donations. Participating organizations include Bowery Mission, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, Pollinator Pathways, Support + Feed and 9/11 Day.

There’s also a new way to turn those points into a ticket: After completing an action journey and earning enough points, fans can either enter the free-ticket lottery or make a $25 charitable donation to instantly secure a ticket, while supplies last. Donations will support New York City initiatives, including free programming through City Parks Foundation and organizations serving New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.

And for fans who want to rep the festival before heading to Central Park, the 2026 Global Citizen Festival merchandise collection is now available, featuring artist collaborations with Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, Lainey Wilson, TXT and Shaboozey, along with collections with Aviator Nation and Brooklyn Industries.

The 2026 Global Citizen Festival will stream on the Amazon Music app, Amazon Music channels on Fire TV and Twitch, Prime Video, Apple Music, iHeartRadio, TikTok, Veeps and YouTube.

Together, Together once more: Harry Styles is extending his current touring plans into 2027 with a new run of stadium dates.

The 25-date extension of Styles’ tour will take the global superstar across North America and Europe. The 2027 run kicks off in Phoenix on April 2, before continuing through Dallas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta and Chicago. The European leg begins in Berlin on July 2 and includes stops in Paris, Madrid, Rome and Dublin, before wrapping with the final of three shows at London’s Wembley Stadium on Aug. 28. 

Styles, formerly of One Direction, will play stadiums for the first time ever as a solo artist in the United States and Canada on the next run. As per a press release, ticket prices will be listed across the Harry Styles HQ social media platforms, with U.S. prices ranging from $60 to $300. Presales and on-sale timing varies by market, with further ticketing information available on Styles’ official website.

The 2027 run will also introduce “Unpredictable Fun Tickets,” a new initiative designed to make Together, Together shows more accessible to fans. A limited number of tickets will be available for $20 in North America, £20 in the U.K. and €20 in Europe, with additional details on availability to be announced soon. The tour will also extend its partnership with EARNT, allowing fans to unlock tickets by volunteering their time across local community and restoration projects, with more details to come.

The news follows a note Styles sent to fans via his newsletter on Wednesday night, Sept. 9, in which he confirmed that this next segment of Together, Together includes the “final cities” of the tour. “After that, I don’t know what comes next for me,” he added. “But I know that I’m excited to find out.”

The 32-year-old continued: “I can’t wait for us to keep dancing with all our friends, I hope to see you there. Thank you for coming out to see us, and for all the love and support you’ve given me over the years.” Read the letter in full here.

Each city on the 2027 run will feature a different special guest: Tinashe in Phoenix; CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso in Dallas; Kylie Minogue in Los Angeles; Lainey Wilson in Toronto; Q Marsden in Atlanta; The Womack Sisters in Chicago; Getdown Services in Berlin; Caroline Polachek in Paris; Feist in Madrid; LCD Soundsystem in Rome; Baby Rose in Dublin; and Tears For Fears in London.

The tour supports Styles’ fourth studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., which was released in March via Erskine Records/Columbia Records and debuted atop both the Billboard 200 and the Official U.K. Albums Chart. The album spawned the hit single “Aperture,” which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Together Together — its title taken from a lyric in Styles’ track “Pop” — launched in May with 67 shows across seven cities: Amsterdam, London, São Paulo, Mexico City, New York, Melbourne and Sydney. Following completed residencies in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo and Mexico City, Styles is currently performing a 30-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden, his only U.S. shows of the year. The tour will continue to Melbourne and Sydney in December.

In June, Styles earned a Guinness World Records title for the longest residency by a musician at Wembley Stadium during a single run, following 12 shows at the London venue and surpassing Coldplay’s previous 10-show record. Prior to his Together, Together dates in June, the stadium had already become something of a second home for the singer: One Direction played three shows there in 2014, before Styles returned as a solo artist for his Love On Tour headline runs in 2022 and 2023. 

The Together, Together tour is also continuing its charitable partnerships. Globally, the tour will support Choose Love, while £1 from every ticket sold in London will be donated to LIVE Trust, which supports grassroots music venues in the U.K. In the U.S., Styles will continue his partnership with voter registration movement HeadCount, while the tour is also working with Green Nation, Live Nation’s global sustainability initiative.

Harry Styles Together, Together 2027 tour dates:

April 2 – Phoenix, State Farm Stadium
April 3 – Phoenix, State Farm Stadium
April 9 – Dallas, AT&T Stadium
April 10 – Dallas, AT&T Stadium
April 23 – Los Angeles, Rose Bowl Stadium
April 24 – Los Angeles, Rose Bowl Stadium
May 7 – Toronto, Rogers Stadium
May 8 – Toronto, Rogers Stadium
May 21 – Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
May 22 – Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
May 28 – Chicago, Soldier Field
May 29 – Chicago, Soldier Field

July 2 – Berlin, Flughafen Tempelhof
July 3 – Berlin, Flughafen Tempelhof
July 16 – Paris, Plenitude Arena
July 17 – Paris, Plenitude Arena
July 30 – Madrid, Riyadh Air Metropolitano
July 31 – Madrid, Riyadh Air Metropolitano
Aug. 7 – Rome, Circo Massimo
Aug. 8 – Rome, Circo Massimo

Aug. 18 – Dublin, Croke Park
Aug. 20 – Dublin, Croke Park
Aug. 25 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 27 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 28 – London, Wembley Stadium

Indie music finance platform beatBread named Andreea Gleeson as its new CEO, the company announced Thursday (Sept. 10). She will succeed Tracy Maddux, who had served as interim CEO following the death of beatBread’s founding CEO Peter Sinclair in August 2025.

Gleeson comes from Believe-owned indie music distributor TuneCore, which she joined in 2015 and rose to CEO of in 2021. During her time there, Gleeson oversaw TuneCore’s expansion into several new global markets, the evolution of its publishing administration business to include artist development and the launch of its artist discovery platform TuneCore Accelerator.

Founded in 2020 to issue capital to independent artists, labels and songwriters who want to maintain ownership of their music, beatBread says it has issued around $100 million in advances through some 2,000 transactions with creators. Gleeson’s job now is to deploy some of the $124 million beatBread raised last year in credit and equity capital from Citi, Deciens Capital and others to scale the company’s AI-enhanced underwriting technology internationally.

“What drew me to beatBread is that Peter and this team solved a real problem for independent artists: how to access growth capital without giving up ownership or control,” said Gleeson in a statement. “They’ve built sophisticated technology and a funding model that consistently gives artists more choice. I’ve spent much of my career focused on what independent artists will need next, and access to better capital on artist-friendly terms is one of the most important opportunities ahead.”

Last October, beatBread launched a $100 million Global Independence Fund to support indie labels and distributors, partly in response to Universal Music Group’s acquisition of Downtown Music. In its release announcing Gleeson’s hire, the company says she will work to develop existing and new relationships with labels and distributors, and work with beatBread’s tech group to scale its proprietary chordCashAI technology, “which underpins the company’s ability to assess, price and structure funding across a broad range of creators and music businesses.”

Ishan Sachdev, general partner at beatBread’s longtime investor Deciens, said beatBread’s “technology and its ability to fund artists well … creates a significant opportunity to scale the business across a much larger global market. Andreea brings the operating experience and track record of building global businesses at the intersection of technology and music to capitalize on that opportunity.”

Maddux, who was CEO of TuneCore rival CD Baby from 2010-2020, will continue to support the company through the leadership transition. Both he and Gleeson have also been appointed to serve on the beatBread board of directors.

“Our priority over the course of the past year has been preserving the momentum that Peter [Sinclair] built, and positioning the company for long-term success,” said Maddux. “Andreea brings a rare combination of deep artist credibility, operational excellence and global scaling experience, and she is exactly the right leader to take beatBread to the next level in its growth journey.”

Fatboy Slim is f***ing in heaven. And next year he’ll be playing coast-to-coast dates in Australia.

Norman Cook’s dancefloor alter ego will visit these parts in March 2027 for seven tour dates across Fremantle, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

On this trip, which includes a three-night stand at Carriageworks in Sydney, the Brit will play “more personal,” underground and urban outdoor spaces, he explains.

“For this tour to Australia I wanted to get up close with my people, play venues with real atmosphere and have a proper party,” he says in a statement. “Bridges, rivers, parks, old railway sheds – if it’s a bit weird and the sound system’s loud enough, I’m there.”

Fans can expect to hear the DJ and producer’s hits such as “Right Here Right Now,” “Praise You” and “Weapon of Choice,” along with recent releases “Satisfaction Skank,” a mash-up of his own “The Rockafeller Skank” and The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction,” and his current single with Brazilian DJ Carola and Felix Da Housecat, “Funk Drunk.”

Fatboy Slim has had a large year, one that has included spots at Coachella, four nights at his local, Brighton Beach, and a closing slot at Rock in Rio in Brazil, and his debut album Better Living Through Chemistry is celebrating its 30^th birthday. To mark the occasion, the collection will be reissued digitally on Sept. 25 via BMG, with special-edition LP and CD editions following on Oct. 2. Its followup, 1998’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby dropped, spent four weeks at No. 1 in the United Kingdom, and cemented his reputation as one of the best in the electronic music business.

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Fatboy Slim Australian Tour 2027
March 3 – Esplanade Park, Fremantle WA
March 5 – Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
March 6– Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
March 7 – Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
March 10 – On The Banks, Brisbane QLD
March 12 – The Underpass, Melbourne VIC
March 13 – The Underpass, Melbourne VIC

John Farnham is a terrific dad. Someone to look up to, a glorious basket of positivity, fun and silliness. Just ask his son.

James Farnham shared a sweet message as Australians celebrated Father’s Day last Sunday, Sept. 6, and gave fans a rare glimpse of his father, John, the beloved pop veteran.  

“From one father to another, I’ve realised just how much you’ve taught me over the years… some useful, some questionable,” James writes. “You’ve always been a great dad and someone I’ve looked up to my whole life. Now that I’m a dad myself, I just hope Jett looks up to me the same way I’ve always looked up to you.”

John Farnham has “always been positive, fun, silly and never taken yourself too seriously, which I’m pretty sure is where I get most of my silliness from,” he continues. “Thanks for making dad time good fun all these years.”

The post is accompanied with four photographs, each telling a story in the timeline of the Farnhams. Among them, an image of John, with flowing long blonde hair and a baby James in his hands. A teary James holding his own baby son, Jett. And a recent photo of John and his wife Jillian Billman staring down at baby Jett.

John Farnham has stepped out of the spotlight since undergoing marathon surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his throat in 2022. His time away from the public glare hasn’t dimmed his superstar status in these parts.

An all-star concert at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Sept. 20, The Songs Of John Farnham: A Living Legend The Celebration, was a swift sellout. The concert will feature 120 artists and musicians, all of them selected by Farnham, and raises funds for Head and Neck Cancer Australia.

Separately, a musical based on Farnham’s career will premiere on Nov. 15 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Sydney, while Sony Music is releasing a 40th anniversary edition of Whispering Jack, which is paired with the live recording, Whispering Jack Live In Concert, along with new, numbered vinyl and range of merchandise to mark the special occasion.

Earlier, John Farnham: Finding The Voice won the 2024 AACTA Award for best documentary and is recognized as the highest-grossing Australian music documentary in history, earning more than A$2.57 million at the box office.

With 1986’s Whispering Jack, Farnham orchestrated one of the all-time great comebacks. The album spent 25 weeks at No. 1, en route to shifting more than one million copies, becoming the first domestic LP to do so. It remains the highest-selling album ever in Australia by a local talent.

Whispering Jack, of course, features Farnham’s signature song, “You’re The Voice,” a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, and, four decades on, the unofficial anthem of Australia.

Farnham has confirmed it is “just not possible” for him to sing or perform again following his cancer ordeal. “We can rule that out,” he told the Herald Sun in May. “Because of the surgeries to my mouth and face over the past few years, singing on stage is not something I can consider again.”

Dexys Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland has told Nigel Farage where to go after the controversial far-right politician walked out to “Come On Eileen” ahead of his Reform U.K. conference speech.

Farage was filmed walking to the stage following a brief delay, reportedly due to security measures and protests, as Dexys’ signature song could be heard playing from the loudspeakers. The party’s national conference was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, the birthplace of Dexys Midnight Runners, from Sept. 3-5.

When word got to Rowland, he wasn’t thrilled. “I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our Dexys Midnight Runners’ song to make his entrance for his party conference speech,” he writes on the band’s socials. “Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.”

The post was accompanied with an image of a bus shelter poster, bearing a picture of Farage with the headline “he blames migrants, so you don’t blame billionaires.”

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Farage, whose party is facing a criminal investigation over allegations it broke foreign funding laws, following a recent broadcast by Channel 4 News, the BBC reports, has yet to respond to Rowland’s sharp comments.

“Come On Eileen” was one of the biggest hits of its era, spending four weeks at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart in 1982, for their second leader, and hitting the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

Formed in 1978, Dexys Midnight Runners released three critically and commercially successful albums in the early-to-mid 1980s: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980), Too-Rye-Ay (1982) and Don’t Stand Me Down (1985). “Geno” from 1980 gave the act their first U.K. No. 1 single.

Rowland, as politically astute as any recording artist living in the United Kingdom, went on to form new bands, release solo music and drop albums as Dexys.

The alternative rock act is currently on tour in the United Kingdom in support of their new album, LOVE, the first through a deal with Heavenly Recordings. Produced by Belfast musician and DJ David Holmes, it’s the first release under the Dexys Midnight Runners name since Don’t Stand Me Down.