El cantante José Manuel Soto se ha sincerado sobre qué pensaba de Fran Rivera cuando empezó a salir con Lourdes Montes.
Cheryl “Salt” James chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.
The 2026 BET Awards are going down at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday (June 28) and we’re here to tell you who won in each category as soon as the winner is announced. The show, hosted by Druski, is airing live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and will be simulcast on BET HER, CMT, LOGO, MTV, MTV2, Nickelodeon (NAN), Paramount, POP, VH1, Comedy Central and TV Land.
Cardi B led the nominations with six nods, followed by Kendrick Lamar and Mariah the Scientist, with five nods each; and Doechii, Doja Cat, Clipse, Teyana Taylor, Olivia Dean and Latto, with four nods each. Nominees were selected by the BET Voting Academy, which is comprised of entertainment professionals and influencers in the fields of music, media, digital marketing, sports journalism, public relations and creative arts.
Three ground-breaking women are set to receive special awards. Ms. Lauryn Hill will be honored with the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award. Singer, songwriter and actress Teyana Taylor will be named the inaugural recipient of the Icon of the Year Award. Legendary music executive Sylvia Rhone will be named the recipient of the Ultimate Icon Award.
BET added two new categories this year. The Fashion Vanguard Award recognizes a global figure whose fashion presence has had long-standing cultural impact, has significantly influenced style narratives, and who continues to elevate fashion as a form of storytelling across music, film, sports and public life. The Pulse Award recognizes a creator, campaign or content series that most powerfully moved Black culture forward in digital spaces by sparking conversation, building community and defining the moment online.
Connie Orlando, EVP, specials, music programming & music strategy at BET, serves as executive producer for the 2026 BET Awards. Jesse Collins Entertainment is the production company for the show, with Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay also serving as executive producers.
Here’s the complete list of nominees for the 2026 BET Awards, with winners marked as they are announced. They are divided into Music, General, Film/TV and Sports categories.
Candiace Dillard Bassett chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.
“Watch It Burn,” Katy Perry‘s latest single, tops this week’s new music poll.
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Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (June 26) on Billboard, choosing the pop star’s just-released song as their favorite new music.
“Watch It Burn” soared ahead new releases from artists including TEEKS, sombr, Gracie Abrams and Phoebe Bridgers. At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, fans took Perry to the top with 27% of the vote.
Perry lets loose her rage in “Watch It Burn,” which has her declaring in verse one, “For years, I tried to rise above/ Was only light and love/ But now I’m, ‘Shut the f— up.’” The track was accompanied by a fiery new music video directed by Christian Breslauer.
“You know I gave and I gave/ Now I’m giving up/ There’s nothing more you can take/ No, I don’t want to cause a scene/ But give me the gasoline/ Tonight’s the night, I light a match/ Throw it hard behind my back/ Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette, and watch it burn/ With the past, I’ma breathe in the ash/ Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette, and watch it burn,” Perry sings in the chorus.
“Watch It Burn” is Perry’s follow-up to “Bandaids,” which dropped in November. She last released a full-length studio album in 2024, 143, which was a top 10 hit on the Billboard 200.
Trailing just behind Perry’s single are TEEKS’ “My Boy,” coming in with 18% of the vote, and sombr’s “My Body Isn’t Ready,” with 16% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
Muni Long chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.
Master P chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.
Coco Jones chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.
Alan Jackson played a career-spanning set of 24 songs at his final concert Saturday night (June 27) at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, over four decades after moving to Music City to chase his dreams of being a country music singer-songwriter.
Jackson spearheaded his special ‘Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale’ show, bringing his decades of touring to a close with a massive concert that not only sold out Nissan Stadium, but brought fans who didn’t score tickets into the stadium to pack out downtown Nashville for a livestream of the event.
Early on in the evening, before Jackson’s set, artists including Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson, Riley Green, Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood paid tribute to the country hitmaker, performing some of their favorite songs from his extensive catalog, which includes 26 No. 1 Billboard Country Airplay chart hits.
Church performed a rendition of Jackson’s heartbreaking “Someday,” Wilson performed the lovestruck “Tall, Tall Trees,” Johnson sang “Job Description,” and Thomas Rhett offered “Small Town Southern Man.”
Though rain and thunderstorms rolled through at various points during the concert, spirits couldn’t be dampened. After lightning and more rain rolled in halfway through the evening, fans showed up ready to party as Jackson took the stage to much fanfare. He led the packed audience through years’ worth of hits, from his breakthrough “Here in the Real World” to rowdy anthems like “Good Time” and classics such as “Chattahoochee” that chronicle small-town living and young love.
By the time Jackson ended his set close to midnight, waving to fans from the stage as fireworks lit up the night sky above, concertgoers were roaring their approval and cheering the artist who has given country music lovers so many enduring hits and so many celebratory concerts over the years.
Below, Billboard rounds up every song from the star’s headlining portion of the show.
See the full setlist performed by Alan Jackson at his final concert below.
Rick Ross chatted with Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2026.