Ella Bright just became Niall Horan‘s latest collaborator without even realizing it.
In an adorable video posted by Island Records, the Off Campus star reacts to the Irish singer/songwriter surprising her with a new version of her “Baby Now That I Found You” cover that features his added vocals.
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In the clip, Bright sits at a table and is handed a phone. After pressing play on a video, she looks shocked to see Horan onscreen.
“You don’t know this yet, but you’re about to listen to our version of ‘Baby Now That I Found You,’” he tells her.
The updated version of the track then plays as the singer/actress incredulously takes it in. “Oh my god, this is so wild,” she gushes. “Oh my god, that’s beautiful! I’m obsessed.”
Bright also compared the surprise duet to Horan’s 2016 Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit “This Town” — “That’s, like, my favorite song” — before taking a moment to fangirl. “I’ve got a song with Niall Horan,” she cheers. “That’s actually wild.”
The track, originally a No. 11-peaking Hot 100 1968 hit by The Foundations, is featured on Off Campus, which premiered on Prime Video in May and quickly became one of the buzziest coming-of-age romance series of the year. Music is a core fixture of the show, as Bright plays a classical music major named Hannah. She’s recorded several other songs for its soundtrack, while hits by everyone from Elton John to Audrey Hobert have seen major streaming gains thanks to their inclusion on the show.
The duet is a bonus track on Island’s Off Campus: The Mixtape (Extra Credit Edition), which arrived late Thursday. The new release features six additional tracks, including new covers by Suki Waterhouse, The Beaches and Carol Ades.
Horan’s addition to the Off Campus universe comes on the heels of his new album, Dinner Party, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.
Watch Horan surprise Bright and listen to their new duet below.
Those attending Shakira‘s residency in Madrid will find an experience that begins long before the Colombian superstar takes the stage. In addition to the 12 dates she will perform as part of the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour this fall, attendees will also be able to explore Macondo Park, a space featuring eight pavilions dedicated to music, gastronomy, literature, art, fashion and other expressions of Latin culture.
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The details of the concert series were announced Friday (July 24) during a press conference in Madrid, where Pino Sagliocco, president of Live Nation Spain, and Joao Alburquerque, architect from the BIG studio and one of the designers, shared the vision behind the venue. The temporary complex, spanning 185,000 square meters (4.2 acres), will be set up next to “Shakira Stadium,” which will have a capacity for 50,000 attendees per concert.
“It’s built like a tree where each branch leads to a different cultural experience, and all converge at Macondo Park,” Alburquerque explained while describing the design of the space inspired by Shakira’s creative universe. The idea, he noted, is for attendees to explore various experiences before reaching the stage.
For Sagliocco, the goal was never to create just a concert. “We want people to arrive early, explore the pavilions, eat and fully immerse themselves in the experience before and after the show,” he explained.
Shakira’s residency is scheduled for Sept. 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 and Oct. 1, 2 and 3. Macondo Park will be open from noon to midnight local time, while Shakira’s shows are set to take place from 8:30 to 11 p.m. This way, attendees will have several hours to explore the space before and can remain there even after the show ends.
Macondo Plaza will be the starting point for exploring the eight pavilions that make up the experience. Organizers revealed that each pavilion will feature its own programming, the details of which will be announced later and updated throughout the residency. All activities will be included for attendees, regardless of the type of ticket purchased.
The residency will also offer two VIP options, Garden and Terrace, which will go on sale Monday (July 27) with prices ranging between 500 and 720 euros ($568 and $818). Both options will grant early access to the venue and the Front Stage, as well as an exclusive area to relax, eat and drink before the concert. Terrace will also include a panoramic area overlooking both the stage and the rest of the complex.
Sagliocco also revealed that organizers are considering opening Macondo Park Monday through Thursday to welcome school visits and host educational activities related to Latin American culture.
After a historic stadium tour, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour is currently in its second phase in the United States, this time visiting arenas. The tour, in support of the 2024 album of the same name, began in February 2025 in Rio de Janeiro and set a Guinness World Record as the highest-grossing tour of all time by a Hispanic artist.
Angine de Poitrine are on the cover of Billboard Canada, with a cover story that gives an inside look behind their rise.
Since the beginning of 2026, there’s arguably been no hotter band in the world. They’ve earned millions upon millions of streams, praise from idols from Jack White to Shania Twain (more on that later), sold out concerts in seconds and, with somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 fans, even set a record for the biggest crowd at Montreal International Jazz Festival since Stevie Wonder in 2009.
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Looking out at the audience, the band’s manager, Sébastien Collin, was amazed at the turnout — not just because of the size of the crowd, but the fact that they had come to see this band. Instrumental microtonal math-rock isn’t the kind of music that usually draws numbers, but Angine de Poitrine have shown there’s an appetite out there for adventurous, virtuosic and just plain weird music. The band’s mix of looping pedals, double-necked guitar/bass and virtuosic musicianship is a sight and sound to behold.
“When I was backstage, I was really happy to see so many people enjoying complex music and heavy rock riffs,” he tells Billboard Canada. “With so many people there of all ages, it’s impossible that it was only people who like that type of genre that were there. It’s so much wider. It shows that maybe there will be some more openness to really good ideas and really good music.”
No one could have been prepared for the popular explosion when the band’s KEXP performance video went up in February, 2026. It went viral nearly instantly, and the band, then largely unknown outside of their home province, racked up millions of streams. Currently, the YouTube video sits at 17 million views. “A global breakthrough is not something you can plan for,” Collin says.
He says the moment it went up, his inbox exploded. Overnight, he had messages from venues, festivals, merchandise producers and fans from all over the world. The Vol. II album was planned for launch in April, just two months after the video went up. The band had to act quickly. With so many eyes watching, how would they meet the moment?
The ecosystem around Angine de Poitrine was growing rapidly. They had to find the right partners to press the vinyl, distribute it, construct Khn de Poitrine’s custom guitars, make merch and posters for each show, book concerts throughout the world, register for publishing and figure out next steps — all at a much more monumental scale than they, or most people in the music industry, could be ready for.
The biggest decision was whether to release the album on a record label. Everyone wanted to sign Angine de Poitrine. That’s not an exaggeration.
“I can say that every major and most of the big indies all contacted us. Smaller indies, too. It was quite a rush. I was having around 10 meetings per week, all on the label side,” Collin says, breaking into a laugh. “It was quite fun to have a lot of them saying how long they had been following Angine de Poitrine, while the reality was many of them had discovered them two days ago.”
Collin compares the experience to speed dating, but with the extra pressure of having to get married at the end. The clock was ticking and they had to make a choice. In the end, they chose to go with no one. They would do it how they’d been doing it since day one: independently.
“We needed to talk to all the labels to choose none of them,” he says.
Read the full Angine de Poitrine cover story here. — Richard Trapunski
Canada is the World’s Fourth Biggest Music Exporter in 2026
Canadian music is making noise worldwide, while Canadian listeners consume music from around the world.
Luminate has released its 2026 mid-year report, tracking changes and trends in music consumption in the U.S. and around the world throughout the first half of the year.
According to this year’s report, Canada remains one of the biggest forces in the industry, ranking at No. 4 as the top global exporter of music worldwide
That said, it slips down from its No. 3 spot last year, landing just behind South Korea and ranking behind the U.S. (No. 1) and the U.K. (No. 2).
Canada currently ranks as one of the countries with the most diverse makeup of its music consumption worldwide, with 90% of its streaming activity pertaining to music from 10 different countries of origin.
That statistic reflects the diversity of the country. Latin music’s popularity around the world continues with waves in Canada. Bad Bunny earned his first Canadian No. 1 song and album this year following his Super Bowl halftime show performance. K-pop is huge, with the viral hit “Golden” from the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack also spending five weeks at No. 1 in Canada. BTS has also had a chart-topping comeback. The Punjabi wave has been reaching new heights, with artists like Karan Aujla, Diljit Dosanjh, Cheema Y and Gur Sidhu continuing to rack up more and more chart records and impressive streaming statistics in Canada.
That’s not to mention music from south of the border. Canada is the top importer of American music this year, a trend made evident by the domination of U.S. hits on streaming and the Canadian charts.
Canadians are also consuming more music across the board this year, with all formats seeing a significant rise. Compared to 2025, total album consumption is up by 3.2% with an increase of 2.3 million album equivalent units, on-demand audio song streams are up 3.6% with an increase of 2.7 billion streams and physical album sales jump 4.2%, with an additional 100,000 copies sold across albums, CDs and cassettes. In the U.S., BTS and K-pop are driving a key uptick in CD sales, with a 16% overall surge and a 6.7% increase even upon excluding the broader K-pop catalogue.
Read more here. — Stefano Rebuli
Brooklyn-bred boxer Edgar Berlanga Jr. is the latest athlete putting his music skills to the test, releasing his first-ever single “Baby Mama” last month. But with an upcoming showdown against Steven Butler at Madison Square Garden this Sunday (July 26), the Puerto Rican knockout artist insists his leap into the Latin market was more than a dream — it was destiny.
“Bro, I’m gifted,” says an animated Berlanga after previewing unreleased music off his cell phone during a Zoom call. “Music is second nature to me. I grew up around this. I grew up around the lights, the chains and the cameras. That’s me. I love being in front of cameras. I love music. The same feeling I get when I’m in the gym is the same feeling I get when I’m in the studio making music. I feel good.”
With cosigns from Fat Joe, DJ Khaled and Rick Ross, Berlanga’s latest anthem is a sugary earworm slated to soundtrack any summer function. Even in his debut visual, Berlanga never feels like he’s cosplaying a rapper. His sleek demeanor and steely bravado come naturally.
“It’s second nature to me. I had a big production team,” recalls Berlanga when reflecting on shooting the visual. “I flew a girl out from L.A. that was in a music video with Gunna and a couple of big artists. I used her, and she was like, ‘This is crazy. This is your first video shoot? It looks like you’ve been doing this s–t for years.’”
Before Berlanga Jr. can start thinking about platinum plaques and future Grammy speeches, however, his focus remains on Sunday’s clash with Butler, a fight he confidently predicts will end with him “catching a body.”
Billboard caught up with Berlanga Jr. ahead of his forthcoming bout to discuss his love for music, the making of “Baby Mama,” performing with Fat Joe and whether he’d rather win a Grammy or become boxing’s undisputed champion.
You said on Instagram, “Michael Jordan did it all. Deion Sanders didn’t limit himself to one sport.” You’ve already established yourself as one of boxing’s biggest names. How much confidence do you have that you can build that same credibility as a recording artist?
It’s gonna be good. S–t, I already have 1.2 million views on YouTube with my first song out. You seen Rick Ross bopping to it in the club, DJ Khaled co-signed me, Fat Joe co-signed it. Once you have the biggest in the game co-signing it, it’s legendary, you know? I’m talented in many areas, and definitely in music. I got a lot of love for it — and I got English music, too, but right now, I wanna focus on the Spanish market. I got another record that’s brewing right now. I’m just waiting to catch this dub real quick and drop the song, man. It’s better than “Baby Mama.” This one is gonna solidify me.
A lot of athletes have crossed over into music, but fans can be skeptical. What do you want people to understand about how seriously you’re approaching your music career?
My slogan is you can do anything. Don’t let the haters dictate your life and limit yourself to whatever they think you are, feel me? If you’re talented in many areas, man, go after it. I really wanna attack this music thing the right way. I’m a little upset because when I dropped` “Baby Mama,” I had to go to camp. So I had people calling me, asking for bookings in New York, Massachusetts, Miami, and LA. Fat Joe was like, “Listen bro. Put this dude through the ropes and you’re gonna see ‘Baby Mama’ go to another level you ain’t seen before.” I started laughing and said, “Aight. Say no more.”
What are some of the similarities between preparing for a championship fight and walking into the studio to record a song?
My producer and the guys that I have on my team for the music, they know I’m in my mode when I take my shirt off. I’ll come into the booth with my shirt on and once I start going, I start taking my shirt off and I start going. They’re like, “Ok. He locked in.” We just be going, but I use the same mindset when I’m boxing with music. I got that tunnel-vision. Once they come to the crib, I’m like, “I gotta go to the studio real quick” and I turn that switch on. I’m locked in. I got my team. I make sure my throat good — pause — and I’m good to go, man.
People don’t understand that this year that I had off — especially with my last fight — music revived me. It brought a different light out of me. My coach seen it. For some reason when I made “Baby Mama” and I saw how much traction it was getting… it was playing in the club, big different Latin artists were calling me and saying it was fire and their baby mamas already knew the lyrics. It definitely revamped me. It made me love boxing again. It made me more dedicated to the craft again. It put more pressure on me because now I know I’m in music and in boxing, so now I gotta be very disciplined because the lifestyles don’t match.
You’re Brooklyn-bred. What does fighting at Madison Square Garden mean to you at this stage of your career? Does this homecoming feel different?
You know my Knicks won the championship. That right there set the tone for me. I gotta go in there and catch a body for sure. I gotta go in there and make the crowd go crazy. This is me solidifying the summer for us. Once I catch a body in The Garden, we lit. Now the summer is on and popping. We gonna finish this summer strong. The Knicks just won. A month later, Edgar fighting at The Garden main event. He caught a body. It’s gonna be crazy.
You’ve built strong relationships with people like Fat Joe and DJ Khaled. What’s the best piece of advice they’ve given you about making the jump into music?
You know what Fat Joe told me? “Keep going. Don’t stop.” He said, “Fat Joe don’t lie. Fat Joe does not cap. If that s–t was trash, I would have told you, ‘Berlanga. Stick to boxing. But you got it. Keep going. F–k the haters, man. Don’t worry about them. Keep going.’”
He kept telling me that because I showed him all the records. He couldn’t believe it. He loved “Baby Mama.” When he performed, he handed me the mic out here in Orlando. When I performed, it was probably in front of 2000 people. I pulled up and they wanted me to perform “Baby Mama.” He was onstage doing “What’s Luv” and “Lean Back,” then he said, “Edgar Berlanga just dropped a new song called ‘Baby Mama.’” They played the song, he passed me the mic and I was like, “Oh!” It was crazy because everybody in the crowd knew the lyrics. I was like, “D–n. This is dope.”
If you had to choose one before your career is over, would you rather become an undisputed world champion or win a Grammy? Why?
Damn! I gotta go undisputed world champion. I’ve been boxing since I was seven years old — but s–t, a Grammy?! Winning a Grammy is legendary, too.
You can do both.
That’s what I’m on right now. I’m gonna try. I’m gonna try my best bro to really put that fire out there.
On Wednesday (July 22), Bad Bunny played the final show of the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, it grossed $467.5 million and sold 3.1 million tickets over 55 shows, setting several records in the process.
The DTMF World tour follows Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released in January 2025. That sent went on to top the Billboard 200 for five weeks, spread between January, February, and May of 2025, plus a return in February 2026. It birthed his first solo No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (“DtMF”), two more top five hits, and another 14 chart entries, ultimately placing all 17 of the album’s tracks on the Hot 100.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos was further supported by a 13-minute narrative film, several individual music videos, a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, hosting the season premier of Saturday Night Live, getting announced as the Super Bowl Halftime performer, six Grammy nominations, and a 31-show hometown residency Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico – all before heading out on the album’s proper tour.
The DTMF World Tour kicked off on November 21 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with the first of 55 performances. But it wasn’t merely an isolated victory lap after the album cycle: in back-to-back weekends at the beginning of the new year, Debí Tirar Más Fotos won album of the year at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards and his Super Bowl set made eye-popping chart impact, bringing Bad Bunny back to the top of the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, more than a year after the album’s release.
Amidst it all, the DTMF World Tour broke international Boxscore records and properly concluded this epic album cycle. Scroll below for a full breakdown of the tour’s successes, by the numbers.
Fans are choosing Ella Langley over and over again. The country singer’s hit song, “Choosin’ Texas,” is on the precipice of setting an illustrious record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a non-holiday title by a woman with no male-billed acts. And she would be surpassing two of the most legendary woman artists in music if she accomplishes the historic feat.
This week, on the chart dated July 25, “Choosin’ Texas,” which first topped the Hot 100 in February, ties Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts.
It won’t be revealed until Monday if Langley achieves the huge milestone and surpasses Carey and Houston, but, in the meantime, the Alabama native has been setting records almost every week on both the pop and country charts with either “Choosin’ Texas” or her album, Dandelion.
Langley wrote the two-stepping, mid-tempo song about a heartbreak with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor. As Langley told Billboard earlier this year, “I was on a writers retreat with Miranda, our first time writing together. At a young age, she had a pet kangaroo. She told me how she got pulled over once with the kangaroo in the passenger seat. The kangaroo got her out of a ticket and she said, ‘Of course, I had Texas plates, too.’ I went, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell…’ Forty-five minutes later, we had the song written.”
Below is a list of records “Choosin’ Texas” and Langley have already matched or set.
The summer music releases just keep coming with a sprawling new batch of projects arriving the week of Friday (July 24), featuring songs and albums by Charli xcx, KATSEYE, JENNIE of BLACKPINK and more.
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Starting with the dance-pop innovator’s new full-length, Music, Fashion, Film, Charli — as promised — takes a hard left from Brat to uncover a new side of herself marked by experimentation and fuzz guitar. The project follows her 2024 breakout LP as well as Wuthering Heights, the concept album she made to accompany Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of the iconic novel, making for a fascinating three-album run that shows off the star’s impressive range.
KATSEYE’s new single, “Animal,” is another one of the buzziest recent releases, marking the girl group’s second single — following Billboard Hot 100 No. 28 hit “Pinky Up” — from upcoming EP Wild. JENNIE’s new single, “Less Than a Lover,” marks the K-pop star’s first non-BLACKPINK release since dropping her first solo album Ruby and jumping on Tame Impala’s “Dracula,” which went top 10 this summer.
Beyond those three projects, streaming services were also blessed with new sets from Tyla, The Strokes and Kenyon Dixon — A*Pop, Reality Awaits and Ego Ruins Everything, respectively, as well as tracks by Morgan Wallen, who released “Been by Now,” Fridayy, who unleashed “Haiku,” and Carter Faith, who teamed up with Laci Kaye Booth and Baby Nova for “Pearl Handled Pistol.”
But which of those projects are you running back the most as July winds down? Billboard wants to know. Tell us your favorite release of the week by voting in the poll below.
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