Reebok unveiled its new seasonal campaign in partnership with global brand ambassador, Karol G. 

Following its “Born Classic. Worn for Life.” campaign, the cultural sports brand now presents its “Born Classic. Worn Together.” installment that celebrates connection, self-expression and community through its Reebok Classics sneaker.  

“What I love most about Born Classic. Worn Together. is that it’s rooted in joy, energy, and community,” the Colombian superstar said in a press statement. “We brought together people of different ages, backgrounds, and perspectives to celebrate what makes each of us unique while showing how we’re all connected. That message is incredibly important to me, and I’m proud to be part of a campaign that reflects Reebok’s commitment to individuality, self-expression, and togetherness.”

The commercial campaign—shot by Alfred Marroquín in Mexico City—draws inspiration from the orange hues that represent Karol’s Tropicoqueta era and spotlights a diverse group of people celebrating fashion and human connection as they dance together to her feel-good mambo tune “Tropicoqueta.” Her album of the same name debuted No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200 last year. 

In January, Billboard exclusively announced the “Bichota” singer as Reebok’s new global brand ambassador with a multiyear partnership that marked the return of the Reebok Classics sneaker. 

News of the second installment comes on the heels of Karol announcing her forthcoming studio album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto and kicking off her extensive Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour that will run through 2027 in the United States, Latin America and Europe.

Charli XCX comes in hot on the ARIA Albums Chart, as Music, Fashion, Film debuts at No. 1.

It’s Charli’s fourth appearance in the top 10, a tally that includes No. 1s for Crash in 2022 and the remix release of BRAT in 2024.

With that fast start, the British singer and producer blocks Amy Shark from a fourth consecutive ARIA No. 1 with soft pop, new at No. 2. Shark led the all-genres albums chart with Love Monster in 2018, Cry Forever in 2021 and Sunday Sadness in 2024.

Olivia Rodrigo completes the podium with you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, down 2-3.

Icelandic singer and songwriter Laufey kicks off her seven-date Australian tour Friday night, July 31 in Melbourne, a trek that powers-up her album A Matter Of Time: The Final Hour. The album spikes 39-6 on the ARIA Albums Chart, several places adrift from its No. 2 peak.

Also new to the ARIA Chart, published late Friday, July 31, is the Strokes’ Reality Awaits. It’s new at No. 10, for the New York indie rockers’ sixth top 10 appearance, a run that includes a 2011 leader with Angles. 

Close behind is Gentleman, the debut studio album from Australian singer and songwriter Budjerah. Gentleman is new at No. 14.

South African singer Tyla opens her account at No. 28 with A*Pop, her sophomore album. That’s by some distance a new career high, besting the No. 48 peak position for 2024’s Tyla.

Canadian country music superstar Shania Twain enjoys another top 40 appearance with Little Miss Twain, her seventh studio album. It’s new at No. 30. Twain has bagged three ARIA Chart leaders during her glittering career. According to ARIA, 1999’s Come On Over logged 20 weeks at No. 1, while 2002’s Up! and 2017’s Now both checked in for a week at the chart summit. 
 
Meanwhile, Sydney rocker Body Type starts No. 42 with Tally. It’s their third album and first to crack the ARIA Top 50.

Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Ella Langley enters an eighth non-consecutive week at No. 1 with “Choosin’ Texas.” It’s another all-female top three, with Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” holding at No.  2 and the British singer’s collaboration with  Sam Fender, “Rein Me In,” unchanged at No. 3.  

The top new release belongs to international girl group Katseye, whose “Animal” debuts at No. 8. Co-written with Ed Sheeran, it’s the act’s fourth top 50 hit here after 2025’s “Gabriela” (No. 27), 2026’s “Pinky Up” (No. 19) and “Iconic By Mistake” (No. 39) with Le Sserafim and Illit. The members of Katseye visited Australia in May for a series of showcases and fan events. “Animal” is the only fresh cut new top ARIA Top 50.

Bright lights, damp smells, electronic sounds bouncing from the walls. For Generation X, video game arcades were the gateway to dance parties.

PNAU made the leap. And somehow, that trip is fused into AHHCade, the electronic duo’s seventh studio album, out today (July 31) via Sydney-based indie label etcetc, part of TMRW Music.

“We started out this record trying to do something different and trying to make darker music,” co-founder Nick Littlemore explains in a sitdown chat with Billboard. “We talked about the idea of making it quite industrial, going back to my roots.”

That didn’t quite end up happening.

Instead, PNAU, the project of high school buddies Littlemore and Peter Mayes, reached deep into the memory banks, and those formative, dingy rooms that sucked up our pocket money and triggered dopamine dumps.

“Arcades were such an exciting place as kids. I don’t know if they were safe spaces, but they were exciting and they gave us a window to a future that other generations didn’t have,” Littlemore explains. In an earlier, simpler life, the young generation was “going to the arcades, making mixtapes for friends, representing yourself on your pencil case.”

Playing the “Spacies,” as Aussies of a certain vintage have in their vernacular, “the fact they weren’t necessarily that safe is a bit like going to raves. They were the precursor to going into other dark rooms, with dodgy foods being sold somewhere. And blinking lights, mad sounds. And very electronic. You were interfacing with it.”

Those sensory overload rooms were the first to enable youngsters to get a buzz by burying their faces in screens. “Music isn’t work; you don’t work music. Arcades, it’s a play time, isn’t it?,” Littlemore reckons. “There’s a playfulness to it.”

Playtime was “naive back then in a beautiful way. I never want to lose that.”

The new collection houses the previously-released belter “Tu Corazon (Your Heart)” featuring Mexican rock act The Warning; the bubbly single “Nirvana” with EARTHGANG and sadMONTH; and the new single “Serotonin,” which features Kurtis Wells and arrives today. Other features include Master Peace, Kungs, MEDUZA, Maleigh Zan, The Flints, LATASHA, and Marieme.

PNAU formed in Sydney in the mid-1990s, the golden era of Australia’s underground electronic music scene. Their debut album, Sambanova, dropped in 1999, and won an ARIA Award for best dance release. More would come, as would AIR Awards. Long-overdue international recognition came when PNAU joined forces with Elton John on the Rocket Man’s 2012 remix album Good Morning to the Night, which went to No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. PNAU and Elton teamed up again for the 2021 remix “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa, and landed a bonafide global monster.

PNAU will support the new release with a national tour, kicking off Sept. 19 for Brisbane’s Night at the Parkland event. Littlemore, one half of Empire of the Sun, is a reluctant touring artist. “I want to wind up my personal touring by the end of the year. Ideally. I tried to do it last year. But I would like to move just purely into production and composition,” he insists. “I’ve been making a classical album, with an amazing arranger, and all these modular synths. Oh, my God. No one’s gonna listen to her, but I’m really enjoying making it.”

Littlemore admits he and Mayes and have “100s of songs and ideas” on standby. “Songs are spells. They’re wishes and they’re spells, and you want to put good spells in the universe,” he insists. “There are enough bad spells out there, anyway.”

AHHCade brings some balance to the equation. Eleven good spells, a half-hour playtime.

Stream it in full below.

Glenn A. Baker, for generations a familiar name in Australian media for his work as a music historian, author, presenter and pundit, and a long-time Billboard correspondent, died Friday morning, July 31. He was 74.

“Glenn’s contribution to the Australian rock ’n’ roll music landscape was immense, but his family remembers him as a loving father of six and grandfather of thirteen,” reads a statement posted on his official social channels.

“Glenn’s passion for music, travel, food and his family (still not entirely sure of the order) was, like his personality, larger than life.”

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1952, the eldest of four children, Baker left school aged 15 to support his family and was “galvanized” by seeing the Beatles on TV.

In the mid-‘70s, Baker launched his radio career as part of a research team whose work led to the creation of 2JJ, which would became triple j, the national youth network within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Baker always cut a flamboyant figure on TV, which was often, in the 1970s through to recent times. A true music allrounder, Baker managed the band Ol’55 and, in 1979, co-founded the Australian record label Raven Records. He topped the BBC’s “Rock Brain of the Universe” on three occasions during the 1980s, and twice won the Australian Travel Writer of the Year Award twice (1995 and 2000).

A prolific writer, Baker penned 17 books, sleeve notes for more than 600 albums, and served as Billboard’s Australia correspondent for over 20 years.

His knowledge of music was as vast as his collection of records. In 2024, Baker, through Lloyds Auctions, put his immense haul under the hammer. Over 80,000 items were put up for sale, including over 50,000 LPs “primarily representing rock’n’roll and popular music of the second half of the 20th century,” the listing stated.

Winarch Group’s founder and director Paul Lambess bought the goods.

Speaking with 702 ABC Sydney, Baker’s son Orson revealed that his father had experienced a “period of illness,” was “declining for a while” and had experienced a stroke.

His dad was “somebody who absolutely grabbed life, throttled it, and did everything that he wanted to do”.

As news of his passing spread, the music community reached out.

“I am very sorry to hear of the passing of Glenn A Baker today,” writes Iva Davies, spearhead of ICEHOUSE. “Glenn was someone who lived life on his own terms – his passion for music and for the industry made him a force for discovery of new artists and to advocate with business and government to improve conditions for creators.”

Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes remembered Baker as “the first person I’d turn to whenever I needed to know anything about our music history. He was always ready to help, drawing on his vast knowledge of popular music.” It was Baker who sent Barnes the Easybeats song “Good Times” when the rocker was looking for a song to record with INXS. “I’ll miss his insights, his incredible knowledge, and our conversations about music whenever we met.”

ARIA Hall of Fame inductee Marcia Hines reflects on Baker as “a man to whom music was more than music. It was part of his life blood. His big, beautiful brain held the keys to a treasure trove of deep cuts that he rejoiced in and wrote about with the same prolific passion that is usually reserved for what readers/listeners would usually view as ‘the hits.’”

Baker had celebrated his birthday just three days earlier. “While the family wishes for privacy,” reads the family statement, “if you do wish to honor Glenn or continue his legacy in some way, have a passionate conversation today with somebody about your favorite Australian muso or band. Rock on Glenn! You will be missed.”

Cardi B wants you in the club this summer. The Bronx native returned with her first single of the year on Friday (July 31), as “Ah Ha” arrived on streaming services at midnight ET.

The Bardi Gang went into a frenzy when Cardi previewed the hard-hitting single on Monday (July 27), which saw her rapping while taking a stroll on the beach in a Dominican Republic flag bikini. 

Looking to capitalize on the buzz and momentum, Cardi and Atlantic Records didn’t waste any time setting a release date for the catchy single, which the Grammy-winning artist officially announced on Wednesday (July 29). 

“A n—a can’t trap me, I won’t keep it/ B—es really hate me, so be it/ Bathroom floors and these hoes both heated/ It goes three, two, to the one in this b—h/ I’ll give a hoe exactly what she want in this b—h,” she raps on the new song.

Cardi also dissed Donald Trump on the track. “Black trucks at the club look like Trump in this b—h, f–k him/ A hoe never played with me once in this b—h,” she spews.

Even without any new music prior to “Ah Ha,” Cardi has been booked and busy so far this year. She kicked off 2026 with the Little Miss Drama Tour, which served as her first headlining North American trek. The 33-year-old also came in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hottest Female Rappers list for the first half of 2026.

It’s unclear if “Ah Ha” is the launch of a new era or a one-off release. Cardi’s sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, arrived in September 2025 and topped the Billboard 200. 

Stream “Ah Ha” below.