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Taylor Swift, 'The Tortured Poets Department' (Beth Garrabrant) Taylor Swift hasn't even released her new album yet, but she's already back in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.While The Life of a Showgirl won't be out until Oct. 3, her previous release, The Tortured Poets Department, has jumped from #18 to #10. It's the first time it's been there since February. Upon its release in 2024, it […]

Dua Lipa performs in Belgium during her Radical Optimism tour, June, 2025 (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Getty Images for ABA) If you follow Dua Lipa on Instagram, you've got to admit, her life looks pretty great — and in a post thanking fans for their support following her 30th birthday on Aug. 22, she confirmed that it is."I love this life, I love this journey, and I never take a single moment […]

Katy Perry 'Teenage Dream' (Capitol) Fifteen years ago, Katy Perry had it on lock. Her third album, Teenage Dream, was released Aug. 24, 2010, and it turned her life into something resembling the project's title.Teenage Dream was the first album in history by a woman to spin off five #1 singles: "California Gurls," the title track, "Firework," "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)." The only previous album ever to have […]

Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon perform on 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' on February 16, 2025 (Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images) When Sabrina Carpenter appeared in the opening moments of the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special earlier this year, she'd previously performed on SNL exactly once. But there she was, singing "Homeward Bound" with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Simon, who has made multiple appearances on the show since […]

Gloria Estefan performs on ABC's 'Good Morning America' in August 2025 (ABC/Paula Lobo) 2025 marks Gloria Estefan's 50th year in the music business and the 40th anniversary of "Conga," her breakthrough hit with Miami Sound Machine. But she's not slowing down: She has a new album, Raíces; an upcoming movie, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie; and a stage musical set to open next year. "It just converged all in this 50th year — it wasn't planned […]

Sabrina Carpenter, 'Short n' Sweet' (Island Records) The album that changed Sabrina Carpenter's life turned 1 on Saturday, and she took to Instagram to celebrate the milestone.Short n' Sweet -- which earned Sabrina her first Grammys and first number-one hit, gave us the phrases "Make me Juno" and "That's that me, espresso," and even inspired a Saturday Night Live skit -- was released on Aug. 23, 2024.On Instagram, Sabrina wrote, "Pausing from [Man's Best […]

Lady Gaga performs during The MAYHEM Ball Tour, July 2025 (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation) "I'm home, New York City!" That's what Lady Gaga yelled from the stage Friday night as she brought her Mayhem Ball tour to Madison Square Garden for the first of six hometown shows.While the set was essentially the same as the previous shows on the tour, Gaga did prepare "something special" for her New […]

Ed Sheeran has released an acoustic video for his latest single, "A Little More." It shows him playing the song while standing by a pool at Cuadra San Cristóbal, a modernist private estate in Mexico City that's being redeveloped as a cultural center and museum. He's shown standing in front of a wall that happens to be the same shade of pink as his upcoming album Play.Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough celebrated […]

Benson Boone, 'American Heart' (Night Street Records/Warner Records) Most artists spend weeks, if not months, rehearsing for their tours. But Benson Boone claims he's spent the past few years literally winging it — until now.Benson is launching his American Heart tour Friday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he tells People it marks the first time he's rehearsed for a series of live dates. Benson tells the magazine that in the past he and […]