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Taylor Swift, 'The Life of a Showgirl' cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot) Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl has now collected a nice round number of weeks at #1: It's been on top for a total of 10, non-consecutively. According to Billboard, the album got an 18% sales boost thanks to color vinyl variants of the album that started shipping out to customers in the past week. As per […]

Jonas Brothers' Greetings From Your Hometown tour, which got underway in August in the brothers' home state of New Jersey, will pause after Monday night's show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center for Christmas. It will then resume Dec. 30 in Jacksonville, Florida, followed by a New Year's Eve show in Hollywood, Florida.The 20th anniversary tour has made headlines all year for all the special guests — both old and new — […]

Musical guest Cher, host Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang during promos on Thursday, December 18, 2025 (Rosalind O’Connor/NBC) Ariana Grande returned to host Saturday Night Live for a third time on Dec. 20, and her appearance doubled as a farewell lap for her Wicked co-star and departing SNL cast member Bowen Yang.Grande kicked off the show by poking fun at herself, noting that she'd last hosted about a year ago. "So […]

If the colors of the gown Ariana Grande wears in her Saturday Night Live promos look like they're from the '70s, that's because they are. The dress is a Bob Mackie design originally worn by legendary comic actress Carol Burnett during the opening monologue of a 1973 episode of The Carol Burnett Show. Ari posted a photo of Burnett wearing the original dress in the episode. One fan commented, "A comedy queen honoring […]

Kylie Minogue, 'Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (Parlophone/Warner Bros.) Every year in the U.K., many artists vie for the coveted "Christmas #1," the song that tops the official singles chart on Dec. 25. For the first time in her nearly 40-year career, Kylie Minogue can now claim that dinstinction.Kylie, who's Australian, has been ruling the U.K. charts since the '80s, but a solo Christmas #1 had long eluded her. The changed this year […]

Miley Cyrus appears on ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (Disney/Randy Holmes) Miley Cyrus is Golden Globe-nominated for "We Dream As One," the song she co-wrote for Avatar: Fire and Ash, and now she'll be honored at one of the main stops on the awards season circuit: the Palm Springs International Film Awards. Miley will receive the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award at the ceremony, which takes place Jan 3. It's part of the […]

Ed Sheeran performs for Spotify’s Billions Club Live show on November 03, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Spotify) Ed Sheeran is showing off his six-pack on the cover of Men's Health magazine."Something I never thought id do, but here we are," Ed writes on Instagram. "10 years ago I was a beer guzzling, kebab munching smoker. Having kids really made me knock all those bad habits on the head […]

Taylor Swift proved she could do it with a broken heart on The Eras Tour, and she opens up about it in a new episode of her Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era.In episode four, which is now streaming, Taylor reveals, "There were points in this tour when the tour was really the only thing that was really keeping me going in my life. ... I went through two breakups […]

Whitney Houston poses with a trophy during the 30th annual Grammy Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York, March 2, 1988. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Whitney Houston, Cher, Paul Simon and Chaka Khan are among the music legends set to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Recording Academy.The Recording Academy — which presents the Grammys — will recognize Cher, Paul, Chaka and Whitney, who died in 2012, during a Special […]