Things just got swaggier. In the small hours of Friday morning (Sept. 3), Justin Bieber unleashed new album Swag II with just a short warning.

Coming just a couple of months after the release of the pop star’s first Swag album, Swag II arrived after Bieber announced its existence via a slew of electronic billboards in different cities on Thursday (Sept. 4). As opposed to Swag‘s black-and-white visuals featuring photography of the singer and his family, Swag II‘s color scheme was established as baby pink in the billboards and in posts on Bieber’s Instagram.

Disc 1 is the new release, and features 23 new cuts, led off by “Speed Demon,” “Better Man” and “Love Song.”

The surprise release of Swag II aligns with the way Bieber dropped Swag, similarly giving fans hardly any heads up before heralding its arrival a few hours prior with electronic advertisements earlier this summer. The arrival of Swag II comes after Billboard first reported that Bieber was readying a second album for release after Swag — which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 — dropped in July. While the first Swag was R&B-inspired, as demonstrated by Billboard Hot 100 hits such as “Daisies” and “First Place,” Billboard learned at the time that the sequel would be more pop-focused.

Before embarking on his Swag series, the Canadian star had taken a four-year break from releasing albums. His last LP before Swag was 2021’s Justice.

In total, Bieber now has eight studio albums. Seven of them have reached No. 1 on the U.S. albums chart, and the musician has reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 eight times over the course of his career.

Stream Swag II below.

Tones And I will get the place bouncing when she performs next month for an historic series of pre-season NBA games in Australia.

Association franchise New Orleans Pelicans will make the long haul to Melbourne, where they’ll tackle NBL finalists Melbourne United on Friday, Oct. 3, and semi-finalists South East Melbourne Phoenix, Oct. 5th, 2025, both at Rod Laver Arena.

Confirmed today, Sept. 5, the “Dance Monkey” star is the halftime entertainment for the Friday spectacle, and she’ll headline a “Fan Night” the following evening.

Tones (real name Toni Wilson) is a regular courtside guest for Melbourne United home games, and is a passionate fan of the sport. She’s the “Number 1” ticket holder for the franchise, effectively an ambassador for the team, and she performed at a half-time show and a Fan Night in October 2024.

With 2019’s “Dance Monkey,” Tones crushed chart records and landed one of the most-streamed songs in history. The track led Australia’s ARIA Chart for a record 24 weeks; held top spot on the Official UK Chart for 11 weeks, a record for a solo female artist; and went top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. All told, the song hit the top spot on sales charts in more than 30 territories, and has danced past 3.3 billion streams on Spotify.

Tones has two ARIA No. 1 albums to her name, a slew of ARIA Awards, and she’s said play the point guard position like a pro.

The NBAxNBL games will be the first played by NBA squads in Australia, one of the Association’s most fanatical international markets. Australia is said to be the No. 2 territories outside of the United States for subscriptions to the NBA’s League Pass app.

The NBA’s long-overdue crossing to Australia follows the announcement by the NFL this year of a multi-year arrangement to play regular season games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from next year, featuring the Los Angeles Rams. 

The forthcoming Netflix series Black Rabbit stars Jude Law and Jason Bateman as the brothers behind a white-hot restaurant and VIP lounge in New York City. If that premise isn’t enticing enough, the show will also get a heavy dose of glamour via RAYE, who will appear in an episode of the show playing herself while performing the show’s titular establishment. Billboard is premiering exclusive images from her appearance on the show.

In tandem with the news, RAYE has released a cover of “What a Difference a Day Makes,” a beloved standard whose 1959 recording by Dinah Washington won a Grammy for best rhythm & blues performance. RAYE’s take on the song is out now.

Premiering on the streamer Sept. 18, Black Rabbit is a limited series with a premise that follows “the owner of the hottest restaurant in New York” (Law) who allows his troubled brother (Bateman) to return to the family business, a move that “opens the door to old traumas and new dangers that threaten to bring down everything they’ve built.”

Directors of the eight-episode series include Bateman, Laura Linney, Ben Semanoff and Justin Kurzel.

“I am very grateful to Netflix and the Black Rabbit team for inviting me to be a little part of this series,” says RAYE. “To Miss Laura Linney for having me, it was such a privilege to play a teeny tiny part under your vision. Reading my very first ever ‘on screen’ lines, whilst staring into Jason Bateman’s eyes is a life experience I will never forget, hahahah!

“Regarding the music,” she continues, “I’m absolutely head over heels in love with Dinah Washington, who sang the version of this song I am most in love with. It’s always tough to cover a song sung by the irreplaceable inimitable voices of the jazz age but I hope my love of the song shines through.”