A 16-year-old has been convicted in Germany of helping plan the foiled terrorist plot that targeted Taylor Swift’s planned Eras Tour stop in Vienna last year.

A panel of judges in Berlin’s Higher Regional Court found the teenager, identified by prosecutors only as “Mohammed A,” guilty on Tuesday (Aug. 26) of preparing a serious act of violence that endangered the state and supporting a foreign terrorist organization. The judges issued a juvenile 18-month suspended sentence, meaning the teen will serve probation and avoid prison as long as he doesn’t reoffend during that time.

Mohammed A., a Syrian national living in Germany, was 14 years old at the time of Swift’s scheduled concerts at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium in August 2024. The judges found that he became radicalized by Islamic State (IS) propaganda online and got in contact via social media with an Austrian teenager who was making plans to bomb one of the Eras Tour shows in Vienna.

“The defendant had, among other things, sent him a video of bomb-making instructions and put him in touch with an IS member,” says the announcement issued by Berlin court officials. “The attack plans were never carried out because the plan was uncovered by Austrian authorities in a timely manner.”

Court officials say Mohammed A. “made a comprehensive confession” during the trial, which was held behind closed doors due to confidentiality rules for juvenile defendants.

All three of Swift’s planned Eras Tour shows in Vienna were canceled after the terrorist plot was uncovered. The main Austrian plotter, a 19-year-old, was quickly arrested alongside multiple alleged accomplices.

Swift’s reps did not immediately return a request for comment on the Mohammed A. conviction. The pop superstar addressed the foiled terrorist attack in a lengthy Instagram post after the Eras Tour’s European leg wrapped last year, saying it “filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.”

“But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives,” Swift wrote. “I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together.”

Mariah Carey revealed all the songs that will be featured on her upcoming 16th studio album Here for It All on Wednesday (Aug. 27).

The 11-track project includes two collaborations: “Play This Song” with Anderson .Paak and “Jesus I Do” with The Clark Sisters. .Paak also co-wrote the LP’s first single, “Type Dangerous,” and performed it alongside the elusive chanteuse and Rakim at the 2025 BET Awards in June, when MC won her first BET Award: the Ultimate Icon Award.

“It was awesome to be able to work on her project. She’s amazing to work with, a great writer, great producer. So much fun. We had a lot of fun,” .Paak told Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly. “That was one of the last records we did in the studio, and it came together like so quick. She’s a big hip-hop head, so I wanted to try to find something that we could continue the lineage of her mixing the old with the new. And I think we got it with this one.”

Carey is set to receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7, when she’ll also perform a career-spanning medley of hits on the show.

Here for It All is due Sept. 26 via gamma. Following “Type Dangerous,” Carey released “Sugar Sweet,” featuring Shenseea and Kehlani, as the second single. It reached the top 20 of Hot R&B Songs. Both singles have gained traction on radio, with Mimi earning her first No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay in almost 19 years with “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet” hitting No. 31 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.

See the Here For It All tracklist below.

Federal prosecutors have revealed the terms rapper Boosie Badazz’s plea deal in his gun possession case – including his recommended prison sentence and new details about his alleged misconduct.

A month after Boosie (Torence Hatch) said he’d take a deal because he was “tired of fighting,” the rapper appeared in a San Diego federal courtroom Tuesday to formally plead guilty – and the feds disclosed the specific terms of the deal.

In return for Boosie pleading guilty to a single count of illegal gun ownership, prosecutors agreed to drop a second gun charge and ask for just a two-year prison sentence, far less than the maximum fifteen-year sentence the rapper was facing if convicted.

They also revealed new details about the case against him – including that he purchased the Glock and “Hellcat” handguns in Georgia and flew with them to San Diego on a Delta Air Lines flight the same day that he was arrested during a traffic stop.

“Neither the Glock, the Hellcat, nor the ammunition were manufactured in California,” the feds wrote in new court documents, obtained by Billboard. “Therefore, by the mere presence in San Diego, [the guns] traveled in and affected interstate commerce.”

Prosecutors also said in the new filings that they would not seek a monetary fine on top of the prison sentence, citing Boosie’s “limited financial prospects.” An attorney for the rapper did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday.

Boosie was first charged in June 2023 with being a felon in possession of a firearm – meaning he violated a federal law that prohibits people with felony convictions from owning guns. The rapper had previous been convicted of drug charges in 2011.

The details of his arrest raised eyebrows. Local authorities spotted him with a handgun tucked into his waistband because they were monitoring the Instagram feed of a “known gang member.” After switching to Boosie’s account, police then used a helicopter to track him in an allegedly gang-associated neighborhood of San Diego. After a traffic stop, prosecutors said he was found with a matching black pistol in the vehicle.

The case has been anything but straightforward. State prosecutors initially charged him over the traffic stop, but then quickly dropped the case. Minutes after they did so, Boosie was arrested at the courthouse by federal prosecutors over the same incident.

Then in July 2024, he was briefly saved by the Second Amendment. A judge dismissed the charges because an appeals court had ruled it unconstitutional to charge nonviolent convicts with felon-in-possession. Boosie left the courthouse in tears that day, according to Courthouse News: “Ninety percent of people thought I was going to prison, but God had a different plan.”

The respite was short-lived: Prosecutors quickly refiled the case with small changes, and a higher appeals court panel later overturned the gun-control ruling that might have helped him.

The new case was proceeding toward an eventual jury trial when the plea agreement was reached earlier this month. Boosie announced the move on Instagram, saying he had “talked to my family” and “this is the right decision.”

“JUST ACCEPTED A PLEA FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON MY GUN CASE,” Boosie posted on X at the time. “I THOUGHT THIS CASE WAS OVER N I WAS GOING TO GET ON WITH MY LIFE BUT ‘GOD DONT MAKE MISTAKES’ N IM TIRED OF FIGHTING!!”

Under the terms of the plea deal revealed Tuesday, prosecutors will also recommend three years of supervised release after Boosie completes his prison sentence. Boosie can ask for less than two years in prison, and the government can oppose that request. A sentencing hearing is currently scheduled for November.

UPDATE (Aug. 27): CeCe Winans, Lecrae, ELEVATION RHYTHM, Elevation Worship, Israel & New Breed and Unified Sound have been added as performers for the 2025 GMA Dove Awards, which will be held on Oct. 7 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Winans is competing for artist of the year at the annual awards show, along with Lauren Daigle (who was previously announced as a performer on the show), Brandon Lake, Forrest Frank, Josiah Queen and Phil Wickham.

Jason Crabb, Naomi Raines, Natalie Grant, Pastor Mike Jr. and former This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia have been added as presenters. More performers and presenters will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Eight-time GMA Dove Awards winner Tauren Wells is set to return as host and performer for the show for a third consecutive year.

PREVIOUSLY (Aug. 13): Lauren Daigle, Fred Hammond featuring The Choir Room, Josiah Queen and Gaither Vocal Band are set to perform at the 2025 GMA Dove Awards. The show will be held Oct. 7 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Daigle and Queen are competing for artist of the year at the annual awards show, along with Brandon Lake, CeCe Winans, Forrest Frank and Phil Wickham.

Presenters include John Crist, Sadie Robertson Huff, David and Tamela Mann, and Chris Tomlin. More performers and presenters will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Lake leads this year’s artist nominees with nine nods, including artist of the year, song of the year and pop/contemporary recorded song of the year. Lake landed his first top 10 album on the all-genre Billboard 200 in June with King of Hearts. He also landed his first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in May with “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” a collab with country star Jelly Roll.

Eight-time GMA Dove Awards winner Tauren Wells is set to return as host and performer for the show for a third consecutive year. As Billboard previously reported, the GMA Dove Awards are relocating from Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena to the Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville for this year’s show. Bridgestone Arena also hosts the annual Country Music Association Awards.

The show will air exclusively on TBN and the TBN+ app on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET, and will be simulcast on SiriusXM The Message. An encore presentation will air on TBN and the TBN+ app on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET.

Prior to the broadcast, viewers can watch the official red-carpet coverage, TBN’s Red Carpet Hosted by Kristin Adams, on Friday, Oct. 10, exclusively on the TBN+ app and TBN YouTube.

The GMA Dove Awards are voted on by the Gospel Music Association’s professional membership, and this year’s nominees were chosen from more than 2,800 submitted entries. Final round voting began on Aug. 7 and ends on Thursday (Aug. 14).

The 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards, presented in partnership with the Cantinas Art Foundation, are produced by the Gospel Music Association. Jackie Patillo and Justin Fratt serve as showrunners and executive producers; Curtis Stoneberger and Paul Wright as producers; and JoAnna Illingworth and Shama Mrema as scriptwriters. Russell E. Hall returns as director and Scott Moore and Go Live Productions as production manager.

Tickets and a limited number of Music City Fan Experiences are on sale at the Dove Awards site.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s post on Instagram announcing their engagement got a lot of, well, engagement.

According to data shared with Billboard on Wednesday (Aug. 27), Meta counts that the photos of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end proposing to the pop star have surpassed 1 million reposts on Instagram — more than any other post has ever received on the platform. Even more impressive, the couple’s announcement achieved that record in just six hours.

The news comes after Billboard previously reported that the post had earned 14 million “likes” in just one hour. At press time, Instagram displays that it has surged past 29 million.

If there was ever going to be a post that would garner such high stats, it’s Swift and Kelce’s. The duo’s big reveal — which they shared by writing, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married” — sent the internet into an absolute frenzy, with fans flooding social media with messages of shock and congratulations. Even President Donald Trump got in on the action, setting aside his grievances with the 14-time Grammy winner to say during a cabinet meeting, “I think he’s a great guy, and she’s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.”

The engagement comes after about two years of dating for Swift and the athlete, who popped the question two weeks prior to their Tuesday (Aug. 26) announcement, according to Kelce’s dad, Ed. The lovebirds now have wedding planning to add to their busy schedules, which features the beginning of the Chiefs’ football season on Sept. 5 and the release of the musician’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Oct. 3.

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