Osheaga has a knack for booking budding superstars right as they blow up. Last year, it was Chappell Roan. This year, it was Doechii.

The Grammy-winning, Florida-born rapper took the stage on the first night of the Montreal music festival on Friday (Aug. 1), and it felt like a star-making performance. The Killers headlined the mainstage, but unlike Chappell Roan, who played for 40,000 people at 3:30 in the afternoon last year, Doechii did have the honor of closing out the festival on the secondary Forest Stage.

Her set was pushed back slightly to start at 10:10 p.m., meaning she was the final performer of the night before the noise curfew at 11 p.m. And for those who wanted to catch both acts, The Killers made it easy by playing their belt-along favorite “Mr. Brightside” as their first song and packing the first hour of their two-hour, 9:10 p.m. set with hits.

Doechii’s stage set was decked out to fit her Swamp Princess persona, covered in greenery and a large, elevated swampy platform for her to stand on. The crowd was packed in, so the fans stuck at the back still had a visual feast. “I look good from the nosebleeds,” she rapped from her 2025 hit “Nosebleeds,” and this show proved it.

For a full hour, Doechii kept the energy up. She rapped a mile a minute, all live with almost no reliance on a backing track. She showed off her full skill set, from pure hip-hop to sung R&B/pop hooks, and comedic banter to thought-out stagecraft. She brought unbridled charisma, taking time to dance and twerk and show off some vogue moves as well. She showed off a reverence for classic hip-hop, rapping over Wu-Tang’s “C.R.E.A.M.,” and later screaming over a distorted guitar sample — almost veering towards nu-metal. She showed she can do it all.

The audience stayed captivated, rapping along and matching her energy throughout. It was Doechii’s first time in Canada, and you could tell she was impressed by the reaction. “As an artist, you can get so much hate and negativity,” she said. “Then you go out in real life and see your real fans.”

She took some time to thank her gay fans, her female fans, and the fans who brought their boyfriends. “If your boyfriend hates female rappers, then leave him immediately,” she said.

Seeing all the phones out, she seized her moment. “Ya’ll can’t be scared to stand up for what you believe in, you can’t be scared to say what matters,” she said. “Free Palestine.”

Doechii broke out her biggest hit, the Billboard Hot 100 top-10 charting “Anxiety,” and thanked all her fans for streaming it. The “Somebody That I Used To Know” sampling song is a bit of an outlier in her catalogue, but it’s a viral TikTok favourite, and she’s found a way to fit it perfectly into her set. After playing the song, she thanked Gotye for approving the sample.

The true highlight of the set was “Denial Is a River.” The song, which features Doechii rapping with her internal monologue, took on a whole new call-and-response dimension with fans chanting along to every word.

It felt like she was still just getting started when, midway through the next song, the beat cut out. “F— that, they cut me off!” she yelled. She put her thumbs down, inciting the crowd to boo, then threw her hands up. “Whatever,” she said, walking off the stage.

Unfortunately, Osheaga has a hard 11 p.m. noise curfew. It’s clear the next time she’s back, she’ll have to have a longer headliner-length set.

Doechii performs tonight (Aug. 2) at Lollapalooza in Chicago, where she’s teased a special guest. If Osheaga was anything to go by, her set will likely be all over social media soon.

This article originally appeared on Billboard Canada.

Kelly Osbourne is paying tribute to her father, Ozzy Osbourne, just days after his funeral.

On Friday (Aug. 1), the 40-year-old TV personality shared an NSFW photo on her Instagram Story in memory of the rock legend, who passed away on July 22 at the age of 76.

The outdoor image featured a beautiful display of purple flowers arranged to spell out “Ozzy F—ing Osbourne,” set beside a serene pond surrounded by a rolling hill and trees.

In a second post, Kelly shared a heartfelt clip from The Osbournes, the MTV reality series that aired from 2002 to 2005. The snippet shows Ozzy lying in bed with his wife, Sharon Osbourne, offering words of wisdom.

“Listen, all you got to worry about is getting through today,” the Black Sabbath frontman says. “That’s all you got to worry about.”

Just days earlier, Kelly attended her father’s funeral procession in his hometown of Birmingham, England, where fans flooded the streets to pay their respects. Sharon, along with Ozzy’s other children — Aimeé and Jack — laid flowers at the Black Sabbath Bridge, which had been covered with tributes from mourners.

Shortly after Ozzy’s passing, Kelly posted another emotional tribute to her Instagram Story on July 24. “I feel unhappy I am so sad,” she wrote. “I lost the best friend I ever had,” the Fashion Police alum added, along with a heartbroken emoji. Her words echoed lyrics from Black Sabbath’s ballad “Changes,” which she and her father released as a duet in 2003.

Ozzy Osbourne died at age 76, just weeks after performing his final concert. His family confirmed the news in a joint statement. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” they wrote. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”

Just a month before his death, Kelly had honored her dad on Father’s Day with an Instagram post that included a slideshow of Ozzy spending time with her young son, Sidney, whom she shares with fiancé Sid Wilson.

“Happy Father’s Day daddy,” she wrote at the time. “I love you more than anyone or anything in the world! I am so proud to be your daughter and Beyond honored to watch you be the best #Papa in the world to my son!”

Friday (Aug. 1) capped a bloodbath for music stocks, as a weak U.S. jobs report added to losses suffered following some of the largest companies’ second quarter earnings reports.

The 20-company Billboard Global Music Index fell 8.5% to 2,743.63 as 17 stocks lost ground and only two posted gains (one was unchanged). Four companies fell more than 10% and nine dropped more than 7%. The index’s worst week in its nearly three-year history experienced a steeper decline than the 8.2% drop in the week ended April 4, after President Trump announced steep tariffs for U.S. trading partners. In the wake of this week’s shortfall, the index’s year-to-date gain stands at 28.7%. 

Stocks were down everywhere. In the U.S., the Nasdaq composite fell 2.2% and the S&P 500 dropped 2.4%. In the U.K., the FTSE fell 0.6%. South Korea’s KOSPI composite index dipped 2.4%. China’s Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.9%. 

Three of the four music companies that reported earnings this week — Universal Music Group (UMG), Spotify and SiriusXM — had sizable share price decreases. The fourth, Deezer, managed a low single-digit decline. 

UMG finished the week down 13.6% to 24.06 euros ($27.89). Friday’s 5.2% drop stemmed from mixed second quarter earnings results released after the close of trading on Thursday (July 31). Part of that decline could be explained by the overall market’s bad day: On Friday, the AEX, an index of companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, fell 1.9%. 

UMG shares started the week poorly, falling 6.7% on Monday (July 28) on news that Cyrille Bolloré had resigned from UMG’s board of directors. Bolloré is chairman and CEO of Bolloré Group, which owns 18.5% of UMG’s outstanding shares, and is also the major shareholder in UMG’s former owner, Vivendi. 

Some UMG investors may be worried that Bolloré may want to sell UMG shares to help the Bolloré Group’s buyout of Vivendi, which is being mandated by the French financial regulator, AMF. A major shareholder offloading shares would depress UMG’s price; however, J.P. Morgan analysts believe Bolloré “did not resign because Bollore plans to sell shares, but because he does indeed want to focus his time on Bollore Groupe, and it made sense to resign before the anticipated US listing,” analysts wrote in a note to investors on Friday.

Spotify fell 9.4% to $627.80 after the company issued lower-than-expected guidance for the third quarter. Like UMG’s results, Spotify’s second quarter was a mixed bag. Analysts noted strong user trends that were overshadowed by foreign exchange losses — Spotify reports in euros, which have gained versus the U.S. dollar this year — and stagnant average revenue per user due to a lack of price increases. Considering the fact that Spotify’s share price had been up 112% in the year leading up to Tuesday’s earnings release, a sharp pullback isn’t surprising. 

SiriusXM shares fell 10.2% to $21.18 after the company continued to lose subscribers in the second quarter. Total revenue fell 2% to $2.14 billion while adjusted EBITDA dipped to $668 million from $702 million a year earlier. SiriusXM subscribers were down 460,000 from the prior-year period, although most of the decline came from paid promotional subscribers, not higher-value self-pay subscriptions. The company reiterated its full-year revenue guidance of $8.5 billion, approximately 2.3% less than 2024’s $8.7 billion. 

Deezer shares fell 2.4% to 1.24 euros following the company’s second quarter earnings release on Wednesday (July 30). Revenue was flat and subscribers were down, but adjusted gross profit and net loss improved.

Sphere Entertainment Co. dropped 5.4% on Friday alone and finished the week down 6.7%. Live Nation, which reports earnings on Thursday (Aug. 7), dropped 4.4%. 

Cumulus Media had the week’s best performance, gaining 7.7% to $0.14 per share. SM Entertainment was the only other music company in positive territory, with the K-pop company improving 3.8% to 129,500 KRW ($93.26), bringing its year-to-date gain to 71.3%.

Other K-pop stocks fared relatively well. JYP Entertainment fell just 1.1%; HYBE lost 2.1%; and YG Entertainment sank 4.5%.