This weekend is poised to massive for Oasis. The reunited band is gearing up to rock their hometown of Manchester on Friday night (July 11) with the first of five shows at Heaton Park on their Live ’25 tour and you can feel the excitement in the air, literally.

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Hours before gates, the band posted a video of a massive drone display over the empty park spelling out the band’s name in white lights cued to “Round Our Way” from the deluxe edition of their landmark sophomore 1995 album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

And that’s not the only sound floating around before Friday’s show. Singer Liam Gallagher also recorded some hilarious show promos that are running on the Bee Network tram headed to the gig to encourage the expected 80,000 fans to take public transport. Among the attitude-filled messages are: “The next stop is Heaton Paaaark, off you go,” “The next stop is Heaton Park [clap], c’mon, move it!” and “The next stop is Heaton Park, off you go.” Gallagher previously did the honors in 2023, when he voiced “next stop” announcements in support of the Beyond the Music festival.

In addition to teaming with Google for the Oasis Live ’25 Map Experience AR widget to enhance the experience for fellow Mancs, the band issued a friendly warning to fans to mind the weather for the shows, as temperatures in the high 80s are expected at showtime. In a post early Friday morning they wrote, “Severe weather advice… please prepare for extreme sun and heat. Wear sun screen. Stay hydrated at the concert and when traveling. Wear a (bucket) hat. Where possible stay in shade. Look after yourself and look after each other.”

After Friday’s gig, Oasis will settle into Heaton Park for additional shows on Saturday (July 12), as well as July 16, 19 and 20.

Check out the announcement and drone display below.

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The soundtrack to Netflix’s animated hit KPop Demon Hunters has hit No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart, marking the first soundtrack from an animated film to top the tally in more than eight years.

The last animated soundtrack to achieve the feat was Trolls, which spent three weeks at No. 1 in early 2017.

KPop Demon Hunters is also the first soundtrack of any kind to crown the chart since Barbie: The Album logged two weeks at No. 1 in 2023.

The release is fueling a wave of chart success across the ARIA Singles Chart too. Multiple tracks from the film are climbing fast: “Golden” (Rei Ami, HUNTR/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and the cast) surges from No. 8 to No. 2, while “Your Idol” cracks the top 10, jumping 12-8. Other standouts include “How It’s Done” (No. 21-11), “Soda Pop” (No. 27-12), “What It Sounds Like” (No. 25-16), and “Free” (No. 33-20).

Meanwhile, Sydney punk-rockers FANGZ are celebrating a milestone of their own. Their debut full-length album Shui bows at No. 8 on the Albums Chart, giving the five-piece their first top 10 appearance. The band, who have been active since 2019, are currently on a national tour and will perform at Newcastle’s Hamilton Station tonight (July 10).

Elsewhere on the Albums Chart, Lorde’s Virgin holds strong at No. 2 after debuting atop the Vinyl Albums chart last week, and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet sits at No. 3.

On the Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” extends its reign to a 16th consecutive week at No. 1, a feat that continues to cement its global breakout status. The viral hit has topped charts in over 25 countries, including the Billboard Hot 100. and U.K., and its parent album You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) — which peaked at No. 15 earlier this year — lands at 23 this week.

Legacy acts are also stirring activity. Following Oasis’ U.K. reunion shows, the band’s Time Flies… 1994-2009 greatest hits compilation re-enters at No. 50, while What’s The Story Morning Glory? just misses the top 50 but sees renewed streaming momentum.

Saweetie is about to make her long-awaited debut on Australian stages, with a new single set to drop just days before the ICY Queen brings her chart-topping hits down under.

The rapper announced this week that “Boffum” will arrive on July 18, coinciding with her first-ever Australian headline run, which kicks off in Perth on July 30. She also shared a teaser of the track via Instagram on Friday (July 11).

The Australian tour marks another major career milestone for the Bay Area-born artist, who has spent the past year performing on some of the world’s biggest stages. Saweetie headlined high-profile festivals across the U.S., including Rolling Loud and Coachella, where she delivered a set packed with fan favorites and surprise collaborations.

Saweetie’s popularity in Australia has been proven over the years, with singles such as 2020’s “Tap In” and 2021’s “Best Friend” both hitting the top 40, while 2019’s “My Type” reached the top ten of the Australian Hitseekers chart. In late 2024, she also dropped “NANi,” which peaked on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay.

Joining Saweetie on the road is rising Australian star Amarni, who was tapped as the official support act for the tour. Hailing from Melbourne, Amarni has been gaining attention with her unapologetic sound and genre-blurring tracks. Her latest single “Hu$tler” arrived earlier this month and has already made waves on streaming platforms, showcasing the bold energy she’ll bring to the stage as she opens for Saweetie’s four Australian dates.

The tour, presented by Primuse Entertainment and Capital Touring, includes stops at Perth’s Metro City, Brisbane’s Eatons Hill Hotel, Melbourne’s The Timber Yard and Sydney’s Roundhouse. Limited tickets remain via primuse.com.au.

Saweetie’s Australian run comes as she continues working on her long-anticipated debut album, which is expected to drop later this year.  “Yeah, it’s coming this year,” she told Billboard in February. “I feel like it will really encompass who I’ve grown into over these past couple of years. Lots of stories to tell.”

On Thursday, July 10, billboards across cities including New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Reykjavík popped up all teasing the same thing: Justin Bieber is back.

The various billboards showed black and white photos of the superstar, with one in particular showing him shirtless standing in front of his wife Hailey Bieber, who is holding their son Jack Blues Bieber (though his face isn’t to the camera). The images were shot by Renell Medrano, the same photographer who shot the album art for Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers; and, as many fans have pointed out on social media, it seemed likely that Bieber’s new album could follow a similar theme of chronicling his journey towards healing.

While other billboards depicted the word “SWAG,” which proved to be an album title, some listed 20 titles, which proved to be the album’s track list (plus one more track not listed on the billboards, culminating in 21 total). Titles included “Therapy Session” and “Forgiveness,” further solidifying similarities between Bieber and Lamar’s confessional projects.

In all, the surprise promo added up to a quick campaign for Bieber’s anticipated seventh album. But the few hours notice was more than enough to generate hype — as fans have been seated and waiting for new music since 2021.

Out Friday, July 11, Swag is the superstar’s first album in four years, since Justice. Sources told Billboard that Swag was in the same lane of R&B only much more experimental, referencing artists such as Dijon and Mk.gee (both of whom are credited on the album).

And while Swag arrived as a surprise, it’s also an expected move from the artist who has been making headlines of late for everything from financial woes with his former manager, Scooter Braun, to concerns over his marital status. With Swag, Bieber is taking control of not only the present narrative but his and his family’s future.

As he famously said recently, in a paparazzi clip that has since gone viral: “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business.” After one listen through Swag, it immediately clocks just how serious Bieber is about protecting what matters most. And really, what’s swaggier than that?

Below, see Billboard’s preliminary ranking of all 21 songs from Bieber’s Swag.

BLACKPINK is back and ready to dominate the charts once again. The global K-pop powerhouse returned on Friday (July 11) with their new digital single “JUMP,” marking their first release as a group in nearly three years.

The high-octane track, which made its live debut during the kickoff of BLACKPINK’s World Tour DEADLINE in Goyang, South Korea, last weekend, is already sending shockwaves through the BLINK fandom and beyond. Earlier this week, the band dropped a teaser for the “JUMP” music video ahead of the release.

Written by an all-star lineup of TEDDY, Diplo, 24, Zikai, Claudia Valentina, Jumpa, Malachiii and Jesse Bluu — and produced by Diplo, 24, Boaz Van De Beatz, Zecca and Ape Drums — “JUMP” sees BLACKPINK boldly venture into hardstyle territory.

Each member — JISOO, JENNIE, ROSÉ and LISA — shines across the track’s unpredictable hooks and pounding beats, showcasing their individual vocal colors while delivering a united, addictive energy.

The new release comes as BLACKPINK kick off their massive World Tour DEADLINE, which will see the quartet perform 31 shows across 16 cities, including two-night stadium stops in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and London. Following their South Korea opener, the group are set to bring the tour stateside this weekend for a two-night stint at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

The tour will then continue overseas throughout the summer and fall, making stops in France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore,Japan and Hong Kong.

“JUMP” also sets the stage for the next chapter in BLACKPINK’s career after a three-year hiatus that saw each member pursue solo ventures, from JENNIE’s acting debut in The Idol to ROSÉ and LISA’s solo music success.

BLACKPINK hasn’t shared new music since 2023’s “The Girls,” which the foursome released specially for Blackpink The Game. Before that came 2022 album Born Pink, which topped the Billboard 200.

“Jump” is now available on all major streaming platforms.

Travis Scott is ready to run it back. The Houston rapper has officially confirmed Jackboys 2, the long-awaited sequel to his 2019 Cactus Jack compilation album, is set to arrive this Sunday (July 13).

The news came via Instagram late Thursday (July 10), where Scott posted the album artwork and wrote, “JB2 OUT EVERY WHERE 7 13 SPEAKERS AND SCREAMS AT MAX VOLUME.”

Scott kicked off the Jackboys 2 era earlier this week with the release of “2000 Excursion” on Tuesday (July 8). The cinematic single, which dropped alongside a high-octane music video exclusively on YouTube, reunites him with Cactus Jack labelmates Don Toliver and Sheck Wes over a Cardo-produced beat.

The track features a prominent sample of Ye’s “Power” and finds Scott in top form, rapping, “He sleep with a Spanish bi— in the club/ Bro knowin’ Spanglish, that’s good enough/ Wе took an hour out of the after-hours just to f— up all the ones/ I got a bunch, you ain’t doin’ brunch.” The video showcases Scott and his crew tearing up Texas streets in exotic sports cars and supercharged Ford trucks, even making a pit stop at a Formula 1 race.

Jackboys 2 builds on the legacy of Scott’s 2019 Jackboys album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spawned hits like “Out West” (featuring Young Thug) and “Gatti” (featuring Pop Smoke). His previous Jackboys release saw 154,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 79,000 were in album sales, with most of that number owed to sales driven by dozens of merchandise/album bundles sold via Jackboys’ official webstore.

In recent weeks, Scott has sent out customized Lamborghini SUVs branded with the JACKBOYS logo to artists rumored to feature on the album. Among them are GloRilla, Tyla, Vybz Kartel, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, and Waka Flocka Flame, though official features have yet to be confirmed.

The rapper has also launched a limited-edition Jackboys 2 merchandise collection, offering fans a range of CD and vinyl bundles with alternate cover art and exclusive apparel, all available on his Cactus Jack website.

While details about the full tracklist remain under wraps, Scott revealed the album will feature 17 tracks and will be hosted by Houston rap icon Bun B. The sequel arrives as Scott continues his dominant run in 2025, having headlined Coachella in April and fresh off winning the I Am Hip Hop Award at last year’s BET Hip Hop Awards.

The Clipse are back. After delivering one of the more memorable album rollouts in recent rap history, Pusha T and Malice have reunited for their first project in 16 years as Let God Sort Em Out hit streaming services on Friday (July 11).

The album boasts 13 tracks in total with features from a versatile cast of collaborators that includes Kendrick LamarTyler, the Creator, NasJohn LegendThe-DreamPharrell, Stove God Cooks and Ab-Liva.

Fully produced by Pharrell and recorded at the Louis Vuitton HQ in Paris, Pusha and Malice set the tone for the album with “Ace Trumpets” and then dropped the “So Be It” visual on YouTube, which found King Push sniping at Travis Scott.

It was a winding road for Clipse to Let God Sort Em Out. Def Jam attempted to block their collaboration with Kendrick from landing on the album, which led to Pusha paying seven figures to buy himself and Clipse out of their deal with Def Jam, before bringing LGSEO to Roc Nation for a distribution deal.

“I was shocked at first,” Push told Billboard of Def Jam trying to remove Kendrick’s vocals. “We haven’t been doing anything particularly. For the past two years, it was just creating the album and back and forth to Paris. It was no ill intent in creating that song. We weren’t on that type of time, so it was totally a shock from what I feel like the optics were enough to put a halt to something like that.”

The Virginia-bred duo’s hoping that the album run ends up with them on the Grammy Awards’ red carpet, as Push told Billboard that’s “always the goal.” As for Malice, he succinctly summed up the Clipse’s mission statement: “We’re not into existing in rap, it has to be revolutionary.”

Stream Let God Sort Em Out below.

Tyla is preparing the soundtrack for this summer, starting with her new single “Is It,” which dropped Friday (July 11).

“Is it wrong that I wanna get right/ Wanna get right with you?” she bellows in the chorus with background chanting vocals from the sparkly teaser clip she posted on Instagram earlier this week.

The South African star told Billboard that she was “not saying too much” about new music ahead of her hosting gig at the 2025 Kids’ Choice Awards in June, when she also favorite global music star. “You guys are gonna know when you’ll know. And it’s gonna be a vibe. We outside. We’re catching party vibes,” she said at the time, adding that she had “fun” recording “Everything Goes With Blue” from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack. “I love The Smurfs. And Rihanna being Smurfette, it’s such a fun Smurf movie. So I’m happy that I’m a part of that one.”

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“Is It” is Tyla’s second solo single this year following “Bliss,” which reached No. 11 on Hot R&B Songs and No. 14 on Rhythmic Airplay. She first teased the single at her debut Coachella performance in April, when she also performed the Billboard Global 200 top 10 hit “Show Me Love” alongside fellow South African rapper WizTheMC for the first time. It’s unclear if “Bliss” and “Is It” will be featured on her forthcoming sophomore album that she first teased to Billboard in her Women in Music interview earlier this year.

“I’ve changed a lot in a short amount of time because I was kind of forced to with how fast I had to adapt to everything,” she said at the time. “I don’t think it’s going to be the same energy [as Tyla] at all, especially with what I’ve started making. It’s different, but also still Tyla.”

Listen to “Is It” below.

In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die album, the late Chicago rapper’s estate has released a pair of tracks on Friday (July 11).

The expanded reissue of Juice’s third album features a poignant posthumous collaboration with XXXTENTACION titled “The Way.” “Time and time, again/ I am lost, my friend/ Getting better, I’m getting better,” X croons on the chorus backed by an acoustic guitar.

Juice takes the baton and continues his journey to hopefully discovering inner-peace. “Lost my mind, trapped in me/ I don’t know what’s happening/ I’ve been space-traveling/ Tryna find some inner peace, inner peace,” he softly raps in his raspy flow.

Juice WRLD’s longtime photographer Steve Cannon helms the animated visual, which finds X and Juice as characters on an outer space mission floating into another galaxy.

“All Life Long” is the second track added to the bolstered 26-song LP. A merchandise collection and various vinyl bundles are available on Interscope’s website for purchase.

Juice WRLD passed away on Dec. 8, 2019, and his death was ruled an accidental overdose due to “oxycodone and codeine toxicity,” according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

While XXXTENTACION was tragically murdered in an armed robbery attempt on June 18, 2018, when the genre-bending rapper was shot and killed outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Earlier this year, the pair of superstars gone way too soon posthumously teamed up for “whoa (mind in awe).”

As for Legends Never Die, Juice’s first posthumous album and third overall LP debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in July 2020 with 497,000 total album units earned.

Listen to the new tracks from Juice WRLD and watch his “The Way” video below.

We may as well be chilling by the fire while we eatin’ fondue, because Justin Bieber‘s Swag is here.

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Released at midnight Friday (July 11) — just a few hours after the pop star announced its existence — Bieber’s seventh studio album features 20 new songs. The singer first unveiled the tracklist in a video of a black-and-white billboard shared on his Instagram without explanation, revealing the titles “All I Can Take,” “Daisies,” “Yukon,” “Go Baby,” “Things You Do,” “Butterflies,” “Way It Is,” “First Place,” “Soulful,” “Walking Away,” “Glory Voice Memo,” “Devotion,” “Dadz Love,” “Therapy Session,” “Sweet Spot,” “405,” “Swag,” “Zuma House,” “Too Long” and “Forgiveness.”

The project marks Bieber’s first full-length since 2021’s Justice, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — one of eight No. 1 entries he’s scored on the chart over the course of his career. He’s also become a father since he last dropped an album, welcoming baby boy Jack Blues with wife Hailey Bieber last August.

Both the 11-month-old and the Rhode founder were featured heavily in promotional photos that circulated in the hours leading up to Swag, with the whole family appearing on the billboard shared by Justin on Instagram. In the artwork, Hailey holds little Jack in the background while the two-time Grammy winner stares down the camera in front.

For years, it was unclear whether Bieber would ever release another album as the star took a large step back from performing. In 2022, he announced that he’d been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a condition that caused half of his face to be temporarily paralyzed.

In the months leading up to Swag, however, he repeatedly teased that he was back to making music by sharing photos of himself in the studio.

Listen to Bieber’s Swag below.