The Latin Recording Academy unveiled new category and eligibility guidelines to go into effect immediately ahead of the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards, taking place Nov. 12 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

With the intention to best serve academy’s approximately 7,000 members from 62 countries around the world, these changes form part of The Latin Academy’s commitment to evolve with the musical landscape that’s constantly changing. 

“As our Academy continues to evolve, our focus remains firmly on our membership and the integrity of our awards process,” said Manuel Abud, CEO of The Latin Recording Academy, in a press statement. “These updates are driven by our members, whose participation each year ensures the Latin Grammy Awards continue to stand as a benchmark for excellence in Latin music.”

Three categories are receiving name changes: in the electronic field, best Latin electronic music performance will evolve to best electronic music performance; in the urban field, best urban/urban fusion performance will become best urban performance; and in the classical field, the best classical contemporary composition category will evolve to best classical composition. 

The coveted best new artist category comes with new requirements this year too. The press release states that “an artist is not eligible for consideration if they have released more than three albums, or 25 singles, or a combination of albums and singles that surpasses these limits. Singles that are subsequently included as tracks on an album shall not be counted toward the single total.”

Meanwhile, only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration for, nominated for, or win an award; therefore, the use of artificial intelligence—a work that contains no human authorship—is not eligible in any category. 

Additionally, it was revealed that the nominees for the 2026 Latin Grammys will be announced on Sept. 16. 

To see the complete list of guidelines, including eligibility criteria for producers and singer-songwriters, updated fees on entry process, as well as key dates for this year’s awards process, click here. 

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Jay-Z is going one on none at Yankee Stadium this summer. The New York rapper and Roc Nation founder broke Ticketmaster earlier this week after announcing a two-night show at the iconic Bronx ballpark to celebrate the 30th anniversary for his debut album Reasonable Doubt as well as the 25th anniversary of 2001’s The Blueprint. After increased demand, HOV has already added a third concert date, which now makes the special NY event slated for three consecutive days starting July 10, which will highlight Reasonable Doubt, July 11 celebrating The Blueprint and an “extra inning” concert on July 12.

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This isn’t the first time Jay-Z has taken over Yankee Stadium. Back in 2010, the rapper and Eminem did a pair of coheadlining shows as part of their Home & Home Tour in NYC and Detroit. It’s also been several years since the rapper has released an album. In 2017 he dropped his last solo project with 4:44; the following year, he and Beyoncé released their collaborative effort Everything Is Love.

If you can’t make it to the Big Apple for the three-night concerts in July, the “Empire State of Mind” rapper will also be returning to Philadelphia to headline the Roots Picnic in May. This will mark his first festival appearance since 2019’s Something in the Water Festival.

General sale tickets for his three-night run were snatched up rather quickly, making resell tickets the next best options for fans. We’ve gathered all the best resell ticketing sites for you shop Jay-Z tickets online. Learn more below.

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General tickets may be selling out fast for Jay-Z’s anniversary concerts, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t secure your seat at Yankee Stadium. With resell sites like StubHub, SeatGeek and Gametime, rap fans keep shopping concert tickets online and securely. Below, ShopBillboard put together a list of affordable ticket options, including exclusive discount codes that can save you up to $500.

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Desiigner was arrested on a domestic violence charge in South Carolina, Billboard can confirm. The Horry County Sheriff’s Office booked the “Panda” rapper (born Sidney Royel Selby III) on Monday (March 23).

Desiigner posted a $1,500 bond and was released on Tuesday (March 24). The 28-year-old faces one third-degree charge of domestic violence. Additional court information was not available on the Horry County Sheriff’s Office database.

A mugshot of the Brooklyn native sporting an orange jumpsuit has been making the rounds on social media on Wednesday (March 25).

Desiigner has faced legal trouble in the past, when he was arrested on indecent exposure charges while on a plane in April 2023. Authorities alleged that the rapper masturbated on a Delta flight from Tokyo to Minneapolis.

The criminal complaint alleged that Desiigner exposed himself about 60 to 90 minutes into the flight when a flight attendant noticed him masturbating. After five minutes, another two flight attendants noticed him exposing himself once again, and he was told to stop.

“Mental health is real guys,” he wrote to X regarding the incident.

Desiigner’s breakout smash “Panda” spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016. He’s since scored a pair of top 40 Hot 100 hits with “Timmy Turner” (No. 34 peak) and as a guest on BTS’ “Mic Drop” (No. 28).

He’s been busy in the studio to kick off 2026, which saw Desiigner release his “Feel Me Dawg” single on March 20 via LOD Entertainment.

Billboard has reached out to Desiigner’s reps for comment.

Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, who was arrested for allegedly shooting at Rihanna‘s Los Angeles mansion on March 8, pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (March 25).

According to Reuters, the 35-year-old also pleaded not guilty, through an attorney, to more than a dozen additional felony charges. Ortiz is accused of firing more than 10 shots from a semiautomatic weapon into Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s Los Angeles home earlier in March, while the famed couple was home with their three children.

No injuries were reported as a result of the gunfire, as prosecutors explained that the family was in a trailer on the property at the time of the shooting.

In total, the Florida native faces one count of felony attempted murder as well as 10 felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic ​firearm and three felony counts of shooting at an ​occupied dwelling.

Ortiz’s bail was set at $1,875,000. She faces up to life in state prison if convicted when the case heads to trial. “This ⁠is the kind of conduct that easily could have resulted in numerous homicides,” ​deputy district attorney Alexander Bott told the court, per Reuters.

Ortiz fled the scene following the shooting and was apprehended in a Tesla by Los Angeles police shortly after the 911 call came in on March 8. The suspect was found with a wig, the rifle in question and seven shell casings.

The 35-year-old has had legal issues in Florida in the past. She was arrested in a bankruptcy case in 2013, arrested for careless driving in 2021 and arrested again in 2023 on suspicion of domestic violence and battery.

While there’s no connection between Rihanna and Ortiz, the Los Angeles Times noted that Ortiz made several posts about the superstar singer on Facebook. On Feb. 17, she posted a meme suggesting that Rihanna had an STI and made another post on Feb. 23, writing, “@badgirlriri Are you there? Cause I was waiting for your AIDS 5-head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you talking to me where I’m not at.”

Billboard has reached out to the District Attorney’s Office as well as Ortiz’s attorney.

Kimberly Perry, the lead singer for The Band Perry, had been divorced for about two years when she met Johnny Costello, who played with a Dallas punk quartet, Crystal Rippers, in October 2020.

“The joke,” says Costello, a former stand-up comic, “is I met Kimberly on Friday, and she met me on Saturday.”

“I had had too many martinis on Friday night,” she confesses.

Perry was notably smitten. She admitted within the first 24 hours that she was having a hard time not saying “I love you” to Costello, though she barely knew him. Many men would have run, but her intensity didn’t scare him off. Eight months later, they got engaged, and in short order, they climbed into a black Corvette and drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to get married at midnight, waiting six months to reveal it publicly.

So when Perry heard “Psychological,” a song about a love that borders on unhealthy obsession, during a 2025 pitch session, she flashed back to their elopement, and to an overwhelming crush she had on a boy in high school.

“As the narrator and storyteller of this song,” she notes, “I definitely have related to it in many seasons in my life.”

So has Grace Tyler, the independent country singer for whom “Psychological” was originally written. She’d previously recorded a song titled “She Wasn’t Crazy,” in which her character threatened to slash her ex’s tires, sink his boat and set his boots on fire, a chain of thoughts that, she surmises, “almost sounds psycho.” Thus, when “Psychological” came up during a cowriting session last year at SMACK on Nashville’s Music Row, she was all in.

“At the time, there was this guy I met on Valentine’s Day, and when I say I found his mom’s Facebook – all the things – like, I was head over heels for this guy,” she remembers. “He ended up just being a loser. But at the time, he was super cool. And so I was like, ‘Well, let’s just kind of play off of that.’ And so, yeah, the lyric definitely came from a little bit of inspiration.”

The original “Psychological” inspiration belonged to Colton Venner (“Never Call Again”), who’d gone through about two years of rejection over it. The hook split the title into two words, something about making “psycho logical,” and he had a couple of other pairings – including “crazy” and “rational” – to further illustrate it. He’d offered it up in about two dozen previous writing sessions, and been rebuffed in each of them.

“I was starting to think it was bad idea,” he reflects.

Venner was having a pretty good day when they wrote “Psychological.” His son had taken his first steps, he shared a video with Tyler and co-writer Clara Park (“No Tellin’”), and they toasted with a shot of whiskey at 11:00 a.m. And in this instance, the room was receptive to the idea, “You make goin’ psycho logical.” After they batted it around for a bit, Park recalled a Julia Michaels pop song, “All Your Exes,” in which a woman becomes psycho-level possessive. Michaels’ song started calm but broke into something more… well … crazy.

Park started playing a semi-classical piano part in 6/8 time, and it would evolve into frantic obsession. The opening image finds the woman doing a deep dive on Nirvana – not because she likes the band, but because she wants to impress the new boyfriend. Tyler had done that very thing, and the reference fit the song’s vibe.

“The lyrics in the grunge-rock bands in the ‘90s, there’s some pretty prolific and sometimes pretty dark stuff in there,” Venner says.

They intentionally built the woman’s codependence one plank at a time, and as she sank further into a delusional morass, the chorus came to its expected conclusion: “Boy, you make going psycho logical.” After they hit the hook, they tacked on more lines with appropriately off-kilter phrasing, ultimately repeating the money line again after doubling the length of the chorus.

“We were like, ‘Do we wrap it up here, or do we keep going?’ And we just decided to keep going,” Park recalls. “Lyrically, we wanted to elaborate on it a little bit more. And musically, it just felt right to keep building it.”

Before verse two was over, the singer contemplated murdering someone if infidelity interfered in the relationship. As they approached the end, they inserted a bridge that played off the unsettled nature of the protagonist: “All my hinges/ Are off the wall.”

“Colton’s so funny in a room,” Tyler says. “He likes to be up and moving, and so he literally was standing at the door, and I remember staring at him, and he’s like, playing with the door in Clara’s studio, and I’m just looking at the hinges going, ‘He’s about to swing this door off the wall.’ And I was like, ‘What if it’s “All the hinges are off the wall”?’”

The demo represented their intentions well, with a formal piano offering arpeggios in the opening frame before it broke into stabbing guitars at the first chorus. Tyler and her team weren’t convinced that it fit her next project, so they allowed publishers to pitch it around. Concord Music VP of A&R Melissa Spillman presented “Psychological” during a 10-hour series of pitch sessions with TBP and Big Machine executive VP of A&R Allison Jones, and they all thought it ideal for TBP’s newest chapter.

“What it takes to be a Band Perry song, really, are the contradictions of those two worlds,” Perry says. “You start out sweet and become a little unhinged.”

Perry wanted to make it a little more dramatic – she adjusted one line to suggest that she’d fake her death just to gain the man’s attention, and changed the chorus set-up to insist “I don’t need no hospital.”

“It all really helped the song,” Park says, “and I feel like it even made it better in the long run.”

Still, Perry had her doubts about the piano foundation when they took the song into Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, though producer Dann Huff (Kane Brown, Keith Urban) insisted she was over-thinking it. They ultimately doubled the piano with ganjo in the back half of the first verse, making it more TBP-like and hinting at the song’s emotional weirdness.

“Kimberly didn’t want the piano to sound too pristine,” Huff says. “She wanted it to sound distressed, kind of like distressed wood, you know, something that was a bit damaged, which makes sense when you think about the lyric.”

Steel guitarist Justin Schipper played a solo with George Harrison-like tones that sounded bent next to the psycho storyline, and guitarist Kris Donegan dropped in some heavy chording that twisted the sound even further.

“Kris’s tones, when I’m listening to that, it’s like this country band with a guitar player that never quit playing for Ozzy Osbourne,” Huff says.

During the vocal sessions, Huff had Perry and Costello layer in thick call-and-answer harmonies on the bridge that added to the hazy, unbalanced emotional tone.

Nashville Harbor released “Psychological” to country radio via PlayMPE on Feb. 11. It re-entered Billboard’s Country Airplay chart dated March 28 at No. 57.

“Even though it’s such a big, bombastic song, it’s really confessing devotion and letting that tie into delusion,” Perry says. “And isn’t that what love is, after all? Just a combo of the two?”

Costello, who’s being introduced to TBP fans with a single founded on “psycho” emotions, is comfortable with the message, too.

“I grew up with three sisters,” he says. “I’ve been dealing with mental health my whole life.”