CORTIS‘ second EP, GREENGREEN, treats identity less as a fixed statement than as material to test and push into shape.

The six-track project arrived May 4, nine months after the five-member BIGHIT MUSIC act debuted with COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, which entered the Billboard 200 at No. 15. Made up of MARTIN, JAMES, JUHOON, SEONGHYEON and KEONHO, CORTIS has since built on that opening through multiple rookie awards, a headlining slot on the opening night of the NBA Crossover Concert Series at NBA All-Star 2026 and an upcoming Lollapalooza appearance in August as the only K-pop boy group on the lineup.

That trajectory gives GREENGREEN a clear external narrative. The more revealing story is internal. Across the EP, the members’ writing credits turn their “young creator crew” framing into something more concrete. MARTIN appears as a writer on all six tracks, while all five members share writing credits on “REDRED,” “ACAI,” “YOUNGCREATORCREW” and “Wassup.” His role also extends behind the board, with recording engineer credits at the group’s MARS studio across the project and producer credits on “ACAI,” “YOUNGCREATORCREW” and “Blue Lips.” SEONGHYEON joins the production and synth credits on “ACAI.”

Rather than read as a slogan, that authorship becomes a method: Studio routines, everyday references, youthful bravado and quieter moments of reflection become the raw material of a sound the group is still finding.

The result is less a manifesto than a working portrait. “REDRED” gives the EP its clearest center, translating the group’s green-versus-red logic into sound, language and movement. “TNT” turns live-wire rookie energy into a distinct opening jolt. “YOUNGCREATORCREW” plays knowingly with the language already attached to the group, while “Wassup” and “Blue Lips” drop into quieter, more personal registers. Even where the EP is still testing its edges, its strongest moments suggest a group beginning to recognize what only it can say.

Below, Billboard Korea ranks every song on GREENGREEN.

Singer-songwriter Bea Miller has signed with Republic Records, the label tells Billboard.

The first release under the deal is Miller’s new single, “Depressed on the Internet,” marking her first solo release since 2023. The track was developed alongside Miller’s longtime collaborator Justin Tranter and producers including Oak Felder, Shawn Wasabi and Dan Crean.

Miller first came to attention as a contestant on The X Factor in 2012 before going on to release singles including “Young Blood,” “Feel Something” and “Fire N Gold,” which hit No. 78 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2015. Her new music is described as “a more band-driven blend of pop, alternative and R&B” than her previous work.

“When Justin Tranter first played me Bea’s music, it was immediately clear there was something very special there,” Wendy Goldstein, chairwoman and chief creative officer at Republic Records, said in a statement. “Bea has a way of telling truths through her music that feels incredibly rare, and we’re really excited to be a part of her journey.”

“Throughout the process of writing my most recent body of work, I wanted to find the best possible partner to release it all with,” added Miller. “Luckily for me, I met Wendy Goldstein, who’s a f–king badass and has been championing my new music from the first day I played it for her. It can be rare as an artist to find a label that you love, made up of people you love, who truly believe in you. I know I have that with Wendy and with Republic, and I couldn’t be more excited about working together.”

Tranter added, “I’ve been lucky enough to write with Bea on and off for almost a decade. She has always been an artist with a magical set of vocal cords who is brutally honest, hysterical and deeply self aware. But the reason I decided to dive in even deeper with her in this next chapter is because she has blossomed into one of the best songwriters I’ve ever met.”

See more recent artist signings below.

Two musicals, The Lost Boys: A New Musical and Schmigadoon!, led the 2026 Tony nominations, it was announced on Tuesday (May 5). The Lost Boys: A New Musical is a musical adaptation of the 1987 comedy horror cult classic film The Lost Boys. Schmigadoon! is an adaptation of the first season of the 2021 musical TV series of the same name.

Both shows are nominated for best musical, for which they will compete against Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), which received 11 overall nods, and Titaníque, which received four overall odds.

The nominees for best revival of a musical are Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime and The Rocky Horror Show. The original production of Cats won seven Tonys, including best musical, in 1983. The original production of Ragtime received 13 Tony nominations, including best musical, in 1998. A 2010 revival received six nods, including best revival of a musical. The original production of The Rocky Horror Show received one nod in 1975. A 2001 revival received four nods, including best revival of a musical.

Indie pop/rock band The Beaches is nominated for best original score for The Lost Boys: A New Musical. It’s unusual for a group or duo to be nominated in this category, but it happens occasionally. Two years ago, the folk duo The Jamestown Revival was nominated for cowriting the score to The Outsiders.

Rose Byrne, who was nominated for an Oscar for best actress this year for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, received a Tony nod for best actress in a play for Fallen Angels. Lea Michele was passed over for what would have been her first Tony nomination for her lead role in Chess. Michele received Primetime Emmy and Grammy nods for her breakout role in Glee.

As previously announced, André Bishop, who served as the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater from 1992 to 2025; lighting designer Jules Fisher; and playwright and director James Lapine will each receive the 2026 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

In addition to his work in the theater, Fisher created lighting designs for such music stars as David Bowie, Kiss, Parliament-Funkadelic, Whitney Houston, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Simon and Garfunkel.

This year’s Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 7. Hosted by P!nk, the biggest pop star to ever host the show, the Tony Awards will broadcast live coast-to-coast on CBS and stream on Paramount+ (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT). 

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Raj Kapoor, Sarah Levine Hall and Jack Sussman are executive producers of this year’s show. Kapoor and Levine Hall will also serve as co-showrunners. Patrick Menton and Rob Paine will co-executive produce, with Menton also serving as head of talent.

Shania Twain is set to host the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 17, 26 years after she won their top prize, entertainer of the year. Only Garth Brooks waited longer (32 years) between first winning entertainer of the year and finally hosting or co-hosting the show. He first won entertainer of the year in 1991 and co-hosted in 2023.

Twain was the fifth woman to win an ACM Award for entertainer of the year, following Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell and Reba McEntire. She will become just the third woman to solo-host the show, following Parton and McEntire.

Twain will become the second Canadian to host the show. I could give you all day to guess who the first one was and probably you still wouldn’t get it (nope, it wasn’t Anne Murray). It was actor Lorne Greene, best known for playing Ben Cartwright on Bonanza, who hosted the first two ACM Awards shows in 1966 and 1967. Greene also had a hit spoken-word record in 1964, “Ringo,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 21 on Hot Country Singles, as the chart was then called.

Twain will be the 14th act to both host or cohost the show and win entertainer of the year (not necessarily in the same year). Three acts (George Strait, Brooks & Dunn and Luke Bryan) have won entertainer of the year in a year they hosted, an impressive show of dominance. Bryan was the only act to double up in this way twice.

The 61st annual ACM Awards will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The show will stream live globally on Prime Video on Sunday, May 17 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. PT. Fans will also be able to watch the broadcast on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, as well as in the Amazon Music app.

Established in 1966, the Academy of Country Music Awards is the longest-running country music awards show. It made history in 2022 as the first major awards ceremony to exclusively livestream, in collaboration with Prime Video. Tickets are available for purchase on AXS.com.

Raj Kapoor and Patrick Menton are executive producers of the 61st annual ACM Awards, with Kapoor also serving as showrunner. Damon Whiteside serves as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music. Jay Penske and Barry Adelman serve as executive producers for DCP. John Saade will also continue to serve as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.

Here’s a complete list of the 14 acts to both host the ACM Awards and win entertainer of the year.

The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.

Gabe Simon was already having a pretty good day on Sunday (May 3) when he found out that Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide, which he co-wrote and co-produced, had debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 all-genre chart dated May 9.

“I had a turkey leg in my left hand. I was at the [Tennessee] Renaissance [Festival]. My kids are running around dressed up as fairies, and I get a text from manager Drew [Simmons] saying that we’re No. 1,” he tells Billboard.

Kahan’s fourth full-length studio project is his first chart topper in the U.S., earning 389,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. That makes the Mercury/Republic Records release the largest rock album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in late 2014. The title also landed the largest streaming week of any album so far in 2026 and had the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The album also had the largest streaming week of any album in 2026.

And the news got better. Monday (May 4), all 21 songs from the standard and deluxe version of The Great Divide appeared on the Hot 100, making Kahan only the sixth non-rap artist to chart 21 or more songs on the chart simultaneously.

Simon met Kahan through Simmons, who also manages Kahan, and began working with the folk rocker on 2022’s Stick Season, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and turned him into a star. Simon produced The Great Divide with Kahan and Aaron Dessner, The National guitarist and composer best known for his work with Taylor Swift, and co-wrote 10 of the 21 tracks.

Given The Great Divide’s often dark and occasionally vitriolic subject matter about relationships and the chasm that exists in communication, sometimes the mood during the album’s creation would be appropriately downcast.

“I couldn’t give you one particular vibe because it kept oscillating depending on where we were in the process,” Simon says. “Early on, it was angry and dark. I remember heading up to [Dessner’s] Long Pond [Studio in upstate New York] with Noah, and he goes, ‘I just want to write dark, angry sh-t.’  And I was just like, ‘Let’s do it.’  That’s when we did ‘Downfall’ and ‘Lighthouse’ and ‘A Few of Your Own,’ which is not sad or angry at all.”

But while recording and living at a farmhouse outside of Nashville, regardless of the sad content, the mood was upbeat. “We’re riding dirt bikes and shooting shotguns and we’re cooking our dinners for each other,” Simon continued. “We’re hanging out with cows and feeding chickens, fishing and just having fun.” Despite writing and recording such songs as the gaslight-fueled “Deny, Deny, Deny,” “we were just in a spot of contentment,” Simon says.

Over the last few years, Simon and Kahan have built up a circle of trust. “We have an unspoken language that really does something beautiful, and I love it,” Simon says. “I’m grateful for the trust, the companionship, that [Noah] lets me be critical of him and lets me push him,” Simon says. “I mean, that’s not the case with everybody, especially as they get bigger. In this moment right now, we’re seeing the fruits of that labor.”

Below, Simon takes Billboard behind the scenes of creating several songs on the album. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.