There’s nothing casual about Chappell Roan‘s current relationship status. While guesting on the new episode of Call Her Daddy posted Wednesday (March 26), the pop star revealed that she’s in a serious relationship, adding that she’s very much “in love” with her significant other.

Ironically, the subject of Roan’s attachment first came up as the Missouri native was advocating for the benefits of staying single. When host Alex Cooper then asked if Roan herself was flying solo these days, the musician revealed that she’s actually been dating someone for six months now.

“It’s serious,” Roan said. “I’m very in love, but I am pro-single. Everyone should be single … Find out for yourself if you can 100% be OK alone before you date. That’s what I found out. I had a great time when I was single, and I know that I’ll be OK, and now I have an awesome time that I’m with someone.”

Adding that a friend set them up — but ultimately, Roan was the one to make the first move — the “Pink Pony Club” vocalist went on to share that her partner is a rekindled flame from her past. “I haven’t dated someone since this all really, really blew up,” she said. “I’m dating the same person that I was dating before I got, like, blew up, so I’m not sure how I would date now.”

“I think it would actually be a nightmare,” the Grammy winner continued. “I think I would be so single right now because you’re terrified of their intentions. I’m scared. I don’t trust anyone. I just think in my head, I’m like, any new person that I’m texting, I’m like, ‘I’m assuming they will screenshot this and send it to someone else.’”

The interview marks the first time Roan has shared as much about her relationship status since finding global fame in the spring and summer of 2024 thanks to the combined momentum of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Good Luck, Babe!,” the steady climb of debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and a whirlwind festival run marked by unprecedented crowd sizes. Roan recently dropped her first single since then: “The Giver,” which debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100 and at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Amid her meteoric rise to superstardom, however, Roan says she has lost touch with her sexuality, despite it being a dominant part of her onstage persona. “Obviously, I’ve come into being more comfortable with saying I’m queer, with dating women, but I don’t know — something f–ked up my sexuality,” she told Cooper. “I think my nervous system is so fried that I can’t even feel flirtatious. It’s just too intense to even be sexual at all.”

“When there’s so much of you in the world that is exposed, then being sexual with someone is so vulnerable,” she added. “‘Cause the rest of your life is so vulnerable that it’s like … I want to save something. I just don’t wanna be that vulnerable with so many people.”

Listen to Roan on Call Her Daddy below.

Coheed and Cambria has its fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, debuting atop the March 29-dated ranking with The Father of Make Believe.

The new set bows with 16,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate. A total of 12,000 units of that sum are via album sales, including 7,000 vinyl copies, leading to a No. 4 start on Vinyl Albums.

Coheed and Cambria first ruled Top Hard Rock Albums, which began in 2007, in 2010 with Year of the Black Rainbow. Its other leaders include 2015’s The Color Before the Sun, 2018’s The Unheavenly Creatures and 2022’s Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind.

Concurrently, The Father of Make Believe starts at No. 8 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart, Coheed and Cambria’s eighth top 10. On the all-genre Billboard 200, it begins at No. 51, the Claudio Sanchez-led band’s 11th entry, dating back to the No. 52 debut and peak of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 in 2003.

Three songs from The Father of Make Believe reach the multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs tally, “Goodbye, Sunshine” leading the trio at No. 16 via 607,000 official U.S. streams.

An additional track, lead single “Someone Who Can,” rises to a new peak of No. 24 on Alternative Airplay. Upon its debut in February, it became Coheed and Cambria’s first appearance on the tally in nearly 15 years and is now its highest charting song since “The Running Free” peaked at No. 19 in 2007.

Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Luke Bryan, Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney and Keith Urban are among the acts who will appear at Nissan Stadium as part of CMA Fest, which will run June 5-8 in Nashville and span 10 stages.

Also slated for Nissan Stadium are Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Jordan Davis, Riley Green, Ella Langley, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Rascal Flatts, Red Clay Strays, Darius Rucker, Shaboozey, Black Shelton, Zach Top and Bailey Zimmerman.

Four-night stadium passes range from $240 to $1,061, while single-night stadium ticket starts at $79.80.

CMA Fest, which began in 1972 as Fan Fair, will spread across Music City on stages both free and paid. The event has a new partner, bank and financial services company SoFi, in a multi-year partnership.

MŌRIAH will kick off the Chevy Riverfront Stage on Thursday morning, performing the national anthem. Other artists playing that stage over the festival run include Gavin Adcock, Tanner Adell, Cooper Alan, Drew Baldridge, Sam Barber, Gabby Barrett, George Birge, Tyler Braden, Colbie Caillat, Ashley Cooke, Dasha, Jackson Dean, Marcus King, Randall King, Brandon Lake, Chris Lane, Ella Langley, Maddie & Tae, Dylan Marlowe, Kameron Marlowe, Max McNown, Midland, Megan Moroney, Ian Munsick, RaeLynn, Redferrin, Josh Ross, Conner Smith, Austin Snell, Alana Springsteen, Thelma and James, Tigirlily Gold, The War And Treaty, Hudson Westbrook and Tucker Wetmore.

Appearing on the Dr. Pepper Amp Stage at Ascend Park are Rodney Atkins, Frankie Ballard, Casey Barnes, Danielle Bradbery, Blanco Brown, T Graham Brown, Karley Scott Collins, Billy Dean, Tyler Farr, Filmore, Josh Gracin, Ty Herndon, Braxton Keith, Erin Kinsey, Lakeview, Edwin McCain, John Morgan, Kylie Morgan, Jerrod Niemann, Jamie O’ Neal, Mason Ramsey, Owen Riegling, Emily Ann Roberts, Reyna Roberts, Kaylee Rose, Shaylen, Sister Hazel, Iam Tongi, US Navy Band Country Current, Darryl Worley, Charlie Worsham and Jake Worthington.

Artists playing The Chevy Vibes Stage at Walk of Fame Park are Angie K, Graham Barham, Blessing Offor, Craig Campbell, Dillon Carmichael, Mackenzie Carpenter, Ashland Craft, Kashus Culpepper, Dailey & Vincent, Jade Eagleson, Exile, Mickey Guyton, Kelsey Hart, Tayler Holder, Greylan James, Willie Jones, Tiera Kennedy, Vincent Mason, Madeline Merlo, Drake Milligan, Lorrie Morgan, David Nail, Meghan Patrick, Dylan Schneider, Shenandoah, MaRynn Taylor, Thompson Square, Pam Tillis, Lauren Watkins, Mark Wills, Rita Wilson and Waylon Wyatt.

The Good Molecules Reverb Stage at Bridgestone Plaza’s line-up includes  Willow Avalon, Maddox Batson, Laci Kaye Booth, Brenn!, Franni Rae Cash, Chapel Hart, Julia Cole, Preston Cooper, Kolby Cooper, Wesley Dean, Melanie Dyer, Madeline Edwards, Mae Estes, Carter Faith, Lanie Gardner, Cole Goodwin, Fancy Hagood, Jack Wharff and The Tobacco Flats, Max Jackson, James Barker Band, Just Jayne, Alexandra Kay, Zach John King, Matt Lang, Bryce Leatherwood, Hannah McFarland, Walker Montgomery, Will Moseley, Elizabeth Nichols, Adrien Nunez, Scoot Teasley, Cameron Whitcomb, Blake Whiten, Austin Williams and Eli Winders.

Acts will perform free at The Hard Rock Stage with a slate that includes Ashley Anne, Palmer Anthony, Hayden Blount, BODHI, BoomTown Saints, Luke Borchelt, CECE, Hayden Coffman, Abbey Cone, Crowe Boys, Eddie and The Getaway, Sterling Elza, Brian Fuller, Giovannie and The Hired Guns, Colt Graves, Reid Haughton, Christian Hayes, The Heels, Hueston, Solon Holt, Preston James, Jason Scott & The High Heat, Britnee Kellogg, Alex Lambert, LECADE, Trey Lewis, Tyler Joe Miller, MŌRIAH, Clayton Mullen, O.N.E The Duo, Harper O’Neill, Pistol Pearl and the Western Band, Peytan Porter, RVSHVD, Sacha, Matt Schuster, Sophia Scott, SKEEZ, Kevin Smiley, Payton Smith, Liam St. John, Colin Stough, Troubadour Blue, Leah Turner, Alli Walker, Carson Wallace, Brendan Walter, Chandler Walters, Jay Webb, Wesko, Angel White and Sam Williams.

All artists perform for free to benefit the CMA Foundation, with a portion of ticket proceeds supporting music education programs. CMA Fest will be filmed for a special airing on ABC and Hulu later in the summer.

For more details and ticketing options, go here.

It’s been a decade since Zayn Malik left One Direction and on Tuesday night (March 25) during the singer’s show in Mexico City he did something he hasn’t done since then: he performed one of the group’s most beloved hits during a solo show.

At his gig at Palacio De Los Deportes on the Stairway to the Sky tour — his first arena show as a solo act — Malik shocked fans when he played the 2014 1D single “Night Changes” from the group’s fourth studio album, Four. In fact, Malik opened the show with the song, with a Twitter user reporting that he told the surprised audience, “I haven’t sung this song in 10 years. That you, that was amazing, I almost cried.”

Check out a video of Malik performing the song, and the audience shouting along to every lyric, here.

The song written by the group with Jamie Scott, John Ryan and Julian Bunetta was the fourth single from Four and the last one released by the band to feature Malik before he announced he was leaving 1D on March 25, 2015. The video for the ballad opens with Malik seated at a restaurant singing, “Going out tonight, changes into something red/ Her mother doesn’t like that kind of dress/ Everything she never had, she’s showing off” during what looks like a date with an unseen girlfriend.

The track had a resurgence in late 2024 after the shocking death of former 1D member Liam Payne after a fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Oct. 16. In the week after his death, “Night Changes” — which ran up to No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 — saw its U.S. streams spike 416% to 4.9 million, with the song re-entering both the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. (at No. 95) and the Billboard Global 200 (No. 117) for the week dated Oct. 26.

After rescheduling the tour after postponing it in the wake of Payne’s death, Malik kicked off the tour in November.

Keyshia Cole, Monica and SWV are the performing stars enlisted to headline Femme It Forward’s first-ever cruise, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Presented in association with Sixthman and Vibee, Femmeland at Sea will sail from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas between Feb. 20-23, 2026.

Femme It Forward’s voyage aboard the Norwegian Pearl also marks the female-led music and entertainment firm’s transition into a 100% woman- and Black-owned company after a five-year partnership with Live Nation.

Femme It Forward president/CEO Heather Lowery, who founded the firm in 2019, tells Billboard, “I’ve always fought to have more equity in a company I’ve worked so hard to build. Now Femme It Forward is 100% woman-owned and Black- owned. I’m so excited! It feels like the beginning again, but this time I’m starting from a different place. 

“Live Nation was a great partner that allowed for a lot of business as well as personal growth,” continues Lowery, a Billboard Women in Music 2025 honoree. “They’ve provided me with a lot of resources for me to continue building Femme It Forward independent of the partnership. I’m super grateful for it all. We’re celebrating our five-year anniversary and there’s a lot of symbolism in the number five representing freedom, change, adventure and adaptability. I’m stepping into this next phase with open arms.”

In addition to the aforementioned live performances, Femmeland at Sea will also offer uniquely curated activities, live podcast recordings, parties, workshops/panels, mentorship labs, wine tastings and karaoke. The popular podcasts being featured include Keep It Positive Sweetie, hosted by Crystal Renee Hayslett, and Let’s Try This Again with B. Simone. Among the cruise’s additional activities will be wellness sessions helmed by WalkGood LA, Pretty Vee, Pretty Girls Sweat and Morning Mindset with Tai. Femme It Forward will also present its own branded activities such as Femme Salon and Femme Mentorship, with the latter hosted by mentors from the company’s Next Gem Femme and MUSE initiatives. Also on the schedule: Kirk Franklin’s Sunday School and #MusicSermon LIVE.

In the press release announcing the inaugural sailing, Lowery states in part that the cruise is “a vision I’ve had since our launch in 2020. I have always been bold about what Femme It Forward stands for and the experiences we create with women at the center. And despite the current optics and everything around us demanding we shrink, we will continue to do more — create more opportunities, make space for more representation and curate more experiences that amplify the voices of women everywhere.”

In turn, Femme It Forward will continue to present its various other events inaugurated over the last five years such as the annual Give Her FlowHERS Gala, the Femme It Forward High Tea and the My Sister’s Keeper Summit honoring artists and executives in music and entertainment. Future plans for its mentorship program include launching global chapters in South Africa and Europe.

Femmeland at Sea’s first round pre-sale sign-ups are available now through April 1 at 11:59 pm (ET). Final round pre-sale sign-ups will conclude on April 9 at 11:59 pm (ET). Public on-sales begin April 11 at 2:00 pm (ET), exclusively here.