Christian Nodal Hospitalized in Mexico, Postpones Concert

Christian Nodal was hospitalized in Mexico, where he was scheduled to give a concert on Wednesday (Oct. 2) at the Palenque de La Feria in Pachuca. The show will be rescheduled for Oct. 14, according to a press release.

Nodal’s publicist, Conchita Oliva, told Billboard that the Mexican star — who performed a show last weekend in Los Angeles — began to feel ill when he arrived in Mexico. As of last night, she said, Nodal remained hospitalized pending test results.

The cause of his hospitalization was not disclosed. No other details were provided.

On Nodal’s Instagram Story, this “urgent statement” was posted Tuesday night (Oct. 1):

“To all the public who purchased tickets for the event tomorrow, October 2, at the Palenque de Pachuca, Hidalgo. We inform you that due to health reasons of our artist Christian Nodal, we have the painful necessity to postpone the date of this event, rescheduling for next Monday October 14 where the tickets purchased will have the same validity. As always, we thank you for your support, love and understanding.”

Oliva also posted the statement on her Instagram Stories, in addition to a photograph of Nodal in a hospital bed with his eyes closed and a woman’s hand, presumably that of his wife Ángela Aguilar, caressing his head.

The performer of hits such as “Dime Cómo Quieres” y “Adiós Amor” has shows scheduled in the U.S. as early as Friday (Oct. 4) in Denver, Colo., followed by Sunday (Oct. 6) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and more dates in Mexico and the U.S. throughout the month. On Oct. 20, he is slated to arrive at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and on the 26th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

No information was provided at this time as to whether any of these concerts will be affected.

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Zhamira Zambrano Talks Music, Makeup Tips & More in ‘Behind the Glam’ Presented by Ulta Beauty | Billboard

Zhamira Zhamrano sat down with Ulta Beauty and Billboard for a candid conversation around songwriting, makeup tips and what it means to use products from Ulta Beauty’s Hispanic and Latino owned and founded brands. See below for a list of products used during the filming of “Behind the Glam.”

Zhamira Zambrano:

It’s like one of the most magical experiences, when you are able to be in the studio and create something from absolutely nothing, in a way, relating it to makeup. It’s it’s kind of like the same process, because you start with like a bare face, then I love the final product. Hello, guys. My name is Zhamira Zambrano, and I’ve teamed up with Billboard and Ulta Beauty to go behind the glam. For me, Caracas, Venezuela, is the most beautiful place in the entire world. Going from Venezuela to Miami was a big shock, but at the same time, I felt very blessed because I had my family with me. I grew up with a very stylish, fashionable mom. Ever since I can remember, she’s been putting, like, makeup on me and jewelry and like, all these things she would do, like a fake mole on my cheek. And I thought that was so cool. I mean, I don’t do it anymore like that, but I do fake freckles. Songwriting… It’s beautiful. It’s like one of the most magical experiences when you are able to be in the studio and create something from absolutely nothing. I love these products from the Hispanic community that you find in Ulta Beauty because I get to support my people and feel beautiful. I feel great pride because it’s something that one does day to day and knowing that it comes from our community; being Latina as well fills me with so much happiness, pride and joy. 

Keep watching for more!

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J Balvin to Receive Spirit of Hope Award at 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards

J Balvin (real name: José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) will be honored with the Billboard Spirit of Hope Award at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards, airing Sunday, Oct. 20 on Telemundo. 

Named after the late Selena Quintanilla, the special award celebrates artists who have made extraordinary contributions to humanitarian causes beyond their musical endeavors. The Colombian singer-songwriter will be recognized this year for his philanthropic efforts through his Vibra En Alta Foundation, which aims to elevate young individuals by supporting their educational journeys.

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“I’m so grateful, and so honored, to be recognized with such a special award,” he said in a press statement. “It’s important for me, as the artist I am today and that little kid with dreams I once was before – and still is to this day – to be able to support and guide the next generation into realities of their own. I am proud to be able to help the youth and new wave discover their passions through the Vibra en Alta Foundation and help turn those very dreams into realities.” 

Some of the efforts the non-profit organization has achieved in Colombia includes comprehensive service centers; “Tarima Arte Vivo,” a community stage for performers; and a dance school called “El Balcón de Los Artistas.” Currently, the foundation is building a public recording studio called “Medellín Music Lab.” 

Balvin, who will also perform at the 2024 awards ceremony, joins past Spirit of Hope Award recipients Carlos Santana, Carlos Vives, Daddy Yankee, El General, Emmanuel, Gloria Estefan, Juanes, Juan Luis Guerra, Karol G, Los Tigres del Norte, Luis Fonsi, Maná, Marc Anthony, Ricardo Montaner, Ricky Martin, Shakira, Soraya, Olga Tañón, and Willy Chirino. 

Additionally, he will headline the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Week, returning to Miami Beach on Oct. 14-18, with other confirmed artists including Feid, Young Miko, Gloria Estefan, Alejandro Sanz, Maria Becerra, and Peso Pluma, among many others. For tickets and more details, visit BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com.

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Keith Urban Hits Latest Country Chart ‘High’: ‘I’m as Passionate as When I Started’

Keith Urban notches his 11th top 10 on Top Country Albums as his new LP High debuts at No. 10 on the Oct. 5-dated ranking with 17,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Sept. 20-26, according to Luminate.

The set sold 12,000 copies and also opens at No. 6 on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart.

Urban arrived on Top Country Albums with his self-titled set in 2000; first hit the top 10 with Golden Road in 2003; and posted the first of his seven No. 1s with Be Here in 2004.

“I love discovering new things,” Urban says. “That, blended with my own well of influences and life experiences, is what comes out when I go into a writing room or the studio or even when I play live. I have ‘beginner’s mind,’ so I see each day as brand-new.”

Concurrent with High’s chart start, lead single “Messed Up as Me” jumps 36-24 for a new best on the Hot Country Songs survey. It ranks at No. 17, after reaching No. 16, on Country Airplay (10.5 million audience impressions, up 4% week-over-week).

“I can only create what excites me,” Urban muses. “I try to capture each song like a photograph. In this metaphor, I may take many photographs of each song … each photo is real … but one will seem to have captured the feeling better than the others. That’s the one I’ll release. I have no real clue who any of it may appeal to, but if I really love it, then I’m good to let it go and find others who might, too.”

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Caleb & John Notches Its First Christian Radio No. 1 With CAIN Collab ‘Somebody Like Me’

Caleb & John’s “Somebody Like Me,” featuring CAIN, climbs to No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian Airplay and Christian AC Airplay charts (dated Oct. 5). It leads the former with 5.4 million audience impressions Sept. 20-26, according to Luminate.

The duo of Caleb Crino and John Secker earns its first chart-topper with its second entry. “Hallelujah Feeling” hit No. 5 on Christian AC and No. 8 on Christian AC Airplay in November 2023. CAIN claims its third leader on each list; the trio last led with “Yes He Can” in 2021. 

Caleb & John co-wrote “Somebody Like Me” with Colby Wedgeworth. “We could not have picked a song with a better message to be our first No. 1,” the twosome tells Billboard. “We want the world to know that no matter who you are, and no matter what you’ve done, Jesus will change your life if you let him.”

Transformation Worship Charts Third Album of 2024

Transformation Worship’s new release, Thy Kingdom Come, enters the Top Gospel Albums chart at No. 6 and Top Christian Albums at No. 23. It earned 2,000 equivalent album units its first week (Sept. 20-26).

The Tulsa, Okla.-based music collective began at the city’s Transformation Church with husband and wife Michael and Emily Todd, who have served as its pastors since February 2015. The act’s new seven-song set mixes live and studio tracks and features Christian and gospel music stars including Jekalyn Carr, KB, Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Kierra Sheard.

Transformation Worship adds its third entry on each chart, all logged in just over four months. Overflow: The Album arrived atop both tallies (dated June 1), while Dominion debuted at No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums and No. 2 on Top Christian Albums (dated July 27).

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The Cure Announce Intimate ‘Songs of a Lost World’ Album Release Show in London

The Cure will gear up for the release of their anticipated new album Songs of a Lost World (Nov. 1) with an intimate show in London for a “Radio 2 in Concert” gig at the BBC Radio Theatre. Fittingly for a band whose whole vibe is spooky to the core, the pre-Halloween show at the 550-capacity venue will take place on Oct. 30.

Fans can register for free tickets that will be handed out via random ballot, with registration open now through 4 p.m. ET on Oct. 9 here; ticket registration is available to all U.K. residents 18+ for the standing-only gig.

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According to the NME, the concert will be broadcast on Jo Whiley’s show on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds on Oct. 31 from 7-9 p.m., along with an interview with singer Robert Smith. In addition, the band will play for a “6 Music Session: The Cure Live” on Huw Stephens’ show on Oct. 31 from 4-7 p.m. GMT, in a broadcast that will also feature a interview with the frontman.

“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this, and to sharing more tracks from the new album for the first time on 6 Music and Radio 2,” Smith said in a statement. The NME noted that the Radio 2 Breakfast Show will feature exclusive tracks from the Radio 2 concert on Nov. 1, with both concerts available to watch on BBC’s iPlayer on the evening of Oct. 31.

The Cure teased a second song from their first new album in 16 years earlier this week when they offered up a 15-second instrumental preview of the brooding “Endsong.” The latest glimpse at the band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream comes after last week’s first taste of the album via the typically tumultuous “Alone.”

Check out the announcement below.

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Sara Bareilles to Perform at 2024 CARE Impact Awards

Sara Bareilles is set to perform at the 2024 CARE Impact Awards, which will take place Monday, Oct. 21, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City.

Ali Velshi, chief correspondent for MSNBC and host of Velshi on that network, will host the seventh annual awards ceremony. The honorees are Lynsey Addario, MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and author; Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, The New York Times; Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, business executive and lecturer; and Zuriel Oduwole, global education advocate, filmmaker and presidential advisor.

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Bareilles has amassed six top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, including Kaleidoscope Heart, which debuted at No. 1 in September 2010. Bareilles’s biggest hit on the Hot 100 is “Love Song,” which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2008 and ranked No. 3 on Billboard’s recently-published list of “The 100 Greatest Songs About the Music Industry: Staff List.”

Bareilles won a Grammy for best American roots performance for “Saint Honesty” and has received three Tony nominations, including best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical for a revival of Into the Woods. She also co-hosted the 2018 Tony Awards with Josh Groban.

Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice. This year, CARE and partners worked in 109 countries implementing 1,671 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects and initiatives that reached 167,000,000 people. To learn more, visit www.care.org.

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Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Sweetly Covers Taylor Swift’s ‘The Best Day’ With Daughter Harper Vedder

Like father, like daughter. Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder made the band’s headlining set at Sunday’s Ohana Festival a family affair when he brought his 16-year-old daughter Harper to sing a very special mash-up. “We’ve had so much diversity on both these stages in the last few days,” Vedder said of the band’s annual three-day event in Dana Point, CA that featured sets from Devo, Maren Morris, Dogstar, Sting, Black Pumas, Alanis Morissette and the Breeders, among many others.

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“But I realized it’s been a while since we had a powerful young woman up on stage with us so my pal Harper here is gonna help me out,” proud papa Vedder said with a smile as he looked to his left and got a big grin back from his youngest, who looked appropriately nervous, but resolute. Vedder then began strumming his acoustic guitar and launched into PJ’s signature cover of Wayne Cochran’s 1961 car crash tragic love classic “Last Kiss.”

After dear old dad’s first verse, Harper launched into the first verse of the Swift Fearless track, tentatively singing, “I’m five years old, it’s getting cold, I’ve got my big coat on/ I hear you laugh and look up smiling at you, I run and run/ Past the pumpkin patch and the tractor rides,” her voice gaining confidence as she made her way through, bursting into a huge smile as the audience gave her plenty of love in return.

Father and daughter continued to trade off vocals, with Harper saying the quiet part out loud when she hit the bridge before the third verse, singing, “I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger/ God smiles on my little brother, inside and out/ He’s better than I am/ I grew up in a pretty house and I had space to run/ And I had the best days with you.” Before singing the final line, Harper looked over at her dad and the two shared a loving glance, with Vedder’s pride spreading across his face at the special moment.

As he strummed the final notes, the singer leaned over to give his daughter a shoulder bump, with the teen standing up to plant a kiss on her dad’s head before leaving the stage. Pearl Jam released “Last Kiss” as their 1998 Christmas fan club single; it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the band’s highest-charting single to date.

Back in May Vedder proved his Swiftie bona fides, when the singer talked about attending Swift’s Eras Tour with his wife and two daughters. “She’s an artist who’s respectful of her audience and I know from my daughter that she’s really kind of incredible at planting these little… hidden codes that they can pick up,” he said, while also praising Swift for being “incredibly prolific.”

Click here to watch a video of the performance.

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Phish Will Ring In 2025 With Four New Year’s Shows at Madison Square Garden

Phish will be back in their happy place in December when they set up shop at New York’s Madison Square Garden From Dec. 28-31. The jam band legends announced the gigs on Tuesday (Oct. 1) in an Instagram post where they noted that the visit will bring their total number of MSG plays to date to 87.

The ticket request period for the four gigs is open now here and will run through Oct. 7 at noon ET. A general onsale will kick off on Oct. 11 at noon ET.

The band is gearing up for their end of year gigs with a three-show run at New York’s MVP Arena from Oct. 25-27, with proceeds going to singer Trey Anastasio’s rehabilitation facility Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program. The facility is a personal project for the singer/guitarist, who is 17 years sober. In late 2023 he opened the facility in his native Vermont with the caseworker who helped him after a 2006 arrest for heroin possession and DWI.

“Some people need longer than others. There’s a staff that assesses the condition that your loved one is in, and some people would come 20, 30 days, other people might need 90,” Anastasio said of Divided Sky. “It’s based on your individual situation. Some people might need longer and that’s perfectly fine.”

Earlier this year, Phish became the second resident band at Las Vegas’ immersive Sphere venue, putting on an eye-popping spectacle across four shows as the follow-up to the building’s first resident band, U2.

Check out the poster for Phish’ MSG NYE run below.

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Lady Gaga Brings Harley Quinn to Life with ‘Happy Mistake’ Performance on ‘Kimmel’

Lady Gaga lit up Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Oct. 1 with an emotionally charged performance of “Happy Mistake,” a track from her newly released album Harlequin, which ties in with her role as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux.

The stripped-back rendition showed off Gaga’s vocal prowess, channelling raw emotion and intensity that perfectly reflected the chaotic essence of her cinematic alter ego.

Gaga’s performance wasn’t just a song; it was a glimpse into the world she’s crafted around Harlequin. Following the performance, she told Kimmel, “It was inspired by the movie, it was inspired by my character Harley, and just also kind of this reflection on my life as a performer. It’s meant to be a really personal song about how sometimes we can go through dark times and feel like happiness is an accident when it happens.”

Harlequin isn’t a typical film soundtrack but rather a concept record, as Gaga explained during her chat with Kimmel. “It’s not the soundtrack,” she said. “It’s a concept record and it’s a companion piece to the film. So, whether you listen to it before you watch the movie or after, it’s like an extension of the world.” This unique approach, blending music and cinema, is classic Gaga, who’s never shied away from pushing boundaries.

Discussing her role in Joker: Folie à Deux, Gaga shared the challenges of playing Harley Quinn, particularly how she had to find a different voice for the character’s musical moments.

“Harley’s not a trained singer,” she said. “So I worked a lot on developing her voice and finding what was natural and raw to her. There’s a kind of brokenness in her. She’s got an inner storm, and I wanted it to come from there.”

Gaga’s conversation with Kimmel wasn’t all about the film and album, though. The pop icon also gave fans a peek into her personal life, recounting the story of her fiancé Michael Polansky’s unexpected proposal.

“He proposed to me right after my birthday,” she revealed, adding that Polansky, in true “Minnesota nice” fashion, asked for her permission before actually popping the question. “He wanted to know if it was okay to propose before he proposed. And I was like, ‘Yes, it’s so okay!’” she laughed.

The couple, who have kept much of their relationship private, might be planning a wedding, but Gaga teased that they’ve also talked about “just going to a courthouse and ordering Chinese food.”

Watch Lady Gaga on Kimmel below.

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