After channeling Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, late Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, Evanescence’s Amy Lee, David Bowie, Cher and other iconic stars as part of her countdown to upcoming album The Great Impersonator (Oct. 25), Halsey tapped into one of their biggest childhood influences on Thursday (Oct. 17).

To preview the 16th track on the album, the Spears-sampling “Lucky,” Halsey, 30, morphed into In the Zone-era Britney Spears, posting an image of herself with wind-tousled, blonde-streaked hair standing in a blue void while staring intently at the camera with a steely look.

“It’s Britney, b–ch!!!,” Halsey wrote of the eleventh preview of her fifth studio album. “The first superstar who ever inspired me,” they wrote of Spears. “There were infinite Britney looks to choose from, but I had to do this iconic album!,” they added of Spears’ 2003 fourth studio album, which featured the Madonna collab “Me Against the Music,” as well as the Billboard Hot 100 No. 9 hit “Toxic.” The accompanying image comes as Halsey promised to be “impersonating a different icon every day and teasing a snippet of the song they inspired.”

So far that’s meant the gauzy pop tune “Panic Attack” in honor of Nicks, the twangy Parton homage “Hometown,” as well as the Harvey take on turbulent rocker “Dog Years” and tips to the enigmatic British pop star Bush on the chilly “I Never Loved You,” Cher with the aching “Letter to God (1974),” rock chameleon Bowie on the spooky “Darwinism” and Lee on the churning “Lonely Is the Muse.”

The pitch perfect look/sound experiment continued earlier this week with Halsey sporting a short copper-toned hairstyle for the O’Riordan rager “Ego,” rolling up their sleeves, picking up a guitar and posing in front of an American flag for the confessional “Letter to God” as The Boss and going acoustic for the lo-fi Linda Rondstadt tribute “I Believe in Magic.”

On Thursday, the Grammy-nominated singer booked an intimate Nov. 21 show at the 1,400-capacity Regency Ballroom in San Francisco; the show is a exclusively for Wells Fargo Autograph Credit cardholders.

See Halsey’s Britney Spears-inspired look below.

Records continue to tumble for Sabrina Carpenter as she lands another week at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Charts. The singer is the first artist in 71 years to spend 20 weeks at No. 1 on the charts in a single calendar year.

Carpenter’s “Taste” spends an eighth consecutive week at the top of the charts and becomes the longest-running No. 1 single of the year, toppling Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season.” Between “Espresso” (seven weeks) and “Please Please Please” (five weeks), Carpenter becomes only the second artist in chart history to spend that long at No. 1.

The only other artist to achieve a similar feat was Frankie Laine‘s 28-week reign back in 1953. The American crooner spent 18 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 with “I Believe,” which remains the U.K.’s longest-running No. 1 single ever, two weeks with “Hey Joe” and a further eight with “Answer Me.”

There’ll be happy faces all around for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars as their collaborative single “Die With a Smile” rises to a new peak of No. 2, and could soon become a challenger for the top spot in coming weeks.

Elsewhere, Gracie Abrams lands her first top 10 single with “I Love You, I’m Sorry” at No. 4, and Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D complete the top five with “Somedays.”

Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go!” hits a new peak at No. 6, while Charli XCX and Ariana Grande’s “Sympathy Is a Knife” remix ends the week at No. 7.

KSI and Trippie Redd’s “Thick of It” rises six spots to No. 8, and becomes KSI’s ninth and Trippie Redd’s first top 10 single.

Toosii pulled up for an episode of Billboard Gaming ahead of his Jaded album’s arrival. The Syracuse, N.Y., native faced off against staff writer Michael Saponara in a game of Madden 25 while chopping it up, taking a creative risk with his album, wild meet-and-greet photos with fans and more.

“Definitely a different project. It’s not gonna be nothing anybody used to from Toosii,” the 24-year-old said of the new set while playing with the Detroit Lions. “This is definitely outside what the day ones would ask for. We taking a risk with this project.”

He continued: “This project’s a lot bigger than anything I ever made. Great music is great music. If people appreciate great music, they’ll appreciate this project.”

Toosii hopes fans feel “enthusiastic, happy and proud” when pressing play on what he believes is the best album he’s made in his career thus far.

Jaded arrived via South Coast Music Group/Capitol Records on Oct. 4 with features from Gunna, Muni Long and Kehlani. The 13-track LP debuted at No. 50 on the Billboard 200.

Toosii will be hitting the road this weekend alongside Moneybagg Yo as a supporting act on Rod Wave’s Final Lap Tour, which kicks off in Phoenix on Saturday (Oct. 19). After a trip to the desert, they’ll be making stops in Oakland, Sacramento, Houston, Dallas, Memphis, Lexington, Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, Philly, Nashville and Orlando, before finishing up in Ft. Lauderdale on Dec. 18.

Toosii will be hosting meet-and-greets on the road once again. Some of the photos from previous treks went viral à la Chris Brown with fan’s overzealous requests.

“They be crazy,” he said. “They be trying to flash the camera. There’s some crazy stuff going on. We gotta tell them to [chill out] a little bit. Always gotta do the meet-and-greets.”

Unfortunately for Toosii, he didn’t fare too well on the sticks in Madden. Watch another clip from his chat with Billboard below.

Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman may have just figured out a way to conjure Billie Eilish at any time that fans are definitely going to want to try at home.

In a promo video for this weekend’s Michael Keaton-hosted episode posted Thursday (Oct. 17), the comedian stands with the actor and says, “I loved Beetlejuice, and I think the stuff in the movie really works.”

Fineman then demonstrates by saying “Billie Eilish” three times, an homage to the 1988 film and 2024 sequel. After the incantation, the nine-time Grammy winner — who is slated to perform on SNL as musical guest Saturday (Oct. 19) — appears out of nowhere with an explosive poof.

“Hey, guys,” she says casually to a startled Keaton and Fineman.

Elsewhere in the video, Fineman tells the Batman star and Eilish that she hopes there will be “some spooky sketches for Halloween” on this week’s episode of SNL, which won’t pick up again until Nov. 2 with John Mulaney and Chappell Roan serving as host and musical guest, respectively. In response, the “Bad Guy” singer gives a half-hearted “Boo!” — which makes Fineman scream bloody murder.

“No, don’t ever do that to me again,” the comedian then scolds, making Eilish laugh.

The “What Was I Made For?” musician previously performed on SNL in 2019 and 2023, pulling double duty in 2021 as host and musical guest. Her upcoming appearance with Keaton follows last week’s Ariana Grande-hosted episode, which featured live performances from Stevie Nicks.

Watch Eilish’s new SNL promo with Keaton and Fineman below.