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Taylor Swift has been dazzling audiences with bejeweled outfit changes throughout her record-breaking Eras Tour. With the addition of The Tortured Poets Department to her setlist, that also brought in new costumes for Swifties to admire. Whether or not you’ve scored tickets to the second and final North American leg of the Eras tour, a new sticker book is bringing an extra level of interactiveness beyond watching the movie version of the Eras Tour and making friendship bracelets.

The unofficial Swiftie merch joins the ever-growing list of Taylor Swift books you can line your shelves with. Rather than delve into the history of the Grammy-winner’s fashion, though, this sticker book gives you the chance to dress the pop star in outfits of your choosing.

My Sticker Dress-Up: Swifties sticker book officially released on Tuesday (Oct. 1) and you can find it on Amazon, Target and Barnes & Noble for up to 20% off. Prime members, Target Circle subscribers and Barnes & Noble premium members can further their savings with free shipping on orders with no minimum purchase requirement.

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The sticker book has already earned the label of Amazon No. 1 bestseller for children’s performing arts fiction. There are 44 pages to play with, featuring more than 500 sparkly stickers that’ll let you mix and match outfits at home or on the go. The stickers are also reusable, which means you can create more than one “fearless” outfit each time you flip it open.

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Louise Anglicas designed and illustrated the Swift-themed sticker book, but it’s not her debut. This upcoming release is just one of 15 sticker books she’s authored joining her mermaid, dancer and even The Nutcracker-inspired activity books.

For more product recommendations, check out ShopBillboard‘s roundups of the best Taylor Swift outfits, Taylor Swift costumes and Taylor Swift recommended books.

Future is back with another huge week on Billboard’s charts. His new project, Mixtape Pluto, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Oct. 5) with 129,00 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week (Sept. 20-26), according to Luminate, and all 17 of its songs debut on the Billboard Hot 100.

Future earns his 11th No. 1 on the Billboard 200, tying Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) for the fifth-most in the chart’s history. It’s also Future’s third No. 1 of 2024, all tallied over six months – making him the first soloist to score a trio of leaders in a six-month span.

Below is a recap of all 17 of Future’s songs on the latest Hot 100, all of which are debuts – and all of which are with no other billed artists.

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Future logs an 18th song on the latest Hot 100. His former three-week No. 1, “Like That” with Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar, ranks at No. 39 in its 27th week on the chart.

Future has now charted 217 songs on the Hot 100 in his career. He surpasses the Glee cast, with 207, for the third-most in the chart’s 66-year history, after only Drake (338) and Taylor Swift (264).

Plus, Future has charted 49 songs in 2024 alone, surpassing Swift (36) and Metro Boomin (35) for the most. The sum is the fourth-best ever for an act in a calendar year, after only the Glee cast’s 80 entries in 2010 and 77 in 2011 and Swift’s 54 in 2023.

Lauryn Hill is facing a lawsuit from her Fugees bandmate Pras Michel, claiming she defrauded him over the group’s shortened 2023 tour — and that her “gross mismanagement” also led to the abrupt recent cancellation of the 2024 tour.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Pras allege that Hill exploited his mounting legal bills to get him to sign onto a plan for the 2023 tour with false promises – a deal they say enriched Hill at the expense of her bandmate.

“Hill’s ploy to be appear to be Michel’s supposed savior was actually a devious attempt to make a big score for herself by generating millions of dollars from a Fugees tour,” his lawyers write. In the process, it did not matter to Hill if she took full advantage of Michel’s vulnerability – her friend and creative partner of over 30 years. In fact, she counted on exploiting that vulnerability to carry out her scheme.”

The lawsuit also sheds light on the aborted 2024 tour – which had been set to kick off in early August but was quietly cancelled just days before it was set to begin, with no immediate reason given. In his court papers, Michel pins the blame squarely on Hill.

“Because of the gross mismanagement by Hill and [her company], who had taken far too long to close the deal with Live Nation, the 2024 U.S. tour tickets sales were dismal,” his attorneys say. “There was little or no marketing for the tour, and not enough time between the announcement and the first concert date to do sufficient advance sales to justify the tour.”

Comprised of Hill, Michel, and Wyclef Jean, the Fugees rose to fame in the 1990s with hits like “Killing Me Softly,” “Ready or Not,” and “Fu-Gee-La.” After splitting up in 1998, the three each had successful solo careers and mostly stayed separate until recent years, when they have attempted multiple reunion tours.

In 2019, Michel was hit with sweeping federal criminal charges, including funneling money from a Malaysian financier to Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign and then later trying to influence an extradition case on behalf of China. In April 2023, he was convicted on 10 counts including conspiracy, witness tampering and failing to register as a foreign agent.

In his lawsuit on Tuesday, Michel’s lawyers said Hill took advantage of a “desperate man” who needed to pay expensive criminal lawyers, using an advance of cash to get him to sign a deal with “onerous terms” that he would have “easily rejected in the years before his criminal conviction.”

“While the contractual advance paid to Pras enabled him to retain his new criminal lawyers, the 2023 tour agreement was a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” his lawyers say.

The touring agreement was “based on a lie” about how much Hill was being paid, Michel’s lawyers say, and it “ceded all financial and creative control” to her and her company – which gave her the “total lack of transparency she needed in order to secretly siphon off money.”

The lawsuit claims that Hill secretly took 40 percent “off the top” from the tour revenue before accounting for the one-third split that was owed to each of the three members. And he says the tour made much less money than it should have, thanks to a “bloated” budget and an abrupt cancellation of the second half of the tour.

As for the 2024 tour, Michel claims that Hill misled Live Nation that Michel was “on board” with the plan for another run of concerts when no such deal had been inked – and did so in order to receive a $1.1 million advance.

“That was another lie by Hill and [her company] since Michel was not ‘on board,’” say Miche’s lawyers, adding that her company “never signed the fully-negotiated agreement, never paid Michel anything, and never intended to do either.”

In technical terms, the lawsuit accuses Hill of fraud, fraudulently inducing Michel to sign the 2023 deal and breaching both her contract and her fiduciary duty. It also demands a ruling that the 2023 deal is voided and a court-ordered accounting of the books from the tour.

A spokesman for Hill did not immediately return a request for comment.

Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong knows his enemy, and at the band’s Sept. 20 hometown-adjacent show at Oracle Park in San Francisco he had no problem calling out the man he thinks is a real American idiot.

“We are East Bay. East Bay for life! Green Day, East Bay, forever. We don’t take s–t from people like f–king John Fisher, who sold out the Oakland A’s to Las f–king Vegas,” Armstrong said during the show, according to reports. “I f–king late Las Vegas. It’s the worst sh–hole in America!”

For some context, Armstrong is from Oakland and has been a A’s supporter over the years (see below) and like a lot of East Bay residents, he’s a basket case about the latest major league team leaving his beloved home town. After wrapping their 2023-24 season with a loss to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, A’s owner Fisher is moving the MLB franchise to Las Vegas, following on the heels of the 2019 exit of the NFL’s Raiders (now the Las Vegas Raiders) and the Golden State Warriors (who moved across the bay to San Francisco in 2019 after 50 years in Oakland).

The rant didn’t sit well with a few radio stations in Vegas, as evidence by KOMP 92.3 and X107.5 both announcing that they have banned the group’s music. “KOMP 92.3 has pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist. It’s not us, Billie…it’s you. #vegas4ever,” the station wrote on Instagram in a post that featured a snap of the trio with a slash through the image.

“Sin City heard him loud and clear—and X107.5 is not having it. In response to Armstrong’s inflammatory comments, the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately,” 107.5 wrote on its website. The move was confirmed by midday host Carlota, who announced the ban last week, saying, “Maybe he (Billie Joe) should take a look at the city and the people involved in that transaction than talking SMACK about the city of Las Vegas… So we’re breaking up with Green Day completely. Bye Bye, Billie!”

A few days after his Vegas rant, Armstrong posted a picture of himself as a six-year-old playing with a toy car in the sand while rocking an A’s hat. “The athletics leaving Oakland is devastating. I feel for all the fans and the people that will lose their jobs because of greed.. 3 sports teams have left Oakland in the past 5 years Leaving a cultural hole in the east bay hearts and sport,” said Armstrong.

“I DO believe that Oakland will come back from this.. I’ll always remember driving to del Norte bart station taking the train to the games. Some of my favorite memories,” he continued. “My 4th grade teacher used to have the radio on in class so we can hear if Ricky Henderson was going to break the stolen base record. He did. Family friends crazy george Billy Ball.. This one hurts.”

In August, Armstrong first said good riddance to the team when he spray painted a “B” over the Oakland A’s logo at Rogers Centre in Toronto in the first sign of his pique about the team’s move. After wrapping the North American dates on their Saviors Tour, GD are gearing up to take their show on the road to Mexico on Nov. 15 for a show at Corona Capital in Mexico City, then to South Africa, the UAE, Bangkok, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Australia in early 2025 before playing a series of festivals in India, Germany and Norway.

A spokesperson for the band had no additional comment on the bans at press time.

Leading into this week’s GMA Dove Awards, Forrest Frank is one of the frontrunners with nods for new artist of the year and pop/contemporary recorded song of the year (“Good Day”). He’s also set to perform during Christian music’s biggest night, when the GMA Dove Awards are held Wednesday (Oct. 2) at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena. The show will air on TBN and TBN+ on Oct. 4.

In August, “Good Day” rose to No. 2 on Billboard’s streaming, airplay and sales-based Hot Christian Songs chart, after previously rising into the upper echelon of Spotify’s U.S. Viral 50 chart.

However, the Houston native never intended to release “Good Day” after he wrote it in early 2024. He recalls to Billboard that he sent the song to a close music friend, who offered up some discouraging feedback.

“He was like, ‘I don’t know about this song,’ so I had put it on the back burner because of that,” Frank recalls. “I thought maybe it was a little too on the nose, too happy.”

But then, Frank’s fans took the song from the dust bin to viral hit. While most artists tease out songs early on social media, Frank offers up early versions of songs in the 6,000-member Grouped app community that he’s named The Tree House. When Frank let the community vote on five unreleased songs, “Good Day” was the clear choice.

“I kept seeing the comments rolling in, like, ‘”Good Day” is my favorite,’ ‘Good Day,’ ‘Good Day’…so I put the song out, not thinking it was special at all, and then it just completely blew up.”

“Good Day” is Frank’s highest-ranking song on the Hot Christian Songs chart, but it’s not his first. In 2023, Frank’s collaboration “Up!” with Connor Price reached No. 8 on the chart. In April, his four-song EP God Is Good, which featured “Up!” and “Good Day,” debuted in the top 5 on the same chart.

In August, Frank saw his biggest chart hit yet. His album Child of God (which includes the four songs from the God Is Good EP) debuted at No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart and has held that spot for the past nine weeks. To date, he’s earned 5.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

“Just on a macro level, Forrest is speaking to an enormous community of people in a way that they really haven’t been spoken to,” says Tony Talamo, who serves as Frank’s manager, but was also recently named general manager at Atlantic Music Group.

“I think it’s just the way that he’s able to communicate and expose his music to this community has really registered with people, and just how genuine he is about the whole thing,” Talamo continues. “I think it just shines through in the music and that’s what people really kind of gravitate towards.”

Frank, 28, grew up listening to music ranging from CCM to jazz and first began creating music as a high school student, using the compact Maschine Mikro production and beats-making machine to produce his own musical creations.

Shortly after graduating from Baylor University with a degree in business, he teamed with fellow musician Colin Padalecki in 2017, joining the group Surfaces (they released the album Surf that year). At the time, Frank was working a corporate gig in Seattle, doing sales for the Fortune 500 company Abbott, while continuing with his obsession with making music. Simultaneously with his work as part of Surfaces, he was also already releasing solo music, issuing his first solo project, Warm, in 2018.

In 2019, Surfaces released “Sunday Best.” The following year, Frank married — and he and his wife, Grace, moved to Waco, Texas. Around that time, “Sunday Best” gained traction, rising to the top 20 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and ultimately earning 980 million plays on Spotify. The song was certified 3x multi-platinum by the RIAA. Surfaces followed with songs including “Wave of You” and even collaborated with Elton John on the song “Learn to Fly” from John’s The Lockdown Sessions.

But as Frank began getting his first taste of success with Surfaces, Frank was “wrestling with the feeling of ‘I don’t want to be famous,’” he says. “Ultimately, my goal is to lead people to Jesus, and I hope I’m doing that through pop music. I remember I would pray salvation prayers at a low decibel beneath these pop songs.”

The success of “Sunday Best” came at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when concerts and tours of all sizes were paused. After turning down performance opportunities for over a year, Frank says he “felt like eventually I was pretty much retired from pop music. I was like, ‘I’ll write songs for Surfaces, but I feel like we are supposed to be at home. And if God wants me to go back to [work in a] corporate [setting], I’m fine with that.’”

At the same time, he was writing and singing worship songs. He kept returning to one of the songs he’d crafted during his personal time, “No Longer Bound,” eventually recording and releasing the song in January 2023. The song went viral (it’s earned over 64 million Spotify streams to date), and he soon followed with the Connor Price collaboration “Up!,” “Lift My Hands,” and ultimately, “Good Day.”

“Things just snowballed from there,” Frank says.

Frank is one of a crop of newcomers making waves in Contemporary Christian Music, alongside fellow GMA Dove Awards new artist of the year nominees Charity Gayle, Josiah Queen, Seph Schlueter and Terian. Newcomers to the genre are seeing gains in streaming, social media and touring, as CCM music rose in the first half of the year as one of the top fastest-rising musical genres in the U.S.

“There’s this new level, where people are coming forward with their own personal sound because of the availability of technology and the lack of hoops to jump through,” Frank says. “And I think that even the Christian industry probably hasn’t had much friction or competition for a lot of years. But now you’ve got all these kids, like you’ve got an 18-year-old who knows more than the 40-year-old about production because they went direct to the source and learned on YouTube versus going to a college. And so these young, talented, hungry kids are rising forward and they’re making great songs.”

Frank’s connection with fans extends beyond the U.S. market: According to Chartmetric, while the United States remains Frank’s top market, 13.3% of his listenership comes from Brazil (he has leaned into that market by incorporating Portuguese-language content on his social media).

“We just went and shot a live version of his [sold out] show at the Shrine in [Los Angeles],” Talamo says. “We employ all our digital content team when he needs it, but he really leads the way with it. It’s giving him all the things he needs to do things the way he wants to. Forrest is such a machine in the way that he operates from writing and producing the music, shooting the content, performing, and thinking about all the creative elements that come together. He’s so in tune with his business and his projects.”

That business-focused mindset extends beyond music, as does Frank’s future goals.

‘I do have an entrepreneurial mind and I’m always thinking about different things,” he says. “For example, I bought a space in Waco, and I’m turning it into this physical retail space where people can come in and buy albums and merch — but it’s also going to be a grocery store and a coffee shop that serves the community, and I’m going to source it to local farms. Honestly, I could predict that in the next five to 10 years, something will emerge that has nothing to do with music. That could even become my main thing.”

Not anytime soon, however — considering that his new single “Never Get Used to This,” featuring JVKE, just debuted at No. 39 on Billboard’s Christian Airplay chart, while he has seven songs peppering the Hot Christian Songs chart, including “Good Day,” “Never Get Used to This,” and “Life is Good.”

As with “Good Day,” Frank says he’ll continue to bring all his music to his most devoted fans first.

“When I’m thinking about my next release, before taking it to Instagram or TikTok I’ll probably throw three or four snippets in [the Treehouse group] to get the feedback,” Frank says. “For me, it helps as an artist — not every song’s going to be a hit, but at least I can be a little more refined in my moves so when I bring a song to socials it’s like, ‘Okay, this is the one that’s already been proven in this smaller focus group.’”

With his Child of God tour having recently wrapped, the UTA-aligned Frank has an even larger tour slated for 2025. He says touring as a CCM artist has been markedly different from some of his past performance experiences.

“I’ve never viewed myself as a performer,” he says. “I just wanted to make music and be a producer. I’ve done maybe hundreds of shows with Surfaces that were in the name of entertainment, and looking back, I can now recognize fully that it always felt like a disconnect. And on this past tour, it just felt so right. It felt like every cell of my body was being used for God and his glory, and every show was a 10 out of 10 because of that. It changed my perspective of being onstage to where now I’m excited because I get to be a conductor of bringing people to the Lord, versus just connecting with fans per se, which I do love as well.

“This whole journey just has felt like a gift from God, and he’s just continued to bless me with new songs and new ideas,” Frank adds. “I can’t take any credit for it. Anytime anything good happens, it’s just like, ‘Okay, God for whatever reason has selected me as a vessel for Him.’”