It’s a good day to be a Pittsburgh football fan.

On Thursday (April 2), the NFL announced Wiz Khalifa, Kane Brown and Bret Michaels as the headliners for this year’s Draft Entertainment Series in Pittsburgh, Billboard can exclusively reveal. The free, three-day live music experience will go down in Pittsburgh alongside the NFL Draft from Thursday, April 23, through Saturday, April 25.

The Grammy-nominated, two-time Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping rapper Wiz Khalifa will perform Friday evening, ahead of rounds two and three of the draft. This performance will be a homecoming for Khalifa, who was raised in Pittsburgh. The town and the official colors of its three major sports teams even inspired his first Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Black and Yellow.”

“Coming home to Pittsburgh for the Draft is pretty special,” Khalifa said in a statement. “This city raised me, and the energy here is different. Being back with the fans and representing the city in a moment like this just feels right.”e

Bret Michaels, frontman of the Hot 100-topping rockers Poison, will also perform on April 24. Like Khalifa, Michaels is no stranger to Pittsburgh: He grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, just outside the city.

“As a Pittsburgh native and a diehard fan of the Steelers, the NFL and all things Pittsburgh, this is a dream come true,” Michaels shared.

Country star Kane Brown, a 12-time Country Airplay topper, will close out the festivities with a performance on Saturday, April 25.

Night 1 of the Draft Entertainment Series on Thursday will open with a performance of the national anthem by Pittsburgh-raised jazz musician KELS and the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s National Hymn Choir, featuring The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

“Bringing the Draft to Pittsburgh gives us a chance to tap into a city with a deep connection to football and music,” said Tim Tubito, NFL senior director of global event presentation and entertainment. “This year’s event brings together artists with strong roots in the region and renowned global reputations to help create even more memorable moments onstage throughout Draft.”

Khalifa, Michaels and Brown join a long list of performers who’ve brought live music and entertainment to the NFL Draft over the years. Previous artists to hit the Draft stage include Eminem, Weezer, Ice Cube and Marshmello.

All NFL Draft Entertainment Series performances, presented by Bud Light, will take place at the Draft Theater next to Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. General admission to the event is free, but fans are encouraged to arrive early as standing-room access will be granted on a first-come first-served basis. Fans can register for free entry to the Draft Entertainment Series at NFL.com/DraftAccess.

Need a favor? FISHER can help. The Gold Coast producer and DJ teams up with Tones And I for the all-Australian, all-energy floor-filler, “Favour” (via etcetc), which dropped like a hammer on Thursday, April 2.

“Favour” unites the Aussie pair for the first time. On paper, it’s a head scratcher. Pumping from your speakers, it totally works.

Tones (real name: Toni Watson) is the former busker from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula who enjoyed a global smash, and a life-changing moment, with “Dance Monkey,” a song that led more than 30 national charts. In Australia, it ruled the ARIA Chart for 24 non-consecutive weeks, an all-time record, and it led the Official U.K. Singles Chart for 11 weeks, a record for a solo female artist. Tones has gone on to drop two ARIA No. 1 albums, and played some of the biggest stages, anywhere. Tones’ total streams top 12 billion.

FISHER’s solo catalogue spans 25 releases, including his breakout hit “Losing It,” which was nominated for best dance recording at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards (2019), with total global streams across all his works topping five billion. He boasts eight ARIA platinum-certified singles, with his 2025 tune “Stay” on track to become his fastest platinum, according to reps, just ahead of his Out 2 Lunch festival next month, which expands with dates in four cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and its original destination, the Gold Coast.

“Favour” got its first airing when FISHER teased the track last December during his historic headline shows at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the first of its kind at the venue. Across two nights, 40,000 fans packed the space — including Golden State Warriors star forward Jimmy Butler — setting the mark for the largest solo headline dance event in the city’s history

FISHER (real name: Paul Fisher) has sold more than 200,000 tickets in Australia and counting, and with the national expansion of Out 2 Lunch is targeting a further 100,000.

Stream “Favour” below.

BTS’s record-busting comeback album ARIRANG, and its lead single “Swim,” create a mighty splash on YouTube weekly charts.

The K-pop superstars crash the streaming giant’s Global Top Songs chart with 11 titles impacting the top 100, including the No. 1 with “Swim,” which racked up more than 83 million global views.

The single also leads the way on the U.S. Top Songs tally for the week ending March 31, one of five BTS numbers. ARMY in the United States watched “Swim” more than 6.2 million times during the cycle, almost two million more views than the next-best, “Golden” from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, the first K-pop recording to win the best original song Oscar.

It’s not just the new ARIRANG cuts that are making an impact on YouTube’s charts. BTS’ 2020 hit “Dynamite” detonates on the Global chart at No. 81, well ahead of the group’s fresh tune “Please” at No. 90.

As previously reported, BTS is smashing charts around the globe right now. Led by “Swim,” BTS opens at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, their seventh leader, and dominates the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts as the reunited South Korean septet’s record-extending eighth No. 1 on each ranking.

The group claims the top nine spots on the Global 200, tying Taylor Swift for both the most top 10s in a single week and the most titles from No. 1 on down.

Meanwhile, ARIRANG, BTS’ first studio album of new material since 2020, fired to No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200 albums chart, for their seventh leader. The collection also leads the Official U.K. Albums Chart, and the ARIA Albums Chart.

Following its releases on Friday, March 20, Spotify announced that ARIRANG had become the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2026 so far, and established a new record as the most-streamed K-pop album in Spotify history.

YouTube no longer supplies streaming data to Billboard’s charts, including the U.S. and global charts, with effect from Jan. 16 (for the charts dated Jan. 31).

[SPOILER ALERT: This story contains the identity of the winner and runners-up revealed on Wednesday night’s (April 1) season 14 finale of The Masked Singer.]

From the very beginning of the 14th season of The Masked Singer, it felt like the universe was lining up to bring Galaxy Girl to blast off into the winner’s circle. In a season that featured one of the wackiest collection of undercover stars to date — including baseball legend David “Big Papi” Ortiz, convicted reality TV fraudsters Todd and Julie Chrisley, actress/comedian Tiffany Haddish, soccer legend Alexi Lalas, TV judge Greg Mathis, rapper Tone Loc, reality TV star Heidi Montag and movie star Tara P. Henson among others — Galaxy Girl consistently shined brighter than the others.

She busted out with a strong first performance of Chappell Roan’s “Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl,” saying her strategy was to just “have fun.” Among the early clues was that she was a child star who kept her singing a secret for a long time and that “perfection” was never her thing, though her performance of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl” was dubbed the most fun by judge Robin Thicke.

She showed her versatility by crooning Incubus’ mellow rocker “Drive,” with Rita Ora describing the vocals as “raw, rock & roll, gritty, sexy and fun.” And then she did it again, ripping through a powerhouse cover of Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” that had her dancing with joy as judge Ken Jeong agreed with his fellow panelist Jennie McCarthy-Wahlberg that GG was the standout front-runner.

The guesses were mostly in the ballpark, with Emma Stone, Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Momsen and Hilary Duff being tossed out as possible identities along the way. In the lead-up to the finale, GG dipped into her emo bag with a high-energy run through Paramore’s “Misery Business” that had the judges saying that GG “came to win!” 

On Wednesday night’s season ender, GG secured the bag with fiery performances of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” and P!nk’s “Try,” winning over runner-up Pugcasso (Phillip Phillips), Crane (Normani) and Cat Witch (Kylie Cantrall). Who was the intergalactic star under that Saturn-like ringed mask? None other than Ashlee Simpson.

Billboard spoke to Simpson before Wednesday’s finale and found out whether she kept her gig a secret from her three kids, how the show got her psyched to tour again, and if she secretly wanted to win just to beat her husband, Evan Ross (Stingray).

You said you’ve wanted to do the show for years, but in a clue package you said you were thrown off by a reference to something bad that happened in the past. Why now and what was your motivation?

For me, it was something me and my kids watch together [and I thought], “This will be a fun moment for me.” At first I was like, “I’m gonna surprise the kids.” And as my daughter hears me rehearsing a song every day, she knew every song I was doing so I let her in, but I said, “You cannot tell your friends!” Being under a mask, getting to find your character and learn different songs … this show was so hard and so much fun. Also navigating where you’re going on the stage.

Your costume really allowed you to move around, but the giant planet head seemed very top-heavy! What was it like trying to navigate the stage with such a giant head?

Luckily for me, I could move my body in my costume, but I did a lot of knee drops and I could feel that every time. My knees were black and blue. … Galaxy Girl’s going down! I think even that, finding moves that were big and fun … I truly — and I hope it comes across —  was having the time of my life.

It definitely did. You looked so psyched after your first performance of that Chappell Roan song. What was going through your head at that moment?

For me, it was such a different experience, and that was my first moment of coming out onstage and not being able to have eye contact with the audience, which I’m so used to, that’s a part of delivering a set. Really to express yourself and find that was my first moment of that, so yes I was very excited in that moment and the sets were so much fun. For me it was the excitement of not knowing the crowd and them not knowing me.

You sang mostly songs by other female artists. Was that a conscious choice?

Yeah, definitely. We were looking for female artists and girls that had that strong quality. I really wanted that for Galaxy Girl, who is strong, sensitive and there to have a good time.

Outside of your Las Vegas Voltaire residency last year and some press runs in 2008, you haven’t performed much over the past decade. Did performing under the mask help you gain confidence in playing in public again?

It was definitely fun for me because I’d done my first Vegas run so it just kept that momentum going. It definitely led me to a place where I’m like, “OK, I miss performing and I want to perform all the time.” That push of, “Let’s get the album out, let’s go on tour!” It got that feeling going for me where I really want to get back onstage and tour.

So are you going to do that?

I definitely think so, yeah. All in the conditions of this and also being a mom, definitely.

Both you and your husband appeared on the show this year. Be honest: Was there a friendly competition going on, or did you want to crush him? You seemed like you really wanted to win.

Going into the show, I didn’t think I was going to be on that long, and all of a sudden I got competitive — not against my husband, because I couldn’t see him. They would give us different [rehearsal and performance] times and different paths, even though you can’t see anyone anyways. But it was so funny because we couldn’t see each other, so I would hear him sometimes rehearsing his songs at night and he would hear me rehearsing mine, but that was about it. Or we would call each other and be like, “How did it feel? Did you see?” We were both just rooting each other on and there to have a good time. I definitely got into the competition not knowing, “Oh yeah, I’m really going to work on this song and get there!”

How did it feel when you won?

I fell to my knees and I was feeling great under my mask. I have to share the reveal video with my sister [Jessica Simpson] and my daughter and my mom’s dialogue, which was hilarious. They’re watching and it was like, “Oh my God! Is she gonna win?!” Their dialogue was pretty brilliant, they were so shocked!

You’ve done TV, theater, music — where did Masked Singer land in terms of you being an artist? How did it make you feel?

It was such a different version of being an artist. It was like, “How do you connect with the audience as Galaxy Girl?” It did remind me of theater [Simpson played Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway in 2009-10] in that sense that you discover who you are as this character and how to connect with them. It also felt like you were in bootcamp, learning a new song every day.

It’s been nearly a decade since you released an album. Any new music on the horizon?

Definitely new music on the horizon. I’m looking forward to playing new shows and definitely ready for that moment to release new music. I’m inspired.

Can you say anything else about the music?

It’s in the process, yeah.

Now that you’ve done this, has it inspired you in other ways to want to do movies or other big projects?

It’s gotten me to a place where I want to get into acting as well, and I’d love to go back to Broadway. It just gave me that itch of performing, between Vegas and this show it gave me that, “Oh, this is what I love to do.” This is my happy place.

Before you kicked off your Vegas residency at Volatire last summer, it had been almost 17 years since your last run, but you have performances at L.A. Pride and Stagecoach coming up. How does it feel to be more fully out there lately after a long time mostly out of the spotlight?

Stagecoach will be fun. It’s a DJ set with Diplo [as part of his Honky Tonk tent]. I’m so excited, because it’s one of the festivals that all my mom friends go to. That will be a great little party with emo cowboy boots. And as far as Pride goes, that’s my beautiful little fanbase. I was there last year — I saw Maren Morris play — so I’m excited to play that and also to watch the Pussycat Dolls and Ava Max and be in the crowd having fun with my gays.

With Tiffany Young approaching nearly two decades in entertainment — and just ahead of her 10th anniversary since debuting as a solo artist — the singer-songwriter-actress has signed with the quickly growing Pacific Music Group ahead of her upcoming music releases.

Pacific signed Tiffany to a 360 deal encompassing full management representation and a recording contract with Pacific Records, the company’s flagship label. The signing formally launches the Korean roster for the new globally-focused Pan-Asian music and entertainment company founded by Ne-Yo, MC Jin, Indian singer-actor Sonu Nigam and former Warner Music Asia president Jonathan Serbin. Last week, Billboard reported that Timbaland signed his AI artist TaTa with PMG for management.

“As I step into the next phase of my career, I find myself focusing more than ever on intention — on the quiet importance of details and on building meaningful connection through the work I create,” Young said in a statement to Billboard. “I’m honored and excited to begin this new chapter with Pacific Music Group as I prepare for my 10th solo anniversary album and the promotions to come. More than anything, I’m looking forward to celebrating this moment with my fans, the ones who have walked this journey with me, because the music has always been for them.”

Young left her native California at 15 to move to Seoul and train with SM Entertainment before debuting as a member of Girls’ Generation in 2007. The female act helped shape the commercial and cultural templates that K-pop now regularly exports globally. As part of the Girls’ Generation splinter trio Girls’ Generation-TTS, Tiffany made chart history when Twinkle earned the first-ever entry on the Billboard 200 for a Korean-pop girl group. In May 2016, Young made her debut as a soloist with the EP I Just Wanna Dance, which reached the top 5 of Billboard‘s World Albums chart, while its title track reached the top 5 of the World Digital Song Sales chart. That was followed by 2019’s Babyface-assisted EP Lips on Lips, which sent her to a new peak on Billboard‘s Independent Albums chart.

While Young has kept a lower profile in the K-pop industry in the ’20s, she has stepped into musicals (including two runs as Roxie Hart in the South Korean production of Chicago), acting (she most recently appeared in 2024’s Uncle Samsik on Disney+) and TV judging (acting as a mentor on popular K-pop competition series including Girls Planet 999, Veiled Cup and Peak Time).

“Tiffany is exactly the kind of artist Pacific Music Group was built to partner with,” Serbin, Pacific Music Group co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “She’s a true pioneer, an artist who helped define a generation, yet continues to evolve creatively across music, acting, and global culture. Launching our Korean roster with Tiffany is incredibly meaningful, and her 10th anniversary solo release in May 2026 will be a powerful statement of where she’s headed next. Korea is a cornerstone of the global music industry and this signing, alongside our expanded Seoul team, reflects our long-term commitment to the market.”

While Pacific Music Group is headquartered in Hong Kong, it has expanded its Seoul operations with 12 new hires — including the newly announced Korea exec Samuel Ku — to support artist management, creative development, marketing and global coordination.

New music from Young via Pacific Records is scheduled for release later this year.