Sometimes, you gotta take a chance. That’s what Liv Ciara did on the Monday (March 30) episode of The Voice, singing coach Kelly Clarkson‘s own hit in front of the star and nailing it.

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During the show, the 16-year-old contestant pulled the extra risky move of selecting a track from the coaching panel’s repertoire for the Knockout round, but if she was nervous about how it would go over, Ciara didn’t show it. Her lush, clear voice sounded full and strong as she belted out Clarkson’s 2004 smash “Breakaway.”

“I’ll spread my wings and I’ll learn how to fly/ I’ll do what it takes ’til I touch the sky,” she sang, adding in her own riffs and melody switches. “And I’ll make a wish, take a chance, make a change/ And break away.”

“I love that,” Clarkson said at one point when Ciara took a quieter, gentler approach to the song’s ending.

After Ciara was finished, coach John Legend declared the performance had been “so beautiful.”

The rendition was enough to keep Ciara in the running, beating out 25-year-old teammate Abigail Oakley in the Knockouts. That marks about a month the teenager has survived in the competition, for which she auditioned back in February with an impressive performance of Ariana Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).” Ciara had previously auditioned for the show last year but was rejected, making this season her comeback run.

Preceding Clarkson’s album of the same name, “Breakaway” reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. It remains one of the vocalist’s 12 top 10 hits on the chart to date.

Check out Ciara’s performance of “Breakaway” above.


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Kali Uchis is hitting the road this spring and summer with For the Girls Tour, with support from special guest Mariah the Scientist and opener Laila! on select dates. Promoted by Live Nation, the North American tour will span major amphitheaters and arenas, kicking off May 26 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo., and wrapping Aug. 8 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Stops include Atlanta, Tampa, Houston and Phoenix.

Coming off her sold-out Sincerely, Tour, which drew more than 320,000 fans — according to figures shared with Billboard Boxscore — Uchis continues to prove her dominance as a boundary-pushing artist known for fusing R&B, pop, Latin and soul in both English and Spanish.

The Colombian-American superstar was Billboard‘s October cover star. She spoke about embracing motherhood while touring, staying true to her bilingual artistry and carving her own path as a genre-defying global sensation in her interview.

“I’m not going to just keep making music in one language because it’s easier to sell,” she told Billboard. “I’m going to do both because I can do both. I always felt that [not] utilizing everything that God gave me into my art is the same as spitting in God’s face. Why would God have made me bilingual? Why would God have made me with this duality if I wasn’t meant to project it into my art and use it to inspire other people and to create with all of this that I have?”

Tickets for the tour go on sale starting with an artist presale on Tuesday (March 31) at 10 a.m. local time. General onsale begins Thursday (April 2) at 10 a.m. local time via Live Nation. VIP packages are also available at VIP Nation.

Check out Kali Uchis tour dates below, starring Mariah the Scientist:


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Quite simply, Bruce Springsteen is one of the biggest acts in the history of live music. He has reported more than 1,000 shows to Billboard Boxscore, staging 17 tours over the last 50 years. On Tuesday (March 31), he kicks off his 18th as Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour will begin in Minneapolis. But before the lights go down at the Target Center, Billboard is looking back at the biggest tours of his career.

Springsteen — solo and with the E Street Band — has been a constant presence on Boxscore’s year-end Top Tours ranking since it launched in 1991. He never crowned the list, but landed at No. 2 five times, with another six top 10 finishes. Most recently, the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour landed at No. 5 in 2024 and No. 22 in 2025.

Altogether, Springsteen’s reported dates accumulate to $2.3 billion and 22.6 million tickets sold. That includes sparse reports for Born to Run Tour shows in 1976, but otherwise dates back to 1985 shows on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour. A quick flash to those three ’76 shows offer a glimpse into a different concert business entirely: Cost of admission for his sold-out shows of 3,000-6,000 fans was just $6 per ticket. The industry has overturned prices for artists across the board, but Springsteen has also expanded his audience several times over: His last tour averaged 37,900 tickets per show.

Springsteen is one of only four artists in the Boxscore archives to gross more than $2 billion (not including Taylor Swift, whose record-shattering The Eras Tour was not officially reported to Billboard), and one of five to sell more than 20 million tickets.


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Keep reading for a breakdown of the Boss’ 10 highest grossing tours ever. All data is according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

From the very beginning, Gorillaz were a completely different kind of rock band. The virtual band formed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and artist/illustrator Jamie Hewlett in 1998 mixed experimental indie rock tunes with four quirky characters created by Hewlett — singer 2-D, bassist Murdoc, keyboardist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs — for a unique presentation that put the visual on par with the musical.

It was high-concept in the extreme and while the tunes have consistently made things interesting thanks to wide-ranging collaborations with everyone from Del the Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack and Lou Reed to Kali Uchis, Pusha T, and, on their latest album, The Mountain, a collection of Indian and Syrian world music performers, pulling off the high-wire act live hasn’t always been a slam dunk.

Take, for instance, their widely panned hologram performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards, where they played their signature Billboard Hot 100 No. 14 hit “Feel Good Inc.” and joined Madonna for a duet on her song “Hung Up” using the Musion Eyeliner System in a set that kind of fell as flat as one of Hewlett’s comic book illustrations.

“It looked amazing on TV,” Hewlett told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on his Zane Lowe Show on Monday (March 30) after the host opined that the holograms looked “awful in the room,” but “kind of worked on TV.” Albarn concurred, saying that the TV broadcast was a “win” and “very good. It was brilliant on TV. But awful in the room.”

Lowe recalled thinking at the time that he was blown away by the idea that the technology could have allowed the band to do “12 shows at the same time all around the world,” with Albarn saying that that was the idea before ABBA had the money to properly do a hologram show that slapped with their long-running ABBA Voyage virtual concert residency in London.

“It was too expensive and the technology hadn’t been developed well enough that in a live scenario, you had to have the music very low because the invisible screen vibrates when you turn the bass up and the drums and then your animations go [vibrating sound],” added Hewlett. “When we were at the Grammys and they came on it was really quiet. And people were talking they didn’t even know the show had started because it was so quiet.”

The duo also talked about their connection to retired masked techno super duo Daft Punk, with Hewlett recalling that both acts broke through around the same time in the late 1990s. And while the incognito Frenchmen behind Daft Punk — Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo — had literal masks to hide behind, Gorillaz fans all knew exactly what the already famous man behind the lead vocals looked like.

“It definitely felt like, ‘oh okay they’re doing what we’re doing,’” said Albarn about the incognito element of both group’s acts. “But they had the advantage of not having a face of Britpop trying to hide. I was at a disadvantage.” Lowe joked, “victim of your face,” teasing the Blur singer about his looks, adding, “we’ve been saying that for 30 years now.”

The wide-ranging conversation also touched on the new album, their 2010 Glastonbury performance, the difficulty of doing in-character interviews early on in their career and their abandoned plan to make a Gorillaz movie.

Watch the Zane Lowe interview with Gorillaz below.


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Calvin Harris and Kasabian’s “Release the Pressure” spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the WARM Global Dance Radio chart dated April 4.

Released in early February, the track leads the latest ranking with 700-plus spins across more than 200 monitored stations worldwide in the March 20-26 tracking week, according to World Airplay Radio Monitor.

The song has also been climbing Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, reaching a new No. 11 high on the latest ranking.

ANOTR’s “Talk to You,” featuring 54 Ultra, jumps 7-2 for a new best on WARM Global Dance Radio. Rounding out the top five, FISHER’s “Rain” falls 2-3, Milky and Mall Grab’s “Just the Way You Are” holds at its No. 4 high and Gordo and Reiner Zonneveld’s “Loco Loco” drops 3-5.

“Just the Way You Are,” notably, samples Milky’s 2002 hit of the same name, which spent five weeks at No. 1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay and has since become a house music classic. Australian electronic trio PNAU released a new remix of the song on March 20.

David Guetta once again has the most songs — four — on the full 100-position WARM Global Dance Radio chart: “Upside Down (Extended Mix),” with Jaden Bojsen (No. 12); “Save Me Tonight,” with Jennifer Lopez (No. 19); “Crazy,” with Matt Sassari, Jack Back and Amira Eldine (No. 48); and “Locked In,” with MORTEN and featuring Trippie Redd (No. 92). Jack Back is one of Guetta’s aliases, which he uses to showcase his house-focused projects. James Hype, HUGEL, MK and John Summit follow with three charting songs each.

As announced March 5, Billboard has expanded its dance chart portfolio with the inclusion of the WARM Global Dance Radio chart. The ranking debuted on Billboard.com March 10, joining Billboard’s long-standing U.S.-based dance lists, including Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Dance/Pop Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay and Top Dance Albums. The 40-position Global Dance Radio chart (published in full as a 100-position ranking on WARM’s platform) aggregates plays from 200-plus dance-dedicated radio stations across more than 30 countries, reflecting songs trending globally through a network of programmers and radio gatekeepers operating across multiple territories.

Check out the top 40 of the WARM Global Dance Radio chart on Billboard.com and head over to WARM’s website for the full 100-position survey.


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The phase one lineup for the second of edition of John Summit‘s Experts Only festival is out.

Leading the bill, naturally, is Summit himself, who will play both a solo show and alongside Subtronics as their cutely titled side project Subjohnics. The lineup also includes British rave duo Prospa, bass producer LYNY, British experimental artist Rohaan, garage artist RoTaiki Nulight, Experts Only regular Devault, peaktime producer Dreya V, Israeli artist OMRI., Australian party-starter Partiboi69, new scene star Jackie Hollander, Los Angeles techno fusion artist Airrica, Brazilian indie dance artist Gabss and rising dance artists MADI, Soraya and Korolova. Additional artists will be announced in the coming months.

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Experts Only happens Sept. 19-20 at New York’s Randall’s Island Park, the same location where the fest debuted last year. Tickets go on sale April 3, with a presale beginning at 10 a.m. ET and a general ticket sale beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

Experts Only 2025 drew 50,000 fans to its debut edition, filling the hole left in the New York festival schedule after Electric Zoo failed to return after a 2023 edition marked by significant issues. Experts Only is produced by Medium Rare, Relentless Beats and EMW.

“The obvious next step is throwing a festival to showcase everyone,” Summit told Billboard last year of creating a festival featuring the music and artists of his Experts Only label. “I’ve grown close friendships with everyone, too, so it’s going to feel like a family affair and not a big corporate festival where we just tried booking DJs that would sell as many tickets as possible.”


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BTS is working to make an even bigger splash with “SWIM” — the group’s Billboard Hot 100-topping single from new album ARIRANG — posting a summery live version of the track filmed at an indoor swimming pool.

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In the performance posted Tuesday (March 31), RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook each get fun solo moments on camera before finally coming together on a row of lounge chairs at the end. RM sings portions of the track from a lifeguard chair, Jin and V look stylish wearing duck-shaped children’s pool floaties, and Suga passes out flotation devices to patrons going for swims.

At the end, the Bangtan Boys — all of whom wear crisp, tailored suits despite the setting — run toward the pool as if to jump in together (although viewers never actually see them hit the water).

The “Swimming Pool” version of “SWIM” comes one day after Billboard announced that the single had debuted atop the Hot 100, marking BTS’ seventh No. 1 hit on the chart. ARIRANG also opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, opened with 641,000 equivalent album units, notching the band’s seventh chart-topping LP in the United States.

Though BTS isn’t planning on stopping at any more swimming pools on the trek, the group is gearing up to embark on a sprawling tour playing stadiums all across the world, and the new video of “SWIM” gives ARMY a taste of the dynamic performances in store for the outing. As V teased on BTS’ recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “We have prepared every single aspect [of this tour] like a secret weapon. It’s going to give you chills.”

Check out BTS’ pool-themed performance video for “SWIM” above.


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For the first time since its monster bow on Billboard‘s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), in July 2025, KPop Demon Hunters doesn’t possess the top two songs on the monthly tally.

However, its overall reign continues, as HUNTR/X‘s “Golden” leads the February 2026-dated list, allowing the cultural phenomenon of a film to extend its streak atop the survey to seven months, dating to July 2025.

Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of February 2026. The ranking generally includes newly released films from the preceding three months, with exceptions given to movies whose music is still experiencing a high volume of public interest.

“Golden” — the top-performing track of the seven KPop Demon Hunters songs in all on the February 2026 Top Movie Songs chart — remains on the ranking despite KPop Demon Hunters‘ initial June 2025 premiere on Netflix as the soundtrack continues to boast weekly Billboard chart success. “Golden” itself, an eight-week No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 last year, fell no lower than No. 9 on the ranking in February, and the soundtrack appeared within the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the entire month.

In February 2026, “Golden” accumulated 77 million official on-demand U.S. streams and sold 13,000 downloads, according to Luminate.

But while music from the movie’s soundtrack has been able to hold Top Movie Songs’ No. 2 spot every month since its debut in addition to No. 1, February 2026 ends that streak, as Shakira‘s “Zoo” from Zootopia 2 rises 3-2 thanks to 26.7 million streams and 4,000 downloads.

“Zoo,” the centerpiece track from the Disney animated film that was released in theaters last November, benefits from the movie’s home media premiere in late January. The song debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 77 in January; it since reached a new peak of No. 73 (March 28).

A pair of February theatrical releases in Wuthering Heights and Scream 7 also reach Top Movie Songs with one entry apiece. Charli xcx‘s “Chains of Love” from the former starts at No. 8 (12.6 million streams, 3,000 downloads), while Ice Nine Kills‘ Mckenna Grace-featuring “Twisting the Knife” from the latter appears at No. 10 (3.7 million streams, 3,000 downloads).

See the full top 10 below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Movie

  1. “Golden,” HUNTR/X, KPop Demon Hunters
  2. “Zoo,” Shakira, Zootopia 2
  3. “Soda Pop,” Saja Boys, KPop Demon Hunters
  4. “How It’s Done,” HUNTR/X, KPop Demon Hunters
  5. “What It Sounds Like,” HUNTR/X, KPop Demon Hunters
  6. “Your Idol,” Saja Boys, KPop Demon Hunters
  7. “Takedown,” HUNTR/X, KPop Demon Hunters
  8. “Chains of Love,” Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights
  9. “Free,” Andrew Choi & EJAE, KPop Demon Hunters
  10. “Twisting the Knife,” Ice Nine Kills feat. Mckenna Grace, Scream 7


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Laura Pausini began her much-anticipated Yo Canto World Tour 2026-2027 over the weekend in Spain, with an opening show at the Navarra Arena in Pamplona. The performance will be followed by stops in cities such as Valencia, Madrid, and Barcelona.

The Italian superstar returns to the stage two years after her last tour and after the release of Io Canto 2 and Yo Canto 2, her new cover albums that pay tribute to the great stars of Spanish and Italian music who have inspired her throughout her life.

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“It’s a very new tour for me, because normally I record the album in Italian and the Spanish version is identical, but sung in Spanish. In this case, the Italian album is dedicated to songs by Italian artists and the Spanish album to Spanish [and Latin American] singer-songwriters. That means that when I’m in Spain and North, Central and South America, I’ll have a different repertoire than what I’ll sing in France, Germany, or Italy,” Pausini told Billboard Español in February in a cover interview.

“We’ve already rehearsed and had a lot of fun, because some of the songs we’re singing for Yo Canto 2 are actually Latin American and Spanish classics, and the lyrics and the beat of all the songs aren’t Italian; it’s different from our style,” she added enthusiastically. “So for us, it was a lot of fun, but also challenging. It made us study, and put our hearts into it.”

For the tour’s leg in Spain, Latin America and the United States, the singer brings an extensive setlist that includes many of the covers featured in Yo Canto 2, such as Shakira’s “Antología,” Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Bad Bunny’s “Turista” and Juan Luis Guerra’s “Bachata Rosa.” She also delights her long-time fans with many of her own hits, including “Se Fue,” “La Soledad,” “Amores Extraños” and “Las Cosas Que Vives.”

Pausini will arrive in the Americas on April 10, starting in Uruguay and traveling through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Beginning May 16, she will tour various cities in the U.S. and Canada, starting in Miami and finishing in New York City on June 6.

In October, she will begin a new leg in Italy and other European countries with a different repertoire.

Check out Pausini’s Yo Canto World Tour full setlist en español below.


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Farruko has signed a 360 co-management deal with WK Entertainment and Massivo Entertainment, Billboard can exclusively announce on Tuesday (March 31). 

In alliance with Walter Kolm — who represents artists such as Xavi, Carlos Vives, Emilia, Prince Royce, and Morat — and Farruko’s longtime team member and CEO of Massivo, Oscar Paniagua, the signing marks a pivotal new chapter in the Puerto Rican artist’s nearly 20-year career.  

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“This new chapter comes with a stronger structure,” Farruko said in a statement. “With Oscar, who has been key in developing my career over the years, and now adding Walter Kolm, we’re building a team with a global vision and a long-term focus.”

The announcement comes on the heels of the “Chillax” singer joining Steve Aoki at the 2026 Ultra Music Festival in Miami. There, they performed Farruko’s massive electronic hit “Pepas,” which spent 26 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart in 2021 and also topped the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and Latin Airplay charts. At the EDM festival, he also teased an afrohouse collaboration with Greeicy that’s set to release soon.  

“Farruko is one of the few artists who has truly shaped the global reach of Latin music,” Kolm said in a statement. “This next chapter is about positioning him back at the forefront, building on that legacy with intention, aligning his vision, sound, and global impact.” 

Paniagua added: “We’re entering a new chapter for Farruko, and having Walter Kolm as a partner on this journey allows us to strengthen a global vision, open new opportunities, and continue building a solid and lasting career.” 

Farruko (born Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado), is one of reggaetón’s pillar acts, with six hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart (with “Pepas” peaking at No. 25 and spending 21 weeks on the chart) and 52 songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including lasting hits like “6 AM” with J Balvin, “Calma” with Pedro Capó and “Krippy Kush” with Bad Bunny.

He will next release a new album that captures the essence of Panama’s music as the root of the reggaetón genre. The forthcoming album features collaborations with key Panamanian acts including Eddy Lover, Boza and Kafu Banton.

(L to R): Clara Pablo, Oscar Paniagua, Farruko, Jorge Fonseca, Miguel Lua, Walter Kolm

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