Yungblud’s flying start to 2026 is set to continue with a brand new sequel to his Grammy-nominated album Idols – and it’s coming Friday (Feb. 20).

Billed as Idols II, seven new tracks will make up the release and make good on the promises by the rocker from Doncaster, England. Idols was released in June 2025 with the musician (born Dominic Harrison) revealing that it was just the first portion of a double album.

“This is it. The second chapter of the Idols story. Part 1 was a journey that helped me reclaim my identity from the darkest position I’ve ever been in my life. Part 2 is about realizing that I am alive, that I am real, that this journey that I’ve been on didn’t kill me. It’s about realizing that you can feel invincible when you actually feel yourself. It’s about comprehending that my heart is beating and that my lungs are filling up with air.”

Idols was nominated for best rock album at the 2026 Grammys, and its lead single, “Zombie,” for best rock song. He scooped the best rock performance prize for his version of “Changes” performed at the July farewell show for Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham, England.

Idols II will feature a new version of “Zombie” featuring The Smashing Pumpkins and six previously unheard tracks: “I Need You (To Make the World Seem Fine),” “The Postman,” “Time,” “War Part II,” “Blueberry Hill” and “Suburban Requiem.”

The album will be available to listen on digital and streaming platforms Friday (Feb. 20), with physical editions set to be released later this year.

Yungblud lays claim to four U.K. No. 1 albums, two of which came in 2025. Idols debuted at No. 1 in June, and his collaborative EP with Aerosmith, One More Time, also topped the Official Albums Chart in November.

Speaking to Billboard U.K. in December, Yungblud discussed the lengths he went to make Idols following his self-titled 2023 LP.  “I completely lost myself and I was listening to the world and critics of my work too much,” he said of his output before Idols. “I really risked it all. I thought, ‘If people don’t like this one, then maybe it’s the end. When you’re a young artist it can be hard to take criticism, but now you’ve got to laugh at it.”

J. Cole continues his blockbuster week on Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 21), as 21 songs from his new album, The Fall-Off, debut on the Billboard Hot 100. With the influx, he boosts his career total from 90 to 111 entries, becoming the 22nd act to chart at least 100 titles.

The Fall-Off launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 280,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Feb. 6-12, according to Luminate — the biggest week for any album in 2026, and the largest since Stray Kids’ DO IT opened with 295,000 units (Dec. 6). J. Cole earns his seventh No. 1 and first since The Off-Season in 2021.

With seven No. 1s, J. Cole moves out of a tie with Nas for the sixth-most No. 1 albums among rappers, after Drake and Jay-Z (14 each), and Eminem, Future and Ye (11 each).

Here’s a rundown of J. Cole’s tracks on this week’s Hot 100 (all of which are debuts):

Notably, “29 Intro” samples James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind,” a No. 67 Hot 100 hit in 1970. It sets up the autobiographical nature of The Fall-Off, with J. Cole having grown up in Fayetteville, N.C. Other notable samples on the album include Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy,” featuring Shawnna, on “Bombs in the Ville/Hit the Gas”; Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It” on “Man Up Above”; the Isley Brothers’ “Love Put Me on the Corner” on “And the Whole World Is the Ville” and Common’s “The Light” on “I Love Her Again.”

Of J. Cole’s 111 Hot 100 hits, 54 have reached the top 40, 13 have hit the top 10 and one has gone to No. 1 — Drake’s “First Person Shooter,” on which he’s featured, in 2023. He first appeared on the chart in June 2010 with “Who Dat.”

Below is an updated look at every act with at least 100 career Hot 100 entries, dating to the chart’s 1958 launch. Thanks to his 21 debuts this week, J. Cole ties 21 Savage for the 16th most.

J. Cole is the first artist to surpass 100 Hot 100 visits since Morgan Wallen reached the milestone last year upon the chart debut of his album I’m the Problem. Before that, Bad Bunny joined the club in January 2025 after releasing Debí Tirar Más Fotos, becoming the first act who primarily records Latin music to reach the mark.

While triple-digit Hot 100 totals were once rare, they’ve become more common in the streaming era. Since the chart began incorporating streaming data in 2007, high-profile album releases have frequently generated simultaneous entries, reflecting modern consumption habits. That dynamic contrasts with earlier decades, when artists typically promoted one single at a time in a physical-only and radio-driven marketplace, limiting the total number of songs that an act could chart at once.

3 Doors Down music dots Billboard’s charts dated Feb. 21 following the Feb. 7 death of frontman Brad Arnold, including No. 1s on both song and album tallies.

In the week ending Feb. 12, 3 Doors Down’s songs drew 34.5 million official on-demand U.S. streams, a week over week gain of 155%, according to Luminate. The band’s music totaled 39,000 equivalent album units (up 212%) and 26,000 paid song downloads (up 2,807%).

The group’s catalog is paced by one of its signature songs, “Kryptonite,” which reenters Hot Hard Rock Songs at No. 1 (with older songs eligible to appear on Billboard’s multimetric song charts if ranking in the top half and with a meaningful reason for their resurgences). “Kryptonite” drew 6.4 million streams and 3.6 million in radio airplay audience and sold 5,000 in the tracking week.

“Kryptonite” became 3 Doors Down’s first Billboard Hot 100 hit, and its highest charting, peaking at No. 3 in 2000. It also reigned on Alternative Airplay (for 11 weeks) and Mainstream Rock Airplay (nine) and crossed to pop radio, topping Pop Airplay for five weeks.

The track concurrently ranks at No. 8 on the all-rock-genre Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. It’s one of three 3 Doors Down songs on the survey, followed by “Here Without You” (No. 10; 5.1 million streams, 3.3 million in radio audience, 6,000 sold) and “When I’m Gone” (No. 15; 4.2 million streams, 2.4 million in radio reach, 4,000 sold).

Those two songs mark 3 Doors Down’s other Hot 100 top 10s, with “When I’m Gone” hitting No. 4 and “Here Without You” at No. 5, both in 2003. The former also led Mainstream Rock Airplay (17 weeks) and Pop Airplay (one week), while the latter topped Adult Pop Airplay (13) and Pop Airplay (six).

More 3 Doors Down songs appear on the rock genre-based digital song sales charts. “It’s Not My Time” (No. 7), “Be Like That” (No. 11), “Away From the Sun” (No. 13) and “Loser” (No. 14) are on Rock Digital Song Sales, while “Let Me Go” also joins the group on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (No. 6).

3 Doors Down’s The Greatest Hits, released in 2012, claims its first week at No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums, with 26,000 units (up 187%). The set also returns to the all-genre Billboard 200 at No. 23, a new high (after reaching No. 94 in 2017).

Arnold died Feb. 7 after a battle with cancer. The band’s final album, Us and the Night, was released in 2016.

Donny Osmond is facing a lawsuit from a concertgoer who says she suffered a “traumatic retinal injury” after being hit with a giant inflatable lit-up ball at his Las Vegas residency.

In a case filed last week in Nevada, Joanne Julkowski claims she needed eye surgery and suffered severe emotional distress from the 2024 incident at Harrah’s Las Vegas, in which “oversized lighted balls” were dispersed into the crowd.

“Plaintiff was suddenly and forcefully struck in the back of the head by one of the lighted balls that had been thrown or propelled into the crowd,” Julkowski’s lawyers write in the court filing, obtained by Billboard.

The lawsuit says there were “no adequate warnings, instructions, or safety measures communicated to patrons” about the use of the balls during the concert, and that the “darkened lighting” of the show made it hard for Julkowski and other guests to avoid them.

“Plaintiff sustained serious injuries, including a traumatic retinal injury to her right eye with retinal detachment requiring surgical intervention and resulting visual impairment, as well as associated head and neck injuries,” her lawyers write. “Plaintiff has suffered severe emotional distress, including psychological trauma, fear, anxiety, PTSD, and loss of enjoyment of life.”

In technical terms, the lawsuit accuses Osmond, his production company Donny Osmond Concerts and Harrah’s Las Vegas of legal negligence – meaning they had an obligation to keep her safe during the concert and failed to do so. Among other things, she says they failed to “implement reasonable safety measures” and concealed the “the known risks associated with repeatedly throwing oversized lighted inflatable balls into the seated crowd.”

The lawsuit is seeking an unspecified amount of punitive damages, as well as $15,000 for medical expenses and “pain and suffering.” Representatives for both Harrah’s and Osmond could not immediately be reached for comment.

Osmond, a former member of the 1970s family music group The Osmonds, staged an 11-year Las Vegas residency with his sister Marie Osmond at the Flamingo Las Vegas until 2019. In 2021, he kicked off his current solo stint at Harrah’s, performing nightly from Tuesday through Saturday.

The Kid Rock-MAGA connection remains strong. A week after Rock appeared in a pre-taped livestream sponsored by Christian right group Turning Point USA in an attempt to draw eyeballs from Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl LX halftime show, the “Bawitdaba” rocker was back at it on Tuesday (Feb. 17).

This time Rock, 55, appeared in a bizarre video alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 72, to promote the health secretary’s controversial Make America Health Again (MAHA) agenda. “I’ve teamed up with @KidRock to deliver two simple messages to the American people: GET ACTIVE + EAT REAL FOOD,” read the caption to the 90-second video titled “Secretary Kennedy and Kid Rock’s Rock Out Workout.”

The video cued to Rock’s 1999 hit “Bawitdaba,” opens with both men posing and flexing their muscles shirtless, with the jacked Kennedy wearing jeans and Rock sporting black shorts. A montage of a stuffed bear wearing a hat, a great white shark jumping out of the water, an American Flag, a fighter jet flyover and a bald eagle leads to a glimpse of Kennedy eating what appears to be a giant steak dinner before the camera flashes on the men holding up an American flag in front of a miniature Statue of Liberty near a pool.

What begins as a somewhat typical workout video — with Kennedy doing bicep curls, both men hitting a tricep workout and Kennedy holding Rock’s ankles for a set of sit-ups — quickly takes an unexpected turn when the health secretary strips off his shirt and hops on an exercise bike in a sauna as Rock does push-ups in the background, with the pair then switching places.

Rock flips the bird as he continues his shoeless workout on the bike before Kennedy heads to a cold plunge pool, which he hops into in his jeans. He then searches for Rock, who appears to be chilling out in a grotto-like pool area before the men hop onto a pickleball court for a friendly game. Kennedy, still in jeans, then jumps into the pool and the men share a glass of refreshing whole milk while chilling in the water.

At press time a spokesperson for Rock could not be reached for comment on the video.

Rock is the latest celebrity roped in to help Kennedy sell his MAHA agenda, coming on the heels of an equally eyebrow-raising Super Bowl commercial starring boxer Mike Tyson promoting “real food,” a spot the Huffington Post said felt like an attempt to “fat-shame America.”

Kennedy, who reflected on his decades of recovery from alcohol and substance abuse by boasting to podcaster Theo Von this week that he’s not afraid of germs because “I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats,” recently inverted the traditional food pyramid as part of the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines. In the new format, nutrient-dense whole foods such as meat and dairy and healthy fats including olive oil and avocado, fruits and vegetables were at the top, while whole grains were pushed to the bottom of the roster.

Coming off his TPUSA show, Rock made a multi-chart entrance for his version of Cody Johnson’s 2022 hit “Til’ You Can’t,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for the survey dated Feb. 21. The song also came in at No. 9 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, No. 14 on Hot Country Songs and No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rock’s version featured updated lyrics with a Christian theme, helping the rapper-turned-rocker-turned-country-singer score his first appearance on the Hot Christian Songs chart.