A group of municipal and state governments involved in fostering music and entertainment in their respective localities has formed the Association of Music Offices (AMO), it was announced Monday (May 11) at the Music Biz conference in Atlanta. The newly launched national trade group, so far composed of 14 government music offices, community organizations and industry partners, will champion shared resources and best practices for local music ecosystems, according to the announcement.

Governmental founding members consist of the Dallas Music Office, the Huntsville Music Office, the Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, the New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Nighttime Economy, the North Carolina Music Office, the Oklahoma Film + Music Office, the Tennessee Entertainment Commission, the Texas Music Office and the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture. Other founding members include community-based organizations Georgia Music Partners and Music Export Memphis, and industry affiliates the Recording Academy, Pace Public Relations and Marauder, a marketing and development organization that works with music communities, the press release states.

“Every city has a music scene, but most overlook it as an economic and quality of life driver,” said Matt Mandrella, the music officer for the city of Huntsville, Ala., in a statement supplied to Billboard. “As the country’s first municipal Music Officer, I’m so excited about the team we have launching AMO and even more thrilled to see other regions follow our lead in the future. Together, we have the opportunity to significantly amplify the power of music ecosystems nationwide.” 

According to the announcement, AMO will aim to strengthen music ecosystems nationwide, while also serving “as the collective voice for music office leadership.” What’s more, the organization will share expertise and help foster “long-term economic impact and cultural vitality nationwide” and “reshape how local governments and organizations invest in and sustain their creative economies.”

“It’s exciting to see the Association of Music Offices grow from organic discussions about policy into an organization that has the potential to transform how we support music at the state and local level,” said Reid Wick, the Recording Academy’s director of regional advocacy and member engagement, in a statement.

The AMO’s initial focus, the release adds, will be to establish governance and membership structures for the organization; develop data and measurement frameworks to quantify music’s local impact; build community engagement models for diverse and inclusive music ecosystems; and create a central hub and accessible resource library for engagement toolkits, funding mechanisms, education and other programs.

The announcement ends with an appeal for music offices and allied organizations to learn more about participating in AMO’s first year at www.musicoffices.org.

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Starting during FIFA World Cup 2026, an event that she co-wrote the tournament’s official song, Shakira goes on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore) Tour throughout the United States, with nearly 20 dates starting Saturday, June 13 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA. The U.S. portion of the tour ends at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, July 25. During the fall, Shakira travels to Spain for an 11-day residency in Madrid.

Tickets to the tour first went on sale through Live Nation and Ticketmaster, while the retailer’s Face Value Exchange program is an option for fans to resell tickets.

However, many of the dates have either sold out, or are very close to selling out, so one of the best ways to find Shakira tickets online is through third-party sites, including StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, TicketNetwork, Gametime, Event Tickets Center and others. All online retailers guarantee authentic tickets in time for your concert.

In addition, Billboard likes that tickets are all delivered digitally, so you can get them sent instantly to your smartphone or email. Prices may also be above or below face value at times.

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Looking for cheap seats to see Shakira live? Here’s where to find tickets still available and on sale online.

StubHub has Shakira tickets available. StubHub ensures that all tickets are valid and authentic, but for whatever reason, if they’re not, you’ll get your money back. Additionally, if a Shakira concert is canceled and not rescheduled, you’ll receive 120% in credit, or be given the option of a full refund without the extra 20% credit. As of this writing, tickets start at $101.

One of the lowest prices we’re seeing for Shakira tickets is at SeatGeek. We’re seeing tickets starting at only $93, as of publication.

You can find Shakira tickets online at Vivid Seats, which lets you search by price, location and “Super Sellers,” which denotes reputable sellers with the best deals on tickets. You can even get 15% off your first purchase when you signup for the company’s newsletter. On Vivid Seats, tickets start as low as $88, as of this publication date.

TicketNetwork has tickets to Shakira’s concerts with all-in pricing that lets you see exactly what you’ll pay up front (fees included). Tickets start at just $102, as of this writing.

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On the new Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 16), Michael Jackson‘s Number Ones ascends seven spots to No. 6, becoming his 11th top 10 and his first new top 10 of the 2020s.

In turn, Jackson becomes only the fifth act with at least one new top 10 album in every decade from the 1970s onwards. He joins Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor as the only acts with new top 10 albums in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s.

Number Ones was first released in 2003 and jumps into the top 10 on the latest chart following the continued buzz generated by the Jackson biopic Michael. The film premiered in United States movie theaters on April 24 and had grossed more than $240 million in the U.S. and Canada through May 10, making it the top-grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody (not adjusted for inflation).

Number Ones joins Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, as it rises 7-5 — its first week in the top five since May 1984. Thriller spent 37 weeks at No. 1 in 1983-84, the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a singular artist.

Here’s a rundown of Jackson’s 11 top 10s, by decade. Jackson notched two new top 10s in the ’70s (first with Ben peaking at No. 5 in 1972 and then Off the Wall, which reached the top 10 in September 1979 and peaked at No. 3 in February 1980), two in the ‘80s (Thriller, No. 1 for 37 weeks in 1983-84 as noted above, and Bad, No. 1 for six weeks in 1987), two in the ‘90s (Dangerous, No. 1 for four weeks in 1991-92, and HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book 1, No. 1 for two weeks in 1995), two in the 2000s (Invincible, No. 1 for one week in 2001, and his first posthumous top 10, the soundtrack to Michael Jackson’s This Is It, No. 1 for one week in 2009), two in the ‘10s (Michael, No. 3 in 2011, and Xscape, No. 2 in 2014) and now one in the ‘20s with Number Ones.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 16, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on May 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

It’s a new era for aespa, and the band wants to you “feel somethin’.”

Seoul-based K-pop girl group aespa released “WDA (Whole Different Animal),” the first song from their upcoming second studio album LEMONADE, on Monday (May 11). The new track features G-DRAGON, the band leader of fellow K-pop hitmakers BIGBANG.

“WDA (Whole Different Animal)” is bass and synth-heavy dance track with clear hip-hop influences. The song features lyrics in English and Korean. G-DRAGON lends his rap skills to the song’s third verse before the track closes out with one more refrain of “She a whole different animal” and “Give me all smoke, gun powder, powder.”

Alongside the single release, aespa has also dropped a music video for the track. The visual for “WDA (Whole Different Animal)” brings viewers into a world where the line between reality and digital is blurred. In the eerie video, replicas of aespa’s four members appear and continuously multiply, distorting ideas of what is real and what is fake. Ultimately, the girl group is able to break through the chaos and reclaim their identities.

Winners of the 2025 Billboard Women in Music award for Group of the Year, aespa announced the release of its forthcoming album LEMONADE in April. The LP is the follow-up to the group’s 2024 Billboard 200 No. 8 EP Whiplash and will drop on May 29. The album release will be followed by the girl group’s fourth world tour SYNK: COMPLæXITY, which begins not long after the conclusion of its SYNK : aeXIS LINE tour last month. SYNK: COMPLæXITY will kick off on August 7 with two nights in Seoul before making its way across a few more stops in Asia, traversing across North America and concluding with shows across Europe.

Fans can pre-order aespa’s LEMONADE here and watch the music video for “WDA (Whole Different Animal)” below.