Chappell Roan’s visit to Alex Cooper’s popular Call Her Daddy podcast, for an episode titled “Chappell Roan: Are People Scared of Me?,” tied for outstanding podcast episode at the 2026 GLAAD Media Awards with an episode of the I’ve Had It podcast titled “Straight Panic, Gay Excellence.”

The awards, hosted by Jonathan Bennett, were held in Los Angeles on Thursday (March 5).

Both music awards went to young women artists. Young Miko won outstanding music artist, beating such household names as Lady Gaga and Elton John & Brandi Carlile, while KATSEYE won outstanding breakthrough music artist. Young Miko had a Grammy nod at the 2025 ceremony for best música urbana album for her debut album, att. Her sophomore album, Do Not Disturb, is expected to be nominated later this year. KATSEYE had two nods at the Grammy ceremony on Feb. 1 – best new artist and best pop duo/group performance for “Gabriela,” which became the sextet’s first top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. KATSEYE is often dubbed a “global girl group.”

Quinta Brunson, actor, producer, writer, and showrunner of Abbott Elementary, received the Vanguard Award, introduced by Scott Evans. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, co-hosts of the podcast Las Culturistas, received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, introduced by Demi Lovato. Lovato also opened the show with a performance of her 2025 single “Kiss.” Sony Music Group artist Eli also performed “Glitter.”

The 37th GLAAD Media Awards will stream exclusively on Hulu beginning Saturday, March 21.

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In other categories, the steamy Heated Rivalry won outstanding new TV series. Connor Storrie, François Arnaud, Robbie G.K. and other Heated Rivalry cast members accepted the award, alongside Jacob Tierney, the show’s creator, writer and director.

Stranger Things won outstanding drama series and Palm Royale won outstanding comedy series. Stranger Things has received four Primetime Emmy nods for outstanding drama series. Palm Royale has received one for outstanding comedy series.

The Traitors took outstanding reality competition program at the GLAAD Media Awards. It has won in that same category at the Primetime Emmys the last two years running. The series’ star, Alan Cumming, was also cited here for outstanding variety or talk show episode as a guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the episode “Guest Host Alan Cumming on Attacks Against the Trans Community & Bringing Kindness Back in America.”

Trans rights were a recurring topic among the winners, signaling that this is a growing area of focus in the fight for LGBTQ acceptance. “Community During Fascism: Actress Laverne Cox on the Importance of WorldPride in Trump’s D.C.” won outstanding TV journalism segment.  “A Transgender Marine Speaks Out” won outstanding TV journalism – long form. “As the First Out Trans Person in Congress, Sarah McBride is Ready to Fight for Us” won outstanding online or print journalism article. “A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.” won outstanding online journalism – video or multimedia. (More details on these and other winners in the list below.)

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Come See Me in the Good Light won outstanding documentary. It is nominated for best documentary feature film at the Oscars on March 15. Liberation by Bess Wohl won outstanding Broadway production. It is eligible for best play at this year’s Tonys. Nominations will be announced on May 5.

Kiss of the Spider Woman won outstanding film — wide theatrical release, a show of support from the LGBTQ community to the Jennifer Lopez-starring movie musical that fell short of commercial and awards expectations.

People won the award for outstanding magazine overall coverage, beating two entertainment trades, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, as well as such other publications as TIME and Rolling Stone.

Casts of The Traitors, Palm Royale (Kristen Wiig), Stranger Things, Southern Hospitality and MS NOW’s The Weekend (Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels) were also on hand to accept awards, as were hosts of podcasts I’ve Had It (Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan) and Handsome.

Guests also included Amber Glenn, Ariana Madix, Camila Mendes, Cara Delevingne, Chris Appleton, Colton Underwood, Dana Goldberg, David Archuleta, Don Lemon, Frankie Grande, Karolina Wydra, Lauren Chan, Laverne Cox, Lili Reinhart, Miles Heizer, Mindy Cohn, Monet X Change, Peppermint, Rhea Seehorn, Rob Mac, Scott Evans, Stephanie Beatriz, Tig Notaro, Tom Daley, Tonatiuh, V Spehar and Zeke Smith.

GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis served as executive producer of the 37th GLAAD Media Awards, alongside GLAAD’s Rich Ferraro and Anthony Allen Ramos. GLAAD’s Jose Useche was a producer. The ceremony was produced in partnership with STAMP Event Co.

Here’s a complete list of nominees for the 37th annual GLAAD Media Awards, with winners marked.

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. 

This week, Harry Styles returns with his hotly-anticipated fourth solo album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. Plus: Yebba releases her stunning second album, Jean; Ayra Starr releases a much-teased new single; and aespa reveal their theme song for an upcoming anime series. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Harry Styles, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

The long-awaited release of Harry Styles’ new album is indeed cause to celebrate — and, if there was ever a time to occasionally disco, this is surely it. Kiss All The Time delivers plenty of dancefloor-ready tracks and even more introspective lyrics, which together offer a glimpse into Styles’ life of late, proving that sometimes a dim-lit nightclub is the perfect place to have a bright idea. Kiss All The Time was executive produced by Styles’ longtime collaborator, Kid Harpoon.

For more on Kiss All The Time, be sure to check out Billboard‘s tracks ranked and critic’s take.

Yebba, Jean

Just two weeks ago, celebrated singer-songwriter Yebba announced that her second album, Jean, would arrive on March 6. The reveal came with lead single (and album standout “Yellow Eyes”). The album follows Yebba’s 2021 debut, Dawn, which was largely inspired by the loss of her mother and earned a Grammy Award nomination for best traditional R&B performance. And while Jean is expectedly gorgeous, there’s a softer beauty about it — a quiet calm that can only accompany years of healing and acceptance. As a press release for the album states: “Releasing this album required surrender. And surrender requires a kind of letting go. In this case, letting go of expectation, of the idea that grief resolves neatly, and of the fear of oversharing.”

Ayra Starr, “Where Do We Go”

In February, Ayra Starr started teasing new music on the way — and today, the first taste arrived. “Where Do We Go” kicks off with a haunting piano melody that lasts just a few seconds before a sticky, booming beat picks up along with Starr’s assured vocals. And despite repeatedly questioning “where do we go from here?” by the sound of it, Ayra is good either way.

aespa, “Attitude”

After collaborating with Anderson. Paak in February on “Keychain,” a single inspired by his directorial debut, K-POPS!, girl group aespa is continuing to explore the intersection of music with TV and film. The punchy “Attitude” arrives as the opening song for anime series Kill Blue (which airs in April on TV Tokyo) and not only previews the fierce tone of the show, but perhaps also hints at even more on the way from aespa.

The Warning, “Kerosene”

Fast-rising Mexican rock band the Warning has started the year strong, releasing its collaboration with Carin León in February (“Love To Be Loved”) and now sharing its incendiary new single “Kerosene.” The hard-hitting track could mean the band’s fifth album is on the way — its last full-length, Keep Me Fed, arrived in 2024 — but until then, the Warning are booked and busy with major festivals booked across Latin America and an opening slot on Yungblud’s global trek. A press release for the new single explains: “The band is poised for a massive 2026.”

For his next trick, Dom Dolla updates a bonafide banger from his youth — Puretone’s “Addicted to Bass.”

The Australian EDM star drops “Addicted To Bass (Dom Dolla Relapse),” a remix of another classic Aussie track that marks his first release this year.

“This record was quite literally the soundtrack to my childhood,” Dom (real name: Dominic Matheson explains in a statement). Originally released in 1998, “it followed me everywhere as a kid. Despite how immersive it was for me, spending a lot of time overseas as an adult, I was surprised how few of my friends were familiar with it. Fast forward to preparing for my first ever stadium show in 2025. I was toying around with a bunch of remix and edit ideas, going through old playlist of records I loved and I just couldn’t move past it. Almost 30 years have gone by and I truly hope this new version finds an audience who connect with it in a fraction of the way that I did as a kid. The addiction is real.”

“Addicted to Bass” followed Brits, too.  Originally recorded by Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion (as Puretone), “Addicted to Bass” caught a second wind in 2002, when it went all the way to No. 2 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, edged out by the late Aaliyah’s “More Than A Woman.” Were it not for a leak at retail, which saw “Addicted to Bass” open at No. 68 the previous week, the single wouldn’t been crowned champion.

Dom got the green light from Daemion and Abrahams, who reckons the new mix “finds the deeper, steamier layers in the song. While staying true to the original, particularly in the chorus, Dom has brought his own dirty funk groove to the party. I f****** love it!”

The fresh cut got its first airing last December, when Dom made history with his show at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium. That set, which is now streaming on YouTube, capped a massive year during which Dom was nominated for a Grammy Award; won a slew of ARIA Awards, including the inaugural ARIA Global Impact Award; sold out two nights at Madison Square Garden and ticked off a bucket list item when he released “No Room For A Saint,” the soundtrack for F1: The Movie.

It’s full steam ahead for Dom, whose itinerary this year includes major festival and headline shows across Asia, Latin and North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, a 13-week residency at Hï Ibiza, and an extension of his residency at LIV Las Vegas.

Stream Puretone’s “Addicted To Bass (Dom Dolla Relapse)” via TMRW Music.

Jennifer Lopez and David Guetta have finally released their “Save Me Tonight” collaboration, a song the pop star has played before on stage but hasn’t officially dropped until now.

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Hitting streaming services on Friday (March 6), the dance track arrives on the same day J Lo kicks off her latest Las Vegas residency. It marks Lopez’s first release since the Kiss of the Spider Woman soundtrack dropped last year, which followed 2024’s This Is Me … Now. The latter debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard 200.

The singer has spent the past week or so getting listeners hyped up for “Save Me Tonight,” posting videos of herself dancing to the track with her “crew” on Instagram. She’s also been preparing fans for her JLo Show residency at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, which lasts until March 28.

Guetta has been active throughout the beginning of 2026. In addition to his team-up with Lopez, the DJ has shared collaborations with Hypaton, Jaden Bojsen, Teddy Swims, Trippie Red and more artists in recent months. In November, he produced a remix of RAYE’s Billboard Hot 100 hit “Where Is My Husband!” Before that, he produced a remix of HUNTR/X’s Oscar-nominated KPop Demon Hunters hit “Golden.”

Despite his busy slate of releases, Guetta recently revealed that he’s also had some big changes in his personal life. Just a week prior to the release of “Save Me Tonight,” the EDM titan revealed that he’d welcomed his fourth child, writing on Instagram that baby Skyler is the “most beautiful secret” he’s ever kept.

Listen to Lopez and Guetta’s “Save Me Tonight” below.


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It’s been a while. Eighteen years, give or take a few months. With the release today of Atlanta (via 10k/Atlantic Records), Gnarls Barkley makes a long-overdue, but brief, return.

The multi-Grammy Award-winning duo of CeeLo Green, the soulful vocalist, and Danger Mouse, the top-shelf producer, unleashes Atlanta, their third studio album and the followup to 2008’s The Odd Couple.

Produced by Danger Mouse and co-written with CeeLo, Atlanta marks a new beginning, and an end. It’s said to be Gnarls Barkley’s final album.

Atlanta features the previously-released single “Pictures,” one of 13 album tracks. It’s a collection that’s near-impossible to pigeonhole, a feast of gospel mashed with smart-as-a-whip R&B production, with hints of pop, hip-hop and timeless vibes.

Gnarls Barkley had a big time debut with 2006’s St. Elsewhere, which housed the era-defining smash “Crazy,” a tune that went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and logged nine weeks atop the official U.K. Singles Chart. St. Elsewhere peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.

Next up, The Odd Couple which peaked at No. 12 on the all-genres U.S. albums tally, and gave the duo another appearance on the national singles chart with “Going On,” which went to No. 88.

According to a release announcing the return, the Atlanta natives had always intended to record a third album, but “life and other creative pursuits intervened,” before they reconnected last year and set aside some time to record this final chapter in their story.

The long break between albums wasn’t wasted. Green released four solo albums, including the 2010 title The Lady Killer which featured the hit single “Forget You” (also known by the uncensored version “F*** You), and two LPs with his hip-hop crew Goodie Mob and appeared as a judge on The Voice.

At the same time, Danger Mouse (born Brian Joseph Burton) worked on albums by Beck, Sparklehorse, U2, the Black Keys, Norah Jones, Portugal. The Man, A$AP Rocky and many others while releasing three albums as Broken Bells with the Shins’ James Mercer.

“Life is a movie. Thoughts are theater, emotions are entertainment, and songs are cinema,” remarks Green on the latest, and last, Gnarls Barkley album. “Gnarls is the narrator… a noun even a person, place, and thing with main character energy to match. Welcome to Atlanta. Smile for the pictures.”

Stream Atlanta below.

Harry Styles‘ fans and new album belong together — and now, they finally are. On Friday (March 6), the long-awaited Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally finally dropped, allowing the pop star’s listeners onto the dance floor at last.

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Preceded by Billboard Hot 100-topping lead single “Aperture,” the 12-track project catches fans up to speed on Styles’ mindset and growth over the past four years, with the star last dropping a full-length in 2022. That year’s Harry’s House debuted atop the Billboard 200, marking his third straight No. 1 on the chart since debuting as a soloist in 2017.

As Billboard‘s co-editor-in-chief Jason Lipshutz writes of the new LP, “Styles spends the first album he’s released in his 30s yearning for connection,” singing “about the one-night stands that spilled over, the ones that got away (and then circled back into his orbit) and the one kind of undying love that’s thus far eluded him.”

Included on the album are tracks “American Girls,” “Ready, Steady, Go!,” “Are You Listening Yet?,” “Taste Back,” “The Waiting Game,” “Season 2 Weight Loss,” “Coming p Roses,” “Pop,” “Dance No More,” “Paint by Numbers” and “Carla’s Song.” Collectively, they take the Grammy winner in a new sonic direction grounded by dance music, which he’ll take in full to the stage for the very first time on Friday night, performing a release show at the Co-op Live. That performance will be captured by Netflix cameras to stream as a concert special two days later, allowing all fans to take part in the concert.

Following the release of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Styles is planning to embark on a sprawling world tour made up of seven mini-residencies in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo, Mexico City, New York City, Melbourne and Sydney. The trek will include 30 nights at Madison Square Garden and a record 12 in Wembley Stadium.

Listen to Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally below.


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Guns N’ Roses’ one-off concert in Australia has expanded into a full-blown stadium tour.

The rock heavyweights will bring their World Tour 2026 to Australia and New Zealand later this year for a run of open-air shows, kicking off with the previously-announced headline date Nov. 29 at the bp Adelaide Grand Final.

Then, Axl Rose and Co. head north to Townsville’s Queensland Country Bank Stadium (Dec. 2), Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium (Dec. 5), Newcastle’s McDonald Jones Stadium (Dec. 8), Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (Dec. 11) and Sydney’s Engie Stadium (Dec. 14), before travelling east to New Zealand for the final date on Dec. 17 at Auckland’s Eden Park Stadium, for what should be Kiwi fans’ ultimate early Christmas present.

Aussie rockers Airbourne are special guests on the forthcoming Australasian tour, produced by Live Nation.

The Rock Hall-inducted band will head down precisely four years after their last tour of these parts, back in November and December 2022 for the Australasian leg of their We’re F’N’ Back! stadium trek.

With the new leg, announced Friday, March 6, the rockers expand on a world tour that got underway in 2025 and visited Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, and follows the release in December of two new songs, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” their first new music since 2023’s one-off singles “The General” and “Perhaps.”

In a recent interview with Sylvia Alvarado of Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, guitarist Slash said it was “good to have a couple of songs that we’re promoting and then a tour that’s really a long tour.”

Slash also promised that the outfit would play new and old songs on their upcoming 2026 world tour, which is slated to start March 28 at Monterrey, Mexico’s Tecate Pa’l Norte festival, and includes dates in Europe and North America (summer) and Latin America (spring).

Tickets for the GN’R shows in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney go on sale next Friday, March 13 at 1pm local, with Melbourne and Auckland on sale at 12pm local.

Visit gunsnroses.com, livenation.com.au, livenation.co.nz and adelaidegrandfinal.com.au for more on the ANZ shows.

Guns N’ Roses The World Tour 2026 Australia And New Zealand
Sunday, Nov. 29 — bp Adelaide Grand Final, Adelaide
Wednesday, Dec. 2 — Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville
Saturday, Dec. 5 — Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Tuesday, Dec. 8 –McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle
Friday, Dec. 11– Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
Monday, Dec. 14 — Engie Stadium, Sydney
Thursday, Dec. 17 — Eden Park Stadium, Auckland

Looks like we’ll have to wait until Saturday to find out just how Gorillaz are feeling about making their Saturday Night Live debut this weekend.

In promos for the new episode starring Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett from Gorillaz alongside host Ryan Gosling, SNL castmember Ashley Padilla marvels at the fact that the cartoon rock band has never graced the stage before.

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“Gorillaz! You’re one of the best bands ever, and you’ve never been the musical guest?” Padilla asks in disbelief. “How are you feeling?”

In response, Albarn and Hewlett wordlessly paint big smiles on their faces, crouch down and start wiggling their fingers.

“What are they doing?” Padilla asks Gosling. “It’s a secret,” he whispers back, to which Padilla pouts, “No one tells me anything!”

Elsewhere in the video, Padilla admits to watching scenes from The Notebook on her phone during Gosling’s new movie Project Hail Mary and also confesses to placing illegal bets on what she’ll say and do in the promos.

Watch the promos below:

For their debut as musical guest, Gorillaz are promoting their just-released ninth album The Mountain. They’ve also just announced a tour around the project — their first North American trek in four years — which kicks off Sept. 17 in Orlando, Florida, and wraps on Halloween in Seattle.

Gosling returns to SNL for his fourth time hosting — not his fifth time, like he mistakenly believes in a previously released promo for the new episode — to promote his new film Project Hail Mary, a sci-fi film based on the 2021 novel of the same name.

Saturday Night Live airs at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. (See all the options to watch SNL here.)

More than three dozen individuals from across the music industry are scheduled to speak at the third annual Music Sustainability Summit happening in Los Angeles on April 14.

Announced Thursday (March 5), the speaker roster includes Lindsay Arell of Legends Global, Maggie Baird of Support+Feed, Zoe Berman of Sound Future, Kelly Brennan-Kleyn of KBK Management, Jamal Chalabi of Backlash Productions, Mary Conde of Another Planet, Erik Distler of AEG, Kristen Fulmer of Oak View Group, Adam Gardner of Reverb and Guster, Lara Seaver of Reverb, Cheryl Liguori of Z2 Entertainment, Lesley Olenik of Live Nation, Scott Paul of Taylor Guitars, Stuart Ross of The Conference Live At Lititz, Carol Scott of TAIT and Neel Vasavada of Overdrive Energy Solutions.

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These speakers will participate in a flurry of conversations centered around merch, fan travel, fan engagement, sustainability in small and midsize venues, foodservice, and more, as the 2026 Summit focuses on addressing the industry’s most crucial environmental impacts.

Presented by the Music Sustainability Alliance, the day-long Music Sustainability Summit will be held at Solotech Studios in Hollywood. Passes are $382 through March 31 and available here.

“This year’s summit program focuses on turning ideas into impactful, practical, and scalable
solutions,” the Alliance’s CEO and co-founder, Amy Morrison, says in a statement. “We designed a series of workshops, panels, and mainstage presentations to bring together artists, venues, crews, vendors, labels, promoters, managers, platforms and others to move the industry forward.”

2026 Summit partners include AEG, AEG Presents, AXS, Back of House, Green Disco, PRG, Solotech and Warner Music Group.


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Bad Gyal stepped out of her comfort zone and experimented with new sounds and collaborators for her sophomore album, Más Cara. Released on Thursday (March 5) under Interscope Records, the 19-track set blends the Latin urban sounds that defined her beginnings with other international rhythms, showcasing a creative evolution without straying too far from her essence.

“There are several genres I hadn’t explored, such as merengue, guaracha and kompa, but the genres that define me and that I’ve always loved are still there,” the Spanish star tells Billboard Español. “There’s still reggaetón, there’s still dancehall, obviously all blended from my perspective as a girl from Barcelona, because I always clarify that I’m not Puerto Rican or Jamaican, so it’s not the original sound. But I am a huge fan and deeply inspired by all Caribbean music culture, and you can feel that.”

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“This has been very different from my previous album,” adds the artist, referencing La Joia from 2024. “I had always been an artist who worked solo with the producer during sessions, creating a little here, a little there, and then choosing what I liked best. This time, Nir [Seroussi from Interscope] proposed building a solid team, and from the very first session, both with the producers and writers, there was a vibe. It was a much more collaborative process of creating beats from scratch, bringing ideas to the studio… and the result was incredible.”

Co-written entirely by Bad Gyal with executive production by Cromo X, Más Cara (Spanish for “more expensive”) opens with the title track, encapsulating a special moment in her life and career where she enjoys more resources and tools to create her magic. “I feel much more elevated,” she reveals. The set includes collaborations such as “La Iniciativa” with J Álvarez, “Choque” with Chencho Corleone, and “Muñeca” with De La Rose, among others, and arrives with the music video for “Un Coro y Ya :)”, featuring an early 2000s R&B aesthetic that captures her confident and flirtatious energy.

Below, Bad Gyal breaks down five essential tracks from her new album, Más Cara. To listen to the full set, click here.