Kevin Weaver has been promoted to president of Atlantic Music Group (AMG), rising from president of Atlantic Records, West Coast.

Weaver, who has been part of the executive leadership team formed in 2024, will continue to report to AMG CEO Elliott Grainge and will oversee opportunities spanning across soundtracks, strategic partnerships and gaming initiatives, as well as helm sync licensing and brand alignments for Atlantic Records, 300 Entertainment and 10K projects.

Under Weaver’s tenure, Atlantic has curated and released some of the most culturally relevant and successful soundtracks of the last several years, including Barbie The Album, Twisters The Album, The Greatest Showman, Suicide Squad The Album, F7 and, most recently, F1: The Album.

“Kevin has spearheaded a remarkable series of era-defining projects, creating powerful opportunities for Atlantic’s artists while helping make the label the go-to partner for creators and brands looking to make an impact,” Grainge said in a statement. “With him now stepping into this central role, all of Atlantic Music Group will benefit from his unrivaled expertise, relationships, and passion. Zach [Friedman], Tony [Talamo], and I are proud to appoint him to this well-deserved new post.”

Weaver joined Atlantic Records in 1994 and has held a number of positions including executive vp, president of film & television, and, most recently, president, west coast since 2017, as he helped expand the label’s bicoastal footprint.

He has received two Grammy Awards as album producer in the best compilation soundtrack for visual media for Boardwalk Empire and Barbie The Album. He’s worked on a number of other Grammy-nominated albums, including for Daisy Jones & The Six, True Blood, Vinyl and Girls.

“Atlantic has been my home for three decades, and the opportunity to continue helping define the legacy of this extraordinary company and its artists is incredibly meaningful to me,” Weaver said in a statement. “I’m deeply grateful to Elliot, Zach and Tony for their trust and support, and I’m excited to continue helping shape the future of AMG alongside such a committed and talented group of leaders. We have a truly unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to keep pushing boundaries and creating new opportunities for our artists, and I couldn’t be more excited about the future of AMG.”

Harry Styles has just shared his new single “Aperture,” with the world. But if you happen to be lucky enough to be in the singer’s inner circle, you’ve been blissing out to the LCD Soundsystem-inspired slow-burn banger for months.

In a sit-down with John Mayer on his SiriusXM channel Life with John Mayer on Friday morning (Jan. 23), Styles described the process of audience-testing his upcoming fourth solo album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, and why this time he wasn’t shy about soliciting opinions during the process.

“I had a lot of people over and have been playing it and we’ve had like people in the studio and playing it. I think every other record that I’ve made, I’ve always felt really guarded about who’s hearing it and it’s always felt, you know, no one hears it until it’s finished and stuff like that,” said Styles of the LP that is due out on March 6.

“And I think realizing that that made the music feel like a product, is something that I wanted to reverse,” he added. “So to me, this album was much more open in the process of like, I was playing demos to friends and I’d be with friends and put it on and be like, ‘What do you think of this?’ And it just became really obvious that it was music that was meant to be played loud. That is when it feels its best. And then, you know, in total contrast to that, I love like sitting with it in headphones and like having my own experience with it as well. So, I hope that people will kind of road test it in a couple different ways and see how their album experience kind of shifts.”

Styles also revealed that he finished the album at the end of last summer, with the five-minute “Aperture” coming in under the wire and serving as what he described in another interview as a “perfect little bow” on the project.

“There was a couple songs floating around that we thought about kind of going with first and I think ‘Aperture’… it’s track one on the album,” Styles said of his latest team-up with longtime co-producer Kid Harpoon. “It was the last song that was made for the record. It was kind of when we were at our most free… and was just like, this is the first song that I play to people when I’ve showed them what the new music sounds like.”

The singer said all that taste testing made him realize that it was the “obvious” choice to be the first single to represent where he is at this point in his life. “I think, a lot of the time you make a song and by the time it’s finished, and by the time you’re putting it out, you’ve kind of like moved on emotionally slightly from what you’re putting on,” said Styles, 31 of leading with the song that still matches where his head is at right now. “And that just makes some natural disconnection.”

But perhaps most crucially, when Mayer asked Styles if he would like to see the album title’s unusual punctuation used exactly as intended, or if he’d get miffed if people ignore his grammatical rule-bending, Harry said, well, yes. “It’s a very important comma,” Styles said of the pause after “Disco” and just before “Occasionally.”

“Very important comma. I think it’s like… the comma is correct.”

The full 16-minute interview will air on a number of SiriusXM channels today (Jan. 23), including Life with John Mayer (11 a.m. ET, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.), SiriusXM Hits 1 (8 a.m. ET, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.), The 10s Spot (3 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.) and The Pulse (1 p.m. ET, 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.).

Styles has also announced the dates for his upcoming Together, Together 17-city residency tour, which will find him playing 50 shows in seven cities, kicking off on May 17 with the first of six shows at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena, before heading to London’s Wembley Stadium for six nights. He’ll head into July with two stops in São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City before launching a 30-night run at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The tour is currently slated to wrap up with two-night stops Melbourne and Sydney, Australia in late November and early December, respectively.

Watch Styles talk about his new album with Mayer below.

Harry Styles is officially back. On Thursday (Jan. 23) the British pop star announced his Together, Together global residency tour, and shared new single “Aperture,” the first to be taken from his upcoming album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

On Friday morning, Jan. 23, he followed the reveal with his first interview of the new era on BBC Radio 1’s breakfast show with Greg James. During the 10-minute conversation, Styles discussed the inspiration behind the new song, the album’s playful title and how ended up amongst the crowds in Rome to see the reveal of Pope Leo XIV back in May.

Speaking to James, Styles said that “Aperture,” a five-minute electronic-inspired banger, was influenced by his time away from performing. He said the song, produced with longtime collaborator Kid Harpoon, was the last track completed for the LP, due for release on March 6. 

“It was amazing for me. We had most of the album done and a lot of it was exploring the themes that the song is exploring. Getting this song at the end of the process when we were feeling the freest and having a lot of fun… and it felt like the mission statement of what the album was about.”

“I’d had a couple years away from work stuff and a lot of big realizations about generally opening up more to the world and allowing some more positive things to come into my life. It was the culmination of all that was happening around me making this record. [“Aperture”] was like a perfect little bow, and once this song happened it was like ‘oh, the record’s finished.’”

He added that the song was influenced by “classic pop songwriting” but picked out LCD Soundsystem and English post-punk band The Durutti Column as additional inspirations for the sonic departure.

“I saw [LCD Soundsystem] at a festival in Madrid, then saw them again at Brixton [Academy, London]. It was so joyous watching them be immersed in it. The inspiration from watching [LCD Soundsystem] and realizing ‘that’s how I want to feel when I’m on stage,’ and it matched the music I was making.”

Styles last performed live in 2023 in Bologna, Italy after 169 dates on the Love On Tour run. Returning to being an audience member and “getting out into the world” is what inspired him during the recording process.

“The most important thing was about getting on the other side of the audience experience. Having so many years being on stage, the last couple years allowed me to be a real audience member and be in the crowd and have a reminder of ‘oh this is why this is special to people and this is why this feels so good.’”

When asked by James if going incognito at concerts was easy, Styles replied: “Yeah, when it’s dark enough and music is loud enough it’s quite easy actually.”

James then questioned Styles on the LP’s title – Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally – and the semantic implications. “You could say it’s like ‘drink water all the time. But you’re gonna have to pee occasionally,” Styles said. “You can have a break from kissing, but you could also drink water while you’re peeing. It’s kind of optional. The idea is that you can take a break from kissing to disco.”

Since the conclusion of his tour in 2023, Styles has been spotted by fans on a number of “side quests,” such as attending Glastonbury Festival, attempting to help a fan parallel park their Fiat 500, (“The space was too small. It wasn’t going in there”) and popping up in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City when Pope Leo XIV – the first pope to be born in North America – was revealed to the world in May 2025.

“I was getting a haircut in Rome and then I heard all these people start shouting ‘Habemus Papam!’ [‘We have a pope’] and people running down the street. The guy who was cutting my hair was like ‘Habemus Papam!,’ but then he finished up and then I was like ‘oh I’m like 5 minutes walk from there’ so I just walked over there. It was wild.’

Styles’ Together, Together tour kicks off on May 17 at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena, before heading to London’s Wembley Stadium for six nights. Further stops will take him to São Paulo and Mexico City before a 30-night stint at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. The tour concludes with shows in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia on Dec. 13.

Yungblud’s recent tour of Australia has produced the sweetest of halo effects, as his album Idols blasts to No. 1.

On the latest ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Jan. 23, Idols lifts 12-1, for its first stint at the top of the leaderboard. Idols had previously peaked at No. 4, following its released in June 2025. With its big push, Idols becomes Yungblud’s second leader in these parts, after his self-titled third album spent one week at No. 1 in 2022.

Yungblud’s six-date trek, the domestic leg of his IDOLS World Tour, wrapped up Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Perth’s ICF: Outdoor, with Dune Rats supporting on all shows.

The highest debut on the latest frame belongs to Madison Beer, the American singer-songwriter whose third album Locket snags a podium entry, just behind Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving, down 1-2. Beer’s Locket is new at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart, and it’s the best seller this week on wax. Previously, Beer made a splash on the chart with 2021’s Life Support, which peaked at No. 36.

Also new to the top 10 is A$AP Rocky, whose Don’t Be Dumb bows at No. 5. It’s the U.S. wrapper’s fourth appearance in the top tier, after 2013’s Long Live A$AP (peaking at No. 7), 2015’s At Long Last A$AP (No. 5) and 2018’s Testing (No. 5).

South Korean boy band Enhypen drop in at No. 15 with their EP, The Sin: Vanish, for their first appearance on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart. Enhypen will get a chance to thank their Australian fans on March 14 when they headline the very first Hello, Melbourne (안녕, MELBOURNE), presented at Flemington Racecourse.

Robbie Williams’ surprise release, Britpop, has a surprise soft entry on the chart. It’s new at No. 22. Robbie has collected 16 top 20 appearances on the ARIA Chart, including No. 1s with his Greatest Hits (nine weeks in 2004-05), Intensive Care (one week in 2005), Rudebox (one week in 2006), Reality Killed The Video Star (one week in 2009) and The Christmas Present (one week in 2019).

Meanwhile, new releases from U.S. singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine (Older at No. 25), English post-punk duo Sleaford Mods (The Demise of Planet X at No. 36), and homegrown punk rockers DZ Deathrays (Easing Out Of Control at No. 45) all make an appearance for the first time.

Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” retains the crown for the 10th consecutive week. It’s the longest reigning single by a solo English female artist since Sandi Thom’s “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)” also led for 10 weeks in 2006, ARIA reports.

Further down the list, Bruno Mars bags his 19th top 10 single as “I Just Might improves 11-10.

The best-placed new entry is PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson’s collaboration “Stateside,” new at No. 20, while Zach Bryan lights up a top 50 spot with “Plastic Cigarette,” new at No. 43. The latest tally is notable for featuring no Australian recordings.  

Dom Dolla will set sail to the United Kingdom this summer, where he will headline a concert series at Old Royal Naval College.

The Australian EDM superstar is headliner for this year’s Labyrinth on the Thames, marking his first-ever outdoor headline show in the United Kingdom.

For this special occasion, Dom (real name: Dominic Matheson) will take over the Old Royal Naval College, a 17^th century UNESCO world heritage site on the River Thames, the architectural heart of Greenwich. And he’ll curate the line-up, which is presented over the first three weekends of August, from afternoon until deep into the evening.

Dom will take the wheels of steel on Aug. 1 with his own “elevated, world-class production,” reads a statement from independent producers Labyrinth Events.

The “Rhyme Dust” artist is no stranger to the big occasion. Last year, he played two-sellouts at Madison Square Garden, and made history in his homeland with a Dec. 20 concert at Allianz Stadium in Sydney.

Other dates have included London’s Alexandra Palace, spots at Creamfields, Reading & Leeds, Parklife, Kappa Futur, Dour Festival, and he has locked up another summer residency at Hï Ibiza, snagging the prestigious Friday nights.

“There’s no slowing down” in 2026, he told Billboard on the eve of his Allianz Stadium show, a sprint that includes first-ever tours in Asia and Latin America.

Dom has been “writing a ton of new music lately,” he continued, some of which he played in Sydney, “so I can’t wait to start sharing more of that with everyone soon.”

At the 2025 ARIA Awards, Dom was on hand to collect a brace of trophies, including the inaugural global impact honor, and his third consecutive win for best dance release (with “Dreamin’”).

Labyrinth on the Thames is said to be a “celebration of London’s cultural legacy, reshaped through pioneering sound and spectacle.” For more on the summer series, click here and here.