The second time proved to be the charm for Billy Idol at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — and he couldn’t be happier about it.

The veteran punk/New Wave icon – who turned a sneer into a signature style and notched four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including one chart-topper —  is one of eight acts to be inducted in the performers category at the Rock Hall’s annual induction ceremony, taking place Nov. 14 in Los Angeles. Idol performed as part of Ozzy Osbourne’s induction as a solo artist during the 2024 event in Cleveland and was nominated for the first time last year.

“It’s really exciting,” Idol tells Billboard via Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. He and guitarist Steve Stevens, who will be inducted alongside Idol, performed “Rebel Yell” as part of Monday (April 13) night’s American Idol episode that revealed the inductees. “I can’t believe it. It’s incredible. It’s just fantastic to think that something I was doing for the sheer love of the scene we were in back in the ‘70s, the punk rock scene. We were doing it for the love. We had no idea it was going to explode and lead to me doing this for 50 years. So it’s all really incredible and something I just couldn’t have imagined when I was starting out.”

Idol, who learned of the induction a few days before the announcement, adds that he “got quite emotional just telling Steve Stevens a few minutes ago.” And having to wait a year from his first nomination only makes getting in that much sweeter.

“Certainly being part of Ozzy’s induction…that really showed me what the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is about, really,” he explains. “It’s about other artists joining together, and you’re getting respect from your peers, which is really pretty incredible. So many of my heroes, going back to the ‘50s — Bo Diddley and Elvis (Presley) and Buddy Holly, Little Richard, even Eddie Cochran…. That’s pretty incredible that other people think you should be in something like this.

“It’s just been fantastic, being part of this musical revolution we really believed in and to be pushing the culture along. It’s been really fun, and a dream come true. And then this is just icing on the cake, just … wow, what an honor! I almost can’t put it into words. To be able to have your peers vote you in and that, it’s pretty special.”

Idol received 601,000 votes on this year’s Rock Hall fan ballot, more than twice as many as he got in 2025. “That’s the other thing,” he notes. “You get a chance to really thank your fans in person. That’s really special. They helped to put you where you are, stuck with you through thick and thin. Just to get a chance to really thank them is a fantastic moment. I’m looking forward to it, really.”

Idol hasn’t given much thought yet to what November ceremony will entail but says “we’re in a really good place to perform” there. He was on the road last year to support his 2025 album Dream Into It and will head out again in July, with U.S. dates running into late September as well as a five-night residency at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas starting Aug. 28. The documentary film Billy Idol Should Be Dead, meanwhile, is streaming on Hulu.

“We’re on a roll now,” he says, “my band and I and Steve, so I know we’re gonna bring it, bring out the whole thing — the whole attitude and everything. It’s a perfect moment for us to be inducted. We are still at the top of my game.”

In addition, Idol says he’s planning to start working on his next album in June, hoping for release in 2027 but acknowledging that “you never really know how long it’s gonna take you before you start.” Nevertheless, Idol adds that “there’s a bit of a direction we might go in. The last album was very rock ‘n’ roll; I think we’re going to put an element of dance back into this next album. But you never know where it’s going. You plan, but there’s a lot of things you just have to find out when you’re doing it and start seeing songs and see what you have.”

For the third year running, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame revealed its annual inductees on American Idol, with Ryan Seacrest and Rock Hall of Famer Lionel Richie announcing the Rock Hall’s Class of 2026 on the show’s Monday (April 13) night episode.

Of the 17 artists who were nominated for the Rock Hall this year, here’s who made the cut. In the performers category, the inductees are: innovative pop-rock hitmaker Phil Collins; New Wave punk Billy Idol; heavy metal gods Iron Maiden; post-punk-turned-dance pioneers Joy Division/New Order; Britpop icons Oasis; sophisticated R&B group Sade; smooth R&B legend Luther Vandross; and culture-shifting hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan.

But that’s not all. Queen of salsa Celia Cruz; Afrobeat architect Fela Kuti; hip-hop boundary-breaker Queen Latifah; rap pioneer MC Lyte; and country rock godfather Gram Parsons enter the Rock Hall with the early influence award. Philly soul songwriter Linda Creed (“The Greatest Love of All,” “Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)”); producer Arif Mardin (Bee Gees, Bette Midler, Norah Jones); producer/musician Jimmy Miller (Steve Winwood, The Rolling Stones, Motörhead); and producer Rick Rubin (LL COOL J, Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash) are in via the musical excellence award. Finally, Ed Sullivan—whose groundbreaking variety show The Ed Sullivan Show introduced Americans to live performances from Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Jackson 5 and more—receives the Ahmet Ertegun award.

The 2026 induction ceremony will take place Nov. 14 in Los Angeles, to be aired on ABC and Disney+ in December.

Once this year’s induction is completed, everyone from the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot will have been inducted. The last time that happened was 2015, when Lou Reed’s induction marked the ‘completion’ of the 2000 ballot.

The induction of post-punk outfit Joy Division and dance-rock pioneers New Order together marks the third time the Rock Hall has seen fit to salute two bands with overlapping members at the same time, following Parliament/Funkadelic in 1997 and The Small Faces/The Faces in 2012. (Similar-ish, the Rascals were inducted in 1997 as The (Young) Rascals.)

Eight of the marquee names in the Class of 2026 are being inducted posthumously: Luther Vandross (died in 2005), Celia Cruz (2003), Fela Kuti (1997), Gram Parsons (1973), Linda Creed (1986), Arif Mardin (2006), Jimmy Miller (1994) and Ed Sullivan (1974). Of the late inductees, Parsons died the youngest—he was only 26 years old when he died of a drug and alcohol overdose. Cruz was the eldest, making it to 77 before dying of complications related to cancer. Just last year, Creed’s frequent songwriting partner, Thom Bell, was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

So who was on the 2026 ballot who didn’t make it in this year? That would be The Black Crowes, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Melissa Etheridge, Lauryn Hill, INXS, New Edition, P!NK and Shakira. Interestingly, New Edition won the 2026 fan vote but failed to make the Class of 2026; while the fan vote contributes to the final tally, it is not the deciding factor. Fan vote runner-up Phil Collins did, however, make the grade this year.

Additional reporting by Paul Grein.

Britney Spears has voluntarily entered a treatment facility, Billboard has learned.

A representative for the pop star confirmed to Billboard on Sunday (April 12) that Spears checked herself in, but did not specify the reason.

No further details were provided by Spears’ rep at press time.

TMZ reports the singer entered rehab for substance abuse treatment.

Spears’ decision to check herself into a treatment facility comes just over a month after a DUI arrest.

Spears was arrested for suspicion of a DUI on March 4 in Ventura County, Calif. She was booked by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office and released from custody the following morning, March 5.

“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” Spears’ rep said in a statement to Billboard following the arrest. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”

Her rep added, “Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well-being.”

Though Spears hasn’t commented on the incident herself, on March 27 the star returned to Instagram with a dance clip — alongside her 19-year-old son, Jayden Federline — to show appreciation to her fans, writing: “Thank you guys for all your support… spending time with family and friends is such a blessing. Stay kind !!!”

In a more recent post on Instagram, amid more dance videos, Spears shared a stil snapshot of herself with the caption, “When peeps try to make you larger than life… tell them to BOW if I ever showed them the fragility of my real heart.”

Katseye can check off another accomplishment on their bucket list: performing at Coachella.

The K-pop girl group — currently a five-piece (Daniela, Lara, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae) while bandmate Manon is on a temporary hiatus — chatted with Billboard the day after their first time playing the iconic music festival in Indio, Calif., Friday night (April 10).

“It was electric,” Lara tells Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly of Katseye’s time on the Sahara Stage. “Our dreams came true last night. You know, every interview, if you’ve ever asked our biggest goal it was playing Coachella. We achieved that last night. so I think it’s so much gratitude.”

“It was bonkers,” she adds, as seen in video of Katseye’s full interview, seen above. “We went crazy.”

One of the headline-making moments of Katseye’s Coachella set: welcoming surprise guests HUNTR/X to their stage for a joint performance of the massive Kpop Demon Hunters hit “Golden.”

Yoonchae was quick to tell Billboard what the experience was like from their perspective: “I was so happy to bring HUNTR/X to our Coachella stage. They were really, really nice. They were so sweet. When we started to sing ‘Golden,’ we saw a lot of the crowd was screaming — they were so excited. I was so happy about that.”

“It’s really beautiful to have a joint slay on the stage at Coachella,” Sophia chimed in.

Perhaps the biggest personal moment for Katseye at Coachella was the group’s live debut of “Pinky Up,” the brand-new hyper-pop single they dropped just before performing it on the big stage. (The song is their first release without Manon.)

“We absolutely love, love, love the song,” Daniela says. “To perform it for the very first time, debut it at Coachella, was fire. I looked back at the videos and I was like, ‘Guys, we ate that.’ Especially the dance break. The crowd went wild.”

Megan adds of the track, “I think it’s one of our favorites. It’s very hard-hitting, something that makes us feel confident. I think it’s probably pretty high up there.”

BTS’ ARIRANG captures a third consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18), as the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9 (down 34%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated April 4.

The last album by a group to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which had five nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13. It spent its first three weeks on the chart at No. 1 (charts dated Oct. 13-27, 2012) and then returned to the top for two more weeks (March 2 and 9, 2013) following its win for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. Babel was also the last album by a group to spend its first three weeks at No. 1.

ARIRANG is the first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl racked up its first seven weeks atop the list (Oct. 18-Nov. 29, 2025), of its 12 total weeks at No. 1.

It’s a quiet week in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, as there are no debuts in the region. It’s the first time there are no debuts in the top 10 in three months, since the Jan. 17-dated list.

Of ARIRANG’s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 71,000 (down 34%; it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week), SEA units comprise 50,000 (down 24%, equaling 52.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it moves 3-4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 3,000 (down 65%).

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem pushes 4-2 on the Billboard 200 (80,000 equivalent album units earned, up 5%); BULLY by Ye (formerly Kanye West) falls one spot to No. 3 (69,000, down 54% in its second week); Don Toliver’s former leader OCTANE climbs 8-4 (57,000, up 7% after new physical editions of the album dropped); and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving lifts 7-5 (50,000, down 7%). Luke Combs’ The Way I Am is a non-mover at No. 6 (46,000, down 16%).

Four former No. 1s fill out the rest of the top 10, as Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS ascends 9-7 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 9%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drives 14-8 (39,000, up 1%), Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. steps 10-9 (37,000, down 22%) and Bruno Mars’ The Romantic rises 12-10 (nearly 37,000, down 7%).

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