ROSÉ made her highly anticipated solo in-studio debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night (Dec. 11).

The BLACKPINK star brought her signature style and her infectious energy to the late-night stage, performing “APT.” and “Toxic Till the End” from her latest album, rosie.

With a six-piece band behind her, ROSÉ turned Fallon’s iconic studio into her own concert venue. She began an “APT./toxic till the end” medley by taking over his desk, casually singing with her feet propped up as if she owned the place.

Dressed in a sleek black crop top, pleated gray miniskirt, and bold red-and-black suspenders, ROSÉ gave the audience a taste of her unique flair while letting the music take center stage.

Her latest appearance wasn’t just another performance—it signaled a pivotal moment in her career. ROSÉ is no stranger to The Tonight Show stage—BLACKPINK delivered “How You Like That” in June 2020, and she herself shared a pre-taped performance of “On the Ground” in March 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This time around, it was live and in-person, and she certainly owned the moment. The crowd rose to their feet to sing along to the catchy chorus of “APT.” before ROSÉ seamlessly transitioned into her new track “toxic till the end”. Confetti rained down during the finale, the neon lights of the Tonight Show glowing behind her, wrapping up a set that felt as celebratory as it was transformative.

Elsewhere on Fallon, the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-raised star opened up about her childhood dream of becoming a singer, shared how Bruno Mars helped pick the name of her first solo album, and shows Jimmy Fallon how to play the “APT.” drinking game.

Reminiscing about her first audition for BLACKPINK, ROSÉ shared with Fallon, “It was around the time Jason Mraz had released a song called “I Won’t Give Up,” I had just learnt it…”

“I walked in, I honestly thought it was a joke. I was like, ‘This is funny. There’s no way I’m going to get it at all.’ But My dad and I had flown all the way from Melbourne to Sydney for the audition, so I was like, ‘Well, might as well make some memories..’”

“I did it and was like ‘bye’, then they called me, and I just remember thinking, ‘What is happening?!’”

ROSÉ is fresh off the release of her solo debut album, Rosie. The 12-track set includes hit single “APT.” with Bruno Mars — which has spent six weeks so far at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and has so far peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 — surpassing even the highest-charting hit of her globally famous K-pop girl group BLACKPINK— as well as her new track “Number One Girl.”

She also recently dropped “toxic till the end,” which she performed on Fallon, accompanied by a new Ramez Silyan-directed music video co-starring Evan Mock.

The hype around ROSÉ’s solo career is only growing. Rosie has been met with excitement for its blend of introspection and pop-forward energy, and with performances like this one, she’s proving why she’s a force to be reckoned with on her own.

“I have poured my blood and tears into this album,” she wrote on Instagram when she first announced the project back in October. “I cannot wait for you to listen to this little journal of mine. Rosie – is the name I allow my friends and family to call me. With this album, I hope you all feel that much closer to me.”

ROSÉ’s new album, Rosie, is available to stream below, and you can watch her performance on Fallon here.

Taylor Swift‘s goodbye to The Eras Tour was a short and sweet one on social media, following the show’s final performances in Vancouver over the weekend.

The “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” hitmaker uploaded a series of live concert photos — 17, to be exact, all of which appear to be from her three-day takeover of the Canadian city’s BC Place from Dec. 6-8 — on Wednesday (Dec. 11), three days after the very last Eras date. A brief message from Swift accompanied the pictures.

“It was rare. I was there. I remember it,” read the caption on Swift’s post. The words, pulled from her Red opus “All Too Well,” were crowned with a classic red heart emoji — instead of the white heart that’s often been attached to posts about her most recent release, The Tortured Poets Department album and its expanded Anthology.

Swift’s pictures show group bows and hugs, a backstage shot with her band and dancers, triumphant performance shots, those last “August” twirls, her duet with opener Gracie Abrams and more.

There were no end-of-tour hijinks on the final weekend of The Eras Tour, at least none publicly displayed on the stage for the 60,000-per-night crowd to see. The culmination of this tour celebrated a fine-tuned level of showmanship, with all three nights professionally filmed for an unannounced project. The shows featured surprise song highlights like “Never Grow Up”/”The Best Day” (her parents were in attendance), “The Tortured Poets Department”/”Maroon” (this one presumably goes out to her Tortured Poets muse), and “Long Live”/”New Year’s Day”/”The Manuscript” (a closing night mashup of post-Eras reflection).

Billboard editors were on site to review all three shows. Find our thoughts on night one (written by me), night two (written by Danielle Pascual) and night three (written by Jason Lipshutz).

See Swift’s photo collection from the last weekend of The Eras Tour on Instagram here.

Ever since The Smiths ended their five-year career in 1987, speculation has been rife as to whether the group would ever reunite.

Highly regarded as one of the finest English bands of the ’80s, and one of the most critically-acclaimed indie bands ever, The Smiths’ legacy is as enduring as their career was brief. However, desire for history to repeat has been strong, and in the ensuring decades countless reports of rumored and potential reunions have bubbled to the surface.

Famously, vocalist Morrissey said he would rather break his vow of vegetarianism and “eat [his] own testicles than reform The Smiths”, and the short-lived VH1 show Bands Reunited even tried in vain to reunite the group.

Reports of multi-million dollar offers also emerged, while guitarist Johnny Marr and bassist Andy Rourke would perform together on occasion, effectively giving fans the closest they could ever get to a fabled reunion. However, Rourke’s passing in 2023 seemed to shut the door on any prospect of such reformation ever taking the place.

In August, Morrissey posted a note claiming that AEG Entertainment made a “lucrative offer” to both Morrissey and Marr to reunite for a Smiths world tour in 2025, to which he claimed he said yes while Marr “ignored the offer.” Marr later refuted to Morrissey’s version of events; “I didn’t ignore the offer,” he explained. “I said no.”

Now a rare interview with Morrissey, the singer has addressed the recent happenings within the band, specifically touching on why he had reportedly experienced such a change of heart and expressed a desire to again perform with Marr once more.

“I agreed because it felt like the last time such a thing would be possible. We’ve all begun to grow old,” he explained. I thought the tour that was offered would be a good way of saying thank you for those who have listened for what suddenly feels like a lifetime.

“It wasn’t because I had any emotional attachment to Marr. I have absolutely none.”

The two musicians have famously been at loggerheads for years, and recent months have also seen claims from Morrissey that Marr had not only blocked another greatest-hits album from The Smiths, but that he had also acquired the rights to the band’s name. This last point was of particular note, given that Morrissey claimed Marr could therefore replace the vocalist with another singer should he desire.

“He seems to me to be just as insecure and fearful as he was during the 1980s,” Morrissey said of Marr in his recent interview. “But he gains more press adoration by pretending to be the Smiths gatekeeper and custodian in isolation, and as long as he is sitting in a corner complaining about me he has a pedestal which would disappear in the event of a reunion.

“He claims to find me completely indigestible, but whenever he walks onto a stage he sings my lyrics, my vocal melodies and my song titles,” he added. “Is this hypocrisy or self-deception? He has forced people to choose between Morrissey and Marr, and I’ve had just about enough of his bitchslap comments. I’ve quietly put up with them for over thirty years.”

Elsewhere in his conversation, Morrissey also turned his attention once more to the apparent “war on free speech” that has left him unable to release his Bonfire of Teenagers record. “To be cancelled is the modern version of lynching, isn’t it?” he asked.

“Bonfire of Teenagers is the modern version of [The Smiths’ 1986 album] The Queen is Dead, but the fact that no label will release it is an indication of how childlike and frightened the music industry has become,” he later added.

Does Jimmy Fallon have some new competition for his Tonight Show gig?

On Wednesday night’s (Dec. 11) episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, ROSÉ will make her solo in-studio performance debut, playing a mash-up of “APT.” and “Toxic Till the End,” both from her just-released Rosie album. In photos from the performance exclusive to Billboard, the BLACKPINK singer can be seen singing behind Fallon’s iconic late-night desk, with her feet comfortably kicked up.

In another exclusive photo, ROSÉ is seen bathed in purple light on the 30 Rock stage, wearing a midriff-baring black top, a pleated gray miniskirt and red-and-black striped suspenders.

Finally, in what appears to be the performance’s grand finale, multicolor confetti rains down on the pop idol, who is backed by a six-person band dressed in all black with the neon Tonight Show sign glowing above them.

One of the songs she’ll perform tonight, Rosie lead single “APT.” (a duet with Bruno Mars), has so far peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 — surpassing even the highest-charting hit of her globally famous K-pop girl group BLACKPINK.

BLACKPINK and ROSÉ previously performed on The Tonight Show, but both during the show’s at-home COVID edition when acts weren’t appearing in-person at the New York studio. BLACKPINK performed “How You Like That” in June 2020 and ROSÉ shared a pre-taped performance of “On the Ground” in March 2021.

To catch ROSÉ’s “APT.” and “Toxic Till the End” performance, tune in to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

The NFL appears to be backing Jay-Z and moving forward with their relationship amid a civil lawsuit filed earlier in December claiming that the Roc Nation CEO raped a 13-year-old girl.

During a Wednesday (Dec. 11) presser ahead of the Christmas Day games on Netflix, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the league’s association with Jay-Z and they don’t plan on changing anything in the coming months.

“We’re aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s really strong response to that,” Goodell responded. “We know that litigation is happening now. From our standpoint, our relationship’s not changing with [Roc Nation], including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.”

Jay partnered with the NFL in 2019 to have Roc Nation produce entertainment events for the league including the famed Super Bowl Halftime Show, which Kendrick Lamar is slated to headline when the big game heads to New Orleans in February 2025.

Over the weekend, Jay-Z was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty alongside Diddy. The shocking civil case was filed by an anonymous accuser and Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, whom Jay called a “deplorable human.”

The Brooklyn rap mogul didn’t waste much time defiantly denying all of the allegations against him in a statement attacking Buzbee.

“You have made a terrible error in judgement thinking that all ‘celebrities’ are the same,” Jay-Z said. “I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the projects of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honor. We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists … will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look forward to showing you just how different I am.”

Jay-Z continued: “My only heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn yet another loss of innocence.”

Watch Roger Goodell’s full response below.

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