It’s almost time to officially enter Ariana Grande’s Petal era.

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On Wednesday (May 27), the pop sensation shared an eerie new teaser for the official music video for her forthcoming new single, “Hate That I Made You Love Me.” The clip opens with Weapons actor Justin Long driving a car and peering into the rearview mirror. As the trap-adjacent beat builds, Long adjusts the mirror to reveal Grande’s piercing brown eyes staring back at his frightened face.

The snippet closes with the title of the Grande’s single splashed across the screen in a yellow font reminiscent of various posters of 1986’s The Hitcher, which was remade in 2007. Grande also tagged her frequent collaborator, Christian Breslauer, who helmed her MTV Video Music Award-winning Bright Days Ahead short film in 2025.

Justin Long’s appearance continues a yearslong tradition of Grande casting famed actors as her music video co-stars. Jonathan Bennett guest-starred in 2019’s “Thank U, Next,” Charles Melton surprised fans in 2020’s “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” Penn Badgley starred in 2024’s “The Boy Is Mine” and Evan Peters appeared in “We Can’t Be Friends” from the same year.

“Hate That I Made You Love Me” serves as the lead single from the Grammy winner’s forthcoming eighth studio album, Petal. Executive produced by Grande and ILYA, Petal marks Grande’s first studio album since her Oscar-nominated performance as G(a)linda the Good Witch in 2024’s Wicked and 2025’s Wicked: For Good.

Her last LP, Eternal Sunshine, debuted atop the Billboard 200 in 2024 and spawned a pair of Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers in “Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends.” Notably, the album returned to the top of the Billboard 200 the following year after the release of its Brighter Days Ahead deluxe edition, which spawned the Hot 100 top 20 hit “Twilight Zone” (No. 18).

Petal arrives on July 31, right in the middle of her 41-date Eternal Sunshine Tour. That trek, her first since 2019, kicks off on June 6 at California’s Oakland Arena, visiting major cities across North America and Europe before closing with 10 shows at London’s O2 Arena.

Check out the official teaser for Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” below.

Larry Jackson’s label Gamma is going on the offensive with a new lawsuit against the anonymous operators of websites that claim the company has engaged in fraud with investor money and album sales.

The defamation lawsuit was filed on Tuesday (May 26), a month after the creation of the websites larryjacksonexposed.com and gammaexposed.com. Gamma alleges the sites, which both use the heading “Scamma Exposed” on their homepages, are a form of “reputational warfare” aimed at harming its relationships in the music industry.

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“Gamma and its artists are being subjected to a new and insidious form of corporate interference and harassment, unique to the social media and artificial intelligence age, in which anonymous actors deploy bot networks to astroturf a false narrative into the public consciousness without even a semblance of truth or accountability,” reads the legal complaint, obtained by Billboard. “Gamma has no choice but to fight back, not only for itself but also for its investors, business partners, employees and artists, against those who would weaponize technology to destroy reputations and livelihoods behind a veil of anonymity.”

The “Scamma” websites claim to have insider information demonstrating that Jackson lied about a $1 billion fundraise in a 2023 Billboard cover story and embezzled from Gamma. The websites also say Gamma “botched” multiple album releases and inflated first-week sales numbers for Ye’s BULLY and Mariah Carey’s Here for It All.

Gamma’s lawsuit alleges each of these statements is false. It says the websites’ creators plotted to get as many eyes as possible on these lies by launching a “coordinated social media amplification campaign” with hundreds of bot accounts on X and Reddit.

“Gamma seeks to identify the true names and identities of the persons behind this campaign,” writes the company’s lawyer, Jason Sunshine of Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley, in the complaint. “Gamma therefore brings this action … to unmask the perpetrators and hold them accountable.”

In technical terms, Gamma is seeking unspecified financial damages for defamation, libel and unfair competition. It’s also asking a judge to issue a legal injunction that would take down the “Scamma” websites and bar the creators from publishing further defamatory content.

The websites’ operators did not immediately return a request for comment sent to an email address listed on the sites.


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Nick Jonas is going solo, embarking on an intimate six-night run titled A Night With Nick.

The boy band member’s mini-tour will begin on June 4 at Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario, before heading to East Coast venues in Hanover, Md.; Charlotte, N.C.; Atlanta; and Danville, Va., before wrapping on June 13 at Hard Rock in Atlantic City, N.J. The solo stint coincides with Jonas’ latest album, which launched on Feb. 6, titled Sunday Best.

Since this event features only a few stops, getting tickets has been competitive, especially scoring them at a good price. Below, we’ll show you where to search for Nick Jonas tickets at affordable pricing. Keep reading to learn more.

Where to Buy Affordable Tickets to Nick Jonas’ A Night With Nick Shows Online

Where to buy affordable tickets to Nick Jonas' 'A Night With Nick' online.

OFFICIAL TICKETING

Ticketmaster


General admission for Jonas’ limited-run show went live on April 24 via Ticketmaster. The site is the official place to grab tickets to this mini-tour. The platform has a slew of tickets readily available, but since the show features only six dates, competition for seating has been fierce.

As for pricing thus far, we’ve seen spots go for as low as $67.97, depending on your chosen venue. The ticketing service offers a fan guarantee, which allows for cancellations, refunds or exchanges within 24 hours of booking. However, these options are subject to certain exclusions.

Where to buy affordable tickets to Nick Jonas' 'A Night With Nick' online.

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StubHub


StubHub is a good option. As of this writing, we have seen pricing for tickets to Jonas’ show go for as low as $54. That being said, competition for seating is strong and there are limited tickets left.

The platform makes buying tickets easy with its “FanProtect Guarantee,” which protects purchases with authentic tickets and refund policies. Plus, if your event is canceled and not rescheduled, you will receive a credit worth 120% of the amount you paid, or the option of a cash refund.

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PROMO CODES

SeatGeek


On SeatGeek, a quick click through the website reveals tickets for the singer-songwriter’s mini-tour go for as low as $50 as of this writing. Right now, you can use promo code BILLBOARD10 at checkout to receive $10 off. The ticketing service offers a buyer guarantee to ensure smooth ticket purchases every time.

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MANY SEATING OPTIONS

Vivid Seats


A great option is Vivid Seats. At the time of publication, A Night With Nick tickets are selling for as low as $50. The ticketing service offers a 100% buyer guarantee that your transaction will be secure, your tickets will be delivered before your event, and your tickets will be valid and authentic. 

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TicketNetwork


TicketNetwork is a great option for those seeking out seats to a Jonas show. When you search for tickets on TicketNetwork, you can use our code BILLBOARD300 to save $300 off orders of $1,000 or more, or code BILLBOARD150 to save $150 off orders of $500 or higher. Pricing for ticketing starts around $71 and above, as of this writing. The third-party retailer has a myriad of seating still available, too.

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BEST PRICING

Gametime


During our search for tickets to A Night With Nick, we’ve seen prices go for as low as $49 on Gametime. This is the lowest price ShopBillboard has found thus far. To make shopping for the perfect ticket even easier, Gametime will notify you when certain venues and dates are discounted. You’ll also see indicators on your search that will tell you which venues are in high demand, a helpful tool if you plan to purchase tickets.

Nick Jonas’ A Night With Nick Dates

  • June 4 — Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • June 6 — The HALL at Live!, Hanover, Md.
  • June 7 — The Fillmore Charlotte, Charlotte, N.C.
  • June 10 — Tabernacle, Atlanta
  • June 11 — The Pantheon at Caesars Virginia, Danville, Va.
  • June 13 — Hard Rock, Atlantic City, N.J.

Fifteen years after The Book of Mormon swept the Tonys, the show’s original cast will reunite to perform at the 2026 Tony Awards. The performance will include nominees Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells and Rory O’Malley, and Tony winner Nikki M. James. It will be introduced by Tony winners Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, who collaborated on the music, lyrics and book for the show.

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The 79th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by P!nk, will be held on Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Last year’s Tony Awards included a 10th anniversary performance by the original cast of Hamilton.

The Book of Mormon won nine Tony Awards, including best musical. The cast album, released on Ghostlight Records, also won the Grammy for best musical theater album.  

In keeping with tradition, Broadway’s biggest night will also feature performances from all four nominees for best musical — The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titaníque and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) — and all three nominees for best revival of a musical (CATS: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime and Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show).

A release announcing The Book of Mormon performance promised “additional performances will be announced in the coming week.” That is expected to include the announcement of a performance by P!nk, who is likely to sing one or more Broadway songs to establish her credentials as the show’s host. P!nk is the biggest pop star ever to host to the Tonys, though she has yet to perform on Broadway.

The American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards will broadcast live coast-to-coast on CBS and stream on Paramount+ from 8 to 11 p.m. ET.

Prior to the broadcast, Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host The Tony Awards: Act One, a live pre-show that is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV. It will run from 6:35 to 8 p.m. ET.

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Raj Kapoor, Sarah Levine Hall and Jack Sussman are executive producers of this year’s show. Kapoor and Levine Hall will also serve as co-showrunners. Patrick Menton and Rob Paine will co-executive produce with Menton also serving as head of talent.


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BTS dropped the full Bangtan Bomb of the group’s historic visit to Mexico’s National Palace. In a new video shared Wednesday (May 27) on its official channels, the South Korean K-pop supergroup takes fans on a tour inside the presidential residence with President Claudia Sheinbaum, exploring the gardens and sharing an unforgettable moment as they waved to ARMY from the balcony overlooking thousands of fans gathered in the Zócalo, the country’s main public square.

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The five-minute video features content very similar to what Sheinbaum previously shared on her TikTok account on May 7, a day after her meeting with the group. It shows the septet having a brief conversation with the president in the presidential office, receiving an official recognition from the Government of Mexico and the moments leading up to when the band stepped out onto the balcony, where the members were met with the roar of 50,000 people (according to official figures) gathered in the Plaza de la Constitución, the official name of the Zócalo.

¡Hola, somos BTS!” (“Hello, we are BTS!”) RM says to the crowd in the Zócalo, a moment that has already gone viral around the world. In the background, viewers can hear the trumpet of a mariachi band that some members of ARMY Mexico hired to set the mood for the meeting with their idols.

The video then shows RM asking V to say to their Mexican ARMY, “México, mucho picante” or “Mexico, very spicy”), one of the most celebrated phrases by their fandom during the group’s visit to the country. “Ah, it’s crazy,” Jimin says, still amazed by the local crowd’s response.

Another of the touching moments captured in the video shows RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook walking through the gardens of the National Palace, surprised to encounter some of the 16 cats that live at the presidential residence, one of the country’s most iconic colonial buildings.

During her morning press conference Wednesday, Sheinbaum once again thanked the band members for their visit and said the group was very surprised by the warm response from ARMY in the Zócalo. “We asked them, ‘Would you like to come to the National Palace? So people could see you for a few minutes,’” recalled the Mexican head of state. “They said yes, and the best news is that they’re coming back next year. They loved Mexico so much that they decided to return, and it’s also a way to thank their ARMY,” she added, although there has yet to be an official announcement or confirmation from the group and their representatives.

Sheinbaum embraced the wish of Mexico’s ARMY members after tickets for BTS’ three concerts on May 7, 9 and 10 at the Estadio GNP Seguros sold out in less than an hour. Through a letter, the president asked her South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung, for more concerts in the country, as she revealed on Jan. 26. Three weeks later, she announced that the South Korean government had responded, saying they forwarded the request to the company managing the supergroup.

The South Korean president was invited for an official visit to Mexico this September, according to a message shared by Sheinbaum on her social media on May 15.

Watch the full video of BTS at Mexico’s National Palace below:


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With Father’s Day on June 21, Billboard has put together a list of heartfelt dad-related Latin songs, ranging from regional Mexican to tropical to urban to pop. 

On the list is Vicente Fernández‘s “El Hombre Que Más Te Amó” (“The Man Who Most Loved You”), a heartfelt ranchera ballad that speaks about the unconditional love and devotion of a father toward his child.

Ozuna’s “Mi Niña” (“My Girl”) also makes the list. It’s a sweet urban-pop track in which the Puerto Rican singer details what it’s like being the father to a beautiful girl. The reggaetón bop features voice notes from his daughter reminding him how much she loves him. “So beautiful, I never imagined having someone like her/ So beautiful, I saw her be born, I also saw her grow up/ So beautiful, I never imagined having someone like/ So beautiful, she came out like her mother,” the Puerto Rican artist chants on the track.

We also highlight Victor Manuelle’s “Algo Le Pasa A Héroe” (“Something’s Wrong With My Hero”), a nostalgic ballad dedicated to his father who passed away in 2018 from Alzheimer’s. A new version dropped in 2020 and features Kany García, Tommy Torres, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Pedro Capó and Noel Schajris.

From Alejandro Sanz’s “Ese Que Me Dio La Vida” (“That Who Gave Me Life”) to Alejandro Fernández’s  “Cuando Yo Quería Ser Grande” (“When I Wanted to Grow Up”) and beyond, check out 30 songs you can dedicate to a father figure in your life, arranged in alphabetical order by artist name.


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Five Finger Death Punch is back at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, debuting atop the survey dated June 6 with “Eye of the Storm.”

Released May 15, the song totaled 1.5 million chart-eligible streams, 1.7 million radio audience impressions and 2,000 sold in the United States in the week ending May 21, according to Luminate.

The track’s premiere atop the chart follows the 18-week rule of the band’s “A Little Bit Off” beginning in July 2020. That song started at No. 2 on the inaugural Hot Hard Rock Songs ranking that June. In all, the group, which formed in Las Vegas in 2005, boasts 11 top 10s.

In between “A Little Bit Off” and “Eye of the Storm,” the act tallied 12 entries, paced by a No. 2 peak for “AfterLife” in 2022.

Concurrently, “Eye of the Storm” begins at No. 18 on Mainstream Rock Airplay and enters the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart at No. 26. It’s Five Finger Death Punch’s best debut on the former since “AfterLife” (No. 16).

The download count for “Eye of the Storm” is also good for a No. 1 start on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, the band’s chart-leading 18th ruler, dating to its first, “Under and Over It,” in 2011.

“Eye of the Storm” is currently a standalone single, expected to be part of the band’s 10th studio album, which does not yet have a release date. Its predecessor, AfterLife, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in 2022 and has earned 423,000 equivalent album units to date.


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Less than a year after Tha Carter VI‘s arrival, Lil Wayne is already teasing the next installment of his decorated album series.

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Weezy joined Wake Up Barstool on Tuesday (May 26), during which he hinted that Tha Carter VII is “coming soon,” but pumped the brakes on confirming that would be his next album, as he’s got “music for days” on deck.

Tha Carter VII is coming soon,” he said. “I’m not sure if we going to just name my next album Tha Carter VII, but I got albums coming as well.”

Wayne then described the creative process, which includes an unidentified person or entity grabbing a bunch of songs and dictating the title, tracklist and direction of his next album. It’s vague, and unclear who he’s referring to, if he has a management team that helps him through the process or it’s his label’s choice.

“But I don’t know when, if they going to just name it Tha Carter VII or they’re going to wait for another album and name it that, you know. But I got music for days,” he continued. “What they do is they come in here and grab a bunch of songs and put a title, ‘This Carter VII. Carter VII coming soon.’ I make so many types of music and so many genres. Whenever we have different subjects as long as I have a song about everything.”

Tha Carter VI arrived last June and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 108,000 total album units. However, the project was panned by critics. Wayne’s yet to release a single in 2026.

Elsewhere in the interview, Wayne also revealed his reaction to Drake getting a portrait of Weezy’s face tattooed on his arm, which came as a surprise, but Weezy was mad he has no room left to return the favor. “He’s a surprising type of guy. He really love surprises,” he said of Drake. “He loves surprising people. So yes, he definitely surprised me. It was amazing, I was mad I didn’t have no space to get him.”

Lil Wayne’s gearing up for a busy summer, as he’ll be hitting the road for a North American tour celebrating more than 20 years of Tha Carter series. He’s also set to launch a podcast with WFAN radio personality Craig Carton, The Joint Venture, which will debut with a live episode at Fanatics Fest in NYC on July 19.

Watch the full interview below.


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Galantis, the longstanding dance project from Swedish producer Christian Karlsson, has found a new home with the Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records.

Galantis’ first release on Counter is “Stay Alive,” a breezy and emotive electronic cover of José Gonzalez‘s 2013 classic “Stay Alive,” which itself was co-written by Ryan Adams. Out today (May 27), the single is Galantis’ first project with The Devil’s Tax Return, a new era of Galantis which Karlsson himself says serves as “an ode to the music that always inspired me.” Watch the video for the single below.

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”Signing with Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records feels incredibly special to me,” Karlsson tells Billboard. “Ninja Tune is a label I’ve admired since the ‘90s and to be part of that family with Galantis feels like coming home to music that shaped me. This is also the first time in my career that I’m not signed to a major label, and it’s completely changed the way I create music. I feel a freedom and inspiration I haven’t felt in a long time, it reminds me why I fell in love with making music in the first place.”

The most recent Galantis album, 2024’s Rx, was released on Atlantic subsidiary Big Beat Records, with much of the act’s prior output released on Atlantic itself.

Galantis has summer tour dates extending into the fall, with performances of his ongoing Midsommar show set for San Francisco in June and Chicago in August. Beyond that, Galantis will play festivals including Michigan’s Electric Forest and Toronto’s Veld Music Festival, along with club shows in Charleston, S.C., Miami, St. Louis and beyond.


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Cynthia Erivo knows about how popular it was for the internet to dissect her friendship with Wicked costar Ariana Grande last year, something the Tony winner addressed in a Variety cover story published Wednesday (May 27).

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While reflecting on the whirlwind promotional run of the Wicked films that lasted throughout 2024 and 2025, Erivo addressed some of the misconceptions about herself and the pop star that ran rampant online for months. “It’s very interesting, watching what people’s perception is versus what the reality actually is,” she told the publication. “Lots of psychologists seated at home deciding who we were, what we were going through, what we were doing and why.”

“I think that people didn’t really believe that we were actually friends,” she continued, noting that she and Grande still text each other just about every day. “But that’s also because people don’t know me very well. If I’m a friend, then I’m a friend. If I’m not, then I’m not.”

The internet’s theories about the costars were wide-ranging, with some commentators speculating that they were romantically involved and others deciding that Erivo and Grande were either too close or secretly competing against each other. It was also common to see netizens comparing the two women’s appearances, especially after the Pinocchio star pushed away a man who’d rushed onto the red carpet at Wicked: For Good‘s Singapore premiere in November and grabbed the “Yes, And?” singer.

“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women,” Erivo told Variety. “And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my costar, and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

She added that “in a way,” the incident — which resulted in the perpetrator spending nine days behind bars before he was banned from Singapore — discouraged her from campaigning for Academy Award recognition after the second Wicked film premiered last fall. “I just felt like my humanity had been bastardized,” the performer said. “I felt like something I did instinctively had been made to be something that it simply was not because of the way people see women who look like me … I just didn’t want to be a part of that, really and truly. I didn’t want to put myself through it. I didn’t feel like I deserved it.”

Erivo added that “it felt like there was already a sort of upturned nose at the second installment, even though we all knew there was a second film coming and we were just doing our jobs.”

After growing close over the course of working on Wicked and promoting the Jon M. Chu-directed franchise, Grande and the Broadway veteran are now hard at work on different projects. The Victorious alum is gearing up to drop new single “Hate That I Made You Love Me’ on Friday (March 29), while Erivo is starring in a one-woman production of Dracula on the West End.

See Erivo on the cover of Variety below.


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