Cardi B is starting to gear up for her first headlining tour next year, but that doesn’t mean the mother of four doesn’t make time for cuddles. According to People, in a post on her Instagram Stories earlier this week, Cardi, 33, shared a glimpse of her newborn son with boyfriend Stefon Diggs while enjoying some quiet alone time with the precious bundle she gave birth to on Nov. 13.

In the snap, the boy, whose name has not yet been revealed, is spotted wearing a beige onesie covered in giraffes as he snuggles up to Cardi’s chest and rests his head on her shoulder. While the pic did not show the child’s face, the caption told you everything you needed to know about how Cardi feels about her first child with the Patriots wide receiver.

“My cuddle buddy 🧸🩶 I love him soooo much,” Cardi wrote under the snap. It was just the latest glimpse of the newborn. Cardi posted a carousel of photos on Nov. 19 of the child, including ones of her cuddling the baby in the nursery, as well as in a hospital bed right after his birth.

Cardi also has three children with ex-husband Offset: 7-year-old daughter Kulture, 4-year-old son Wave, and 1-year-old daughter Blossom.

In between snuggles, Cardi has been chronicling her fitness journey to get into shape for her Little Miss Drama Tour, which is slated to kick off on Feb. 11 in Palm Desert, Calif. “Tour journey with me,” she wrote in a clip from the gym last month. “I haven’t started tour rehearsals yet but I’m doing light workouts to not only get my body back in shape but my joints and bones.. I’m 33 honey I’ma ol’ lady.”

The 30-date North American arena tour in support of Cardi’s sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, will represent the rapper’s first significant run of shows in six years and hit cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Houston, Denver, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C and Sunrise, Fla. before winding down on April 17 in Atlanta.

It’s official: Bad Bunny is a beast on Spotify’s year-end Wrapped campaign, for which he dominates multiple categories, including top artist.

Bunny hops in at No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Top Artist tally for 2025, with more than 19.8 billion streams worldwide, topping the podium ahead of Taylor Swift and The Weeknd, respectively. TayTay is, however, the No. 1 Spotify artist for the United States.

It’s the fourth time Bunny has held Spotify’s global streaming title, after ruling in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The Puerto Rican superstar singer and rapper also leads Spotify’s global top album rankings with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, and cracks the top 5 on the top songs chart. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS dropped in early 2025 and led the Billboard 200 on several occasions, for his fourth No. 1 on the all-genres U.S. albums chart, after Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (in 2023), Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) and El Último Tour del Mundo (2020).

On the 2025 global Spotify frame, Un Verano Sin Ti comes in at No. 10.

With those impressive numbers on Spotify, the world’s leading streaming music platform, Bunny can confidently head into his headline spot for the Super Bowl Halftime Show as the world’s top streaming artist.

Also, Benito’s “DtMF” appears at No. 5 on the global top song of 2025, behind the winner, Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ smash hit “Die With A Smile,” with more than 1.7 billion streams globally for the year. That ballad climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January for Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 leader and Mars’ ninth. Along the way, the single logged five weeks at the Billboard Hot 100 summit.

Billie Eilish comes in at No. 2 on the Spotify songs list with “Birds Of A Feather,” while Mars nabs another top 3 finish with “APT.,” his collaboration with Blackpink’s Rosé, at No. 3.

Not surprisingly, The Joe Rogan Experience nabbed Spotify’s Global Top Podcast for 2025. It’s the sixth consecutive year Rogan’s popular podcast has finished on top.

The year-end lists accompany Spotify’s 2025 Wrapped, the Swedish streaming platform’s data-driven annual recap of listening habits, which roll out from today.

See Spotify’s 2025 Global and U.S. lists below.

2025 SPOTIFY WRAPPED GLOBAL TOP MUSIC, AUDIOBOOKS & PODCASTS

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Global Top Albums of 2025:

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Global Top Audiobooks in Premium of 2025:

2025 Spotify Wrapped Top U.S. Music, Audiobooks & Podcasts:

Top U.S. Artists of 2025:

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Aviva Studios is Manchester’s latest cultural powerhouse. Since October 2023, the venue has welcomed over 1.5 million visitors and is rewriting the rules of performance and creativity – bringing music, theatre, gaming, and visual arts together under one roof. Designed by world-renowned architect Ellen van Loon, its flexible spaces and cutting-edge acoustics make it a playground for global artists and local talent alike.

“This is a venue of the future – we don’t worry about old definitions of art forms. Musicians, video artists, and performers are all mixed together here,” John McGrath, artistic director and chief executive of Factory International, tells Billboard U.K. With a focus on commissioning and booking new interdisciplinary works, the non-profit arts organisation – which produces the biennial Manchester International Festival and operates Aviva Studios – is setting a gold standard for collaboration, positioning the building as a cultural landmark of the North.

From the outside alone, Aviva Studios is a showstopper: an industrial feel to its exterior is complemented by the overlappings of surrounding arches and bridges. The venue has “unique scale and flexibility and exceptional acoustics”, McGrath explains, meaning that its three main internal spaces – the ground floor, warehouse and auditorium – can be reconfigured to present a multitude of different types and scales of events, and be divided by a moveable acoustic wall.

“Aviva Studios has been designed to offer artists the opportunity to do things here that they can’t do anywhere else,” he continues. “Each artist who uses the space will teach us new things about the possibilities. I’m excited to welcome the most exciting global artists in the space, and also, in particular, to see Manchester artists starting to grow into this space and become confident with its potential – growing their ambitions and ideas.”

The venue launched with the world premiere of Free Your Mind, Danny Boyle’s large-scale dance show based on the classic film The Matrix. Radiohead’s 2003 LP Hail to the Thief was reworked for an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which opened at Aviva Studios over the spring. In October, another global exclusive arrived with the debut of Marina Abramović’s Balkan Erotic Epic performance art show, which was divided into 13 acts, featured 70 performers, and ran for four hours each night. 

Other recent highlights, McGrath notes, include Build Manchester in partnership with Adidas, which saw Aviva Studios become home to a custom-built public skateboarding plaza this past August. There have been inclusive open deck nights, in which aspiring DJs can practice mixing, as well as a series of four live-streamed shows in partnership with Amazon Music, featuring Bastille, Franz Ferdinand and Mumford & Sons.

Last night (Dec. 2) the venue played host to a Billboard U.K. Live experience with Grammy-winning musician Corinne Bailey Rae, comprising a stunningly intimate performance as well as an exclusive Q&A event with fans.

The 2026 gig calendar is already looking stacked, too. Alt-pop icon Halsey will kick off the year with a stop on her Badlands anniversary tour, followed by the likes of Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and international acts Sombr, Kesha and Big Thief throughout the rest of spring. Lily Allen’s highly-anticipated West End Girl show will also take over the venue for two sold-out nights in March.

“You can tell the place is built for people who love live events,” says Caitie Inson, a Manchester resident who attended FKA Twigs’ headline show at Aviva Studios this past spring, for which the lighting and production value were “incredible”, she notes. “What struck me the most was how open and inviting the venue felt, as well as the breadth of the shows and experiences on offer.”

Multinational insurance company Aviva invested in the space to create a sense of community in Manchester, and local residents have responded in kind. “In Aviva Studios, we saw a once-in-a generation opportunity to be part of one of the most ambitious cultural buildings anywhere in Europe,” says Tom Whiteside, head of group sponsorship at Aviva.

As principal partner of the Factory Academy, which offers everything from a six month-long music promoter course to hands-on experiences for trainee sound technicians, Aviva is helping deliver free training and skills programmes for young people in Manchester. Another “long-term commitment” for the venue has involved the introduction of an accessible ticketing policy via the Aviva £10 ticket initiative. In its first year, 21,000 low-cost tickets were accessed, as per a report from The Sponsor, while all students, over 65s, and people on low incomes can register for 50% discount across all Aviva Studios shows.

With Factory International, Whiteside says that Aviva has “a partner whose values align perfectly with our own, with a core ethos that this building should serve the community and be inclusive and accessible.” The partnership builds on the company’s long-running success with the 51,700-capacity Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, which they acquired a 10-year deal for the naming rights in 2009, and subsequently extended the arrangement in 2018 and 2025.

“Aviva’s partnership is so much more than a name above the door – it is commitment to create long-term community, social and economic impact, and to enhance the experiences of the millions of people that come through the door,” continues Whiteside, explaining how Aviva and Factory International want to set a gold standard for community outreach in the arts.

Factory International’s name was chosen in a nod to the seminal Manchester label Factory Records, which helped launch local legends Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, as well as the famed nightclub The Haçienda, which was pivotal to the “Madchester” era of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Although the organization has deep cultural roots, its mission statement is future-oriented, centered around breaking barriers and bringing people together at Aviva Studios.

One of the organisation’s key initiatives, the Neighbourhood Organisers, allows for a select, paid team of 12 residents from different boroughs to help connect their community with opportunities at the venue. Elsewhere, Factory International offers a wealth of fellowships and bursaries each year, which involve mentoring opportunities, coaching, observational placements, peer-to-peer learning and access to their commissions and internal teams.

An in-depth accessibility policy has also been paramount to Aviva Studios’ early success, allowing it to become a well-known beacon in the city for neurodivergent and disabled gig-goers. The Factory International team are currently working on opening a quiet space in the venue, while accessible performances (including captioned, audio-described, relaxed and BSL-interpreted presentations) have been delivered for each production.

As McGarth concludes: “We take more shows of all kinds around the world than any arts organisation in the U.K. The fact that Factory International is based at and runs Aviva Studios means that this is where some of the most exciting new work in the world is produced and seen for the very first time.”

Foo Fighters are heading down under, for one night only.

Dave Grohl and Co. will make the longest of hauls when they visit Tasmania next January, for their first live show in the Apple Isle since 2015.

And no, they’re not playing the state capital, Hobart. The Foos will fill it up Jan. 24, 2026 at Launceston’s UTAS Stadium, for what will mark their first live show in Tassie’s second city, a spot with a population of fewer than 100,000.

Launceston is the hometown of Michael Chugg, the legendary Australian concert promoter who co-founded Frontier Touring with the late Michael Chugg and others, and who, in 2019, struck an exclusive joint venture with Frontier Touring and his own business, Chugg Entertainment.

Frontier Touring, part of the Mushroom Group, is producing the forthcoming Foos stadium date, extending a long and successful touring relationship. It was Frontier Touring that organized the American rockers’ 13^th and most recent visit to these shores, in November and December 2023, when the Foos played to sold-out stadiums in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in celebration of their 11th studio set, But Here We Are (via RCA/Sony), their first album since the passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Frontier Touring teased the visit with a social post that featured the “FF” logo on a billboard, mounted on an art deco-styled pub, with the caption, “Give me a reason, show me a sign.” The message was clear, but no one would’ve guessed a single trip to Australia’s 18^th most-populated city was in the cards.

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It’s not the first time the Foos have taken the journey for a single, regional date. The 15-time Grammy Award winners performed in 2022 at GMHBA Stadium (Kardinia Park) in Geelong, a satellite city of Melbourne, to help refuel a touring industry crippled by the lockdown.

Foo Fighters are much-loved in these parts, with over 1.8 million records sold in Australia, and nine No. 1s on the ARIA Albums Chart, most recently with But Here We Are.

The announcement of a date in Tasmania follows news of a special concert on Jan. 14 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, which will benefit the homeless non-profits Hope the Mission and the Los Angeles Mission.

Also this week, the Foos assumed sole possession of the fourth-most No. 1s in the 44-year history of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, leading the way with “Asking for a Friend.” The single also earns the band a 13th No. 1 and second this year on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.

The general ticket onsale for the licensed, all-ages Australia concert begins Dec. 10, earlier for Frontier members and the Telstra Plus member presale. Support on the night will be rising Brisbane rock band Full Flower Moon Band, and Launceston psych-rock trio Spooky Eyes.

SYDNEY, Australia — Just weeks after nabbing his first ARIA Award, BOY SODA signs with United Talent Agency.

Through the new partnership, BOY SODA is represented by agent Noah Simon. “From the first listen we knew BOY SODA was a special artist,” Simon remarks. “We couldn’t be more excited to be a part of the journey and play a role in bringing his talent to audiences around the world.”

The New South Wales singer and songwriter last month won the 2025 ARIA Award for best soul / R&B release for his single “Lil’ Obsession” (via Warner Music Australia/EastWest Records) for which he has released a new remix featuring Ambre.

BOY SODA has been eyeing the U.S. for some time. While on a recent trip to L.A., he collaborated with creators and media platforms including Garden Sessions, Goyo, and On The Radar — before heading to New York Fashion Week where he attended shows by Prada, Keem Studios, and KSUBI, and connected with creators such as Indie Hourzz and Tyler Walsh.

Closer to home, BOY SODA will see in the New Year at Beyond The Valley festival, set for Dec. 29 – Jan. 1, 2026 at Victoria’s Barunah Plains, and he’ll play Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on his 2026 Lil’ Obsession Tour of Australia’s east coast run off next March.

At Los Angeles-based UTA, BOY SODA joins a roster that includes countryman The Kid LAROI, who also has new music on the horizon and participated in the recent ARIA Awards week with a showcase presented by Spotify.

Prior to the Oct. 19 ARIA Awards in Sydney, where BOY SODA performed and collected a spiky trophy, he participated in a Q&A with Ninajirachi and performed a four-song showcase for industry guests, including his standout track.

Born Brae Luafalealo, and raised in Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast, the Aussie artist released his debut full-length album SOULSTAR in October. He signed with WMA in 2021, two years after he was tapped by sneaker brand Converse for a U.S. experience where, through which he opened for Dominic Fike at the Converse x Camp Flog Gnaw brand event in L.A.

Stream SOULSTAR below.