Carrie Underwood has hit a new career milestone: She’s been named the highest Recording Industry Association of America-certified female country artist of all time, with over 95 million units (22.5 million in albums and 72.5 million in singles) in the United States alone, inclusive of solo titles and collaborations.

Among Underwood’s RIAA certifications are her 9x Platinum, 2005 debut album Some Hearts and songs including the 11x Platinum “Before He Cheats,” 5x Platinum “Blown Away,” 4x Platinum “Cowboy Casanova,” 3x Platinum songs “All-American Girl” and “Church Bells,” and her most recent certification, the Platinum-certified “I’m Gonna Love You,” a collaboration with Cody Johnson. Underwood’s holiday song “Favorite Time of the Year,” from her 2021 album My Gift (Special Edition), has also been certified Gold.

“Accomplishments like this are more than I would have ever dared to dream of when I was starting out,” Underwood said in a statement. “I owe everything to the fans, who have literally voted for me from the beginning of my career and have showed up and given me so much love for over 20 years. I feel truly blessed.”

“This monumental achievement solidifies Carrie Underwood’s legacy as a generational talent and a true titan of the music industry. Becoming the highest RIAA certified female country artist of all time is a testament to the unparalleled connection Carrie shares with fans and the enduring power of her artistry,” Mike Harris, president/CEO of MCA, said in a statement.

In addition to being an eight-time Grammy winner Underwood has earned 16 ACM Awards (among them three ACM entertainer of the year honors), 17 American Music Awards and seven CMA Awards. All 10 of her albums debuted in the top 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.

Morgan Wallen is set to bring his high-octane, hit-filled show to 11 cities in 2026, when his 21-date Still The Problem Tour 2026 launching on April 10 in Minneapolis.

Wallen’s new tour will visit stadiums in Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Pittsburgh, among other stops. He will play two nights in most locations and will play three major college football stadiums, including Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Michigan’s Michigan Stadium and one night only at Alabama’s Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
 
The 19x Billboard Music Awards winner is bringing with him a top-shelf, rotating lineup of openers, including Brooks & Dunn, HARDY, Ella Langley and Thomas Rhett as direct support, Gavin Adcock, Flatland Cavalry and Hudson Westbrook as second-of-four and Jason Scott & The High Heat, Zach John King, Vincent Mason and Blake Whiten as first-of-four. 

Still The Problem is inspired by Wallen’s I‘m The Problem album, which released May 16, 2025 on Big Loud/Mercury Records and spent 12 non-consecutive weeks atop the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming Wallen’s third consecutive album to spend at least 10 weeks at the pinnacle of the Billboard 200.

Like previous Wallen tours, a portion of each ticket sold will benefit his Morgan Wallen Foundation, which supports programs for youth in sports and music. With those donations, the Morgan Wallen Foundation contributed more than $600,000 worth of instruments to schools across U.S. touring cities in 2025.

Pre-sale registration for Still The Problem Tour is open now through Nov. 6 at 10 p.m. local time at StillTheProblem.com. Public on-sale begins on Friday, Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. local time.

See the full list of Wallen’s Still The Problem Tour 2026 dates below:

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Beloved Hollywood fashion designer Bob Mackie is over the moon that Taylor Swift is repping one of his famously rhinestone-encrusted creations on the cover of her The Life of a Showgirl album. Speaking to E! News, Mackie, 85, said he was “kind of shocked” that the singer picked a real-life showgirl outfit he designed for the face of her 12th LP.

“Because I was thinking Taylor Swift to be this little girl who used to write songs about fairytale princesses,” said Mackie. “She’s amazing and much taller than I thought she would be and older than I thought she was. I thought she was still 14 or something. Not true!”

“Sultan of Sequins” Mackie, whose legendarily sparkly, jewel-encrusted costumes have been worn by everyone from Diana Ross to Elton John, Whitney Houston, Miley Cyrus, Judy Garland, Beyoncé, Liza Minelli and, perhaps most famously, Cher, paid tribute to the cover shot in an August Instagram post describing its provenance.

“The ensemble worn by @taylorswift was designed by Bob Mackie for the ‘Jewel Finale’ of the Las Vegas show Jubilee! Produced by Don Arden; the show featured over 1,000 costumes based on Florenz Ziegfeld stage shows with elaborate couture costumes worn by the showgirls,” he wrote. “It was the longest running showgirl spectacular in history and ran from 1981 to 2016.”

Mackie also provided some of the details of the the elaborate get-up and an image of one of the Vegas performers wearing a version of it, explaining, “The bra, undergarments, and armbands are all French wirework and backed with a blush fabric for a nude illusion. The bra and underwear have set stones and drops at the under-bust of the bra and the waistline of the underwear.”

Universal Music Group and Stability AI have announced a strategic partnership to develop music creation tools powered by “responsibly” trained generative AI. 

The two companies said on Thursday that the collaboration will aim to support artists, producers and songwriters by integrating AI into the creative process while ensuring commercial safety and proper licensing. Stability AI’s research and product teams will work closely with UMG and its artists to explore new recording and composition methods, gather feedback and tailor tools to the needs of the creative community.

This alliance follows UMG’s quite recent agreement with Udio, which included a legal settlement over copyright infringement and a licensing deal that compensates artists for both AI training and outputs. UMG has been a pioneer in AI innovation, forging partnerships with platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Meta, while actively defending artists’ rights against unauthorized AI training.

Stability AI, known for its two-year-old Stable Audio models, specializes in generating high-quality, licensed music using text-to-audio technology. Their models, trained on professional datasets like Audio Sparx, offer control over audio generation through “latent diffusion” — a technique first introduced in their image-based Stable Diffusion product.

Beyond music, Stability AI has recently partnered with Electronic Arts to innovate game development and with WPP to enhance marketing through AI. 

“This agreement is an extension of our fundamental orientation that our artists and songwriters are the cornerstone of our business,” said UMG’s chief digital officer Michael Nash. “With AI, as with everything else we do, we start with what best supports our work to help them achieve creative and commercial success and build from that foundation to forge new and better commercial and creative opportunities. And as we’ve made abundantly clear, we will only consider advancing AI tools and products based on models that are trained responsibly.”

Prem Akkaraju, CEO of Stability AI, said the partnership “marks the next chapter of music creation,” adding, “we put the artist at the center and build AI around their unique needs because real transformation has always come from a combination of art and science.”

If you attended one of the Oasis ’25 reunion shows this summer you will likely never forget the soul-stirring echo of 50,000+ fans shouting out the lyrics to “Wonderwall” along with singer Liam Gallagher as if the tune was the Oasis National Anthem.

Which it basically is.

That explains why on Thursday (Oct. 30) Oasis announced that they are marking the 30th anniversary of one of their most indelible hits, which has racked up more than three billion streams to date. The band’s biggest hit and an unmovable staple of their live shows will be celebrated with a limited-edition (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? 7″ singles box set due out on Dec. 12, a replica of a highly collectible 1996 cigarette-style CD box set.

The new box includes four 7″ singles — the 2014 remastered versions of “Wonderwall,” “Some Might Say,” “Roll With It” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” — along with their original b-sides, respectively, “Round Are Way,” “Talk Tonight,” “It’s Better People” and “Step Out.”

In addition to playing around the world on a reunion tour that nobody ever thought would happen, Oasis have spent the year looking back at some of their musical highlights. Last month, they released the 25th anniversary reissue of their Wembley Stadium live album, Familiar to Millions and the 25th anniversary reissue of their fourth album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, as well as an unplugged version of “Morning Glory.” To celebrate the launch of their first run of shows in 16 years in July, the group also issued a box set collecting all their studio albums.

This month they also announced a massive book chronicling the tour, Oasis Live ’25 OPUS.

Oasis will march on Friday night (Oct. 31) with the first of three shows at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, followed by two gigs in Sydney next weekend and a final run of shows in Argentina, Chile and Brazil to round out the month.

Though a Nov. 23 show at MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil is currently the final scheduled date, earlier this month Liam Gallagher answered a fan’s complaint about one of his favorite songs not make the set list by offering up a cryptic tease about future dates. “Chill Winston it’s not even HALF TIME yet it’s a tour of 2 half’s,” Gallagher wrote. To date, spokespeople for the band have not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on potential 2026 tour dates.

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