Ryan Castro is hitting the road once more with his Sendé: The Last Dance Tour across the United States, Billboard can exclusively announce Tuesday (June 2). 

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Promoted by The Touring Co., Awoo Team and Eventimlive, the 16-date trek will kick off Sept. 6 at the HQ2 Beachclub at Ocean Casino Resort in New Jersey, and wraps Oct. 10 in Las Vegas at a location to be announced. In the midst of the monthlong trek, the Colombian sensation will make pit stops in Boston, Orlando, Nashville, San Antonio and Las Vegas, to name a few key cities.  

The Sendé: The Last Dance Tour marks the second U.S. leg of his 2025 Sendé World Tour that  included concerts in Miami’s Kaseya Center, New York’s Barclays Center and Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, as well as a historic hometown show in Medellín’s Atanasio Girardot Stadium earlier this year. 

The new U.S. trek will be followed by his anticipated concert at Bogotá’s El Campín Stadium set for Oct. 31, a tradition he dubs as “awooween” in honor of his famous saying “awoo.” 

With his new tour leg, Castro will officially wrap his Sendé era that was powered by his 2025 albums Sendé and Hopi Sendé. The former was named one of Billboard’s 50 Best Albums of 2025, and the latter is home to “La Villa,” his collaboration with Kapo that reached No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart this April. 

“Seeing how these songs have connected with you has been something very special,” Castro tells Billboard. “I am happy to announce more dates and bring my music to new cities. Thank you for joining me in making my dreams come true.”

General tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. local time on June 4 via The Touring Co.’s website. Pre-sale will be available from 10 a.m. local time on June 3, to 8 a.m. local time on June 4 with the password SENDE. 

See the new Sendé: The Last Dance Tour dates below:


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British soul/R&B trio FLO is set to receive the ASCAP Vanguard Award at the 2026 ASCAP London Celebrates Songwriters and Composers event on Tuesday (June 16). 

The award is presented to breakthrough artists who are shaping the future of music. Previous recipients include Dua Lipa, Victoria Monet and St. Vincent.

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“FLO are redefining R&B with incredible chops and style,” Paul Williams, ASCAP chairman of the board and president, said in a statement. “As they continue to build on their remarkable creative achievements, we’re proud to honor FLO with the Vanguard Award.”

On March 26, the London-based trio won a MOBO award for best R&B/soul act (besting Olivia Dean, among others). It also received a 2026 Grammy nod for best progressive R&B album for its debut set, Access All Areas. In 2023, the group won the rising star award at the Brit Awards, and that same year it rated in the annual BBC Sound of… poll. FLO has additionally been nominated for seven BET Awards and three Soul Train Music Awards.

FLO, which is signed to Island Records, is composed of Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma and Renée Downer. The trio’s debut studio album, Access All Areas (2024), included “In My Bag,” a collaboration with GloRilla. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Official UK Albums Chart and No. 163 on the Billboard 200.

FLO plans to attend the June 16 event, at which ASCAP will celebrate its U.K. songwriters and composers who have achieved success in the U.S. for their work in music, TV and film. The event will also celebrate the U.K. writers of the 2026 song of the year, top Hot Dance / Electronic Song, top box office film of the year and more.


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Britney Spears just got a new ‘do, thanks to celebrity stylist Chris Appleton — who shared a photo with the star and praised her personality Monday on Instagram.

Posting a selfie featuring the pop icon posing with her hands full of curling irons and her tongue sticking out, Appleton — known for his work with Kim Kardashian — wrote in his caption about the surreal feeling of calling one of his childhood idols a client. “As a kid growing up in England, Britney Spears was the soundtrack to so many moments,” he began.

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“Never in a million years did I think I’d one day be standing behind the chair (or in this case her standing behind mine, lol) styling her hair,” the artist continued. “Some moments really do come full circle. She is not only an icon, but one of the most genuinely kind and gentle souls I’ve ever met.”

Spears doesn’t appear drastically different in the photo Appleton shared, but her hair does look straighter and glossy. She also seems in good spirits in the snap, which comes a couple of months after she checked herself into a treatment facility on the heels of her suspected DUI arrest in Ventura County, Calif., on March 4. The hitmaker ultimately took a plea deal and was sentenced to a year of probation, accepting guilt for a misdemeanor known as a “wet reckless” that’s less severe than a charge for driving under the influence.

“She has taken significant steps to implement positive change, which is clearly reflected in the Ventura County District Attorney’s decision to reduce the charge in this case and dismiss the DUI,” her attorney said in a statement at the time. “Britney appreciates this discretion and is also grateful for the outpouring of support she has received.”

Public concern mounted again in May, however, when reports emerged that Spears had acted erratically with a knife at a restaurant — something her rep quickly shut down. “She was simply telling the story about how her dog was barking at the neighbors,” the rep told Billboard in a statement. “At no point did she put anyone in danger with a knife … This constant attack on everything that she does and this is exactly what happened 20 years ago when the media tried to depict Britney as a bad person. This is ridiculous and it needs to stop now.”

Check out Appleton’s selfie with Spears below.


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Hear the rumble? After a series of recent single releases and the debut of his Contra event this past weekend in Berlin, the Skrillex machine continues shifting towards high gear with the announcement of a forthcoming new album from the artist.

On his Instagram Stories on Monday, Skrill shared the name and track list of his fifth studio LP, Soma. While a release date has not yet been announced, what’s certain is that the album will include 13 tracks including his March Young Miko collab “Duro,” “La Noche 2” (which seems likely to be an update to his 2025 Chris Lake and Anita B Queen collab “La Noche”) and last week’s “Thistle” with Randomer, Blawan and MC Dricka. See the complete track list below.

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Soma is the first new album from Skrillex since the April 2025 release of  F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3, which was effectively a 46-minute megamix assembled from 36 tracks. That album came after the February 2023 release of Quest For Fire, which Skrill followed with the surprise-release of another album, Don’t Get Too Close, the next day.

These projects were the first LPs from the producer since his 2014 full-length debut Recess and followed a series of hyped pop-up shows in New York City alongside Four Tet and Fred again… The frenzy around these sets culminated in the last-minute announcement of the trio’s headlining show at Madison Square Garden, which sold out in minutes.

The artist has a busy summer schedule that includes performances at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound this weekend, a headlining slot at Bonnaroo, appearances at Kappa Future Festival in Turin, Italy, Dekmantel in The Netherlands, Hungary’s Sziget, England’s Boomtown and a headlining show alongside Boys Noize at Portola, where the pair will revive their early 2010s bass bomb side project, Dog Blood.

Soma track list:

  1. “Soma”
  2. “Thistle”
  3. “Tranki”
  4. “Smoke”
  5. “Noche Without You”
  6. “Scut 2”
  7. “Chini”
  8. “Pente Rala”
  9. “É o Bondo”
  10. “La Noche 2”
  11. “Anybody”
  12. “Duro”
  13. “Diwali”

Ariana Grande is in Robert De Niro’s circle of trust.

De Niro had effusive praise for Ariana Grande during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly regarding his time on set working with the pop star in the upcoming Focker-in-Law movie.

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“I liked her, nice kid,” the actor began. “She was very professional. She’s terrific and very quick and got it all. She was very much part of the whole process.”

De Niro was previously familiar with Grande’s acting through his daughter, who was a big fan of Nickelodeon’s Victorious while growing up.

“I had seen her in some stuff with my daughter, some sitcom thing she had done. I’m forgetting the name,” he said. “My kid was into that. I was aware of her then and, of course, aware of her in other ways. She was great.”

The Academy Award winner still hasn’t seen Grande’s performance in Wicked, but plans to do so in the near future.

“I didn’t see her movie, and I still am trying to see it, believe it or not, but I want to see it,” he added. “I’m going to see it with my daughter. And she’s, of course, seen it.”

While a film’s cast is made up of actors coming from different disciplines and schools of thought, De Niro preached the importance of making sure everyone’s on the same page on set.

“It’s really so important that everybody sort of gets it and jumps in quick, and the timing and the give-and-take is there,” he said. “Everybody understands what we’re doing. It’s all very professional. It really helps.”

When Billboard interviewed De Niro last month, the actor joked of Grande: “She sings my character a lot of songs. No, she was great. Everybody was very happy she was going to do it.”

Focker-in-Law serves as the fourth installment of the Meet the Parents film series, as the original arrived in 2000. Focker-in-Law hits theaters on Nov. 25.

A trailer for the Universal blockbuster arrived in April, which found De Niro testing Ariana Grande (Olivia Jones) with his lie detector machine. Grande dates Ben Stiller’s (Gaylord Focker) son in the movie, who’s played by Skyler Gisondo. Stiller doesn’t trust Grande and he’s hesitant to let his son tie the knot with her.

Robert De Niro reprises his role as Jack Byrnes, and he seems to be a much bigger fan of Grande than he was of Stiller in the previous films from the series.

On the music side, Grande released her Petal lead single “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on May 29. Petal is set to arrive on July 31. The LP is Grande’s eighth and serves as the follow-up to Eternal Sunshine, which topped the Billboard 200 in 2024.

Watch the Focker-in-Law trailer below.

Bizarrap can now add “voice actor” to his résumé. The Argentine DJ and producer announced that he will be joining the Disney and Pixar universe, bringing one of the animated film Toy Story 5 characters to life in the Spanish-language version of the upcoming animated film.

To make the news official, the artist posted a carousel of photos on his Instagram account on Monday (June 1), in which he appears with toys of the iconic characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear. One of the photos features him wearing a black baseball cap featuring the font and colors of the franchise’s logo, but the letters form the abbreviation the artist uses for his name: BZRP.

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“I am the voice of ‘Santa de Jardín,’ the new character in Toy Story 5 ((last pic)),” he captioned his post. “Unexpected places you can reach by doing what you love, chapter 42.” The final image of his character features a weathered garden gnome wearing a classic pointy red hat and sporting a bushy white beard.

A press release distributed on Monday (June 1) confirmed that the creator of the “BZRP Music Sessions” will lend his voice to the character “Santa de Jardín” (Garden Santa) in the Spanish-dubbed version of the film, which will be available in Latin America and Spain. According to the statement, “Santa de Jardín” is part of a small community of forgotten toys in a backyard and serves as their protector.

The announcement comes just days after Pixar revealed that Bad Bunny will voice the character Pizza With Sunglasses, both in the original English version and the Spanish-dubbed version. Biza’s character and the “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” singer will share a scene together, the press release revealed.

Toy Story 5 will premiere in the United States on June 19, one day after its release in markets including Mexico and Argentina. Watch the official Spanish-language trailer below:


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Everything’s cool between Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, as far as their kids are concerned.

On the Tuesday (June 2) installment of the Jonas Brothers’ new podcast Hey Jonas, the DNCE frontman delved into how his co-parenting relationship with the Game of Thrones actress — to whom he was married for four years — helps him on a holistic level. “I am a single dad, and I co-parent with my children’s mother,” he began, responding to a listener who’d called in with a question about what the most “healing” part of becoming parents has been for the JoBros.

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“I think my children have given me purpose again in my life,” he continued. “Having them, the reason I do what I do now, meaning go to work … knowing that I get to work hard if I’m not with them and go back to my shared time I get to be with them, it makes it so much better to work that much harder. In my saddest moments, I’m able to be reminded quickly that a hug from them can solve the world’s problems in my own world.”

“I’m grateful I have a co-parent I can balance even the bad days [with],” Joe added. “Having good people around me to help me navigate it is really special. They’ve taught me that I’m going to be OK in my toughest days.”

The musician shares two young daughters with Turner. In 2023, they announced their split with a statement reading, “After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage … truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.”

Before their divorce was finalized the following year, however, the situation between them briefly turned contentious when Turner sued Joe for allegedly refusing to hand over their daughters’ passports, keeping them from returning home with her to England. She dropped the suit after reaching a custody agreement with the singer in January 2024, and they now share custody of the girls.

“My little ones have some incredible women to look up to, including their mom,” Joe said on the School of Greatness podcast this past July. “I have a great co-parenting relationship, which is really important to me.”

Joe is now dating Tatiana Gabriela, making the relationship official on social media in April with photos and a vlog of their recent trip to Puerto Rico. He dropped a solo album, Music For People Who Believe In Love, last year and reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200. Greetings From Your Hometown, the Jonas Brothers’ 2025 album, peaked at No. 6.

Watch Joe open up about coparenting with Sophie Turner below.


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The 2026 NHL Playoffs are almost finished, with the beginning of the NHL Stanley Cup Final around the corner, as puck drops on Tuesday, June 2. The top teams in the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference in the pro hockey league are set to battle for the iconic Stanley Cup trophy.

Want to watch series online? The NHL Stanley Cup Final: Vegas Golden Knights vs. Carolina Hurricanes airs live on ABC and livestreams on ESPN Unlimited. All games begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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There are a number of streaming options for NHL coverage live and on-demand, so read on for how to watch and livestream the NHL Stanley Cup Final without cable.

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If you want to watch the NHL Stanley Cup Final, you can watch ABC without cable with streaming services such DirecTV, Sling TV and others. Most platforms have a free trial or a discount at sign up, so you won’t have to spend anything up front. To help you shop for the right package, we roundup some of the best streaming services and what they offer for NHL fans.

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Sling TV offers Blue, which comes with ABC. With more than 40 channels, Sling Blue goes for $45.99 per month and comes with a free cloud DVR and additional free channels. The streaming service has an add-on package called Sling Sports Extra, which comes with access to NHL Network, for an extra $11 per month. Please note: Pricing and channel availability varies from market to market.

For the best streaming bundle, you can sign up for Hulu + Live TV and get access to the Hulu library in addition to more then 95 live TV channels (including ESPN and NBC). The streaming platform starts at $89.99 per month. And, for even more programming, the streaming service comes bundled with Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited.

ESPN Unlimited is the official streaming platform for ESPN. A subscription includes instant access for $29.99 per month. It features every ESPN network, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, SEC Network+ and ACC Network Extra. In addition to live sports, ESPN Unlimited has original programming to stream on-demand.

Although the streaming service doesn’t have a free trial, you can still watch ESPN Unlimited with a clever workaround to watch online for free. Learn more about how to get a free trial to access ESPN Unlimited here.

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It’s likely there will be a number of celebrities and famous recording artists in attendance during the NHL Playoffs, such as VGK fans Lil’ Jon, Wayne Newton, Gordon Ramsay and others; as well as Canes fans Stephen Colbert, Petey Pablo, John Isner, Evander Holyfield and more. Just tune in to the series to find out who’s sitting rinkside.

NHL Stanley Cup Final 2026 Schedule

The 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final start on Tuesday, June 2, and goes until Wednesday, June 17 — if the series goes to seven games. During the championship series, the Hurricanes have home ice advantage since the team has the better regular season record. Game 1 and Game 2 (as well as Game 5 and Game 7, if necessary) take place at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., while Game 3 and Game 4 (with Game 6, if necessary) are set at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Check out a complete NHL Stanley Cup Final schedule and tournament bracket here.

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Olivia Rodrigo lands her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, debuting atop the June 6-dated surveys with “The Cure.”

In the week ending May 28, following its May 22 release, “The Cure” totaled 19.7 million chart-eligible streams, 292,000 in radio audience and 9,000 sold in the United States, according to Luminate.

Rodrigo previously ruled both rankings with “Brutal” in 2021 and “Bad Idea Right?” in 2023. She has now notched a No. 1 on the charts from each of her three albums: Sour, Guts and her forthcoming You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.

In all, Rodrigo has charted 13 titles on both Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs, 11 of which have hit the top 10.

The streams and sales counts for “The Cure” also land the track at No. 1 on the Alternative Streaming Songs and Alternative Digital Song Sales charts, marking her third leader on the former and first on the latter.

Concurrently, “The Cure” bows at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rodrigo’s sixth top five and eighth top 10, totals that include four No. 1s. “Drop Dead,” the lead single from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, debuted at No. 1 in May and leaps 30-12 on the latest list as the greatest gainer in streaming (13 million, up 13%). “Drop Dead” remains the set’s focus radio track, rising to No. 8 on the Pop Airplay chart.

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is due on Geffen/Capitol Interscope June 12.


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Sony Music Publishing continued to sweep the No. 1 spot on both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 publishing rankings in the first quarter of 2026 after claiming that distinction in all four quarters last year.

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Its best showing this quarter was on the Radio Airplay rankings, where it garnered a 29.11% share, with a stake in 71 of the Top 100 songs, including Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need,” which topped that chart. While that was down slightly from the 75 songs and 30.03% showing it produced in the fourth quarter of 2025, Sony showed a big improvement on the Hot 100 rankings over the prior quarter, posting a 29.08% share with a stake in 65 songs — up from 21.57% and 49 songs in Q4 2025. It also had a stake in the Hot 100 chart’s top song of the quarter, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.”

Another factor boosting Sony’s performance: It was the administrator for the quarter’s top songwriter, the Songs of Orchard’s Shane “sombr” Boose, who accomplished that feat for both charts.

Warner Chappell Music (WCM) came in at No. 2 on both publisher rankings, with a 23.22% share and a stake in 58 songs on Top Airplay; and a 20.49% share and a slice of 50 songs on the Hot 100 chart. WCM’s top Airplay song was the No. 2 track, Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” while its top Hot 100 song was the No. 3 tune, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary.” That marked an improvement on both charts from Q4 2025, when Warner Chappell had a 22.13% share on Top Airplay while claiming 57 songs; and a 16.92% share on pieces of 36 songs on the Hot 100, where it placed third.

On the Top Airplay chart, Warner Chappell has ranked second in 10 of the last 11 quarters — and the only reason it missed out on second in Q4 2024 was because it came in at No. 1. The company also ranks No. 1 on the Top Country Airplay songs chart for the 10th consecutive quarter.

Likewise, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) landed the No. 3 spot in both rankings, and also showed market share improvements. On the Top Airplay rankings, its market share improved to 14.48% (58 songs) from the prior quarter’s 13.92% (44 songs). On the Hot 100 chart, UMPG’s share climbed to 17.55% (47 songs) from the prior quarter’s 16.69% (36 songs), when it ranked fourth. Its top song on both charts in the first quarter was “Man I Need.”

After attaining a lofty No. 2 ranking on the Hot 100 in Q4 2025, Kobalt fell back to its traditional No. 4 spot after a more than 10 percentage point drop to 11.15% from the prior quarter’s 21.43%. On the Radio Airplay rankings, Kobalt finished with a 9.86% thanks to a stake in 32 songs, a drop from its Q4 showing of an 11.59% share and 40 songs. BMG continued to rank at No. 5 on both charts, with 6.19% in market share on Top Radio Airplay (12 songs) and 5.24% (seven songs) on the Hot 100. Concord claimed the No. 6 slot on both rankings, while Top Airplay finished out with Reservoir, Big Machine Music, Mike Curb Music and Sentric, respectively; and the Hot 100 finished with Sentric, Pulse, Bluewater Music and Spirit, all four of which missed the rankings in Q4 2025.


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