Drake Sets ARIA Chart Record

With his recent triple drop, Drake establishes a new record on Australia’s albums chart.

The Canadian hip-hop star dominates the ARIA Charts as Iceman debuts at No. 1, Maid Of Honour bows at No. 5 and Habibti is new at No. 6. And with that feat, he becomes the first artist to crack the top 10 with three new albums in the same frame since the ARIA Charts were first published in 1983.

That bests previous efforts by Guns N’ Roses and Bruce Springsteen, according to ARIA. GN’R landed a double in 1991 when Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the same week, while The Boss did the same the following year, in 1992, with Human Touch (No. 3) and Lucky Town (No.6).

Drizzy now boasts 16 solo and collaborative top 10 albums including, including leaders Views (from 2016), Scorpion (2018), Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020), Certified Lover Boy (2021) and For All The Dogs (2023).

Also making a strong start on the ARIA Albums Chart is Genesis Owusu, the beloved Aussie rock-star whose third album Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge, opens its account at No. 3. That’s a career-best effort for the Canberra-raised artist, after his multiple award-winning 2021 debut Smiling With Now Teeth peaked at No. 27, and 2023 followup Struggler went to No. 4.

Further down the ARIA Chart for Monday, May 25, homegrown rock outfit Rose Carleo Band bows at No. 34 with their debut LP 42 Days.

The Drake dump makes a major impact on the ARIA Singles Chart, too. All told, 15 Drake singles enter the ARIA Top 50 this week, including five in the top 10: “National Treasures” at No. 4, “Janice STFU” at No. 5, “Whisper My Name” at No. 6, “Make Them Cry” at No. 9 and “Dust” at No. 10.

Drake is closing in on 100 top 50 hits in these parts. Including collaborations, he boasts 98 appearances on the chart, including No. 1s with “One Dance” featuring Wizkid and Kyla from 2016, and “God’s Plan,” “Nice For What” and “In My Feelings” in 2018.

At the top of the leaderboard is Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” which enters a second week at No. 1.

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Fuerza Regida Closed Sueños 2026 With Corridos, Chaos and Manifested Glory

Fuerza Regida opened its Sueños 2026 headlining set with “Marlboro Rojo,” and within seconds, the mood at Grant Park tipped from festival excitement into something sweatier, louder and a little less stable. By Sunday night (May 24), the San Bernardino group had turned the final stretch of one of the country’s biggest Latin music festivals into a full-blown corridos fever dream — the kind with girls screaming, bodies giving out near the barricade and songs hitting hard enough to feel almost physical.

That was always going to be part of the story. In a conversation with Billboard before the set, the group reflected on playing the inaugural Sueños in 2022 without top billing and coming back this year to headline — a move they said they had already “manifested.” After a run that included their groundbreaking album IIIXPANTIA (2025) and an even bigger grip on the corridos conversation, the upgrade felt earned.

JOP hit the stage in a black trench coat, beanie and sunglasses, serving regional Mexican menace with just enough rockstar vanity to send the front rows into overdrive. The screaming started instantly. So did the phones. At a certain point, the reaction around him stopped feeling like regular festival fandom and started reading more like mass devotion — primal, messy, borderline unwell. But Fuerza Regida’s pull is bigger than one frontman. As a band, they’ve figured out how to make corridos hit like adrenaline, and Sueños felt fully locked into that frequency.

The set moved with the loose, cocky energy of artists who knew they could afford to have fun. Chuyin — the masked Street Mob artist whose debut album recently landed on the Billboard charts — popped up for “Pues Ya Ni Pedo.” Chino Pacas returned to the stage for “Qué Onda.” Los Gemelos de Sinaloa and Clave Especial added to the sense that this was less a tightly controlled headline slot than a rolling onstage link-up between artists moving inside the same orbit. One of the most electric pivots came from Moises López, usually posted up with the tololoche, who assumed vocal duties for the first time live and ripped off his shirt mid-hype like the assignment was to keep pushing the temperature higher.

And then there were the pauses. More than once, the set had to stop while distressed fans fainted were attended to and pulled out, carts repeatedly cutting through the crowd. Call it the Michael Jackson effect, call it overstimulation, call it what happens when a band gets big enough to short-circuit the people trying to see it up close. Whatever the label, the point landed.

Sueños ended on Fuerza Regida’s terms: corridos at full volume, guests in rotation, fans hanging on by a thread. Next up, the group takes that same energy on the road with Esto No Es Un Tour, which kicks off its U.S. stadium run on June 18 at Petco Park in San Diego.

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Dylan Gossett Returns to Australia and New Zealand on The Headed Out Back Tour

Dylan Gossett is returning to Australia and New Zealand this December for The Headed Out Back Tour, his second run through the region following a breakthrough year that has established the 27-year-old Texas singer-songwriter as one of country music’s most in-demand live draws.

The six-date tour opens at The Ice Cream Factory in Perth on Dec. 3 before heading to Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane (Dec. 5), the Sydney Opera House Forecourt (Dec. 6) and Festival Hall in Melbourne (Dec. 8). The New Zealand leg follows with shows at Auckland’s Town Hall (Dec. 11) and Waipara Winehouse in North Canterbury (Dec. 12). Artist presale begins Tuesday, May 26 at 12 p.m. local time, with general on sale opening Friday, May 29 at 1 p.m. local time.

The tour is promoted by Live Nation and marks Gossett’s return to the region off the back of his 2025 debut album Westward, released via Big Loud Texas/Mercury Records. The self-written and self-produced record — a thematic exploration of love, family, faith and the pursuit of a lifelong dream — was led by singles “Like I Do,” “American Trail” and “Sweet Lady,” and was followed by a deluxe edition featuring three additional tracks.

Gossett first broke through in 2023 with “Coal,” a single that has since surpassed 500 million streams, cracked the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.K. Official Singles Chart, and earned multi-platinum certifications worldwide. He has since built a catalogue of Gold-certified singles including “Beneath Oak Trees,” “To Be Free” and “If I Had A Lover,” and has sold more than 200,000 headline tickets worldwide.

His festival credits include Stagecoach, SXSW, CMA Fest, Country 2 Country and Austin City Limits, alongside his Grand Ole Opry debut and support slots for Noah Kahan and Morgan Wallen.

Dylan Gossett: The Headed Out Back Tour — Australia & New Zealand 2026

Dec. 3 — Perth, AUS — The Ice Cream Factory
Dec. 5 — Brisbane, AUS — Fortitude Music Hall
Dec. 6 — Sydney, AUS — Sydney Opera House Forecourt
Dec. 8 — Melbourne, AUS — Festival Hall
Dec. 11 — Auckland, NZ — Town Hall
Dec. 12 — North Canterbury, NZ — Waipara Winehouse

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Drake Ties Taylor Swift for the Most Billboard 200 No. 1 Albums Among Soloists

With Drake’s ICEMAN debuting at No. 1 on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 30), the superstar picks up his 15th leader. In turn, he ties Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s among soloists. Drake and Swift trail just one act, The Beatles, who have the most No. 1s among all acts, with 19. JAY-Z now follows Drake and Swift, with 14 leaders.

Take a look at the list of every act with at least 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 — since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956 — below.

In addition to his latest No. 1 achievement, Drake now has 20 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, counting the debuts of ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR. That makes him the rap act with the most top 10s, surpassing Future, who has 18.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 30, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 27 (a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. on May 25). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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The Pretty Reckless Release ‘Dear God,’ Title Track From Upcoming Fifth Album

The Pretty Reckless have released “Dear God,” the title track from their forthcoming fifth studio album, due June 26 via Fearless Records.

The track arrives as the band’s fourth single from the album, following lead single “For I Am Death” — which became their eighth No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, the most by any woman-fronted act in the chart’s history — “When I Wake Up,” currently sitting at No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, and last month’s “Love Me.”

Where the earlier singles leaned into intensity and grit, “Dear God” pulls toward something more haunting — a slow-building track led by Taylor Momsen’s vocals that climbs toward an electrifying guitar solo, with lyrics framing a desperate plea for escape.

“Dear God is desperation set to music,” Momsen said in a statement. “When life gets that physical, that brutal, you leave your body and start begging something bigger than yourself to pull you out. That space between heaven and hell isn’t a metaphor. It’s somewhere you actually live.”

DEAR GOD — the album — is described as the band’s most emotionally raw and uncompromising record to date, written with what the band calls diaristic honesty. The 14-track set includes “Life Evermore” across three parts bookending the album, alongside “Dragonfire,” “Eye of the Storm” and closer “Devil in Disguise (Michelle’s Song).” A headlining world tour in support of the album has already been announced, kicking off in North America with dates in New Orleans, Dallas and Los Angeles before heading to Europe.

The release arrives at a milestone-heavy stretch for the band. In 2025 they completed a two-year run supporting AC/DC on the PWR UP Tour, performed with Soundgarden at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and appeared at the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala honouring Mariah Carey. Their holiday EP Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas produced a reimagined version of “Where Are You Christmas?” that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Finally Gets Physical Release on Blu-ray and DVD: Order It Here

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KPop Demon Hunters is finally getting a physical release.

Almost a year after it first debuted on Netflix, the hit animated musical is set for a Criterion Collection release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD. This marks the first time the film has been available for viewing outside of streaming, save for a brief theatrical run last summer and a second run of a “sing-along” version last fall.

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Amazon is showing a release date of Dec. 31 for the KPop Demon Hunters Criterion Collection disc, though it may just be a placeholder (the cover art seen at right is also not finalized). The release date has moved a few times according to the Amazon listing, and it’s likely Sony Pictures will want to have the Blu-ray and DVD out before the holidays for gifting season.

Not much is known about the upcoming physical release, though Criterion Collection editions usually include bonus content and some sort of upscaled audio and visual presentation. To wit: the Amazon listing includes a 4K version of the film on Blu-ray. And the writers of the film have teased a number of deleted scenes, including a sub-plot modeled on the “Idol Star Athletics Championships,” a competition event in Korea that features K-pop idols competing in sports and team challenges.

Past Criterion Collection editions, like the recently released Monty Python’s Life of Brian, have included everything from audio commentary from the cast and crew, to a “making of” documentary, and animated stills. As the distribution company states on its website, Criterion is dedicated to promoting a film “as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations” and with “special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.”

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Pre-order KPop Demon Hunters on Blu-ray, DVD or 4K Ultra HD now on Amazon.com. Amazon’s pre-order price guarantee ensures that you’ll only be charged whatever the lowest price is between the time you order the film and the day it’s officially released.

Worth noting: Netflix films almost never get a physical release, let alone a Criterion Collection edition, so this is a big deal for fans and collectors alike. Already the most-viewed original title in Netflix history, KPop Demon Hunters, also took home two Oscars, for Best Animated Feature, and Best Original Song for the hit single, “Golden.”

For more product recommendations, check out ShopBillboard’s roundup of the best KPop Demon Hunters merch, and shop the official trading cards release here.

About the Author

Tim Chan is the VP of Commerce at Penske Media, overseeing fashion, tech, lifestyle and streaming coverage across marquee brands like Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and WWD, among others. Previously, Chan was the first-ever Lifestyle Editor at Rolling Stone, covering all things fashion, culture and travel through an entertainment lens. In addition to PMC, his bylines over the years have appeared in L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Korea, i-D and more. Chan has also consulted for a number of fashion brands, advising them on media and marketing strategy. He graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. A big K-pop fan, Chan has interviewed groups like Monsta X, EXO and Enhypen and recently hosted a keynote chat with KPop Demon Hunters creator Maggie Kang at the Departure Festival in Toronto.

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Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts Welcomes Her First Baby With Fiancé Mitch Hahn

Nicola Roberts has announced the arrival of her first child.

On Sunday (May 24), the 40-year-old Girls Aloud singer revealed on social media that she and her fiancé, Mitch Hahn, recently welcomed a baby daughter.

“Our beautiful baby girl is here,” Roberts wrote on Instagram alongside adorable photos of her newborn. “We haven’t stopped staring at her perfect little face or kissing her softest little head.”

The vocalist added, “She arrived healthy and content a couple of weeks ago at 38 weeks weighing 6.5lbs and is thriving. It’s heaven on earth with her and we can hardly believe she’s ours.”

Roberts’ post included several adorable snapshots, including one of the glowing new mother holding her child, another showing the infant’s tiny hand resting on hers, and a picture of Hahn carrying the baby in a car seat.

Fellow celebrities quickly flooded the comments section with congratulatory messages.

“Congratulations!!!!!!!!! Sending so much love!!” her Girls Aloud bandmate Nadine Coyle wrote. Sophie Ellis-Bextor added, “congratulations!! Xxx.” And Little Mix star Perrie Edwards, who welcomed her second child earlier this year, commented, “Congratulations! Enjoy the baby bubble.”

Roberts and the former soccer player got engaged during a trip to the South of France in August 2024. The couple announced on Christmas 2025 that they were expecting their first child together.

“Mitch and I have had the most magical Christmas Day sharing the most precious news with our families,” Roberts wrote on Instagram at the time. “We’ve been keeping a secret. We are five months pregnant! We can’t wait to meet our little one in the spring.”

She documented much of her pregnancy journey on social media in the months that followed, including her “surreal” baby shower on Easter. In late April, Roberts also revealed that she had undergone surgery at 22 weeks to “help keep the baby in.”

“Hitting that 34 week mark was a big relief,” Roberts wrote on Instagram April 28. “I now only have a few weeks left. Safe to say, this last bit is not the easiest is it?! In one breath, it will be nice to feel more comfortable again but I will also really miss my bump and having this tiny little thing in there.”

Girls Aloud members Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh and Roberts reunited for an arena tour across the U.K. and Ireland in 2024, marking their first tour in more than 11 years. Following the reunion trek, Roberts starred as Persephone in the West End production of Hadestown at London’s Lyric Theatre, appearing in the role from September 2025 through January 2026.

See Roberts’ baby announcement on Instagram here.


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Fans Choose Neutro Shorty’s ‘El Disco de Salsa’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music

Neutro Shorty’s El Disco de Salsa has topped this week’s new music poll.

In a poll published Friday (May 22) by Billboard, music fans selected the Venezuelan rapper’s latest album as their favorite new release of the week.

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El Disco de Salsa (the salsa album) earned 75% of the vote, outperforming new releases from Olivia Rodrigo (“The Cure”), Greeicy (Candela), Charli xcx (“SS26”), Lola Young (“From Down Here”), Brandi Carlile (“Life on the Run”), and others.

Since rising to prominence in 2012 with his 5 Historias mixtape, Neutro Shorty (born Liomar Ricardo Acosta Orta) has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Venezuela’s trap scene.

On the new project, he shifts away from his signature rap style, embracing a more melodic approach for a full-length salsa album. The 12-track set draws inspiration from salsa brava, a genre popularized in 1970s New York by acts such as the Fania All-Stars.

The Caracas-born artist also earns co-signs from several salsa legends on the album, including Gilberto Santa Rosa on “Un Consejo,” Porfi Baloa — founder of Los Adolescentes — on “Infidelidad,” and Oscar D’León on a rendition of Willie Colón’s classic “Idilio.”

Rodrigo’s “The Cure” came in second on the poll with nearly 17% of the vote. The track is the second single from the three-time Grammy winner’s upcoming third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which arrives on June 12.

Greeicy followed in third place with Candela, which earned 3% of the vote. The project brings together the Colombian singer’s latest hits alongside new tracks that move away from the pop-urban sound that first made her a breakout star.

Check out the full results of this week’s poll below, and visit Billboard’s Friday Music Guide for more must-hear new releases.


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‘Michael’ Becomes 2nd Music Biopic to Top $700 Million in Global Boxoffice Grosses: See the Full List

The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has grossed $788 million worldwide since its release on April 24, according to boxofficemojo.com. Michael already ranks No. 2 on Billboard’s list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses.

Jackson has a long history of ranking No. 1 on lists, dating back to The Jackson 5 landing their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Want You Back” in 1970, but that hasn’t been an easy task in this case. The all-time top-grossing music biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, grossed $911 million worldwide. Can Michael close that $123 million gap and overtake the Freddie Mercury biopic? It just may. It grossed $166.1 million in the past week.

According to Box Office Mojo figures, international ticket sales account for nearly 60% of Michael‘s worldwide boxoffice total to date. International is responsible for 59.4% of the boxoffice tally, with the other 40.6% coming from the U.S. and Canada.

Of note: Graham King, who co-produced Michael with longtime Jackson associates John Branca and John McClain, also co-produced Bohemian Rhapsody and a third music biopic on this list, Jersey Boys, the story of the Four Seasons.

These are the highest-grossing biopics of musicians in terms of worldwide box office. We didn’t include a few high-grossing films about real-life music personalities because the subjects are not well-known music stars in their own right. These include The Sound of Music (which tells the story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers); Green Book (which deals with a road trip taken by pianist and composer Don Shirley); Florence Foster Jenkins (about an heiress and hopelessly untalented soprano by that name); and Music of the Heart (about violinist and music educator Roberta Guaspari). Meryl Streep starred in the latter two films.

Here are the 25 biopics of music stars with the highest worldwide grosses.

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Drake Makes History at Nos. 1, 2 & 3 on Billboard 200 With ‘ICEMAN,’ ‘HABIBTI’ & ‘MAID OF HONOUR’

Drake takes over the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart as his three new albums, ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR, debut at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the chart dated May 30.

All three albums were released on Friday, May 15. It’s the first time that an artist has held the top three on the Billboard 200 concurrently since it began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

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ICEMAN also yields Drake his 15th No. 1 album, pushing him ahead of Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among solo men and R&B/hip-hop artists, and tying him with Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s among soloists. Only one act is ahead of Drake and Swift: The Beatles, with a record 19 No. 1 albums.

While ICEMAN had been teased for months before it dropped, the existence of the other two albums was only announced during a livestream on May 14, shortly before the trio of titles was released.

ICEMAN enters with 463,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 21, marking the second-largest week of 2026 for an album and the biggest week of the year for an R&B/hip-hop set. HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR launch with 114,000 and 110,000 units, respectively.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, rapper LUCKI lands his first top 10 as Dr*gs R Bad debuts at No. 9.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 30, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 27 (a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. on May 25). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of ICEMAN’s 463,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 449,000 (equaling 462.2 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 18 tracks; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 13,000 (only available as a digital download, it debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Of HABIBTI’s starting sum of 114,000, SEA units comprise 108,000 (equaling 110.63 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 11 tracks; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise nearly 6,000 (it debuts at No. 12 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

As for MAID OF HONOUR, of its first-week total of 110,000, SEA units comprise 104,000 (equaling 105.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 tracks; it debuts at No. 3 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it debuts at No. 11 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Both HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR, like ICEMAN, were available to purchase only as digital download albums.

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