Pentatonix collects its 11th top 10-charted album on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart, as the group’s latest release, Christmas In the City, debuts at No. 6 on the chart dated Nov. 8. The 16-track set features new original recordings and covers of familiar favorites, like “Silver Bells” and “Holly Jolly Christmas.”

The group also teams with JoJo on “Snowing in Paris” while the late Frank Sinatra appears posthumously on a rendition of the classic “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.”

Penatonix is no stranger to the Top Holiday Albums chart, as the three-time Grammy Award-winning act has seen all 11 of its entries on the list reach the top 10, dating back to its first visit to the list with 2012’s No. 3-peaking PTXmas. Christmas In the City is also the first album from the quintet with Republic Records, after a career with RCA.

Christmas In the City was released on Oct. 24 via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download, CD and vinyl. It’s the vocal group’s eighth holiday release.

The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each units equals one album sales, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

The Top Holiday Albums chart will continue to be published on a weekly basis through early January of 2026, when it will jingle away until the next holiday season. (The chart generally returns to Billboard’s weekly chart menu every October.)

Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, first released in 1982, returns to Billboard’s charts following its expanded reissue. The set, which peaked at No. 3 on the overall Billboard 200 in its release year, re-enters that list (dated Nov. 8) at No. 26 for its first week on the chart since 1985 and its highest rank since 1982.

Further, Nebraska debuts on a host of charts that didn’t exist in 1982: Americana/Folk Albums (No. 3), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 3), Catalog Albums (No. 4), Top Album Sales (No. 5), Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 6), Vinyl Albums (No. 6) and Top Rock Albums (No. 7).

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Nebraska was reissued on Oct. 24 with 27 additional tracks via streaming services, and to purchase on digital download, CD and vinyl. (The reissue came on the same day as the theatrical debut of the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss.) All versions of Nebraska, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes. In the tracking week ending Oct. 30, Nebraska earned 18,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. Traditional album sales (purchases of digital and physical copies of the album) comprise nearly 15,000 of that sum, with the rest largely powered by streaming activity of the album’s songs.

That 15,000 sales figure equates to a No. 5 debut on Top Album Sales, where Nebraska stands alongside five other debuts in the top 10: Brandi Carlile’s Returning to Myself (No. 1), Demi Lovato’s It’s Not That Deep (No. 2), Daniel Caesar’s Son of Spergy (No. 4), BOYNEXTDOOR’s The Action (No. 7) and Mammoth’s The End (No. 8). As for the holdovers in the top 10, Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls 1-3, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack slips 3-6, Stray Kids’ former leader KARMA is pushed down 5-9 despite a 4% gain in sales, and Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Man’s Best Friend falls 6-10.

Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer wins the 21st Australian Music Prize, celebrating the outstanding Australian album of original work for the past year.

The Australian musician’s debut full length album, issued by Nina Las Vegas’ NLV Records, was announced Thursday afternoon as the 2025 AMP champ, as decided by a music industry panel.

With the victory spoils, Ninajirachi (real name: Nina Wilson) collects A$50,000 in prize money, courtesy of headline sponsor Soundmerch.

The AMP could trigger a gold rush for Ninajirachi in the month of November – Ausmusic month, the annual celebration of Australian music and its creators. The 26-year-old songwriter, producer, DJ and artist will compete for a leading eight trophies at the annual ARIA Awards, where she’s nominated for album of the year, best solo artist, the Michael Gudinski breakthrough artist, best independent release, best dance/electronic release and more.

Modeled on the U.K.’s Mercury Prize, the AMP launched in 2005 as a platform to “discover, reward and promote new Australian music of excellence,” and is today recognized as the most prestigious national award for the album format.

Also shortlisted for the AMP were LPs by Tropical F*** Storm, Folk B**** Trio, Mudrat, and others released during the period Oct. 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2026.

Earlier in the three-stage judging system, a longlist of 465 eligible albums was boiled down to 50nominees, focusing on creative merit over mainstream popularity. The final shortlist of nine was announced tk.

Previous winners include efforts byThe Avalanches, Sampa the Great (twice), Gurrumul, A.B. Original, Courtney Barnett and last year’s recipient, Kankawa Nagarra for Wirlmarni.

The 22nd Soundmerch AMP is open for Australian artist albums released from Oct.1, 25 to Sept. 30, 2026.

Soundmerch Australian Music Prize 2025 shortlist:

Bleak Squad — Strange Love

Divide And Dissolve — Insatiable

Floodlights — Underneath

Folk B**** Trio — Now Would Be A Good Time

Mia Wray Hi — It’s Nice To Meet 

Mudrat Social — Cohesion

Ninajirachi — I Love My Computer

Ruby Gill — Some Kind Of Control

Tropical F*ck Storm — Fairyland Codex

All hail Daniel Caesar.

Just hours after he was crowned on Billboard’s Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Caesar stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a performance of “Who Knows.”

Wearing a red beanie and a blue hooded jacket, and wielding an acoustic guitar, the late-night musical guest commanded the spotlight for this soul-filled number.

“Who Knows” is housed by Son of Spergy (via Hollace/Republic Records), which bowed atop the list dated Nov. 8, for his first leader.  Son of Spergy, the title for which is a nod to the nickname of Caesar’s father, gospel singer Norwill Simmonds, is the fourth album by the Canadian singer-songwriter. 

The collection also enjoys splashes across various Billboard tallies, including a No. 1 start on the Top R&B Albums chart, his first time atop that tally; plus a No. 4 entry on the all-genre Billboard 200, for his first top 10 visit on the main chart; a No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart and No. 11 on the Top Streaming Albums ranking.

Ten of the album’s tracks crack the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led “Who Knows,” which debuts at No. 23 — his best result as a lead artist.

Caesar (real name: Ashton Simmonds) has already reaped serious rewards in his career. He won a 2019 Grammy Award for his “Best Part,” featuring H.E.R.; was featured alongside Giveon on Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” which debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021; and his fruitful collaboration with Tyler, The Creator played a big role in sending the rapper’s 2024 album, Chromakopia, the leadership on the Billboard 200.

Son of Spergy was two years in the making, shaped during sessions in Oracabessa, Jamaica and at Paris’ Rue Boyer and New York’s Electric Lady studios.

“It’s about religion, but more importantly, it’s about my father,” he told Billboard of the new album. “In your childhood, your father is a lot like God. He’s the person you fear the most on earth and also the person whose love and respect you desire more than anyone else on earth. It’s the source from where all your blessings come.”

Watch Caesar’s late-night performance below.

Sounds Right, a charitable cross-DSP playlist featuring music that incorporates the sounds of nature, will now allow any artist to submit their music to the project, it was announced Wednesday (Nov. 5).

Sounds Right initially launched in April 2024 with a playlist featuring new and older tracks with sounds like bird calls, waves, wind and other greatest hits of the mother nature soundscape, woven into music by artists like David Bowie, Brian Eno, Hozier and Ellie Goulding. Royalties generated by this music, which includes 36 original songs that were added this past April, are directed to conservation efforts.

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Now, as scientists and activists from around the world gather in Belem, Brazil for the COP30 UN Climate Conference (Trump administration officials recently announced that no high-level representatives from the U.S. government will attend the event), Sounds Right has announced an update that allows artists to help fund conservation work by officially crediting “Nature” in their music and submitting it for inclusion on the playlist.

Accepted submissions will be incorporated into the Sounds Right playlist, with 50% of royalties raised from any given song going to the artist and the other 50% going to environmental causes. Submissions are open now.

This past Saturday (Nov. 1), Sounds Right announced that the project has so far raised a total of $400,000 for Indigenous and community-led conservation in the Amazon and Congo Basin regions, building on $225,000 it directed to projects in the Tropical Andes in 2024. The funds were announced on stage at Saturday’s Global Citizen Amazonia concert in Belem, which was broadcast throughout Brazil.

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Sounds Right has now added 14 new tracks to the playlist, all of which celebrate the natural world of the Amazon and Africa. The Amazonian contributions come from artists Alexia Evellyn, Pedrina, Antonio Sanchez, Chancha Via Circuito, Systema Solar and Monte (aka Simon Mejia), while the music of artists Juls, Phila Dlozi, Olivetheboy, Bien, Blinky Bill, and Lady Donli showcases the sounds of the Congo Basin region.

“This collection of tracks is a powerful expression of how artists can use their creativity to celebrate and protect the natural world at such a critical moment for our planet,” EarthPercent co-executive director Cathy Runciman tells Billboard. “From Alexia Evellyn recording the rhythms of the Amazon’s rivers and birds to Juls blending Congo Basin forest ambience into Afrobeats, and Antonio Sánchez turning birdsong into percussion, it’s inspiring to see such diverse artists uniting to honor these vital ecosystems and leading a movement to bring nature back into music and culture.”

“It’s an honor and a thrill to be part of Sounds Right,” adds the Grammy-winning Sanchez, whose contribution “Drumming with the Birds” explores the percussive rhythms of Amazonian birdlife. “I believe it’s vital to keep opening new avenues for people to connect with the importance of preserving and protecting Mother Nature. This collaboration, inspired by the Amazon and its remarkable avian life, celebrates that connection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.”

Brazilian producer Alok will also soon release a special track for the Sounds Right project, with the artist saying in a statement that “nature has always played an essential role in music, and the time has come for it to be recognized for that.”


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MELBOURNE, Australia — Oasis won’t look back in anger at their first visit to Australia in two decades.

The Britpop era superstars on Tuesday, Nov. 4 wrapped up the Melbourne leg of their swing down under, a three-concert stand at Marvel Stadium which produced three sellouts, playing to 180,000 fans, reps say.

The rock ‘n’ roll stars have made themselves at home, and made their feeling clear on dodgy ticket resales, which didn’t materialize due to the state of Victoria’s tough anti-touting laws.

Under those rules, tickets can’t be resold for more than 10 per cent above the face value, or face fines from A$908 to A$109,044 for individuals or A$545,220 to A$545,000 for corporations.

The Oasis tour was listed as a “major event,” and with it was protected under the Major Events Act 2009.

As a result, those fans were guarded from paying obscene fees through StubHub or Viagogo, which remains one of live entertainment industry’s mortal enemies.

Oasis has applauded the intervention. “It’s great to see Victoria’s Major Events Declaration doing exactly what it’s meant to — Viagogo can’t list our Melbourne shows — and that’s a huge win for real fans,” reads a statement from the band.

“When government and the live industry work together, we can stop large-scale scalping in its tracks. We’d love to see other states follow Victoria’s lead so fans everywhere get a fair go.”

The Sydney chapter of the Oasis Live ’25 tour begins Friday, Nov. 7 with the first of two back-to-back shows at Accor Stadium, tickets for which are also protected from secondary-market price gouging by New South Wales’ anti-scalping laws. In NSW, it’s an offence to resell a ticket for more than the original retail price, plus transaction costs up to a maximum 10 percent of the original price.

Those laws have “been really successful for the Melbourne show,” a rep for the band’s management tells Billboard.com. “And continues to be a really important thing for the band and team throughout the Live ’25 campaign.”

Scalpers were reportedly forced to try to sell tickets at a loss overseas because they couldn’t sell them in Australia.

A limited number of tickets are available for the final Sydney shows, according to Live Nation Australia, which is producing the domestic swing, and fans can still sell tickets at face value on approved platforms, including Tixel, Twickets and Ticketmaster.

Oasis then heads to Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where the global tour wraps up Nov. 23 in São Paulo.

Read Billboard.com’s recap of Oasis’s opening night concert in Melbourne.

Sexyy Red has officially joined the lineup for Rolling Loud Australia 2026. The breakout rapper was announced as the second artist for the festival’s return, following last week’s confirmation of Gunna as the first headliner.

Rolling Loud Australia is set to take place across two cities in March: Sydney’s Centennial Park on March 7, and Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse on March 8. The twin one-day events mark Rolling Loud’s first shows in Australia since 2019, and the first time the global hip-hop festival brand has expanded to a two-city format in the country.

According to organizers, pre-sale tickets sold out within hours of going live, and general tickets are now on sale via australia.rollingloud.com. Promoters have confirmed that the full festival lineup will be announced in the coming weeks and will include a mix of major international acts and leading Australian artists.

Since breaking through in 2023, Sexyy Red has achieved several Billboard chart milestones. Her highest Hot 100 placement came in November 2024, when she reached No. 10 as a featured artist on Tyler, The Creator’s “Sticky” alongside Lil Wayne and GloRilla. She first entered the Hot 100 with the “Pound Town” remix featuring Nicki Minaj, and followed that with her viral hit “SkeeYee,” which peaked at No. 62 and topped the inaugural TikTok Billboard Top 50. She also appeared on Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy” (No. 11) and scored her first top 20 solo hit in 2024 with “Get It Sexyy,” which peaked at No. 20.

On the Billboard 200, her 2024 mixtape In Sexyy We Trust debuted at No. 17, following her 2023 breakout Hood Hottest Princess (No. 62). In recognition of her independent rise, she was named Billboard’s Indie Rapper of the Year in 2025.

Rolling Loud co-founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, both named multiple times on Billboard’s Hip-Hop Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players list, continue to expand the brand globally. Alongside its flagship Miami festival, Rolling Loud has produced shows in Europe, Asia, Canada, and the Middle East. The franchise also recently announced its debut in India for 2025.

The festival first landed in Australia in 2019, with the debut including performances from Future, Playboi Carti, Rae Sremmurd, Tyga, and a surprise appearance from a then-rising The Kid LAROI.

Another Kylie Christmas is coming.

Kylie Minogue will ring in the holiday period with the 10th anniversary edition of Kylie Christmas, featuring four newly-recorded tracks.

Due out Dec. 5, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (via Warner Records) includes the new yuletide tunes “Hot In December,” “This Time Of Year,” “Office Party” and “XMAS,” an Amazon Music Original.

Pronounced X – M – A – S, the party number is available now to stream from Amazon Music, and is available as a stocking filler on CD, 7” gold vinyl and 12” zoetrope vinyl from the Australian pop princess’s official store.

The album proper should make for a handy present for fans, and is available to preorder in several limited-edition vinyls, from candy cane to transparent red and pink and white marble color-ways. The Amazon exclusive album vinyl is a transparent green.

“Revisiting Kylie Christmas ten years on has been so much fun,” Minogue says in a statement. “Fully Wrapped has given me the chance to write and record four new songs and add a little extra sparkle – I can’t wait for everyone to turn up the volume on the new single, ‘XMAS’!”

Kylie is three decades-and-counting into her stellar career, and there’s a sense that she’s not yet hit her peak.

Raised in Melbourne, the pop veteran’s 2023 album Tension led the national charts in the United Kingdom and Australia, peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the global hit “Padam Padam,” which scooped a Grammy Award (best pop dance recording). Followup Tension II also led the charts in the U.K., Australia and cracked the top 100 in the U.S.

Kylie’s hot streak has included Las Vegas residencies, ARIA Awards; a deal with United Talent Agency (UTA) for live representation in the U.S. and Canada and acting roles worldwide; the Global Icon Award at the 2024 BRIT Awards, becoming just the second woman to win it following Taylor Swift in 2021; and the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award.

More recently, the Aussie legend was a guest on PinkPantheress’s all-star remix project of her Fancy That mixtape, which dropped last month, and she performed alongside ATEEZ for Apple TV+’s new music competition series KPOPPED.

Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) – Amazon Music Editions tracklist:
​1. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
​2. XMAS (Amazon Original)
​3. Santa Baby
​4. Hot In December
​5. At Christmas
​6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Featuring Frank Sinatra)
​7. This Time Of Year
​8. 100 Degrees (Featuring Dannii Minogue)
​9. Office Party
​10. White December
​11. Let It Snow
​12. Christmas Isn’t Christmas Til You Get Here
​13. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

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​1. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
​2. Santa Baby
​3. Hot In December
​4. At Christmas
​5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Featuring Frank Sinatra)
​6. This Time Of Year
​7. 100 Degrees (Featuring Dannii Minogue)
​8. Office Party
​9. White December
​10. Let It Snow
​11. Christmas Isn’t Christmas Til You Get Here
​12. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” scored New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s final advertisement before his election night victory — but the campaign spot has now been removed from X amid a licensing rejection from Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG).

The ad, posted by Mamdani’s various social media accounts just before polls closed on Tuesday (Nov. 4), featured the caption “New York is a-changin’” and a montage of scenes from the 34-year-old progressive’s campaign set to Dylan’s famous protest song. Mamdani was declared the winner of the race Tuesday night, beating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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But as first reported by the New York Times, the ad has since been taken down from X and replaced by a notice reading, “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” The video is still available on Instagram and TikTok.

It was not immediately clear who requested that the video be taken down from the social media platform, but a source familiar with the situation tells Billboard that UMPG, which has owned Dylan’s publishing catalog since 2020, previously denied a request from Mamdani’s campaign to license the composition.

Reached for comment on the matter on Wednesday (Nov. 5), a spokesperson for UMPG said, “As a longstanding policy, we do not license Bob Dylan compositions for projects involving political figures.”

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The Mamdani campaign did not immediately return a request for comment. A rep for Sony Music, which owns Dylan’s master recordings, declined to comment. Representatives from Instagram owner Meta and TikTok did not immediately respond to questions about whether the platforms also received takedown notices for the ad.

While individual social media users are free to soundtrack their videos with songs covered by blanket licenses, advertisements must get clearance from copyright owners via a so-called sync license.

Failure to get a sync license for a political video creates potential legal liability, as Billboard has recently reported in the wake of President Donald Trump’s administration posting TikTok videos featuring Taylor Swift’s No. 1 single “The Fate of Ophelia” and Zach Bryan’s track “Revival.”


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Ten months after unleashing his last of many star-studded music sessions, Bizarrap returns with Daddy Yankee in tow for a new “BZRP Music Session.” 

Titled “BZRP Music Sessions #0/66”— which can easily be interpreted as the first of 66 brand new sessions — the collaboration between the Argentine hitmaker and Puerto Rican global star was announced Tuesday (Nov. 4) on social media just hours before it officially dropped on Wednesday.

In the nearly three-minute-long track, DY returns to his roots spitting bars and rhymes over a reggaetón drum. The electric beat speeds up at some points for that rhythmic DY approach, reminiscent of previous hits, including “Llamada de Emergencia.” In the Biza-produced session, he sings about that positive essence that’s guiding his latest projects.

“If you ask me, I owe nothing to anyone,” DY sings. “When I leave here, I won’t take anything with me, I will just leave [feeling] true love, my feet on the ground, always looking up at the sky.”

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“BZRP Music Sessions #0/66” marks Biza’s comeback after releasing “BZRP Music Sessions #61” alongside Billboard’s former Latin Artist on the Rise Luck Ra last December.

The collaboration also comes just weeks after Daddy Yankee’s Superstar Q&A panel at Billboard Latin Music Week 2025, where he sat with Billboard’s Leila Cobo for a one-hour-long conversation about his personal and professional rebirth after his conversion to Christianity. 

“I feel reborn, reenergized, and truly joyful with everything I’m experiencing,” he said then. “The personal, spiritual, and faith-based change certainly feels good in my heart. Each person has a different purpose and design. Everyone has a purpose to fulfill in their lives, and mine was this path: to forefront popular culture, announcing the Kingdom — that’s a challenge. My father is so strategic that he’s calling many people.”

Watch Bizarrap and Daddy Yankee’s “BZRP Music Sessions #0/66” below: