If this is what dreams are made of, Hilary Duff never wants to wake up. Amid her musical renaissance, the singer-actress has announced that she’s going on a sprawling tour through arenas and amphitheaters all over the world — her first in nearly 20 years — a trek she’s aptly calling The Lucky Me Tour.

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Duff announced the big news on Thursday (Feb. 12), sharing a cute video on Instagram in which she goes through her closet, sifting through iconic pieces and accessories from her past. That includes her microphone headset from The Lizzie McGuire movie — and yes, the former Disney star does try it on and say her fan-favorite line, “Sing for me, Paulo,” in the clip.

“I’M GOING ON A WORLD TOUR!!! … now what do I wear?” Duff wrote in her caption.

The tour will kick off June 22 and see the How I Met Your Father alum headlining major venues — including New York City’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Kia Forum — in North America, Europe and Australia through the end of October. Duff will then take a couple of months off before hitting the road again in 2027 for a string of shows in Canada and one finale performance in Mexico City on Feb. 12.

La Roux, Lauren Spencer Smith and Jade LeMac will serve as supporting acts on various dates in the trek. Duff is running a number of different presales for the tour for different locations and partners, the first of which opens Feb. 16. More information on purchasing tickets can be found on her website.

The tour announcement comes one week ahead of the release of Duff’s first album in more than a decade, Luck … Or Something, which drops Feb. 20. So far, she’s shared two songs from the project: “Mature” and “Roommates.”

It also follows Duff’s brief run of intimate shows on her Small Rooms, Big Nerves stint, which closed on Jan. 19 with a performance in Los Angeles, where she first teased that she’d be going on a grander tour soon on stage. She’s also scheduled for a mini-residency at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, with dates marked down for February and May.

See Duff’s announcement and all of her Lucky Me Tour dates below.

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BTS‘ long-awaited return from their nearly four-year hiatus just keeps getting bigger. On Thursday (Feb. 12) the K-pop superstars announced that they will return to movie screens around the world in April with BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ LIVE VIEWING, a global live cinema event that will bring the two of the group’s full-length concerts to movie screens on April 11 and 18.

According to a release announcing the screenings, RM, Jin, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook will beam into movie theaters to air two of the first shows on their highly anticipated world tour in support of their upcoming album, Arirang. The two screenings will feature a live airing of one of their three kick-off shows in Goyang, South Korea (April 11), followed by a broadcast of the April 18 stop in Tokyo. In total, the outing will present 82 shows in 34 cities across the globe , notching yet another record for the group for the most tour dates by a K-pop artist, according to a release.

Tickets and screening details for each territory will be available here beginning on Feb. 25, with ARMY encouraged to sign up for event alerts. Screening times will vary by territory, with each territory scheduled to screen each concert twice. Tickets will officially go on sale beginning Feb. 25 at 8 a.m. ET.

“Trafalgar Releasing is very proud to bring one of the year’s most significant cultural moments to cinema audiences worldwide. The announcement of BTS WORLD TOUR ARIRANG has been met with extraordinary global demand, and we are excited to continue our longstanding partnership with HYBE and BIGHIT MUSIC on two unmissable live cinema broadcasts this April,” said Trafalagar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby in a statement, which noted that additional live viewings are planned for later this year. “Presenting two full-length concerts from Goyang and Tokyo, these events offer audiences around the world the opportunity to come together and experience the tour on the big screen.”

The upcoming tour — which will find the singers performing in-the-round on a 360-degree stage — is the first by the group since their 2021-2022 Permission to Dance on Stage outing, their final run of shows as a group before all seven members took a break to complete their mandated military service. BTS’ fifth studio album, Arirang, is due out on March 20.

In addition to the album and concert screenings, BTS the Comeback Live | Arirang, a chronicle of the group’s first live show in three years, will stream exclusively on Netflix the day after the LP’s release at 7 a.m. ET on March 21. It will feature the septet taking the stage at Seoul, South Korea’s historic Gwanghwamun Square, the main gate of the historic Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. The comeback will also be chronicled in BTS: The Return, a full-length documentary slated to premiere on Netflix on March 27.


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Though it appeared he tuned into Bad Bunny‘s unifying, love-filled Super Bowl LX halftime show at his Mar-A-Lago resort over the weekend — instead of Christian conservative group Turning Point USA’s Kid Rock-led pre-taped livestream attempt at counter-programming — Donald Trump complained that he could not understand anything Benito said during the 13-minute tribute to the singer’s native Puerto Rico.

Taking to Truth Social right after the set — which was the fourth most-watched halftime show ever — Trump bashed it as “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER,” specifically complaining, “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.”

That specific objection didn’t land with one of Trump’s primary congressional antagonists, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose parents are both of Puerto Rican descent. Asked by reporter Nicholas Ballasy on Tuesday (Feb. 10) what she thought of the show and Trump’s description of the dancing in it as “disgusting,” a smiling AOC responded, “I barely know what Trump’s saying half the time. So… I feel him,” she said of the 79-year-old MAGA leader who has a reputation for garbling the names of other world leaders and meandering from subject to unrelated subject during his speeches.

She also said the quiet part real loud when Ballasy asked for her response to a push by Republican Tennessee Rep Andy Ogles to launch a formal congressional inquiry into the NFL and NBC for what he said was their “prior knowledge, deliberate approval and facilitation of this indecent broadcast,” which he claimed was “pure smut, brazenly aired on national television.”

Considering the set —  which featured surprise guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, as well as Cardi B, Karol G, Jessica Alba and others — was in Spanish, AOC said, “I thought they didn’t understand what he was saying?,” then jokingly adding of Ogles and fellow offended Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida, “I look forward to seeing their Duolingo scores and operating accordingly.”

As for how she felt about the performance, which ended with the singer holding up a football emblazoned with the phrase “Together, We Are America” as well as the message “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” posted on the Jumbotron in Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., AOC said as a Puerto Rican and American it gave her “so much pride.”

“Not only that, but really telling the story of America, and all the Americas,” she said of the bit in the set where Benito read off the names of all the countries that make up the Americas. “He didn’t just play his fantastic music, but he talked about the history of sugar cane farming, of the diaspora of Nuyoricans in New York City, of how all of us can come together as a country. And I think it was incredibly inspiring and fun and joyful in a time that people find very challenging. I thought he made everyone so proud. It made me super proud too.”

Asked if she thought Bunny might tone down his anti-ICE rhetoric after using his showcase on what is traditionally the biggest televised event of the year to push for unity, AOC said, “Oh no! I think a big part of what makes Bad Bunny so important is that he’s one of the few artists that has the courage to actually use his voice in this day and age.”

During his speech accepting the best música urbana album at the Grammy Awards earlier this month for his smash Debí Tirar Más Fotos LP, Bad Bunny slammed the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration blitz, specifically calling out ICE’s aggressive tactics.

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say ICE out!” Benito said to a standing ovation. “We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are not aliens, we are humans and we are Americans. I know it’s tough not to hate on these days and I was thinking sometime we get contaminados [contaminated]. The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don’t hate them. We love our people, we love our family, and that’s the way to do it. We love. That’s the way to do it. Thank God, and thanks to the academy.”


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From backyard parties to stadiums, Fuerza Regida announces their This is Our Dream Tour – the band’s first – ever U.S. stadium tour and shares all the exclusive details with Billboard.

JOP:

I remember when Chris photoshopped the picture us in front of a stadium, sold out stadium. That’s why it’s called This Is Our Dream tour because it was all a dream. You know?

Khyristian:

I remember Wednesday, even Tuesday, sometimes Wednesdays with Thursdays. You get that text, “hey we got a gig on Saturday.” H*** yeah. Like you get all happy because you know you’re about to work, and then Friday hits. “Hey, we got another gig today out of nowhere.” Get happy. It’s a crazy feeling. Like, kind of like telling a kid, “hey, we’re about to go to Disneyland.” It was that same feeling. We got a gig on Saturday.

JOP:

Right? Like whenever the privada, like, you know, you about to go serve a little whiskey, it was like the best job ever, huh? Free tacos. That’s how it was. Just like, you know? 

José “Pelon:”

We had to work so much, though. 

JOP:

Just the feeling of some free tacos. 

Moisés López:

It was just mostly like a jam out in the backyard. 

JOP:

Yeah, like you’re jamming out. You’re having fun.

Samuel:

At least once it was kind of funny for me. It was kind of nervous, like nerve wrecking still because you still got to perform, so they call you back. You want to get called back to work with the clients. But yeah, I mean…

JOP:

Yeah, it was still like work like at the end that we had to go perform good. Like, hey, we’re gonna do this s*** chaca, you know, like, we’re gonna do it good. We probably did like, one or two quinceaneras. But our type of clients were fools drinking. Fools having a little carne asada pretty much. 

Khyristian:

They used to have a start at 10pm/11pm.

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Fuerza Regida is coming to a stadium near you.

The Música Mexicana heavyweights today (Feb. 12) announce their first-ever stadium tour of the United States, a dream run that goes coast-to-coast this summer.

Dubbed This Is Our Dream, the nine-city trek gets underway June 18 at Petco Park, San Diego, CA, will visit open-air venues in San Franciso, Seattle, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Arlington, and wraps up Aug. 7 with a concert at Citi Field, New York.

Live Nation is producing the tour, which comes off the back of a banner year for Fuerza Regida, during which time the band completed their Esto No Es Un Tour, nabbed a first Grammy Award nomination and made history by playing to sold-out crowds at Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden in the same weekend.

The forthcoming jaunt is a dream turned reality. The inspiration, Jesús Ortiz Paz (JOP) tells Billboard in an exclusive interview, can be traced to a Photoshopped image of Fuerza Regida playing a stadium.

“That’s why it’s called This Is Our Dream tour, because it was all a dream.” The sky is the limit. “We’re going to be the biggest,” he remarks. “This is our dream. A stadium tour.”

The lads have been working out, physically and mentally, to be in tip-top shape. And they’ve spared no expense on the show.

“We’ve spent a lot of money on the production. To make sure the fans get the best experience,” JOP explains. “It’s not about us taking most of the money home, it’s about putting it back into the project for the fans to enjoy the show.”

Also, the band will host special “Rooftop” parties for celebrities and VIPs. “If I wasn’t performing,” JOP enthuses, “that’s where I’d want to be.”

This trek sees the outfit graduate from playing backyard parties to nightclubs, theaters, amphitheaters, arenas and now baseball parks. One day, they’ll step on up to football stadiums. “You’ve got to take it to the next level,” he adds. “We’re going to make sure it’s better” than anything that has come before it.

The New Year has begun with new music for Fuerza Regida. The band recently dropped their first cut for 2026, “Triston,” a melodic cumbia-norteño single, infused with corrido influences.

Momentum is with the five-piece. They’re up for eight trophies at Premio Lo Nuestro 2026, set for Feb. 19, and they’re nominated for regional Mexican artist of the year at the 13th annual iHeartRadio Music Awards, on March 26.

The artist presale for This Is Our Dream is open through Sunday, Feb. 15 at 11 p.m. eastern time. Visit here for details. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday, Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. local time on LiveNation.com.

“This Is Our Dream” Tour Dates:

June 18 — Petco Park, San Diego, CA

June 20 — Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA

June 25 — T-Mobile Park, Seattle, WA

July 10 — Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV

July 12 — Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ

July 18 — Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA

July 26 — Daikin Park, Houston, TX

July 31 — Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX

We know that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married, but that’s about it. Since the engagement heard ’round the world last August, the pop star and Kansas City Chiefs tight end have kept their wedding plans super secret. And good luck getting Travis’ mom, Donna Kelce, to divulge any information about their plans, even though she swears they didn’t make her sign her life away to keep her from talking.

When a TMZ reporter caught up with Donna at an airport recently, he asked everyone’s favorite football mom if she had to sign a non-disclosure agreement about the wedding as a safety precaution for the high-profile couple.

“No, no, no,” Donna Kelce said firmly. “They know I can keep a secret.”

As for whether she’s looking forward to the mother-son dance at Taylor and Travis’ wedding, Donna said, “I”m sure it will be interesting. That’s for sure.” Asked if she has a favorite song she might dance to with Travis, Kelce recalled that at older son Jason’s wedding they cut it up to the B52s classic “Love Shack.”

“So we’ll see what I can muster,” she joked. At press time no details had been announced about where, or when, Taylor and Travis plan to tie the knot.

Mama Kelce was also asked by the TMZ correspondent what it felt like to be a star in her own right now and she threw cold water on any suggestion that she has gone from smiling in the stands at her sons’ football games to being a red carpet-worthy celebrity in her own right. “Oh no, no, no, no, it’s just… I had a mission to go on Traitors… and I knew my mission,” she said with a smile. “My mission was to increase viewership because of the people I know. Not because of me!”

Donna said she had a great time on the fourth season of the hit Peacock series The Traitors, where she was banished in the third episode after it was revealed that she was, indeed, a traitor. When asked if there were any other reality shows she might be good at, Kelce said, “I’m just not a reality star,” saying Survivor is “way too tough.” As for Naked and Afraid, she laughed, “no, that would be sad for everybody watching.”


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When Cardi B announced her Little Miss Drama Tour last September, she promised she’d be “going straight to rehearsal” until the start of the run. And on Wednesday night (Feb. 11), as the rap diva kicked things off with a sold-out show at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif. she sure delivered.

The rapper packed 37 songs into her nearly two-hour set, unfolding across several acts that featured her Am I the Drama? almost in its entirety. The first act saw Cardi debut fan favorites from her sophomore album, including “Salute,” “Check Please,” and “Trophies,” stacking the performances with sharp choreography alongside more than 15 onstage dancers.

But even if the tour title suggested it, Cardi made room for her biggest hits, too, including her verses from viral collaborations like Ozuna’s “La Modelo” and Bruno Mars’ “Please Me,” along with Invasion of Privacy classics such as “Bartier Cardi” and “Thru Your Phone.”

The Little Miss Drama Tour marks Cardi’s first-ever solo arena run and comes on the heels of her high-energy musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live — a strong indicator of what was to come with the show. Her SNL rendition of “Bodega Baddie” expanded into a full salsa- and merengue-backed act that was an immediate crowdpleaser. She made room for throwbacks and showed off her curvaceous figure as she slipped into six sexy, bedazzled outfits throughout the night. 

Cardi will continue her Little Miss Drama arena tour later this week with shows in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, before continuing her cross-country trek through mid-April. Here are the seven best moments of opening night of Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert. (And if you want to check out the full setlist, check here.)


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A smattering of guests at Melbourne’s Cherry Bar got more than they bargained on Wednesday night (Feb. 11) when Chappell Roan stopped in with her crew — and downed a couple of mocktails.

The superstar American alternative pop artist is currently headlining the Laneway festival tour, which completed its Sydney leg on Sunday, Feb. 8 with a sold-out show at Centennial Park, and moves on to Melbourne’s Flemington Park this Friday, Feb. 13.

With the blessing of some time to kill, Roan visited the legendary dive bar in central Melbourne. And she did so on a slow night.

“I reckon we had maybe 17 punters in at the time,” writes Cherry Bar owner and booker James Young, who was DJing at the time.

“Didn’t take any pictures of her, cos that would be uncool, but can report that she drank a couple of mocktails and was very modest, polite and lovely,” he continues. “She didn’t hide in the ‘VIP’ Andy Bar,” he adds, but “stood the whole time at our main bar downstairs. This means everything. We think she’s the biggest artist on the planet. She thinks… she’s just a normal human. Gold.”

Roan was at the right place, though perhaps the wrong night. Cherry Bar is an institution, a music joint with sticky carpets, a soundtrack pumping with rock, blues and alternative, and a beer-soaked history. The venue opened its doors in 1999 at the bottom of AC/DC Lane, boasting Cosmic Psychos drummer Bill Walsh among its owners.

Over the years, a who’s who of rock music has partied the night away at Cherry, including Noel Gallagher, members of Arctic Monkeys, Metallica, TV on the Radio and many others. In March 2019, the venue hosted its final night at AC/DC Lane, before moving to its current home at 68 Little Collins Street.

In his social post, Cherry’s Young gave a shout out to Roan’s crew, who were “especially supportive,” and to Laneway Festival for “stimulating” the “struggling Melbourne hospitality scene. The world needs people on the streets.”

Laneway has a reputation for booking acts before they go supernova. They did it with Billie Eilish, Fred Again, Tame Impala and many more.

Young is right. Roan is the biggest artist, certainly in Australia. “‘Good Luck, Babe!” came in at No. 1 on triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2025, with the most number of votes in the history of countdown.

After Melbourne, Laneway will visit Adelaide Showgrounds (Feb. 14) and Perth’s Arena Joondalup (Feb. 15). Co-founder by Danny Rogers and Jerome Borazio, Laneway this year celebrates its 21st birthday year with a lineup led by Roan and featuring Alex G, PinkPantheress, Wolf Alice, Role Model, Wet Leg and others.

Fresh off popping up during Bad Bunny’s halftime show in La Casita over the weekend, Cardi B officially launched her Little Miss Drama arena tour Wednesday night (Feb. 11) at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, CA — stacking the setlist with Invasion of Privacy staples and sticky standouts from her sophomore LP Am I the Drama?

With more than a dozen dancers backing her, Cardi delivered a turbo-charged, nearly two-hour set, squeezing in as many hits and new-era favorites as possible — even if it meant powering through just a verse and chorus to keep things moving. The star engaged in chair choreography, flew elevated over the crowd on a flying throne, and even delivered a salsa number worthy of Dancing with the Stars.

“They thought I wasn’t gonna be sold out. What? Y’all was ready for my tour?!” she asked the crowd before launching into “WAP.” “Let me hear Palm Springs right quick. This is the first crowd! First crowd, and it’s sold out! Bardi f–ing gang, mothaf—r.”

Cardi first announced that she was going on tour while guest-hosting Today with Jenna Bush Hager last September, telling the anchor she’d be “going straight to rehearsal” after dropping the LP. “I’m going to be working out — I hate working out, but I gotta do it,” she joked. And she sure delivered, sneaking in complex choreography on several of her songs, including “Money” and “On My Back.”

The 35-date run for her Little Miss Drama tour continues Thursday in Las Vegas, with arena stops through April 18, including a hometown show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 25.

Below is the complete, 37-song setlist for the first night of Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour:

For one achy breaky contestant, The Masked Singer came to an abrupt end on Wednesday night, Feb. 11 when Owl was eliminated.

The latest episode of Fox’s quirky singing series celebrated Twilight and Valentine’s Day. Christina Perri opened with a performance of “A Thousand Year,” her song from the vampire romance franchise.

As the competition got underway, Cat Witch sang “It Will Rain” by Bruno Mars; 14 Karat Carrot performed “Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones; Stingray hit “Bad Habits” by Ed Sheeran; and Owl went with “White Wedding” by Billy Idol.

Owl and Stingray faced the axe, and both battled with performances of Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield.”

In the end, Owl had to fly.

Under the mask was Billy Ray Cyrus, the country star who had a massive global hit in 1992 with “Achy Breaky Heart,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

To younger generations, Cyrus is probably best known as the father of Miley and Noah, and the collaborator with Lil Nas X, whose 2019 version of “Achy Breaky Heart” logged 19 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a then record.

“It’s an honor to be with y’all,” he said after the big reveal. “You know, it’s been a lot of fun. Music changes everything, music changes lives.”

Panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Rita Ora and Robin Thicke all failed to guess who was under the helmet.  

“It’s very rare that none of us get it right,” remarked Thicke, “especially for such a big name and a big star and somebody we’ve guessed so many times. So to be able to fool all of us, that’s quite an accomplishment.”

With the benefit of hindsight, the veteran singer did give some handy pointers. There was a “1992” sign, pointing to the year of Miley’s birth, and the release of his signature song. And an image of a billy goat.

And with this Saturday, Feb. 14 marking Valentine’s Day, the reference to the “lady in red” was a clue to his lady. “An angel came into my life named Elizabeth Hurley,” he remarked.

With the departure of Cyrus, a two-time Grammy Award winner, just 10 contestants remain in this season 14 of The Masked Singer, including all three wildcards.

Watch the unmasking below.