Being the cinephile that The Weeknd is, fans shouldn’t be surprised to see him tap Gaspar Noé to direct his hallucinatory “Big Sleep” video, which arrived on Friday (Oct. 10).

The chaotic clip is a shot of adrenaline as Abel blinds viewers with the lights. There’s even a warning message for those suffering from epilepsy or photosensitive fans to take note of before watching: “This video contains sequences of flashing lights and imagery that may affect photosensitive viewers.”

In the video, an elderly man — played by Hiep Tran Nghia — gingerly hobbles around a stone town before an apocalypse of sorts strikes. Statue heads of The Weeknd and “Big Sleep” producer Giorgio Moroder hover over the city while colorful lights flash from the clouds.

Nghia lies in the center of the deserted town as his spirit is seemingly overtaken by Abel and Moroder, whose eyes mimic the colors of the lights surrounding them.

“Big Sleep” landed on the XO leader’s Hurry Up Tomorrow album and features co-production from disco trailblazer Giorgio Moroder.

After a mammoth run through North America as part of the After Hours Til Dawn Tour, Abel’s heading overseas in 2026. Earlier this week, he announced seven additional shows for the U.K. and European leg.

There are now 36 dates in total, with Abel adding shows in Manchester, U.K.; Copenhagen, Denmark; Munich; Lille, France; Barcelona, Spain; and Lisbon, Portugal. There is also a fourth date slated for Paris’ Stade de France. Fans can expect Playboi Carti to serve as support on the European trek.

Watch the ominous “Big Sleep” video above.

In a historic year, the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week will gather more than 100 guests, including artists, industry leaders, and content creators, as well as over 30 panels focusing on music trends, the music business, and icon Q&A’s, among others.

This year’s star-studded lineup includes Aitana, Alofoke, Anuel AA, Bebeshito, Carlos Vives, Carín León, Danny Ocean, DJ Khaled, Daddy Yankee (DY), Emilia Mernes, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Grupo 5, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Luck Ra, Netón Vega, Olga Tañón, Óscar Maydon, Ozuna, Pablo Alborán, Rawayana, Suzette Quintanilla, Tokischa, Xavi and Yailin La Más Viral, to name a few.

Additionally, Latin Music Week will host live concerts throughout the week, including three highly-anticipated showcases at the Stardust Lounge, located in The Fillmore Miami Beach featuring rising Latin acts such as Christian Alicea, Golden, and Alejo.

Returning to The Fillmore Miami Beach from Oct. 20 to 24, Latin Music Week also coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air Thursday, Oct. 23, on Telemundo and Peacock. For the full schedule and more information, visit www.billboardlatinmusicweek.com.

Below, check out three promising showcases that form part of the week-long festivities:

Emerging Artist Showcase presented by Platoon

When: Monday, Oct. 20 at 6:00 P.M.

Where: Stardust Lounge at The Fillmore Miami Beach

Who: See a performance by Golden and a DJ set by MadMusick following the opening day of Latin Music Week. This event is open to attendees on a first-come, first-served basis; capacity is limited.

peermusic Showcase & Happy Hour

When: Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 5:30 P.M.

Where: Stardust Lounge at The Fillmore Miami Beach

Who: peermusic will be hosting an artist showcase at Latin Music Week, featuring Zizzy, Alejo, Lupita Infante, and Christian Alicea. The showcase will be open to attendees on a first-come, first-served basis; capacity is limited.

Artist Showcase presented by UNO Productions

When: Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 5:30 P.M.

Where: Stardust Lounge at The Fillmore Miami Beach

Who: UNO Productions will be hosting a showcase with Juanito El Millonzuki featuring Chaparro Chuacheneguer, Gerardo Fernandez, DJ Virtual, and Silvia Zepeda, and will be open to attendees on a first-come, first serve basis; capacity is limited.

The rent is too damn high. Cardi B went live on Instagram recently to talk to her fans as she usually does and she told them about her trying to help a friend get an apartment in New York City.

And when Cardi suggested that her friend settle for an apartment in her hometown of the Bronx because she assumed it would be cheaper, she later realized that rents have also skyrocketed there after doing some research online. “Yo, why I go on StreetEasy and I start to look for apartments in the Bronx for them,” she began. “Yo, why rent for them is so expensive? How the f—k is rent so expensive in the most f—kin’ cheapest borough?”

She then went on to apologize to her fans for asking them to buy her recent album Am I the Drama? “I don’t know how people are surviving,” she said. “I am so sorry for asking y’all to buy my album and this is how the economy is right now, that the rent is so f—king high and crazy in the Bronx, no matter where. I am so sorry.”

The Bronx rapper then turned her ire towards President Trump and how his current administration is currently handling America’s cost of living crisis. “I hate the fact that I know if you was to say something to the Trump administration about the cost of living right now, they’ll be like, ‘Yeah, suck it up,’” she told her fans. “You know what I don’t like? I don’t like that there’s a lot of single people, there’s a lot of students, there’s a lot of people that are working nine-to-five and because they’re working they don’t get no help from the government. I always hated that.”

During that same IG Live, Cardi also told fans that she was thinking about doing an Instagram video for her BIA diss record “Pretty & Petty” but decided not to because she didn’t want to feel like a “bully.”

Maybe Happy Ending had a big night at the Tony Awards in June, winning six awards (more than any other show this year), including best musical and best original score. The show’s stars, Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, performed “Chasing Fireflies” and “Never Fly Away” on the telecast. Will that translate into a Grammy win for best musical theater album when the 68th annual Grammy Awards are presented on Feb. 1?

If the album wins, Criss, who won a Tony for best lead actor in a musical, will be three-quarters of his way to an EGOT. He won a Primetime Emmy in 2018 for outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie for playing spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (That’s what you call range.) Criss would share the Grammy for Maybe Happy Ending with Hue Park and Will Aronson, who collaborated on the score.

First, Maybe Happy Ending must be nominated. Grammy nominations will be announced on Nov. 7. The field, as always in this category, is packed with cast albums from both new shows and revivals; from Broadway, off-Broadway and London’s West End, in addition to some studio cast recordings.

Buena Vista Social Club and Death Becomes Her, which tied with Maybe Happy Ending for the most Tony nominations of any shows this year (10), are also likely to be nominated. All three shows are still running on Broadway.

Buena Vista Social Club features music by Buena Vista Social Club, whose landmark 1997 album of the same name won a Grammy for best traditional tropical Latin album and a Billboard Latin Music Award for tropical/salsa album of the year by a group. In 2022, the album was voted into the National Recording Registry. Two years later it was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Buena Vista Social Club ensemble performed “Candela” on the Tony telecast.

Death Becomes Her star Megan Hilty performed the entertaining “For the Gaze” on the telecast. Noel Carey and Julia Mattison collaborated on the score.

Sunset Blvd: The Album is also a strong contender. The revival of the show by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber won three Tonys, including one for Nicole Scherzinger, who managed to beat the all-time Tony winner, Audra McDonald, for best lead actress in a musical. Scherzinger, who had a series of hits with The Pussycat Dolls, sang the show’s most prized song, “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” on the telecast. The album from the original production, starring Glenn Close, was nominated in this category in 1995, but lost to the album from Stephen Sondheim’s Passion.

Just in Time is based on the life of the late, great Bobby Darin, who won the first Grammy ever awarded for best new artist and just the second ever awarded for record of the year, for the still-thrilling “Mack the Knife.” Jonathan Groff, who received a Tony nod for playing Darin, performed “Mack the Knife,” “That’s All” and “Once in a Lifetime” on the Tonys. The show is still running. Playbill reports that it is playing to 102.81% of capacity, which I guess means standing room only. (I’d stand for that.)

That’s five albums, the usual number of nominees in this category, but there are many more albums on the entry list that could move up if any of these presumed front-runners falter. David Foster, a 16-time Grammy winner, was the composer of Boop! The Musical, with lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. While the show went 0-3 at the Tonys, and didn’t land a coveted performance on the telecast, Foster’s stature in the music world could carry it to a nomination here.

Gypsy would set a Grammy record if it’s nominated, becoming the first show to spawn five nominated albums in this category. (The album from the original production starring Ethel Merman won in 1960, a revival starring Tyne Daly was nominated in 1991, a revival starring Bernadette Peters won in 2004 and a revival starring Patti LuPone was nominated in 2009.) Right now, Gypsy is tied with West Side Story, Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with four nominated albums each. It’s never a good idea to bet against Gypsy, but this revival went 0-5 at the Tonys, and McDonald’s performance of “Rose’s Turn” on the telecast was uncharacteristically histrionic.

Three more shows landed performance slots on the Tony telecast, which could help them land nominations here. (We presume that virtually everyone voting in this category watched the Tonys.) Those three shows are Dead Outlaw (the ensemble performed “Ballad” and “Dead”), Floyd Collins (the ensemble performed “The Ballad of Floyd Collins” and “The Call”), and Real Women Have Curves (the ensemble performed “Jugglin’”). Joy Huerta of the popular Mexican pop duo Jesse and Joy co-wrote the songs for the latter show with Benjamin Velez.

Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, who have won twice in this category (for Hairspray and Some Like It Hot) are entered for the musical adaptation of Smash (which went 0-2 at the Tonys).

Hadestown won in this category in 2020. The show is still running on Broadway. That could boost Hadestown: Live From London by the original West End company.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is Broadway royalty, which could lift Warriors (which he co-wrote with Elsa Dvais) to a nomination. Warriors is a concept album, inspired by the 1979 action film The Warriors. It features a diverse group of artists, including hip-hop stars Lauryn Hill, Busta Rhymes, Ghostface Killah and RZA, as well as Latin musician Marc Anthony and dancehall singer Shenseea. The album was conceived as a standalone musical work, but following its release, Miranda and Davis confirmed plans to develop a stage adaptation.

Several other albums by people with strong ties to the music industry will also likely get a look, including F**k 7th Grade (music and lyrics by the late Jill Sobule, who died in May), London Tide (PJ Harvey, credited as Polly Jean Harvey, and Ben Power), Saturday Church (Sia, credited as Sia Furler) and Swept Away (The Avett Brothers, credited as Scott Avett & Seth Avett).

The entry list consists of 58 albums. Here’s the Recording Academy’s explanation of who is eligible in this category: “For albums containing greater than 51% playing time of new recordings. Award to the principal vocalist(s), and the album producer(s) of 50% or more playing time of the album. The lyricist(s) and composer(s) of 50% or more of a score of a new recording are eligible for an award if any previous recording of said score has not been nominated in this category.”

Justin Bieber is passing his swag down to one-year-old son Jack Blues.

In a series of adorable photos shared by the pop star Thursday (Oct. 9) on Instagram, the little one explores a golf course speckled with loose golf balls on what appears to have been a father-son golf date. Though you can’t see Jack’s face, he looks just like his dad, wearing sneakers and an oversized hoodie pulled over his head — which is basically Justin’s every day uniform at this point when he isn’t going shirtless.

The Grammy winner also shared photos from the same day of his son — still wearing his pink sweatshirt with a psychedelic swirl pattern and cute houndstooth patterned pants — toddling around at home and playing with toys in a playpen. That night, Justin would wear a similar fit to his company Skylrk’s basketball game at The League in Los Angeles, sporting a mossy green hoodie that he at one point shed to put his chest and back tattoos on full display.

Justin welcomed Jack in August 2024 with his wife, Rhode founder Hailey Bieber. Though the couple have kept their son’s face hidden from the public, both stars have shared a number of photos of the young Bieber. Ahead of his upcoming 2026 headlining gig at the festival, for instance, Justin snapped a collection of steamy pics with Hailey in the center of Coachella Valley last month, with baby Jack making a cameo in some of them.

In between playdates, Justin has had a busy summer. In July, he surprise-dropped his first album in four years: Swag, which he quickly followed up with September’s Swag II. The former reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

He’s also been active on Instagram throughout this past year, frequently checking in with updates about his mindset and spirituality. “Thanking Jesus for his patience with me this morning,” he wrote in July. “I can be extremely selfish and impatient yet Jesus always has his arms open toward me.”

Even so, Justin playfully rejected his mom’s recent public prayer for his wellbeing. After Pattie Mallette took to Instagram to ask God to to “heal every wound” in her son’s “heart, mind and body,” the singer quipped in the comments, “Only thing I need healing from is my rolled pinky toe from playing ping pong.”