Young Thug has seemingly seen the world around him crumble with every misstep and leaked jail phone call. But now, he’s looking to right his wrongs and change the narrative.

Thugger returned with the apologetic “Man I Miss My Dogs” on Thursday night (Sept. 11), which is an apology tour of sorts, as he addresses his trials and tribulations with girlfriend Mariah The Scientist, Drake, Gucci Mane, 21 Savage, Future and Lil Baby.

The YSL boss kicks off the seven-minute track apologizing to Mariah The Scientist, as he hopes to win her back after the singer stuck by him throughout his two-year-plus jail stint fighting the YSL RICO case.

“Baby I’m sorry, one of my biggest fears is losing you to the internet/ One of my biggest fears is waking up in our bed without you right by my neck/ Saying don’t you break a sweat, pillow talking ain’t my game,” a beaten-down Thugger melodically raps.

Thug also shows love to Drake, whom he allegedly dissed in a jail call, for visiting him when he was behind bars. “Drizzy, you my brother/ You know I ain’t going against you/ I got manners/ Everything you did for the rap community can’t ban you/ Never diss you/ Came to visit me at Cobb County like my kin do/ F— the jail call, you know the other calls we had,” he raps.

Next, he moves to Lil Baby, as it appears that WHAM isn’t picking up his phone calls at the moment. There’s been a clear divide in the friendship of the once powerful triumvirate of Thug, Baby and Gunna since the RICO case.

“WHAM pick up the phone, yeah talk to me it’s Spider/ Taught you everything you know about this s—t we for lifers,” Thug implores.

He also attempts to clear the air with 21 Savage, letting the Slaughter Gang honcho know they’re on good terms. “Savage you a real n—a/ Don’t let them tell you different,” Thug proclaims.

After plenty of chatter, Thug is attempting to finally control his narrative and the reclamation of the Atlanta rapper is on. He’ll have plenty more to say, as the long-awaited UY SCUTI album is slated to arrive on Sept. 19.

Watch the “Man I Miss My Dogs” video below.

Ice Cube is back and he’s taking no prisoners with his latest politically-charged effort, Man Up, which serves as the companion album to his 2024 Man Down project, which arrived on Friday (Sept. 12).

The Compton native stars front and center on the 14-track album, leaning on Houston rap legend Scarface for a rare assist.

“I’ve always stood on speaking truth to power and making music that reflects reality,” Cube said in a statment. “Man Up is about accountability, resilience, and reminding people where the real problems come from. Hip hop didn’t create the struggle — it gave us the language to call it out.”

Other standout moments on the project find Cube flipping Patrice Rushen’s 1982 “Forget Me Nots” for “California Dreamin” and he recruits Nova Scotia’s Quake Matthews, who was the winner of his fan verse challenge, and doesn’t waste his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on “It’s My Ego 3Mix.”

Billboard caught up with Cube last year, when he teased Man Up, which he explained being inspired by America getting a little too soft for his liking.

“It’s about men not accepting nonsense and speaking up and not just taking a backseat letting other people take the lead,” he said at the time. “We gotta take the lead.”

Cube is getting back on the road for Four Decades of Attitude Tour, which will find the N.W.A. legend invading arenas across North America. The trek is set to kick off in Denver on Sept. 16 and make stops in Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Glendale, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Austin and Houston.

Stream Man Up below.

 Ed Sheeran is here to play.

The superstar British singer and songwriter today drops Play, his eighth studio album, which gathers the previously released singles “Camera”, “A Little More”, “Azizam”, “Sapphire,” “Old Phone” and more.

Inspired, in part, by his exposure to Indian and Persian musical cultures, Play sees Sheeran enter a brand new era, after closing the chapter on his hugely successful Mathematics series.

“Play was an album that was made as a direct response to the darkest period of my life. Coming out of all of that I just wanted to create joy and technicolour, and explore cultures in the countries I was touring,” he wrote in an Instagram post earlier in the year. “It’s a real rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish, it encapsulates everything that I love about music, and the fun in it, but also where I am in life as a human, a partner, a father.”

To celebrate the new release, Sheeran shares the official video for “Camera”, starring Phoebe Dynevor.

With Play, Sheeran will hope to extend his perfect streak in his homeland and Australia, where all of his studio albums have topped the national charts, including his most recent effort, 2023’s Autumn Variations.

In the U.S., Sheeran has two career leaders on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Shape Of You,” one of the most-streamed songs in history, and four No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart.

He’ll give the new album a push from midday today, Sept. 12, when he heads to NPR’s offices, where he’ll play a selection of new music on his loop station for the first-ever livestreamed Tiny Desk concert of this scale.

The four-time Grammy Award winner closed the book on Mathematics last Sunday, Sept. 7 in Düsseldorf, Germany, with the final show on his +−=÷× Tour (Mathematics Tour), a global juggernaut that began in April 2022 and featured more than 160 shows. He’s booked to played iHeartMusicFestival in Las Vegas next Saturday, Sept. 20, then presses play on The Loop Tour this December for shows across Continental Europe and the U.K., followed by a run of stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand in the first quarter of 2026.

Stream Play below.

Mexican star Carín León is set to make history as the first Latin artist to perform at Sphere in Las Vegas.

The Sonora-born, música Mexicana hitmaker announced on Thursday (Sept. 11) a run of shows in the groundbreaking venue that will take place Sept. 11-13, 2026. Produced by AEG Presents, the three back-to-back dates will be part of Las Vegas’ annual Mexican Independence Day weekend festivities.

According to a press release, fans will experience visual displays and staging “never before seen” in Spanish-language music, where León will utilize Sphere’s “next-generation” technology, including the world’s highest-resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience, “creating a fully immersive visual environment.”

Sphere officially opened in September 2023 and has since hosted residencies by U2, Backstreet Boys and the Eagles, to name a few. Becoming the first Latin artist to perform there is another milestone and history-making feat for León who, in March 2025, became the first Mexican artist to perform on the main stage at the RodeoHouston, while setting a historic attendance record for a Hispanic artist by drawing over 70,000 people.

“I need to change the game,” León told Billboard about his global vision back in June. “I’m hungry to make history, to be the one and only. I’m so ambitious with what I want to do with the music. It’s always the music. She’s the boss.”

Most recently, León, known for his signature norteño sound, fused with R&B, country and pop, released his latest cross-genre collaboration, “Lost In Translation,” with Kacey Musgraves.

Presale for León’s Sphere dates will begin Sept. 23 at noon PT. Tickets go on sale to the general public Sept. 26 at noon PT at CarinLeon.com.

Carín León is set to speak at the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week, slated to run Oct. 20-24 at the Fillmore Miami Beach. The week will feature panels, live performances, workshops, and networking events, wrapping up with a special celebration concert on Oct. 24. The event aligns with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, airing live from Miami on Thursday, Oct. 23 on Telemundo and Peacock. Tickets for Latin Music Week 2025 are now available at BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com.

Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown returns to Billboard’s Kid Albums chart for the Halloween season, as it re-enters at No. 4 on the list dated Sept. 13.

The surge back onto the list (its first appearance since November 2024) is powered mostly by sales of a new Target-exclusive edition of the album, a “ghost white pumpkin-shaped vinyl” variant.

The Kid Albums chart ranks the week’s most popular kid albums in the United States, according to Luminate. The latest chart reflects the tracking week ending Sept. 4.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the companion album to the 1966 Emmy Award-nominated animated TV special of the same name. The special first aired on broadcast TV on CBS, before migrating to ABC, and eventually to the paid streaming service Apple TV+. The latter has previously aired the program for free for non-subscribers for a limited time during the spooky season; Apple has yet to announce information about a free streaming window for Pumpkin in 2025.

The Pumpkin soundtrack has spent at least one week at No. 1 on the Kid Albums chart every year from 2021 through 2024, for a total of six nonconsecutive weeks on top.

Pumpkin is one of four soundtracks to Peanuts TV specials and films to hit No. 1 on the Kid Albums chart through the years, standing alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

The Pumpkin soundtrack also populates further Billboard rankings this week: Jazz Albums (rising 18-6), Traditional Jazz Albums (14-5), Soundtracks (No. 5 re-entry), Vinyl Albums (No. 13 re-entry) and Top Album Sales (No. 28 re-entry).