Kid Cudi has returned to release his 10th studio album, as Free hit streaming services on Friday (Aug. 22).

The 13-track effort is free of features and includes previously-released singles such as “Neverland,” “Mr. Miracle” and “Grave.” It’s Cudder’s first LP since 2024’s Insano, which debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.

For the cover art, Cudi took inspiration from The Truman Show. Like Jim Carrey leaving Seahaven, Cudi steps through a doorway in the cloudy sky,

“I wanted something that really expressed freedom, so the concept of me leaping into the clouds made so much sense,” he wrote on IG when revealing the cover. “Inspired by The Truman Show. I cant WAIT for u guys to hear this album and really see the album art brought to life. You’re in for a beautiful ride. Promise.”

August has been a busy month for Kid Cudi, who released his vulnerable memoir on Aug. 12. He opened up his world to GQ, who received an early excerpt from the book, which found Cudi recalling a near-drug overdose circa 2010.

“I was at peace with dying,” Cudi wrote. “After doing more coke than I ever had in my life I was losing all sense of what was real. I’d been alone in my New York apartment, crying for hours, listening to the Lykke Li song ‘Time Flies’ on repeat. It was a love song, but the melodies and her voice filled me with despair.”

He continued: “I was a role model, but I didn’t feel like one. People called me their savior. But who was going to save me? I was a lighthouse for others, but I couldn’t find my own way,” he added. “It was peace I was after. Here, crippled on the floor, minutes from overdosing, was the closest I’d ever come to finding it. ‘You made great music that people loved,’ I thought, ‘but this is the end.’”

Stream Free below.

Doja Cat will play arenas in Australia and New Zealand for the first time when her Ma Vie World Tour stops by later this year.

The Grammy Award-winning singer will kick-off her jaunt Nov. 18 at Auckland’s Spark Arena, then heads west for shows at Perth’s RAC Arena (Nov. 22), Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena (Nov. 25), Brisbane Entertainment Centre (Nov. 29) and wraps up Dec. 1 at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, the biggest arena in the country.

Australian audiences should lap up Doja Cat tickets. The U.S. artist took out the No. 1 spot in triple j’s record-breaking hottest 100 countdown of 2023 with “Paint The Town Red,” which spent 10 weeks at the top of the ARIA Chart.

When her name was called out, she became the first female rapper and first woman of color to lead triple j’s poll, the 31st edition. “Paint The Town Red” also logged three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and four consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Global 200 leaderboard.

In Australia, Doja’s last two albums, 2023’s Scarlet (No. 5) and 2021’s Planet Her (No. 2), both cracked the top 10 on the ARIA Chart.

Doja is readying the release of her fifth studio album, Vie (via Kemosabe Records/ RCA Records), due out Sept. 26.

She previously told V Magazine that her upcoming LP is a “pop-driven” project. “I do want to be self-aware enough to admit the fact that this is a pop-driven project,” she remarked. “I know that I can make pop music, and pop is just that it’s popular. It starts to become a bit of a thing that’s viewed as a sport by people who are just bystanders to it, who enjoy it, but maybe also don’t respect it or what it is, which is just music … They see it as if this is some kind of football for girls and gays.”

Doja has shared another cut from it, “Jealous Type,” produced by Jack Antonoff and Y2K, with the music video directed by Boni Mata and filmed in Los Angeles.

Live Nation is producing the Ma Vie World Tour of ANZ. The General onsale gets underway Thursday Aug. 28 at 11am AEST at dojacat.com/tour.

Ma Vie World Tour 2025 Dates For New Zealand And Australia

Nov. 18 — Spark Arena, Auckland
Nov. 22 — RAC Arena, Perth
Nov. 25 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Nov. 29 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Dec. 1 — Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney

Is the beef between Gavin Adcock and Charley Crockett over?

It appears so. Adcock posted a video to Instagram on Thursday (Aug. 21), noting that Crockett is attempting to bury the hatchet. The video clip shows Adcock sitting in a backstage area and holding a large bouquet of roses and a copy of Crockett’s new album Dollar a Day. Adcock poked fun at Crockett while accepting flowers and vinyl.

“Apparently last night Charley Crockett was supposed to play the venue that we’re playing tonight, but he didn’t sell enough tickets, so he had to move to a smaller venue down the street — but before he left he sent me 60 roses and a $3 vinyl, so shout-out to Charley Crockett,” Adcock says with a smile. “I appreciate ya, buddy.”

Adcock’s tour schedule has him slated to perform at WAVE in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday night, while Crockett performed at Wichita’s The Cotillion on Wednesday. Crockett had previously been scheduled to perform at WAVE back in May, but the show was postponed and moved to The Cotillion.

In June, Adcock had some thoughts to share about Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter album during one of his concerts. Adcock blasted Bey’s project, which was keeping his own album out of the top three on Apple Music’s country albums chart at the time.

Earlier this week, Crockett issued a lengthy Instagram post that seemingly called out Adcock and other country stars who have spoken out against Cowboy Carter, and also defended Beyoncé. Crockett didn’t mention Adcock by name, but in his message he wrote, “I don’t need to put down a Black woman to advance my music. That’s just embarrassing to the idea of America and I got no respect for it.”

Adcock quickly fired back at Crockett on social media. He also didn’t mention Crockett by name, but wrote, “Somebody needs to tell the ‘act’ that has let out (the cover) of James town ferry 6 times he should just work on letting out quality original music. I got more cowsh– under my pinky then you have seen your whole f—in’ life. Hank sr called and asked about the cosplay cowboy.”

“Jamestown Ferry,” which Tanya Tucker first recorded in 1972, was included on Crockett’s 2017 album Lil G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee and then on 2023’s Live From The Ryman, as well as a remixed version of the song on 2025’s Lonesome Drifter.

A spokesperson for Crockett had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment by press time to confirm whether the flowers and album came from him.

Even Britney Spears likes to listen to a little bit of Justin Timberlake here and there.

In a video posted to the pop star’s Instagram on Wednesday, Spears enjoys a day on the water, wearing a green bikini while filming herself dancing on a boat. In the background, JT and Timbaland’s “Carry Out” plays.

Elsewhere in the clip, the Princess of Pop speaks in an unidentifiable accent while talking to the boat’s captain. “Me and this man are out here in this water!” she says excitedly, showing off her remote location for the camera. “Look at us! Sorry, I’m a nerd.”

Spears’ use of Timberlake’s 2009 hit — which reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 — is sure to turn heads, considering the two stars’ history. The pair dated from 1999 to 2002, and in her 2023 memoir, the “Toxic” singer shared a few unflattering revelations about her famous ex-boyfriend, including how he allegedly cheated on her during their relationship.

Even so, Spears has supported her ex’s music in the past. In 2024, she gushed that she was “so in love with Justin Timberlake’s new song ‘Selfish,’” and this past March, she shared a video of herself dancing by a fireplace to the former *NSYNC member’s “Señorita.”

The performer’s post comes a few weeks after Timberlake made headlines for revealing his Lyme disease diagnosis in a message to fans shared just after the close of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour.

“If you’ve experienced this disease or know someone who has — then you’re aware: living with this can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically,” he wrote at the time. “When I first got the diagnosis I was shocked for sure. But, at least I could understand why I would be onstage and in a massive amount of nerve pain or, just feeling crazy fatigue or sickness.”

Spears, on the other hand, has been having fun sharing bits of her life with followers on social media in recent months, including her hangouts with son Jayden.

Linkin Park’s Zero World Tour of Australia has doubled in size.

As reported earlier this month, the US alternative rock favorites will bring their world tour to these parts in March 2026 for an east coast leg, their first since 2013.

Originally set for three shows in the country’s big three capital cities, Linkin Park’s jaunt expands to six shows stopping at Brisbane Entertainment Centre (March 3 and 5), Rod Laver Arena (March 8 and 10) and Qudos Bank Arena (March 14 and 15).

Those three new shows are added “in response to extraordinary demand in the pre-sale period,” reads a statement from Live Nation Australasia, which is producing the trek.

Tickets for all 2026 Australia dates go on sale to the public tomorrow, Friday Aug. 22 at 11AM AEST.

“The fans’ support is overwhelming,” comments Mike Shinoda, “and we’re ready to bring this energy to Australia.” From Zero, the band’s eighth studio album, released November 2024 through Warner Records and Machine Shop, “is a new chapter for us, and we’re so excited to share it with everyone on a bigger scale,” he continues.

On their forthcoming run Down Under, Shinoda, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Joe Hahn, Emily Armstrong, and Colin Brittain will perform new Linkin Park cuts including “The Emptiness Machine” and “Heavy Is The Crown” plus anthems from across their 20-plus year career.

From Zero gave Linkin Park their first No. 1 debut on the ARIA Chart, and first with the new lineup, which is now led by Armstrong and was assembled following the passing of former frontman Chester Bennington in 2017.

None of Linkin Park’s studio LPs have gone lower than No. 3 on the ARIA Chart. From Zero is the band’s fourth leader on the Austarlian chart, after 2000 breakthrough Hybrid Theory, Minutes to Midnight from 2007 and A Thousand Suns from 2010.

Linkin Park ‘From Zero World Tour’ Australia 2026
Presented by Live Nation and Triple M

Tuesday March 3 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Thursday March 5 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre (* new show)
Sunday March 8 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tuesday March 10 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne (* new show)
Saturday March 14 — Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney
Sunday March 15 — Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (* new show)

For complete tour and ticket information, including VIP packages, visit LinkinPark.com/Tour.