As fans of The Tonight Show know all too well, host Jimmy Fallon is a huge Taylor Swift fan. And in a video posted to his own and the late-night show’s social media accounts on Thursday morning (Sept. 25), he teased his fellow Swifties that they will soon see the pop superstar take a seat on his couch.

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The clip — captioned with a simple “Not a lot going on at the moment” — starts off with the comedian placing bets in a game of roulette, stacking his chips on black 10, black 6 and red 25. The wheel then spins, with the ball going round and round as an excited Fallon watches, until it finally lands on … black 13. “Ugh!” the frustrated TV personality sighs in exasperation. “Baby, that’s show business for you.”

As he walks around the offices at Rockefeller Center, a parade of decked-out showgirls complete with feathery headdresses and sequined costumes walks by with an “Excuse us, honey,” leaving a stunned Fallon behind.

So let’s break it down with some Swiftie math and an Easter egg hunt — something Fallon has done multiple times on his own show: The initial set of numbers were 10, 6 and 25, indicating a show date of Monday, Oct. 6, which would be just three days after Swift’s upcoming new album, The Life of a Showgirl, drops. And 13, as any casual Taylor Swift fan would know, is her favorite number. Follow that with his quote about show biz combined with the showgirls who saunter by? No doubt the 14-time Grammy winner is set for another appearance on NBC’s long-running late-night talk show, right?

Indeed. About three hours after the video was shared, the late-night show’s official Instagram account confirmed that the pop superstar would be appearing. “@taylorswift joins us Monday 10/6/25 to talk The Life of a Showgirl! Tune in at 11:35/10:35c on @nbc! ❤️‍🔥” the account wrote in the comments.

“TAYLOR SWIFT OCTOBER 6TH EXACTLY!!!” one person commented on the TikTok post.

“I LOVE WHEN JIMMY GETS IN ON THE EASTER EGGS YESSSS 😍😍😍,” added another on Instagram, while someone else commented, “Yess TAYINTERVIEW is backkkkk. It’s been a long time coming @jimmyfallon . Don’t forget to call Andrea up.”

In addition to this Tonight Show appearance to promote The Life of a Showgirl, Swift is already confirmed to return to The Graham Norton Show on the album’s release day, Oct. 3. She’ll be appearing alongside Jodie Turner-Smith and Domhnall Gleeson.

Watch Fallon’s teaser video below:

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights on NBC at 11:35 p.m., and streams on Peacock.


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Billboard is set to launch CLUB Billboard, a livestream DJ series that will feature DJs spinning the hottest Latin music tracks currently on the Billboard charts on Friday (Sept. 26). CLUB Billboard will premiere at 8 p.m. ET. on Billboard Latin’s YouTube channel.

The first DJ who will take part in the series is CC Love, a first-generation Mexican American who spins Latin sets in Los Angeles. She’s also a resident tour DJ for Gasolina Party and Reggaetón Rave.

“Music is my escape! And it’s healing for people that work all day. I want to be a part of that healing experience,” CC Love tells Billboard. “From the first time I went to Coachella in 2014, I fell in love with DJing and have been spinning ever since.”

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Offering a sneak peak of what artists will make it into her set, she says: “The artist that always makes it in to my mix is Bad Bunny. Lots of El Alfa, Rauw Alejandro and Young Miko. Old school reggaetón like Daddy Yankee and Ivy Queen, too.”

You can tune in starting 8 p.m. ET for DJ CC Love’s set, and for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Billboard Latin Music Week 2025, which is scheduled for Oct. 20-24 in Miami. No purchase necessary. Winners will be confirmed via email. See Official Rules for details here.

Spanning 30 years, Latin Music Week is the single most important and largest gathering of Latin artists and industry executives in the world. This year’s event will once again host panels, marquee conversations, roundtables, networking and activations, in addition to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo showcases.


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In an exclusive interview with Billboard, Boza and Sech talk on their first collaboration together, “París.”

Boza: Yes, this is the first interview that we’ve done, and honestly, we’re super, super happy. Happy about the collaboration with my colleague that we’ve been wanting to do for a while. All of Panama wanted us to do it, and now it’s finally come to life.

Sech: It took us a while to do this, but it needs to take its time to plant the seed and come organically, and now here we are, having a great time in Panama. 

Boza: Honestly, it’s been a while, it’s been a couple of years that we’ve been wanting to do a song together. We recorded two songs. Two songs right?

Sech: Yes.

Boza: Well, we didn’t release them. Obviously, my brother had his own project, and you know, projects sometimes clash, and the opportunity didn’t arise at that time. But the timing of life is perfect. It was this year that I decided to tell Sech about “París,” and he liked the song, too. And we wanted to do something together for a while, and we’ve been wanting to release a song and commercialize it with a style from us here in Panama, which is more sweet.

Sech: No, they sent me the song and I liked it from the start. And honestly we want to put Panama on top. 

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Nearly a year after Kygo‘s massive October 2024 performance at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl, fans can revisit the experience via a new concert film.

Kygo: Back at the Bowl opens in theaters across the U.S. on Friday, Sept. 26. The hour and 40-minute film captures every moment from the Norwegian producer’s Bowl show, which included appearances from special guests including Zak Abel, Ryan Tedder, Ava Max and Zara Larsson.

The Oct. 17, 2024, headlining performance marked Kygo’s second appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, as he first played the venue during a pair of shows in October of 2016. These earlier nights generated their own documentary, 2017’s Kygo: Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

Last year, Kygo told Billboard that his approach to touring has changed dramatically in the years between these two Hollywood Bowl performances. “It was like every show was life or death,” he said. “I was always very nervous. It was like, ‘This is the most important [thing ever], and if I mess up tonight, my career is over.’”

Given this pressure, the star producer “wasn’t really able to enjoy the shows that much,” he shared at the time. “At one point I was like, ‘I’m probably never going to tour again,’ because it was just so exhausting.”

But with a shift in attitude, Kygo said that the 2024 run that included the Hollywood Bowl set was “definitely my favorite [tour] that I’ve done so far.”

Starting in September of 2024, the 35-date trek moved through arenas and amphitheaters in North America, Europe and Central America, averaging slightly more than 10,000 tickets and $838,000 in revenue per show, according to numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore. The run continued into 2025 with shows in Asia, Australia and North America.

Kygo’s upcoming concerts include plays at his own Palm Tree Crew festivals in Montecito and Napa Valley, Calif., on Oct. 4 and 11, respectively.

Watch Billboard‘s exclusive clip of Abel and Kygo playing 2024’s “For Life” at the Bowl below.


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Jermaine Dupri sits down and shares the stories behind his biggest hits, including bringing Janet Jackson to set for the “Dem Jeans” music video, the story of how the title of “Wat Da Hook Gon Be” came to be, creating “Money Ain’t a Thang” with Jay-Z, Bow Wow’s transition with “Fresh Azimiz” and more!

What’s your favorite song from Jermaine Dupri? Let us know in the comments!

Jermaine Durpi: What’s up, y’all. This is Jermaine Dupri, and this is my Billboard chart history.

OK, so the first thing that I was thinking was like, “This ain’t my song.” It hit me. I haven’t heard that song in a long time. First Jagged Edge record that I did featuring myself in Da Brat. I just remember the video. We went all the way out for the video. I put, like, four baby grand white pianos out in the middle of a parking lot and let them stand on top of the pianos. I was trying to make the biggest video I could possibly make for my group. It didn’t work well, but from the first time that me and Brat started rapping back to back, I just remember people’s reaction to it and it being something that I hadn’t seen in hip-hop, like a Bonnie and Clyde type of group in rap, basically.

What is this? “Jeans”? I was just trying to find the groove that Chingy had on his first record. “Pulling Me Back” was such a big single. We was just trying to follow up with something that was that made people dancing that had that St. Louis and Atlanta bop to it. I was trying to make the beat feel like “Grillz,” but not like “Grillz.” And I wanted to be like, give you a little break, and then hit the 808, and then give you a little break. It’s an interesting process. I remember making a video. It’s like a regular, like, you know, girls and guys in the video.

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Lainey Wilson came to The Late Show on Wednesday night (Sept. 24) to, in her words, talk about “peace, love and cowboys.” In her first proper sit-down with host Stephen Colbert, the country star talked about being from Baskin, La., a town she joked bumped down to 156 residents after she left.

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“That’s not a small town, that’s a big family,” Colbert said. Wilson described getting the bug to get try country music because it was the lingua franca of her tiny town, where, she explained, “when you’re from a town of 157, you live your live on the edge of your seat waiting on the next story.”

That’s why it was no surprise that she wrote her first song at nine-years-old after feeling like the voices on the radio were “speaking to me.” Wilson — known for her eye-catching ensembles, wore a suede patchwork suit and matching brown hat for the appearance — joked that her subject matter at the time was totally normal for a fourth grader: “tequila and cigarettes and everything else.” She also made her first $20 at that age singing at the grand opening of a local convenience store, a bill her dad still has framed at home.

That wasn’t her only gig as a kid. She said she and her sister were also rodeo “flag girls,” with Wilson doing double-duty by singing the National Anthem on horseback at the professional rodeo events.

Wilson brought her signature fashion flare to a performance later in the show as well, wearing a belly-baring pink jumpsuit with a large bejeweled belt, white cowboy hat and a pink and white flowing cape as she rambled through “Somewhere Over Laredo” from the deluxe edition of her Whirlwind album. The song opened with a close-up of an old-fashioned wooden TV console, with Wilson singing the moving ballad in black and white before the tempo picked up and she was in full technicolor, crooning about flying over Laredo and “dreaming about those rodeo nights.”

Watch Wilson on the Late Show below.


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What happens when music, culture, and immigration laws collide? In this episode, Billboard On The Record sits down with Billboard’s Senior Editor, Latin Griselda Flores to unpack the stories shaking up Latin music today — from Trump’s immigration laws to Coachella’s lack of regional Mexican artists to Bad Bunny’s absence from U.S. stages. Griselda opens up about writing bold, sometimes polarizing pieces and how sharing uncomfortable conversations is changing the industry. 

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Billboard On The Record is a podcast in partnership with SickBird Productions. 

Kristin Robinson:

Welcome to On the Record, a new music business podcast with Billboard and SickBird Productions. I’m your host, Kristin Robinson, I’m a senior correspondent here at Billboard. Each week on the show I will be giving you a peek into the conversations I’m having with executives, artists and reporters all day, everyday as part of my job here at Billboard. On today’s show, I am very, very fortunate to be joined by Billboard’s Senior Latin Editor, Griselda Flores, to talk through the impact that Trump’s administration policies have had on Latin musicians, fans and concerts. You might have heard about the recent news that Bad Bunny is not planning to come to the U.S. on his next tour due to fears about potential ICE raids at his shows. This is one of many stories that we’ll talk about here today. As another example, Griselda will be joining us remotely from her hometown of Chicago where just months ago the local Michelada Festival, which featured big acts like Grupo Firme and Anitta on its billing, were cancelled due to uncertainty about artists visas in, quote, a ‘rapidly changing political climate’. All of this has had a sizable impact both culturally and economically on the Latin music business, and as Trump’s second term progresses, it shows no signs of slowing down. So, let’s go ahead and bring in the true expert on the topic. She’s been reporting about it all year, please welcome to the show, Griselda Flores.

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Young Miko is joining Billie Eilish on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, the Puerto Rican hitmaker and pop star announced on Wednesday (Sept. 24). Young Miko will tour with Eilish in select cities, including Orlando (Oct. 14), Philadelphia (Oct. 23) and Long Island, N.Y. (Oct. 25-26).

“I’m going on tour with Billie,” Young Miko wrote in an Instagram post. “I’ll see you all soon.”

The announcement comes a year after the two met in Mexico City for an engaging conversation on their careers and respective journeys in music.

Last year, Young Miko went on her XOXO Tour, her biggest trek yet in the U.S. with 24 dates. It followed a string of feats for the rapper and singer, who opened for Karol G’s stadium tour; collaborated with Bad Bunny on his track “Fina”; made her Coachella debut; and delivered her genre-bending debut album, att., which became her first Billboard 200 entry. To date, she has had six entries on the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts.

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Young Miko was recently an ambassador for the CFDA during New York Fashion Week, where she appeared alongside fellow ambassador Peso Pluma.

Below, check out the dates Young Miko will join Billie Eilish on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour:

Oct. 14 – Orlando – Kia Center
Oct. 16 – Raleigh, N.C. – Lenovo Center
Oct. 17 – Raleigh, N.C. – Lenovo Center
Oct. 19 – Charlotte, N.C. – Spectrum Center
Oct. 20 – Charlotte, N.C. – Spectrum Center
Oct. 23 – Philadelphia – Xfinity Mobile Arena
Oct. 25 – Long Island, N.Y. – UBS Arena
Oct. 26 – Long Island, N.Y. – UBS Arena


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Fred again.. has announced that he’ll play 10 shows in 10 cities over 10 weeks as part of the rollout of the next edition of his USB releases.

In the British producer’s characteristic hype-building style, the location for each show will be revealed only the weekend before it happens, with the first show announcement coming Sunday, Sept. 28.

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Shows are set to feature 10 new tracks that are part of USB002, the second segment of project that started in 2022 and featured tracks including Fred’s collab with with Four Tet and Skrillex, “Baby Again”; “Rumble” with Skrillex and Flowdan; his solo heater “Jungle”; “leavemealone” with Baby Keem; and “stayinit” with Lil Yachty. The project also included remixes from Nia Archives, HAAi and Rico Nasty.

Fred’s most recent releases include June’s “Victory Lap” with Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax, with four remixes of the song featuring Denzel Curry, Hanumankind, That Mexican OT and more subsequently getting released. The producer also recently released the recording of a live performance done on a roof in Naples, Italy, overlooking the Piazza del Plebiscito.

Of this performance, Fred wrote in the video’s YouTube description: “After a show I never quite know what to do. Like you go from being filled with the most adreneline [sic] ever, to suddenly being like alone or basically alone. Often I just play songs I’m working on and jam on my keyboard to try ideas out to try n calm down and stuff, cos I cant really be social often.

“So when I saw fedde commenting on a post that he had a rooftop that overlooked the show I thought wow this could be like my dream afters. Just going straight up there and get [sic] to play songs on my ones and still get to see and feel the energy of the show as everyone leaves! I played this whole set just to Fedde and the beautiful nonna who also lives in this building. It was a lovely sight to look up occasionally and see them both there. Him dancing her sitting. Me a bit of both.”

Watch that performance below:


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You can watch the Cleveland Browns take on the Detroit Lions at Ford Field without ever leaving the comfort of your couch, thanks to Sling TV.

It’s week four of 18, with the Lions coming off of its recent win against the Baltimore Ravens 38-30 on Sept. 22. The Browns had its own win of the week after defeating the Green Bay Packers 13-10 on Sept. 21.

This matchup should be a lively one, given the Browns have a strong defensive line, while the Lions boast one of the best offensive lines, led by quarterback Jared Goff. With a matchup so strong, we can’t help but ask: Who will come away with a win?

When Does the Cleveland Browns vs. Detroit Lions Game Start?

The game kicks off Sunday, Sept. 28, at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT.

Where to Watch the Cleveland Browns vs. Detroit Lions

The Browns vs Lions game will be broadcasted on Fox and livestreams via Sling TV with a Sling Blue subscription. The subscription comes with access to Fox and live TV from a whole host of popular cable channels, including Bravo, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, E!, Fox Sports, FX, Fox News, MSNBC, National Geographic, SYFY, TLC, USA Network, A&E, AMC, BBC America, BET, CNN, Comedy Central, Food Network, Fuse, HGTV, History Channel, IFC, Lifetime, Nick Jr., QVC, TBS, TNT, Travel Channel, Vice and many others.

A monthly subscription to Sling Blue will usually run you $50.99 a month (or $25.50 with Fox for the first month of service). Sling TV often offers promotional discounts to wave that cost, at least for the first month.

Please note: Prices and channel availability depends on your local TV market. You can learn more about Sling TV here.

Which Celebrities Are Making Appearances During the Game?

There are numerous celebs, specifically in the music world, who are big fans of both teams who might just make an appearance at Sunday’s game. On the Browns side, there’s Kid Cudi, a Cleveland native, along with Cleveland-born artist mgk, country star Brad Paisley, comedian and host Steve Harvey and NBA star CJ McCollum.

As for the Lions, you’ve got Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Detroit-based rapper Big Sean, rock legend Alice Cooper, rapper Flavor Flav, Jack White of the White Stripes and comedian and Michigan native Keegan-Michael Key. Tune in to Sling TV to get a chance to spot your favorites in the crowd.

The Cleveland Browns vs Detroit Lions game kicks off Sunday, Sept. 28, at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT. Catch the game via Sling TV or broadcast on Fox.