Soon, you'll be able to wear Billie Eilish's skin as you play a bad guy in Fortnite. The video game collaboration goes live on April 23 when Billie takes the Fortnite Festival main stage. You'll be able to stream her songs in that mode, while her character skin will be made available in the in-game shop.

Olivia Rodrigo went out for a dinner date with her boyfriend, Louis Partridge, on April 19, People reports. The rare public outing happened in LA after Olivia's surprise Coachella appearance. The singer is now back home after the weekend, posting about her return on Instagram on April 21. "home," she captioned her photos.

Alfred has teamed up with Sabrina Carpenter in support of her new hit single, "Espresso." The coffee house offered a special drink called Sabrina's Vanilla Rose Cold Foam Latte at their LA locations over the weekend, spanning April 19-21. "To celebrate @SabrinaCarpenter’s new single, “Espresso,” we thought we’d get in on the fun!" Alfred wrote on Instagram.

Zara Larsson has announced a North American tour in support of her new studio album, VENUS. The headlining run starts in Dallas, Texas, on October 27 and ends at New York City's Webster Hall on November 6. Tickets go on sale on April 26 at 10 a.m. local time.

Mariah Carey was joined by surprise guests during her April 20 performance of Mariah Carey: The Celebration of Mimi Live in Las Vegas. Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum took the stage as Mariah performed her hit song "Say Something." They gave Mariah mock glam touch-ups while donning her signature robes.

Rita Ora is set to join the cast of the upcoming thriller He Bled Neon. She joins the film alongside Joe Cole, Marshawn Lynch and Jack O'Connell, Deadline reports.

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Rihanna’s “Diamonds” is living up to its name. 

Roc Nation announced Monday that the song has officially reached Diamond status from the Recording Industry Association of America. That means it has sold 10 million equivalent song units since its release in 2012.

“Diamonds” marks Rihanna’s third song to be certified Diamond, following 2010’s “Love the Way You Lie” with Eminem, which was certified in 2013, and 2011’s “We Found Love” with Calvin Harris, certified in 2023.

“Diamonds,” which was co-written by pop hitmaker Sia, was the lead single from Rih’s album Unapologetic. It spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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In 2017, BTS and UNICEF started working together on the Love Myself charity campaign. Now, they've renewed the partnership and launched a new initiative called #OnMyMind.

In the launch video, BTS member RM talks about the importance of loving yourself, and the whole group delivers the message, "Life goes on. Let's live on." The video ends with the question, "What's on your mind?"

The goal of the campaign is to support the mental health of children and young people, and fight for the right of every child to live in an environment free of neglect, abuse and "poor mental health." Part of the initiative allows fans to send electronic postcards via a special UNICEF website.

Since 2017, BTS and their fans have contributed more than $6.6 million to the campaign.

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Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, name-checks quite a few people, places and things, from a song by the Scottish band The Blue Nile to Stevie Nicks. Many of those entities are now reacting to being mentioned on the biggest album of the year.

As previously reported, Patti Smith thanked Taylor for mentioning her in the album's title track. The members of The Starting Line have now offered their thanks for the mention they got in the song "The Black Dog." On it, Taylor sings, "I just don’t understand / How you don’t miss me in The Black Dog / When someone plays The Starting Line / And you jump up, but she’s too young / To know this song that was intertwined /  In the magic fabric of our dreaming."

"We feel flattered and humbled by the reverberations of love that have come back to us as a result of [your mention]," they wrote. "It's an honor ... you didn't' have to do that, but you did, and we appreciate it wholeheartedly. Respect!"

Meanwhile, the owners of a London pub called The Black Dog are dealing with a crush of Swifties convinced that their pub is the one that Taylor is singing about. A staff member told the Evening Standard, "This is the Taylor Swift Effect - anything she touches goes viral. We’re super excited ... [w]e’re not sure if she [ever] visited. She might have done – we wouldn’t even know. It’s a possibility."

Finally, the family of late silent screen star Clara Bow told People that they "love" Taylor's song of the same name, adding that they're "thankful for Taylor connecting with Clara’s legacy through her songwriting.” They also point out that the makeup Taylor wears in the video for "Fortnight" is reminiscent of Clara's signature look.

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Madonna's already been sued by fans over the fact that she started her Brooklyn, New York, show in December 2023 two hours late. Fans in Washington, D.C., have now filed a similar complaint.

In the complaint, obtained by ABC News, three fans who attended Madonna's show in December 2023 at D.C.'s Capital One Arena allege that not only did she start late, the arena was kept at an uncomfortably hot temperature and that she lip-synched during the show. They claim that, had they known about the latter, they wouldn't have purchased tickets.

Lawyers for the fans claim that Madonna's late start amounts to "false advertising," while the arena's uncomfortable temperature is "demonstrative of Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect for her fans.” 

The complaint — a proposed class action suit — states that when Madonna took the stage two hours after the 8:30 p.m. start time on the tickets, she said, "I am not sorry, it’s who I am… I’m always late.” The complaint further alleges that when the hot fans chanted "A.C." at Madonna, she replied, "F*** you! I’m cold!… If you’re hot, take your f****** clothes off!”

When Madonna's lawyers replied to the original complaint regarding the Brooklyn show, they argued, "No reasonable concertgoer — and certainly no Madonna fan — would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time.” 

This new complaint calls that argument absurd, noting that acts like Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift start on the time indicated on the ticket.

In addition to false advertising, the plaintiffs are claiming "intentional and negligent misrepresentation and unfair and deceptive trade practices" and are asking to be "compensated for their damages."

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Jennifer Hudson is sharing a reminder to "never give up on your dreams" on the 20th anniversary of her American Idol elimination.

The 42-year-old singer, who has gone on to be one of the most celebrated voices of her generation, came in seventh on season 3 of the singing competition series, which Fantasia Barrino would go on to win.

"On this day in 2004, I was eliminated from American Idol! But God turned it around for my good! From Idol to EGOT baby!!! 20 years later, and now back on TV with my own show," she wrote on Sunday.

Hudson then told her followers to "never give up on your dreams," adding, "If I can do it, so can u!"

"If it's not worth working hard for, it's not worth it at all!" she continued. "Remember nobody knows your potential the way you do. Just keep the faith, keep believing, and keep going!!!"

Hudson won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2007 for her role in the film Dreamgirls, going on to win Grammys for Best R&B Album in 2009 for her self-titled debut album, as well as a Best Musical Theater Album for The Color Purple in 2017.

In 2021, she won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding interactive media for a daytime program for Baba Yaga and clinched her Tony in 2022 as a producer on A Strange Loop when it won Best Musical, making her an EGOT winner.

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If your church is the top of the Billboard Hot 100, there's no need to take Hozier to it — he's already there.

The Irish artist's viral single "Too Sweet" has hit #1 on the all-genre chart, the first time that's happened in his career. He previously peaked at #2 in 2014 with his breakout hit "Take Me to Church."

"Two Sweet" is a track off Hozier's new Unheard EP, which was released in March. It includes songs originally recorded during the sessions for Hozier's latest album, 2023's Unreal Unearth.

Hozier premiered "Too Sweet" live during a show in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday, April 20. He currently has U.S. tour dates scheduled into September.

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You no longer have to imagine a new Imagine Dragons album.

The sixth studio effort from the "Radioactive" outfit is called Loom and will arrive June 28. It's the follow-up to the two-part Mercury, which was released over 2021 and 2022.

Loom includes the lead single "Eyes Closed," which premiered April 3. The rest of the track list has yet to be revealed.

Along with the album news, ID has announced a U.S. tour, kicking off July 30 in Camden, New Jersey. The outing concludes October 22 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 26, at 10 a.m. local time. Presales begin Tuesday, April 23, at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit ImagineDragonsMusic.com.

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You don't have to wonder what Taylor Swift's new songs are about anymore: She's telling us, as part of a new feature on Amazon Music.

Taylor's recorded what's being described as a "track-by-track experience," in which she explains the meaning behind a handful of songs. Amazon Music customers can access it in the app, or by saying, “Alexa, I’m a member of The Tortured Poets Department.”

Here are some of her comments:

On "Fortnight": "A song that exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album. One of which being fatalism -- longing, pining away, lost dreams ... there are lots of very dramatic lines about life or death."

On "Clara Bow": "I used to sit in record label [offices] trying to get a record deal ... And they’d say, ‘You know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her: ‘But you’re this, you’re so much better ...' And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like, you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you."

On "Florida!!!": “I’m always watching Dateline. People have these crimes that they commit; where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida ... They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity ... I think when you go through a heartbreak, there’s a part of you that thinks, ‘I want a new name. I want a new life.'"

On "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me": "I felt bitter about all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture ... [w]hat do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain."

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Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has only been available for a few days, but it's already the bestselling album of 2024.

Billboard reports that after one day on sale, the album sold the equivalent of 1.6 million units, including streaming and 1.4 million copies sold as digital downloads, CDs, cassettes and vinyl LPs. The last album to sell more than 1 million units upon release was 1989 (Taylor's Version), but it took a week to sell 1.653 million units. The Tortured Poets Department managed nearly that much in a day.

In addition, Taylor's album already has the largest sales week for any album since Adele set the all-time record in 2015 with 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in a week.

If Taylor's album debuts at #1 — and there's no reason to think it won't — it will mark her 14th chart-topper, tying her with Jay-Z for the most #1 albums among solo artists. The only act with more than 14 number-one albums is The Beatles, who have 19.

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Before the winner of this season of American Idol is crowned, they'll be getting advice from a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

Jon Bon Jovi will serve as a guest mentor for the contestants during the show's "grand finale" on May 19 on ABC. He'll be the second Rock & Roll Hall of Famer to be a guest mentor on the show this season: KISS' Gene Simmons appeared on the show on Sunday, April 21.

In other American Idol guest star news, the Monday, April 22, edition of the show will feature 2008 runner-up David Archuleta performing his new single, "Hell Together." As previously announced, Meghan Trainor will serve as a guest mentor for Monday night's episode, which is themed "Billboard #1 Hits."

Finally, the April 29 edition of the show will include a tribute to Mandisa, the season 5 top-10 contestant who died April 18 at age 47. After her time on the show, Mandisa became a Grammy-winning gospel artist.

Taylor Hicks, who won Idol season 5, wrote on Instagram, "Mandisa was a power house vocalist on our season of Idol and she graduated to a wonderful career in gospel music. Better yet she was a power house person and all of us will miss her dearly."

After airing on ABC, all episodes of American Idol are available to watch the next day on Hulu.

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Victoria Beckham celebrated her 50th birthday over the weekend, including having the "best night ever" alongside her former bandmates.

"Posh Spice" could be seen singing and dancing to the Spice Girls' smash hit "Stop" alongside former bandmates Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell-Horner in a video posted by husband David Beckham at her birthday celebration this weekend.

In the video, also posted by Victoria, all five members of the iconic British girl group can be seen performing the same dance as seen in the 1997 song's popular music video.

"I mean come on x," read David Beckham’s post. In the video, he can be seen recording in selfie mode, smiling enthusiastically at the group's performance while singing along to a portion of the chorus.

Victoria Beckham also posted the video on her Instagram page, writing: "Best night ever! Happy Birthday to me! I love you all so much! #SpiceUpYourLife." The Beckhams' posts of the party have combined for close to 2 million likes on Instagram as of midday Sunday.

The last time all five Spice Girls performed together was at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The ladies -- minus Brown -- also came together in 2022 for Halliwell's 50th birthday.

Earlier this year, while on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Brown teased that something new was in the works from the beloved girl group, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

David Beckham also took to Instagram on Wednesday to wish his wife a happy 50th birthday in a heartfelt post with a collage of photos and videos of his partner throughout the years.

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On April 19, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department set a Spotify record for the most-streamed album in a single day, but it went on to set even more records as the day progressed.

The surprise double album became the first one in Spotify history to rack up more than 200 million, and then more than 300 million, streams in a single day.  Subsequently, the first single, "Fortnight," featuring Post Malone, set another record: It's now the most-streamed song in a single day in Spotify history.

Taylor is also now the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history. She broke her own record, having previously reached that milestone in October when she put out 1989 (Taylor's Version).

Meanwhile, Post Malone took to Instagram on April 20 to thank Taylor for including him on the album. "It’s once in a lifetime that someone like @taylorswift comes into this world. I am floored by your heart and your mind, and I am beyond honored to have been asked to help you with your journey," he wrote. "I love you so much. Thank you Tay."

And Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and punk poet Patti Smith thanked Taylor on Instagram for shouting her out on the album.  On the title track, Taylor sings, "I laughed in your face and said 'You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith / This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we'rе modern idiots.'" 

Thomas, a Welsh poet, died at New York's Chelsea Hotel in 1953. Smith lived in the same hotel in 1969.

Smith posted a photo of herself reading Thomas' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. She wrote, "This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Thank you Taylor."

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As announced on American Idol on April 21, this year's inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are ageless diva Cher, R&B powerhouse Mary J. Blige, '70s and '80 rock hitmakers Foreigner, '70s superstar guitarist Peter Frampton, jam band superstars Dave Matthews Band, R&B legends Kool & the Gang, metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and pioneering rap group A Tribe Called Quest.

Frampton was front and center at last year's induction ceremony, playing guitar with Sheryl Crow as she was inducted into the hall. Foreigner has been the focus of a social media campaign driven by Mark Ronson, in which big names like Paul McCartney and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl argued why the "I Want to Know What Love Is" band deserves to be inducted.

In 2023, Cher declared on The Kelly Clarkson Show that she wouldn't be in the Rock Hall now "if they gave me a million dollars" and insisted, "I'm never gonna change my mind." We'll see how that plays out at the induction ceremony in October.

In addition, recipients of the Musical Excellence Award are the late Jimmy Buffett; Dionne Warwick; influential proto-punk rockers MC5; and the late songwriter/producer Norman Whitfield, known for co-writing and producing timeless Motown classics like "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."

The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction will stream live on Disney+ on October 19 from the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, and will be available on Hulu the next day. An ABC-TV special will air at a later date.

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On April 19, Camila Cabello was Lana Del Rey's special guest at Coachella, performing her new single "I LUV IT," and the next day, she took to Instagram to gush about the experience.

Posting a photo of herself and Lana embracing, Camila wrote, "not only is [Lana Del Rey] a once in a lifetime artist [but] billie [eilish] said it best, she’s the reason for all you b****** existence including me !!!!"

Last weekend, Billie Eilish joined Lana onstage and said of the "Video Games" singer, "This is the reason for half you b******' existence — including mine!"

Camila continued raving about Lana, writing, "she’s inspired so many artists visually lyrically musically and moved the art form forward but I think you all should know that sometimes it’s good to meet your heroes
because she is also disarmingly sweet and generous and loving also how is she so god damn pretty holy f***."

"i don’t really know who i would be without female artists like her who show me what’s possible," Camila continued. "how to be free how to be hard and soft at the same time how to make your life a work of art thank you for including us in your moment last night. i am at your service forever my girl."

Camila also posted video to her Instagram Story of Lana performing, and wrote, "forever in awe of you."

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