The rumors were true: Madonna was Sabrina Carpenter's surprise guest Friday night at Coachella.

The Queen of Pop appeared during "Juno," and teamed with Sabrina for duets of "Vogue" and "Like a Prayer." The two also performed a new song, possibly called "Bring Your Love," which is likely from Madonna's upcoming album Confessions II, a sequel to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. 

Madonna also noted the significance of the moment, since it marked her return to Coachella after two decades. "20 years ago today I performed at Coachella -- I was in the dance tent and it was the first time I performed Confessions on a Dance Floor in America. And that was such a thrill for me, so you can image what a thrill [this] is for me. ... Same boots, with the same corset ... so it’s like a full circle moment, y'know?"

Madonna joked, "The other thrilling thing I want to point out is that this is probably the only time I've ever performed with someone that's shorter than me!" 

A few hours after the performance, Madonna released the first song from Confessions II, "I Feel So Free." The album's out July 3.

Geena Davis, Madonna's co-star in A League of Their Own, also appeared during the set in a pre-filmed segment, doing a monologue as an older version of Sabrina. Geena's Thelma & Louise co-star Susan Sarandon had done the same thing during Sabrina's first Coachella performance on April 10.

You can watch the whole performance on Coachella's YouTube channel.

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Another day, another chart record set by Taylor Swift. This time, it's Billboard's Adult Pop Airplay chart, which has been around since 1996. She currently has, not one, not two, but three songs in the chart's top 10, which no other artist has ever done. Here's the rundown: "Elizabeth Taylor" is at #10, "Opalite" is #8 and "The Fate of Ophelia" is #9.

Olivia Dean's song "Man I Need" has officially passed one billion streams on Spotify, giving her her first entry into the Billions Club. On her Instagram Story, she wrote, "this is wild. thank u for listening." Olivia is the female artist with the biggest increase in global streams on Spotify over the past year. Meanwhile, her album The Art of Loving is back at #1 on the U.K. album chart.

You may want to tune in to the Coachella live YouTube stream Friday night at 9 p.m. PT to watch Sabrina Carpenter's set: It's rumored that none other than Madonna will join her onstage. Madonna just revealed that she's got a new album, Confessions II, coming out July 3.

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We didn't know it then, but when Olivia Rodrigo played the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival in June of 2025, she'd already written her new single "drop dead."  Now, she's confirmed that what she wore during part of that set was a deliberate reference to the song

At Glastonbury, Olivia performed a couple of songs with The Cure's Robert Smith, including their hit "Just Like Heaven." Then, during the encore, she wore a t-shirt that said, "You Know All The Words to 'Just Like Heaven'" -- to which Robert Smith had added, in Sharpie, "But do you?"

Of course, that seemed completely normal at the time -- she'd just performed the song, right? But when "drop dead" arrived today, we all found out that "You know all the words to 'Just Like Heaven'" is actually a lyric in the song. 

"I knew that this song was coming out and I wanted to, like, do a little Easter egg," Olivia tells Apple Music's Zane Lowe.

Asked if she played the song for Robert Smith, Olivia says, "Oh my God, I actually don't know if I played it for him. ... I played him a bunch of other songs on the album, I don't know why I didn't think to play this one for him though, I should."

As for the overall theme of "drop dead," Olivia tells Zane, "It's about a first date, and so it just feels like a new beginning and it's just trying to capture all those feelings of meeting someone that you have feelings for, and just being, like, nervous and, like, kind of insecure, but super-excited and just lovesick over this person."

Olivia's new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is out June 12.

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Taylor Swift is just one of many female pop stars releasing exclusive vinyl for this year's Record Store Day, taking place Saturday at independent record stores nationwide.

Taylor is releasing a 7-inch vinyl single of "Elizabeth Taylor," one of the songs on her album The Life of a Showgirl. It's pressed on "Cry My Eyes Violet Glitter" vinyl and comes with "collectible cover artwork."The flip side of the single is the "So Glamorous Cabaret Version" of the song. The record will be available while supplies last.

Taylor's bestie Selena Gomez has collected fan-favorite tracks on an EP called Droplets, pressed on clear glitter vinyl. It includes the songs "Wolves," "Bad Liar" and "Stained."

Olivia Dean is putting out a 7-inch vinyl with live performances of "Man I Need" and a cover of Ravyn Lenae’s "Love Me Not" from BBC 1's Live Lounge.

Tate McRae is releasing her song "Hung Up On You" on 7-inch neon violet vinyl, with a 2020 live version of "One Day" on the flip side.

Charli XCX is dropping "party 4 u" as a 7-inch single pressed on ultra-clear vinyl.

KATSEYE is releasing a 12-inch vinyl pink and red splatter version of tour arrangements and a cappella versions of their songs "Gabriela" and "Touch."

Demi Lovato is putting out a 7-inch vinyl version of "Frequency" on buttermilk vinyl with a remix on the flip side.

Hilary Duff is releasing (Mine), an LP pressed on silver vinyl that features newly rerecorded versions of her greatest hits.

The soundtrack to the NBC special Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) is coming out as a two-LP set on splatter color vinyl. It features Ariana Grande and her Wicked cast mates backed by a 37-piece orchestra.

HUNTR/X is featured on a special effect vinyl pressing of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack that comes with a fold-out poster, sticker sheet and three snapshot cards.

There is one notable male vinyl release: This year's Record Store Day Ambassador, Bruno Mars, is releasing The Collaborations, featuring his hits with other artists, including “Uptown Funk” with Mark Ronson, “Die With A Smile” with Lady Gaga and “APT.” with ROSÉ.

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No Doubt is getting ready for their residency at the Sphere Las Vegas, and they’re giving fans some insight into how they feel about some of their songs.

The band posted a video on social media in which they pit some of their biggest hits against each other. Standing in a straight line, two songs appear above their heads and the members move to the left or right depending on which song is their favorite.

The first round is “Don’t Speak” vs. “Just a Girl,” with Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal choosing "Don’t Speak,” and Tom Dumont and Adrian Young picking “Just a Girl.” In the round two battle of “Hella Good” vs. “It’s My Life,” again Gwen and Tony agree, picking the latter tune, with Adrian and Tom picking the former.

When it comes to “Spider Web” only one person, Gwen, picks it as their favorite over “Sunday Morning,” while the entire band chooses "Bathwater” over "Ex Girlfriend.”

They captioned the clip, “We learned a lot about ourselves doing this one. See you in two weeks @spherevegas."

No Doubt’s Sphere Las Vegas residency kicks off May 6 and wraps June 13. A complete list of dates can be found at NoDoubt.com.

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Fresh off his surprise appearance during Justin Bieber’s Coachella set, The Kid LAROI’s got a new single called “I CONDEMN,” along with an official music video. It’s his first new release since his album BEFORE I FORGET came out in January and arrives ahead of his A PERFECT WORLD TOUR, which kicks off April 27.

Stephen Sanchez is ready to “CHUCK THE MONEY” with his latest new song. The track is featured on his upcoming sophomore album, Love, Love, Love, out May 8. “This was the second song we wrote for the record,” Stephen says in a statement. “It’s about throwing out the material things and placing value back on connection and intimacy that's real and has a heartbeat. But also taking it to a place that's fun and innocent as well.”

Lewis Capaldi has released “Stay Love,” a special addition to his 2025 Survive EP. He sings on the track, “Oh just stay, love, when everybody’s leaving/ C’mon stay, love, to get me through the evening/ You know I pray, love, that you'll always be the on / And when the road gets rough, don’t give up on us, and this could stay love.”

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Friday, April 17, should've been a great day for ZAYN: That's the day his new solo album, KONNAKOL came out. Instead, the singer is celebrating his release day in the hospital.

On his Instagram Story, he posted a photo of himself in a hospital bed on Friday afternoon and wrote, "Been a long week and am still unexpectedly recovering. Heartbroken that I can’t see you all this week, I wouldn’t be in the place I am today without you guys and am so thankful for your understanding."

"Thank you to all the incredible hospital staff of Drs, nurses, cardiologist, management, admin and everyone who had helped along the way and continue to," he added. "You are all legends!”

ABC Audio has reached out to ZAYN's reps.

KONNAKOL is ZAYN's first album since 2024's Room Under the Stairs. He's scheduled to start a headlining tour on May 12.

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Fans are saying it's giving Rihanna and Shakira, or maybe Beyoncé or Shakira. Either way, Tyla and Zara Larsson are an instantly iconic duo in their new video for "She Did It Again."

Following the success of "Stateside," Zara continues her streak of joining women from a different country for a sexy bop by teaming with the Grammy-winning South African star for the sultry track about toying with a man's emotions. In it, Zara sings, "Put him in on his knees, not tryna tease/ Oops, did it again like Britney, that's how it is." Zara's a big fan of Britney's, covering Britney's "Gimme More" on her current tour. 

In the steamy video, both women are wearing a series of very skimpy outfits as they shimmy, shake and dance up on each other. At the end of the video, they're grinding on each other so enthusiastically that they both start laughing.

"Thank you my girl @tyla for having me on this songgggg I love it and I love you!!!!" Zara wrote on Instagram.

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Miley Cyrus' special guest on a new version of her song "Younger You" is someone who used to make a living as a Hannah Montana impersonator: country music superstar Lainey Wilson.

Lainey writes on Instagram, "If I go back and tell myself one thing it’d be…'Hey younger you, you’re gonna impersonate Hannah Montana all throughout high school, playing every birthday party, fair and festival between here and Louisiana and then one day…. you’re gonna have a song with the real Hannah Montana.'”

"@mileycyrus thank you for asking me to join you on this special song," she adds. "If this ain’t a full circle moment, I don’t know what is."

The post included photos and video of Lainey and Miley together in recent years.

Lainey impersonated Hannah at parties and events from the time she was in eighth grade through 12th grade. She tells People in an Instagram video, "It taught me that this wasn't gonna be easy, but it was gonna be fun."

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It's not that deep — unless you want it to be.

That's the title of the upcoming deluxe version of Demi Lovato's current album. It will feature a whopping eight new tracks, including the one that dropped Friday, "Low Rise Jeans." She's been performing the song on her It's Not That Deep Tour, which kicked off Monday and featured a guest appearance by Joe Jonas; the former couple sang the Camp Rock favorite "This Is Me," as well as "On the Line."

The next tour stop is Monday in Toronto, Canada.

It's Not That Deep (Unless You Want It To Be) arrives April 24.

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Ballerinas and burglary figure into the video for sombr's new sing 'Potential' -- with some dinosaurs thrown in for good measure.

In the song, sombr mourns a former relationship, singing, "We had potential/ Makes me mental/ Not having you." He also sings the very self-aware line, "It was a difficult breakup/ but I wrote some songs that got me famous."

In the video, sombr, his girlfriend and a pal are a crew of burglars: We see them robbing a convenience store and a jewelry store and generally having a great time. That's intercut with footage of a ballerina and her male partner dancing in the rotunda of a natural history museum, where the bones of a dinosaur are displayed.

Sombr and the girl eventually break into the natural history museum while the friend waits outside. It seems romantic as they walk around looking at the exhibits, until sombr trips an alarm while looking at an artifact and the police catch him and cuff him. As they take him away, he thinks of the girl, and we see the artifact he was looking at: a rock with a male and female figure painted on it, called "The Lovers."

Sombr debuted "Potential" at Coachella last weekend. He'll perform there again on April 18.

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In Olivia Rodrigo's new song "drop dead," she sings about a guy who looks like "an angel on the walls of Versailles" -- the opulent palace built by King Louis XIV of France. So of course, she had to go to Versailles to film the video.

"I love this song so much!!! it’s the first chapter in the story of ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ and it makes me wanna skip around and roll the windows down and make out," Olivia wrote on Instagram.

"I was lucky enough to film the music video at the palace of Versailles a few months ago with the wonderful [director] @petrafcollins and I’m so stoked with how it turned out. I hope you guys love it as much as I do xoxoxoxo."

Despite the song's title, it's not a kiss-off to a guy Olivia hates: It's about the crazy rush of falling in love with a guy who's "so so pretty" that if he kisses her, she "might drop dead." The video starts with Olivia in a bar, and then suddenly, she's running through the halls of Versailles wearing a babydoll dress, white knee-high socks and retro pink foam Walkman-style headphones.

The song also features a shout out to The Cure, whose lead singer, Robert Smith, Liv sang with at the Glastonbury Festival. One of the songs they sang was The Cure's classic "Just Like Heaven," and in "drop dead," Liv sings, "You know all the words to 'Just Like Heaven'/ and I know why he wrote them/ now that you're standing right here."

"drop dead" is the first single from Olivia's new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which is due June 12.

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Meghan Trainor admitted in a recent interview with US Weekly, "I can’t do it all. I wish I could, and I can’t." Now, she's putting her money where her mouth is, so to speak, by canceling her upcoming tour.

In a statement on her Instagram Story, Meghan wrote, "After a lot of reflection and some really tough conversations, I've made the difficult decision to cancel the Get In Girl Tour." She says releasing a new album, preparing for the tour and welcoming her new daughter, Mikey Moon Trainor, "has just been more than I can take on right now and I need to be home and present for each and all of them at this time."

In addition to Mikey, who arrived via surrogate in January, Meghan and husband Daryl Sabara share sons Riley, 5, and Barry Sabara, who's almost 3.

"I know this will come as a disappointment to my fans and I am so sorry to let you down," Meghan writes. "But I know this is the right decision for my family and me right now. I promise I'll be back soon and I can't wait for you to hear this new record. I'm so proud of it and I'm endlessly grateful for your love and support always."

Meghan's new album Toy With Me is out April 24.

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Aaron Carter’s mom, Jane Carter Schneck, has started a GoFundMe page to raise money for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in honor of her late son. The listing, which is attempting to raise $85,000, promises that all money donated will go toward the Walk of Fame fee to honor Aaron’s legacy. The singer died in 2022 at age 34.

Ava Max is out with a new single called “Out Of Your Mind.” She calls the song “my personal f u to people who want me to change and fit in a box to make someone comfortable and forget about my own dreams entirely.”

Meghan Trainor has revealed the track list for her new album, Toy With Me. There are 14 tracks total, with titles like “Chef’s Kiss,” "Pink Cadillac,” “Men’s Tears” and “Delulu.” The album drops April 24.

Jewel has released “Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love,” a new single that gives fans a taste of her forthcoming acoustic collection, out later this year.

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A documentary about the making of Sara Bareilles' new album will premiere in June at New York's Tribeca Festival, where Sara, herself, will also perform.

The film, Good Grief, is about the creation of Sara's first album since 2019's Amidst the Chaos. She reflects on the recording process in a post shared to Instagram. "Almost one year ago I walked into a beautiful church in upstate NY and began recording my new album with some of my closest friends and collaborators," Sara writes. "The past 5 years for me personally have been full of some profound grief and loss AND the extraordinary gifts and perspective those hard lessons bring."

She continues, "I feel both vulnerable in, and proud of the film he made. I am honored that the first place this film will be seen will be in the city I love so much and call home. ... I sincerely hope you will join us and share in some Good Grief."

The film premieres at New York's Beacon Theatre on June 4, followed by a performance from Sara; tickets go on sale April 28.

Sara won't be the only pop star at the festival: Alicia Keys is set to make an appearance after the June 13 premiere of her film, Alicia Keys: Girl From Hell’s Kitchen. Other artists who'll perform alongside the debuts of documentaries about their lives are Earth, Wind & Fire, Mumford & Sons and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Peter Frampton.

The 25th annual Tribeca Festival will showcase a total of 118 feature films and 86 short films in its final selection. It will take place June 3-14 in New York.

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Now that Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball has officially wrapped up, all the numbers can be crunched — and they show that this was the biggest tour of her career.

Billboard reports that the tour grossed $419.5 million, blowing away all of Gaga's previous treks. None of those ever broke the $200 million mark, let alone $300 million or $400 million. In addition, the Mayhem Ball is now one of the top-10 highest-grossing tours by a female artist ever and one of the top-10 highest-grossing pop music tours ever.

But it's not just about the money, it's about the fans Gaga played for. If you count the 2025 warmup shows she performed in Mexico and Singapore; the two weekends she headlined at Coachella last year; the record-breaking free concert she did last May on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the 2 million tickets she sold for the tour proper, she's entertained more 4.5 million fans in the past 12 months.

And perhaps most impressively, the Mayhem Ball's gross now brings Gaga's career haul on the road — starting with a club tour in 2009 — to over $1.1 billion. She's just the sixth woman to gross $1 billion on the road, following Beyoncé, Celine Dion, Madonna, Pink and Taylor Swift.

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Things are looking Ugly for Teddy Swims.

The Grammy-nominated singer has announced The Ugly Tour for 2026. It starts Sept. 22 in Kansas City, Missouri, and is set to wrap up in LA on Nov. 18. You can register now for presale access at Teddy's website. Presales start April 21 and run through the week; tickets go on sale to the general public on April 24 at 10 a.m. local time.

Teddy recently started a new musical era with the single "Mr. Know It All," which he performed for the first time at Coachella on April 10. He'll play the festival again on Friday, but it'll be tough for him to top the first show: His special guests included Vanessa Carlton, Joe Jonas and former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth. You can tune in to the Coachella Livestream at 5:20 p.m. PT to see what he has in store.

After Coachella, Teddy is also booked to play the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and BottleRock Napa in California in May and Bonnaroo in June, with headline shows in between. He'll spend the summer on tour in Europe.

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If you were hoping Charli XCX’s next album would be Brat 2.0, you might be out of luck.

The singer tells British Vogue in a new cover story that her next offering will be a rock album.

One of the new songs on the currently unfinished record puts it bluntly, according to the magazine, with the lyrics: “I think the dance floor is dead/ so now we’re making rock music.”

After the success of Brat, Charli says making another dance-leaning album “would have felt really hard, really sad.” Instead she’s taking on the rock genre, but doing it her way — bending “the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”

“For me, it’s fun to flip the form,” she says. “We know there’s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that’s fine.”

Charli’s last album was Wuthering Heights, released in February, which served as the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s film of the same name.

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In the new trailer for Focker-In-Law, the latest installment in the Meet the Parents movie franchise, Ariana Grande has one mission: to stop Ben Stiller's Greg Focker from holding her fiancé, Henry — Greg's son — "emotionally hostage." 

In the trailer, Ariana's character, Olivia Jones, tells the family that she was trained as an FBI hostage negotiator and plans to use her skills to "free" Henry from his co-dependent relationship with Greg. Much to Greg's dismay, she's got Robert De Niro's Jack Byrnes on her side. The two get along great — even Jack's dog loves her, and Greg is crushed when Jack says he's going to invite her into the "circle of trust."

This sets up an adversarial relationship where confident Olivia and a very threatened Greg go head-to-head throughout the trailer.

"I thought this would be an opportunity to get to know me. To bond," Olivia tells Greg during a family weekend together.

"How do you bond with an emotional puppeteer?" Greg asks Olivia. "I won't be your little Pinocchio, Geppetto. Evil Geppetto. I'm a real boy!"

Focker-In-Law is Ariana's comedy movie debut. It hits theaters on Thanksgiving.

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Anne Hathaway's new film Mother Mary casts the Oscar-winning actress as a huge pop star who's sort of a combination of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. While the movie's director has said that Swift's Reputation Tour concert film inspired the movie's live sequences, Hathaway says it was another one of Swift's films that really influenced her character: the Miss Americana documentary.

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Hathaway said she was inspired by "how vulnerable [Swift] let herself be in that, kinda showing that pop stars, who we’re so used to seeing in their power and so polished, y'know, what happens when they’re kinda in-between moments, when they're having a moment of metamorphosis, which can be so painful."

"I was already a fan, but after that, I just had so much empathy for her humanity and, of course, her talent."

Hathaway also revealed she and Swift "know each other," and noted she was convinced the singer was waving to her from the stage when she went to see the Eras Tour.

"And then somebody tapped me on the shoulder and they said, 'Taylor wants you to have this,'" she continued. "And I opened it. It was a note where Taylor said, 'I'm so happy you're here, I'm gonna be enthusiastically waving at you.'” 

"I was like, 'Oh my God! She's so magical!'" Hathaway laughed. "She did! She did the thing! And I was right! I am special!'"

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