genre pop Archives - Black Promoters Collective (BPC)

genre pop

Awards  ·  genre pop  ·  Music  ·  philanthropy
Neil Diamond to Receive Inspirational Lifetime Achievement Award at 2025 Carousel Ball, Goo Goo Dolls to Perform

UPDATE (July 9): Goo Goo Dolls are set to perform at the 39th annual Carousel Ball at the Hyatt Regency Denver on Oct. 11, honoring music icon Neil Diamond. Previous stars who’ve headlined the ball included Sir Elton John, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and John Legend.
Goo Goo Dolls have landed two No. 1 hits on Billboard’s all-genre Radio Songs chart – “Iris,” which held the top spot for a then record 18 weeks in 1998, and “Slide.”

“We’re excited to take the stage at The Carousel Ball and support an amazing cause,” said Goo Goo Dolls bandmates John Rzeznik and Robby Takac in a joint statement. “The progress the Children’s Diabetes Foundation has made in diabetes research and patient care has brought new hope to countless families and we’re honored to be a part of their special night.”

Trending on Billboard

PREVIOUSLY (April 29): Neil Diamond is set to receive the Inspirational Lifetime Achievement Award by the Children’s Diabetes Foundation at the 39th Annual Carousel Ball on Oct. 11. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, near the home of CDF’s primary operations and its clinic and research facility, the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes.

Diamond is just the third recipient of the award, following Sidney Poitier (2016) and Diane Warren (2024).

Proceeds from The Carousel Ball benefit CDF and focus on patient support, awareness and diabetes research. The Carousel Balls, which date to 1978, collectively have raised more than $117 million.

Diamond, 84, has served on CDF’s advisory board and has attended the organization’s fundraisers for many years, including performing in Denver in 2001, as well as at The Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills in 2012, where he memorably sang an impromptu duet of “Sweet Caroline” with George Clooney.

“It’s been my absolute joy to have supported the Children’s Diabetes Foundation for so many wonderful years,” Diamond said in a statement. “Barbara Davis and her organization have done an immense amount of good helping kids, adults and their families facing a difficult diagnosis.”

“Neil Diamond is a once-in-a-generation talent,” event chair Dana Davis and honorary chair Barbara Davis said in a joint statement. “As a bestselling recording artist the world over, he is an undeniable force whose songwriting has earned him countless musical accolades. … For over 35 years, Neil has lent his timeless voice to our efforts to find a cure for diabetes. On behalf of the patients and researchers his generosity has touched, we can’t think of anyone more deserving of our Inspirational Lifetime Achievement Award.”

Diamond’s career spans nearly 60 years. He landed his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “Cherry, Cherry,” in October 1966. He has notched three No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 — “Cracklin’ Rosie” (1970), “Song Sung Blue” (1972) and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” a duet with Barbra Streisand (1978). Diamond finally topped the Billboard 200 in 2008, nearly 42 years after he first made that chart, with Home Before Dark.

Diamond was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and has received two additional awards from that organization — the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement in 2000 and the Johnny Mercer Award (their top honor) in 2018.

Additionally, Diamond received MusiCares’ Person of the Year Award in 2009, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011 and a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2018. He was voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. His achievements also include a Grammy, a Golden Globe Award, an American Music Award, an ASCAP Film and Television Award and a Billboard Icon Award.

In addition to the award to Diamond, The MacMillan Family will be honored with the High Hopes Tribute Award for their nearly three decades of commitment as supporters of CDF. To purchase tickets and tables and learn more about the event, visit the Children’s Diabetes Foundation’s site.

July 9, 2025

bbnews  ·  Billboard  ·  billboard news  ·  genre pop  ·  Media  ·  Videos
Nicole Scherzinger Talks Working With Liam Payne, Looks Back on 20 Years of the Pussycat Dolls | Billboard News

The debut season of Netflix’s Building the Band kicks off today, and mentor/judge Nicole Scherzinger opens up about working with Liam Payne and helping form One Direction, why Lizzo would be included in a modern day Pussycat Dolls, why she […]

July 9, 2025

genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  TV/Film
Nicole Scherzinger Opens Up About Working With Liam Payne on ‘Building the Band’: ‘This Was His Happy Place’

“I love doing things that break all the rules,” says Nicole Scherzinger with a smile during a sit-down interview with Billboard at Netflix’s New York City office. “It doesn’t get any more real than having a band put themselves together without any record execs or labels telling them what they have to do, what they have to look like. That doesn’t work anymore. That’s the old formula.”
Scherzinger is talking about Building the Band, a new singing competition that premieres on Netflix Wednesday (July 9) and finds her serving as a mentor and judge. An engrossing, potent cocktail of Love Is Blind and The X Factor, Building the Band tracks young singers from across the globe as they form their own groups without ever having met in real life: Contestants can hear each other’s auditions and talk on the phone, but the first time they see each other is during their debut performance as a band. “It was solely based off of music compatibility and chemistry and connection. Sight unseen,” says Scherzinger, who calls the show a “social experiment” that worked out “better than we could have imagined.”

With Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean playing host, Kelly Rowland and Liam Payne (filming completed prior to his tragic death last October) joined Scherzinger as guest judges, providing direction and feedback to six bands vying for the win. Scherzinger, who one month ago won the best actress in a musical Tony Award for her stunning work in Broadway’s Sunset Blvd., is particularly qualified for a show like this. She’s judged several singing competitions (The Sing-Off, The X Factor, The Masked Singer) and done the band thing, too – three times, in fact, as she points out to me: she led the Pussycat Dolls to massive success (four top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100); sang in the TV show-formed band Eden’s Crush, who won Popstars USA in 2001 and notched one Hot 100 top 10 hit; and spent time in the rock band Days of the New (that one I was admittedly not aware of until she quizzed me).

Beyond her own solo and group successes, Scherzinger also changed pop music history: She was the driving force behind putting Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson together as a group on The X Factor UK in 2010.

In short: She knows a thing or two about raw talent and what will connect with a wider audience. Beyond resumes and vocal abilities, there’s an ineffable quality she looks for in groups. “[You need] that natural chemistry. It just has to work organically because that’s the only thing that’s gonna move you, that’s the only thing that’s gonna make you care – give you the electric volts, I call them,” she says. “There’s too much stuff out there today – it’s gotta be something amazing that knocks you out the park.”

Fifteen years ago, Scherzinger felt those electric volts when One Direction formed. Despite the gut-wrenching loss of Payne, there’s a palpable love and gratitude in her voice as she reflects on watching Payne pay it forward on Building the Band. “I thought it was so beautiful to see the journey, to see Liam come full circle. Especially my relationship with him, having helped form the band One Direction and then see him have such wildly, phenomenal global success with One Direction and with his solo career … [to see him] mentor these bands, it was really beautiful,” Scherzinger shares.

“I saw the joy it brought to Liam. I felt that this was his happy place. Like myself, AJ and Kelly, we’ve lived this. We’ve learned it. To be able to bestow any inspiration and knowledge and wisdom and experience on any of these contestants and these bands, it brought us all joy. Particularly Liam. I felt this really inspired him and this was his happy place. This was his happy place because Liam was such a beautiful heart, and he loved to give back. He loved to help.”

In his role on Building the Band, Payne is comfortable, friendly and naturally funny. “He’s with us in spirit,” Scherzinger says. “I know how proud he was of this show and I know the joy that he got from doing this show. I feel like we are honoring him with this show, and that is such a beautiful thing. I’m so excited for people to see him in his highest light, giving back.”

Building the Band is also a bit of a full circle moment for Scherzinger, who spent time in a reality show-based band before graduating to massive success with the Pussycat Dolls, one of the most commercially successful girl groups of all time. Looking back on 20 years since the band’s debut album, PCD, Scherzinger offers some advice she might give to a younger version of herself: “Be your authentic self and lead with your heart – and be sure you carry your balls with you.”

Advising budding artists on Building the Band also made Scherzinger think about how the industry has changed for women and girl groups. “When I was thinking of the Pussycat Dolls — and I’m so proud of the Pussycat Dolls — I’m thinking about, ‘What would the Pussycat Dolls look like today?’ The Pussycat Dolls would look like Lizzo; like Demi Lovato; like Billie Eilish. It’s unconventional. It’s not what you would think. For me, that’s so important. Ten years ago, 20 years ago, being sexy was about being sexy for someone else. Now being sexy is about feeling sexy in your own skin, feeling strong about owning, embracing and loving and accepting yourself. It’s called evolution. It’s called times are a’changin’. It’s about inclusivity. It’s about accepting yourself and not trying to conform and be put in a box.”

That inclusivity and artist-first focus fueled Scherzinger’s approach to mentoring singers on this show. “I want to see the best in people. How can I bring out the best in you, as a human and as an artist? Find the strengths and focus on the strengths. How can we encourage, how can we empower? And that’s what we should do for anyone,” she concludes. “Not only in Building the Band, but in life.”

July 9, 2025

Business  ·  genre pop  ·  Legal  ·  Legal News  ·  Music News  ·  nsfs
Michael Jackson Estate Identifies ‘Extortionate’ Abuse Accuser as ‘My Friend Michael’ Author

Michael Jackson’s estate is ratcheting up allegations that a recent child abuse accuser fabricated his claims for a payday by filing court papers identifying the man as a music manager who expressly disclaimed that the King of Pop was a pedophile in the 2011 memoir My Friend Michael.
In a petition to compel arbitration submitted to Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday (July 9) and obtained by Billboard, the Jackson estate identifies Frank Cascio as the man behind an alleged $213 million extortion attempt reported last fall. Articles at the time said the estate had brought an arbitration demand against an accuser, at that point anonymous, who was trying to secure a financial windfall despite inking a binding settlement years earlier.

Filling in some gaps in that account, Wednesday’s petition says Cascio launched a “shakedown” of the Jackson estate when the HBO docuseries Leaving Neverland amplified years of child sexual abuse claims against the deceased pop superstar in 2019. According to the estate, Cascio and his associates “decided it was their turn to profit from making specious accusations against their dear friend” despite having been staunch defenders of Jackson for more than 30 years.

The petition says that Cascio, who had known Jackson since he was a child and worked as the singer’s manager, spent years “passionately” proclaiming Jackson’s innocence in interviews with ABC’s Primetime Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Wendy Williams Show. Cascio also disclaimed the swirling abuse claims in My Friend Michael.

“Frank’s book adamantly confirmed that he could state ‘with the absolute conviction of a man who saw Michael interact with thousands of kids’ that ‘in all the years that I was close to him, I saw nothing that raised any red flags,’” says the petition. “Frank stated unequivocally, ‘I want to be precise and clear, on the record, so that everyone can read and understand: Michael’s love for children was innocent, and it was profoundly misunderstood.’”

As the petition puts it, Jackson’s estate “reluctantly” agreed to pay Cascio a settlement in 2020 — which previous reporting has tallied at $3.3 million — without admitting any wrongdoing and in exchange for a promise that any future disputes would be decided in confidential arbitration. But Cascio allegedly violated that agreement last year by threatening to file a public lawsuit unless he and his associates were paid $213 million more.

Those alleged threats led the Jackson estate to bring a private arbitration demand for extortion, which remains pending before the mediation firm Signature Resolution. Now, the estate says Cascio’s newly retained celebrity attorney, Mark Geragos, is once again threatening to bring a public lawsuit unless they satisfy a fresh demand of $44 million.

“In order to enforce their rights under the agreement, petitioners hereby seek an order compelling respondents to resolve any and all of their specious alleged claims against petitioners and any attorneys who represented petitioners in the pending arbitration before Signature Resolution in accordance with the express provisions of the agreement,” the Wednesday petition reads.

Geragos did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

Jackson, who died suddenly in 2009, was never convicted or held legally liable on any accusation of child molestation. But he’s still dogged by such allegations: Two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, are continuing to pursue civil lawsuits alleging Jackson sexually abused them as children, and they laid out the accusations in disturbing detail in Leaving Neverland.

The Jackson estate has always vehemently denied all such claims, pointing out that the singer was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. The estate has generated more than $3 billion since Jackson’s death, and it maintains that his accusers are simply seeking to profit off an artist who cannot defend himself because defamation law does not extend to dead individuals.

The estate calls Leaving Neverland a “one-sided hit job” and sued HBO over the series in 2019. That case has since settled confidentially, and Leaving Neverland is no longer available on HBO’s streaming platforms.

July 9, 2025

Billboard Boxscore  ·  Chart Beat  ·  genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Touring
Dua Lipa’s World Tour Is Her Biggest Yet — and She Hasn’t Even Hit the U.S. Yet

Dua Lipa wrapped the European leg of the Radical Optimism Tour on June 27 at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. Including prior shows in Asia (November-December 2024) and Oceania (March-April), it has grossed $112.3 million and sold 960,000 tickets over its first 44 shows, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That makes it the biggest tour of Lipa’s career so far, before she brings the tour to the Americas this fall.

The Radical Optimism Tour kicked off on Nov. 5, 2024, with 11 shows across Asia, marking Lipa’s first shows there since a 2018 leg of The Self-Titled Tour. Then, she played Singapore’s 5,000-capacity Star Theater; on her current tour, she sold more than 18,800 tickets across two nights at Indoor Stadium. In Tokyo, the level-up is even more stark, going from the 2,700-cap Zepp Tokyo to 38,300 tickets at Saitama Super Arena.

Altogether, the Asia shows grossed $21 million and sold 166,000 tickets. Then, Lipa traveled to Australia and New Zealand, where she brought in $17.2 million from 139,000 tickets over 10 shows (March 17-April 4). That’s up 45% from the Oceania leg of 2022’s Future Nostalgia Tour.

Next was Europe: double the shows than either of the previous legs, and more than triple the gross. Over 23 shows, Lipa grossed $74.1 million and sold 656,000 tickets. That’s 10 fewer shows than her last run through Europe, but up 188% in earnings. Three years deeper into her career, Lipa essentially doubled her average ticket price ($56.18 vs. $112.98) and per-show attendance (14,300 vs. 28,500) in Europe.

On the Future Nostalgia Tour, Lipa hit 28 European arenas, five of which got a second show. This time, she played multiple nights in seven arenas and leveled up to five stadiums. Her two nights at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 20-21) grossed $19.1 million from 151,000 tickets. Not only is it the highlight of the tour so far, but it is also the most attended and highest grossing engagement of Lipa’s career so far.

Touring has become increasingly global since Lipa’s last tour, but the United States remains the most lucrative market in the world. It speaks to her global prowess then, that she has outearned 2022’s world tour, which included 31 shows in the U.S. and Canada, months before stepping foot stateside.

From Sept. 1 to Oct. 16, Lipa will play 22 shows in the U.S., plus two in Toronto. Then, she’s off to Latin America for 11 shows before ending on Dec. 5 at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros. By the time curtains close, the Radical Optimism Tour will be headed for $165 million to $175 million. Trending toward $200 million is likely given the increase in American ticket prices since her last trek, though it’s unlikely she’d cross that threshold.  

Dating back to Lipa’s first reported show at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix (March 14, 2017), she has grossed $220.1 million and sold 2.4 million tickets.

July 9, 2025

genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News
Kevin Jonas Recalls ‘Losing Almost All’ of His Money After the Jonas Brothers Broke Up

Kevin Jonas recently got candid about a topic that’s usually taboo: money.
While appearing with brothers Joe and Nick on the Wednesday (July 9) episode of School of Greatness, the guitarist opened up about struggling with his finances after the Jonas Brothers went their separate ways in 2013. The band would eventually reunite six years later, but during the siblings’ professional time apart, Kevin says he lost money as a result of some “bad business deals.”

“I’ve seen it both ways,” the oldest Jo Bro told podcast host Lewis Howes during a discussion on wealth. “I’ve seen the beginning of the success, to financial success — not knowing what money really was and understanding it — to not having [it], to losing almost all of it.”

When asked whether he’d really lost most of his funds, Kevin clarified, “most of it, down to the one 10 percent left.”

Trending on Billboard

“About nine years ago, I invested in a bunch of property and doing other things, and I was building at the time,” he added. “Sadly, it wasn’t the right partnership. I’ve learned a lot of lessons in that. Thankfully … we had a second shot and bite at the apple with the band coming back together.”

The Jonas Brothers first started making music together as teenagers, earning fame thanks to their projects with Disney Channel and Billboard 200-topping albums A Little Bit Longer and Lines, Vines and Trying Times. When disagreements over the band’s direction and general burnout started to divide the brothers — something they opened up about in their 2019 Billboard cover story — they disbanded around 2013.

As Kevin mentioned, a second chance rolled around six years later, when the trio decided to give band life another shot after each pursuing solo projects. Their reunion was an immediate success, with single “Sucker” becoming their first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2019.

But before they could get back together, Joe says they each had to figure out how to check their egos at the door. “There was too much under the rug,” he said on the podcast. “We had to trust each other more with being like, ‘Actually, you are good in this band, you are talented.’”

And despite some fans labeling him as the band’s “frontman” early on, Joe also said that each of the brothers had to come to the following realization: “We could all share the spotlight, we could all share the studio, we could all share the songwriting, we could all share the money.”

Watch the Jonas Brothers’ full in interview on School of Greatness above.

July 9, 2025

Culture  ·  genre pop  ·  Music News  ·  TV/Film
‘Building the Band’ Pays Tribute to Liam Payne in Premiere Episode, Dedicates Series to His Family

The team behind Netflix’s Building the Band is feeling the loss of Liam Payne extra hard this week, with the show premiering Wednesday (July 9) on the streaming service following the One Direction star’s sudden death nine months prior.
And in the opening moments of the competition series’ first episode, AJ McLean — who hosts Building the Band — paid tribute to his late friend. “When we came together to film Building the Band, we never imagined we’d soon be saying goodbye to our friend Liam Payne,” the Backstreet Boys member tells the camera.  

“Liam is a guest judge in later episodes, and through his presence, we see his deep love for music and his unwavering commitment to helping others find their voice,” McLean continues as a quick montage of Payne’s scenes on the show play. “It’s through that spirit that we dedicate this series to Liam and his family.”

Trending on Billboard

Building the Band was one of the last projects Payne worked on before his death last October. About two months after wrapping filming in August, he suffered a fatal fall from the fourth-floor balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires. High levels of alcohol and other substances were in his system at the time of his death, toxicology reports later confirmed. 

During their time together on the show, McLean and Payne bonded over their similar histories as boy band stars. Both musicians have also been open in the past about their struggles with sobriety, with McLean saying that they shared “a lot of parallel life experiences” in a recent interview with Today.  

In the same interview, McLean also revealed that he had heard the unreleased music Payne was working on while filming Building the Band. “I thought that was really sweet that he would entrust someone that he’s still learning about to give their opinion,” he told the long-running NBC morning show. “I thought it was a great body of work. And I hope that the world and that the fans get to hear it somewhere down the road. It’s beautiful, beautiful music.” 

Also starring Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland as judges, Building the Band separates hopeful singers into closed-off pods, where they then seek to assemble a musical group before ever seeing one another. The first four episodes are available to watch now, while the second and third batches of episodes will arrive July 16 and July 23, respectively. 

After Payne’s death, Netflix got his family’s blessing to move forward with the show. And after a trailer for the show premiered in June, his sister Ruth Gibbins opened up about how meaningful it was to watch her brother shine onscreen. 

“Im heartbroken he never got to see how great he is in this show,” she wrote on Instagram Stories at the time. “He knew he had done a good job, we all told him this when we were at filming, but watching it back, wow!”

July 9, 2025

genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  Pop
Olivia Rodrigo Guitarist Says Singer Paid For Therapy For Crew On Guts Tour: ‘One of the Coolest Things That Has Ever Happened’

Olivia Rodrigo did something for her crew on the Guts tour that blew rhythm guitarist Daisy Spencer’s mind: she paid for free therapy for her team during the run of shows, as well as when they were off the road. The veteran performer opened up about the loving gesture from her boss on a recent episode of the StageLeft podcast, during which she said she had “fallen off” her therapy regimen lately following a struggle to find the right therapist.
“And then, on the Guts World Tour, Olivia and our tour manager, Marty Hom, made accessible and free therapy for all of the touring personnel,” Spencer said of the sprawling outing that launched in California in Feb. 2024 and kept the “Good 4 U” singer on the road through Oct. of that year, before picking up again in January of this year with a run of international dates that wrapped on July 1 in Manchester, U.K.

Trending on Billboard

“I have never had anything like that. And that reignited the importance of therapy to me because I had just kind of fallen off for so long, and then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilized the crap out of that,” said Spencer.

The 31-year-old session and live guitarist said as a result of Rodrigo’s gesture, she went to see a therapist once a week, or every other week, even during the off times when the tour was not on the road and the the crew still had access to the services. “Honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour,” she said. “Like, seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive.”

The veteran performer who has been touring since she was 17-years-old said the sessions really helped her deal with a lot of her unprocessed trauma from her younger years, which is why taking that time to prioritize mental health was, “doing baby Daisy a good justice of finally getting to hear baby Daisy’s story of what they were going through when I was younger and everything.”

Rodrigo, 22, has been open in the past about seeing a therapist beginning when she was a teenager, something she said has really helped her prioritize her mental health. The singer, whose dad is a family therapist, told CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 that she began seeing a therapist when she was 16 and that it was a “really big, life-changing moment” that helped her learn a lot about herself.

“Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you don’t need that, you have so much, your life is so great, what are your problems?’” Rodrigo said at the time. “I think that’s definitely a thing that sometimes older people can do to younger people, too, is kind of trivialize what they’re going through just because they’re like, ‘Eh, they’re fine, they’re just kids, they’ll get through it.’ But it feels so real when you’re in it, and it’s so valid, and just because it’s not an adult problem or you don’t have to pay taxes yet or whatever doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.”

Rodrigo is one of a growing list of artists who’ve been open about their mental health struggles, a group that includes Adele, Billie Eilish, Bebe Rexha, Ariana Grande, Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Demi Lovato, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Ed Sheeran and many more.

Spencer added that the on-the-road therapy has been, “a gift for real. I feel like it is such a gift to be able to look within yourself and have someone else help you bring some stuff out of you that you might otherwise on your own not be able to get there. That’s the gift that therapy has given to me, is that I am able to really flesh out some stuff from my childhood that that needed a voice.”

At press time a spokesperson for Rodrigo had not responded to Billboard‘s request for comment on Spencer’s interview.

Watch Spencer talk about how therapy on the road has helped her — as well as how she creates a “stage persona” for arena crowds, her guitar part on “Vampire” and playing “Hot To Go” with Chappell Roan — below.

July 9, 2025

genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  Pop
Kesha Postpones Dallas Show Due to Weather, Asks Fans To Come Back Next Night: ‘Let’s Party Tomorrow’

Kesha was forced to postpone her show at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion on Tuesday night (July 8) due to the threat of severe weather. The singer made the announcement on her Instagram Story, telling fans that her T–s Out date in the city would be pushed back by one day out of concern for their safety.
“I wanted to say thank you for coming out to support an independent artist,” she wrote. “I have been so excited for tonight and to celebrate my freedom and go t–s out with all of you, but due to the weather and what yall here in Texas have been facing, I have to put your safety first. My heart is with you Texas. I’m so sorry that I can’t play this show tonight because of the weather and for all of your safety.”

Trending on Billboard

A severe thunderstorm warning and flash flood warnings were in effect in North Texas on Tuesday night, with heavy rains expected. The intense downpours came less than a week after a storm caused catastrophic flooding along Texas’ Guadalupe River, killing at least 110 people so far — including 27 from the all-girls Christian summer camp Camp Mystic — in an area around four hours from the Dallas metro area; at press time more than 160 people were still missing in the floods.

But, due to the devastation wrought by that storm and out of an abundance of caution, Kesha said she was planning to wait 24 hours and give it another go on Wednesday night (July 9). “But I’m going to stay here in your beautiful city and come back here tomorrow and would love to play for all of you tomorrow night,” the singer wrote. “All of your tickets will be honored and I’m so sorry. Get home safe, let’s party tomorrow.”

The venue also announced the show postponement on Instagram, writing, “Your safety is our top priority. While we had hoped we could get a show in for you tonight, mother nature had other plans. As the storm is moving through slower than anticipated and the lightning isn’t letting up, we have made the decision to POSTPONE tonight’s show until TOMORROW, July 9th. Hold on to your tickets as they will be honored for the new date.”

Among the many Texas families impacted by the deadly flooding over the July 4 holiday weekend was Fort Worth native country singer Pat Green, who said on Monday that his younger brother John was swept away by the flooding, along with his wife and their two children.

The next date on Kesha’s joint tour with Scissor Sisters is slated to hit the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX on Thursday (July 10).

See Kesha’s statement below.

July 9, 2025

genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News
Chappell Roan Lets Down Her Hair for Rapunzel-Coded Video Shoot in New York City: See Photos

Chappell Roan is going from Midwest Princess to Princess Rapunzel. As captured in photos and videos snapped on the streets of New York City this week, the pop star — who headlined Primavera Sound in Barcelona last month — is […]

July 8, 2025

Page 1 of 2