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Charli XCX weighed in on Dave Grohl’s viral “Apple” dance during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, where Foo Fighters also performed the title track from their upcoming album, Your Favorite Toy.

Host Graham Norton played a clip of Grohl and his daughter Harper dancing to Charli’s Brat track “Apple,” a video that circulated widely in 2024. In the clip, Harper stands and leads a seated Grohl through choreographed moves to the song.

Asked for her reaction after seeing it for the first time, Charli described Grohl’s style as unconventional but effective. “You’re taking like an abstract approach, and that’s cool,” she told him.

Grohl acknowledged that choreography is not a regular part of the band’s stage routine. “We don’t,” he said when Norton asked whether Foo Fighters do a lot of dance moves.

Later in the episode, Foo Fighters performed “Your Favorite Toy,” the lead single from their forthcoming 12th studio album of the same name, due April 24. Jason Falkner joined the band on guitar in place of Pat Smear, who is recovering from a broken foot sustained in what Grohl described as a gardening accident. Smear was represented visually during the performance by an image of his face on the kick drum.

The performance also featured backing vocals from Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and Babydaddy.

During his interview segment, Grohl reflected on the band’s longevity and what informed the timing of the new album. “We’ve been a band for 30 years now, right? And so we’ve all grown together, and we’ve all been through life together, ups and downs,” he said. “Honestly, it’s more than a musical thing.”

He added that the band’s approach to new music is shaped by their current stage in life. “When we go and approach a new record, it’s all determined by where we’re at in our lives,” he said, joking that the group has become “a bunch of grumpy old men.”

“You’d imagine that as you get a bit older, that things sort of soften … It doesn’t,” Grohl continued before letting out a scream. “It’s kinda like that now. That’s where we’re at now.”

Your Favorite Toy marks Foo Fighters’ first album since Ilan Rubin joined the lineup as drummer.

Dave Grohl has addressed Josh Freese’s departure from Foo Fighters for the first time, explaining that the decision to move on from the drummer was a collective one that “didn’t happen overnight.”

Speaking in a new interview with Zane Lowe, Grohl reflected on the band’s internal discussions following Freese’s exit last year. Freese, who stepped in as Foo Fighters’ drummer in 2023 after the death of Taylor Hawkins, revealed in May that he had been let go from the group, writing on Instagram that the band had decided “to go in a different direction with their drummer” and that “no reason was given.”

Grohl said the band spent months discussing their next steps before making the decision.

“In those six or seven months, as a band, we talked about what to do next, a new direction, and thought, ‘OK, let’s call Josh and let him know that we are going to move on with a different drummer,’” Grohl said.

“We called, as a band, all of us called, it wasn’t just me.”

Grohl described the conversation as direct and appreciative. “Basically, we called Josh, and were like, ‘Hey man, that was awesome. That was such a blast, thank you so much, but we are going to move on and find another drummer.’”

Following the call, Grohl noted that the band chose not to publicly address the situation at the time. “After that, we didn’t make a press release, tweet anything or do interviews. We didn’t say anything,” he said. “Since then, there’s been a lot of talk about it, but I think Josh said it best when he said that he didn’t feel our music really resonated with him, and that’s really important.”

Freese has since rejoined Nine Inch Nails and recently stepped in for Weezer during their Australian run for the Good Things Festival.

Grohl’s comments come as Foo Fighters prepare to release their 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy, due April 24. The band dropped the title track on Friday, with Grohl describing it as a pivotal moment in shaping the new record’s direction.

“‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album,” Grohl said. “We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”

The album announcement arrives ahead of Foo Fighters’ upcoming stadium tour of Australia and New Zealand, scheduled to run between November 2026 and January 2027.

Freese joined Foo Fighters in 2023 during a transitional period for the band following Hawkins’ sudden passing in 2022. His tenure marked a significant chapter in the group’s evolution as they continued touring and recording in the wake of the loss.

With a new album on the way and international tour dates lined up, Grohl’s comments offer the clearest explanation yet of the band’s decision to make another lineup change.

Diplo’s Major Lazer will perform during the 2026 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony in Verona, Italy, it was announced on Saturday (Feb. 21), the day before the event.

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Major Lazer’s expected to play a selection of songs including the “Lean On” — which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2015 — and will be joined by “several surprise guests,” according to a press release. The performance will be broadcast live on NBC, and will stream on Peacock, at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday (Feb. 22). (Find out how to watch all of NBC’s coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics for free thanks to this handy guide.)

The grand finale of the Olympic games takes place at the Verona Olympic Arena. Italian artist Achille Lauro, actress Benedetta Porcaroli and DJ Gabry Ponte were already confirmed performers for the closing ceremony, which takes place to pay tribute to the Olympic athletes and to honor their achievements.

On Saturday afternoon, Diplo joked about almost missing his flight to the Olympics in an Instagram reel that showed him riding a bicycle down the highway. (No worries — he made it onto a plane by the end of the reel, drink in hand.)

The reveal of an Olympics appearance comes just after Mexico City’s El Universal reported that Diplo would no longer be performing at EDC Mexico this weekend. The publication noted that festival organizers cited logistical problems.

Major Lazer last released an album in 2020, their fourth studio full-length, Music Is the Weapon.

Bad Bunny paused his performance in São Paulo, Brazil, Saturday night (Feb. 21) to acknowledge the death of Willie Colón, the legendary salsa musician and leader behind many of the most influential salsa records in Latin music.

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Colón passed at age 75. His longtime manager, Pietro Carlos, confirmed the news of his death earlier on Saturday, noting, “Willie didn’t just change salsa. He expanded it, politicized it, clothed it in urban chronicles and took it to stages where it hadn’t been before. His trombone was the voice of the people.”

Bad Bunny mourned the loss with his audience at Allianz Parque, but told the São Paulo crowd of music fans that Colón’s impact will live on.

“Today, one of the legends who contributed to this beautiful and legendary genre passed away,” Benito is heard saying (in Spanish) in a fan-filmed video uploaded to Instagram on Saturday, the second of two nights he headlined the stadium on his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. “So, on behalf of myself and Los Sobrinos, we wish Willie Colón peace. Much strength to his family. The inspiration of so many of these great musicians who left their mark on this earth will never die as long as there are talented young people like those here, keeping the music, salsa and all Caribbean rhythms alive.”

Colón was a pioneer in salsa with a stacked list of hits, from “Ché Ché Colé” and “Aguanile,” recorded with Héctor Lavoe, to the album Celia and Willie alongside Celia Cruz, to Siembra, the album he recorded with Ruben Blades that became the biggest-selling salsa set of all time.

Bad Bunny — whose “DtMF” recently soared to No. 1 on the Hot 100 after his Super Bowl performance, and who jets to Sydney, Australia, next on his world tour — was among a number of prominent names in Latin music to pay tribute to Colón on Saturday.

In a post shared on Instagram, Blades, with whom Colón had formed a legendary duo, sent heartfelt condolences to Colón’s wife and family. He promised more words would come: “Later, and with calm, I will write about Willie and his vital and important musical legacy.”

“Personally, your art inspired and guided me: it taught me that culture can also be modern, that creativity has no limits, that popular music can be sophisticated, and that music, when made with truth, lasts forever,” said Rauw Alejandro, whose own Cosa Nuestra album was inspired by Colón’s of the same title.

Fania Records, the label that signed Colón when he was just 15 years old, said in a statement on Saturday: “We are heartbroken by the passing of an icon whose sound transcended the dance floor and defined an era. A pillar of Fania Records, Willie helped bring Latin music from the streets of New York to audiences around the world. His music declared identity, pride, resistance, and joy. His music was not just heard; it was lived.”

American salsa musician and activist Willie Colón, who recorded some of the most seminal and influential salsa albums in Latin music, forged a history on Billboard’s charts spanning more than 40 years and counting.

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As previously reported, Colón died Feb. 21 at age 75. His family announced the news over his social media accounts, stating that the celebrated trombonist, arranger, bandleader and producer had “passed away peacefully.”

Colón, a key figure in the evolution of Nuyorican salsa (via New York artists with Puerto Rican ties), was instrumental in bringing the genre from New York’s barrios to worldwide acclaim. At just 16 years old, he began his musical career with the release of El Malo, his 1967 debut album, recorded alongside the legendary Héctor Lavoe.

Throughout the ‘70s, Colón became a cornerstone of the salsa revolution. With Larry Harlow, Johnny Pacheco and Bobby Valentín, he recorded the live album Fania All Stars at the Cheetah in 1973, a concert by Fania Records labelmates that helped propel salsa into international prominence, following in the footsteps of trailblazing genre greats Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Ricardo Ray and Bobby Cruz.

As Billboard’s menu of surveys expanded to dedicated weekly Latin lists in the ‘80s, Colón made his chart debut with the eight-track Criollo. A mix of salsa, Latin jazz and Latin soul, the set, released on RCA Records in 1984, debuted on the Top Tropical Albums chart in September 1985 and climbed to its No. 18 high the following month.

Colón found even greater results with Especial No. 5, which hit No. 13 on Top Tropical Albums in October 1986. The set yielded his first appearance on Hot Latin Songs, as “Lo Que Es De Juan” reached No. 33 upon the chart’s start that month. He entered the top 10 on Top Tropical Albums for the first time through Top Secrets (No. 3, June 1989).

Among his 20 charted titles on Top Tropical Albums during his lifetime, Colón secured seven top 10s, ranked below by peak position, with new entries in the upper tier stretching from 1989 to 2021:

Peak, Title, Artist, Year
No. 3, Celia y Willie, with Celia Cruz, 2021
No. 3, Cosa Nuestra, with Héctor Lavoe, 2020
No. 3, Tras La Tormenta, with Ruben Blades, 1995
No. 3, Top Secrets, 1989
No. 7, Wanted by the FBI for the Big Break-La Gran Fuga, 2018
No. 10, Asalto Navideño, with Héctor Lavoe 2020
No. 10, Selecciones Fania, with Héctor Lavoe, 2012

On a song level, “El Gran Varón” marked Colón’s other visit to Hot Latin Songs, reaching No. 13 in 1989.

Colón landed his first of two top 10s on the Tropical Airplay chart with “Tras La Tormenta,” which hit No. 5 in March 1995. The album’s title track also played a pivotal role in earning Colón his only top 10 on the Top Latin Albums chart, among four career entries, reaching No. 9.

On the most recently published Top Tropical Albums tally (dated Feb. 21), Colón’s Greatest Hits hit a new No. 11 high. Charts dated Feb. 28 will reflect activity Feb. 13-19, while the following week’s rankings, dated March 7 (and set to update on Billboard.com March 3), will measure totals in the days following his passing (Feb. 20-26).

Authorities in Ohio have arrested and charged a former contestant on American Idol with shooting and killing his wife and staging the crime scene to mislead investigators.

Caleb Flynn, 39, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murder, assault and tampering with evidence.

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“I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman in a video of his arraignment from jail.

The judge set his bond at $2 million.

Ashley Flynn, 37, was found dead Monday after officers received a report of a burglary and shooting at a Tipp City, Ohio, home, according to a news release by Tipp City Police. Her husband and two children were inside the home when officers arrived.

In a 911 call released by authorities, a frantic Caleb Flynn tells a dispatcher someone broke into his home and killed his wife. He says she was shot multiple times in the head and he doesn’t know whether the intruder was still there.

“There’s blood everywhere, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” he says.

His attorney, Patrick Mulligan, said in a statement on Saturday he and Flynn were “disappointed and concerned about the short timeline and seeming rush to judgment in this case.” Police arrested Flynn on Thursday.

“When the government runs out of leads or can’t develop leads and looks at a surviving spouse in cases such as these, the chance of a wrongful conviction increases,” the statement said.

Tipp City Police Chief Greg Adkins defended the investigation, saying in an email on Saturday that it had “not moved fast.”

“Rather, it has progressed at a pace dictated by a thorough and deliberate investigative process,” he said.

Ashley Flynn was a middle school volleyball coach and substitute teacher, Tipp City Schools said on its Facebook page.

“She was known for her beautiful smile, warmth, kindness, and the positive impact she had on so many—both in and out of the classroom and on the court,” the post said.

Flynn auditioned for American Idol in Chicago in 2013, and in a Road to Hollywood video posted by the show at the time, he says his wife nudged him to try out for a third time. “I love my wife more than anything,” he says in the video. “She’s very, very pretty.” Watch the video below.

From Rubén Blades and Marc Anthony to Grupo Niche, Elvis Crespo and Olga Tañón, major figures in Latin music mourned the loss of salsa pioneer Willie Colón, who died Saturday (Feb. 21) in New York City at the age of 75.

“We are heartbroken by the passing of an icon whose sound transcended the dance floor and defined an era,” Fania Records — the label that revolutionized Latin music by creating the “Salsa” genre, and which signed a promising Colón when he was only 15 — said in a press release. “A pillar of Fania Records, Willie helped bring Latin music from the streets of New York to audiences around the world. His music declared identity, pride, resistance, and joy. His music was not just heard; it was lived.”

Blades, with whom Colón formed a legendary duo in the ’70s and ’80s that produced the seminal salsa album Siembra, shared the news of his former collaborator’s death with disbelief. “I have just confirmed what I was resisting to believe: Willie Colón has indeed passed away. To his wife Julia, his children, family, and loved ones, I send my heartfelt condolences. Later, and with calm, I will write about Willie and his vital and important musical legacy,” he wrote on Instagram.

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Meanwhile, Celia Cruz’s state highlighted and thanked his work with the Queen of Salsa. “We will always treasure the magical moments that Willie and Celia shared, both on stage and in the studio. As the title of their iconic album together so aptly put it: ‘Only they could have made this album.’ Farewell, Willie. Your legacy and your music will resonate for eternity.”

Puerto Rican superstar Rauw Alejandro, whose 2024 album Cosa Nuestra was inspired by Colón’s 1969 LP of the same name, posted on his Instagram Stories: “Willie… thank you. Thank you for paving the way when there was no way. For making the trombone a symbol, for giving salsa its streetwise edge and soul, and for making your music an identity for so many people on the island, in New York, and throughout the diaspora.”

He continued: “Personally, your art inspired and guided me: it taught me that culture can also be modern, that creativity has no limits, that popular music can be sophisticated, and that music, when made with truth, lasts forever.”

Salsa icon Marc Anthony shared a photo in his Instagram Stories of him singing alongside Colón, accompanied by the text: “Maestro, thank you for your legacy. Your music lives on forever. R.I.P. Willie.”

Elvis Crespo issued an extensive press release mourning the legend’s death. “Today, the trombones of the Bronx inspire my gratitude to God and life for allowing me to hear the genius of an artist who communicated through his creativity and sensitivity. His influence is etched into my brain and my heart,” expressed the merengue star. “THANK YOU, MAESTRO WILLIE COLÓN, FOR YOUR ART!”

Venezuelan salsa giant Oscar D’León sent his condolences “to my people in the Bronx, to my beloved Puerto Rico, and to all of Latin America” ​​on his Instagram account. “How hard it is to say goodbye to a giant!” he wrote. “Today salsa is in mourning, but I’m sure heaven is celebrating, welcoming a great one. My great brother and colleague, Willie Colón, has left us.”

The iconic Colombian salsa music band Grupo Niche also shared a heartfelt tribute to whom they called an “absolute reference of our culture,” with “songs that marked generations, stories that became anthems, and an artistic force that forever transformed salsa.”

Puerto Rican merengue star Olga Tañón expressed her condolences to Colón’s loved ones: “Maestro, the great Willie Colón, rest in peace!!!!! To all of Don Willie’s family and fans, my deepest condolences.”

The Latin Recording Academy highlighted the musician’s legacy, which they honored with a special lifetime achievement award in 2004. “Today, we bid farewell with deep sadness to salsa legend Willie Colón — singer-songwriter, trombonist, arranger, and producer — recognized with our Award for Musical Excellence,” the institution wrote on Instagram. “His legacy transformed salsa by turning it into a global phenomenon, establishing a sound and aesthetic that defined an era and continues to inspire generations of artists. Rest in peace.”

“Thank you, maestro, for your inspiration!” Dominican musician and producer Maffio shared.

Urban music star Farruko posted a tribute on his social media alongside a black-and-white photo of him posing with the salsero. “Rest in peace, legend Willie Colón, one of the Fathers of salsa. Respect, admiration, and legacy,” he wrote.

Colombian singer-songwriter Fonseca, with whom Colón collaborated on the 2008 song “Estar Lejos,” posted a carousel of photos and videos of the two in the studio and on stage together. “Life gave me the privilege of sharing many moments with Maestro Willie Colón,” he wrote. “Music never dies, and the songs of the great Willie Colón will live forever. What a legacy you left us, dear Willie; I cherish the best memories.”

Salsa star Jerry Rivera also had words of admiration and respect for Colón. “More than a musician, he was an architect of the salsa movement, a visionary friend who gave identity and pride to our Latin culture,” he wrote in his post. “His legacy lives on in every groove, in every chorus sung with soul, and in every generation that continues to walk his path.”

On his Instagram account, Lin-Manuel Miranda posted the cover of Colón’s 1974 album, Willie, along with the text: “RIP Willie Colón. Grateful for his music, on a loop in this house always. Love to his family and friends.”

Willie Colón, the iconic trombonist, arranger, bandleader and producer who was one of the architects of salsa, a leader of the genre and one of its most towering names, died Saturday (Feb. 21). He was 75 years old.

His death was confirmed in a Facebook post by his longtime manager, Pietro Carlos. “Willie didn’t just change salsa,” wrote Carlos. “He expanded it, politicized it, clothed it in urban chronicles and took it to stages where it hadn’t been before. His trombone was the voice of the people.”

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The eulogy is not an exaggeration. A massively talented musician, Colón rose from a tough upbringing in the South Bronx to become not just a masterful performer, but a visionary musician who took the music of his Puerto Rican parents and understood precisely how to blend it with the New York jazz and funk scene. There is perhaps no other musician from the fabled Fania empire who so epitomized the salsa sound that propelled Latin music in the ’70s and who so defined it as a quadruple threat. Colón was not, by his own admission, a brilliant singer, but he wrote his songs, he arranged them, he produced them and he played his trombone like no one else in Latin music.

Signed to Fania when he was only 15 years old, his possibilities were quickly discerned by label founders Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci, who put him to work producing his own albums as well as those of others.

Colón’s very long list of genre-defining hits includes his seminal “Ché Ché Colé” and “Aguanile,” recorded with Héctor Lavoe on vocals; the album Celia and Willie alongside Celia Cruz; and of course, the ground-breaking Siembra, the 1978 album he recorded with Ruben Blades, which includes the hit “Pedro Navaja” and which still is the biggest-selling salsa album of all time.

Indeed, it was Colón who introduced Blades to the world in 1977’s Metiendo Mano, an album whose cover is a photo of Colón, dressed as a boxing trainer and holding high Blades’ hand. Produced by Colón and Jerry Masucci, it was the first of five collaborative albums by Colón and Blades (the two would eventually split up and sue each other, but had recently reconciliated), and its opening song, “Pablo Pueblo,” marked the beginning of what would be known as more socially conscious salsa, whose message and intent went beyond merely dancing.

Colón’s colorful life, always anchored by his beloved New York, included often-polemic stints in politics, art and film. But to him, everything stemmed from his origins and the music.

“I came from a really tough neighborhood,” he told Billboard during an interview several years ago, explaining why so many of his album covers and titles depicted tough-guy images. “And my father spent time in jail. Almost everybody went to jail. A lot of people were getting home from the Korea war and Vietnam; there was rampant drug use in the streets. So this was kind of a way of symbolically showing the world what was going on. Since my father was arrested, my friends were arrested, there was a lot of interaction between us and the police. I was able to be a badass gangster and not do it for real. And since that was part of what was going on, it made my music relevant.”

William Anthony Colón Román was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents and gravitated to music early on after his grandmother gave him a trumpet when he was 11 years old.

“I studied music in junior high school; I didn’t go to any conservatory or anything,” he told me. “I met an African-American trumpeter in my block who heard me playing, and came and knocked and became my mentor. He taught me how to read music. I looked forward to rehearsing with him. And as soon as I learned how to play a couple of songs, I got a couple of kids together and we used to play and pass the hat around.”

By the time Colón was 15 years old, he had his own band and was playing the teen circuit, entourage and all. Eventually, he started recording on his own and shopping for a record label.

“And Herb Greenbaum — who was the engineer of most of the early Fania records — said: ‘Do you mind if I play it for Jerry Masucci?’ Jerry listened to an instrumental track called Jazzy, and I took my business representative, who was my mother — a high school graduate — and they signed us for $500.”

Johnny Pacheco, assigned to be Colón’s producer, suggested a different singer, Héctor Lavoe. “Jerry [Masucci] convinced us, and it was a great combination,” said Colón.

Colón would transcend the Fania days, recording more than 40 studio albums in his lifetime, and his music would cross generations. Rauw Alejandro’s acclaimed 2024 album Cosa Nuestra, for example, is directly inspired in concept and title by Colón’s 1970 album of the same name, whose cover shows him in gangster mode holding what could be a gun case next to a body alongside the East River, but is actually a trombone case.

“Your art inspired me and guided me,” wrote Alejandro on his Instagram stories. “It taught me that culture can be modern, that creativity has no limits, that what’s popular can be sophisticated and that music, when made from a place of truth, lasts forever.”

A prolific performer, Colón toured literally up until his death.

“I only cared about the music,” he once told me.

Colón was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2000, received a lifetime achievement award from The Latin Recording Academy in 2004, and was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019. In 2015, Billboard included him in its list of the 30 most influential Latin acts of all time.

“Willie was much more than an iconic artist; he was a true visionary that forged a new genre of Latin music that we all love today called Salsa. His legacy is etched into the very soul of Latin culture. He will forever be ‘El Maestro,'” said Bruce McIntosh, VP, Latin of Catalog, Craft Recordings, which now owns Fania.

Pop-punk mainstays New Found Glory have ended a six-year album gap with Listen Up!, their 11th studio LP and first release via Pure Noise Records. The 10-track set arrived Feb. 20.

Formed in 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida, the quartet — vocalist Jordan Pundik, guitarist Chad Gilbert, bassist Ian Grushka and drummer Cyrus Bolooki — are approaching their 30th anniversary as a band.

Listen Up! follows 2023’s Make the Most of It EP and arrives amid a period of personal challenges for the group, including Gilbert’s ongoing battle with aggressive metastatic cancer.

The album builds on the introspective tone of that EP while returning to the band’s fast-paced, riff-driven pop-punk sound. The project opens with “Boom Roasted” and closes with “Frankenstein’s Monster,” and includes previously released tracks “Beer and Blood Stains,” “Treat Yourself” and “Laugh It Off,” along with the newly issued “A Love Song.”

Speaking about the album’s intent, Gilbert said, “We wanted to make something that really focused on how lucky we are.” That sentiment is echoed in “Beer and Blood Stains,” which reflects on the band’s early years and includes the lyric, “It’s good to be alive.”

The writing process included Bolooki and Grushka traveling to Gilbert’s Nashville-area home to develop material together, resulting in what the band has described as a renewed, riff-first approach reminiscent of earlier releases.

Following the album’s release, New Found Glory will hit the road for an extensive run of shows. The band joins Yellowcard for the Up Up Down Down Tour, a 27-date spring outing with Plain White T’s beginning May 6 in Atlanta and concluding June 20 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Stops include Chicago, Denver, Nashville and New York.

International dates include an appearance at Hammersonic 2026 in Indonesia on May 3. Festival stops are also scheduled at Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in Columbus (May 14–17) and multiple dates of the returning Vans Warped Tour, including Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Orlando.

After a decade-long gap between solo studio albums, Bruno Mars has unveiled the tracklist for his fourth LP, The Romantic, due Feb. 27.

The nine-song set marks his first solo release since 2016’s 24K Magic. Mars revealed the full lineup Monday (Feb. 16), confirming that the album will be led by “I Just Might,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — his first career No. 1 debut and his 10th Hot 100 chart-topper overall.

The album arrives during a sustained period of chart momentum for Mars. His collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Die With a Smile,” topped the Billboard Global 200 for 18 weeks and earned a Grammy Award.

Meanwhile, “APT.” with ROSÉ spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart and 12 weeks atop the Global 200. The track was named IFPI’s biggest-selling global single of 2025 and Apple Music’s most-streamed song globally for the year.

In January 2025, Mars became the first artist in Spotify history to surpass 150 million monthly listeners. He also became the first artist to earn six RIAA Diamond-certified singles in 2022. As of 2026, he holds at least seven Diamond certifications, including “Just the Way You Are,” which is certified 21-times Platinum and ranks as the highest-certified song in RIAA history.

Other Diamond-certified hits include “Uptown Funk” (with Mark Ronson), “Grenade,” “That’s What I Like,” “Locked Out of Heaven,” “When I Was Your Man” and “The Lazy Song.”

Mars has scored 35 Billboard Hot 100 entries, including 10 No. 1 hits. His debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, has logged more than 345 weeks on the Billboard 200 and remains the longest-running studio album by a solo male artist on the chart.

You can pre-save The Romantic and pre-order the exclusive vinyl now.

The Romantic tracklist: