Dua Lipa, currently on her Radical Optimism tour, is continuing her tradition of paying tribute to the country in which she's performing by singing a song by an artist from that country. At her April 2 show in Auckland, New Zealand, she performed "Royals" by New Zealand's Lorde. You can find fan-shot video of the performance online. While performing in Australia, Dua was joined by Aussies Troye Sivan and Vance Joy on different nights.It wasn't Take Our Daughters to Work Day, but on Wednesday Kelly Clarkson's daughter, River Rose, showed up on her talk show set and promptly tried to run things. While shadowing showrunner Alex Dudas, River, 10, ran around with a headset and a clipboard, and cued Kelly when it was time to take a break. "I got a leader — she's gonna rule the world one day, y'all!" said Kelly.Ariana Grande is offering a variety of different digital versions of her new eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead album. You can download an a cappella version of the album, an instrumental version of the album and a version with different cover artwork from her website.After collaborating with Noah Kahan and Myles Smith over the past year, James Bay has teamed up with Sheryl Crow. The two artists will release a new collab, "You and Me Time," on April 16.Halsey's video for "Without Me" has hit 1 billion views — the third video featuring her as a lead artist, collaborator or featured artist to reach that milestone. Meanwhile, The Weeknd just landed his sixth Billion Views Club entry with the clip for his 2018 track "Call Out My Name." Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Abby WaislerGracie Abrams hasn't scored a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 — yet — but she's just topped another one of the publication's charts."That's So True" has risen to #1 on Billboard's Adult Pop Airplay. It's her second #1 on a Billboard chart, following it reaching the top of the Pop Airplay tally for two weeks in March."That's So True" became Gracie's first top 10 on the Hot 100 in November. And she has another song on the same chart: Her collab with Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez, "Call Me When You Break Up." Plus, she just released a new single, "Death Wish."While "That's So True" hasn't been #1 on the Hot 100, it topped the equivalent chart in the U.K. for eight weeks.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

ABC/Paula LoboA few years ago, Ed Sheeran won a lawsuit that had accused him of plagiarizing his hit "Thinking Out Loud." As a result, he now scrupulously documents every song he writes — which is lucky for us fans."I film every studio session i do now since the lawsuit, just to show my writing process if anyone is curious," Ed writes on Instagram. "turns out it makes for great viewing once the song is done. the creating and making of azizam is on youtube now, go watch the whole thing." "Azizam," the first single from Ed's new album, Play, is coming out Friday. You can watch the song come to life in the studio now, with Ed and his three co-writers bouncing ideas off each other.Meanwhile, if you preorder the physical "Azizam" single, you'll get an exclusive bonus track called "Crashing," which Ed has posted a snippet of himself performing. "This song ain’t on the album btw, only exists on the cd and vinyl x," Ed commented on the post on his official Instagram account.There's still no release date for Play.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Barry King/WireImageCher has taken to social media to pay tribute to her former boyfriend, Batman Forever star Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday at the age of 65.“VALUS Will miss u,” she wrote on social platform X. “U Were Funny,crazy,pain in the a**,” noting he was “BRILLIANT as Mark Twain,” a role he played in the one-man play Mark Twain: Citizen Twain.Cher also called Kilmer a great friend, sharing that her kids loved him, and wrote that he was “BRAVE” during his “sickness,” likely referring to his battle with throat cancer.Cher and Kilmer dated in the '80s and remained friends after they broke up. According to People, Kilmer revealed in his memoir that he stayed at Cher’s guest house following his cancer diagnosis.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Peggy SirotaWho Believes in Angels?, Elton John's collaborative album with Brandi Carlile, comes out on April 4. And Elton says he really hopes it will make people all over the world sit up and take notice of his Grammy-winning pal.Speaking to Billboard, Elton says, "My ambition for her with this album was to break her internationally. She’s a well-known artist in America, but in the rest of the world, she has a lot of work to do.”Noting that Brandi "blew people away" when she performed in England last year, he adds, "This album hopefully will open all those doors that she deserves to walk through and become the international artist that she should be.”Elton says as much as he hopes they'll make another album, he wants her to do her own album first, “because we don’t want to become Steve and Eydie.” Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé were a married pop vocal duo who were popular in the '60s. And as far as his own recording plans, Elton is clear that Who Believes in Angels? won't be his last album — especially because the final song, “When This Old World Is Done With Me,” is about his own mortality."I don’t want it to be the last song people hear about me," he says. "I’ve got more songs in me than that.”In other Brandi/Elton collab news, a New York City pop-up store will be open Friday and Saturday, selling Who Believes in Angels? vinyls and merch, as well as archival Elton merch. The pop-up at 19 E. Houston St. will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET. Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.