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Halsey has unveiled the trailer for If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power – an hour-long film experience, written by Halsey herself, set to the music of her upcoming album of the same name.

Halsey also wrote all of the tracks on If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, her fourth studio album, which will be released on August 27. If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power was produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, known for their work in Nine Inch Nails and as Oscar, Golden Globe and GRAMMY-winning film/television composers.

Select cities and theaters will be announced soon for the film experience. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, August 3 for IMAX showings. Take a look at the theatrical trailer: here.  To pre-order Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power album, click: here.

BTS’s hit single, “Butter” has topped the Hot 100 chart for the seventh straight week in a row. “Butter” extends its record as the longest-running No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 by any Asian act in history, and also continues to be the song with the longest No. 1 streak from its debut on the chart by any group since Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men did so with “One Sweet Day” back in 1995.

“Butter” was also the top-selling song of the week and topped the Digital Song Sales chart for the seventh week, placing No. 21 on the Radio Songs chart and No. 26 on the Streaming Songs chart. The song also placed No. 10 on the Pop Airplay chart, becoming their second Top 10 hit on the mainstream Top 40 radio-based chart.

BTS is the first all-Korean act with multiple Top 10 hits on the Pop Airplay chart.  The group’s latest single, “Permission to Dance,” was released on July 9 and is expected to debut on next week’s Hot 100 chart.

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Ariana Grande gave her Instagram followers a peek at her and husband Dalton Gomez’s romantic honeymoon in Amsterdam. Grande shared a series of photos from the newlyweds’ trip, including a few shots with Gomez, one being a photo of the couple in giant wooden clogs.

Grande has kept her relationship with Gomez private, keeping it mostly off of social media until recently. The couple tied the knot in May in an intimate ceremony at Grande’s home in Los Angeles. Grande first shared news of the wedding with a series of photographs taken by Stefan Kohli.

Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour is back on top of the charts, returning to the No. 1 spot on Billboard 200 for a third nonconsecutive week.

Sour jumped from third to first this week, moving ahead of Doja Cat’s Planet Her, which remained at No. 2, and last week’s No. 1, Call Me If You Get Lost from Tyler, the Creator, which dropped to 6th place.

The 18-year-old’s Sour is now the second album in 2021 to earn over 100,000 units in each of its first five weeks, following Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album.

Post Malone is back with the video for his new single, “Motley Crew,” featuring a cameo from Mötley Crüe founding drummer Tommy Lee.  Filmed at the Auto Club Speedway, Post and his “motley crew” head onto the race course in the video, which includes appearances from NASCAR stars Denny Hamlin and Bubba Wallace, alongside Big Sean, French Montana, Kerwin Frost, LoveLeo, SAINt JHN, Ty Dolla $ign, Tyga, Pressa, Trinidad James, Tyla Yaweh, and Lee himself.

Post Malone’s last album Hollywood’s Bleeding was released in 2019. He is set to headline a number of festivals this year, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Rolling Loud Miami, and Governors Ball in New York.

Take a look at the video for “Motley Crew” – here.

The Backstreet Boys will return to the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino for a new holiday residency, three years after their well-received “Larger Than Life” residency. The quintet will launch “A Very Backstreet Christmas Party” on Nov. 11, for a string of 12 shows through Dec. 23.

The Backstreet Boys decided on the residency after delaying their “DNA World Tour” until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tickets for the shows, which start at $89, will go on sale at 1 p.m. ET July 16 via ticketmaster.com (various pre-sales take place starting July 13).

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Billie Eilish has shared the video for new song “NDA,” directed by Eilish herself and featuring 25 professional stunt drivers speeding around her as she sings.

“NDA” is taken from Eilish’s forthcoming album, Happier Than Ever, due on July 30. The upcoming album is the follow-up to her Grammy-winning debut, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and features the singles “Therefore I Am,” “Lost Cause,” and “Your Power.”

Check out the video for “NDA” – here.

South Korean boy band BTS have dropped the video for their latest single “Permission to Dance” at midnight Friday.  In the video, viewers see the boys dancing in the desert while clad in denim and other clothing inspired by the Wild West, accessorized with cowboy hats and boots.

“Permission to Dance” is the band’s third song written entirely in English, following 2020’s “Dynamite” and “Butter,” which dropped in May. Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, Jenna Andrews and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid co-wrote the song, which is part of the band’s “Butter” CD single, which is also out Friday and includes four tracks: “Butter,” “Permission to Dance,” “Butter (Instrumental) and “Permission to Dance (Instrumental).”

The music video for BTS’s hit song “Butter” was the biggest premiere in YouTube history, drawing in 3.9 million concurrent viewers for its May 21 premiere. That video also set a new all-time record for YouTube video views in the first 24 hours, garnering over 108.2 million in the first day.

Check out the video for “Permission to Dance” – here.

Ariana Grande is back with the second performance of her exclusive live series with Vevo, a new video for “Safety Net,” her collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign. The video released for Safety Net is a live performance, in which Ariana performs on a grass-covered stage under a futuristic-looking lighting fixture.

Safety Net is off Ariana’s hugely successful album Positions.  You can watch the video – here.

Dua Lipa is set to make her acting debut in “Argylle,” a thriller about the “world’s greatest spy,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Kingsmen” director Matthew Vaughn and an all-star cast are signed on for the project, which will be filmed in Europe in August. Dua Lipa will also provide the original music for the title track and the soundtrack.

Argyll will also star Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson, and is based on the soon to be released spy novel Argyll from author Ellie Conway The film follows Argylle, who is embroiled in a world-wide adventure. “Argylle” will be the first of at least three films in the franchise and is set in America, London and several locations around the world.