Get ready to celebrate Beyoncé‘s B’Day all over again. The singer unveiled the expansive tracklist for the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of her sophomore solo album, which will balloon to 27 tracks and include B-sides, Spanish-language versions of her songs and a 60-page commemorative booklet.
The deluxe editions will come in two vinyl formats, as well as a CD package, with the deluxe, 4LP version pressed on 180G bayou blue vinyl and featuring the recent one-off single “Morning Dew (Donk),” as well as an extended mix version of “Get Me Bodied,” a Spanish-language “Irreplaceable” titled “Irreemplazable,” as well as “Amor Gitano,” “Listen (Oye),” “Beautiful Liar (Bello Embustero)” and “Get Me Bodied (Mueve el Cuerpo).”
In addition, the $149.98 package will include a 60-page commemorative booklet and two collectible prints. A limited-edition 180G 2LP version featuring “Morning Dew (Donk)” and a 16-page collectible booklet with never-before-seen snaps is also available for $44.98 and a limited-edition CD with “Morning Dew” and the 16-page booklet will run you $14.98; check out the details here for the sets slated to ship on Sept. 4.
The original, Grammy-winning 13-track B’Day was released in September 2006 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and featured songs co-produced by the singer and producers including Ne-Yo, the Neptunes, Stargate, Swizz Beatz, Darkchild, Nellee Hooper. It spawned the Billboard Hot 100 No. 4 Jay-Z-featuring hit “Déjà Vu,” the No. 11-charting “Ring the Alarm” and No. 3 hit “Beautiful Liar.”
B’Day has already had a number of versions, including an expanded, two-disc deluxe reissue that was released less than eight months after the original dropped, including a duet with Shakira on “Beautiful Liar,” as well as a duet with Alejandro Fernandez on “Amor Gitano,” along with the Spanish-language takes on “Listen,” “Irreplaceable” and “Beautiful Liar.” That deluxe take was accompanied by the B’Day Anthology Video Album, which contained 13 videos directed by such lauded music video mavens as Jake Nava, Sophie Muller, Diane Martel, Melina Matsoukas, Anthony Mandler and Bey herself.
Earlier this month, Bey surprise-released the four-song “Morning Dew (Donk) Remix Pack,” featuring new bars from husband Jay-Z, as well as an acoustic version and a remix also featuring Jay.
Check out the announcement of the 20th anniversary edition and the deluxe edition tracklist below.
Ms. Rachel and Mr. Aron are seeing rainbows in a brand new light these days.
For Rachel and Aron Accurso, the married co-creators behind the global children’s phenomenon Ms. Rachel, the colorful subject of their new single “I Love a Rainbow” became an opportunity to go bigger, musically and visually. The playful bossa nova track is the first preview of their debut album, I’m So Happy, due Sept. 25, and its new music video — premiering exclusively on Billboard — finds the pair surrounded by Colorado mountains, polychromatic scarves, chalk-covered sidewalks and plenty of play.
But let’s not mistake all of that joy for simplicity.
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The music video features an extended version of “I Love a Rainbow,” complete with a new bridge, a sweeping string section and additional live musicians. For the Accursos, expanding a song already familiar to Ms. Rachel families meant finding a way to make its world feel even bigger.
“We wanted to expand it,” Aron tells Billboard. “We wrote a new bridge and we added a big string section and more live musicians, which feels expansive.”
So, too, did filming among the Colorado mountains. But at its heart, Rachel says, the video is about “joy and connection and play.”
That philosophy sculpted the day the pair spent filming with 11 children from Colorado families. The couple took a lovely approach in having the children involved in the creative process. They didn’t direct the kids through predetermined actions, and instead allowed them to feel immersed in the music.
“They knew the song, and [we were] like, ‘What do you imagine? What do you think would be good for this next part?” Rachel says. “Just creating it with the kids and making sure they had a really special day.”
The resulting video captures children dancing with rainbow scarves and helping create a giant chalk rainbow, with those outdoor scenes interwoven with footage of musicians performing the song in New York City. For Rachel, a former music educator, putting the instruments onscreen was part of the point.
“When they hear that riff, if they see Aron’s playing it on piano or they see [someone] playing the percussion, I think it’s cool to think, ‘Maybe I could play that,’” she says. “Maybe they get an interest in guitar from seeing the instruments.”
Aron proudly directed the video himself, continuing the hands-on approach that has defined the couple’s work since the early days of their YouTube channel.
“It goes back to just us, the way we started the channel, and that it was very homegrown and creator-led,” he says.
There may have been another influence in those superb mountain shots too: The couple’s 1-year-old daughter has recently been enjoying “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music, and Aron admits the classic musical was “definitely” on his mind while the team was developing the video.
“There are little hints of The Sound of Music [in the video]: the mountain vibes, and the singing around,” he says.
The visual ambition of “I Love a Rainbow” mirrors the strategy behind I’m So Happy as a whole. The 23-track collection transforms the songs that were first introduced on Ms. Rachel into more lively studio recordings. The album features original songs and children’s classics, with lush orchestration, new arrangements and contributions from 19 vocalists and 42 instrumentalists.
For Aron, who has a background in musical theater as a composer, conductor and Broadway music director, each song required its own approach.
“It was looking at each song individually and just imagining, ‘What is the most special version of that song?’” he says. “So it was unique to each one.”
Some songs called for restraint. “Walking to the Zoo,” for example, uses a smaller ensemble, while tracks including “Caterpillar” felt capable of supporting a full orchestra.
Meanwhile, “I Love a Rainbow” seemed to call out for strings. “I thought the string section would really add to the experience and the expansiveness of the idea,” Aron says.
Rachel has her own shorthand for her husband’s musical instincts: Aron owns a shirt that reads, “I hear things.”
And, she says, “I feel like he hears things that I don’t.”
That attention to detail is central to how the couple thinks about children’s music. Rachel, who holds a master’s degree in early childhood education and music education, says children shouldn’t be treated as though they need less sophisticated art.
“Children deserve detailed, rich music,” she says. “Not just deserve, but that they do enjoy it.”
That same care extended to I’m So Happy, as the Accursos worked with engineers, live musicians and other Broadway-trained collaborators to expand the songs beyond the versions created for the show, where deadlines often require the couple to move quickly from one episode to the next.
“With the album, we were able to do more of the details or go back and do some of the things that maybe I would have liked to have done the first time around,” Aron says. “It was just a desire to dig in more with more detailed arrangements, more professional engineers, live musicians.”
The duo wants listeners to understand that children’s music doesn’t require less craft than music made for any other audience.
“I think maybe the misconception is that it is somehow dumbed down or less effortful,” Rachel says. “Children really deserve that detailed music.”
Aron adds that the pair treated I’m So Happy “with as much care as if it were a Broadway cast album.”
That care — and the emotional weight children can find in music — perhaps comes through most clearly in “Caterpillar,” a song with a personal history for the couple.
Aron wrote the track while putting their now-7-year-old son to bed during a period when he was struggling with a speech delay. Their son didn’t begin speaking until he was 2 years and 9 months old, Rachel recalls, and the family watched as he worked to communicate.
“Aron wrote this beautiful song about a caterpillar that’s struggling but keeps going,” she says.
The song can still provoke an unexpectedly strong reaction from some of its youngest listeners.
“Babies have this phenomenon where they cry at it,” Rachel says, explaining that even children too young to fully understand the lyrics seem to respond to its emotion with a sorrowful pout.
“The kids feel deeply and they respond to music, even if they don’t understand the lyrics necessarily,” she says. “They feel what went into it.”
For Rachel and Aron, that’s fundamentally the point of I’m So Happy: Children are listening more closely — and feeling more deeply — than adults may sometimes realize.
“Kids are smarter and deeper and more amazing than we give them credit for sometimes,” Rachel says.
And with I’m So Happy, Ms. Rachel and Mr. Aron are making sure the music meets them there.
“I Love a Rainbow” is out now, while I’m So Happy arrives Sept. 25 via Magic Star, the children’s and family division of Sony Music Entertainment’s The Orchard.
Posty won’t be delivering for fans in Asia, Australia and New Zealand later this year, as planned.
Post Malone’sBig Ass World Tour was scheduled for its swing through Asia and down under later this year, a run that included shows at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (on Oct. 9), Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium (Oct. 12), Sydney’s ENGIE Stadium (Oct. 15), and Auckland’s Go Media Stadium (Oct. 21).
The “Rockstar” singer was also booked to headline three Strummingbird Festival appearances in the regional Australian towns of Ballarat (Oct. 10), Newcastle (Oct. 17) and Sunshine Coast (Oct. 18).
Those shows are now shelved, and a reason has not been given.
“We’re gutted to let you know that Post Malone will no longer be headlining Strummingbird, due to the recent postponement of his Asia and Australian tours,” reads a statement from the touring festival.
The Australia dates have been scrubbed from the official Ticketmaster page, and the NZ show is listed as “cancelled.”
Live Nation has yet to announce new dates for Malone’s headline tour, the U.S. singer and rapper’s first in these parts since headline Spilt Milk festival, which visited Canberra, Ballarat and Perth in 2023, and opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ on the rockers’ six-date Australasian stadium run earlier that year.
On the Spilt Milk run, he made himself at home by performed a “shoey” on stage — an Aussie tradition where the victim drinks beer out of a shoe.
Post Malone makes himself at home on the Australian charts, too. His seven albums have all impacted the ARIA top 10, including No. 1s for Beerbongs & Bentleys in 2018, Hollywood’s Bleeding in 2019. His most recent collection, the 2024 country album from F-1 Trillion, flew to No. 2.
The American star has been busy of late. He recently announced his engagement to Christy Lee, with whom he has been romantically linked since early 2025. He busted out a new song “Chrome Heartbreaker” during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Closing Ceremony, and his August 26th mixtape has been made available for streaming for the very first time.
We will always love Dolly Parton. Harry Styles made certain of that, when he paid tribute to the late country music superstar during the first night of his residency at Madison Square Garden, the start of an unprecedented stretch of 30 consecutive shows at the storied arena.
The British pop artist gave the best possible salute to Dolly by playing her recording of “I Will Always Love You” on the MSG speakers.
The former One Direction star thanked his band and gave a “special thanks to all the musicians who have inspired me over the years.” Of course, Parton was high on that list. “Dolly, thank you so much,” he remarked.
Styles went on to play two verses and choruses of the song, originally released in 1974, and told the crowd to sing along on the first chorus. The audio then faded out, say people who were in the arena, and segued to his solo hit “Sign Of The Times.”
Dolly, perhaps the greatest country music artist of all time, an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the writer of more than 3,000 songs, died Tuesday (Aug. 25) at the age of 80.
Parton was named Billboard’s Top Country Artist of All Time, having landed 25 No. 1s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, the most of any woman, and 49 top 10s on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. An all-rounder with a heart of gold, Dolly will also be remembered for her philanthropy, her acting roles, her business acumen and her support of good causes.
The Tennessee native co-owned Dollywood, a theme park located in her hometown of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and she operated the Imagination Library — a program that mails free books to children from birth until they first begin school. The late star had also been a co-owner of Sandollar Productions alongside her former manager, Sandy Gallin, which produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Father of the Bride and Sabrina, among others.
New York is Styles’ current tour’s first and only stop in the United States, after having previously stopped in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo and Mexico City for a combined 31 dates across July and August.
Soundgarden will take the stage for their hometown team the Seattle Seahawks’ NFC West season home opener next month with a very special guest vocalist. The group will be joined by Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen for a halftime show performance during a rematch with their vanquished Super Bowl LX foes the New England Patriots on Sept. 9.
The reigning NFL champs will be saluted by the “Black Hole Sun” icons, who will also perform at Lumen Field with one of their grunge compatriots, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, who will play the National Anthem before the game on behalf of the Washington Innocence Project. It’s a return engagement for Momsen, who has played with the band a number of times since the death of singer Chris Cornell in May 2017 at age 52.
In November of last year, Momsen subbed in for Cornell at Soundgarden’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, performing their hits “Rusty Cage” and “Black Hole Sun.” She previously sat in with them at the “I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell” benefit in January 2019 at the Forum in Los Angeles.
A promo picture (see below) announcing the halftime show featured guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd posing alongside Momsen and McCready.
In addition to the all-star hometown rock tribute, the Seahawks announced a pregame Salute 250 Kickoff Concert featuring Luke Bryan, which will take place at 2:30 p.m. PT, three hours before kick-off.
Soundgarden recently revealed that they are mixing an album featuring the final group of songs recorded with Cornell. Drummer Cameron said the surviving members are in the process of mixing tracks recorded with producer Terry Date for what is planned as an eight-track LP. He said the songs are based on demos the group’s members began working on in 2013 and 2014 and then again in 2015 and 2016 before what would be their final tour with Cornell in 2017.
Dolly Parton had it all. Talent, humor, an entrepreneurial spirit. A great, pounding heart. And she represented her homeland quite like no one else.
For his second night hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jelly Roll had the difficult task of paying tribute to the legendary singer, songwriter and entertainer, and touching on those many things that made her unique. And completing his task without bursting into tears.
“We lost a legend today, the great Dolly Parton,” he said at the top, during the monologue, staring down the barrel of the camera. “She was such an inspiration to so many, myself included. We’re both from Tennessee and she meant a lot to my family, y’all.”
Parton’s influence on a young Jelly Roll (real name: Jason DeFord) was profound. “We used to sit around the kitchen table and listen to her music together as a family. I’ll never forget it,” he recalled. “I learned so much from Dolly over the years, about songwriting, how to handle this crazy business, and how to support your community.”
Dolly was a one-off, and someone we could all be proud of. “She was infinitely talented. She was relentlessly funny and adored by all. She might be the last American that everyone liked,” he recalled. “We will miss her dearly. Rest in peace, Dolly. We will always love you.”
Parton died Tuesday at age 80 following “a brief battle with cancer,” according to a statement released by her team. Parton died at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Parton has been one of country music’s leading lights, one of the genre’s most revered and prolific songwriters. She’s a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, she wrote more than 3,000 and placed 113 tunes on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart starting in 1967. Cumulatively, those hits spent more than 28 years on the chart.
