Halseyfans at the singer’s recent tour stop in Washington, D.C., witnessed an unbelievable violation against the singer. Halsey was performing at The Anthem on Nov. 4 as part of the Back to Badlands Tour, and in recent days, footage from the show has started to go viral that shows a concertgoer groping the singer before security intervenes.
The New York Post shared the footage, which shows the singer performing “Is There Somewhere” while leaning close to the crowd, as they often do during live performances.
Video captured inside the venue shows a fan placing their hand on Halsey’s thigh, before moving it further beneath her leather skirt. A security guard standing along the barricade shoved the attendee’s hand away, and Halsey continued performing uninterrupted.
One fan account on X wrote, “Respect Halsey and DO NOT touch her or anyone like this without their consent,” while other fans have condemned the action on social media as well. “Have we not learned respect?” one fan responded. “There’s no excuse for this.”
Halsey is deep in the midst of the Back to Badlands Tour, which began in Los Angeles and is scheduled to continue through February. The tour will make numerous stops across the U.S. before heading overseas. Following the D.C. performance, Halsey continued with performances in Minneapolis and Chicago.
The incident is the latest unfortunate event to befall the pop star. Halsey previously experienced a “minor medical emergency” while in Boston last week, which led to a brief stint at Massachusetts General Hospital. They ended up performing as scheduled.
On Monday (Nov. 10), the electronic producer announced that she’s given birth to her second son, writing “Welcome to earth, Ash West. Baby bro is very chill & loves listening to anything electronic at 140bpm (almost a week old & kid already has taste). s/o to the drs, nurses and the NICU for being awesome.”
The Australia-born, Los Angeles-based producer also shared several photos of herself and her new baby. See the posthere. Wonderland and her husband, the filmmaker Ti West, also have another son, Max, who was born in the summer of 2023.
The post’s comments section is naturally a celebratory space, with fellow electronic artists including Anna Lunoe, TroyBoi, Slander, DJ Dave, Diplo, Mary Droppinz and many more expressing their congrats.
Baby Ash is the first of two very big projects Wonderland is dropping in this time period, as the producer’s fourth studio album, Ghost World, is coming Dec. 5. (While it was originally scheduled for an October release, production delay issues pushed the project to December.)
“I am in a completely different part of my life now,” the artist born Alex Sholler told Billboard when announcing the album in August. “I met and married the love of my life and created another life, aka my baby Max. … I really felt free sonically when making [the 2023 albums Genesis made under the Whyte Fang alias.] I realized going back to my roots musically is the only way for this next Alison Wonderland album to feel genuine. I got rid of all the outside voices; I felt like I was letting people dictate my art and my voice.”
Thus far four singles from Ghost World hve been released, “Again? F–k,” “XTC,” “Psycho,” “Get Started” and “iwannaliveinadream.”
“Bandaids,” the new single from Katy Perry, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.
Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Nov. 7) on Billboard, choosing Perry’s latest track as their favorite new release.
“Bandaids” made its arrival during a week that also saw new music releases from Rosalía, Hilary Duff, Kehlani and more, and brought in 44% of the vote.
The song about moving on following the end of a longterm relationship — Perry’s first since splitting with actor Orlando Bloom — has the pop star singing, “Got so used to you letting me down/ No use tryna send flowers now/ Telling myself you’ll change, you don’t/ Bandaids over a broken heart/ Tried all the medications/ Lowered my expectations/ Made every justification/ Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow/ Bandaids over a broken heart.”
“tbh I struggled for months with the idea of putting this song out… even after all these years it can be scary to be vulnerable… but hopefully the lyrics of this song resonate with someone going through what I have been through and maybe they won’t feel so alone and will find the strength to keep going like I have,” she wrote to fanson Instagram.
Perry’s been on the road with her Lifetimes Tour since April, and is currently finishing up the European leg of the trek before making her way to China later this month.
Her last full-length studio album, 143, was released in 2024 and debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Among the new releases trailing behind “Bandaids” are Rosalía’s Lux, with 37% of the vote; Hilary Duff’s “Mature,” with 9% of the vote, and Kehlani’s “Out the Window,” with 2% of the vote.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has received mixed reviews from critics, and has gotten off to a slower-than-expected start at the boxoffice, but as of Sunday (Nov. 9) it has grossed $34.6 million worldwide, according to boxofficemojo.com. That puts it at No. 24 on Billboard‘s list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere isn’t a traditional cradle-to-grave biopic – for one thing, its protagonist is, thankfully, still very much with us. It’s part of a subgenre of biopics which focuses on one fateful period in an artist’s life. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is set in the period following Springsteen’s 1980 commercial breakthrough, The River (which spawned his first true pop smash, “Hungry Heart”) where the artist felt compelled to make a low-key, acoustic album, Nebraska. All concerned understood that this project wouldn’t have the same commercial potential as The River, which had spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (And it didn’t, peaking at No. 3.) But Springsteen has always been an artist, more than just a hitmaker, and this was the album he wanted and needed to make at that time.
Here are the highest-grossing biopics of musicians in terms of worldwide box office. We didn’t include a few high-grossing films about real-life music personalities because the subjects are not well-known music stars in their own right. These include The Sound of Music (which tells the story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers); Green Book (which deals with a road trip taken by pianist and composer Don Shirley); Florence Foster Jenkins (about an heiress and hopelessly untalented soprano by that name); and Music of the Heart (about violinist and music educator Roberta Guaspari). Meryl Streep starred in the latter two films.
Here are the 25 biopics of music stars with the highest worldwide grosses.
Pete Davidson returned to Saturday Night Live for a surprise appearance on Nov. 8.
The comedian and actor, who was an SNL cast member from 2014 to 2022, crashed the “Weekend Update” segment to poke fun at a recent article about a decommissioned Staten Island ferry he purchased with Colin Jost in 2022. The two had planned to transform the vessel into an upscale entertainment venue.
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“The New York Times recently ran an article calling the Staten Island Ferry that I purchased with Pete Davidson a ‘money-losing fiasco.’ With more on this, is Pete Davidson,” Jost said in introducing The King of Staten Island star.
“Colin, you’re looking great as ever. [Michael] Che, starting to crack,” Davidson joked, mentioning his recent appearance at the 2025 Riyadh Comedy Festival and that he’s expecting his first child.
“So yeah, in case you’re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia, we’re losing millions on this ferry,” he continued. “I assume that’s what the article says. I can’t spend $5 on a paywall when I got a kid on the way.”
Davidson and Jost then continued trading jokes about the 2,109-ton ferry, which they bought at a New York auction for $280,100.
“We even gave the boat a new name,” Davidson said. “We thought the Staten Island Ferry sounded too depressing, so now it’s called the Titanic 2.” Jost added, “That’s right, and it’s actually going very well. Recently, we got paid by Nike to put an ad on it for the New York City Marathon.”
Earlier on Saturday, Davidson told People that he’d “do anything” for SNL boss Lorne Michaels, saying he’d return to the show if asked.
“I had a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get that call, it’s an honor and a privilege,” the eight-season SNL vet said. “It’s always relevant, it’s a hot show. People look forward to it, and the cast is great.”
Saturday’s episode was hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, with singer-songwriter Sombr serving as the musical guest.
Watch SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment with Davidson below, and find all the ways to stream the full episode here.
Bad Company joined an exclusive club on Saturday (Nov. 8), becoming just the 10th artist whose debut album had topped the Billboard 200 to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The band’s eponymous debut album reached No. 1 in the issue dated Sept. 28, 1974, dethroning Stevie Wonder’s Fulfillingness’ First Finale, which had led the previous two weeks.
Three of the acts on this list reached the top spot with their first solo albums, after tenures with successful groups. Paul McCartney’s first solo album reached No. 1 in 1970, following six years of unprecedented success on the Billboard 200 with The Beatles. Stevie Nicks topped the chart in 1981 (following three studio albums with Fleetwood Mac), as did George Michael in 1988 (following three studio albums with Wham!).
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As you look through this list of artists who topped the Billboard 200 with their debut album and were later inducted into the Rock Hall, you may be wondering where are The Beatles? The Fab Four’s debut Capitol album, Meet the Beatles!, did indeed top the Billboard 200 (for 11 weeks), but it wasn’t their first U.S. album release. Introducing… The Beatles, on Vee Jay, was released 10 days earlier. Introducing… The Beatles peaked at No. 2 — behind Meet the Beatles!
The Ink Spots and Nat King Cole, who were separately inducted into the Rock Hall as early influences in 1989 and 2000, respectively, deserve special mention. The King Cole Trio, a jazz trio that Cole led, was No. 1 on the very first Billboard album chart, a top 10 listing called Best-Selling Popular Record Albums, in March 1945. The Ink Spots topped that chart in September 1946. Both acts scored with eponymous debut collections. But both came years before the March 1956 inception of the Billboard 200, the first regular, weekly album chart in Billboard.
Here’s a full list of every artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame whose debut album topped the Billboard 200. They are listed in chronological order by the date their debut album reached No. 1.
