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The Grammy Museum opened the second half of its Olivia Rodrigo exhibition on 25 September 2026, adding artifacts from her SOUR and GUTS eras and tours to the cure unraveled.

Taylor Swift expanded The Life of a Showgirl with four songs written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback to celebrate its record first week, led by the single 'Patient Zero' and 'Cleveland!', a nod to husband Travis Kelce's hometown.

Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for 'The Fate of Ophelia' and the first Artist Director Honors at the 2026 VMAs in Los Angeles, where Madonna took Artist of the Year, Best Collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter and Best Dance, Sienna Spiro Best New Artist and Nirvana the Video Vanguard Award.

Apple Music 7.0 entered beta on Android on 30 September with a Liquid Glass redesign: floating translucent navigation bar, new mini-player and artist pages, and version numbering aligned with iOS 27.

The Recording Academy and Grammy Museum announced 25 music teachers from 25 cities as semifinalists for the 2027 Music Educator Award; 10 finalists follow in November.

The first of five SoFi Stadium shows on a tour that set a Ticketmaster record of 2.1 million tickets sold in a day, with Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee.

The free, non-commercial festival returns to Golden Gate Park October 2-4 with Robert Plant, Rilo Kiley, Emmylou Harris and Mavis Staples, and artists across the bill will play Dolly Parton songs in tribute.

Metallica's first show at Sphere starts a 24-night run through 13 March 2027, played as 'No Repeat Weekends' with no song repeated between each Thursday and Saturday.

Austin City Limits Music Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary over two weekends at Zilker Park, with nine stages and headliners Charli XCX, Rüfüs Du Sol, Twenty One Pilots, Lorde, The xx, Skrillex and Kings of Leon.

Billboard's Hot 100 dated 10 October 2026, revealed on 5 October, is expected to open with 'Patient Zero' at No. 1. Kalshi prices the debut at 98%; it would be Swift's 16th No. 1 and tie Drake's record of ten No. 1 debuts.

Bruno Mars plays the first of two nights at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, the tour's Bay Area stop between SoFi Stadium and a record five nights in Vancouver.

Recording Academy Voting Members pick the nominees for the 69th Grammys in first-round voting from 12 to 22 October 2026, ahead of the 16 November nominations.

Bruno Mars starts five shows at BC Place, the most any artist has played there on a single tour, surpassing the three nights that closed Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Fontaines D.C.'s follow-up to the Mercury-nominated Romance moves into darker, more synthetic sounds and carries the band's first guest vocalist, Rosalia, on 'Where Is Gone?'.

The Mercury Prize for the best British or Irish album of the year is awarded at Newcastle's Utilita Arena, from a shortlist of 12 including Paul McCartney, RAYE, Olivia Dean, Dave, Florence + The Machine and Suede.

Spotify reported 306 million Premium subscribers and 788 million monthly active users for Q3 2026. The company says gross margin and operating income exceeded its expectations.

BLACKPINK's Lisa follows her 2025 debut album Alter Ego with a six-track EP about her journey from Thailand to global fame, led by 'SaWaDiKa', which drew more than 70 million YouTube views in 24 hours.

Taylor Swift, 36, the youngest songwriter ever elected, joins the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at its 56th anniversary gala at the Music City Center, with Lyle Lovett, Bruce Channel, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller and the late J.I. Allison.

Queens of the Stone Age's ninth album, produced by Josh Homme and Michael Shuman at Sound City in Los Angeles, follows 2023's In Times New Roman... with nine songs including 'Easy Street' and 'Insignificant Other'.

Harry Styles plays the 30th and final night of his Together, Together run at Madison Square Garden on Halloween, a 'Harryween' show that ends his only US concerts of 2026, with Jamie xx opening.

Kings of Leon's 10th album and first since 2024's Can We Please Have Fun is a 13-song look back at family, childhood and the road, led by the single 'My Whole World'.

The Latin Recording Academy honors Daddy Yankee as its 2026 Person of the Year at a gala in Las Vegas on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, the night before the Latin Grammys.

The Latin Recording Academy hands out the 27th Latin Grammys in 60 categories at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, live on Univision; Edgar Barrera leads the nominations with ten, and Rosalía, Karol G, Jorge Drexler and CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso have seven each.

Tickets for Noah Kahan's 2027 stadium tour, including four nights at Fenway Park and three at Wembley, go on general sale Thursday 12 November 2026 at noon local time.

U2's 16th studio album, produced by Jacknife Lee in the band's 50th year, closes with 'Torn', a duet with Dolly Parton that turned out to be her last recorded vocal; singles 'Street of Dreams' and 'Silencio' precede it.

Eleven broadcasters compete on 14 November 2026 at One Bangkok Forum in the first Eurovision Song Contest Asia, hosted by Thailand's Channel 3 and decided by a 50/50 jury and public vote.

The first Eurovision Song Contest Asia Grand Final is on 14 November 2026 in Bangkok. On 9 November 2026 Polymarket traders priced Malaysia at about 55% to win, ahead of the Philippines at 26% and Vietnam at 9%, with roughly US$34,000 traded.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2026 - Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Oasis, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan - at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, taped for ABC and Disney+ in December.

The Recording Academy reveals the nominees for the 69th Grammy Awards, the first under ABC's new broadcast deal and the first with five new categories including Best Asian Pop Music Performance and Best Latin Song.

On 29 September 2026 Kalshi's Album of the Year nominees market had Olivia Rodrigo, Olivia Dean, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift albums all at or above 83 cents ahead of the 16 November nominations.

The 2027 Grammys add Best Asian Pop Music Performance, Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Latin Song, so the 16 November nominations are the first to name nominees in them.

On 29 September 2026 Kalshi's Record of the Year nominees market priced Bruno Mars's "I Just Might" and Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" near 88 cents each ahead of the 16 November nominations.

On 29 September 2026 Kalshi's Song of the Year nominees market had Olivia Rodrigo's "the cure" at 90 cents and Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" at 89 cents ahead of the 16 November nominations.

The Country Music Association's 60th awards air live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on ABC and Disney+, hosted for a third year by Lainey Wilson; Ella Langley leads with nine nominations and five acts vie for Entertainer of the Year.

Harry Styles plays the first of four nights at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on his first tour since Love On Tour ended in 2023, before two nights at Sydney's Accor Stadium close his 2026 dates in December.

BET revives the Soul Train Awards on Friday 27 November 2026 at 8 p.m. ET/PT from Chicago, with a first-ever CBS simulcast.

Spotify has not announced a date, but Official Charts predicts Wrapped 2026 arrives on Wednesday 2 December 2026, in line with launches on 29 November 2023, 4 December 2024 and 3 December 2025.

Spotify's annual Wrapped report closes the streaming year, and on 11 November 2026 Polymarket already treated it as settled: Bad Bunny was priced at 96%, with Drake at 3% and Taylor Swift under 1%. Wrapped has landed in the first week of December in recent years.

Bruno Mars begins a five-night run at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros, his only Latin American stop on The Romantic Tour and its last dates of 2026.

After the 16 November nominations, Recording Academy Voting Members choose the 69th Grammy winners in final-round voting from 10 December 2026 to 7 January 2027.

Bruno Mars begins the Japan leg of The Romantic Tour with the first of two nights at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, the start of 12 dome shows in six cities that Billboard Japan calls one of the largest dome tours ever.

Shed Seven's self-titled seventh studio album arrives on 8 January 2027 through Cooking Vinyl, led by the single 'Stand Together'.

No nominations date has been announced for the 27 February 2027 BRITs at Co-op Live, but the 2025 and 2026 nominations were revealed on 23 and 21 January, so a late-January 2027 reveal is the pattern; 21 January is only an estimate.

Teddy Swims' second studio album UGLY is out 22 January 2027 on Warner Records, before a spring 2027 European and UK arena run that includes Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne in March.

The music-products industry's annual show runs five days in Southern California, with the exhibit halls open for the last three.

Bruno Mars ends a six-city, 12-show Japan dome tour, billed as one of the largest ever, with the second of two sold-out nights at Tokyo Dome.

MusiCares will honor U2 at its 36th annual Persons of the Year benefit gala on Friday, 5 February 2027 at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, two nights before the Grammys.

The 69th Grammy Awards are on Sunday 7 February 2027 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the first Grammys on ABC since 1972. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's Album of the Year market led with "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love" at 37% and Rosalía's "Lux" at 25%.