What Could Destiny's Child Reunion at Final Cowboy Carter Tour Stop Tell Us About Beyoncé's 'Act III'?

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about their field trip for Oasis' night 1 concert at the Rose Bowl and all the elements that built to this moment and made it possible for the band to crack into their biggest American audiences yet. And of course, Oasis superfan Katie had to return for night 2, where she tells Keith about wading into the beer-splashing GA floor section to be among the rowdiest die-hards at the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about all the ways artists are carving out special moments for fans at their shows -- like Taylor Swift's acoustic set on Eras Tour or Kelly Clarkson's nightly Kellyoke cover in Las Vegas -- and why it's a win-win for everyone involved. The latest example: Jonas Brothers are maximizing the news cycle around their 20th-anniversary Greetings From Your Hometown Tour, which launched less than a month ago but has generated dozens of headlines about surprise guests, unexpected reunions and two brother trios joining forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Onstage at their Into the Millennium residency -- which began last month and wrapped its first wave on Sunday night (before kicking off 14 additional dates starting in December) -- Backstreet Boys promised to put the crowd into a "time machine" back to the late-'90s heyday of boy bands and bubblegum pop. Katie was in the orb for the 21st show on Sunday night, and on the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, she tells Keith all about her spaceship ride back to the turn of the millennium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are laying out all the fan evidence pointing to Taylor Swift headlining the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the rollout of her 12th studio album, ⁠Taylor Swift⁠ is going somewhere she’s never gone before: a podcast. Swift is the guest on Wednesday night’s episode of New Heights, the podcast co-hosted by her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his retired-NFL-star brother Jason, where she will unveil news about her upcoming next album, ⁠The Life of a Showgirl⁠. The appearance will mark Swift’s first dedicated podcast appearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A dream cast put on a live production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl over this past weekend, when Cynthia Erivo as Jesus went toe-to-toe with Adam Lambert as Judas -- not to mention Hamilton's Philippa Soo as Mary Magdalene, John Stamos and Josh Gad sharing the role of King Herod, Raúl Esparza as Pontius Pilate and more legends of stage and screen. Unfortunately for anyone who wasn't in the house Friday, Saturday or Sunday in Los Angeles, those are the only three nights planned for this star-studded cast -- but what if the show could go on? On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Keith tells Katie all about being in the house for the final night of the show and pitches the possibility of a live cast recording being released for all of us who have been watching every fan-shot clip on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting about the surprise reunion and what it might mean for Act III -- the expected third act to complete the trilogy that started with 2021's Renaissance and continued with 2024's Cowboy Carter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With last week's announcement that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has been canceled and will wrap up in May 2026, the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is looking back at some of the biggest musicians who've graced the New York stage and some of the biggest music moments across 30-plus years on the air. Plus, with 10 months left of The Late Show, there's a lot of time left for Colbert (and some of his favorite musicians) to take the show out with a bang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about why Justin Bieber's surprise "SWAG" album release made sense, what kind of sound he was going for on the project, and where it could end up on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart. Also on the show, Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem holds tight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth straight week -- so how unusual is it for an album to spend its first two months on the chart at No 1? Plus, a KPop Demon Hunters track slays its way into the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while Drake makes a splashy debut with his new single “What Did I Miss?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about the promising reports coming out of the first two shows of the Oasis reunion tour -- and the most exciting news has to be the ⁠23-song setlist⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices