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After five years and 330 Farewell Yellow Brick Road concerts across the globe, Elton John wrapped up his career as a touring artist Saturday night with an emotional show at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. Fan-shot video of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” captured the last song of the evening. “I’ve had the most wonderful career, beyond belief,” he told the crowd before launching into the song. “Fifty years of pure joy playing music. How lucky am I? But I wouldn’t be sitting here and talking to you if it...

Luke Bryan is selling his spectacular beach mansion in Florida, and he's dropped the price (again!) by a little more than a million dollars.Byan and his wife, Caroline, originally listed their 5-bedroom, 5-bathroom, 4,645-square-foot beach house in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., for $18 million in December of 2022. The country superstar dropped the price to $16 million in February of 2023, but the luxury home has still not sold.The most recent listing for Bryan's stunning Florida paradise sets the price at $14.95 million.That price breaks down to $3,219 per square...

Styles is on of several artists including Bebe Rexha, Kelsea Ballerini and Pink to have objects hurled at them in the past several weeks while on stage Harry Styles appeared to be struck in the eye with an unknown object during his concert in Vienna on Saturday, marking just the latest in a troubling trend of artists getting pelted on stage during their live performances. In a video shared by Pop Crave, Styles can be seen wincing before holding his head in his hand after a small object came flying...

Something fishy is happening at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville. One of Taylor Swift's guitars — known by fans as the "koi fish guitar" — appears to be missing, "temporarily removed," per the Hall of Fame.A photo of the guitar being removed from its case is circulating on the Swiftie internet:Those who have visited the museum since its disappearance have found the empty case with a note that reads "artifact temporarily removed" and no further information.It's an intentional move, of course, and Swifties are speculating why that guitar and why now.Swift re-released her 2010 country album...

When it was released in 2010, Speak Now represented a milestone in Taylor Swift’s career. Penned during her first headlining tour, it was the first time the 20-year-old hitmaker had written all the songs on one of her albums. Thirteen years later, Swift’s third album is also her third re-recorded album, part of her project to reclaim her work from the entities that now hold the masters of her first six full-lengths. Swift wrote and recorded Speak Now while on the precipice of her teenage years, and her songwriting, which had...

Carly Pearce is pushing back on what her team calls "misinformation" about her canceled performance at Jeff Goes Country on July 1, clarifying that she not only canceled the show due to inclement weather, but also returned her advance fee.Pearce announced that she was canceling the free show on the River Stage in Jeffersonville, Ind., after a band of threatening weather swept into the area, according to her team. Country Now reports that city officials had suggested the singer hit the stage earlier than her planned slot to avoid the issue,...

Now, that’s a unexpected crossover — but we’re high-key living for it. Machine Gun Kelly performed at Mad Cool Festival on Thursday, and early in his set, he surprised fans by singing a cover of none other than Don Omar’s smash reggaetón hit “Danza Kuduro.” “Spain, thank you so much for welcoming me to your country. I can feel all the love here today,” MGK told the crowd in near-perfect Spanish. (He even used the vosotros verb conjugation used in Spain.) “In return, I’d like to sing a song in...

Maren Morris came bearing gifts during her Wednesday night (July 5) stop at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town: She debuted a new song called "Get the Hell Out of Here" for the crowd.Before she performed it, Morris reportedly explained that "Get the Hell Out of Here" was inspired by her own experiences of wrestling with self-confidence and self-worth, according to social media posts from fans who were at the show. She kept things stripped down as she debuted the ballad, backed only by gentle acoustic guitar."I've gone against the grain...

MF Doom, the celebrated masked rapper born Daniel Dumile, died suddenly in Oct. 2020 while being treated at St. James’s Hospital in Leeds, England. After news broke earlier this week that the Dumile’s widow, Jasmine, had raised concerns about his care at the time, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St James’s, issued an apology. “I would like to offer our sincere condolences to Daniel’s family, friends and fans at this difficult time,” Hamish McLure, chief medical officer of the trust, said, per The Guardian. “I apologize that the...

Josh Turner will release a new collection featuring 11 of his biggest hits. His Greatest Hits album is scheduled to arrive on Friday, Sept. 8.“When you start out in this business, you’re never guaranteed longevity,” Turner says in a pess release. “I’m humbled and thankful that I’m still around making music and that I’ve done well enough for long enough to warrant releasing a Greatest Hits album.”The project will feature all five of his No. 1 hits: "Your Man", "Would You Go With Me", "Why Don't We Just Dance", "All...

The singer-songwriter appeared solo for the soaring ballad on Thursday Olivia Rodrigo stripped down the drum-driven pop track “Vampire” for a live YouTube performance on Thursday. The singer-songwriter appeared solo, while playing the single on an elegant grand piano. “I should’ve known it was strange you only come out at night,” she sings. For the chorus, Rodrigo references vampire-lore, belting out: “Bloodsucker/Fame-fucker/Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire.” Last week, the emotional ballad kicked off the rollout of the Grammy winner’s sophomore album, Guts. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Rodrigo said “Vampire”...

The Eagles had good news and bad news for their fans on Thursday (July 6). The bad news: They're launching their final tour, a trek billed as "The Long Goodbye." The good news: The band won't stop touring until all their fans have had a chance to see their final show.The band's aptly named last run will continue for as long as fans demand in each market. They initially announced 13 cities, plotting dates between September and November, but they expect the trek to continue all of 2024 and into...

The long run is coming to an end as the Eagles have announced the first set of arenas for The Long Goodbye “official farewell tour,” beginning in September. “The Eagles have had a miraculous 52-year odyssey, performing for people all over the globe; keeping the music alive in the face of tragic losses, upheavals and setbacks of many kinds,” the band said in a statement Thursday.  “Credit and thanks go to our longtime management team, our dedicated road crew, and our exceptional backup musicians for providing skilled and steadfast support,...