Chicago’s ARC Music Festival will expand from three to four days in 2026, the festival announced Tuesday (March 10). The fest is happening Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 4-7, at the city’s Union Park.

“This is something the team has been talking and dreaming about since we expanded from two days to three back in 2022,” ARC partner and lead talent buyer John Curley tells Billboard. “Every year booking the festival, we run into one little problem: we have more incredible artists that we want to book than we have slots on the festival. Expanding to four days allows us to go deeper with our programming.”

As such, in tandem with the expansion news, ARC has also dropped its 2026 lineup, which features a long list of producers, including Sara Landry performing her Eternalism show, Ki/Ki, The Blessed Madonna, Nia Archives, Michael Bibi, Chris Stussy, Anyma, Underworld, Cloonee and Chase & Status.

The event will also include a series of special b2b and b3bs, along with a new stage area dubbed The Midway, which takes its name from Chicago’s historic public park Midway Plaisance and nods to both the city’s Midway International Airport and the architectural legacy of the original Midway Gardens, an indoor/outdoor entertainment complex in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood.

And as has been ARC’s tradition since the festival launched in 2021, the bill features a list of house music pioneers, with the festival itself intended to celebrate the city’s history as the genre’s birthplace. This year this contingent includes Green Velvet, Honey Dijon and Derrick Carter.

Tickets for ARC Music Festival 2026 go on sale March 13.

“Six years in, and ARC really feels like it’s in its own lane,” says Curley. “There’s a global energy to the weekend, but ARC is still very much a Chicago festival in its DNA. That energy gives ARC a character you don’t really find anywhere else.

“It feels like a family reunion for the global house and techno community,” he continues. “Artists really lean into that, you can feel them bend their sound toward Chicago, see the emotion in their eyes as the sun sets into the skyline. There’s a feeling of legacy when artists play here that gives every set more weight and more staying power.”

See the lineup below:

There’s a lot of Bruno Mars on the March 14-dated Billboard charts. His newest album, The Romantic, debuts atop the Billboard 200, becoming his first leader in 13 years. Its nine tracks infuse multiple rankings, with the entire tracklist populating the worldwide Billboard Global 200 and U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100. He tops both lists simultaneously, but, in a rarity, with different songs.

With “I Just Might” rebounding for a third week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and “Risk It All” debuting atop the Global 200, The Romantic becomes the first album ever to lead both charts with different tracks at the same time. (The Global 200 launched in 2020; the Hot 100 dates to 1958.)

Even within the U.S., these Mars tracks show their strength differently. “Might” scores a third week atop Radio Songs, up 6% to 72.5 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending March 5, according to Luminate. “Risk” starts at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, debuting with 23.2 million streams. “Might” rebounds to No. 4 on Streaming Songs, while “Risk” has yet to appear on Radio Songs; “Might” remains Atlantic Records’ priority radio single from The Romantic, although “Risk” is already new on both Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay.

“Risk” leads “Might” in streams in the U.S. (23.2 million vs. 18 million) and internationally (28.9 million versus 25.5 million). It is ultimately radio that flips the script and puts the latter track, in its eighth week, atop the Hot 100. The Global 200 (and Global Excl. U.S. chart) does not include airplay data, allowing “Risk” to reign without the radio handicap of its fresh release.

While The Romantic stages an unprecedented chart takeover, Mars has done it before. He became the first artist to top both tallies with different songs last year, when “Die With a Smile,” with Lady Gaga, and “APT.,” with ROSÉ, split honors for two consecutive weeks in January 2025. “Smile” later appeared on Gaga’s MAYHEM, and “APT.” on ROSÉ’s Rosie, though neither track wound up on a Mars set.

The only other act to pull double duty was Kendrick Lamar, the following month. In the wake of his multiple Grammy wins and Super Bowl LIX halftime set, 2024’s “Not Like Us” returned to No. 1 on the Feb. 22, 2025-dated Hot 100 and the Global 200. The following week, it held atop the Global 200 while his SZA duet “Luther” took over the Hot 100 for the first of 13 weeks at No. 1. The latter track is on Lamar’s GNX, while the former remains unattached to an album.

Not only did Mars lead with split tracks for two weeks last year compared to Lamar’s one, but he has now achieved the feat with a second pair of songs. Further, as both “Might” and “Risk” are solo tracks, he becomes the only artist to simultaneously top the Hot 100 and Global 200 with different songs on their own.

Chiefs fans, rejoice! Travis Kelce is returning to the team — and you have Taylor Swift to thank for it.

During a Tuesday (March 10) appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, Kelce confirmed that he will be returning to the NFL for a 14th season with the Kansas City Chiefs.

“Making another run at it, baby, making another run at it,” the three-time Super Bowl champion said to McAfee.

Kelce’s confirmation of his return comes after previous rumors that he would be stepping away from the Chiefs and the league. “You always need to take a step back, breathe, let the emotions of the season settle down, see where the body is,” Kelce explained. He went on to say that he still really just loves the game of football and his best opportunity was reuniting with the Chiefs again.

The duo continue to talk about mysterious comments Kelce has made previously made regarding his return to football on his and brother Jason Kelce’s podcast, New Heights.

“Once I started dating Taylor, I started understanding what ‘Easter eggs’ were,” Kelce said, referring to fiancée Taylor Swift’s penchant for hidden messages in her work and appearances. “And you start, kind of, placing those things all over the planet and everybody starts to catch on.”

McAfee used this moment as a jumping off point to talk about Swift and the duo’s relationship. “Two greats together is good for society,” McAfee said before asking Kelce if watching Swift’s ascent to mega stardom has helped motivate him to return to football in any way.

“Without a doubt,” Kelce responds. “We share the same love for what we do … we’ve had this desire since we were kids in our selective professions.”

Kelce said that it’s amazing to watch the “Opalite” singer continue to find new ways to create music and still have a deep lover for what she does. “Of course that’s motivating,” he said. “Something like that definitely motivates me to say ‘You know what? I’m not done either.'”

Watch Travis’ interview below: