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Barry Manilow Postpones More Shows After ‘Depressing’ Doctor’s Visit Following Cancer Surgery

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Barry Manilow is taking additional time off as he continues recovering from cancer surgery.

On Friday (Feb. 20), the 82-year-old Grammy-winning singer announced on social media that he is rescheduling more concerts while healing from a mid-January operation related to stage one lung cancer diagnosed late last year.

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After what he described as a “very depressing visit” with his surgeon, Manilow is postponing the first batch of 2026 arena dates originally scheduled from Feb. 27 through March 17.

“I was sure that I would be able to do the Arena shows in a few weeks,” the singer wrote on Instagram. But his doctor “shook his head” and told him, “Barry, you won’t be ready to do a 90 minute show. Your lungs aren’t ready yet. You’re in great shape considering what you’ve been through, but your body isn’t ready. You shouldn’t do the first Arena shows. You won’t make it through.”

Manilow admitted that he had “a feeling” the surgeon would respond that way. “Deep down, I wanted to go back — but my body knew what my heart didn’t want to admit: I wasn’t ready,” the artist wrote.

Although Manilow is rescheduling his first 13 arena shows, his doctor said it was still “likely” he could perform in Las Vegas on March 26–28 and April 2–4.

“I’m SO, SO sorry I have to reschedule some of these first Arena shows. Again!” Manilow wrote.

At press time, Manilow’s website still listed sold-out U.S. concert dates for mid- through late April.

Billboard has reached out to Manilow’s representatives for additional comment and information about the rescheduled dates.

See Manilow’s post on Instagram below.

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Baby Keem’s ‘Ca$ino’: The 12 Best Lines

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Baby Keem is officially back.

The Las Vegas rapper’s debut album The Melodic Blue dropped in 2021 — and while that might seem like a long time, he’s remained somewhat active during that gap, appearing alongside his cousin Kendrick Lamar on the Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers song “Savior,” the duo single “The Hillbillies” and on the Fred again.. track “leavmealone” back in 2023, respectively. And one can also assume that the battle that popped off between Drake and Kendrick in 2024 might’ve affected pgLang’s release schedule a bit.

Hitting DSPs at midnight on Friday (Feb. 20), Ca$ino is a super-personal affair, peppered with some stuntastic pimpery with his hometown of Vegas as the backdrop. It’s a bit of a heavy swing for a sophomore album — and he tells you that he’s been in the lab “switchin’ up the category” on the project’s intro “No Security.” In the lead-up to release, Keem released a three-part documentary about his life up until this point, and his family member and label boss was able to see that his younger second cousin had some talent at an early age. “I got a thousand f—in’ cousins, man,” he said. “A thousand friends that rap and do music and s—t. Out of all of them, he was the best one at 14-15 years old.”

He was right — because about three or four years later, 2 Phone was dropping songs and tapes on the Internet when he was in his late teens. And while Ca$ino is a bit heavy at times, we still managed to pluck some fun lines from the likes of Kendrick, the legendary Too $hort, and of course Keem.

Peep the 12 best lines on Ca$ino below.

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Bailey Zimmerman’s Florida Setlist: Every Song From the Energetic Opening Night

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Country star Bailey Zimmerman kicked off his first headlining arena tour last night (Feb. 19) at Hertz Arena in Estero, Fla., performing an energetic, sold-out show.

Dubbed the Different Night Same Rodeo tour, after his current album, Zimmerman ran through a slew of hits in the 22-set, including “Backup Plan,” “Rock and a Hard Place” and “Religiously.”

After delivering their opening sets, Hudson Westbrook and Blake Whiten each joined Zimmerman as well: Westbrook on “New to Country” and Whiten on “Hell or High Water.”

It’s been a rapid rise for Zimmerman, who only released his first major label full studio album in 2022 and never performed live before 2021: The Illinois native, who had been building gas pipelines as recently as 2020, began uploading performance videos to TikTok, including original song “Never Comin’ Home,” and quickly signed a label deal four years ago. He’s never looked back.

During his short career, he’s already scored four No. 1s on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart: “Fall in Love,” “Rock and a Hard Place,” “Religiously” and “Where it Ends.” “All the Way,” his collaboration with BigXthaPlug, went to the top of Hot Country Songs.

The Different Night Same Rodeo tour, promoted by Live Nation, heads to Athens, Georgia Saturday night (Feb. 21) and will stop in more than 30 cities across North America before ending June 20 in Ottawa, Ontario at Canadian Tire Centre. Other key stops include Boston’s TD Garden, Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena, Toronto’s RBC Amphitheaters and two nights at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater.

Below is Zimmerman’s setlist from his opening night.

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BAFTAs 2026: Ludwig Göransson’s ‘Sinners’ Score Wins Best Original Music, HUNTR/X Shine on Awards Show Debut

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Lugwig Göransson’s score for Sinners scooped the best original music prize at the 2026 BAFTAs in London on Sunday (Feb. 22).

It’s the second time in three years that the Swedish composer has collected the prize, having previously won the category in 2024 for his work for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Daniel Blumberg won the 2025 award for The Brutalist.

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Göransson is the first composer to prevail twice inside of three years since Gustavo Santaolalla won for The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Babel (2006). In the build-up to the BAFTAs, Göransson won in the score category at the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and Grammys.

Göransson saw off fierce competition, including Alexandre Desplat, a 13-time nominee and three-time winner of the category; the latter was nominated for his score for Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein. The composer was not on hand to collect the award with Sinners director Ryan Coogler joking that he was away working on “small indie film” called The Odyssey, in reference to Nolan’s upcoming epic, due this summer.

Other nominees in the category were Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Max Richter (Hamnet), and Jerskin Fendrix (Bugonia). The same five composers are nominated at the upcoming Academy Awards (March 1), the first time in 14 years that the two awards shows have shared the exact same nominees. In 2012, the winners were split: Thomas Newman won the BAFTA for Skyfall and Mychael Danna took the Oscar for The Life of Pi.

Sinners earned 13 nominations across the categories and came away with two additional awards: best original screenplay and best supporting actress (Wunmi Mosaku). One Battle After Another earned the coveted best film title, with best director going to Paul Thomas Anderson for his work on the flick.

Elsewhere in the ceremony, HUNTR/X made their awards show debut with a performance of KPop Demon Hunters megahit “Golden.” The BAFTAs, unlike the Academy Awards and other awards shows, does not host a best original song category. Next Saturday (Feb. 28) they will perform at the BRIT Awards, and become the first K-pop group to grace the BRITs stage. They’ll also perform at the Academy Awards on March 15, where “Golden” is nominated for best original song.

Jessie Ware performed a Barbra Streisand classic the In Memoriam section. The English singer took on “The Way We Were” from the 1973 film of the same name, in which Streisand starred with the late Robert Redford. The latter was one of the huge names honored in the segment which also paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara, Rob Reiner, Brigitte Bardot, Val Kilmer and Gene Hackman.

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