Pablo Alborán Bringing His Global Tour KM0 to the U.S. in 2027

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Pablo Alborán is bringing his music to the United States.

The 27-year-old Spanish artist will bring his Global Tour KM0 to the U.S. in 2027, kicking off the trek on February 6 in Miami.

Pablo AlboránAlboran will make stops in cities including New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, before concluding on February 21 in Dallas.

The announcement comes as Alborán recovers from a “severe pneumonia” that forced him to cancel his August 21 show in Ciudad Real, Spain.

“I have just been diagnosed with severe pneumonia, and on medical advice, I need complete rest for the next few days,” he wrote in a post on his Instagram account last Thursday (August 20). “I’ve already started a round of antibiotics that will have me back to normal in no time.”

Tickets for the U.S. leg of the tour — presented by Emporio Group Entertainment — will be available starting Friday, August 28 via Ticketmaster, except for the Dallas date, whose tickets will be sold on AXS.com.

Alborán is currently in the middle of his KM0 world tour, which has already covered parts of Latin America and Spain, where he played to sold-out crowds in cities including Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. His next performance is scheduled for August 30 at the Festival de la Luz in Baimoro, Spain, according to his website.

In September, Alborán plans to return to Latin America, starting in Costa Rica on the 27th, followed by stops in El Salvador, Panama, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

The trek supports his latest album KM0, a deeply personal project born out of the pain and uncertainty caused by a loved one’s illness, as the artist shared in an interview with Billboard. Released last November, the set was included in Billboard‘s list of the 25 Best Latin Albums of 2025.

Here are all the U.S. dates for Alborán’s Global Tour KM0:

Feb. 6: Miami, Fla. @ Kaseya Center
Feb. 7: Orlando, Fla. @ KIA Center
Feb. 9: Atlanta, Ga. @ Coca-Cola Roxy
Feb. 11: New York, N.Y. @ Radio City Music Hall
Feb. 14: Washington, D.C. @ DAR Constitution Hall
Feb. 18: Los Angeles, Calif. @ YouTube Theater
Feb. 20: Houston, Texas @ 713 Music Hall
Feb. 21: Dallas, Texas @ Texas Trust CU Theatre

Judeline & Rusowsky Earn First No. 1 on Billboard Charts with Karol G-Collab “BbY WOW”

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It’s a memorable first for Judeline and Rusowsky.

The Spanish artists have scored their first Billboard No. 1, as “BbY WOW,” with Karol G, rockets from No. 5 to the top of the Hot Latin Songs chart dated Aug. 29.

Judeline & Rusowsky, Karol G“BbY WOW” lands at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs — which blends streams, airplay and sales — off a streaming-fueled surge.

The collab registered 6.1 million official on-demand streams in the United States during the Aug. 14-20 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The sum takes the song to a No. 34 start on the overall Streaming Songs chart and to an equal 5-1 trek on the Latin Streaming Songs list.

“It’s honestly hard to believe that a song we recorded just last month is already topping the charts — and in the U.S. of all places,” Judeline shared with Billboard. “Everything around ‘BbY WOW’ has happened so fast that I’m still processing it. I’m so thankful to Karol for giving me this opportunity, and to everyone who has embraced the song. Seeing how far it has traveled in such a short time is something I never could have imagined.”

“BbY WOW” gives Karol G her 11th No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs—and makes her the first artist in nearly two years to replace herself at the summit. Her Drake collaboration “Ahí” falls 1-4 after a 30% streaming dip, with 4.2 million U.S. clicks. The chart mixes streaming data, radio airplay and digital sales into its formula.

The last artist to pull off the feat was Bad Bunny, whose “Nuevayol” handed the crown to “DtMF” in January 2025.

Among female acts, Karol last did it in September 2023, when “Qlona,” with Peso Pluma, replaced “Mi Ex Tenía Razón.”

In addition to their Hot Latin Songs win, Judeline and Rusowsky race to their first No. 1 on the Hot Latin Rhythm Songschart, where “BbY WOW” climbs 5-1. Meanwhile, it soars 73-38 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 — Karol’s highest ranking in two years, after the No. 32-peaking “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” (August 2024).

On the global front, “BbY WOW” surges 171-37 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, with 17.9 million streams in the U.S. Plus, it debuts at No. 41 on the Global Excl. U.S. tally with 11.9 million clicks registered outside the country.

Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball’s “I Love Lucy” to Receive Television Academy’s First-Ever Legacy Award

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Desi Arnaz’s lasting legacy alongside Lucille Ball is being celebrated in a special way.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced that the seminal sitcom I Love Lucy will receive its inaugural Legacy Award, a new honor to be bestowed upon a television program that’s made a profound and generational impact on audiences and remains relevant to society, culture and the industry today.

Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, I Love LucyArnaz and Ball’s landmark comedy is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. It will be feted in a special tribute during Night 2 of the 2026 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 6.

I Love Lucy starred Ball and Arnaz as homemaker Lucy and conga drummer Ricky Ricardo and their neighbor friends Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vivian Vance and William Frawley).

The situation comedy that defined the term aired from 1951-57 on CBS and was an was an out-of-the-box smash. It ranked among in the year-end Top 3 among primetime shows in each of its six seasons, topping the list for four of them including 1952-53, when it posted a 67.3 rating — meaning that fully two-thirds of all homes that had a TV were tuned in on a average night.

Arnaz, who also was an executive producer, and the I Love Lucy production team pioneered the use of the three-camera filming format before a live studio audience, setting a production standard that continues to influence television comedies today.

The show won four Emmys — including Best Situation Comedy Series back-to-back in 1953 and 1954. Ball won twoBest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmys for the show, was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984 and received the Governors Award in 1989.

Arnaz was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991.

Ball and Arnaz were able to maintain creative control of the series by taking a substantial pay cut in exchange for full ownership of its negatives, allowing them to replay episodes. That move by the duo behind Desilu Productions invented the concept of TV syndication and the blueprint for residuals.

“I Love Lucy truly helped define what television could be,” said Cris Abrego, chair of the Television Academy. “Beyond its place in television and cultural history as one of the medium’s most beloved shows, its creative ambition, technical innovation and groundbreaking approach to the business of television established a blueprint that continues to influence our industry 75 years later. We are proud to celebrate a series whose impact is so enduring as the first recipient of the Television Academy’s Legacy Award.”

The two-night Creative Emmy Awards will be edited into a single broadcast airing Saturday, September 12, on FXX.

The 78th annual Primetime Emmys is set for Monday, September 14, live on NBC and Peacock.

Nico González Transferring to Newcastle United

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Nico González is switching sides.

The Spanish midfielder’s transfer from Manchester City to Newcastle United has been agreed, according to ESPN.

Nico GonzálezGonzalez is set to move to St James’ Park in a £52 million deal ($70.9m), sources said. Newcastle will pay an initial £48 million ($65.4m) with another £4 million ($5.5m) in potential add-ons.

He becomes the fourth senior midfielder to leave Manchester City this summer following the departures of Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Tijjani Reijnders.

González will depart after 18 months at Man City, having arrived from Porto for £50 million in January 2025. He made 59 appearances for the club, scoring four goals.

At one stage during the summer he said he wanted to stay at City, but has now chosen to accept Newcastle’s offer. He was an unused substitute in the 2-1 win over Bournemouth on Sunday with new head coach Enzo Maresca choosing instead to field center back Marc Guéhi in midfield.

Daniela Avanzini & Her KATSEYE Mates Earn First No. 1 on Billboard 200 with “WILD”

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Daniela Avanzini is celebrating a wild debut.

The 22-year-old Cuban-American singer and her KATSEYE group mates have landed their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as WILD debuts atop the list dated August 29.

Daniela Avanzini, KATSEYEThe set earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending August 20, according to Luminate.

 WILD marks the group’s second top 10-charted effort, following the No. 4-peaking Beautiful Chaos in 2025.

WILD is the fourth No. 1 album by an all-woman group this decade. It follows TWICE’s With YOU-th (2025),NewJeans’ 2nd EP Get Up (2023) and BLACKPINK’s Born Pink (2022).

Before Born Pink, the last No. 1 album by an all-woman group was Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008.

WILD also lands KATSEYE its biggest week by equivalent album units earned, and by pure album sales (145,000). Further, WILD tallies the largest week by units for an all-woman group since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2015.

 WILD additionally has the largest pure album sales week for an all-woman group in more than three years, since TWICE’s Ready To Be: 12th Mini Album debuted with 146,000 (March 25, 2023).

Of WILD’s 170,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 145,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 24,500 (equaling 26.95 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 19 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500.

WILD’s album sales were largely driven by its availability across more than 30 CD and vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, with some items randomized, including signed editions; some editions also contain bonus tracks).

WILD was preceded by a pair of Billboard Hot 100-charting cuts: “Pinky Up” (No. 28 peak in April) and “Animal” (No. 24 on the August 8 chart).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Orlando Luz & Rafael Mato Pull Off Rare Feat with Cincinnati Open Men’s Doubles Championship

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Orlando Luz and Rafael Matos are making more history…

Following this month’s historic win at the National Bank Open, the 28-year-old Brazilian professional tennis player and the 30-year-old Brazilian professional tennis player claimed the men’s double title at the Lindner Family Tennis Center for another historic feat.

Orlando Luz, Rafael Mato,With their victory, Luz and Matos made became only the fifth tandem in the Open Era to sweep the Canada and Cincinnati men’s doubles titles in the same season.

In defeating the German-Dutch duo of Constantin Frantzen and Robin Haase, 6-4, 3-6, 10-7, they joined Bruce Manson/Brian Teacher (1980), twins Bob and Mike Bryan (2010), Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo (2016), and Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (2017).

“All the time, we were taking energy from each other. We’re good friends. We practice a lot, put in a lot of work,” said Luz. “It’s the only way to get through tough moments. Everybody feels nervous, but that was the key — getting the energy from each other.”

Having first joined forces back in 2019, the potent pairing has now captured five tour-level doubles titles, four of them alone coming in 2026.

Earlier this month, they became the first all-Brazilian team to win an ATP Masters 1000 title in Montreal. Now they’ve pulled off a rare back-to-back.

“We’re pretty grateful and proud of the work we put in, and after the match point, I just couldn’t stand up anymore,” he said. “Before last week, I had never been beyond the second round of a Masters tournament, so it’s a huge compliment to be back-to-back champions. Being the first 100 percent Brazilian pair to make it, it’s even more special. We just put in more and more work, and now this is the payment for it. We’re just very happy and very proud of not giving up.”

Teofimo Lopez Defeats Rolando “Rolly” Romero in WBA Welterweight Bout to Become Three-Division World Champion

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Teofimo Lopez is expanding his divisional dominance…

The 29-year-old Honduran American professional boxer became a three-division world champion on Saturday night, when he captured the WBA welterweight title over his former friend and sparring partner Rolando “Rolly” Romero at the T-Mobile Arena.

Teofimo Lopez,In his welterweight debut, Lopez (23-2, 13 KOs) held up well against Romero’s power en route to a majority decision. One judge scored the bout 114-114, while the other two had it 115-113 and 116-112 for Lopez.

It was an impressive bounce-back for Lopez after his lopsided decision loss to Shakur Stevenson in their WBO super lightweight title fight in January.

“I need to tell you guys, if you lose and you come back, then you never lost because you’re a winner,” Lopez said. “I’m a winner. I’m a true example of what winning is, and it ain’t about losing. It’s about never giving up.”

It was Romero’s first appearance since he claimed the WBA title in an upset decision over Ryan Garcia in May 2025. It’s difficult to say whether the 15-month layoff hurt Romero’s performance, but he struggled to keep up with Lopez’s pace and timing in the second half.

According to Compubox, Lopez landed 124 of 530 total punches; Romero (17-3, 13 KOs) landed 73 of 352, including just two in the final round.

Despite the punch totals, Romero was outraged about the scores.

“I got hit with two punches the whole fight that barely grazed me,” said Romero, a Las Vegas native. “I was never in any trouble. When I heard 114-114, I knew it was a robbery.”

Romero knocked Lopez off-balance with a counter left hook in the fourth round and had him visibly hurt with a right hand in the fifth, but Lopez recovered quickly and responded with some of his best work in the sixth and seventh rounds.

Lopez landed 62 jabs in the fight and 124 shots to the body.

“I expected something similar to this, just a little more combinations from [him],” said Lopez, who sparred with Romero multiple times in his amateur and early-professional career. “He was calculated, staying composed and listening to his corner. We had to go push the fight if need be. There was a shot he hit me with that woke me up, and I told him, ‘You got to do better than that.’ I just kept saying, ‘You ain’t going to take me out. It’s not that easy.'”

Lopez has plenty of potential options in his new division, including WBO champion Devin Haney, the winner of next month’s WBC clash between Garcia and Conor Benn, and IBF champion Liam Paro. The current WBA mandatory challenger is regular champion Jack Catterall.

Romero suffered his first loss since he was stopped in the eighth round by Isaac Cruz in March 2024.

Cris Cyborg Makes MMA History with Unanimous Decision Win Over Ketlen Vieira at PFL Tampa

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Cris Cyborg is celebrating a historic victory.

The 41-year-old Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and professional boxer reached another milestone on Saturday in a career filled with them, winning a competitive but unanimous decision over Ketlen Vieira in the PFL Tampa main event to become the first woman in MMA history to amass 30 victories.

Cris CyborgCyborg (30-2, 1 NC), the PFL women’s featherweight champion, got all she could handle from her Brazilian countrywoman over five tough rounds.

Vieira, though widely outstruck in terms of volume (202-106), wobbled her opponent in Round 2 and bloodied her in the fourth while landing punches from the top position.

But Cyborg gradually gained momentum and earned the support of all three judges (49-46, 49-46, 48-47) in winning for the 10th time in a row.

The bout originally was to be for Cyborg’s 145-pound championship, but it was switched to a nontitle fight after Vieira (16-6) weighed in on Friday at 152.2 pounds. However, according to the PFL, Cyborg said before the fight that she would vacate her belt if she lost.

Even in victory, this might have been Cyborg’s swan song as PFL champion. It was the final fight on her contract with the promotion. The PFL had billed it as a retirement fight, although Cyborg did not sound as if she was done competing afterward, calling out UFC women’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison and undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Claressa Shields.

“Eight years undefeated,” Cyborg said. “I’m ready for anybody, anytime, any weight.”

Cyborg, formerly was a champion in Strikeforce, Invicta FC, the UFC and Bellator, making her the only fighter to win titles in five major MMA promotions.

Vieira, 34, was making her PFL debut after being a UFC bantamweight contender. She is No. 3 in the ESPN women’s 135-pound rankings. (Cyborg is unranked because ESPN does not have women’s featherweight rankings.)

The fight did not play out like a typical Cyborg fight. Rather than displaying her usual relentless aggression, which has produced 21 knockouts, she circled Vieira early on, landing single body punches and leg kicks. The focus on working the body might have been a strategy to take advantage of her foe’s weight miss, but Cyborg took a while to ramp up her attack.

Cyborg’s movement paid off in allowing her to evade much of what was thrown her way. Vieira threw 175 punches but landed only 73, whereas Cyborg threw 159 and landed 119. Cyborg had an even wider edge in kicks, landing 56 to Vieira’s six.

But the numbers did not fully tell the story of this fight. Vieira stood toe-to-toe with a legend, outmuscled her at times, gained positional control for several stretches and connected with some hard punches that snapped Cyborg’s head back and bloodied her. It was a different kind of Cyborg victory, one in which she persevered instead of dominating.

Asked afterward what is next for her, Cyborg said she is heading home to be with her daughter, who is nearing her due date for a birth that will make Cyborg a grandmother — one whose fight career keeps rolling on.

Jack Assadourian Jr.’s Debut Special, “Mexican Armenian” to Premiere on YouTube

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Jack Assadourian Jr. is preparing to bring the laughs…

The 41-year-old half-Mexican American stand-up comedian, actor and podcast host has announced that his debut special, Mexican Armenian, will premiere on YouTube at 12 p.m. PT on Thursday, September 17.

Jack Assadourian Jr.In the special, Assadourian explores the unexpected similarities between his Mexican and Armenian cultures.

Through stories about his multicultural upbringing, family and raising Mexican-Armenian children of his own, he affectionately — and relentlessly — roasts both sides of his heritage.

Directed by comedian Jeremiah Watkins, who produced alongside Miles Williams, the special was filmed at The Alex Theater in Assadourian’s hometown of Glendale, CA.

An up-and-coming stand-up with over 400K followers across social platforms, Assadourian Jhas appeared at Netflix Is a Joke Fest and on platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Hulu.

He has also been featured on podcasts including About Last Night with Adam Ray and The Church of What’s Happening Now with Joey Diaz.

Henry Cejudo to Make Professional Boxing Debut Against Influencer Boxer

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Henry Cejudo is switching sports…

The 39-year-old Mexican-American freestyle wrestler and former mixed martial artist, one of the most decorated combat sports athletes of all time, will make his professional boxing debut next month.

Henry CejudoCejudo will face influencer boxer Nurideen Shabazz, aka Deen The Great, on September 26 at James L. Knight Arenain Miami.

Misfits Boxing will promote the event, which airs on DAZN in the U.S.

A former U.S. Olympic gold medalist wrestler and two-weight UFC champion, Cejudo retired from MMA in December.

He has competed in wrestling twice in 2026, and is scheduled to face Merab Dvalishvili at RAF 12 on Saturday.

He has never boxed professionally, but has competed as an amateur.

Deen The Great is a well-known influencer and boxer who first gained notoriety through viral street fight content.