Music notes: Beyoncé, Ariana Grande and more

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Beyoncé has added five new stadium dates to her Cowboy Carter Tour due to fan demand. She’ll play a fifth and sixth night in London, as well as a third night in Chicago, Paris and Atlanta. The tour’s general sale begins Feb. 14 at 12 p.m. local time at beyonce.com.

Ariana Grande is teasing what we can expect from the Wicked sequel, Wicked: For Good, which is coming out in November. According to People, during a moderated conversation at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, she said, “It is quite different. … You get to see people bear the repercussions for their choices that they make in movie one. So if movie one is about choices, movie two is about consequences.”

Due to the LA wildfires, Selena Gomez postponed a pop-up she had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of her 2020 album, Rare, and her Rare Beauty Brand. The pop-up has been rescheduled for Feb. 14 through Feb. 16 at 433 N. Fairfax Ave. in LA. It’ll feature merch and exclusive products, with 100% of the proceeds going to wildfire response efforts.

Super Bowl halftime performers don’t get paid, but the interest it brings to their catalogs does offer some compensation. Following Kendrick Lamar‘s performance on Sunday, Rolling Stone reports that Spotify streams of his catalog spiked by 175% overall, with streams of his #1 hit “Not Like Us” increasing by 430%.

Myles Smith is releasing a duet version of his single “Nice to Meet You” with country superstar Lainey Wilson. It’ll be available on Feb. 14.

 

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