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Justin Bieber will headline an 11-minute World Cup halftime show featuring Madonna, Shakira and BTS, with Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus also performing in a Coldplay-curated set during the final near New York on July 19; the event supports FIFA's Global Citizen Education Fund, aiming to raise $100 million to expand education and soccer access for children worldwide and will include Sesame Street characters.
Justin Bieber will join Madonna, Shakira and BTS as a co-headliner for the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, an 11‑minute global charity spectacle at the New York–New Jersey Stadium featuring Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS22 Chorus and Coldplay, with Muppets cameos. The event supports the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, aiming to raise $100 million for education and football access worldwide, with donations tied to ticket sales and matched by the fund.
Justin Bieber will co-headline the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show with BTS, Shakira and Madonna at MetLife Stadium on July 19, also featuring Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the Muppets and the PS22 Chorus with Coldplay; the first-ever World Cup final halftime event supports the Global Citizen Education Fund and marks Bieber’s return to a major stage since Coachella.
Justin Bieber will join Madonna, Shakira and BTS for the 11-minute, Super Bowl-style World Cup 2026 halftime show in New York on July 19, with additional performances by Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS22 Chorus featuring Coldplay, and Sesame Street; the curated set, raising funds for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, aims to reach $100 million for children’s education, and Bieber’s appearance follows his return to the stage at Coachella.
Madonna returns to the club scene with Confessions II, a studio successor to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor that reframes her origin story, pairing energetic dance beats with a reflective look at personal wounds she’s danced through, spotlighting both renewal and focus in her craft.
Madonna released her 15th studio album, Confessions II, seven years after Madame X, capping a months-long rollout that included a surprise Coachella performance, pop-up shows in Times Square and West Hollywood, a Grindr Gayborhood takeover, a Tribeca short film, and a TikTok Live premiere. The comeback marks her return to Warner Records and has critics already praising it as one of her best in decades, while questions about its chart performance remain.
Madonna and her daughter Lourdes Leon duet on the track The Test from Confessions II, pushing back against coattail rumors and public scrutiny while highlighting their mother–daughter bond and Lourdes’s inspiration from Madonna’s Ray of Light era.
Madonna and her daughter Lourdes Leon release The Test, a vulnerable duet about living in the spotlight straining their relationship; Leon writes about carving her own path while Madonna confronts the pain, a collaboration born after Leon asked to heal their bond; the track is the 15th on Madonna's album Confessions II.
Rolling Stone’s weekly Songs You Need to Know playlist spotlights Madonna’s retro Eighties-inspired surprise performance, Destin Conrad diving into reggae rhythms, and Rico Nasty linking with Kenneth Blume on a glittery new track, plus fresh cuts from Wolf Alice, Mary in the Junkyard, Sienna Spiro, Dinosaur Jr., Ken Carson and more.
Madonna’s Confessions II is a 16-track, DJ-mix sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor, produced with Stuart Price and built to move from start to finish. It’s hailed as her best album in decades, blending Detroit house, techno and pop into a cohesive, kinetic dance-floor narrative, with personal moments (Fragile, The Test with Lola Leon) that deepen the story, even as a few late tracks risk feeling too samey.
Billboard’s ranking of all 12 tracks on Madonna’s 2005 disco-leaning Confessions on a Dance Floor rates the songs from 12 to 1, praising the album’s seamless disco-dance-pop synthesis with Stuart Price, noting ‘Hung Up’ as the centerpiece at #1 and detailing each track’s mood—from the mystic opener ‘Isaac’ to the closing defiance of ‘Like It or Not’—while highlighting the album’s enduring influence and its strong commercial impact (No. 1 on Billboard 200 and Top Dance Albums, billions of streams).
Mojo’s review hails Madonna Confessions II as a magnificent return to her club roots, trading the more experimental tones of Madame X for a forward-looking dance-pop palette anchored by Stuart Price and Sabrina Carpenter; the album revisits NYC club history and Madonna’s personal growth, with standout tracks such as I Feel So Free and Bring Your Love, and arrives July 3 on Warner.
Madonna returns to the dancefloor with Confessions II—a 63-minute, DJ-set–style sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor that leans into Detroit/Chicago house, with Price, Arca, and Watt collaborators; the album blends nods to her past with new club-ready tracks and, per NME, stands as her most vital work in over two decades, releasing July 3, 2026.
Madonna’s Confessions II is celebrated as her best album in two decades: a 16-track, club-forward set produced with Stuart Price that nods to her New York club roots, fuses Eighties house with contemporary pop, and features Sabrina Carpenter on Bring Your Love alongside collaborations with Martin Garrix and Mirwais. The record threads catharsis and reinvention—from nods to her iconic era to intimate moments like Betrayal and Fragile—while chasing a relentless dancefloor energy. Despite its length, it’s framed as a triumphant comeback after Madame X.
Madonna's Confessions II revisits 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor with Stuart Price, delivering a neon-soaked club odyssey that fuses 1980s Chicago/Detroit house with intimate, autobiographical lyrics; the opening run is superb, the middle experiments with mixed results, and the album closes with personal songs and a Lourdes duet, making for a mostly successful return to the dance floor after Madame X.