as his replacement. Guns N' Roses play the first of four warm-up shows at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, USA, preceding a European tour and shows across the U.S. May 13 The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ-FM airs the 14th annual Weenie Roast. Drummer Ryan Vandeberghe announces that The Suicide Machines have broken up after 15 years of activity. May 20 – Finnish monster rock band Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah", the first hard rock and heavy metal song to win. May 21 – Madonna begins her Confessions Tour in Los Angeles, USA. Tickets were sold out within minutes in North America, Europe, and Asia, resulting in new dates to be announced in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London. The tour grossed more than US$260 million – the highest-grossing tour in history by a female artist. May 23 – Ex-Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge released the album We Don't Need To Whisper with new band Angels and Airwaves. May 24 – Taylor Hicks wins the US television talent contest, American Idol, season 5. Katharine McPhee is the runner-up. June June 1 – YoungbloodZ and their entourage are arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. June 6 – Ice Cube's first album in six years, Laugh Now, Cry Later, is released on his independently owned record label Lench Mob Records. The album debuted in the top five selling 144,000 copies in the first week. June 7 – World premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Freude, for two harps, in the Milan Cathedral by Esther Kooi and Marianne Smit. June 8 – Shakira's single "Hips Don't Lie" sells 266,500 downloads in its first week of availability, overtaking D4L's record of 175,000. "Hips Don't Lie" also breaks another record, gaining the greatest airplay in a single week with 9,657 plays, breaking Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" record of 9,582. June 9 Nelly Furtado's new album, Loose is released and debuts at No. 1 with 219,000 copies sold, making it her first number-one album. Igor Cavalera leaves Sepultura because of artistic differences – the third official member and the second Cavalera to leave. June 9-11 – The annual Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. Tool, Metallica and Guns N' Roses headlined the main stage, the Snickers stage by The All-American Rejects, Alter Bridge and The Prodigy, the Gibson/Myspace stage by