Champions League and relegation showdowns loom on Bundesliga's final day

Two dramatic three-way showdowns will dominate the last day of the Bundesliga season Saturday as Stuttgart leads a race for Champions League qualification and former champion Wolfsburg fights to avoid an historic relegation.

The top three spots are already clear after Bayern Munich sealed the title last month, while Borussia Dortmund is runner-up yet again and Leipzig is third.

Stuttgart has the fourth Champions League spot for now. Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen want it.

Stuttgart's final game is a tough one at Eintracht Frankfurt. A win there would almost certainly guarantee fourth spot. If Stuttgart drops points, Hoffenheim can snatch fourth with a better result at Borussia Moenchengladbach and return to the Champions League for the first time since 2017-18.

Leverkusen needs to beat Hamburger SV and hope Stuttgart and Hoffenheim lose.

Champion of the Bundesliga in 2008-09, Wolfsburg hasn't been outside the top flight since 1997. It's one of the bottom three teams, all level on points, chasing one shot at survival.

The teams in 17th and 18th — St. Pauli and Heidenheim — are relegated automatically. The side in 16th, Wolfsburg for now, goes into a promotion-relegation playoff against a second-division team.

Wolfsburg visits St. Pauli on Saturday and a loss for either means relegation. Heidenheim could yet leapfrog both with a win at home to Mainz.

The second division heads into its final day Sunday with promotion at stake. Schalke is already returning to the Bundesliga as champion but Elversberg, Hannover and Paderborn are level on points chasing the second spot.

Elversberg, from a tiny town near the French border, has a goal-difference advantage and a win over relegated Preussen Muenster should do it.

If Stuttgart can make it to the Champions League, it'll be thanks to Deniz Undav, whose 19 goals are second only to Harry Kane in the Bundesliga this season.

Hoffenheim's Champions League push has depended on Andrej Kramaric, who's played more than 300 games for the club, combining with young forward Fisnik Asllani.

England captain Kane's shot at Robert Lewandowski's single-season Bundesliga scoring record may have gone after Bayern opted to focus on keeping him fit for the Champions League, but he can still sign off in style.

Kane has 33 goals for Bayern in the Bundesliga and 55 in all competitions ahead of hosting Cologne on Saturday.

Bayern's Canadian left back Alphonso Davies has a hamstring injury less than a month from the World Cup. His clubmate Serge Gnabry has ruled himself out of playing at the tournament for Germany after a thigh muscle tear.

It's the last game in charge for coach Marie-Louise Eta, the first woman to become a head coach in any of Europe's five biggest men's leagues when she took interim charge of Union Berlin, where she got her first win last week.

Hosting Augsburg on Saturday is the last game in Eta's five-game spell in charge. She takes over Union's women's team next season.

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Wolfsburg's Kento Shiogai, right, vies for the ball with Bayern Munich's Hiroki Ito during a Bundesliga soccer match between Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich, in Wolfsburg, Germany, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Swen Pförtner/dpa via AP)

Hoffenheim's Andrej Kramaric, left, celebrates with Vladimir Coufal after scoring his side's third goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and VfB Stuttgart in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)

Stuttgart's Deniz Undav celebrates after scoring during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart, in Stuttgart, Germany, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Tom Weller/dpa via AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albums and songs from Taylor Swift,Beyoncé,Chaka Khan and The Go-Go’s are joining America’s audio canon.

The new inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include Swift’s blockbuster 2014 pop album “1989,” Beyoncé’s era-defining 2008 anthem “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” Khan’s genre-blending hit “I Feel for You,” Vince Gill’s emotional ballad “Go Rest High on That Mountain” and The Go-Go’s groundbreaking debut album “Beauty and the Beat.”

They were among the 25 recordings entering the archive in the class of 2026, acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen announced Thursday. The selections were chosen for their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”

“Music and recorded sound are essential, wonderful parts of our daily lives and our national heritage,” Newlen said in a statement. “The National Recording Registry works to preserve our national playlist for generations to come.”

Other recordings entering the registry include Ray Charles’ groundbreaking country crossover album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music,” Reba McEntire’s “Rumor Has It,” Rosanne Cash’s “The Wheel” and Weezer’s self-titled debut known as “The Blue Album.”

Classic singles from Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Byrds, José Feliciano and Paul Anka also earned inclusion.

Among the more unconventional selections are the soundtrack to the influential 1993 video game "Doom" and the radio broadcast of “The Fight of the Century,” the legendary 1971 heavyweight boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

The oldest recording in this year’s class is Spike Jones and His City Slickers’ 1944 single “Cocktails for Two.” The newest is Swift’s “1989.”

This year also marks the first recordings by Swift and Beyoncé selected for the registry. The Library of Congress said more than 3,000 public nominations were submitted for consideration this year.

This combination of images show, from left, Beyoncé, Jose Feliciano, Vince Gill, Chaka Khan and Taylor Swift. (AP Photo)