Month: May 2024

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.  Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news […]

All eyes were on Taylor Swift on May 9 as she kicked off the European leg of her Eras Tour with the first of four concerts in Paris, marking her first show back after the release of the Billboard 200-topping, record-breaking The Tortured Poets Department. Not only did the pop […]

“We’ve got liquor, records, worms, lures, all the good things here in Florida at our house,” Brian Kelley tells Billboard via Zoom, from his pool house-turned-tackle room (and sometimes songwriting room) at his Florida residence. “When it’s open for songwriting season I call it the Song Saloon; when it’s fishing […]

Sony Music Publishing swept Billboard’s ­Publishers Quarterly rankings for the first three months of 2024 — its fifth consecutive quarter atop the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 Songs lists. Sony also had a piece of the song that ruled both charts — Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me.” The other top 10 […]

There is no joy quite like the elation of a first-time grandma kvelling over the impending birth of her first grand baby. Which explains why Justin Bieber‘s mom, Patti Mallette, was absolutely glowing and bursting with pride in a driver’s seat video she posted on Thursday (May 9) in which […]

From its 1975 debut on Broadway as “the super soul musical,” winning seven Tony Awards and spotlighting stars like Stephanie Mills, Hinton Battle, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Andre De Shields; to its Oscar-nominated screen adaptation starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson among others; to its sing-along songs like “Ease on […]

Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, JaQUEL Knight and Amber Ruffin talk about how they’re reviving and updating ‘The Wiz’ for today, why it is important to the culture, the talent of lead Nichelle Lewis, being able to break barriers on Broadway with the show and more! Wayne BradyI’m Wayne Brady. JaQuel […]

The War and Treaty will make you believe. Whether playing to industry insiders at Clive Davis’ exclusive Grammy Awards preparty, attendees at the Country Music Association Awards or Newport Jazz festivalgoers, precedent suggests just about everyone in any given audience will be on their feet by the time the husband-and-wife […]

Life in the 21st century is complex. In addition to all the old stuff – keeping gas in the tank and air in the tires, picking up the kids on time, stressing out over an unreasonable boss – the digital age has piled on more issues: endless passcodes, inconvenient Windows […]

Drake’s Toronto mansion has been the site of two incidents prompting police involvement this week. CityNews reports a break-in attempt at the Bridle Path property around 2 p.m. on May 8, with police back at the residence just one day after a security guard was shot outside. “Officers were called […]