Month: May 2024

It’s time for another spindle around the Executive Turntable, Billboard’s comprehensive(ish) compendium of promotions, hirings, exits and firings — and all things in between — across music. On Thursday we revealed this year’s Country Power Players list, where Big Loud partner and CEO Seth England was named top executive and WME’s […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge found Thursday (May 9) that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls a “major neurocognitive disorder.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See […]

He knows how to ball, she knows Aristotle – but swag surfing they have in common. Taylor Swift‘s first show back on the Eras Tour Thursday (May 9) featured multiple surprises as she debuted several new numbers from The Tortured Poets Department, including what appeared to be a subtle tribute […]

Avril Lavigne revealed the track list for her first-ever hits compilation, Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits, on Friday morning (May 10). The 20-track collection due out June 21 will feature such iconic favorites as 2002 breakthrough anthems “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi,” as well as 2004’s “Don’t Tell Me,” 2007’s “Girlfriend” […]

Move over, Drake and Kendrick Lamar: There’s another feud entering the fold in hip-hop. The Game took aim at Rick Ross with the fiery “Freeway’s Revenge” to ignite his beef with the MMG boss on Friday (May 10). Premiered by DJ Akademiks, Game forces his way into the conversation while […]

Nate Smith is hunkered down in a Nashville studio working on his forthcoming second album — but the rising country-rocker can’t help but revisit his past. This is the same studio, he says, where he recordedhis independently released debut EP, 2020’s Reckless, which included his breakout hit, “Wildfire.” When the […]

05/10/2024 Seven songs from ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ made their live debut at Défense Arena. 05/10/2024 Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at La Defense on May 9, 2024 in Paris, France. Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift’s Thursday (May 9) performance […]

On Friday (May 10), producer-songwriter and TV/film composer Tommee Profitt released Covers, Vol. 2, a new 10-song collection of reworked hits featuring a variety of vocal collaborators. One of the highlights of the album is Skylar Grey’s gentle, stripped-down rendition of Linkin Park’s enduring smash “Numb,” which also received a […]

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BTS‘ RM is a big baby in the trippy video for his single “Come Back to Me.” The cinematic clip directed, produced and written by Beef creator Lee Sung Jin that dropped on Friday morning (May 10) features a scene where the singer plays an adult-sized infant, one of several […]