Month: May 2024

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is a lover, not a street fighter. But during his legendary band’s headlining set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Thursday night (May 2) Jagger took time to voice his opinion on Louisiana’s newly elected Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, dinging the conservative […]

The first civil trial for Travis Scott, Live Nation and others over their role in the 2021 disaster at the Astroworld music festival — set to kick off next week — has now been delayed. After more than two years of litigation over a crowd crush that left 10 dead […]

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. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news BMG‘s longtime communicator extraordinaire Steve Redmond is stepping down after […]

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 […]

In case you missed it the first time around, Melissa McCarthy is not at all mad at Barbra Streisand for that Ozempic comment. Just a few days after a TMZ photographer asked McCarthy how she felt about Streisand suggesting the comedian might have taken the weight-loss drug — “I think […]

These days, a new Beyoncé album is generally a cause for celebration — fans pore over album covers, track listings, song lyrics and rollout plans, searching for hidden gems and rare treasures. For Cowboy Carter, her latest album released in March, one of those gems came in the form of […]

After a scorching round one display from Kendrick Lamar earlier this week with “Euphoria,” the pgLang stalwart is doubling down and taking a page out of Drake’s book by going “Back-to-Back” with his latest diss track, “6:16 in LA.”  Released early Friday morning (May 3), Lamar charges Drake with a […]

Xzibit seems to be teasing a return to the garage. The “What U See Is What U Get” rapper gave fans of his beloved MTV automotive makeover show Pimp My Ride some reason to get revved up when he posted an image on Instagram on Wednesday that suggested he’s rebooting […]

Here’s the thing: Drew Carey really, really enjoyed seeing Phish at Sphere in Las Vegas. Like, so much that he cannot, and will not, stop raving about the show that pried open his brain and spilled it out all over the Strip. But now he’s tripling down by suggesting that […]

Ed Sheeran is going to go away for a little bit. The “Galway Girl” singer told People magazine this week that he’s not planning on releasing any new music this year. That doesn’t mean he’s not going to hit the studio to record new songs, just that he isn’t planning […]