Month: July 2024

The story of Glass Animals’ 2020 slow-burning smash “Heat Waves” had a miraculous ending: The fourth single from the British band’s third album Dreamland landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2022, following a record-breaking 59-week rise on the charts.  Explore Explore See latest videos, charts […]

Some of Canadian music’s biggest breakthroughs of the last year are in contention for the prestigious $50,000 Polaris Music Prize, which recognizes the best Canadian album of the year. The ten albums cover a range of genres, from hip-hop to singer-songwriter to roots to dance music, with a majority of the albums […]

RCA Records has signed BERWYN in the U.S. as the Trinidad-born, London-raised rapper looks to plant his feet in America with his debut 12-track studio effort, WHO AM I. “[It’s] amazing to have the backing of a label like RCA, which has an incredible history of working with some of […]

Jelly Roll‘s “Save Me” is getting a second life on Eminem‘s new album The Death of Slim Shady, which dropped Friday (July 12) and features a surprise duet with the country star on its final track, an emotional open letter to the rapper’s children.  The song, titled “Somebody Save Me,” […]

There are things we know, such as the fact that Lorde is working on her fourth album. The New Zealand singer has been very slowly teasing the follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power for almost a year now, but until Thursday night (July 11) fans had not officially heard even a […]

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 […]

Welcome to a steamy edition of Executive Turntable, Billboard’s comprehensive(ish) compendium of promotions, hirings, exits and firings — and all things in between — across music. Check out this year’s Pride List of top LGBTQ+ executives in the industry. We also have a weekly interview series spotlighting a single executive and […]

“‘Flowers’ is one of those songs that has stood the test of time at multiple formats,” says Jon Zellner, iHeartMedia president, programming operations/digital music, of Miley Cyrus’ smash single. “It’s a mass-appeal song with a very strong hook and sounds like a song you already knew the first time you […]

With a simple, yet wildly effective couplet — “Just love me/ I wanna be with you, ayy” – Zacari and Kendrick Lamar crafted a generational love anthem. Aptly titled “Love,” the heart-melting duet served as the third and final single from Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DAMN. LP, peaking at No. 11 […]

On July 13, 2019, Blanco Brown’s “The Git Up” began a 12-week reign on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Brown’s debut entry, released as the first single from his album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, was sparked by a viral dance challenge on TikTok and YouTube. He helped spur the craze […]