In a new series amid the coronavirus pandemic, Billboard is asking individuals from all sectors of the music business to share stories of how they work now, with much of the world quarantined at home and unable to take in-person meetings, attend…
Encompassing menial tasks from fetching coffee to setting up equipment to cleaning up after talent, the job of a production assistant is sometimes thankless and often grueling. While this plebe lifestyle is far outside the reality of superstars Diplo and…
Cauty has signed a deal with Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Billboard can exclusively reveal today (Aug. 6). Under the signing, the record company will bring Cauty’s breed of new music to the masses, including the forthcoming “Mera Ma” featuring Alexis…
On Wednesday (Aug. 5) night, DJ Cassidy and a slew of legends roared back into action with a new edition of his perfect-for-quarantine series Pass the Mic. Pass the Mic: Volume Two – Golden Era of Hip-Hop boasted some major…
ViacomCBS on Thursday reported lower but better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and a 27 percent drop in advertising revenue for the first full three-month period affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The company’s film unit profit rose compared with the year-ago period…
Detail, the Grammy-winning music producer who worked on records for Beyonce, Drake, Lil Wayne and many more, was arrested Wednesday (Aug. 5) in Los Angeles on multiple sexual assault charges. The producer (real name Noel Fisher) is facing 15 sexual…
The Fort Worth honky tonk establishment will kick off a series of Friday and Saturday evening concerts with The Bellamy Brothers on Aug. 14 and Flatland Cavalry on Aug. 15. Fort Worth bar and venue Billy Bob’s Texas will reopen for…
Iglesias extends his No. 1 record with 31 leaders. Anuel AA’s “Fútbol & Rumba” arrives atop the Latin Airplay chart with a 4-1 hike on the Aug. 8-dated survey. The song, which features Enrique Iglesias and was produced by Ovy…
Etheridge repeats at No. 1 for the fourth consecutive week on the Rising Livestream Artists ranking. The Bandsintown x Billboard Livestream charts are only five weeks old but have already experienced a high turnover rate. Both the Top Livestream Artists…
While music videos are still an essential part of music in the industry, it is rare to come across one that complements a track so well as Big Steilo’s “Critical,” which might explain why it is already counting over 200K…