The Naked and Famous stopped by Triple J’s studio to cover The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” for Like a Version, uploaded on Thursday (March 19). For their rendition, the indie pop act gave the spacey hit an alternative bent, injecting it with Thom…
The latest on the impact of COVID-19 on the music business. Welcome to the This Week in Billboard News podcast, where Jordyn Rolling, Billboard News host and producer, and Gary Trust, Billboard senior director of charts, dive into the week’s…
The Weeknd is back with After Hours, his first full-length album in four years. The 30-year-old’s highly anticipated fourth studio album dropped off a pair of singles, “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights,” before its full official release on Friday (March 20). …
Crown the Empire guitarist Brandon Hoover didn’t think much of the scratchy throat he got earlier in March when the band returned from a tour of Asia and South Africa, even though his timeline was beginning to fill up with…
Donald Glover has replaced his new music with a mysterious countdown clock on his official website. The rapper otherwise known as Childish Gambino had previously released an album of new music exclusively on the site on Sunday (March 14) before…
By now your family has probably played all the games on the shelf, watched half the shows in your Netflix queue and run out of things to do while on self-quarantine. That’s where Jennifer Lopez, fiancé Alex Rodriguez and their…
The wait is finally over, Thalia and Pabllo Vittar fans, as the two Latin divas have officially dropped the music video to their first-ever collaboration “Timida,” out Friday (March 20). The Mexican pop singer and Brazilian drag superstar first announced…
Sad Boy Season is officially here. For The Weeknd’s fourth album After Hours, the Canadian singer scrubs away his glitzy pop sensibilities from his Starboy era to bring back his smoky, gut-wrenching sound dating back to the early 2010s. For…
During the months of January and February, I paid loose attention to the news. I heard about a virus in China and assumed it was like the viral outbreaks we’ve seen in the past, like MERS, SARS, and Ebola. All…
Billboard’s First Stream 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. This week, The Weeknd wants…