When singer-songwriter Alma-Sofia Miettinen was 16, she placed fifth in a 2013 season of the Finnish show Idols. She returned to school afterward, putting her musical ambitions on hold. A year later, though, one of the show’s judges, rapper Sini Sabotage,…
"I Have This Friend" did not make it into the final cut of the musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda feels the tension in the air and he’s here to make your day a little brighter. With the U.S. going on an unprecedented…
“When I walked back through campus, all I saw were all my CDs I made thrown all over the ground,” says Derrick Milano. Fresh off a flight from Toronto, he sits comfortably on a couch at Billboard’s New York office,…
Lil Uzi Vert is going for the gusto. After gifting the world his sophomore attempt Eternal Atake last week, on Friday (Mar. 13), Uzi doubled back by releasing Eternal Atake: Deluxe: LUV Vs. The World 2 — a sequel to his 2016 mixtape opus. …
The stripped-down version was released on Friday (March 13). Sam Smith is gearing up to release their third album in the best way possible. After dropping an emotional lyric video for “To Die For” last month, Friday morning (March 13)…
It’s Friday the 13th and Ozuna has a lot to celebrate, beginning with his 28th birthday. He’s also in the midst of his Nibiru World Tour and happy to have recently reached 1 million followers on TikTok, where he shares…
Gabe Lee’s Honky Tonk Hell — including the track “Heartbreaker’s Smile,” premiering exclusively on Billboard below — is heaven for fans of the stylistic diversity that can be found under the country music umbrella. And the Nashville-based artist is happy…
“A Written Testimony” was a decade in the making. Just when the hip-hop community was ready to close the chapter on Jay Electronica’s rap career, the Roc Nation wordsmith hushed his naysayers on Friday (Mar. 13) when he finally unleashed…
He also performed “Black and White” on Thursday night’s (March 12) “Late Late Show.” The last night of Niall Horan week on The Late Late Show ended with both a bang and a whisper, as the “Nice to Meet Ya”…
The trek was slated to kick off on March 26 in El Paso, Texas. The highly anticipated Rage Against the Machine Public Service Announcement reunion tour has been postponed due to fears over the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The outing, which was…