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, Lil Wayne drives…
Last year, Daddy Yankee scored another smash with “Con Calma,” one of the first in a recent wave of Latin tracks that sample throwback radio hits. The reggaetón icon recruited Snow, the original singer of the 1992 song “Informer,” for…
Plus, the latest on Justin Bieber, BTS, Lady Gaga & more on This Week in Billboard News Podcast. Welcome to the This Week in Billboard News podcast, where Gary Trust, Billboard senior director of charts, and Danica Daniel, Billboard senior…
The Gorillaz kicked off their new Song Machine project on Thursday (Jan. 30) with a molten hot track featuring British rapper Slowthai and British punk duo Slaves entitled "Momentary Bliss." The tune from the Damon Albarn-led animated band dropped in the form…
Only the young can save us. Taylor Swift pulls exactly zero punches on the new urgent, clear-eyed song "Only The Young," from her just-released Netflix documentary, Miss Americana. The song, out today (Jan. 31) along with the doc, was written…
Harry Styles kicked off Super Bowl weekend on Thursday night (Jan. 30) by making a surprise appearance during Lizzo's set at the SiriusXM and Pandora Super Bowl Opening Drive Super Concert Series in Miami. Joining the Lizzo on stage, Styles and…
When Los Tigres Del Norte first heard the song "Un Consentido de Dios," a song written by Roberto Fausto for Vicente Fernández that was sent to the group last year, they knew that they not only had to record it,…
In November 2016, Billboard published an update on what each member of One Direction was up to nearly a year after beginning their hiatus. Now, the guys are four years removed from the band — and needless to say, quite…
Are you ready for 2020 Latin concerts season? This year, Marc Anthony is back with his Opus tour, which kicked off on Jan. 25 and will wrap up on March 22. Bachata band, Aventura, has reunited for a special run that will begin in…
He may be 55 years older than Lil Nas, but Sam’s got some moves. You knew Lil Nas X was going to show up in a Super Bowl LIV commerical somehow. After the Grammy-winning rapper's signature tune "Old Town Road"…