John Legend joined Ebro Darden on Apple Music on Thursday (July 2) to chat about his new album, Bigger Love, his musical legacy, the power of protesting and just how good all those recent Verzuz battles have…
Would you pay $150 for a ticket to see a virtual Monsta X concert if it included a 20-second digital meet and greet with the band? Plenty of the Monbebes (the nickname for the K-pop group’s fans) would gladly…
Japanese star Haruma Miura is set to drop his second single, “Night Diver,” on Aug. 26. The award-winning actor — who has starred in numerous movies, TV dramas and theater productions since he entered showbiz as a…
J-pop boy band empire Johnny’s continues to dominate the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for the third week, with the latest No. 1 going to Johnny’s WEST’s “Shouko” (“Evidence”), the title track on the septet’s 14th single. The…
Vanilla Ice cooled off plans for a concert in Texas after taking considerable heat for an event that sought to gather hundreds of fans in one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots. The 1990s rapper with the…
Against all odds, Marc Rebillet mounted a national concert tour in June 2020. Performing at drive-in venues from Maryland to Colorado and Texas to Ohio, the Dallas-based dance music star did some of the strongest business of…
6ix9ine’s steady release of new music continues. The 24-year-old New York rapper took to Instagram on Thursday (July 2) to announce that his new song “Yaya” and its accompanying music video will drop Friday at 11:30 a.m.…
"I think people have been longing for simpler times and a nostalgic escape," says one radio programmer. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” again beams at maximum wattage on Billboard‘s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, making a return to…
Some 1,500 artists backing #LetTheMusicPlay warn of ‘mass insolvencies’ from ongoing concert lockdowns due to COVID-19. Some of the U.K.’s biggest music stars are pleading with their government to come to the aid of the £4.5 billion…
Tom Morello has unveiled his new song “Stand Up,” a high-octane collaboration with Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons and The Bloody Beetroots. On the urgent, hard-rocking track, which dropped Thursday (July 2), the collective artists…
Amanda Kloots shared an update on her Broadway actor husband Nick Cordero’s health on Thursday’s (July 2) CBS This Morning. After witnessing her husband — best known for his roles in shows like Waitress, A Bronx Tale…
DaBaby collects his second No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Songs airplay chart — and first with lead billing — as “Rockstar” ascends from the runner-up rank on the list dated July 4. The single, which features Roddy…
Kelly Clarkson has revisited her heart-wrenching cover of Hamilton‘s “It’s Quiet Uptown” ahead of the Broadway hit’s streaming debut on Disney+. During an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (July 2), the 38-year-old singer welcomed…
On what would have Jenni Rivera’s 51st birthday, Billboard honors La Diva de la Banda by remembering her five top hits on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart. With more than 30 entries on the tally, fourteen of…
There were some truly catchy tunes during the summers of the 1990s. And the ones topping Billboard‘s Songs of the Summer chart that decade featured several declarations of love, to topics such as … ahem … women’s…