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, Niall Horan sends…
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,…
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)…
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…
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”…
Love always prevails. Antonio Brown has had a tumultuous year but that hasn’t stopped him from living his life and trying to make things right. Things got particularly bad for Brown when he was kicked off the Oakland Raiders. He…
Welcome to Emerging Artists Spotlight, the Billboard series where we highlight a musician or band who has recently made their debut on the Emerging Artists chart. Whether they are new to the industry, or have been around for a while but are just starting…
The latest Foot Locker x Adidas partnership comes to life through Boost World, featuring colorful UltraBoosts and NMDs. and Foot Locker have teamed up to release a colorful collection of UltraBoosts and NMDs through “Boost World,” the home of energy at Foot Locker.…