“I think the dance floor is dead/So now we’re making rock music.” Goodbye Brat Summer, hello Rock Spring! Charli XCX has returned with the new single, “Rock Music.” Charli dropped the track hours aft

Eilish, a vegan since the age of 12, has been a long-time animal rights activist. Last week, during a video interview with Elle, the artist was asked, “What’s one hill you’d die on?” Sensing that she

Trending on Billboard Today, Barry Manilow releases “Another Life – 2026,” a new version of a 1992 album track. It’s the final preview from his forthcoming album What a Time, his first collection of

Trending on Billboard KUN is the first global brand spokesperson for Bio-E, the Australia-based specialist in wellness and nutrition products. With the Chinese pop star and producer on board, Bio-E

Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan caught up with producer Rick Rubin for a newly released episode of the ‘Tetragrammaton With Rick Rubin‘ podcast. While the chat didn’t really touch upon

When DJ Jeff Mills’ Live at The Liquid Room, recorded in Tokyo in 1995, got its major release in winter, on Axis LPs and Apple Music, it was as if techno’s ten commandments had dropped from the sky —

Adam Wexler is back where he started. Fifteen years after walking away from GoRankem, the fan-powered music discovery platform he built as a senior at the University of Georgia, the entrepreneur is on

More than five years after SOPHIE’s death sent shockwaves through the music world, a previously unreleased collaboration with Big Freedia is finally set to emerge from the vault. The pair’s long-rumor

The reactionary forces that have seized America continue to try to erase queer people from public life, but MUNA will be damned if it lets some bigots ruin its good time. And while many of us hit the

A new exhibition honoring Ian Curtis is set to bring the late Joy Division singer’s inner world into sharper focus this summer in New York. Opening June 25 at Voltz Clarke Gallery, Ian Curtis: Insight

No Doubt dipped into its back catalog for a host of rarities last night (May 6) during the first of 12 shows at Las Vegas’ Sphere, marking just the third proper live appearance by the Gwen Stefani-fro

Fresh off a headline-grabbing surprise duet with Noah Kahan in Nashville and the announcement that she’ll co-headline the D.C.-area All Things Go festival in September, Paramore’s Hayley Williams is t

Do you love experiencing live music but the popular music festivals in America are getting too big and becoming more about fashion than music? Well, there is a growing number of avid music fans who re

YNW Melly, born Jamell Demons, was denied bond again in his long-delayed double murder case. Judge Martin Fein ruled on Wednesday, May 6, that the rapper, who has spent more than seven years incarcera

Digital Album Streaming + Download Pre-order of Train on the Island. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plu

Trending on Billboard Number_i’s “3XL” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot Hot 100, on the list released May 6. The title track off the group’s third single, produced by member Sho Hirano, d

Trending on Billboard MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026, Japan’s biggest international music awards show, has unveiled its nominees across 63 categories ahead of the June 13 ceremony. MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN (MAJ)

Trending on Billboard Noah Kahan has always wanted to work with “Matt & Ben,” and now his dream has come true — sort of. In new promos for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live episode, musical guest K

Black vinyl Record/Vinyl + Digital Album Includes digital pre-order of Look For Your Mind!. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in

Lyrics Not around anymore There’s no need to hide here anymore There’s no need to try here anymore There’s no need to lie here anymore cause it’s all gone away I guess it’s called the times There’s no

Trending on Billboard Billie Eilish premiered her concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) on Wednesday night (May 6) at L.A.’s Fox Westwood Theater, hitting the red carpet with co-di

Spotify partnered with Peloton in a deal that will see guided workouts on the streaming platform. Spotify free and premium users will now have access to dozens of curated playlists, along with content

When you were young, you came to make it Sixteen of one, half dozen at most When you were spring, you knew you’d make it These are panic punches, but your arms have grown Split vision Where I’m sittin

Trending on Billboard A joint album was not in the 2026 bingo card for J Balvin and Ryan Castro—but here they are 10 tracks later, further cementing the bromance they often show on social media. Coi

Trending on Billboard Will Smith has won a court order throwing out the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by an electric violinist who performed on his Based on a True Story tour last year. A court

The Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party tour, the debut solo headlining run from Hayley Williams, returned the singer-songwriter to the small and intimate venues she grew familiar with during the early

A Mysterious Return to the Stage After three years of silence, Phoebe Bridgers is stepping back into the spotlight. The indie-folk icon will play her first solo show this Friday, May 8th, at The Lib

O n a brisk November day in 2024, a crowd gathers on Belmont Ave. in Chicago outside a two-story brick building, the only hint of its storied significance a red door bearing a lower-case “e” placard.

Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Centennial High School campus on Thursday in Compton, California. The artists, who returned to their alma mater, were joined b

Trending on Billboard YoungBoy Never Broke Again let fans know Thursday (May 7) that he’ll no longer be performing at this weekend’s Rolling Loud festival in Orlando, Florida. In a message posted to

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In 2023, Ariana Grande gathered her team at Republic Records to preview Eternal Sunshine, the album she created when the Hollywood strikes brought production on Wicked to an abrupt stop. She cried whi

Trending on Billboard The Arre Festival, which brings together major regional Mexican music stars, is returning this year to its original venue in Mexico City after being held in Monterrey in 2025.

Trending on Billboard Warner Music Group (WMG) reported on Thursday (May 7) that first-quarter revenue rose 17% compared to last year on double-digit percentage growth in recorded music and publishin

Among the many bits of shorthand that have traditionally served as the backbone of record reviews aiming to function more as “buyer’s guides” than thoughtful, long-form criticism is the RIYL—or Recomm

What does it mean to lean? Several R&B artists this year are giving a comfortably relaxed nod to a tradition that dates back decades: Soul singers stretching out placidly and invitingly on their album