“It’s beautiful, how I have nothing to lose,” Grace VanderWaal says. After winning America’s Got Talent as a precocious, ukulele-toting 12-year-old in 2016, VanderWaal was fast-tracked into a major-label pop career, which stalled following her 2017 debut, Just the Beginning. Eight years later, VanderWaal, now 21, has prepared a very different follow-up: Childstar, out April 4 […]

Memphis-bred rap star GloRilla knows a thing or two about staging a comeback. In 2022, she exploded into the mainstream with the Grammy Award-nominated, summer-dominating “F.N.F.” — and ­quickly followed it up with the Cardi B-assisted “Tomorrow 2,” which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became her first top 10 hit on the chart. But 2023

When Playboi Carti released his long-awaited third album, Music, in the early hours of March 14, it was met with a tidal wave of interest — its songs immediately flooded the daily Spotify and Apple Music streaming charts, and it immediately became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a day in 2025. And the album — his

FKA Twigs‘ “Childlike Things” technically took the longest of all the songs on her album Eusexua to complete, with the finishing touch ending up being North West‘s serendipitous feature on the track. Related Ye Releases New Song Apparently Featuring Diddy & Daughter North West 03/16/2025 In a video posted to Instagram Thursday (March 20), the British

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Shakira‘s series of concerts in Mexico as part of her international tour Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore) marked her highly anticipated return after a seven-year absence and earned the Colombian superstar several unprecedented records. The tour also set a historic precedent by boosting tourism and generating millions in economic revenue across

Before her 2024 world tour had wrapped up, Tate McRae already had thoughts on how to level up her next live outing. “It’s a lot of back and forth and a lot of just brain dumping,” she says of her scattered ideating process with her creative director, Parker Genoway. “I come with a whole bunch