The Backstreet Boys‘ 25th-anniversary celebrations for signature album Millennium are about to be larger than life, with the band announcing a revamped version of the LP along with three more Sphere residency dates Friday (Feb. 14).  Related Backstreet Boys Announce Summer 2025 Sphere Residency: ‘Into the Millennium’ 02/12/2025 As revealed Valentine’s Day morning by bandmates […]

After Billboard introduced streaming data into the Billboard Hot 100 in the 2000s, and the first streaming-based ranking, On-Demand Streaming Songs, started in 2012, the Jan. 26, 2013, issue announced the arrival of Streaming Songs, which has become Billboard’s all-encompassing streaming ranking of record since. Incorporating on-demand and programmed streaming totals (as compiled by data

This Valentine’s Day, show your love by sidling up to the latest Executive Turntable, Billboard’s weekly compendium of promotions, hirings, exits and firings — and all things in between — across the music business. There’s a full slate of personnel news this week, but first, peruse our second annual list of the most powerful people in

Sabrina Carpenter and Dolly Parton are a couple of smiling fugitives with a dark secret in the back of the truck in the charmingly felonious video for their collaboration on Sab’s 2024 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Please Please Please.” Related Sabrina Carpenter Drops Expanded ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Album Featuring Dolly Parton Collab & More… 02/14/2025

Look at your favorite album from the past year, and there’s a good chance that 10 to 30 different producers contributed to it. And yet in this “age of collaboration” that continues to produce culture-defining hits, we have a problem: How do we handle all these producer contracts? In the U.S. model, producer deals are

You know how it is when you’re lost in the riff, head banging so hard that you unleash a torrent of embarrassing white flakes. No, not that kind. That’s the dilemma facing Saturday Night Live cast mates Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman in a new CeraVe shampoo ad in which they portray the lead singers

Mariah Carey is hoping that the this time it’s for real. The singer celebrated her second nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday (Feb. 13), writing on Instagram that she was “so grateful” to be given a nod two years running; Carey has been eligible for induction into the HOF since