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, Taylor Swift revisits a magnum opus, Silk Sonic unfurl an evening’s worth of grooves, and Beyoncé touches back […]

On Thursday night (Nov. 11), Harlem was in for a treat as Alicia Keys graced the stage at the legendary Apollo Theater for a one-night-only concert. As part of SiriusXM and Pandora’s Small Stage Series, the 15-time Grammy Award winner delivered a dazzling exhibition, taking fans on a trip through her robust catalog.  At 8:45

Following his entertainer of the year win at Wednesday’s (Nov. 10) CMA Awards, Luke Combs has announced several stadium shows for next year, including performances at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High on May 21, Seattle’s Lumen Field on June 4 and Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 30. Joining Combs for these shows will be Zach

Warner Chappell Music has extended its worldwide co-publishing deal with Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter Carter Lang through a joint venture with Electric Feel Entertainment. The deal covers both the hitmaker’s existing catalog and future works made under the deal’s term. Best known for producing hits like “Sunflower,” Swae Lee and Post Malone’s anthemic 11x-platinum single,

Late rapper Juice WRLD talks about overcoming mental health struggles on the emotional “Already Dead” single from the upcoming posthumous Fighting Demons album. “You are not your struggles. Addiction, anxiety, depression do not define you,” reads the title card on a 43-second preview of the song posted on Thursday (Nov. 11). “I never really had nothing

Lil Nas X is up to his tricks again. In a promo video for what purports to be an upcoming appearance on the “who’s your daddy?” syndicated daytime series Maury, the rapper takes the stage to confront the “love of his life” only to find out a shocking truth about the man he thought was

Britney Spears’ independence day may finally have arrived. At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (Nov. 12), a judge will decide whether to terminate the conservatorship that has exercised vast control over the pop superstar’s life and money for nearly 14 years. With no significant opposition from anyone involved, it appears likely Judge

How quickly a year goes by. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” leads a rush of Halloween songs on the Nov. 13-dated Billboard Global 200 at No. 28, just as the holiday music season begins to jingle with the re-entry of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” at No. 105. The tracking week for this

Everything’s coming up red. In addition to Taylor Swift dropping the highly anticipated Taylor’s Version of her beloved Red album on Friday (Nov. 12) coffee emporium Starbucks announced an official deal with the singer on a red-themed holiday treat. After teasing a possible mochallaboraion earlier this week, Starbucks made it official with a number of

In the promo for this week’s Saturday Night Live, Taylor Swift promises to sing a song, if Aidy Bryant and Bowen Yang leave her enough time after performing their unreleased material. You see, Swift is appearing on the show just one day after the eagerly anticipated release of her Red (Taylor’s Version), a re-recording of