“There are no words to express my excitement, because this is close to 14 years in the making,” proud dad Ludacris tells Billboard about the debut of his all-new children’s animated program, Karma’s World. The Netflix series, inspired by the rapper/actor’s eldest daughter Karma Bridge’s imagination when she was a child, officially premiered on Oct. 15. […]

Universal Music Group has partnered with Anderson .Paak, the Grammy Award-winning rapper-singer-songwriter-drummer-director-producer and one-half-of-Silk-Sonic-er, to form a new record label called APESHIT INC. The imprint, announced Tuesday via a humorous press conference video, will have a unique mandate in that it aims to focus on “raw talent” that can actually play their own instruments. “I

Evaluna Montaner earns her first top 10 success on a Billboard airplay chart as “Índigo,” her latest collaboration with husband Camilo, surges 21-10 on the Latin Pop Airplay chart dated Nov. 6 to become the 10th biggest song this week on the U.S. Latin pop-monitored stations. The song, which takes the name of the couple’s first

Despite previously sharing two costumes to social media, Normani revealed that she had one last Halloween look up her sleeve to round off the spooky season. On Monday (Nov. 1), the “Wild Side” singer took to Instagram and Twitter to post a video of her channeling Salma Hayek in the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn.

Nick Lachey has no plans to read his famous ex Jessica Simpson’s best-selling memoir, Open Book. Why? “I lived the book, you know what I mean? I know what the truth is, so I don’t need to read it or read someone’s version of it in a story that I know. I lived it. No,

Cardi B will host the 2021 American Music Awards, which are set to air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 21. A five-time AMA winner, Cardi has three nominations at this year’s show – favorite female hip-hop artist and two nods for “Up” as favorite music video and favorite hip-hop

Dustin Lynch’s “Thinking ‘Bout You,” featuring MacKenzie Porter, hits the top 10 of Billboard’s airplay-, sales- and streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart, climbing from No. 11 to No. 8 on the list dated Nov. 6. In the week ending Oct. 28, the song increased by 10% to 6 million U.S. streams, and sold 1,500 downloads,

We’ve been hearing about Jared Leto transforming into the vampy Spider-Man villain Dr. Michael Morbius for more than two years. On Tuesday (Nov. 2), after a pandemic pause, the Thirty Second to Mars frontman and Oscar-winning actor stormed back as the sickly scientist who transforms himself into a “pseudo-vampire” in the search for the elusive

The latest episode of the New York Times Presents documentary series will zoom in on Janet Jackson’s legendary “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The cloth rip heard ’round the world has been the subject of rampant speculation for more than 15 years and “Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson” — which

Good news first: Ed Sheeran is on track to return to Studio 8H. The singer who announced on Oct. 24 that he was in isolation due to a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, revealed early Tuesday morning (Nov. 2) that he’s out and ready to be about. “Posting this pic to say I’m released from covid isolation