Live Nation is bringing back one of the oldest collectors items in live music — the ticket stub — as an NFT collectible. For decades tickets to concerts and events were printed on special thermal paper that were difficult to counterfeit  but easy for ticketing companies with specialized printers to print and distribute en masse. Fans […]

Happy Halloweekend! To celebrate the spooky season, check out some new tunes by your favorite LGBTQ artists. Billboard Pride is here to help with First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new music releases from LGBTQ artists. From Carlie Hanson’s stunning new single, to ElyOtto’s glitchy new track, check out just a few of our

Since several strong candidates for 2022 Grammy nominations for best country album are not on the official entry list, for various reasons, slots have opened up for other artists. The Recording Academy ruled that Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed is a better fit in best pop vocal album (where it is entered). Taylor Swift announced on July

Last week, WNSH-FM sent shockwaves through the country music community when the Audacy-owned station flipped from country to classic hip-hop, leaving New York City with no terrestrial country radio station. Country radio has been a tough sell in New York. Prior to WNSH’s arrival in 2013, it had been more than 10 years since WNYN

Fetty Wap was charged Friday (Oct. 29) with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region. The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested Thursday at Citi Field, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival is taking place. An indictment

Justin Bieber dethrones Drake on Billboard’s Top Triller U.S. chart with “Ghost,” which debuts atop the survey dated Oct. 30. The Top Triller U.S. and Top Triller Global charts highlight the biggest songs on Triller based on a formula blending the amount of views of videos containing a respective song, the level of engagement with those

ATEEZ’s record label KQ Entertainment released a statement Thursday to address illegal tracking devices found on the K-pop group’s business vehicles, a move that the company says has caused schedule derailment and mental anguish to the group’s eight members. “We would like to thank the fans who always cherish and support ATEEZ,” the statement begins. “Previously,

BTS’ “Butter” adds another achievement to its already-impressive chart run: The hit ranked atop Billboard’s newly launched 24-hour live Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, on Friday afternoon (Oct. 29). “Butter,” released via HYBE/BigHit Music/Columbia Records, spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at the summit on the chart dated

In a week when the songs charts were all dominated by the long-awaited return of Adele, the albums chart saw another artist flash some top-level success: Young Thug’s Punk debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, giving him his second No. 1 album of the year (and third ever) following the YSL

In the latest episode of her Facebook series Cardi Tries, rapper Cardi B faces her biggest fear just in time for Halloween. And, in case you were wondering, Cardi ain’t afraid of no ghosts. “Well, since we’re doing Halloween. Everybody talking about facing your fears. People think that facing your fears means ‘oh ghosts and haunted houses!’