Jack Harlow has been on an epic run over the past year, a sprint that peaked this week with his first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to a feature on Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby.” In a new interview with British GQ, the Louisville, Kentucky rapper talks about the huge influence another […]

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama lead fairly different lives — Springsteen’s a rock legend and Billboard Hot 100 hitmaker; Obama served as the 44th president of the United States — but the pair has one core thing in common: They’ve both spent their lives pondering what it means to be an American. On Friday (Oct. 22), CBS

Any fantasies of rock-star glamour are efficiently dispelled the moment Jim James materializes on a computer screen. Hopping on Zoom from a neutral-looking North Carolina hotel room — gray wallpaper; functional, forgettable furniture — James, an actual rock star, patiently answers questions while oscillating between the room’s desk and a stuffed chair. Mellow and thoughtful,

This story is part of Billboard’s third annual package spotlighting the trends defining the independent music business. Long before Secretly Group formed in 2013, two of its initial label divisions, Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, were just getting off the ground in the Midwest in the mid-1990s. Neither Darius Van Arman, co-founder of Secretly Group and founder

The members of rap provocateurs 2 Live Crew are facing a courtroom fight from a small record label over efforts to win back control of their catalog, in the latest music industry battle over copyright law’s so-called termination right. In a complaint filed Thursday, Lil Joe Records Inc. asked a Florida federal court to rule

This story is part of Billboard’s third annual package spotlighting the trends defining the independent music business. New Orleans-bred punk-rap duo $uicideboy$ has never charted on the Billboard Hot 100 or any airplay tally, but it has turned its SoundCloud-era success into an underground empire — and collected 5.3 billion streams along the way, according to MRC Data. Known

This story is part of Billboard’s 2022 Grammy Preview issue, highlighting the artists, issues and trends that will define awards season. Read our cover story on Halsey, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross here. Changes at the Recording Academy — and in the way music’s coolest names make their art — mean these down-ballot categories could be just

Doja Cat celebrated her 26th birthday on Thursday (Oct. 21), and it was a star-studded affair. The “Need to Know” rapper invited several of her celebrity and musician friends to the event — which had an underwater theme — to party with her as she rung in another year of her life. The 26-year-old arrived

This story is part of Billboard’s 2022 Grammy Preview issue, highlighting the artists, issues and trends that will define awards season. Read our cover story on Halsey, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross here.  In May, the Recording Academy announced the end of a short-lived but controversial eligibility provision: The “33% rule,” which was enacted in 2017 and

As co-owner of Seattle’s popular independent venue Neumos in Capitol Hill, Steven Severin has been a staple in the Seattle music industry for more than 20 years. Roughly 10 years ago, he helped create the Seattle Nightlife and Music Association to bring together the area’s live event insiders, and for the past 16 years has helped run