The Hamster can get back on his wheel, after he was unmasked and sent home from The Masked Singer. Wednesday night’s episode was a time travel trip, with contestants Skunk, Bull, Pepper, Hamster and the wildcard Jester dusting off some old school classics. Hamster look a leftfield turn, performing a number sung entirely in Spanish, […]

Who says sports can’t be “Fancy”? Iggy Azalea performed during the halftime show at Wednesday’s (Oct. 20) New York Knicks home opener against the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden, backed up by the Knicks City Dancers. In addition to her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Fancy” — which featured Charli XCX and topped

Chris Stapleton has postponed a handful of live dates, on doctor’s orders. The country music star has been ordered to rest his voice, which means he’ll skip dates Thursday (Oct. 21) at the Riverbend in Cincinnati, and his sold-out shows Friday (Oct. 22) and Saturday (Oct. 23) at Nashville’s Bridgestone. Stapleton had some quiet time

Triller and veteran music executive Steve Rifkind’s Spring Sound label are partnering on a new artist discovery platform called Spring Singles. The partnership was announced Wednesday (Oct. 20) during a keynote conversation between Rifkind and rapper-producer David Banner at Triller’s inaugural monthly Assembly for Black Creators virtual conference. Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, and every two weeks through

Billboard Japan and TikTok teamed up once again to present Next Fire, the hybrid program focusing on today’s hottest J-pop artists. Atarayo was featured as the monthly pickup act for October, and the three-man, one-woman band performed a compact set showcasing its emotional pop-rock numbers for the 33,699 viewers who tuned in to the livestream

Don Toliver collects his highest-charting effort on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Life of a Don debuts at No. 2 on the list dated Oct. 23. The set begins with 68,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 14 in the U.S., according to MRC Data. Of the album’s first-week total, just

While fans already saw the rose-filled photos of Travis Barker proposing to Kourtney Kardashian on the beach over the weekend, now the couple is sharing a more intimate look at their engagement. The blink-182 drummer posted three new photos on Instagram captioned “My fiancé,” along with rose and black-heart emojis. The first pic is a

Pulse Music Group has signed songwriting and production duo FNZ to an exclusive global publishing deal that encompasses their catalog and future works, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 20). Comprised of Michael “Finatik” Mule and Isaac “Zac” De Boni, FNZ produced The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s multi-platinum single “Stay,” which has topped the Billboard

Rapper Nardo Wick’s “Who Want Smoke??” benefits from one of the year’s most impactful remixes as the track, now with credited features from G Herbo, Lil Durk and 21 Savage, debuts at No. 6 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Oct. 23) thanks to a massive influx of streams. With the arrival, Nardo Wick

The new owners of the long-mythologized Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy album that sold to Martin Shkreli in 2015, have finally been revealed, Rolling Stone reports. The one-of-a-kind physical album was purchased in July for $4 million by a decentralized autonomous organization called PleasrDAO, a 74-member group of crypto-heads, best known for acquiring high-profile digital goods,