Benson Boone, the 19-year-old singer-songwriter who has earned a sizable TikTok following and the attention of Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, has signed a label deal with Reynolds’ Night Street Records label in a partnership with Warner Records, Billboard can exclusively announce. Today, Boone has released “Ghost Town,” a soaring ballad that kicks off the […]

First Country is a compilation of the best new country songs, videos & albums that dropped this week. This week’s First Country column sees Miranda Lambert’s latest solo release, Walker Hayes issuing the followup to his smash hit “Fancy Like,” and Darius Rucker teaming with blues vocalist/guitarist Keb’ Mo’. Miranda Lambert, “If I Was a

Newcomer Elvie Shane has a top five hit on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with his debut single, “My Boy,” which centers on Shane’s experiences becoming a stepfather. The tender track, with the gut-punch lyric, “He’s my son and that’s my choice/ He ain’t my blood but he’s my boy,” has become one of the most

Ted Lasso snags the top three spots on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for September 2021, paced by Martin Solveig & Dragonette’s “Hello.” Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming

PinkPantheress is hiding in plain sight — which is to say, on the internet. The 20-year-old singer-songwriter-producer originally from Bath, England spent this year masking her face, much like the rest of us during quarantine, behind blocks of text on her TikTok, where she has accumulated more than one million followers. “Day 11 of posting

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, Adele doesn’t take it easy on our heartstrings, Young Thug continues to shape-shift, Coldplay reaches outward and PinkPantheress

Ahead of their marquee Big Daddy Kane vs. KRS-One match-up this Sunday night (Oct. 17) at the Barclays Center, Triller announces a limited commemorative NFT bundle of the ten best all-time Verzuz battle moments, Billboard exclusively reports. “What Swizz and [Timbaland] have built with Verzuz is an entirely new form of entertainment, one that continues to grow and

Pop Evil nabs its seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart with “Survivor,” which crowns the tally dated Oct. 16. “Survivor” marks Pop Evil’s second No. 1 in a row, following one-week ruler “Breathe Again” in May. The band first led with “Trenches” in 2013. “Survivor” is the third single from the group’s

As Adele returns with “Easy on Me,” the first single from the British singer-songwriter’s album 30, expected Nov. 19, Billboard takes a look at her biggest songs on the Billboard Hot 100. The powerhouse singer and songwriter first entered the Hot 100 in November 2008 with “Chasing Pavements,” the lead single from her debut album, 19.

Jamie Foxx is using his celebrity connections to set his daughter’s suitors straight. During his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (Oct. 14), Foxx revealed that he once enlisted Snoop Dogg to scare his daughter’s boyfriend into treating her respectfully while discussing his new book, Act Like You Got Some Sense.