On the new episode of Billboard’s 12 Hours With… presented by Facebook Watch, Prince Royce shares his journey to the Billboard Latin Music Awards, where he performed “Lao a Lao” for the first time. From picking his outfits to the moment he steps off the stage, his Dominican and New York roots shine through. “My best moments […]

Meek Mill bags his sixth top five album on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Expensive Pain debuts at No. 2 on the list dated Oct. 16. The set begins with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 7, according to MRC Data. As Pain brings the Philadelphia rapper’s top-five collection to

Dr. Martens has announced a new project, Dr. Martens Presents: Music & Film Series, which aims to dive into the local music communities of Los Angeles and New York by highlighting artists, musicians and super fans in the spaces they’ve helped create. The six-part short documentary-style series will be told through six different young filmmakers: Chelsea

Dolby Laboratories and MGM Resorts International are opening Dolby Live at Park MGM on the Las Vegas Strip. The former Park Theater is now a Dolby Atmos-supported performance venue for live music. The two companies partnered in the project and over the past months equipped Dolby Live, which now features an integrated Dolby Atmos playback system, which was

Coldplay announced the dates for an expansive 2022 world tour in support of the group’s upcoming Max Martin-produced album, Music of the Spheres on Thursday morning (Oct. 14). The stadium outing is slated to kick off on March 18 with the band’s first-ever show in Costa Rica, at the Estadio Nacional, before moving on to the

With Hispanic Heritage Month in full swing, Billboard highlights all of the songs that have hit No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart in 2021 (so far). From Puerto Rico to Colombia, four songs have topped the 50-title chart to date this year, compared to the six titles in 2020 around the same time.

Fox’s plans in the digital collectibles space are beginning to get a little clearer.The broadcast network will launch its first set of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Wednesday (Oct. 13), tied to its celebrity singing competition The Masked Singer. The company will also launch a marketplace and community in which users can buy, sell, or trade Masked Singer NFTs,

World-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has signed an exclusive, expanded global recording agreement with Universal Music Group spanning multiple albums, it was announced today. The deal marks Bocelli’s first direct signing with UMG following a long collaboration with the company, which has distributed his music on the UMG-owned Decca Records for over 25 years. Under

Neil Young is preparing to let the Crazy Horse out of the barn. The rock icon and his long-running power trio announced on Wednesday (Oct. 13) that their follow-up to 2019’s Colorado, named Barn, will drop on Dec. 10. In a statement posted on the Neil Young Archives site, the singer/guitarist wrote, “Barn is very

Audio Up, the podcast production studio founded by Jared Gutstadt, has raised a $12 million Series B funding round from a list of investors that includes The Weeknd and his manager and XO label head Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, music manager Larry Rudolph, eOne CEO Darren Throop and Reservoir Media, Billboard can exclusively announce. The funding