Britney Spears’ two sons she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline — Sean Preston Federline, 16, and Jayden James Federline, 15 — are all grown up. The teenagers, who rarely appear on social media, were spotted in an Instagram post on Wednesday posing alongside Eddie Morales, CEO of Movision Entertainment and a friend of Federline’s. Morales’ photo set […]

This is branded content created in partnership with Sound Mind. Grace Gaustad remembers the teasing starting like it did for most kids: In middle school. There would be comments about weight or looks, the sort of casual cruelty that teens start to deploy as a way to insulate themselves from insecurity and create a savage

Chris Brown won’t be charged for allegedly hitting a woman in his Los Angeles home back in June. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office confirmed to Billboard that it “declined to file charges due to insufficient evidence.” An LAPD spokesperson told Billboard that on the night of June 18, police officers responded to a report of a domestic argument in

Drake successfully laps all competitors in the No. 1 race on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart as “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, becomes his 40th leader on the list, twice as many as any other act. “Sexy” rises two spots from No. 3 to rule the chart dated Oct. 9. The single advances

“This is the oldest trick in the white supremacist, patriarchal, homophobic, everything phobic playbook — to divide and conquer,” said Allison Russell at Oct. 5’s “Once & Future Sounds: Black Women’s Voices in Music” panel. The panel, hosted by BMI Nashville executive director/creative and Nashville Music Equality president Shannon Sanders and MNRK Music senior vice

Tainy makes history as the first person to spend 100 weeks at No. 1 on any of Billboard’s producers charts. The multi-hyphenate artist (real name: Marco Masis) spends a record-extending 100th week at No. 1 on the Latin Producers survey (dated Oct. 9), thanks to his production on seven tracks on the latest Hot Latin

Kanye West is expanding his empire to include private education. The “Hurricane” rapper is planning to open a school in California called the Donda Academy. The academy is named after West’s tenth studio album of the same name, Donda, though it also honors his late mother, Dr. Donda West, former professor and English department chair at Chicago

In December 2019, singer/songwriter/producer James Blake tested out a new, unreleased song for fans during his Piano Only tour. It was, as the name implies, just him and his piano , and for once, Blake was totally unarmed onstage. Though he has always performed with as little extra personnel as possible — often only accompanied

On her Revived, Remixed, Revisited box set, out Friday (Oct. 8), Reba McEntire reimagines some of her most popular songs in new ways. On Revived, the country superstar takes 10 classics and re-records them with new arrangements, reflecting how they have changed in her live show over the decades. For Remixed, 10 of her hits

Kacey Musgraves is giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at her appearance on Saturday Night Live last weekend, posting a series of black and white photos — including some actual shots of her naked during her performance of “Justified” — to her Twitter and Instagram pages on Wednesday (Oct. 6). Musgraves wanted to make her appearance