On July 30, a band took the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the first time in more than 16 months. The crowd of 12,500 roared with joy as the charismatic frontman of the group they had come to see grabbed beers from fans at the front of the stage, then chased them with tequila shots from his own bottle onstage. You might have thought you’d left […]

In the past few years, as the explosion of reggaetón has helped sweep Latin music from the fringes of pop culture firmly into the music mainstream, a bubbling undercurrent of emerging genres, cross-collaborative styles and new spins on traditional music has risen to the surface. And now, for the first time, some of those genres are beginning to break

Netflix just dropped the first full trailer for its buzzed-about Britney Spears documentary from Erin Lee Carr, titled Britney vs Spears. The project, which had been the subject of rumors for several months, was finally confirmed Tuesday when Netflix debuted an 18-second teaser on Twitter with an alert that a full trailer would debut on

The audience might’ve been treated to a healthy downpour before Rauw Alejandro took the stage at Miami’s open-air venue Oasis on Tuesday (Sept. 21), but that hardly dampened spirits for the Puerto Rican artist’s knockout performance during Billboard Latin Music Week 2021. Following the first full day of panels at 2021 Latin Music Week, a

We’ve seen blind auditions, giant cattle call tryouts, performers in elaborate masks and pretty much every other permutation of the reality singing competition. But you’ve definitely never seen anything like Fox’s out-of-this-world Alter Ego. The series, which premieres tonight (Sept. 22) on Fox at 9 p.m. — just after The Masked Singer — finds people

When it comes to choosing songs for Imagine Dragons albums, frontman Dan Reynolds said on Tuesday’s (Sept. 21) Kelly Clarkson Show that it’s a family affair. “You’ve got four kids at home — that’s a lot of kiddos, so do they enjoy Dad making music?” Clarkson asked Reynolds. “Do they think you’re cool still?” “I think

Rising L.A. R&B/hip-hop artist Blxst has re-signed with Red Bull Records in an exclusive worldwide partnership, Billboard can announce. Blxst (born Matthew Burdette) founded his own record label Evgle in 2018 and entered into a partnership with Red Bull Records two years later for the release of his debut EP No Love Lost on Sept. 4, 2020, peaking

Lil Nas X’s Montero has been out for less than a week, but fans have questions about it, so the rapper took Twitter on Tuesday (Sept. 21) to dish. In the revealing Q&A session, Lil Nas shared that he initially hoped for several more collaborations to be on the album — including Lady Gaga and Nicki

Latin urban acts have commanded the course of the Latin charts for quite a while. 2017 and 2018, particularly, burst at the seams with an increasing amount of collaborations by urban heavy hitters with pop, bachata, and even tropical acts, magnifying their mainstream presence and changing the game of the format. The surge doesn’t seem to

How did Peter Shapiro settle on Philadelphia as the home of the next Brooklyn Bowl? “Just do the math,” the New York native and jam scene legend behind the Brooklyn Bowl, Relix Magazine and LOCKN’ Festival tells Billboard. “You got the Bowl in Brooklyn killing it and then we add in a new bowl in