In September 1991, Mariah Carey’s sophomore effort, Emotions, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. It was a respectable achievement by most standards — except, of course, the one the rising superstar set with her self-titled debut, which spent 11 consecutive weeks at the top of the chart just a few months earlier. The […]

Despite being a major name in Latin music today, the artist born Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz never envisioned a career in music. Instead, he dedicated much of his early life to soccer, even landing a sports scholarship to the University of Puerto Rico and later playing for the national team in his native Puerto Rico.

Halsey has helped curate a first-of-its-kind treasure hunt in the metaverse in partnership with Verizon and FriendsWithYou. Starting Saturday, the Grammy-nominated singer will launch the H1DD3N immersive installation, an ever-growing augmented-reality-powered treasure hunt that will admit fans who use their smartphones to scan QR codes on nearby signs in select Verizon 5G public spaces across New York

Ed Sheeran announced the dates for his upcoming 2022 UK stadium tour, which will include shows in Belfast, Manchester, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen and Belfast, among other cities. The outing, dubbed “+ – = ÷ x” in reference to the singer’s mathematically inclined album titles, is slated to kick off on April 28 in Cork, Ireland

The Metropolitan Opera will present its second work by a Black composer, Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, just two years after its first. The company said Thursday (Sept. 16) that X will open on Nov. 3, 2023, in a staging by Robert O’Hara that will be conducted by Kazem Abdullah. Baritone Will Liverman will

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, Lil Nas X drops his long-awaited first opus, Kehlani returns with a moving new single, and Jonas Brothers

Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its entertainment & media practice with the addition of music and content attorney Charles J. “Jeff” Biederman as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. He was previously at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. According to a release, Biederman has worked on music catalog deals valued at more than $1 billion,

The Recording Academy announced Friday (Sept. 17) that Ruby Marchand has been appointed chief awards & industry officer and Joanna Chu has ben elevated to vice president of awards, effective immediately. The promotions follow the recent departure of Bill Freimuth, the Academy’s chief awards officer. Previously, Marchand, who joined the Academy staff in 2020, was

Lil Nas X celebrated the long-awaited release of his debut album Montero on Friday (Sept. 17) by dropping the steamy, drama-filled video for the rocking single “That’s What I Want.” In the Stillz-directed clip, Lil Nas burns into th atmosphere in a fiery crash as fans at a high school football game — who, of

Jeep has long used music to help sell its iconic SUVs, and now the car manufacturer is making the leap to crafting its own line of guitars. The Detroit-based brand has partnered with Wallace Detroit Guitars to launch a custom guitar featuring the Jeep Army Star graphic. To help kick off the marketing campaign on