R&B icons Earth, Wind and Fire reach the top 10 of Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart for the first time in 28 years as their new single “You Want My Love,” featuring rising R&B talent Lucky Daye, improves 12-9 on the chart dated Sept. 18. The song ascends through a 47% boost in plays in […]

Lyric and annotation hub Genius has been acquired by the tech holding company MediaLab for $80 million, Bloomberg reports. The deal is nearly equal to the $77.7 million in funding Genius has raised in to date, according to Crunchbase. Launched in 2009 as Rap Genius, the Brooklyn-based company quickly rose to prominence as it became

Jorja Smith won female artist of the year at the 2021 GRM Rated Awards, which celebrates the best talent in the U.K.’s hip-hop and grime music scene. Smith received a Grammy nomination for best new artist three years ago. British rapper Tion Wayne, who reached No. 11 on the Billboard Global 200 in May, took home

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Steve Aoki and Travis Barker have been close friends for years, and now, the two are teaming up to bring other people closer together too, through a new interactive partnership with Messenger. Launched this

If time travel were a thing (and who’s to say it isn’t, really?), how I would love to take a LILHUDDY video back to say, May of 2002, to the Total Request Live studio overlooking Times Square, where I spent many an afternoon. The songs on the young rock tyro’s debut album Teenage Heartbreak (out Friday)

Shawn Mendes has been a fan of Billie Eilish’s for quite some time now, and he used his BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge performance to show his fellow pop star some love. On Tuesday, Mendes put his stamp on “Happier Than Ever,” the title track from Eilish’s most recent album, in the Live Lounge and

Freddie Combs — a minister and season 2 contestant on The X Factor USA — died last week, according to a Cocoa, Fla., funeral home. He was 49 at the time of his death on Sept. 10. The minister made his debut on the show in 2012 while judges Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and L.A.

Billboard worked in partnership with Logitech for Creators to bring the Song Breaker chart and associated features like this story to life. TikTok creator Usim E. Mang (@usimmango) keeps his spot at the top of the Billboard Song Breaker Chart thanks to his massively viral trend using Stromae’s track “Alors en Danse.” The Song Breaker

After expanding its roster beyond artists to include 19 producers and one songwriter in late 2018, management company The Revels Group is quickly on its way to becoming an industry one-stop shop. Most recently, The Revels Group clients have worked on the two most highly anticipated hip-hop albums of 2021: Kanye West’s Donda and Drake’s

Post Malone’s Posty Fest is officially back after being postponed last year due to the pandemic, with the lineup for the third annual installment of the festival being announced. On Thursday (Sept. 16), Malone shared imagery for the Posty Fest 2021 lineup to his Instagram and Facebook accounts, and revealed that it will feature some