Alicia Keys has been added to the lineup for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. She will perform her new single “LALA” with Swae Lee. Keys, a New York City native, will perform backed by “spectacular city views,” according to a statement from Keys’ camp. The show will be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn […]

Evvie McKinney banks her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart as “Just Like God” reaches the top of the Sept. 11-dated list in its 30th week on the chart. In the tracking week ending Sept. 5, the single increased by 12% in plays, according to MRC Data. The 24-year-old from Memphis co-wrote “Just

Daddy Yankee, Karol G and Nicky Jam are confirmed for Billboard’s 2021 Latin Music Week, returning to Miami in September with a weeklong event that unites the top Latin hitmakers, influencers and industry leaders, and features live performances and conversations with superstars. Presented by Samsung Galaxy, Latin Music Week will feature one-of-a-kind performances, panels, conversations and more

Mick Brigden, a protégé of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham who helped run the management side of Graham’s music empire for decades, died on Sunday (Sept. 5) following an accident at his home in Santa Rosa, California. He was 73. Over a career that spanned more than five decades, Brigden managed some of the most

Twenty years ago, hijacked planes crashed into New York’s  World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving 2,977 people murdered and nearly 6,000 more wounded in the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history. Americans reacted with a myriad of emotions — shock, horror,

When manager Walter Kolm met superstar client Maluma, the latter was a teen phenom in Colombia who drove fans into a frenzy. “I was Premios Nuestra Tierra in Bogotá, and when we walked into the place, all the girls were screaming and screaming. I asked, ‘Who are they screaming for?’” They screamed for the young

Twenty-eight percent of Gen Z music listeners use video games to discover new music, making it just as popular as television among that demographic in terms of music discovery, according to the just-released U.S. Music 360 report by MRC Data/Nielsen Music survey, which was conducted July 12 to July 27, 2021. (MRC Data/Nielsen Music is

Lindsey Buckingham is finally opening up about his contentious firing from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, revealing the behind-the-scenes drama that he claims led to his getting booted from the band. And in classic Mac fashion, his comments have elicited a fiery response from his former bandmate and one-time paramour, Stevie Nicks. Buckingham told Rolling Stone

SoundExchange, the rights management nonprofit designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute performance royalties for non-interactive digital music streams, has promoted Tim Dadson to general counsel, it was announced today. His elevation coincides with the resignation of SoundExchange’s chief legal officer, Colin Rushing, who will step down at the end of this year

Banda MS, Carlos Vives, Karol G, Marc Anthony, Nicky Jam, Jhay Cortez, and many more, are confirmed to perform at the 2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to take place Thursday, Sept. 23. Billboard and Telemundo announced today (Sept. 9) a second round of performers that also include Guadalupe Pineda, Joss Favela, Lucy Vives, Mau y