British actor Idris Elba and supermodel Jourdan Dunn are set to host the U.K.-based 2021 GRM Daily Rated Awards, the rap and grime outlet GRM Daily announced Thursday (Sept. 2).   Elba and Dunn are both first-time hosts for the event, and will be taking over from comedian Mo Gilligan and radio host Julie Adenuga, who have helmed the event for the […]

Sigrid scores her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart as “Mirror” shines atop the survey dated Sept. 4. The poppy original was remixed by Kelly Lee Owens, Paul Woolford and Zookëper, among others. The track is collecting core-dance airplay at multiple outlets, including leaders SiriusXM’s BPM, KMVQ-HD2 San Francisco and Music Choice’s

Nelly teamed up with several country artists — including Jimmie Allen, Kane Brown, Darius Rucker and Florida Georgia Line — as part of his country-inspired Heartland EP, which released Aug. 27 via RECORDS/Columbia. But the entertainer, known for hits including “Country Grammar,” “Hot in Herre,” “Over and Over” with Tim McGraw and his collaborations with

Shawn Mendes scores his seventh global chart hit with the debut of the Canadian singer-songwriter’s “Summer of Love,” featuring Puerto Rican producer Tainy. The wistful tune enters both the Sept. 4-dated Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. surveys at No. 35. Mendes is no stranger to collaboration. Two of his previous global hits

Lucy Dacus has an important message for her Texas-based concertgoers after the state’s new abortion law — the nation’s most restrictive — went into effect on Wednesday (Sept. 1). The singer-songwriter announced on Twitter Thursday (Sept. 2), “All the money I make at our upcoming shows in Texas will be going towards abortion funds jsyk,

Kanye West’s sprawling Donda album is chock full of confessions, pleas for mercy, acceptance and a lot of faith. But a deeper dive into Ye’s verses on the mid-tempo song “Hurricane” featuring The Weeknd and Lil Baby suggests that West may be begging for forgiveness from someone besides the Almighty. “Here I go actin’ too

Ed Sheeran is less than two months from releasing his upcoming album, =, and is hyping up the release of his next body of work by teasing the release of a brand new song. On Thursday (Sept. 2), the “Bad Habits” singer hopped on his social media pages to announce that his second single from = is

K-pop group ENHYPEN has to put a hold on all promotion and scheduled appearances after five of its members — Jungwon, Heeseung, Jay, Jake and Sunghoon — have tested positive for COVID-19, label Belift Lab confirmed in a statement to Billboard. According to Belift Lab, a member from one of the group’s production sites was COVID-19

One January afternoon while eating tacos, Ingratax and her team found the perfect beat for her first single: a slowed-down pop groove with an underlying sparse reggaetón drum beat. For the lyrics, her team suggested it should be about her meeting a guy at a party. “That’s so typical,” she tells Billboard via phone from

As the 2010s came to a close, no artist was as reliable for total chart domination as Drake. In 2018, his Scorpion laid waste to both the Billboard 200 albums chart — spending its first five weeks at No. 1, the longest run atop the chart that year — and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart,