Justin Bieber is set to take the stage for a performance at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards airing live on Sunday, Sept. 12, the network announced Wednesday (Sept. 1).   The “Peaches” singer is the newest addition to a growing lineup of big acts, which includes Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Shawn Mendes, Kacey Musgraves, Machine Gun Kelly, Chlöe, Twenty One Pilots, Lil Nas X, Camila Cabello, Foo […]

Virtual entertainment company Wave has turned artists like The Weeknd and John Legend into avatars to perform virtual concerts. Next, the company is working with a band whose members are avatars to begin with. That would be Pentakill, the chart-topping virtual heavy metal band created by games publisher Riot Games for its flagship title League of

Without getting super specific, DaBaby appeared to address the ongoing fallout from his homophobic remarks about HIV/AIDS at the Rolling Loud Miami festival in July on a new rapid-fire freestyle over WizKid and Tems’ summer hit “Essence,” released on Tuesday (Aug. 31). “I just feel like, you know, when situations like this present themselves, man/

DJ Tay James is the A&R genius behind countless Justin Bieber records — including “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, a Hot 100-topping collaboration which James helped coordinate. Most recently, James was the visionary that brought Bieber onboard to appear on Wizkid’s chartbusting “Essence” remix, alongside fellow artist Tems. The remix to the global smash, which

Since Aug. 23, the current Walker Hayes single, “Fancy Like,” has been in heavy rotation… on TV. Following its release on June 4 and a summer blow-up led by TikTok videos that feature Hayes and daughter Lela dancing on the family’s front porch, the song emerged in an Applebee’s commercial during daytime hours and saw plenty of repeat action throughout the

Olivia Rodrigo returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Sept. 4), ruling for a sixth total week, helped by the Aug. 20 vinyl release of her debut LP Sour. The set revisits the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for a fifth week on top, with 133,000 equivalent album units

TikTok and MACRO — a media company that represents the voice and perspectives of Black people and persons of color — have teamed up to launch a new incubator program called TikTok Latinx Creatives in an effort to help further grow the Latinx creative community on the platform. The 10-week program announced ahead of Hispanic

The Doobie Brothers’ anticipated reunion tour with singer Michael McDonald has been paused after a handful of dates due to a positive COVID-19 test in their touring entourage. The band announced on Wednesday (Sept. 1) that the next four dates on their outing have been postponed  after a “member of the touring personnel has tested

The Spice Girls announced on Wednesday (Sept. 1) that they will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Spice, with a deluxe edition of the collection. Due out on Oct. 29, Spice25 will come as a two-CD set inside a hardback book, as well as in cassette and vinyl versions and an exclusive remastered

L.A. drivers are used to seeing a lot of weird things on the road, but on Monday they got an extra eye-full when a Justin Bieber billboard campaign went sideways in the most hilarious way. A crew putting up a meditative image of the singer’s Balenciaga fashion ad in which the Biebs is giving his