Spotify is ready to bring podcast subscription options to all U.S.-based creators using its Anchor platform. Starting today, stateside podcasters will be able to mark episodes of their pods as subscriber-only before publishing to Spotify and other platforms. The streaming leader announced the program in late April with a testing group of 12 creators that […]

Dan + Shay, the duo of Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney, bank their fourth top five entry on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, as Good Things launches at No. 2 on the Aug. 28-dated list. Released Aug. 13, the pair’s fourth full-length starts with 33,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 19, according to

SiriusXM Radio does not need to pay in order to play pre-1972 recordings under California law, an appeals court ruled Monday (Aug. 23), marking the radio giant’s latest victory in its ongoing dispute over music royalties with members of ’60s rockers The Turtles. The Turtles, known for their hit “Happy Together,” are represented in a series

That old saw about how you can’t go home again? Nobody told Kanye West, who has rebuilt his childhood dwelling — or at least the shell of it — for the upcoming Donda album listening party inside Soldier Field in Chicago. The rapper and Windy City native kept things more minimal for the previous two

The “engine room” of the Rolling Stones has shut down. Co-founder and virtuoso drummer Charlie Watts, who guitarist Keith Richards frequently referred to with the “engine room” sobriquet, died Tuesday (Aug. 24) at age 80, his rep announced. Watts had just exited the band’s upcoming U.S. tour to allow him to recover from an unspecified medical

This year’s Made in America Festival just got a bit more fun. A source close to the festival tells Billboard that Lil Uzi Vert and The Kid Laroi will be surprise guests for the 10th annual event during Labor Day Weekend. Jay-Z’s yearly festival, produced by Roc Nation, will take place at the iconic Benjamin

My Morning Jacket announced their first new album in more than six years on Tuesday (Aug. 24), a self-titled effort that is slated to drop on ATO Records on Oct. 22. In addition to the newly released single, “Regularly Scheduled Programming,” the band revealed the tour dates for their first U.S. headlining run in as

Longtime entertainment publicist, textbook author and photographer Norma Ann Morris died Aug. 20 at her home in Kingston Springs, Tenn. Morris, who was 82, died following long battles with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Morris worked as an artist consultant and publicist for artists including Maxine Brown (of The Browns), Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Jim &

In October 1988, Angie Roloff and her husband Ron opened Strictly Discs in Madison, Wisconsin, after Ron left a career in the biomedical research field to pursue his love of music full time. Nearly 31 years later, the couple made the difficult decision to shutter in-store operations due to COVID-19, roughly a week before Gov. Tony Evers

Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer — a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single — by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor Don Everly