The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” adds another honor to its already historic Billboard Hot 100 run, spending a record-tying 87th week on the chart (dated Aug. 14). It equals the run of Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive,” which logged its time on the tally in 2012-14. “Blinding Lights,” released on XO/Republic Records, bowed on the Hot 100 dated […]

For Josh Gruss, former student of Berklee College of Music and founder, chairman, and CEO of independent publisher Round Hill Music, his alma mater is “a big, wonderful playground” for music lovers. “It was a really important time in my life,” he says. The music executive studied guitar and music business while at Berklee, and

Shara Senderoff estimates that during the last two-and-a-half years, she has looked at over 1,000 music and technology startups, hunting for the music industry’s next game-changer. As partner/president of Raised in Space Enterprises — the venture capital firm she and former BMG executive Zach Katz launched in 2019 with Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings and blockchain

It doesn’t sound like Nick Cannon is done having kids anytime soon. On Monday (Aug. 9), the 40-year-old TV host appeared on The Breakfast Club where host Charlamagne the God jokingly introduced him as “Nick ‘No Condom’ Cannon.” He’s been making headlines lately after he welcomed four children in the last year, bringing his current total to seven that

It’s not too late to experience a “Summer of Love,” according to the title of Shawn Mendes’ upcoming song with Tainy. The Canadian pop superstar announced on Monday (Aug. 9) “Summer of Love” will be released on Aug. 20. Mendes, who turned 23 on Sunday, sneakily revealed the song title earlier this month on his

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber spend a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart with “Stay,” while Ed Sheeran adds a fifth week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. tally with “Bad Habits.” Plus, Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” enters the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts at Nos.

Chucky Thompson, one of the in-house producers (known as The Hitmen) whose ability to blend hip-hop and R&B at a pop scale helped Bad Boy Records become one of the preeminent labels of the ’90s, has died. “It is with a very heavy heart that I can confirm the passing of Chucky Thompson,” his publicist

The dynamic duo of Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker are back at it again on another album. The rapper and the blink-182 drummer announced Monday (Aug. 9) that they would team up once more on Born With Horns, MGK’s sixth album, by showing off their matching tattoos of the album title on their arms. Barker

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Halsey offered her fans an intimate look into her life nearly four weeks after giving birth to her and Alev Aydin’s first child, Ender. On Sunday (Aug. 8), the 26-year-old singer showed cozy photos of the family of three, including a tie-dye shirt-wearing Ender swaddled in a blanket and being kissed by Aydin in a different matching