The LOX and Dipset are locked in for Tuesday night’s (Aug. 3) Verzuz battle, and it’s about to go down right in New York City. Fans in New York rooting for the Yonkers troupe The LOX (comprised of members Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss) and the Harlem squad Dipset (made up of Cam’ron, Freekey Zeekey, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana) can watch the showdown live at Madison Square […]

“I might just be inconsolable. I know we’re all gonna go full crazy.” Kesha is telling Billboard about what it will feel like the moment she finally hits the stage this month, a year and a half after she was supposed to tour behind her 2020 album High Road. While she admits quarantine was “confusing”

It only took four years, three countries, two Spaniards and a Miami DJ team, but on Aug. 3, 1996, Los Del Rio’s “Macarena” topped the Billboard Hot 100, wrapping an improbable journey to the summit of the American pop charts for a song whose origin dates to a 1992 party in Venezuela. There, Los Del

Austin City Limits, iHeartRadio and Music Midtown Festivals dropped DaBaby from their fall lineups on Tuesday (Aug. 3) after his homophobic tirade at Rolling Loud Miami in July. DaBaby issued a formal apology for his comments on Monday (Aug. 2). The rapper has now been dropped from six music festivals in the last few days, after Day

“This is it… dresses by Ella,” Camila Cabello says in the opening line of the official movie trailer for Cinderella out on Tuesday (Aug. 3). Cabello portrays Cinderella, an ambitious young lady who hopes to one day become a successful businesswoman, in Amazon Original’s forthcoming modern musical, which offers a bold take on the centuries-old fairy

On Aug. 3, 1996, Rhett Akins’ “Don’t Get Me Started” topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The single, which he wrote with Sam Hogin and Mark D. Sanders, became his lone leader and second of two top 10s as a recording artist, after “That Ain’t My Truck” rolled to No. 3 in 1995. Born Thomas

The Warner Music Group posted $1.34 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30, the company announced today (Aug. 3). That represents a 32.7% revenue growth over the same period last year, fueled by 33.8% growth in recorded music revenues, up to $1.15 billion from 2020’s pandemic-hit $861 million. That growth was

The following story is the hip-hop cover of Billboard’s 2021 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players issue, dated Aug. 7, 2021. The R&B cover story of the same issue will run online Wednesday, Aug. 4. Lil Baby has inhaled the last piece of his beef short rib inside Atlanta’s plush brunch spot Toast on Lenox, and is about to

After 11 years at Primary Talent International, music agent Craig D’Souza will join WME as a partner based in the U.K., effective immediately. The hire was announced by WME music co-heads Lucy Dickins, Kirk Sommer and Scott Clayton. D’Souza began his career at nightclub agency Mission Control, where he was promoted to managing director in 2007. In that role, he oversaw

Sean Combs – now going by Love after moving on from the Puffy, Puff Daddy and Diddy monikers – made a big announcement in his Vanity Fair September issue cover story: the music mogul intends to launch an “all R&B label.” “I’m coming back to music, you know?” Combs told the magazine. “[An] all R&B