The global success BTS have secured over the past year with their series of English-language singles has been a blessing for the K-pop superstars. But because it has come during the global lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic it has been hard for member Jin to know when or how to celebrate. “I can’t really get […]

Hold on a second. Or third. Or fourth … On the the Billboard Hot 100 dated March 20, 2021, Justin Bieber’s “Hold On” debuted. The song’s arrival sparked a bit of déjà vu. After all, more than a few songs titled “Hold On” have hit the Hot 100. In 1990 alone, two such songs battled for lofty

In the midst of her messy, ongoing conservatorship case, pop star Britney Spears found a creative outlet Tuesday (July 27) to deal with the stress and express herself — by painting. The “Hit Me Baby One More Time” singer posted an IGTV video to her Instagram of herself spreading green, yellow, orange blue and purple paints

Lizzo is not taking the rise of the more contagious Delta variant lightly. The singer/rapper posted a seven-minute “public service announcement” Instagram video on Tuesday (July 27) in which she politely asked fans to stay six feet away so that she can make sure her mom stays healthy. With the nation overrun by the COVID-19

BLACKPINK member Rosé’s cover song hot streak continued this week when the K-pop superstar returned to the seaside set of the South Korean variety show Sea of Hope for a moving cover of Alicia Keys’ smash 2003 ballad “If I Ain’t Got You.” Joined by SHINEE member Onew and Lee Suhyun of AKMU, Rosé sat off

Spotify’s user base grew to 165 million paid subscribers and 210 million free users during the second quarter of 2021, with total monthly active users now hitting the 365 million mark, the company announced Wednesday morning in its latest earnings release. That’s a net increase of 7 million paid users and 2 million free users

When Ledisi brings her Ledisi Sings Nina Simone tour to the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend (July 30-31), the audience can definitely expect a fun and illuminating experience. Those were just a couple of the adjectives bandied about by the full house exiting the Hollywood Bowl after the recently minted Grammy Award winner’s Los Angeles

This fall, country singer-songwriter Caroline Jones is joining Zac Brown Band as a special guest on the Grammy-winning group’s The Comeback Tour, Billboard can reveal. The tour, which kicks off Aug. 5 in Holmdel, NJ and runs through Oct. 17 in Nashville, covers more than 20 dates and is followed by a headlining four-date run

Kanye West is in crunch-time mode working to finish his recently re-scheduled Donda album, and it appears he’s grinding away in less-than-superstar digs. After a spokesperson for the rapper confirmed earlier this week that ‘Ye was living inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium as he completes work on his 10th album, the rapper seemed to confirm that he’s

Banijay France, the French division of global indie TV giant Banijay, has added another boutique outfit to its growing stable of production companies, acquiring French non-scripted specialist DMLS TV, Banijay said on Wednesday. Set up and still run by co-founders Anne Marcassus and Mathieu Vergne, DMLS TV is best known for its singing and music