After hearing her fans out, Dua Lipa is standing firmly against DaBaby and his homophobic comments he made over the last 48 hours. In a post on her Instagram Stories, the disco-pop star, who featured DaBaby on her Billboard Hot 100 top five remix of “Levitating,” said she couldn’t disagree more with the rapper’s statements […]

Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, one of the founding members of the hard rock band, has died at age 46, his family announced Tuesday (July 27). “We are heartbroken to share the news that Joey Jordison, prolific drummer, musician and artist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 26th, 2021,” a statement from Jordison’s

In just over a year, Rauw Alejandro has racked up six No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart. His newest chart topper, “Todo de Ti,” reaches the summit on the latest ranking (dated July 31) with 11.6 million radio airplay audience impressions, up 19%, according to MRC Data. Alejandro first topped the list dated

Since Fifth Harmony went on indefinite hiatus three years ago, pop and R&B listeners have been rooting for 5H alum Normani to find her footing in solo stardom. Though she’s still yet to release her solo debut LP, she’s scored multiple Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits, via duets with Khalid (2018’s “Love Lies”) and

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, which won a Grammy in March for best music film, was nominated for an Emmy on Tuesday (July 27) for outstanding arts and culture documentary. The CNN film, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, looks at Linda Ronstadt’s career peaks in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and the

Lorde famously spends a lot of her time off social media and away from the public eye, making it harder for people to know more than basic trivia about her. But as of Tuesday (July 27), fans were treated to 73 facts about the 24-year-old, who’s gearing up for the Aug. 20 launch of her

Concerts are one of the top economic drivers in the U.S. and will be a critical financial engine for igniting the economy once the pandemic has ended, a new study finds. Titled “The Concerts and Live Entertainment Industry: A Significant Economic Engine” and produced by Oxford Economics, a 40-year-old private venture with Oxford University’s business

Lady Gaga is a supremely athletic entertainer, known for rehearsing and honing her performances like a world-class athlete. So you might be forgiven if you did a double take when photos of Jordanian taekwondo fighter Julyana Al-Sadeq flooded Twitter after fans noticed that she bears a striking resemblance to Mother Monster. “Why is Lady Gaga

As BTS’ “Butter” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the smash holds atop Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart (dated July 31). The 20-position Songs of the Summer heat index tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot 100 from Memorial Day through

There’s something beyond the ribcage-rattling drums, heart-clutching harmonies, piano solos that speak the soul’s language, haunting basslines and uplifting percussions that make an Amapiano party transcendental. There are other-worldly powers at play on a dancefloor flooded by Amapiano, all held together by feet dancing in unison. The music, liquor and communal reverie converge spiritually. It