The first time Bad Bunny met Tommy Torres, it was backstage at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico. The inventive, prolific artist was on his 2019 X 100PRE tour, and Torres — a successful singer-songwriter in his own right and a go-to producer for the likes of Ricky Martin, Ednita Nazario and Ricardo Arjona — was […]

The reissue label and publisher Numero Group, known for excavating important yet overlooked records of the 20th century, considers themselves storytellers more than anything else. “We’re really committed to not just rediscovering music from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, but to telling as much of the story as we can,” explains co-founder Rob Sevier.

Sony Music Entertainment is accusing the U.K.-based fitness apparel brand Gymshark of copyright infringement, as laid out in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in California. In the complaint, filed July 15 by attorney Rollin Ransom at Sidley Austin LLP, Sony Music claims that Gymshark used Sony-owned songs in various promotional videos posted to

Monica Lisa Stevenson’s “I’m Not Ashamed,” featuring Paul Porter, rises to No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart (dated July 24). In the tracking week ending July 18, the collaboration gained by 20% in plays, according to MRC Data. The song marks the first leader on the chart for both acts. It’s Stevenson’s first entry

Not yet ready for a giant music festival? Worried about the Delta variant? Or maybe you just couldn’t swing attending Lollapalooza 2021 in person, much as you wanted to? No need to miss out on all the fun: Billboard can exclusively report that for the first time, Lollapalooza has partnered exclusively with Hulu to livestream

The Rolling Stones are cranking up the “No Filter” tour machine again. The rock icons announced on Thursday morning (July 22) that they are bringing their COVID-interrupted outing to the U.S. this fall beginning with a Sept. 26 date in St. Louis at The Dome at America’s Center for their first reunion since last year’s

Lorde celebrated the end of the long COVID lockdown in style on Wednesday night (July 21), with a vigorous round of day drinking with Late Night host Seth Meyers that ended with her getting an IV fluid drip. “I almost can’t even talk about it. I can’t look at an alcoholic drink ever again,” she

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of the opening ceremony that director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed. He was accused of using a joke about

Arlo Parks’ Collapsed in Sunbeams and Celeste’s Not Your Muse are among the 12 albums on the shortlist for the Hyundai Mercury Prize, which aims to highlight the most exciting and innovative music by British artists released in the past year. Parks won a Brit Award in May for breakthrough artist. Celeste won the rising

Creative Artists Agency has signed Stormzy in a worldwide deal — which includes the talent management company representing his company #Merky. On top of the UK rapper’s long list of musical achievements — which include collaborations with names like Ed Sheeran, record-setting albums such as his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer and headlining major