Sitting in a sun-drenched room at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton, Gracie Abrams is shaking her head “no.” She’s reflecting on a breakout 2024 — during which she scored her highest-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit to date and received her second Grammy Award nomination, for “Us,” a collaboration with none other than Taylor Swift. But Abrams still
Taylor Swift is now a part of Benny Blanco‘s life in more ways than one since his romance with Selena Gomez started. In addition to the pop star being one of his famous fiancée’s closest friends, the producer has also apparently welcomed Swift’s music into his life after the Rare Beauty founder got him hooked.
Approximately 100 years after the Grand Ole Opry launched when radio announcer George D. Hay invited fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson to play some of his fiddle tunes on the air on WSM-AM (the program was initially called the WSM Barn Dance and renamed the Grand Ole Opry in 1927), many of country music’s biggest stars
After announcing last week that his upcoming fourth studio album, I’m The Problem, was “officially done,” Morgan Wallen revealed the released date for the project on Thursday morning (March 20). The news came via an Instagram post featuring footage of the singer in the studio with the title track playing as a hand sketches his
It’s been a long road from Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red to Music. King Vamp ended the drought with his first album in four-plus years on March 14. The loaded 30-track album features superstar guests from The Weeknd to Travis Scott, and showcases Carti’s full artistic repertoire. Billboard Unfiltered returned on Wednesday (March 19) with
Queen City music fans will have to wait a while to see Janet Jackson after the pop star announced on Thursday (March 20) that due to “personal matters” she will not be headlining the second night of this summer’s Cincinnati Music Festival. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and
On March 29, Billboard will hold the 19th annual Women in Music awards at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Honorees include cover star Erykah Badu, JENNIE and many more, including Doechii as Woman of the Year. In advance of this year’s event, we are looking at some of the most in-demand live performers of
As two short blonde hitmakers, Dolly Parton and Sabrina Carpenter have a lot in common. But they also have some key differences, and according to the country legend, there were a couple things the pair had to agree on before she signed on to do the 25-year-old pop star’s “Please Please Please” remix earlier this
As 1995 began, Madonna was still an A-plus-list superstar and one of the most famous people in the world — but she was no longer at the absolute center of pop music. A half decade of increasingly controversial (though often brilliant) albums, singles, videos, movies and appearances had left the public divided and unsure about
After months of slowly teasing fans with new music, Eric Church will return with his new album on May 2, when he releases Evangeline Vs. the Machine. The eight-song album marks his first release since 2021’s Heart & Soul triple project, and judging from the songs the upcoming album has already yielded, the project promises
