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Ace Gift-Shopping for Your Girlfriend With This Guide

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Gifting is hard, especially for your loved ones. There’s always so much pressure to snag that perfect piece for the special […]

Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus: Country Publicists Adapt to Harsher Post-Pandemic Media Environment

Nashville’s songwriters could be metaphoric role models for country publicists, as shifts in the marketplace, accelerated by the pandemic, have made it more difficult to gain media attention. Journalists are buried in a larger volume of pitches and press releases, spurred in part by developments during the work-from-home years. One online reporter told Quartz Hill […]

Olivia Rodrigo Announces ‘Guts World Tour Book’ Featuring Unseen Photos, Trading Card, Poster and Sticker Sheet

Olivia Rodrigo wrapped her 97-show, year-and-a-half long Guts tour on July 1 with the second of two shows at Co-op Live in Manchester, England. The singer’s first-ever headlining arena tour took her from North America to Asia, Australia, Europe and South America on an ambitious outing that featured support from Chappell Roan, St. Vincent, Remi […]

Morgan Wallen’s Sticks Management Adds Gavin Adcock & Manager Saxon Curry

“Never Call Again” singer Gavin Adcock and his manager Saxon Curry have joined Sticks Management, the artist management firm founded by Morgan Wallen and his longtime agent Austin Neal, in 2024. Warner Music Nashville-signed singer-songwriter Adcock is from Georgia, as is Curry, and both attended Georgia Southern University. Adcock graduated from GSU in 2022, while […]

How Preston Cooper Went From ‘The Singing Mailman’ to Writing His First Country Hit With The Warren Brothers

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Preston Cooper may be celebrating a series of career firsts in 2025, including his initial entry on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with his debut radio single, “Weak.” Yet his raw, blues-dipped sound and commanding voice were forged through years of regular gigs around his home state of Ohio. “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, […]

The Life of a Prolific Pop Star: ‘Showgirl’ Will Be Taylor Swift’s Ninth Full-Length Album of the 2020s

There are many reasons for Taylor Swift’s extraordinary success: talent, resilience, courage and, not least, a work ethic that is second to none. The country-turned-pop superstar is tireless and extraordinary productive. Her just-announced The Life of a Showgirl will be her ninth full-length album of the 2020s. And that doesn’t even count live albums. Related […]

Taylor Swift’s 50 Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits

At 12:12 a.m. ET on Aug. 12, Taylor Swift revealed her forthcoming 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. The set will surely be another Billboard chart behemoth for the superstar, kicking off her next era in a chart career that began 19 years ago. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Sept. 23, […]