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All Eyes On AI At Global Collecting Societies’ Annual Meeting

To most music companies, AI is just a practical issue — a problem to be solved, an opportunity to be seized, or some combination of the two. With the right combination of legislation, litigation and consternation, the same generative AI technology that now threatens to dilute streaming royalties could allow another set of rights to […]

Unreleased Drake & Playboi Carti Collaboration Previewed By DJ Swamp Izzo

Drake and Playboi Carti have another collaboration in the stash. DJ Swamp Izzo premiered the unreleased track at an After Hours Til Dawn Tour afterparty at Zouk nightclub in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (June 25). While Izzo gave fans a taste of the collaboration, neither Drake nor Carti’s teams have announced plans to release […]

The 40 Biggest Co-Headline Tours of All Time

Seeing your favorite artist on tour can be transcendent. Seeing two of your favorite artists on the same night? Even better. Over Billboard Boxscore’s four decades, like-minded artists have paired together to combine forces as co-headliners. Here, we’re looking at the biggest team-ups ever with a list of the 40 biggest co-headline tours in Boxscore […]

Experience Your Favorite Artists in Concert While Still at Home With the Meta Quest 3S

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. The Meta Quest 3S is giving music fans a concert-going experience unlike anything they’ve experienced before. Summer is here, which means […]

How Ultra Music Festival 2025 Diverted Nearly 50 Tons of Waste From Landfill Hell

In 2019, Vivian Belzaguy Hunter sat at her desk and cried. These tears were, in fact, joyful. Belzaguy Hunter had just learned that the event for which she runs the sustainability program, Miami’s mighty Ultra Music Festival, had gotten a glowing review from volunteercleanup.org, a local environmental organization. In a report on the 2019 edition […]

Ariana Grande’s Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits

Ariana Grande may have first come to public attention through the Nickelodeon series Victorious, but the real triumph was her elevation from television teen star to music industry juggernaut like few acts have ever achieved. From the jump, Grande emerged as an instant fan favorite: Her debut single, the Mac Miller-assisted “The Way,” debuted in the […]