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Which Pop Stars Defined the First Half of 2025?

It’s midyear season at Billboard, with our 50 best albums and 50 best songs of the year so far going live earlier this week. Now that we’re about halfway through the 2025 calendar, it also seemed like a good time to look back on the year so far in pop stardom — who’s excelled, who’s […]

Suno Acquires WavTool to Court Pro Musicians to Its Creative Suite

AI music company Suno recently acquired WavTool, a browser-based digital audio workstation (DAW). Though this deal, Suno has brought WavTool’s advanced editing capabilities and core team into the company where they will now hold product and engineering leadership roles. The news comes after a busy month for Suno. Just weeks ago, Billboard announced that Suno […]

Blake Whiten Signs With Enchntmnt/Warner Records

Singer-songwriter Blake Whiten has signed with Enchntmnt/Warner Records, Billboard can reveal. The South Carolina native is celebrating the signing by making his major label debut single release with “Made For Goodbyes.” Whiten launched his career by putting out cover performances on social media, with his version of Morgan Wallen’s “I Guess” earning over 9 million […]

Kobalt Partners With Chordal to Address Sync Licensing Bottlenecks

In the world of music sync, where the complexities of rights management often stifle creativity and delay transactions, the newly announced partnership between Kobalt Music and Chordal offers a glimpse into what the future could look like. Kobalt, a leading independent music publisher, is integrating Chordal’s music rights technology as the enterprise sync platform for […]

Selena Gomez Reveals to Karol G Who She Wants to Collaborate With Next

Throughout her decade-plus music career, Selena Gomez has worked with quite a few big names. But there’s one very “Popular” singer that the Only Murders in the Building star says she wants to collaborate with next. In a new video for Complex, Gomez sat down with Latin superstar Karol G to discuss their GOATs (that’s […]