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The 40 Best Deep Cuts of 2006: Staff Picks

This week, Billboard is publishing a series of lists and articles celebrating the music of 20 years ago. Our 2006 Week continues here with our list of the year’s best deep cuts — our staff’s favorite ’06 album tracks that were never released as official U.S. singles. (See our picks for the 100 best singles of the year here.) After […]

Here Are All of BTS’ No. 1s on the Billboard 200 & Hot 100

With BTS’ ARIRANG, the K-pop cornerstone act’s first studio album of new music since 2020, the group further imprinted its stamp in Billboard’s chart record books. The set stormed the Billboard 200 dated April 4, becoming BTS’ seventh No. 1, with the largest week for an album by equivalent album units earned among duos or […]

King Princess to Make Theatrical Debut in ‘Girl, Interrupted’ Stage Production Featuring Original Aimee Mann Music

King Princess must be feeling fantastic. Billboard can exclusively reveal that the singer-songwriter is a cast member of the upcoming stage production of Girl, Interrupted at The Public Theater in New York City. This will be the artist’s theatrical debut. Previously adapted into a 1999 film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina […]

How Teddybears Helped Define 2006 With Its Music & Countless Commercial Synchs: ‘It Was a Snowball Effect’

You might remember Teddybears’ “Cobraystle” from 2006 alt rock radio, but it’s more likely you remember the song from the many other places it existed that year, and for years thereafter. A synch juggernaut of late ’00s, the Swedish trio’s dancehall meets indietronica ass-shaker was used in commercials for everything from KFC to Volvo and in a long list of movies, television shows and videogames — including, but not limited to Date Night, Grey’s Anatomy and FIFA 06. “It was a snowball effect,” Teddybears’ Joakim Åhlund tells Billboard. “Once it happened once, it started happening […]

TuneCore Appoints Brian Miller as Chief Business Officer

TuneCore, the Believe-owned independent distribution service for self-releasing artists, announced Thursday (April 2) that Brian Miller has been appointed as the company’s chief business officer (CBO). Miller served as TuneCore’s chief revenue officer (CRO) for the last two years.   Related Andreea Gleeson Shifts From TuneCore CEO to Believe Strategic Advisor: ‘My Belief in This […]