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Black History Month Spotlight: Super Producer & Music Executive Quincy Jones | Billboard News

For Black History Month, Billboard is celebrating by highlighting some of the greatest Black executives in music, and today we’re celebrating, Quincy Jones. Quincy JonesTo get to work with almost every major influencer in America, you know from Louis Armstrong to Billy Eckstine, Ella, Sarah, Ray Charles, Aretha, Paul Simon, everybody. Tetris KellyFor Black History […]

Cumulus Media VP of Country Charlie Cook to Depart Company in May

Cumulus Media vp of country Charlie Cook is set to leave the company, with his last day being May 31, Billboard has confirmed. Cook also serves as operations manager for Cumulus’ Nashville cluster and program director for Nashville country stations WKDF and WSM-FM Nashville. Cook’s most recent contract renewal was in 2022. Country Aircheck first […]

Coachella’s First Weekend Finally Sells Out 

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s first of two weekends has now sold out of general admission tickets, according to promoter Goldenvoice. Once known for selling out on the same day that the lineup was released, this year, the festival took exactly 27 days, four hours and 38 minutes to sell approximately 125,000 tickets […]

Don Toliver Earns First Top 10 as Lead Act on Hot Rap Songs Chart

Don Toliver snatches his first top 10 hit as a lead artist on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart as “Bandit” opens at No. 9 on the list dated Feb. 17. The track, released on Cactus Jack/Atlantic Records, also starts at No. 38 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, the week’s highest debut. In the tracking […]

Madonna Announces Collaboration With The Weeknd & Playboi Carti

Madonna has another collaboration up her sleeves, this time with The Weeknd and Playboi Carti. The Queen of Pop took to Instagram on Thursday (Feb. 15) to share a preview of the “Popular” music video, featuring the trio trading lines and singing the chorus in unison. “I did song with @theweeknd and @playboicarti -called – […]

Nordstrom Winter Sale: Here Are the Top 10 Fashion Deals to Shop Ahead of Presidents’ Day

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. Winter weather can be unpredictable. From snows storms throughout the East Coast and Midwest, rainstorms and earthquakes on the West Coast […]

Creepy Nuts’ ‘Bling-Bang-Bang-Born’ Logs Third Week Atop Japan Hot 100

Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” extends its reign over the Billboard Japan Hot 100 to three weeks on the chart released Feb. 14. The MASHLE season 2 opener saw an increase of about 13.8% in streams from the week before, racking up a whopping 20,118,604 weekly streams and holding at No. 1 for the metric. This figure […]