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The Best 20 Rap Albums of 2025: Staff Picks

After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii and Tyler, the Creator, the rap world feasted in 2024. This year, though things simmered down a bit, the competitive fire for rap hierarchy remained high for many suitors. 2025 saw the return […]

Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd’s TalkShopLive Walmart Guide Will Help You Nail Gift-Giving This Season

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. If there’s one thing that Dancing With the Stars alumni and husband-and-wife duo Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy can do, it’s […]

The 25 Best K-Pop Albums of 2025: Staff Picks

In 2025, K-pop albums became vehicles for artistic clarity—structured spaces where artists pursued cohesive creative visions shaped by pacing, intention and conceptual focus. Many of the year’s standouts came from solo efforts by artists best known for their group work. Projects such as Lee Chanhyuk of AKMU’s EROS, JENNIE of BLACKPINK‘s Ruby, MARK of NCT‘s […]

21 Savage Apologizes to Future: ‘I Should of Called You First’

If 21 Savage has tension with any of his peers that he respects, the Slaughter Gang CEO is looking to squash it. Earlier this week, it appeared that 21 and Future were sub-tweeting each other on X, and Savage cleared the air by issuing a public apology to the “March Madness” rapper on Wednesday (Dec. […]

Get It Together With It’s Murph | White Claw x Billboard

This is partner content. It’s Murph brought Miami’s energy all the way up. Get to know the dance titan as he shows fans how to “Get It Together” ahead of his performance at the White Claw Sessions Powered by Billboard. Jon Weigell: Murph.  It’s Murph: What’s going on?  What are you doing, man? We got […]

Puerto Rican Band Chuwi Inks Deal With Double P Management After Breakout Year With Bad Bunny

Double P Management has signed Puerto Rican indie band Chuwi after a breakout year for the rising four-piece, Billboard can exclusively announce. Co-founded by Mexican superstar Peso Pluma and industry executive George Prajin, the management firm is broadening its roster with this addition. “At Double P Management, our priority is helping artists grow authentically while […]

Was Mariah Carey’s 1995 the Start of the Peak Era of ’90s Pop?

This week, Mariah Carey makes unprecedented history on the Billboard charts with a 20th combined week atop the Billboard Hot 100 for her signature seasonal staple “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The song is now the all-time longest-reigning Hot 100 No. 1 on the chart, a mark that should only increase not just […]

The 20 Best U.K. & Ireland Songs of 2025: Staff Picks

In the U.K. and Ireland, this year’s most striking and memorable songs reflected a restless, creative pulse: pop shifting into new shapes, rap sharpening its edges, and dance music once again becoming a shared language. Stars such as Olivia Dean and Lola Young lit up airwaves and festival stages across the world, while CMAT, Dave […]