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Forrest Frank & Brandon Lake Shape Every Corner of 2025’s Year-End Christian Charts

A handful of artists set the pace across Billboard’s Christian charts, led by Forrest Frank and Brandon Lake, two Texans whose consistency and volume of releases shaped nearly every major year-end Christian ranking. Explore All of Billboard’s 2025 Year-End Charts Frank and Lake appear on nearly every Christian-centric year-end Billboard metric, Top Christian Artists among […]

Kendrick Lamar Is the Year’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist for the First Time

For the first time in his career, Kendrick Lamar reigns as Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the year, storming to the 2025 crown. The superstar rapper claims the throne in his 13th time on the annual recap — a run of every year since 2012, apart from 2020 — and outdoes his previous best finish, […]

REPUBLIC Collective Dominates 2025 Year-End Label Charts

For the fifth year running, the REPUBLIC Collective is No. 1 on Billboard’s three leading year-end label charts: Top Labels, Billboard 200 Labels and Billboard Hot 100 Labels. The Top Labels recap represents aggregated metrics for labels’ performance on the weekly Billboard 200 albums and Hot 100 songs charts combined during the 2025 charting period (Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025). […]

Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore Posthumously Inducted Into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore are the latest songwriters to be inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, following Cindy Walker in May 2024, Prince in July 2024 and Bert Berns in September 2025. Related Cindy Walker Inducted Posthumously Into Songwriters Hall of Fame Prince Posthumously Inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame ‘Twist and Shout’ Songwriter […]

Lena Dunham Finally Got to Watch Taylor Swift’s Fiancé and Can Proclaim That She Is Now Definitely In Her ‘Sports Era’

Lena Dunham‘s name is not necessarily the first one you’d associate with major league team sports, but the Girls creator and Too Much writer knows more than you think about football and definitely has thoughts on Taylor Swift‘s fiancé, Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Dunham joined Swift and Selena Gomez at […]

Kehlani Is ‘Manifesting’ for Bad Bunny to Not Say ‘a Single Word in English’ at Super Bowl Halftime Show

Kehlani is looking forward to Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in San Francisco Bay Area in February, but she’s hoping he doesn’t cater an ounce to the strictly English-speaking audience for the big game. Related How Comedy King Druski Is Helping Music’s Biggest Stars Own the Internet Kehlani Reveals She Got Death Threats […]

Jack Whitehall to Host 2026 BRIT Awards as Show Moves Outside of London

The BRIT Awards has announced its host for the 2026 ceremony. Comedian Jack Whitehall will return to the role, having hosted the awards five times previously. “I am so excited to be coming back for this very special BRIT Awards in Manchester, a place that is so important to me,” Whitehall said in a statement. […]

Laura Segura Joins She Is The Music as Executive Director

Laura Segura has been appointed the next executive director of She Is The Music (SITM), a global nonprofit co-founded by Alicia Keys, Jody Gerson, Ann Mincieli and Sam Kirby Yoh that champions gender equality and works to increase the number of women across the music industry. She will succeed Michelle Yablans, who is stepping down […]

Treaty Oak Revival Claims Dual No. 1s With ‘West Texas Degenerate’

Treaty Oak Revival’s West Texas Degenerate debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts, and at No. 3 on Top Country Albums (all dated Dec. 13), opening with 27,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Nov. 28-Dec. 4, according to Luminate. Related Romeo Santos & Prince Royce Prove […]