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BLACKPINK’S JISOO and Zayn Explore Contours of an Improbable New Love on Smoldering ‘Eyes Closed’ Duet

New love is exciting, complicated and sometimes confusing. Those emotions, and much more, are explored on the new duet from BLACKPINK‘s JISOO featuring Zayn Malik. The K-pop star began hinting at the surprise, smoldering duet “Eyes Closed,” earlier this week via a mysterious teaser featuring a shadowy male silhouette standing behind her with the cryptic […]

Robbie Williams Says Taylor Swift Forced ‘Britpop’ Release Delay in All-Time U.K. Chart Record Pursuit: ‘You Can’t Compete!’

Robbie Williams performed a show of two halves at London’s Dingwalls on Thursday night (Oct. 9), marking his smallest-ever ticketed gig, and revealed how Taylor Swift forced him to delay the release of his 13th studio LP, Britpop. At the 600-capacity venue in Camden, the singer performed his iconic debut Life Thru A Lens in […]

Friday Music Guide: New Music From Jisoo & ZAYN, Khalid, HAIM & Bon Iver and More

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.  This week, it’s all about collabs — between two alums from blockbuster megapop groups, a couple veteran indie favorites, and a […]

No Doubt Sets Las Vegas Sphere Residency

Gwen Stefani might dream of a “Simple Kind of Life,” but she recently agreed to a monumentally huge opportunity, which will make her the first woman to headline the MSG-owned Sphere in Las Vegas. Billboard can confirm that Stefani will reunite with her band No Doubt to play a run of six shows at the […]

Amy Poehler & Bowen Yang Accuse Role Model of ‘Diva Behavior’ in ‘SNL’ Promos: ‘It’s Gonna Be One of Those Weeks…’

Apparently, Role Model is not Amy Poehler. In new promos for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, Poehler — a former SNL cast member who will return to host on Saturday — and current star Bowen Yang accuse the singer/songwriter of “diva behavior” for pointing out that simple fact. Related ‘Saturday Night Live’ Stream: How to […]

Music Publishers Can’t Add Lyric Piracy Claims to Anthropic AI Training Lawsuit

Piracy has become a hot-button issue in AI litigation ever since Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement for torrenting books — but such claims won’t be part of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by music publishers against the Claude chatbot maker. Federal court records show that on Wednesday (Oct. 8), Judge Eumi K. Lee denied […]