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On Thursday night (Sep. 4), Cardi B accepted the 2025 Billboard impact of the year award at the R&B / Hip-Hop Power Players Event in Brooklyn. After the presentation by this writer — Billboard‘s senior director of R&B / Hip-Hop — Cardi delivered a rousing speech, highlighting her love for hip-hop and building a long-lasting legacy […]
Prior to the pandemic, Ariana and the Rose was in the thick of Brooklyn nightlife, bringing slamming synth-pop and eye-popping performance art to clubs, warehouses and queer-friendly spaces. It goes without saying, but during the COVID-19 period, Brooklyn nightlife (or nightlife of any kind) dried up, sending Ariana DiLorenzo to TikTok. There, her frank, funny […]
It’s back to school season, which means two things: getting used to the insane morning rush to the bus again and the obligatory first-day-of-school pics from everyone you know. And, in this case, celebrities really are just like us. Related P!nk Went on Vacation and All She Got Was An E Coli Infection: ‘Everything Is […]
Over the past several years, few music industry stories have been quite so unusually successful as that of Laufey. The Iceland-born 26-year-old singer and multi-instrumentalist arrived on the scene with the EP Typical of Me in 2021, released independently through AWAL, before releasing her debut album Everything I Know About Love the following year. But […]
When Shakira says “Mexico is my home” because she also feels Mexican, the Colombian superstar — just like her hips — doesn’t lie. In my opinion, the deep love that the Latin American country has for the singer-songwriter is only comparable to the sentiment Mexicans feel for the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, […]
Ravyn Lenae, GELO and Odeal accepted the R&B, Hip-Hop and African Rookies of the Year award at Billboard‘s 2025 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event Thursday night (Sept. 4) at Unveiled in New York. Staff writer Kyle Denis and I introduced the three Rookies, touting their Billboard chart stats — Lenae scored her first Billboard Hot 100 […]
If you listened to our 1996 Oasis Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast, you’d know that host Andrew Unterberger and his longtime partner Lisa Ebe were planning on going to see Oasis on the Live ’25 tour in Dublin, Ireland last month — but were hardly positive that the Gallagher Brothers would make […]
Sony Music Publishing elevated Jordi Tello to managing director of Iberia, succeeding longtime Spain MD Juan Ignacio Alonso, who retired in August. Based in Madrid, Tello will oversee creative and business operations across Spain and Portugal, reporting to SMP president of international Guy Henderson. Tello joined SMP in April 2024 as A&R director, working with […]
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, Justin Bieber shows us more Swag, Lady Gaga dances into fall and Drake’s Iceman cometh. Check out […]
UPDATE (Sept. 5): Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry, YUNGBLUD and Nuno Bettencourt will join forces to honor the late Ozzy Osbourne with a medley of his greatest hits on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, which are set for Sunday Sept. 7. Osbourne, a two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died on […]
