The IRS has come knocking on Quavo’s door for $3 million in allegedly unpaid income taxes dating back to 2021.
A tax lien notice filed in January shows that the Migos rapper (born Quavious Marshall) has a balance of $2.9 million in unpaid federal taxes and penalties. The IRS claims he owes $916,000 from the 2021 tax year, $887,000 from 2022 and $1.1 million from 2024.
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The IRS has now placed a lien on Quavo’s property, including his 11,000 square-foot home in Alpharetta, Ga. This is essentially a warning that if the rapper does not pay up, the federal government could eventually seize and sell off his assets to satisfy the tax debts.
“We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid,” reads the IRS notice to Quavo. “Therefore, there is a lien in favor of the United States on all property and rights to property belonging to this taxpayer.”
Reps for Migos did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday (March 4).
This is not the first time Quavo has been notified of unpaid income taxes. Last year, Georgia’s Department of Revenue served him with two liens totaling $496,000 for unpaid state taxes and related penalties from 2022 and 2023.
Meanwhile, Quavo’s Migos collaborator Offset got hit with a federal tax lien notice of his own in 2024 that cited nearly $1.6 million in unpaid income taxes from 2021. Offset (Kiari Cephus) eventually paid off the debts last year, and the IRS notified him in December 2025 that his lien had been released.
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On Wednesday (March 4), Zeds Dead announced a summer tour that the duo is calling its biggest run ever.
Beginning the first weekend of July with two sold-out performances at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the 15-show, 12-city North American tour is made up of mostly amphitheater sets at venues including New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and Austin’s Germania Insurance Amphitheater, along with a pair of shows at Los Angeles’ Grand Park, where the tour will end in early October. See the complete tour schedule below.
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Called “Journey of a Lifetime,” the tour will put forth a major production and a career-spanning set reaching back to the tour’s namesake, one of the first tracks Zeds Dead ever put online back in 2009. The pair, Zachary Rapp-Rovan and Dylan Mamid, advise that they’ll be taking time off in 2027, so this tour will go “all out on production, new music, and stage design to bring you a new show that will take you on a magical journey. A journey of a lifetime.”
Tickets for the tour go on sale March 11. The tour will feature a rotating collection of support acts including Alleycvt, Daily Bread, Deathpact, Dr. Fresch, Imanu, Ivy Lab, Mary Droppinz, Moody Good, and Whethan.
“Journey of a Lifetime is one of the first tracks we uploaded to the World Wide Web as Zeds Dead way back in 2009,” Rapp-Rovan and Mamid says in a joint statement. “17 years later, it feels like it was a prophecy. We might have not realized it at the time, but we were in fact blasting off into space and leaving behind life as we knew it. This journey is your journey with us as well. We’ve grown up together and celebrated life. We’ve created a world together, and the Journey of a Lifetime tour aims to be our most thorough exploration of it.
“This will be our biggest tour yet, as it’s taking place in large outdoor venues and we’re going to make it the best show we can make,” they continue. “It will be the grand finale of everything we’ve been working on. It’s not the end though. To quote something we sampled in a beat once ‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ We’ll be taking some time off in 2027 so we’re going all out on production, new music, and stage design to bring you a new show that will take you on a magical journey. A journey of a lifetime. See you there.”
Zeds Dead released its most recent album, Return to the Spectrum of Intergalatic Happiness, last March. 2026 also marks the ten year anniversary of the duo’s label, Deadbeats.
Ryan Gosling recently got a little ahead of himself on the set of Saturday Night Live, where he’s been rehearsing all week ahead of his fourth — not fifth — time hosting.
In a promo shared Wednesday (March 4), the actor arrives at 30 Rock with a spring in his step, strutting through the halls and embracing his inner-diva as he chucks a lit cigarette into cast member Tommy Brennan’s drink and lights Mikey Day’s headshot on fire. At one point, Gosling hops on top of a faux horse and sprays champagne all over the SNL stage — until Day kills the mood by asking the show’s next host what exactly he thinks he’s doing.
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“Five-Timers Club, Michael,” Gosling replies, pointing to his official SNL five-timers smoking jacket. “Read it and weep.”
Day then informs the Notebook star that the Saturday episode will be his fourth time hosting, meaning he still has another left to go before he joins the ranks of Five-Timers Club members such as Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Wiig and John Mulaney.
“Oh my god, it’s just four,” Gosling realizes a little too late, before comforting himself with: “I’m sure someone’s made this mistake before.”
The upcoming episode will see the Golden Globe winner — who in 2023 became a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist with his Barbie track “I’m Just Ken” — helming the show as the Gorillaz step in as musical guest. Gorillaz also soundtrack the new promo, with their “Clint Eastwood” setting the tone. One week later, Harry Styles will pull double duty as host and performer.
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Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.
This week: Neil Sedaka’s streams are up over 700% following the pop-rock great’s death, while a decade-old hip-hop hit finds renewed life and a deep cut from nearly half a century ago becomes a prog-pop artist’s posthumous breakthrough hit.
Trending Up Is Hard to Do: Neil Sedaka Streams Up 700% Following Legendary Pop Singer-Songwriter’s Death at 87
Neil Sedaka died at age 87 last Friday (Feb. 27), as announced by a family statement posted to Sedaka’s Instagram account. Sedaka was responsible for threeBillboard Hot 100No. 1 hits over his decades-spanning career — and co-wrote a fourth — and was responsible for dozens of additional hits from the late ‘50s to the early ‘80s, for both himself and other artists.
Following his death, fans of Sedaka — and ‘60s and ‘70s pop in general — swarmed streaming services to pay tribute to the late idol. His catalog totaled 2.4 million official on-demand U.S. streams in the first four days of this tracking week (Feb. 27-Mar. 2), according to early data provided by Luminate — up 708% from the same period the prior week. (It also posted nearly 8,000 digital song sales over that period, after a negligible amount the prior week.)
The songs that led the way from his catalog over this period were three of his signature hits: “Laughter in the Rain” (up 505% in streams to 514,000), “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (up 453% to 307,000) and “Calendar Girl” (up 519% to 212,000). In addition, The Captain and Tennille’s Sedaka-co-penned “Love Will Keep Us Together” got a more modest 15% bump to 137,000 streams, while Sedaka’s original “Love” was up a whopping 1,811% to 55,000 streams.
Sedaka was laid to rest earlier this week. His family announcement referred to the late great as “a true rock n’ roll legend, an inspiration to millions, but most importantly, at least to those of us who were lucky enough to know him, an incredible human being who will be deeply missed.” – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Multi-Generational Rap Samples Led by XXXTENTACION and Toppoppgen Revive Yuna’s “Someone Out of Town”
Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna has been giving the world gorgeous R&B music for over a decade now, and thanks to nifty flips in hip-hop tracks from rising star Toppoppgen and the late XXXTENTATCION, a new generation of fans is discovering it.
An ascendant rapper from North Carolina, Toppoppgen (born Genesis Kaliel Roland) shared his second full-length release, Kalon, last October after signing to Columbia via Signal Records in spring 2025. “Numb,” the set’s breakout track, flips XXXTentacion’s “Let’s Pretend We’re Numb,” a 2015 standalone single from the deceased Florida MC — which, in turn, samples Yuna’s “Someone Out of Town,” a track from her 2011 Decorate EP. Initial interest in the track was a part of Toppoppgen’s general buzz as one of the internet’s favorite current underground artists, but the emotionalweight of his lyrics (which trade on the same sentiments as Yuna’s “original”) quickly won over fans on a much larger scale. The official “Numb” TikTok sound currently plays in 32,000 posts. According to Luminate, “Numb” has leapt 71% in official on-demand U.S. streams over the past three months, going from 643,000 official streams (Nov. 21-27) to 1.1 million official streams (Feb. 20-26).
Given that Toppoppgen is a direct musical and aesthetic descendant of XXXTentacion, fans naturally brought the latter’s “Let’s Pretend” back into rotation as “Numb” dominated their For You feeds. “Let’s Pretend” jumped 23% in official on-demand U.S. streams over the past three months, going from 316,000 official streams (Nov. 21-27) to 389,000 official streams (Feb. 20-26). The official corresponding TikTok sound can also be heard in over 51,000 videos.
Of course, this all goes back to Yuna’s “Someone Out of Town,” which has exploded 3,820% in official U.S. streaming activity over the past three months, flying from 65,000 official weekly streams (Nov. 21-27) to a whopping 2.57 million (Feb. 20-26). On TikTok, the official “Someone” sound plays in over 635,000 videos, most tied to the song’ssecondverse.
15 years later, Yuna’s poignant songwriting and lush voice are still cutting through the noise. – KYLE DENIS
A TikTok Rainbow Connection: Deep Cut From ‘70s Prog-Pop Rocker Goes Viral
This week’s evidence that you truly never know where hit songs are going to come from in the mid-2020s comes from Chris Rainbow, a Scottish purveyor of proggy pop-rock likely best known in the U.S. for his long association with ‘70s and ‘80s hitmakers The Alan Parsons Project. Despite never having a hit of any real size on his own in the U.S., he makes his solo bow on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart this week, thanks to the TikTok revival of his 1979 gem “Be Like a Woman.”
The song has taken off on the viral platform for its near-proto-chillwave sound, which has allowed it to become a soundtrack to a wide variety of videos — including one following a trend of users posting photos of a large number of used glasses or candles, with phrases of things they enthusiastically consume posted over each of them. Consequently, “Woman” has also crossed over to streaming services, rising from just over 18,000 weekly official on-demand streams back in November to 66,000 in the final full chart week of 2025, according to Luminate — and then exploding over early 2026 to just over 2.5 million for the week ending Feb. 26, a gain of 13,538% from three months earlier.
That most recent streaming week was enough to send the song onto Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, where it debuted at No. 18 and No. 22 (respectively) for the charts dated Feb. 28 — the first appearances on a Billboard chart for Rainbow, who died at age 68 in 2015. – AU
As 2016 Returns to the Spotlight, Janelle Monáe & Jidenna’s 2015 Collab Also Gets Some Shine
Where there’s a new trending TikTok sound, a Zeddy Will video won’t be too far behind. “Yoga,” a 2015 collaboration between Jidenna and Janelle Monáe, is surging across socials, thanks to an infectious clip the content creator and rapper shared to his TikTok page on Feb. 23. Featuring his trademark animated dance moves and a snippet of what seems to be a forthcoming proper remix, the post quickly went viral, garnering over 22 million views and 4.3 million likes.
Even before Zeddy’s post, TikTok users @/jmuppie._ and @/cmupp1e_ shared a dance trend on Feb. 8 (set toa mashup of “Yoga” and “Cotton Eye Joe”), which has since collected nearly 10 million views and over 775,000 likes. Between a whole new generation of listeners encountering the song for the first time — as well as the dance trend and general nostalgia for 2016-era media — “Yoga” has completely taken over TikTok. Zeddy Will’s unofficial sound plays in nearly 30,000 posts, while the official “Yoga” sound can be heard in over 173,000 clips.
Over the past three weeks, “Yoga” jumped over 583% in streaming activity, according to Luminate. During the period of Feb. 13-19, the first full week after the dance hit the timeline, “Yoga” earned over 235,000 official on-demand U.S. streams, up 67% from the week before. During the period of Feb. 27-March 2, the first weekend-ish period following Zeddy Will’s clip, “Yoga” pulled in over 587,000 official streams, up over 141% from the period of Feb. 20-23.
Originally a No. 79 Hot 100 hit, “Yoga” could very well be on its way to a full-scale resurgence this year. – K.D.
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The team-up debuts at No. 1 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs list dated March 7 following its first full week of chart measurement after its Feb. 19 release. In the Feb. 20-26 tracking period, it totaled 1.4 million official U.S. streams, 183,000 radio audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold, according to Luminate.
The lattermost count also sends the song to No. 1 on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, where it’s the band’s second ruler, following “The Laugh Track” in 2025, and Grace’s first.
“Twisting the Knife” scored 215,000 streams and 1,000 in sales Feb. 19, begetting a No. 4 bow on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart dated Feb. 28.
Ice Nine Kills’ previous best rank on Hot Hard Rock Songs was “A Work of Art” (featuring SHAVO), which debuted and peaked at No. 3 in 2024. The band has seven total top 10s on the tally since its 2020 inception.
The track is Grace’s first Billboard chart entry. Though mostly known as an actor, she has released music since 2021 via Photo Finish Records.
The connection between the artists? Grace is one of the stars of Scream 7, in which “Twisting the Knife” is featured. Ice Nine Kills’ inclusion on the soundtrack is apt, as many of the band’s songs are themed after works in the horror genre.
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There might be some very public drama among the Beckham family at the moment, but that didn’t stop Victoria and David Beckham from wishing their estranged son Brooklyn a happy birthday on Wednesday (March 4).
Each of the Beckham parents took to Instagram to share two Stories apiece for Brooklyn Beckham’s 27th birthday. The Spice Girls alum and fashion designer shared a throwback photo of the couple in a pool with baby Brooklyn alongside the message “Happy birthday Brooklyn, we love you so much,” as well as a pic of her as a young mom with her baby boy and the message “Happy 27th birthday Brooklyn, I love you so much.” Both posts included red heart emojis.
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The soccer superstar, meanwhile, shared the same pool photo with the message “27 today” alongside a holding-back-tears emoji. “Happy Birthday Bust,” the message continued with a white heart. “We love you x.” His second photo was David as a younger dad with an elementary-school-age Brooklyn and a similar message: “Happy Birthday Bust,” he wrote with a pink heart. “Love you x.”
For years, there were rumors floating that Brooklyn Beckham and his wife, Nicola Peltz, were feuding with Brooklyn’s famous parents. Brooklyn’s side of those rumors was confirmed in January, when he shared a series of explosive Instagram Stories detailing his issues with his mom and dad.
“I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private,” Brooklyn wrote at the time. “Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed. I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
Much of Brooklyn and Nicola’s issues with the Beckhams appeared to stem from their April 2022 wedding, and when the younger couple renewed their vows in August 2025, neither of the elder Beckhams attended. Brooklyn also skipped David’s 50th birthday party last year, while the other three of the Beckhams’ children — Romeo, Cruz and Harper — were all present.
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A lot of fans have to wait lengthy periods of time for new music from their favorite artists. But only ARMY knows what it’s like to have to watch and wait as a group steps away for years — while at the height of historic success, no less — to fulfill military service requirements and pursue solo endeavors before finally, finally reuniting in the studio to create its first full-length in six years. Such has been the case for BTS.
In 2022, RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook announced that after taking K-pop to an unprecedented level with global crossover hits such as Billboard Hot 100-toppers “Dynamite,” “Butter” and “Permission to Dance,” they’d be stepping away to complete their government-mandated time in the South Korean military. After having the bounds of their patience tested for years, however, fans will finally reach the promised land when comeback LP ARIRANG drops, after which the boy band will embark on a sprawling world stadium tour in 2026 and 2027. It’s a moment that’s been an immeasurable amount time, work and life experience in the making, as the members have spent the past three years staggering their required enlistments and taking turns releasing solo music to tide listeners over, discovering new elements of their artistry as individuals in the process.
Fast forward to present day, and the Bangtan Boys have walked away from months spent recording and rehearsing — having gotten back in the studio almost immediately after the last few members were discharged in June 2025 — with a brand new album completed that ARMY will be able to hear at last very soon. And as the clock ticks down, Billboard is keeping track of all the details we know about ARIRANG leading up to its invitable culture-stopping drop.
From the tracklist to the release date, see everything we know about ARIRANG so far below.
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Apple’s latest and greatest flagship smartphone line received a fresh batch of hardware updates this year, bringing with it an innovative front selfie camera, a powerful A19 and A19 Pro chip, and a new fleet of phone options to shop. If you’ve been eyeing the iPhone 17, you can now upgrade to Apple’s powerhouse smartphone for free online.
Over at T-Mobile, customers can now take advantage of the carrier’s “iPhone 17 on Us” deal, which gives customers a discount of up to $1,100 off when you trade in your old phone and sign up for a new plan. In addition, T-Mobile will now pay off your old phone up to $800 per line as well. T-Mobile says its plans could save you up to 20% compared to similar packages from other providers.
According to the criteria, the biggest discount is eligible with a trade of an iPhone 13 Pro or newer, but older devices can still get up to $820 off here. For those looking to switch over to T-Mobile, the company will give you an iPhone 17 “on us” when switching and adding a line on their Experience plan. T-Mobile is offering an impressive $1,000 rebate when you port your number over from a rival carrier. The switching deal can cover the entire cost of the iPhone Air, whereas the maximum trade-in rebate will cover an iPhone 17 Pro.
If you get a plan with T-Mobile, you’ll also gain access to their T-Satellite service, which gives customers access to free text messaging, location sharing and 911 emergency text services even in the most remote areas that typically struggle with traditional cellular service. T-Satellite is included for free on their best plans: Go5G Next and Experience Beyond. You can also add it for $10 a month per line on any qualifying plan—that’s $5 off for a limited time.
The iPhone 17, 17 Pro and the iPhone Air are available starting with 256GB of storage — double the entry storage from the previous generation — and a 512GB option. The base iPhone 17 comes in five beautiful colors: black, lavender, mist blue, sage, and white, while the Pro phones will feature a silver, deep blue and cosmic orange color. The newiPhone 17, 17 Pro and Air are available now at T-Mobile.
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Poetic power ballads and distortion. Rebellious chants across stadiums and side streets. What defines the true titans of Latin rock? A genre shaped by voices and styles that grapple with identity, social unrest, and catharsis, yet also exudes pure joy in movement and sound. Some bands electrify audiences with unrelenting attitude and unforgettable energy, while others build their legacy slowly, threading local traditions into global sounds and pushing musical boundaries.
From its raw beginnings in the ’60s — from the proto-punk of Peru’s Los Saicos to the kaleidoscopic sounds of Chile’s Los Jaivas, and later, the electrifying innovation of Colombia’s Diamante Eléctrico — Latin rock has always been a movement amplified by defiance, creativity, and revolution. Curating a list of the 50 greatest Latin rock bands requires not just careful consideration of their historical and cultural impact, but acknowledgment of how their influence resonates through generations.
As with any definitive list, some omissions are unavoidable, reflecting the complexities of Latin rock’s lineage. For example, Serú Girán’s absence in favor of Sui Generis acknowledges the challenge of distinguishing between the legendary contributions of Charly García’s multiple projects. Similarly, Jaguares, an undeniable force in Mexican rock, steps aside for Caifanes — whose earlier material, fronted by the iconic Saúl Hernández, laid the foundation for later successes.
Some bands, such as Juanes’ formative project Ekhymosis, are acknowledged for their contributions but ultimately did not make the list, as their impact was overshadowed by the solo success of their members. Meanwhile, Chicano groups like Los Lobos and Santana, whose influence remains paramount, were not included in this list, which focuses specifically on bands whose most iconic achievements were primarily delivered in Spanish.
What makes Latin rock distinct from its English-language counterpart is its ability to fuse genres and cultures seamlessly: ska, reggae, Caribbean rhythms, punk, cumbia and even murga collide in unexpected harmonies and sounds. It is these qualities that elevate bands like Panteón Rococó or Los Rabanes, whose genre-hopping music reminds us that Latin rock thrives on creative disruption, rarely staying inside clearly defined boundaries.
What binds our selection of 50 acts together is timeless artistry. These are bands who electrified barrios from Buenos Aires to Bogotá, Monterrey to Montevideo, driving garage rock global, reframing protest songs as anthems, and creating music that transcends trends and geography. Without further ado, Billboard Latin and Billboard Español present the 50 best Latin rock bands of all time below!
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Sony Music Publishing completed a 2025 four-quarter sweep, coming in as the No. 1-ranked publisher in both Radio Airplay and on the Hot 100 in the year’s final quarter.
After landing the No. 1 spot in both rankings in the first three quarters, Sony cemented its year-long No. 1 placement in Q4 by spinning a commanding lead as the top publisher in the Radio Airplay rankings with a 30.3% showing, nearly eight percentage points better than the No. 2-ranked publisher, Warner Chappell Music. On the Hot 100 ranking, it landed a 21.57% tally — barely beating out a surging Kobalt, which garnered 21.43% of the chart in the fourth quarter — to complete the sweep on both lists.
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Sony is also the publisher for the fourth quarter’s top Radio Airplay songwriter, Shane “sombr” Boose, the sole writer of the two songs he placed on that chart, “Back to Friends” (No. 9) and “Undressed” (No. 78). On the Radio Airplay chart, there was a tie for the No. 1 songwriter among the collaborators on Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl album, with 11 of its 12 songs written solely by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback (they had a co-writer on the twelfth song). All 12 tracks landed on Q4’s Hot 100 chart, with 11 of them in the top half, including the quarter’s No. 1 song “The Fate Of Ophelia.” (Swift is represented by Universal Music Publishing Group; Martin and Shellback are represented by Kobalt.)
Sony had a share in 75 songs on the Radio Airplay chart, the same amount as the prior quarter, but its market share was slightly down from Q3’s 30.76%. Its top song placement came from having a stake in the quarter’s No. 1 song, Leon Thomas’ “Mutt.” On the Hot 100, Sony’s song representation fell from 69 songs in Q3 to 49 songs in Q4 — and a corresponding market share drop of eight percentage points from Q3’s 30.10%. Sony’s top song was Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” the No. 3 tune on that chart.
In scoring the No. 2 spot in the Radio Airplay rankings, Warner Chappell tallied a 22.13% tally, with 57 song placements on that chart, including a stake in its No. 2 song, “Ordinary.” Even though its song count and share were down from 64 placements and a 23.67% share in Q3, its Q4 showing represented the ninth consecutive quarter that Warner Chappell came in second place on that chart. On the Hot 100 rankings, however, Warner Chappell fell from No. 2 to No. 3 as its market share declined from 22.32% to 16.92%, and its song count dropped from 52 to 36 in the prior quarter.
Universal Music Publishing Group scored the No. 3 ranking on the Radio Airplay chart with a 13.92% mark, down from the prior quarter’s 14.79% showing. Yet despite a higher Q4 share on the Hot 100 chart, at 16.69%, it only managed the No. 4 spot there. Its top Q4 song on the Radio Airplay chart was Justin Bieber’s “Daisies,” the No. 3 song on that chart and one of UMPG’s 44 placements; on the Hot 100, it snared 47 song placements, including the Swift tracks, with “Ophelia” its top song.
Kobalt may have been No. 4 on the Radio Airplay chart, with a 11.59% tally (40 song placements, including “Mutt”), but it came in at No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart, with a 21.43% share and 43 song placements. The last time Kobalt attained that lofty ranking was in the first quarter of 2013 on the Radio Airplay chart. (Billboard began tracking the Hot 100 publishers ranking in 2019.) What’s more, that Hot 100 tally marks the first time Kobalt has surged past the 20% market share milestone since Billboard began tracking the Radio Airplay rankings for publishers in 2006.
BMG notched a No. 5 publisher ranking on both charts, with a 6.23% score from 14 songs on the top Radio Airplay chart and an 8.15% tally from the same amount of songs on the Hot 100. Its top-placing song on both charts was “Golden” from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which was No. 4 and No. 2 on the tallies, respectively.
The second half of the Radio Airplay rankings saw Concord (No. 6), Spirit (No. 7), Position Music (No. 8) and Big Machine (No. 10) holding over from Q3, though Concord was the only one that showed market share improvement, with its 2.36% share up from the prior quarter’s 1.40% — lifting it from Q3’s No. 8 ranking. Meanwhile, Reservoir returned to the top 10 at No. 9 with a 1.19% tally, after missing out in the prior two quarters.
On the Hot 100 rankings, the only holdover was Concord at No. 7, with a 2.05% share, the same ranking as last quarter despite nearly doubling its Q3 share of 1.07%. The new additions were St. Nicholas Music (No. 6), making its traditional 4th quarter appearance thanks to its representation of legendary Christmas music songwriter Johnny Marks. Ranked Nos. 8-10 were peermusic, Round Hill Music and a debut from Tamir Music, thanks to its stake in Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby” with Henri Rene and His Orchestra.
**Methodology: For the Top 10 Publishers Top Radio Airplay chart, percentage calculations were based upon the overall top 100 detected songs from 3,122 U.S. radio stations electronically monitored by Mediabase 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the period of Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025. For Top 10 Publishers Hot 100 Songs, percentage calculations were based upon the top 100 songs ranked by Billboard Hot 100 points calculated from digital sales, streaming and Mediabase-tracked radio airplay detections during the period of Sept. 25 to Dec. 25, 2025, reflecting the chart dates of Oct. 11, 2025, to Jan. 3, 2026. Publisher information for musical works on both charts has been identified by the Harry Fox Agency. A “publisher” is defined as an administrator, copyright owner and/or controlling party.**
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