If anyone can relate to the challenges that come along with being a child star, it’s Miley Cyrus. But one thing she had that many of her peers didn’t was a famous parent on set with her at all times — something she says likely protected her from any potential for abuse in the industry while she was filming Hannah Montana.

In a Wednesday (March 18) cover story interview for Variety, the pop star reflected on how acting alongside her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, on the iconic Disney Channel series — which will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Disney+ special starring Miley on March 24 — may have shielded her from the mistreatment some former child stars allege they faced when they were younger. The country singer played the dad of his real-life daughter’s titular character on Hannah Montana.

“My dad was on set every single day, so there was nothing that could happen that he wouldn’t know about,” Miley told the publication, which noted that her dressing area back in the day was connected to her dad’s room on set. “There was never a time where I was going to be alone in that dressing room.”

The Grammy winner also recalled how her mother, Tish Cyrus, pushed for Billy Ray to be cast as Robby Ray Stewart on the children’s series so that the Cyrus clan could all be together in Los Angeles while Miley — who was the first in the family to nab a part on the show — was filming. It helped, too, that her dad had a successful music and acting career long before Hannah Montana was created, Miley said.

“My parents didn’t need me to be famous to survive or to be stable,” she told Variety. “What happens to a lot of these kids is their parents want it more than they do, or the kids become responsible for the entire income of the family. That was never my job. Every penny I ever made went into my bank account because my parents were good.” 

Contextualizing Miley’s conversation about child-star abuse are the allegations made against Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon in 2024 documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. The series explored claims accusing Schneider of fostering an environment of inappropriate/predatory behavior on the set of shows starring underage actors such as Drake & Josh and Victorious, which the producer has denied; he sued Warner Bros. and others behind the program for defamation after the documentary’s release on the Investigation Discovery network.

“I think that the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting,” Ariana Grande, a Victorious alum, said in a Podcrushed interview after Quiet on Set premiered. “I think there should be therapists. I think there should be parents allowed to be wherever they wanna be.”

See Miley on the cover of Variety below.

French music streaming service Deezer reported positive net income, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow for the fiscal year 2025, the first time the digital service provider has notched all three key metrics and which the company said Wednesday (March 18) signals “the start of a cycle of sustainable profitability.”

Deezer reported 8 million euros ($9.4 million) of positive net income and 10 million euros ($11.8 million) of adjusted EBITDA in 2025. It generated 543 million euros ($639 million) of revenue overall and 135 million euros ($159 million) in adjusted gross profit — up by 2 million euros from 2024 — to achieve a margin of 25.4%.

Calling it a milestone, Deezer executives attributed the growth to a 12 million euro ($14 million) reduction in expenses, while saying its positions on hot-button issues like artist compensation and AI in music has earned it more users.

“We are proud to see 2025 was a solid year, and we met or exceeded all of our targets,” Deezer’s chief financial officer Carl de Place tells Billboard. “Our brand differentiation is clear: Deezer is increasingly recognized for standing up for artists, transparency around AI-generated music and fairer remuneration for the music ecosystem.”

The company now has over 90 million users, with direct subscribers increasing by 8.6% in France and by 7.7% in the rest of the world in 2025. Gen Z users, people born between 1997 and 2012, are the fastest-growing age cohort on the platform, and an internal survey found that 40% of users who switched their music streaming subscriptions from another service to Deezer did so because of the company’s “values,” de Place says.

Gen Z streamers are particularly valuable customers because they typically pay for multiple monthly subscriptions and spend on average between $75 and $100 per month on them, according to consumer research firm Civic Science.

Deezer said it renewed 10 major distribution agreements, including with TIM and Sonos, and expanded through half a dozen new distribution agreements with companies including Taiwan’s EDF Entertainment and Brazilian streaming platform Chippu.

The company is developing an expanded offering for partners like Sonos where it allows the company to use its technology so that when someone presses play on a Sonos device, Deezer’s streaming service is what they will hear.

“We are bringing our tech, content and expertise to music professionals that want to integrate music as part of their customer experience,” de Place says. “We want that leg to become significant within the next five years.”

Beyond pure music streaming technology, Deezer says it is making its AI detection tool and Deezer for Professionals available to business customers.

Deezer reported free cash flow of 10 million euros ($11.8 million), with a cash position of 65 million euros ($76.5 million) at the end of 2025.

sombr had a very special St. Patrick’s Day eve surprise in store for his fans at Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday night (March 16) when he was joined by Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan and bassist Mike Hogan on stage. The “Back to Friends” singer invited the founding members of the Irish band to perform the group’s biggest hit, 1993’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 8 “Linger.”

Wearing a bright green blouse with ruffled cuffs unbuttoned to his navel and black trousers, the singer crooned the song’s iconic, longing refrain, “You know I’m such a fool for you/ You got me wrapped around your finger/ Do you have to let it linger?/ Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger?” while Noel Hogan played the track’s hypnotic guitar part.

The Cranberries formed in Limerick, Ireland in 1989 and went on hiatus in 2003 before reuniting in 2009 and releasing their sixth studio album, Roses, in February 2012. They canceled a planned 2017 European and North American tour citing singer Dolores O’Riordan’s health issues and broke up permanently in 2018 following the tragic death of O’Riordan, 46, who accidentally drowned due to alcohol intoxication in her hotel room’s bathtub in January 2018.

sombr, 20, made news last month when he was seemingly rushed by a man as he performed his hit song “Undressed” at the BRIT Awards, with the unnamed intruder pushing the singer off his platform in a shocking incident that confused the audience. Security appeared to quickly apprehend the man and escorted him away as sombr returned to the mic and completed the performance. The set continued when the glittery backdrop fell to reveal his full band, who deftly broke into somber’s chart-topping “Back to Friends,” which hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart earlier this year.

Considering the man was wearing a shirt that read “Sombr is a Homewrecker,” some fans were left wondering if the entire thing was set up. Afterward, a rep for sombr (born Shane Michael Boose) confirmed that the incident was a staged part of the show.

Check out sombr performing “Linger” with the Hogans below.

Doja Cat got real about a number of topics in her Vogue cover story published Wednesday (March 18), from her relationship status to her turbulent relationship with online hate over the years.

When asked whether she still considers herself a “serial dater,” a term she’s previously applied to herself, the rapper didn’t beat around the bush. “Yes,” she told the publication. “I’m 30, so I’m ovulating and horny.”

With that out of the way, Doja went on to confirm that she is in a relationship right now — but she declined to name names. She did say, however, that her current flame is planning to visit her on tour in support of last year’s Billboard 200 No. 4 album Vie, but her favorite part about dating them is “when they leave.”

“This is what therapy has done for me,” she added. “It’s allowed me to be away and be at peace without being like, ‘I need tarot cards. I need an answer. Text me.’ I don’t do any of that anymore. It’s very nice.”

The Grammy winner was previously linked to Joseph Quinn, with whom she first sparked dating rumors in 2024 after a public argument in 2022 with the actor’s Stranger Things costar Noah Schnapp (who’d posted screenshots of Doja asking him whether Quinn was single without her permission). Before that, the hip-hop star was linked to musician J. Cyrus.

The situation with Schnapp — after which Doja apologized to the former child star — is one of many that illustrates her history of calling people out online. Just a few days before the Vogue interview was published, the musician slammed Timothée Chalamet for saying that “no one cares” about opera and ballet, shortly after which she walked back on her comments and said that she’d just been “virtue signaling” with her criticism.

But Doja has also been quick in the past to hit back at her own critics on social media, something she addressed in the new interview. “When I feel that I’m threatened, even though it may not be a threat at all, it rhymes with: You are failing,” she explained. “I feel like I have to defend my creative choices, and then I give those people power even though they could be anybody — they could have Cheeto dust on their fingers and have no job.”

She also said that she doesn’t do that as much anymore after finding relief in therapy, having announced earlier in March that she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. “I’m not cured of anything,” Doja added, noting that she thinks she’d like to be a psychologist if she weren’t an artist. “But it helps me understand why I do the things that I do.”

See Doja on the cover of Vogue below.