SYDNEY, Australia — APRA will celebrate its 100^th anniversary with a bang.

Announced today, Jan. 28, the Australasian Performing Right Association inks a full slate of centenary activities to the calendar, for what the PRO describes as the “most significant celebration of the contribution of songwriting and composition to Australia and New Zealand’s culture, identity and economy.”

Those plans include the launch of a new “hall of fame-style” event in November, along with the “biggest ever” APRA Music Awards in Sydney in April and Silver Scroll Awards/Kaitito Kaiaka in New Zealand this October

Also, the SongHubs collaborative songwriting program will get a boost in Australia in April and New Zealand in September, and a major anthology book will be published, recognizing 100 years of music from these parts.

The action gets underway with a digital history timeline, dubbed APRA: A Century of Song, a teasers of which can be seen here.

The spotlight will fall on such moments as Johnny O’Keefe’s “Wild One,” which Iggy Pop famously interpolated in 1986’s “Real Wild Child (Wild One);” the global success of AC/DC, INXS, Midnight Oil, Lorde, Sia and others; Kylie Minogue leaving Neighbours to launch her music career with “Locomotion” in 1987; weekly music TV show Countdown first airing on the ABC in 1974; Christine Anu’s version of the Warumpi Band’s “My Island Home” at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and more.

“From the licensing of dance and radio broadcasts in the 1920s to protecting creators’ rights in the AI era, APRA has evolved alongside the music it serves,” says APRA AMCOS CEO, Dean Ormston. “This centenary isn’t just about looking back – it’s about celebrating the enduring value of songwriting to our culture, identity and our two nations.”

Formed by six music publishers a century ago this month, the Australasian Performing Right Association now represents over 128,000 music creators.

Revenue and distributions continue to push into unchartered territory. Including its sister organization AMCOS, the Australasian rights organization last October posted annual revenue of A$787.9 million ($511 million) for 2024-25, up 6.5% from the previous financial year, with net distributable revenue at A$683.4 million ($443 million), up 7.8% year-on-year, also an all-time result.

Based on recent results, Billboard reported at the time, the A$800 million revenue milestone should be crushed in the next annual report, and the magical A$1 billion figure is on the near horizon.

“From the famous Aeroplane Jelly jingle in 1930 to Lorde breaking through to worldwide superstardom in the 2020s, APRA: A Century of Song is a nostalgic and educational walk down memory lane of our songwriting history that’s an absolute must read for any musicophile,” comments NZ-born hitmaker Jenny Morris, MNZM OAM, chair of APRA.

A new hall of fame ceremony means an embarrassment of riches for the domestic music community. ARIA has already announced a special, separate standalone Hall of Fame to celebrate its 40^th anniversary, at which five acts will be inducted.

APRA’s own hall of fame honor, the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music, is awarded during the annual APRA Music Awards.

“It’s a true honour to reflect on the past 100 years and look forward to the next 100 to ensure we remain as relevant for our members today as we always have been. The timeline is just the beginning of our celebrations of Australian and New Zealand songwriting history for 2026, so stay tuned for more announcements!”

The milestone anniversary celebrations promise to dwarf APRA’s 75th anniversary, in 2001, when the organization compiled and published a list of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, as voted a 100-strong music industry panel. On that occasion, The Easybeats’ 1966 hit “Friday On My Mind” came out on top, ahead of Daddy Cool’s “Eagle Rock” (1971) and Midnight Oil’s “Beds Are Burning” (1987), respectively.

For more information and to view the timeline, visit apraamcos.com.au/100-years.

You know you’ve made it when you’re a clue on Jeopardy! — and that’s especially true for Pusha T, who shared a sweet message on Tuesday (Jan. 27) about growing up watching the classic game show with his late grandma.

On Tuesday’s Tournament of Champions episode, a clue about Clipse — Pusha’s rap duo with brother Malice — came up in the category “It Happened in 2025.”

“In 2025, Clipse gave the first-ever rap performance in this city-state during the ‘Grace for the World’ concert,” host Ken Jennings read, with two wrong answers (Monaco and San Marino) coming before Scott answered correctly. “What is the Vatican?” “Even less rapping the Vatican,” Jennings quipped.

Pusha celebrated the mention by sharing a message to his Jeopardy!-loving late grandmother.

“Hey Shank (my grandmother in heaven) we made it!!!” he wrote on Instagram alongside the Jeopardy! clip. “Watching @jeopardy was what we would do every night…I was too young to know the answers but turning the tv wasn’t an option. I caught on quick and it became ‘our’ thing…look at your grandsons.

“Hope you were watching and playing along tonight,” he sweetly capped the message.

To add to the sentimentality of the moment, when the Thornton brothers took part in the Grace for the World concert at the Vatican back in September, they gave a poignant performance of the Let God Sort Em Out album opener “The Birds Don’t Sing,” which is a tribute to their late parents.

“I’ve been here for a long time with hip-hop, and I remember it not being seen as an art, and it not being televised,” Pusha said in an interview with VIBE. ” … Now being at the Vatican — we do this so everyone can see how far it can go.”

Clipse are up for five awards at Sunday’s 2026 Grammy Awards, including album of the year for their acclaimed 2025 project Let God Sort Em Out, and they’ll also perform with Pharrell at the show. As the Billboard staff rolls out our list of the Greatest Pop Stars of 2025, we just named Clipse the Comeback of the Year for their valiant return with the Billboard 200 top five album.

Watch the Jeopardy! moment and see Pusha’s sweet message below.

Conan Gray has signed with Brandon Creed‘s Good World Management.

The pop singer joins a superstar roster that includes Charli xcx, Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Mark Ronson and most recently Role Model. The news was first reported by HITS.

Gray was previously managed by Colette Patnaude Nelson and Eddie Wintle of Expand Entertainment. The pair discovered Gray as a high schooler on YouTube. He signed a record deal with Republic in 2018.

Since then, he has grown into a chart-topping pop artist. He released his debut album, Kid Krow, in 2020, which spawned breakout hits “Heather” and “Maniac.” He worked on the project with super producer Dan Nigro (also known for collaborating with Conan’s close friend Olivia Rodrigo) who remains the go-to songwriter and producer partner for Gray today.

More music followed in 2022 (Superache) and 2024 (Found Heaven), but it was Gray’s 2025 album, Wishbone, that catapulted to the top of the charts. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200, becoming his highest-charting entry on the latter list. Gray told Billboard he was “smiling ear to ear” while writing lyrics for the album, saying he felt “so happy to get things off my chest…I felt immense freedom.”

Wishbone included the hit “Vodka Cranberry,” which became Gray’s highest-charting entry on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart, reaching No. 19.

Come February, Gray will embark on his Wishbone world tour.

Creed founded Good World in August 2023. At the top of 2025, he was named Billboard‘s Manager of the Year. He told Billboard at the time: “The goal is to continue doing what we’re doing.”

Jeff Buckley earns his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 31), nearly three decades after his death, as “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” debuts at No. 97.

The song — a deep cut from Buckley’s lone studio album, Grace, in 1994 — arrives on the chart almost entirely from its streaming sum: 3.8 million official U.S. streams during the Jan. 16-22 tracking week, according to Luminate. Though never released as an official single, the song has experienced a major resurgence over the past year, fueled by viral traction on short-form video platforms such TikTok, where fans have used clips of it to soundtrack emotional and introspective videos.

That online momentum first translated to the Billboard charts in April 2025, when “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” debuted at No. 22 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, marking the song’s first-ever chart appearance. After dropping off the following week, it returned in July ahead of the August release of the documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which chronicles the late musician’s life and career. Since its return, it has remained on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart every week, bounding 17 spots this week (30-13, just one spot shy of its No. 12 peak).

The song’s renewed popularity has also boosted Buckley’s Grace album. Originally peaking at No. 149 on the Billboard 200 in June 1995, the LP reached a new high at No. 82 in December amid the song’s resurgence. This week, Grace jumps 200-156.

Buckley died in May 1997 at age 30 in an accidental drowning, three years after releasing Grace. Despite leaving behind a modest catalog, his influence has endured for decades and continued to resonate with new generations of listeners.

This isn’t the first time Buckley’s music has grown following his passing. His rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” — one of the most critically acclaimed covers — first reached Billboard’s charts in 2008, topping the Digital Song Sales chart after Jason Castro performed the song on American Idol. Following Cohen’s death in November 2016, Buckley’s version reentered the charts, climbing to No. 10 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, while Cohen’s original reached the Hot 100 for the first time.

Buckley’s “Hallelujah” has also become a pop-culture staple, featured in numerous film and TV shows, including episodes of The O.C. and The West Wing.

Much of Buckley’s commercial success arrived after his death. During his lifetime, he charted on Alternative Airplay with “Last Goodbye” — which became his first overall chart appearance and only entry on the survey, peaking at No. 19 in May 1995 — and with Grace on the Billboard 200. Posthumously, four additional titles of his have hit the Billboard 200: Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (No. 64, 1998), Mystery White Boy: Live ’95-’96 (No. 133, 2000), Grace Around the World (No. 129, 2009) and You and I (No. 58, 2016).