Fuse Media, a leading minority-owned media company, and Billboard, the number one music authority in the world, announced Tuesday (March 31) the launch of Billboard Español TV, a new streaming network celebrating music and culture in Spanish for U.S. Latino audiences and beyond.

Billboard Español TV  brings the full breadth of Billboard’s unmatched music data, charts and editorial authority to a dedicated FAST destination showcasing Spanish-language programming built around internationally recognized, chart-topping artists and hits. The channel will be available for launch in Q2 2026, delivering programmers broad reach into homes where Spanish-language content and music are priority viewing experiences.

Billboard Español TV spotlights the hottest emerging Latin American talent alongside globally recognized superstars through artist stories, music-culture programming, and exclusive content that reflects the tastes and influence of Latinos in the U.S., one of the fastest-growing and most influential audiences in the country. The channel takes its name from Billboard’s in-language Spanish website, which was launched just four years ago, and today is the most-visited music website in Spanish in the world. Built on that solid foundation of recognition and credibility, the Billboard Español TV FAST channel arrives in the market backed by a brand with established authority and a strong connection with its audience.

According to industry research, 25% of U.S. music listeners ages 13 and older report listening to Spanish-language music, even as Hispanics represent roughly 19% of the total population, underscoring the genre’s mainstream reach across streaming platforms and charts.

That momentum extends to viewing behavior: Nielsen reports that Hispanic audiences spend approximately 55.8% of their total TV time streaming, outpacing the U.S. average and ranking among the most engaged streaming audiences in the market.

These trends are increasingly reflected in the broader cultural mainstream. At the 2026 Grammys, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos became the first Spanish-language album to win album of the year, while his Super Bowl headlining performance further underscored Spanish-language music’s durable appeal across audiences well beyond Spanish-dominant listeners.

“Billboard Español TV  is more than a channel; it’s a reflection of how Latin music and Latino culture are woven into the fabric of American mainstream culture,” said Patrick Courtney, chief business officer, Fuse Media. “From pop, to regional Mexican, to urbano and legendary acts, this channel connects audiences to the stories behind the songs they care about, while giving advertisers access to passionate, culturally engaged fans at scale.”

Billboard Español TV will showcase programming driven by Billboard’s industry-leading charts and editorial expertise, including:

“Giving Spanish-speaking music fans access to the artists they love in environments that feel native and meaningful is at the heart of what Billboard Español TV represents,” said Dana Droppo, chief brand officer, Billboard. “Partnering with Fuse Media enables us to bring Billboard’s authority in the music world, our trusted insights and storytelling into a FAST platform built for discovery, engagement, and cultural resonance.”

Billboard Español TV complements Fuse Media’s growing FAST portfolio by offering advertisers a premium environment with clearly defined audience segments and cultural relevance. The channel reinforces the power of Spanish-language music and culture within the broader entertainment ecosystem while providing measurable engagement and scale.

Patchbay — a new agentic operating platform for artist managers, labels, publishers and legal teams — announced its public launch on Tuesday (March 31). While in private beta, Patchbay onboarded a number of top artist teams to the platform, claiming to work with “over a third of the 2025 Billboard Year-End Hot 100,” according to a press release.

Patchbay’s goal is to streamline operations for artists’ teams and put it all in one place on a convenient dashboard. As it stands today, many music teams work across a slew of various email chains and text message groups, often juggling multiple deals, split sheets and invoices at once. “Behind every song is a complex operational chain of contracts, signatures, split sheets, registrations and payments, where one missed step can delay revenue across the entire system,” a press release states about Patchbay.

To date, Patchbay has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from strategic partners like 1916 Enterprises, Dundee Partners, PS Business Management, Mega House, KMGMT, Double Down 11, Ozone Management, Socransky Law, and Stent Music Group, along with executives including Andy Tavel, Mark Weiss, Jarred Arfa, Luke Heffernan and AJ Vaynerchuk.

Unlike other operating systems, which are generically designed to fit all industries, Patchbay was designed by CEO/co-founder Aidan Schecter, who has spent his career so far looking after musical talent as a manager. Inspired to remedy the inefficiencies he’s seen firsthand, Schecter teamed up with Jonathan Gordon, CEO/founder of 1916 Enterprises, to co-found and incubate Patchbay. Schecter also serves as 1916’s COO and partner, and together Schecter and Gordon actively invest in entertainment technology companies, including Vydia (acquired by Gamma), HiFi (acquired by Block), Audioshake, Big Effect, Offtop and Chordal.

Patchbay’s rise coincides with a larger push towards using AI technology not to make music, but to eliminate the drudgery and tedium of the business behind the music. Other companies pursuing this path include CreateSafe, which is described by its founder, Daouda Leonard, as “a multi-modal generative AI operating system to automate the creation, management, distribution and marketing of music IP.” There are also a few players aiming to ease inefficiencies in contracts specifically, like Clearnote and Tone’s Contract Analyzer and Contract Check tools.

Schecter tells Billboard that “to me, the best version of the future is one where music teams get to build careers, AI agents do the admin.”

“The music business is full of creative people spending far too much time on admin work,” he adds. “Having spent thousands of hours talking to top teams around the world, we’ve seen that everyone needs the same set of capabilities: a platform purpose-built for the recorded music business. Not more spreadsheets.”

Patchbay is currently invite-only. Teams can request access at patchbay.xyz.

Kali Uchis is hitting the road this spring and summer with For the Girls Tour, with support from special guest Mariah the Scientist and opener Laila! on select dates. Promoted by Live Nation, the North American tour will span major amphitheaters and arenas, kicking off May 26 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo., and wrapping Aug. 8 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Stops include Atlanta, Tampa, Houston and Phoenix.

Coming off her sold-out Sincerely, Tour, which drew more than 320,000 fans — according to figures shared with Billboard Boxscore — Uchis continues to prove her dominance as a boundary-pushing artist known for fusing R&B, pop, Latin and soul in both English and Spanish.

The Colombian-American superstar was Billboard‘s October cover star. She spoke about embracing motherhood while touring, staying true to her bilingual artistry and carving her own path as a genre-defying global sensation in her interview.

“I’m not going to just keep making music in one language because it’s easier to sell,” she told Billboard. “I’m going to do both because I can do both. I always felt that [not] utilizing everything that God gave me into my art is the same as spitting in God’s face. Why would God have made me bilingual? Why would God have made me with this duality if I wasn’t meant to project it into my art and use it to inspire other people and to create with all of this that I have?”

Tickets for the tour go on sale starting with an artist presale on Tuesday (March 31) at 10 a.m. local time. General onsale begins Thursday (April 2) at 10 a.m. local time via Live Nation. VIP packages are also available at VIP Nation.

Check out Kali Uchis tour dates below, starring Mariah the Scientist:

From the very beginning, Gorillaz were a completely different kind of rock band. The virtual band formed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and artist/illustrator Jamie Hewlett in 1998 mixed experimental indie rock tunes with four quirky characters created by Hewlett — singer 2-D, bassist Murdoc, keyboardist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs — for a unique presentation that put the visual on par with the musical.

It was high-concept in the extreme and while the tunes have consistently made things interesting thanks to wide-ranging collaborations with everyone from Del the Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack and Lou Reed to Kali Uchis, Pusha T, and, on their latest album, The Mountain, a collection of Indian and Syrian world music performers, pulling off the high-wire act live hasn’t always been a slam dunk.

Take, for instance, their widely panned hologram performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards, where they played their signature Billboard Hot 100 No. 14 hit “Feel Good Inc.” and joined Madonna for a duet on her song “Hung Up” using the Musion Eyeliner System in a set that kind of fell as flat as one of Hewlett’s comic book illustrations.

“It looked amazing on TV,” Hewlett told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on his Zane Lowe Show on Monday (March 30) after the host opined that the holograms looked “awful in the room,” but “kind of worked on TV.” Albarn concurred, saying that the TV broadcast was a “win” and “very good. It was brilliant on TV. But awful in the room.”

Lowe recalled thinking at the time that he was blown away by the idea that the technology could have allowed the band to do “12 shows at the same time all around the world,” with Albarn saying that that was the idea before ABBA had the money to properly do a hologram show that slapped with their long-running ABBA Voyage virtual concert residency in London.

“It was too expensive and the technology hadn’t been developed well enough that in a live scenario, you had to have the music very low because the invisible screen vibrates when you turn the bass up and the drums and then your animations go [vibrating sound],” added Hewlett. “When we were at the Grammys and they came on it was really quiet. And people were talking they didn’t even know the show had started because it was so quiet.”

The duo also talked about their connection to retired masked techno super duo Daft Punk, with Hewlett recalling that both acts broke through around the same time in the late 1990s. And while the incognito Frenchmen behind Daft Punk — Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo — had literal masks to hide behind, Gorillaz fans all knew exactly what the already famous man behind the lead vocals looked like.

“It definitely felt like, ‘oh okay they’re doing what we’re doing,’” said Albarn about the incognito element of both group’s acts. “But they had the advantage of not having a face of Britpop trying to hide. I was at a disadvantage.” Lowe joked, “victim of your face,” teasing the Blur singer about his looks, adding, “we’ve been saying that for 30 years now.”

The wide-ranging conversation also touched on the new album, their 2010 Glastonbury performance, the difficulty of doing in-character interviews early on in their career and their abandoned plan to make a Gorillaz movie.

Watch the Zane Lowe interview with Gorillaz below.

The phase one lineup for the second of edition of John Summit‘s Experts Only festival is out.

Leading the bill, naturally, is Summit himself, who will play both a solo show and alongside Subtronics as their cutely titled side project Subjohnics. The lineup also includes British rave duo Prospa, bass producer LYNY, British experimental artist Rohaan, garage artist RoTaiki Nulight, Experts Only regular Devault, peaktime producer Dreya V, Israeli artist OMRI., Australian party-starter Partiboi69, new scene star Jackie Hollander, Los Angeles techno fusion artist Airrica, Brazilian indie dance artist Gabss and rising dance artists MADI, Soraya and Korolova. Additional artists will be announced in the coming months.

Experts Only happens Sept. 19-20 at New York’s Randall’s Island Park, the same location where the fest debuted last year. Tickets go on sale April 3, with a presale beginning at 10 a.m. ET and a general ticket sale beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

Experts Only 2025 drew 50,000 fans to its debut edition, filling the hole left in the New York festival schedule after Electric Zoo failed to return after a 2023 edition marked by significant issues. Experts Only is produced by Medium Rare, Relentless Beats and EMW.

“The obvious next step is throwing a festival to showcase everyone,” Summit told Billboard last year of creating a festival featuring the music and artists of his Experts Only label. “I’ve grown close friendships with everyone, too, so it’s going to feel like a family affair and not a big corporate festival where we just tried booking DJs that would sell as many tickets as possible.”