Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ ballad “Die With a Smile” has become the fastest song to reach a billion streams on Spotify. The track, which released in initially released as a standalone single in August, was an instant hit, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the time since, the song has […]

An unreleased album from Mac Miller was teased last night during Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles, with a trailer advertising that his lost project “Balloonerism” would arrive “soon.” The two-and-a-half minute trailer aired between sets from Sampha and Alchemist & Friends, featuring a series of animated vignettes before the supposed […]

Just past the halfway mark of her first of three Los Angeles shows last night, Sabrina Carpenter cracked a Colgate smile as she arrived at evening’s roulette moment, where she spins a bottle to determine which song she’ll cover. “Do you guys like to play games here?” she said. Recent picks at other dates on […]

Ready for the collaboration no one expected (or maybe even wanted)? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testing out his vocal chops alongside T-Pain for a cover of Lil’ Jon’s “Get Low,” released under the name Z-Pain. On the song, Zuckerberg translates Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz’s 2002 crunk classic into a tender acoustic ballad, […]

My Chemical Romance is getting ready to wax nostalgic with the announcement that the group will hit the road in summer 2025 to celebrate its third album “‘Long Live’ The Black Parade” by performing it in its entirety. The group, which recently played “The Black Parade” last month at Las Vegas’ When We Were Young […]

André 3000 has gotten used to not having expectations over the years. Since rattling the mainstream music foundation as one-half of Outkast, the 49-year-old has consistently thrown wrenches into what the world had come to know and accept as popular music, from the runaway success of his outré pop single “Hey Ya!” in 2003 to […]

After Lil Durk was arrested in Florida last month on charges related to murder-for-hire, the rapper is now facing two additional charges in his case that could put him behind bars for life. The rapper, whose real name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida on Oct. 25 while five members of the hip-hop crew, […]

The 2025 Grammy nominations are a far-reaching reflection of the artists who’ve shaped the past year, with Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Post Malone, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter leading the nominees and a galaxy of other artists represented in the dozens of categories. But as always, there were surprises both happy — Andre 3000’s flute […]

Following the shocking sudden death of Liam Payne last month, a toxicology report confirms that the One Direction singer had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his body in the moments before he fell from a three-story hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. According to a statement issued by the National Criminal and […]

Following Donald Trump’s presidential victory last night, Cardi B has released a statement in support of Kamala Harris, who she joined on the campaign trail during the run-up to the election. In a message posted across her social media profiles, the rapper commended Harris for running her campaign with integrity, stating that “no one has […]

As voters hit the polls on Election Day, celebrities are showing up to voting centers and posting selfies with “I voted” stickers en masse. Some are taking it one step further, like Anne Hathaway, for instance, who hopped on social media to encourage voters at colleges and universities — particularly in Pennsylvania – to stay […]

Tyler, the Creator has secured his third No. 1 album with “Chromakopia,” which bows atop the Billboard 200 after only four days of sales in the tracking week. The rapper, who announced the album on Oct. 17 and dropped it on Oct. 28, scored 299,500 equivalent album units with his eighth studio record. “Chromakopia” arrived […]