After a successful First Spanish Music Encounter at the WiZink Center in 2024, Billboard returned to Madrid on Tuesday (March 18) with “Leaders of Music in Spain,” an event that reaffirms its commitment to the country’s music scene. The cocktail event, held at the Hotel VP Plaza España Design, gathered more than a hundred executives,
Playboi Carti has responded to Ye (formerly Kanye West) after the embattled rapper bashed him about allegedly snubbing Ye from his Music album and then requesting vocals from Ye and Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West. “YE STFU,” Carti replied on X early Wednesday (March 19). West — who has been criticized over his repeated antisemitic
As the Grand Ole Opry celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, the revered country music institution is celebrating its essential role in country music. What became the Grand Ole Opry launched as the WSM Barn Dance in 1925, and has broadcast as the longest-running radio show in U.S. history. The Grand Ole Opry currently has
Nick Cannon already has 12 kids, but he’s still hoping for a baker’s dozen — and maybe even a few more after that. On the latest episode of his We Playin’ Spades podcast that dropped March 17, the actor shared his stance on getting a vasectomy (spoiler: he’s against it) and affirmed that if things
Less than an hour into February’s Grammy Awards telecast, one of the evening’s undeniable peak moments occurred. Doechii — the charismatic, lyrically dexterous Florida rapper who was up for three awards that night — won best rap album, making her just the second solo female rapper (and third overall) to win the honor. “Don’t allow
Ben Stiller is ready to sit courtside with Taylor Swift again, and this time, Travis Kelce is welcome to the party. On the latest episode of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, the actor joined as a guest and recalled how he once attended a New York Knicks game
BTS‘ j-hope is setting ARMY up for his latest masterpiece with a second tease of the upcoming solo single, “Mona Lisa.” The official 30-second teaser of the song due out on Friday (March 21) continues the fine art-theme of the previous sneak, which peeled back a nine-second taste of the tune’s smoothed-out R&B vibe. In
Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO are currently in the midst of a challenging IVF journey, but it has its perks. In a hilarious video shared by the Dumb Blonde podcaster on TikTok Tuesday (March 18), she comes down off of anesthesia following a fertility treatment. “Not gonna lie, I love propofol,” she says drowsily, lying
It would have been a trio for the ages. According to a new interview with Barbra Streisand‘s A&R rep Jay Landers, when the singer was working on her 1993 Back to Broadway album, in the midst of recording some of the Great White Way’s most beloved tunes by Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt
Erykah Badu remembers her last moments of normalcy. The generational talent who changed the course of R&B and hip-hop with her home-cooked neo-soul has never truly been “normal,” of course. But before Badu was the futuristic stylist we know her to be, she was just a young woman from Dallas. One who traveled to New
