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Trending on Billboard With the big New Year’s blowout now in the rearview mirror and 2026 fully upon us, the music business will turn its attention to the first major — and biggest — event on the calendar for the year: the Grammy Awards. And along with the Grammys — set for Sunday, Feb. 1

Xaviersobased is celebrating the end of his 2025 North American tour with a twitchy new single produced by Ooskully. Arriving a day after the New York rapper’s hometown show at Webster Hall, “Walk to Me” is the first offering since Xavier’s major-label debut, the surprise September EP Once More. You can check out the full

Trending on Billboard Russell Wilson and Ciara are definitely in the giving spirit this holiday season, with the couple donating millions of dollars to the Mount Sinai Karvis Children’s Hospital to close out a year of charitable efforts through the football player’s Why Not You Foundation. As announced Friday (Dec. 26) through a Good Morning

At least one record label is happy to release new Morrissey music. The Smiths’ founder has signed a new contract with Sire Records, reports Rolling Stone, three years after the singer’s previous home, Capitol, shelved a finished album, and five years after BMG officially dropped him—a development Moz blamed on new management and, uh, “diversity.”

Trending on Billboard After months of speculation and years of anticipation, Bizarrap and J Balvin have finally joined forces for “BZRP Music Sessions #62/66” on Friday (Dec. 26), closing out the year on a high note. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Clocking in at just over three minutes, the track showcases Balvin’s romantic

A federal judge has overturned the conviction of one of two men found guilty in the murder of Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay, reports Billboard. Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted the motion for acquittal of Karl Jordan Jr., who was found guilty in 2024 of killing Mizell, his godfather and the D.J. for legendary

Trending on Billboard John Farnham has made a rare public appearance, marking his first sighting in several months following treatment for oral cancer. The Australian music icon, 76, was photographed with family over the Christmas period in images shared by his sons on social media. One photo, posted by son Rob Farnham on Facebook, showed

Timothée Chalamet took a break from talking table tennis to hop on a “4 Raws” remix with mysterious U.K. rapper EsDeeKid. The move is an extended part of a dull internet conspiracy that maintained Chalamet—who used to rap under the alias Lil Timmy Tim and was once knighted by Lil B—was, in fact, EsDeeKid. You

Trending on Billboard NLE Choppa has announced his engagement to Erica Ravén, sharing proposal photos on Instagram during the holiday season following months of public attention. NLE Choppa has announced his engagement to Erica Ravén, sharing the news via Instagram during the holiday period and shifting the spotlight from recent rap headlines to a major

Last night, December 20, Ariana Grande returned to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the second time in as many years. During her monologue, Grande parodied Mariah Carey’s recently record-breaking “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and was joined by Bowen Yang, who is leaving the SNL cast midway through his eighth

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The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our

Trending on Billboard From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments,Billboardeditors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week. Explore See latest videos, charts and news DY & More Stars to Ring 2026 with ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’

Bon Iver, Gracie Abrams, and the National’s Aaron Dessner have released a new song, “Sold Out,” to benefit the gun violence prevention organization Everytown. Though Justin Vernon has often collaborated with Dessner, and Abrams and Dessner are ongoing songwriting partners—not to mention that Abrams has covered Bon Iver’s “Beach Baby”—“Sold Out” is the first formal

Trending on Billboard The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday (Dec. 26) fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision tocancel a Christmas Eve performanceat the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’sname would be addedto the facility. “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the

A new Lady Gaga concert film will arrive on Christmas Eve. Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live: One Night Only was recorded last year during a performance at Los Angeles’ Belasco Theatre, where Lady Gaga performed Harlequin—her 2024 “companion album” to Joker: Folie à Deux, in which she starred as Harley Quinn—in its entirety. The film

Just ahead of the new year, Harry Styles has released new music content for the first time in more than two years. On Saturday (Dec. 27), the pop superstar and former member of One Direction gifted fans with an official video for “Forever, Forever” — an instrumental song he debuted live on piano in Reggio

Just over a month after he was released from prison following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B is back with his first new full-length in four years. The rapper has surprise-released Public Domain 7: The Purge, the seventh installment of his ongoing Public Domain mixtape series. You can listen to it below. Public Domain

Trending on Billboard Chevy Chase has revealed that he suffered near-fatal heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic, an ordeal that left him in a medically induced coma for eight days and resulted in lasting memory issues. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The health emergency is detailed in the forthcoming CNN Films documentary I’m

This post has been updated with Wayne Coyne’s statement Last week, Steven Drozd revealed in a since-deleted post that he’s no longer in the Flaming Lips after a nearly 35-year-long run. The band hasn’t formally released its own statement, but both frontman Wayne Coyne and current drummer Matthew Duckworth Kirksey have shared their thoughts. In