Olivia Dean’s winning streak continues as The Art of Loving earns a seventh non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart (Feb. 13). The London-born singer-songwriter is enjoying a bumper start to 2026, having occupied the top spot for five of the first seven weeks of the year. On Feb. 1, Dean…
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The biggest story in the live music business this week was the controversy surrounding Casey Wasserman, the founder and CEO of Wasserman Group, the agency whose music division books Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex and hundreds of other artists of all sizes and genres. On Jan. 30, the U.S. Department of Justice released an additional 3 million pages of documents from…
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Bar/None Records’ Glenn Morrow is passing the torch to employee Emmy Black, who will become the label’s new owner. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Morrow will stay on as a consultant and retain a financial interest in Bar/None. Black, who began her music industry career as an intern for Bar/None in 2008, has…
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It’s been 10 years since Jon Pardi released his breakthrough album California Sunrise. Apparently, it’s time to reboot. Sunrise, released on June 17, 2016, stomped the competition when it debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums. Pardi kicked off its promotion with “Head Over Boots,” then followed it with “Dirt on my Boots,”…
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The Foo Fighters are gearing up for… something. The veteran band appeared to tease their next era this week when their official website turned into a high school rocker’s bedroom festooned with rock posters that serve as interactive previews of new songs, amid piles of CDs and a clump of dirty clothes. Explore See latest…
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A week after dropping the hilarious, retro ’90s video for “Opalite,” Taylor Swift is doubling down with two extended versions of the star-studded clip. In an Instagram post announcing the bonus footage on Friday morning (Feb. 13), Swift shared a series of behind-the-scenes screen grabs from the set, writing, “I never want to forget a…
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Call her Professor Siwa. On Thursday (Feb. 12), JoJo Siwa revealed that she recently spoke to a class of Harvard Business School students, which she said “might be the coolest thing I’ve ever done.” Sharing photos of herself posing on the Harvard campus on Instagram, the dancer shared that she’d had “the incredible honor” of…
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Doja Cat‘s South African homecoming may have been brought to a halt when Hey Neighbour festival canceled its 2025 staging, but the Grammy winner will finally get to visit her motherland this spring. Billboard can exclusively announce that Doja Cat will headline the third edition of Move Afrika, in partnership with pgLang and Kendrick Lamar,…
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Charli xcx releases her anticipated project Wuthering Heights, written for the Emerald Fennell-directed film of the same name (also…
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Ten years ago was a moment in time that future historians will pour over, and many of us will try scrub from our memories. The year 2016 was a turbulent one. The U.K. voted (narrowly) to leave Europe, the Pulse nightclub shooting shook America, the Zika outbreak threatened to cripple the Rio Olympics, and an…
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