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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,…

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…

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…

And, breathe. Jill Scott is finally back, marking her return with To Whom This May Concern, her sixth studio album and first in more than a decade. The three-time Grammy Award-winning R&B star gave long-suffering fans the news they’d been waiting for, the announcement of new music, by way of a social post on Jan….

Karnivool stages a comeback to remember with Versus (via Cymatic Records/Sony Music), which blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Versus is the hard rock outfit’s fourth studio album, and first in 13 years. Hailing from Perth, Western Australia, and led by Birds of Tokyo singer Ian Kenny, Karnivool has three acclaimed and…

Bye-bye Brat Summer. Welcome, Wuthering Heights. As the clock struck midnight, Charli xcx dropped her seventh and latest studio album Wuthering Heights (via Atlantic Records), written, of course, for Emerald Fennell’s dramatic feature film of the same name. Spanning 12 tracks, “Wuthering Heights” houses the previously released “Wall Of Sound,” “Chains Of Love” and the striking opener “House,”…

Cruz Beckham is a romantic at heart. With his new single, “for your love,” which drops today, Feb. 13, Cruz Beckham gets in early with the Valentine’s Day presents. “For your love” was co-written and produced by Justin Raisen and Lewis Pesacov (Kim Gordon, Joji, Charli xcx), and is the followup to his debut single…

A federal judge has given his blessing for the estate of MF Doom to move forward with reworked trademark infringement claims against Temu over counterfeit merch bearing the late hip-hop legend’s name and signature mask. Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. threw out the first version of the lawsuit in December after finding that it portrayed Temu…

Ye (formerly Kanye West) has yet again been sued for rapping over an allegedly unauthorized sample — this time on the Vultures 2 track “530.” The controversial star has faced more than a dozen copyright claims throughout his career for failing to clear samples. That tally grew with a Thursday (Feb. 12) lawsuit brought by…

Dance music titan John Summit has joined the growing list of artists threatening to leave the Wasserman agency over founder and CEO Casey Wasserman‘s ties to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. “If casey wasserman doesn’t step down, i will not remain with the agency,” Summit wrote via X and…