Charli xcx is addressing the backlash to her attendance at an afterparty for the Berlin premiere of The Moment, which was hosted by an organizer with alleged links to the Russian government. In a Thursday (Feb. 19) message on her Instagram Story, the pop star — who created and starred in the Aidan Zamiri-directed mockumentary…
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Music industry professionals already know song copyrights can be a complex headache. But at this year’s Winter Olympic Games, some professional figure skaters are learning that lesson the hard way. American gold medalist Amber Glenn had to tweak a licensing deal mid-Olympics after being publicly accused of skating to the CLANN song “The Return” without the artist’s permission. Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté almost didn’t get to perform his Minions movie-themed routine after realizing just days before…
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Palm Tree Crew has signed a deal with the city of West Palm Beach, Florida to host editions of its Palm Tree Festival in the city for the next four years. The deal announcement follows record turnout at the festival’s most recent West Palm Beach edition, which happened Feb. 14 with headliners Sofi Tukker, Calvin…
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JISOO is a lovesick girl both as a member of BLACKPINK, and as her character in Netflix’s upcoming series Boyfriend on Demand, the trailer for which dropped late Wednesday (Feb. 18). In the nearly two-minute preview, the K-pop star plays Seo Mi-rae, a young woman who looks for love in a dating simulation service. As…
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These furry friends are paw-sitively purr-fect. 2/19/2026 From left: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez Getty Images, Illustration by Billboard Out there existing in the world right now is any number of animals who have absolutely no idea that their owners are famous musicians. To those dogs, cats, rodents, horses and barnyard friends,…
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According to Foo Fighters founder and band leader Dave Grohl, “Your Favorite Toy” is the song that “unlocked” things for the band’s upcoming 12th studio album of the same name. So far, the 10-track collection due out on April 24 — preceded last year with the booming single “Asking For a Friend” — sounds like…
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Garth Brooks will kick off this year’s massive Summerfest in Milwaukee with a two-night stand at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on June 16 and 17. The best-selling solo artist in U.S. history will headline along with Ed Sheeran (with Myles Smith and Arron Rowe), Post Malone (with Carter Faith), Megan Moroney, Don Toliver (with…
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It’s been a truly insane February for Bad Bunny, who began his month by winning album of the year at the Grammys, followed it up by headlining halftime at Super Bowl LX the next week, and now makes it three weeks of headlines in a row by taking over the Billboard Hot 100 in historic…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Michael Gudinski, the late, great Australian independent music champion, will be saluted with a new songwriting program. APRA AMCOS’s flagship collaborative songwriting initiative SongHubs announces the first-ever Gudinski SongHubs in Melbourne, the hometown of the Mushroom Group founder. Spanning four days, the gathering is curated by The Temper Trap, one of the…
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Tool is making headway with new music, and the prog-metal band has set a goal to release it sometime next year. That’s the word from drummer Danny Carey, who sat for a free-wheeling chat with Spiral Out Network, covering AI music, his love of the Blade Runner soundtrack, musical influences (the Police’s Stewart Copeland is…
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