Between Vybz Kartel‘s blockbuster Freedom Street homecoming concert, Machel Montano‘s historic NPR Tiny Desk set and the slow-burning crossover of new soca anthems like Kes‘ “Cocoa Tea” and Yung Bredda’s “The Greatest Bend Over,” Caribbean music has gotten off to an excellent start in 2025. On Sunday (Feb. 2), music’s biggest stars will convene in
The Recording Academy awarded Jack Antonoff one additional 2025 Grammy nomination this week – as one of 11 engineers on Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, which is nominated for best engineered album, non-classical. This is Antonoff’s first nomination in an engineering category and brings his career nominations total to an even 30. Final-round Grammy voting
The Game has planted himself on the front lines of Los Angeles looking for ways to help the community and get the city back on its feet ever since the tragic wildfires began blazing through L.A. County earlier in January. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Following
Central Cee has secured this week’s No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart with his debut LP Can’t Rush Greatness (Jan. 31). The west London rapper outsold the rest of the top five combined to reach the summit; this album gives him his second chart-topper following 2023’s mixtape 23. There’s been a flurry of
Lainey Wilson‘s career whirlwind will continue surging this year, when the 2023 CMA entertainer of the year winner launches her Whirlwind World Tour in March. The nearly 50-date trek will feature openers Maddox Batson, Kaitlin Butts, Ernest, Zach Meadows, Drake Milligan, Muscadine Bloodline and Lauren Watkins at various shows. The Whirlwind Tour, which takes its
Fostering the next generation of music creatives while also supporting relief efforts for those impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires were the twin themes of the Black Music Action Coalition’s BMAC x Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Music Maker Grants dinner/ceremony. The third annual event (Jan. 29) also doubled this year as the organization’s ReStore
Joss Stone and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart have partnered with SongBits to allow fans the chance to own part of Stone’s 2021 single “Never Forget My Love”. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Stewart – who produced and co-wrote the song – is also a co-founder of SongBits,
The music world is mourning Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at 78 years old. Tributes to the iconic singer-songwriter have been pouring in ever since her spokesperson revealed in a statement Thursday (Jan. 30) that she had “passed away peacefully” earlier that day while surrounded by family in London, with Mick Jagger, Metallica and
It’s finally starting to dawn on the members of Sum 41. This is really it. “For the first time, this really feels like the end,” says Deryck Whibley in an exclusive interview with Billboard Canada. The frontman of the quintessential Canadian pop-punk band is speaking over Zoom from his studio in Las Vegas during a
The 67th annual Grammy Awards are here at last. A few weeks ago, the thought of an awards show in Los Angeles, where entire neighborhoods went up in flames, seemed unthinkable. But the Recording Academy withstood considerable pressure to postpone or even cancel the show in light of this month’s devastating wildfires, so here we
