Music

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for music publications: year-end list season. On Billboard, we spent all of Tuesday (Dec. 9) rolling out our year-end charts, and the next two days revealing our staff’s picks for the 50 best albums and 100 best songs of 2025. (No spoilers here, but definitely check out […]

Taylor Swift either has too many, or not enough songs. Or simply, not enough spare time. When Swift dropped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night, Dec. 10, the outgoing host asked the pop superstar to name her top five TayTay songs. Tough call, even for Swift. With that quiz, Swift joined […]

Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for more than a century. Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10-position “National List of Best Selling Retail Records,” […]

SYDNEY, Australia — With a string of new leadership promotions in Australian, Southeast Asia and further afield, Warner Music is laying down what its top brass anticipates will serve as a multi-lane highway for its artist roster. Unveiled Wednesday, Dec. 10, Warner Music Australasia and SE Asia elevate several key executives, a move designed to […]

To the rest of the world, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are two of the most famous and successful musicians alive — but to each other, they’re just brother and sis. In a new podcast interview with The Hollywood Reporter posted Monday (Dec. 8), the British singer-songwriter opened up about his close bond with the […]

Bill Hauritz, the impresario who launched the Woodford Folk Festival, one of Australia’s largest and longest-running camping fests, and a treasure in the live events calendar, has died at 71. The festival began life as the Maleny Folk Festival in 1987, an end-of-year gathering on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. As word spread of its unique […]

Cynthia Ervio‘s future is unlimited, especially after she made history with her nomination ahead of the 2026 Golden Globes. On Monday (Dec. 8), Erivo earned her second nomination in the category of best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy at the 2026 Golden Globes for her work on […]

Two Australian Metallica fans have been hit with lifetime bans from Perth’s Optus Stadium after climbing a speaker tower during the band’s Nov. 1 show on the M72 World Tour. Explore See latest videos, charts and news According to local outlet PerthNow, 20-year-old Beau William Loch Rollings and 23-year-old Rory Hugh Culbert jumped a safety […]

Sean Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, is pushing back against claims made in the Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, calling the series “intentionally misleading” and “offensive.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news In a statement provided exclusively to Deadline (Dec. 6), Janice said the program contains “falsehoods” about her relationship with her son and […]

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. With season 51 in full swing, comedian Glen Powell hosted and Olivia Dean performed as musical guest last week. But now, […]