After sharing the news on Mother’s Day that he and girlfriend Susana Gómez are expecting baby number two, Maluma revealed its gender exclusively to Billboard. “It’s a boy,” he says to Billboard’s Leila Cobo. “We’re still thinking about the name, but we have many options.” The Colombian artist shared the exciting baby news on Sunday
Two years ago when someone recommended that Lindsey Stirling reach out to ARKAI, a New York-based electroacoustic string duo, Stirling was immediately on board with the idea. The legendary genre-blending violinist primarily worked with producers who came to writing sessions with set backing tracks and were too nervous to recommend changes to her violin melodies.
With his new album, Magnolia Sage, Jackson Dean put a different spin on his established gritty persona. In his first Big Machine album, 2022’s Greenbroke, he declined to include more than one love song in the midst of the project’s swampy sound. With this latest release on the newly formed Blue Highway label, he is
Duran Duran has standards, and they’re not slipping anytime soon. The British new wave legends were, for the first half of the 1980s, the most popular band on earth, with the noisiest fans, and hits. One after the next. The awards came, including two Grammys, two Ivor Novellos, the Brit Awards’ Lifetime Achievement, a star
Taylor Swift’s career-transforming 1989, Beyoncé’s iconic “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” José Feliciano’s perennial “Feliz Navidad,” Chaka Khan’s defining recording of Prince’s “I Feel for You” and the Broadway cast album to Chicago are among 25 selections newly added to the National Recording Registry. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Registry, announced
If Hayley Williams were a doctor, she would prescribe everyone a dose of ego death. Ego death was created to help people “deconstruct expired systems” and “survive the daily onslaught of a sexist, racist, white supremacist, phobic and fascist hatred.” Ego death should not be taken by those allergic to empathy. At least, that’s what
Composer Mark Smythe, who was nominated in 2023 for a Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) Award and World Soundtrack Award for scoring The Reef: Stalked, died May 9 after collapsing while hiking on Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles. He was 53. Smythe was a beloved member of the film and TV composing community and
The highly anticipated return of the Irish band U2 to Mexico City this week to film the music video for their single “Street of Dreams” has resulted in an official invitation from the capital’s head of government, Clara Brugada, for the group to perform at the iconic Zócalo, the country’s main public square. On Tuesday
Madonna, Shakira and BTS will perform during halftime of the World Cup final game, Global Citizen announced first thing Thursday (May 14). The Sunday, July 19, match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will mark the first time the FIFA World Cup final has ever featured a halftime show. Billboard understands that the
Best Independent Blues And Roots Album Or EPJohn Butler – PrismFolk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good TimeLiz Stringer – The Second HighMelbourne Ska Orchestra – The Ballad Of Monte LocoSons Of The East – Sons Best Independent Jazz Album Or EP Natalie Gauci – Pictures Of MarsPhia – When I’m Holding You, I’m Holding MeTemporary Blessings – SumbisoriThe Cat Empire – Bird
