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The Weeknd earns his 24th top 10 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart with Swedish House Mafia collaboration “Moth to a Flame,” debuting at No. 9 on the survey dated Nov. 6. “Flame” starts with 12.9 million U.S. streams earned in the Oct. 22-28 tracking week, according to MRC Data. With 24 top 10s, The Weeknd...

BTS succeeds itself at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, as “Butter” supplants the group’s “Permission to Dance” in the second iteration of the weekly chart, dated Nov. 6. “Butter,” released on HYBE/BigHit Music/Columbia, jumps 7-1 with 2.7 million Twitter mentions in the tracking week, which ran from Friday, Oct....

Since the launch of Niantic’s extremely-successful Pokemon Go augmented reality game, many others like it have stepped up to the plate, including some other AR takes by Niantic as well. The company’s latest AR title, Pikmin Bloom, just launched this week. Today, though, Niantic and Portkey Games have announced that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, one...

The exhibit explores the late rapper’s life and opens in Los Angeles next year Tupac Shakur (Photo by Jeffrey Newbury) Tupac Shakur’s estate has announced a new exhibition exploring the late rapper’s life and legacy. Wake Me When I’m Free will open in Los Angeles on January 21. The exhibit will travel to other cities...

After revealing to us the list of games present in the PlayStation Plus, Sony Interactive Entertainment communicates to us today all the games that will be present in the catalog of PlayStation Now and all playable from today, Tuesday November 2 2021. As usual, there are four of them and the idea is of course...

Adele tallies a 12th total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Nov. 6), holding as the top musical act in the U.S. thanks to her latest hit song, “Easy on Me.” The ballad logs a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 61.5 million radio audience...

“A singer is nothing without a song,” said Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris on Monday evening (Nov. 1) during a celebration at Nashville’s Music City Center. Nashville’s songwriting and music publishing community would heartily agree, as they congregated to celebrate one of the highest honors a Nashville tunesmith can receive — induction...

Justin and Hailey Bieber continue to be devoted to each other in their marriage. Speaking on In Good Faith With Chelsea & Judah Smith on Monday (Nov. 1), the couple discussed standing by each other through tough times, which saw Hailey talking about her determination to support Justin while he was struggling with his mental health. “I...

“[When] you’re going great, [a] lineup change after record two is the last thing anybody wants,” Bad Wolves drummer and co-producer John Boecklin tells Billboard via Zoom from the Cayman Islands in October. “And we had a major one, but here we are. This is working, and we’re happy and we’re closer than we’ve ever...

Universal Music Group has partnered with Anderson .Paak, the Grammy Award-winning rapper-singer-songwriter-drummer-director-producer and one-half-of-Silk-Sonic-er, to form a new record label called APESHIT INC. The imprint, announced Tuesday via a humorous press conference video, will have a unique mandate in that it aims to focus on “raw talent” that can actually play their own instruments. “I...

“There are no words to express my excitement, because this is close to 14 years in the making,” proud dad Ludacris tells Billboard about the debut of his all-new children’s animated program, Karma’s World. The Netflix series, inspired by the rapper/actor’s eldest daughter Karma Bridge’s imagination when she was a child, officially premiered on Oct. 15....

The first time Secretly Group A&R Jon Coombs saw Mitski live, it was 2014, at the now-defunct Williamsburg DIY space Glasslands Gallery. That year the singer-songwriter (full name: Mitski Miyawaki) had released her third album, Bury Me At Makeout Creek, via indie label Double Double Whammy. It impressed the likes of Pitchfork and Rolling Stone,...

The 2021 Pinktober campaign for ETS2 and ATS raised $60,000 from charity pack sales, with $15,000 allocated to each of four organizations.

SCS Software raised $60,000 through its ATS and ETS2 Pink Ribbon Charity Packs in 2021, then divided the total equally among four charities.

Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Snoop Dogg, YG, Ty Dolla $ign, Leon Bridges, Channel Tres, and more appear on the album Terrace Martin, photo by Samantha Whitehead Terrace Martin has announced his new album Drones, which features a stacked lineup of collaborators. Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Snoop Dogg, YG, Ty Dolla $ign, Leon Bridges, Channel Tres,...