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Former Uncharted series director, Amy Hennig, has revealed that she’s working on a Marvel game with Skydance Media. Skydance tapped Hennig to head up a new division within the studio to work on games heavily focused on narrative back in 2019; now we know more about her first game there … well kinda. We know...

Apple has slowly but surely enhanced its Mail app over the last few years. Recent OS updates have introduced new formatting options, added the ability to include scans and other attachments, and beefed up the Reply menu. For iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, Apple finally introduced a way to change the default mail app on...

Agent Jay Byrd is joining the world’s largest promotion company. Byrd has been hired as the newest global tour promoter for Live Nation’s concert team. In his new role, Byrd will be responsible for several existing tours with top artists including Lil Baby, A$AP Rocky, Logic and more. He will also be tasked with building new relationships with artists and booking...

For the first time in 16 months, live music is returning nationwide after the global coronavirus pandemic ravaged the industry. Billboard’s “My First Show Back” is a series dedicated to sharing stories from throughout the touring ecosystem about what’s happening now, what has been forever altered and what will never change. In this installment, singer-songwriter JoJo opens...

Shades of Marilyn Monroe punctuate Madonna‘s new cover shoot for V magazine, a deliberate tribute to Bert Stern’s “The Last Sitting” — the last photo shoot Monroe sat in for in 1962 before her untimely death at age 36. Fresh off the release of her Madame X Paramount+ concert documentary film chronicling the tour that supported her 14th...

Big Sean’s collaborative What You Expect EP with Hit-Boy wasn’t the only surprise he had in store for fans Friday (Oct. 29). The Detroit emcee also announced on Twitter that after 14 years, he has stepped away from Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. After a fan asked, “Damn no more GOOD Music for Big Sean?” Sean...

Spooky season is upon us, and music superstars are making sure to give us quite the scare. Megan Thee Stallion clearly had Scream and Hellraiser on her 2021 Halloween mood board. And Lady Gaga can rely on her latest role as Patrizia Reggiani in the upcoming biographical crime drama House of Gucci to terrorize her fans. Take a look at Billboard‘s weekly roundup and the “awards”...

Since several strong candidates for 2022 Grammy nominations for best country album are not on the official entry list, for various reasons, slots have opened up for other artists. The Recording Academy ruled that Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed is a better fit in best pop vocal album (where it is entered). Taylor Swift announced on July...

Live Nation is bringing back one of the oldest collectors items in live music — the ticket stub — as an NFT collectible. For decades tickets to concerts and events were printed on special thermal paper that were difficult to counterfeit but easy for ticketing companies with specialized printers to print and distribute en masse. Fans...

Happy Halloweekend! To celebrate the spooky season, check out some new tunes by your favorite LGBTQ artists. Billboard Pride is here to help with First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new music releases from LGBTQ artists. From Carlie Hanson’s stunning new single, to ElyOtto’s glitchy new track, check out just a few of our...

First Country is a compilation of the best new country songs, videos and albums that dropped this week. George Strait, “The Weight of the Badge” (video) Strait’s law enforcement tribute, which he penned alongside his son Bubba Strait and longtime collaborator Dean Dillon, gets a new video that honors first responders. The clip highlights moments...

All the way back in September 2019, Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer came together to announce The Hella Mega Tour. The co-headlining team-up would take the three rock icons to stadiums, for the first time, around the world throughout 2020, but was then, of course, delayed due to COVID. One of the first...

In a week when the songs charts were all dominated by the long-awaited return of Adele, the albums chart saw another artist flash some top-level success: Young Thug’s Punk debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, giving him his second No. 1 album of the year (and third ever) following the YSL...

BTS‘ “Butter” adds another achievement to its already-impressive chart run: The hit ranked atop Billboard‘s newly launched 24-hour live Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, on Friday afternoon (Oct. 29). “Butter,” released via HYBE/BigHit Music/Columbia Records, spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at the summit on the chart dated...

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we’re scared of something. If you’re saying right now, “I ain’t scared of anything,” well, come on, you know there’s that something that makes your spine shiver. For me, it’s death and suffocating spaces. Oh, and Michael Myers, too. Fortunately, there aren’t any games...

ATEEZ‘s record label KQ Entertainment released a statement Thursday to address illegal tracking devices found on the K-pop group’s business vehicles, a move that the company says has caused schedule derailment and mental anguish to the group’s eight members. “We would like to thank the fans who always cherish and support ATEEZ,” the statement begins. “Previously,...