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When she entered the workroom on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6, Kylie Sonique Love had one mission: to show the world just how hard she’d worked in the 11 years since her appearance on Drag Race season 2. “I just wanted to go and do my f—ing thing,” Love tells Billboard over the phone with a giggle....

During a live Q&A on Friday (Sept. 3), Enrique Iglesias announced that his forthcoming album, titled Final, could be his last one. The 46-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter revealed the news to Ricky Martin and Sebastián Yatra, and their millions of followers on Instagram, during a live chat promoting their upcoming tour set to kick off later this...

Actors, singers, athletes, politicians and more came out to show their love for and celebrate the impact of Beyoncé as the artist and cultural icon turns 40. In a four-minute video published by Harper’s Bazaar on Sept. 4, Oprah Winfrey, first lady Jill Biden, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, actors Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, Maya Rudolph,...

Drake’s sixth album, Certified Lover Boy continues to break records on Apple Music, with three songs from the project beating the record for most-streamed songs in 24 hours, Apple Music tells Billboard. “Girls Want Girls (feat. Lil Baby),” “Champagne Poetry,” and “Fair Trade (feat. Travis Scott)” are the three biggest song debuts ever on the...

Charlie Puth fans hoping for a new album from the singer will have to wait a little bit longer, but Puth is giving them something “good” to enjoy in the meantime, as part of a new collaboration with LG. The global electronics brand tapped Puth to record the theme song for their 2021 “Life’s Good”...

For decades, sertanejo — Brazil’s answer to American country music and Mexico’s norteño — reigned supreme in the heartland of South America’s largest country. The genre, with its simple-sounding songs that more recently draw on bachata rhythms, developed in Brazil’s rural heartland, in places like Goiás, a tropical mix of Iowa and Texas. (The term...

The Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) has launched South Africa’s first national music charts. The Official South African Music Charts will rank the most popular songs in the country based on streaming data. RiSA is IFPI’s national member organization in the country. The first chart, Weekly TOP 200 Tracks, ranks all tracks streamed in South...

The day after dropping Certified Lover Boy, which features a track seemingly targeting Kanye West, Drake continued to fan the flames of their feud by leaking an unreleased Kanye/André 3000 collaboration Saturday (Sept. 4) morning on SiriusXM. Titled “Life of the Party,” the unreleased track finds ‘Ye taking shots at Drizzy during a six-minute heater...

From career milestones and new music releases to major announcements and more, Billboard editors highlight the latest news buzz in Latin music every week. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week. Anuel AA sponsors Puerto Rico’s women’s national basketball league Puerto Rican star Anuel AA announced that he has become the main sponsor of...

Fortnite’s Slurpy Swamp location didn’t have a ton going for it after aliens targeted the point of interest early in August and modified some parts of it, but the game’s latest update made the area even less droppable for players. It’s been renamed “Sludgy Swamp” instead of the name it previously carried, and that new...

Hello everyone, Thank you to everyone playing the Frontiers Update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting. We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 3.62, which will be live on...

Nevertheless, the re3 and reVC projects came to an end – the representatives of the copyright holder sued the team that was creating the reverse code Gta 3 and GTA: Vice City… This became known from the official documents filed with the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California… The docs also mention...

Drake’s latest album Certified Lover Boy is Apple Music’s most-streamed album in 24 hours in the services’ history, Apple tells Billboard. The album — which was released at midnight EST on Friday (Sept. 3) and at time of publishing still has a few hours left to accumulate streams for its first day — already broke the record...

The Annenberg Inclusive Initiative took a Twitter shot across the bow at The Recording Academy’s diversity efforts following the launch of the academy’s new survey on women’s representation in the music industry on Friday (Sept. 3). “According to our data, #womeninthemix initiative failed,” the Annenberg Inclusive Initiative’s tweet read. “No hires in popular music. Perhaps...

Drake just topped his own all-time record for single-day streams on Spotify with his new album, Certified Lover Boy, Spotify has confirmed with Billboard. His previous album, Scorpion, was the previous record-holder with 132 million single-day streams. Earlier this week, Kanye West’s Donda earned nearly 100 million global streams in its first 24 hours on Spotify,...

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy is one of the most anticipated albums of the year — but if you’re using a smart speaker to listen to the long-awaited album on Spotify, you may have trouble hearing it. Since Certified Lover Boy’s release just last midnight EST, users of Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri have...