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Korean MMORPG Lost Ark won’t be launching stateside later this year, as announced during E3 2021. Smilegate and Amazon Games are pushing the release into early 2022 to allow ample time to address gameplay and performance feedback from the technical alpha held in June. Doing so gives the teams breathing room to get the game where it...

Lady Gaga‘s dog walker Ryan Fischer defended his superstar client after critics claimed she wasn’t supporting him six months after he was shot while walking her dogs. In a Rolling Stone feature published on Wednesday (Aug. 1), he unpacked the physical and emotional distress he’s experienced since the night of Feb. 24, when he took Gaga’s...

Good news, Alicia Keys fans: New music is on the way. On Wednesday (Sept. 1), the “Truth Without Love” single informed her followers via social media that she’s got new music coming. The announcement came in the form of the official cover art, which revealed the title — “La La” — is a collab with...

When Kesha spoke to Billboard last month ahead of her 2021 return to the road, she promised to take concertgoers to “a planet that is extremely psychedelic, joyful, debaucherous, wild — a place where people can be themselves.” The pop star delivered in spades when Planet Kesha touched down in New York City on Tuesday (Aug....

While Drake is the Certified Lover Boy, as the name of his upcoming album indicates, the Certified Mama’s Boy is getting some pre-album release love from his mother. Sandi Graham has been sending him sweet notes each day before 6 God drops his sixth studio album on Friday (Sept. 3). On Tuesday, the rapper shared a...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Lionel Richie says he’s excited to return for the new season of American Idol, and is looking forward to seeing contestants in-person once again, after two years of virtual auditions and performances. While Season...

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, house music was forged in Chicago. In the Midwest metropolis, Frankie Knuckles and other musical pioneers created the genre that would, in time, travel over the Atlantic and mutate into a dizzying variety of sub-genres. These flavors of house — progressive, acid, tech house, big room and beyond...

While Darren Criss has graced our TV screens with a range of characters, from high schooler Blaine Anderson on Glee to serial killer Andrew Cunanan on The Assassination of Gianni Versace, he was last spotted just being himself, on our For You Page on TikTok. “I’m walking to rehearsal with a guitar on my back with a Trader Joe’s bag … I did not bring an...

What would happen if Superman turned evil? This is the frightening scenario that Injustice explores. We first played through this dark story in NetherRealm’s fighting game series and then read an expanded version of it in DC’s limited comic book run. On October 19, you’ll be able to watch heroes try to stop the Kryptonian...

Damion Presson was still settling into his position as svp of talent relations at Republic Records early last year when, amid a global pandemic and lockdown, he decided he wanted to recruit Chicago rapper G Herbo to the label. At the time, Herbo was in a partnership with Epic Records and indie label Machine Entertainment...

Get ready to relive The Weeknd‘s Super Bowl Halftime Show in a new format. Instead of simply watching the artist’s performance from an audience member’s perspective, Showtime is giving fans the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the production in a new documentary film titled The Show, which shows The Weeknd as he prepared...

Danny Gokey attains his third No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Christian Albums chart as Jesus People blasts in at the summit on the Sept. 4-dated survey. In its first week, ending Aug. 26, the set earned 10,000 equivalent album units, with 9,000 in album sales, according to MRC Data. Gokey’s last LP before Jesus People, Haven’t Seen It Yet,...

Olivia Rodrigo hasn’t been shy about sharing her musical influences on her Billboard 200-topping debut album, SOUR. And since its release, she’s been sharing with them a good deal too. Last week, Olivia Rodrigo retroactively added Paramore‘s Hayley Williams and Joshua Farro to the songwriting credits for “good 4 u” due to an interpolation of the band’s “Misery Business,”...

It went down in the DMs. Demi Lovato remembered how they shot their shot with Emily Hampshire of Schitt’s Creek. But the conversation about it went down on Wednesday’s (Sept. 1) episode of the 4D With Demi Lovato podcast, where the actress who played Stevie Budd on Schitt’s Creek recalled how the Dancing With the Devil singer asked her out...

Playboi Carti is going big for his 2021 tour. The “Sky” singer is scheduled to play more than 40 shows this fall for the Narcissist tour in support of his latest album Whole Lotta Red, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The Narcissist trek will kick off on Oct. 14 at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, and run through...

“Saturday” becomes Twenty One Pilots‘ ninth No. 1 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, rising 2-1 on the Sept. 4-dated survey. Each of the duo’s No. 1s has ruled since November 2015, dating to “Stressed Out.” That’s almost double the sum of the runners-up in that span; as Cage the Elephant and Imagine Dragons follow with five...