Will Jennings, a distinguished Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter and lyricist, has died at the age of 80. No cause of death was publicly announced, although Jennings had apparently been ill for quite some time. Jennings will be remembered for co-writing two emotional Academy Award-winning anthems, “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic that was recorded…… MORE
On Friday (September 6), Jennifer Hudson revealed the details of her first-ever holiday album, The Gift of Love, which will be released on October 18. The 42-year-old EGOT winner made the announcement with a holiday-themed Instagram video that features Hudson singing a soulful rendition of the Christmas classic, “Jingle Bells,” while placing presents under the…… MORE
Travis Scott‘s team is publicly disputing the overall chart placement of the rapper’s mixtape Days Before Rodeo, which came in at No. 2 behind Sabrina Carpenter‘s No. 1 album Short ‘n Sweet on last week’s Billboard 200. Scott’s team says that Billboard and Luminate’s sales measurement is “unreliable and incomplete,” while alleging that nearly 1,300…… MORE
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet remains on top of the Billboard 200 chart for a second week, after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. Short n’ Sweet had a big second week, with the album earning 159,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Only three other albums have topped Carpenter’s second week sales total…… MORE
Following his guest appearance during Dr. Dre’s Super Bowl halftime performance in Los Angeles in 2022, Kendrick Lamar will now headline his own halftime show during Super Bowl LIX at the Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025. The announcement was made by the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music only hours before the…… MORE
The 2025 Stagecoach Festival is set to take place from April 25-27 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, with headliners Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, and Zach Bryan. This will be the first time that Bryan and Jelly Roll will headline the main stage, while Combs will headline for the first time since 2022.…… MORE
During a recent episode of Nova 96.9’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie in Sydney, Australia, Keith Urban was busy praising Miley Cyrus when he paid the Grammy-winning singer a strange compliment. Urban had just performed a cover of Cyrus’ hit song, “Flowers,” on the show, and the 56-year-old country superstar then gushed about how…… MORE
One week before Usher was set to give one of the biggest performances of his life at the Super Bowl Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, the R&B superstar found out that the custom made Jordan 4s he requested wouldn’t be ready in time. So, Usher turned instead to the famous custom sneaker…… MORE
Chappell Roan noticed that tickets for her upcoming concert at FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee sold out suspiciously quickly, and the breakout pop superstar decided to do something about it. Roan posted a video to X on Wednesday (September 4), expressing her frustration about all of the scalpers who bought up so many of the…… MORE
Spotify has won a prolonged lawsuit claiming that Eminem’s music was streamed illegally “billions” of times on the platform. Eminem’s publisher, Eight Mile Style, had initially sued Spotify back in 2019, claiming that the music streaming service had failed to get proper licenses for hundreds of the rapper’s songs. The judge wrote that Eight Mile…… MORE
