The Billboard Global Power Players 2026 Awards Ceremony took place June 12 at the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. It’s only the second time the awards have been held as a live event, following last year’s London ceremony, and the first ever staged in Asia. The evening was presented as part of
Justin Trudeau loves his home country, but he loves his California gurl, too. After skipping the World Cup opening in Canada to attend the United States vs. Paraguay match with Katy Perry instead, the politician explained his reasoning on social media. In a Saturday (June 13) post on X, Trudeau reshared a New York Times
Ice Cube is looking to take the BIG3 to new heights. Cube announced on Friday (June 12) that he’s planning to take his three-on-three basketball league public following a deal with special purpose acquisition company Graf Global Corp. Explore See latest videos, charts and news As part of the acquisition, Cube’s eyeing a $290 million
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” gallops in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single from Toy Story 5, inspired by the film’s cowgirl heroine Jessie, is Swift’s 15th career leader. Among highlights of the song’s instant coronation, Swift breaks out of a tie with Drake and Rihanna to claim
Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday (June 14), and among those to wish the president a happy birthday was Nicki Minaj. The Queens rapper, who has raved about the president and his administration for the better part of a year, posted a collection of four images to X on Sunday, featuring AI-generated likenesses
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter bring their love for dancing to the club in their new music video, which shows the two women coming together as queens of the night while joined by a special guest. The visual for the two musicians’ collaboration, “Bring Your Love,” dropped Monday (June 15), featuring Madge and Carpenter alternating lyrics
January 2026 started off with a cold, hard fact: Death is inevitable. The first major musician death to make the news this year was that of Jim McBride, the Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame artist known for penning country hits alongside Alan Jackson; he died days into the new year on Jan. 6 at age
Melanie Martinez has shared a statement following the death of Oliver Tree, whom the alt-pop singer-songwriter used to date a few years ago. Martinez began a Sunday (June 14) Instagram Stories post by writing that she’d “been an absolute wreck” since the news of the fatal helicopter crash that killed Tree and five others broke
With Glastonbury, the U.K.’s biggest and most-beloved festival, taking a fallow year in 2026, the market for summer events and festivals had been blown wide open for many punters. The European festival circuit has never looked more appealing for those wanting to combine seeing some of the touring game’s biggest names and combine it with
The tracklist for Ariana Grande‘s new album, Petal, is in the process of blooming, with fans recently realizing that the pop superstar is unveiling one song title at a time on her ongoing Eternal Sunshine Tour. On Sunday (June 14), Grande played the second of two shows at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, both of
