The world knows that the members of BTS spent about two years in the South Korean military, but only they will ever understand how difficult it really was. RM opened up about the subject in a Weverse livestream on Thursday (May 28), recalling an emotional gathering at Jimin’s house that arose from the bandmates fulfilling
Among Drake’s historic week on Billboard’s charts (dated May 30), he becomes the first artist ever to pass 400 career hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, upping his count to a staggering 402 appearances. Notably, Drake has held the mark for the most Hot 100 visits since early 2020. Before that, only two other
A news anchor on KCBD Fox34 in Lubbock, Texas is in hot water with ARMY after a xenophobic joke he made about BTS‘ new collaboration with Oreo cookies. Anchor James Eppler has gotten major pushback from the K-pop superstars’ fanbase after a segment this week in which he first explained that the new team-up between
Ever since country music was recorded commercially for the first time more than 100 years ago, it’s recycled the past. In its earliest incarnations, it was referred to by such terms as “old-time” music or “old familiar tunes,” owing to its nostalgic value at a time when the world was changing fast. With each successive
Three years after Daniel Nigro created his label imprint Amusement Records specifically to sign Chappell Roan, Billboard can exclusively announce Thursday (May 28) that Interscope Records has partnered with him to add another artist to his roster: Devon Again, an alt-pop tastemaker currently gearing up to open for Olivia Rodrigo on tour. Related The new
As the Red Clay Strays packed up to leave the sessions for their 2024 sophomore album, Made by These Moments, they were confident in what they’d just created. Still, they worried: Would a last-minute mishap mean they’d never get invited back to eminent producer Dave Cobb’s studio? “We had just made our first record with
Bruce Springsteen is continuing to call out Donald Trump on stage, this time declaring the president’s “anti-weaponization fund” an “American outrage.” At his Wednesday night (May 27) concert in Washington, D.C., Springsteen tore into the Justice Department’s new plan to set aside nearly $1.8 billion for those who have “suffered weaponization and lawfare,” language that
Carlos Santana and Becky G are using their new collaboration, “Mi Gran Amor,” to speak to a reality many Latin families in the U.S. know intimately: the fear, grief and instability caused by immigration enforcement and family separation. Set for release Thursday (May 28) at 8 p.m. ET, the pan-Latin rock track — written and
Keith Morris has been howling about injustice, greed and rage for half a century. The legendary lead singer of such hardcore punk bands as Black Flag, Circle Jerks and Off! has never been known to soft-pedal his feelings, and on Sunday night (May 24) during a show at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas the
In addition to being a bustling bar, Tex-Mex restaurant and venue, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa on downtown Nashville’s Broadway strip also serves as a de facto Museum of Miranda. Artifacts from the country superstar’s career punctuate the place — including the birdcage she sang from in the 2019 video for “Bluebird,” one of her seven career
