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  • Bruce Springsteen’s Merch Partner Sues to Stop Tour Knockoffs in New Jersey

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2270316113-e1775858210803.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard The official merch supplier for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band is pursuing a nationwide legal injunction to stop counterfeit sales during the Land of Hopes and Dreams American Tour – starting with the Boss’ hometown show in New Jersey. Live Nation subsidiary Merch Traffic filed trademark infringement…

  • Los Fabulosos Cadillacs: 40 Years Onstage With the ‘Strength of a Lion’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Los-Fabulosos-Cadillacs-cr-Sony-Music-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard There was a time when Vicentico and Flavio Cianciarulo talked about their future. “We used to say, ‘Hey, what are we going to do when we’re 45?’” recalls Los Fabulosos Cadillacs’ bassist, also known as Sr. Flavio, in an interview with Billboard Español. “‘Let’s start saving a bit to…

  • Major League Soccer and San Diego FC Launch Music Collective

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Shavone-press-SanDiegoFC-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Major League Soccer (MLS) and San Diego FC have partnered with recording artist SHAVONE, who will write and executive produce the track “SDFSHE” as part of the league’s Playmakers Music Collective. The song is the first original song ever commissioned and released through an MLS Playmakers initiative.   SHAVONE — a Forbes 30 Under…

  • Zac Brown Sends a Message to Artemis II Crew Up in Space: ‘Keep Flying Strong’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P101LP4W-e1775852976405.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Zac Brown‘s music reached new heights — literally — when the Artemis II space mission played his song “Free” for the astronauts on board, hundreds of thousands of feet above Earth. Related Zac Brown Takes Over ‘Survivor 50’ to Swim With Sharks & Show Off His Intense Spearfishing Skills Here…

  • Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Afrojack, David Guetta & Sia & More

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Billboard-Afrojack-Sia-Guetta-2026jpg.jpg?w=1024″] This week in dance music: Bonnie X Clyde, deadmau5 and Steve Appleton, Illenium, David Guetta, Dustin Lynch and Dead Turnley all made moves on the dance charts, as did Slayyyter, who clocked her first No. 1 on Top Dance Albums with her recently released Wor$t Girl In America. Meanwhile, ANOTR’s “Talk to You,”…

  • Chris Brown & Usher’s R&B Tour: The Dream Setlist

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P103R8ZZ-e1775835550108.jpg?w=1024″] For years, fans have fantasy-booked the Usher and Chris Brown Verzuz. And while it seems like it will never happen, it makes complete sense.  The King of 2000s R&B taking on the King of 2010s R&B, both of whom are still going strong, would probably be the best battle Swizz Beatz and…

  • BINI Previews ‘Big Responsibility’ of Its Coachella 2026 Set & Breaks Down New EP ‘Signals’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BINIx-2026-credit-ABS-CBN-Music-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] If anyone needed another signal that BINI is about to break out big time, Coachella 2026 is your sign. Just after releasing new EP Signals and music video for the single “Blush,” the Filipino girl group will see its docuseries hit Netflix just hours before the group performs on Friday (April 10)…

  • Kacey Musgraves Recounts Being ‘Followed’ by UFOs on Recent Flight: ‘Just Didn’t Look Normal’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P103U2YW-e1775841235292.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Kacey Musgraves is living up to her Instagram handle (@spaceykacey), because she might have just seen some inhabitants of outer space while on a recent flight. Related Foo Fighters Drummer Ilan Rubin Describes Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Showing NIN’s Trent Reznor a ‘Dead Alien’ Pic At Wedding Demi Lovato, Tom DeLonge,…

  • Executive Turntable: Round Hill Music Appoints New President/Deputy CEO — Plus, Moves at Big Loud & More

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Chad-Doerge-Round-Tree-Billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Round Hill Music announced on Wednesday (April 8) the appointment of Chad Doerge as President and deputy CEO of Round Hill Music. Doerge most recently served as President and chief revenue officer of Aiera, the AI-powered financial intelligence platform. Doerge additionally has two decades of investment banking under his belt. Doerge will…

  • Inside Baltazar, the New AI-Powered Music Valuation Platform: ‘Bloomberg Terminal for Music Assets’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Michel.D.-Traore-Chapter-Two-CEO-Headshot1.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Baltazar, an AI-powered analytical platform that can aid in royalty valuation thanks to the ingestion of $2 billion worth of music statements protected by anonymizing architecture, has added Shot Tower Capital, a boutique investment bank specializing in music industry assets, and its asset valuation unit, RedBrick Advisors, to its growing list of design…