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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Skepta-2026-press-cr-Sam-White-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard In the depths of lockdown, when Jacqueline Springer read the Victoria & Albert Museum’s advert for the role of Curator Africa & Diaspora: Performance, it struck her as a “chorus of realisation.” For the London-raised creative, whose illustrious career spans music journalism and broadcasting, lecturing, programming and event coordination,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/P104S4TZ-e1773939878894.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.  Explore Boys Noize Lana Del Rey Nine Inch Nails See latest videos,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/demi-lovato-its-not-that-deep-tour-Christopher-Polk-billboard-1800-1.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Demi Lovato finds a confident stride with “Low Rise Jeans,” the latest release in the pop veteran’s dance era.   The fresh cut dropped at midnight, not long after she road-tested it early in the set of her It’s Not That Deep Tour opener Monday (April 13) at Orlando’s Kia Center.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] Thursday night (April 16), Paul McCartney gave a magical, mystery tour through his new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, for 30 fans. Hosted at producer Andrew Watt’s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/zayn-2026-press-cr-nabil-Elderkin-billboard-1800_d3e94f.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Zayn Malik isn’t letting his old One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan have all the fun. The British pop singer is back with his fifth studio album, Konnakol (via Mercury Records/Island Records U.K.), a collection that houses the previously-released recording “Sideways” and lead single “Die…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2201178248.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Don Schlitz, one of country music’s all-time songwriting greats, a hitmaker who collected almost every possible accolade including two Grammy Awards, the first of those for “The Gambler,” died Thursday (April 16) at a Nashville hospital following a sudden illness. He was 73. Schlitz achieved greatness with his first…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/P104LJB3-e1773835868226.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Nine Inch Nails doesn’t just arrive. Trent Reznor’s industrial metal act steams in, crushes, always leaves an impression.   At the stroke of midnight, NIN delivered that full-body experience with the help of Boys Noize, by way of the collaborative album Nine Inch Noize. Coming in at 46 minutes,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/olivia-rodrigo-press-2026-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Olivia Rodrigo‘s new song “Drop Dead” just, well, dropped. On Friday (April 17), the pop star shared her first single in years to kick off her You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love album era. The track is one of 13 that will appear on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/iron-maiden-norway-2025-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Iron Maiden’s forthcoming tour of Australian won’t be impacted by the band’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Billboard can exclusively confirm. Explore Iron Maiden See latest videos, charts and news The British heavy metal giants are tapped for the shrine’s class of 2026, following nominations…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2289894-e1776386994194.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Prosecutors argue in a new appeal that a judge was wrong to overturn the conviction of the man who allegedly shot and killed Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in a Queens recording studio in 2002. Karl Jordan Jr., the godson of the rap icon (Jay Mizell), was one of two…