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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/billboardqanda_descendants_thumb.jpg?w=1024″] Descendants: Wicked Wonderland cast members Brandy, Rita Ora and Leonardo Nam discuss how their characters have evolved in this fifth installment to the Descendants film franchise, how being parents has influenced how they see their characters and predict the film’s viral moment. Brandy   From a mistake?  Leonardo Nam  What are we talking…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/jay-z-extra-innings-2026-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1676924868-e1784147342922.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Cardi B is having a proud mom moment while celebrating her daughter Kulture’s 8th birthday.  Related Cardi B to Headline Create & Cultivate Festival in Los Angeles Cardi B Wins $60,000 From Tasha K for Posts About Offset and Stefon Diggs BTS, Cardi B, LE SSERAFIM & More Set for iHeartRadio…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P114JTXA-e1775063640270.jpg?w=1024″] Festival Republic managing director Melvin Benn has spoken about the backlash to his decision to book Ye (formerly Kanye West) as the headline act for Wireless Festival 2026, and revealed whether the festival will return after being canceled this year. Related From Ye Headlining to Canceled: A Timeline of Wireless Fest’s Collapse Wireless…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/P1071NYF-e1781883521777.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard One month after being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Taylor Swift is nominated for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift is vying for induction in the contemporary songwriter/artists category with Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton and Phil Vassar. One inductee will be chosen in this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Up-and-Comer-Ayetian-v22-e1784140010136.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Last year, Ayetian solidified himself as one of Jamaica’s most promising rising dancehall stars with a trio of smashes, including “Tip,” “Balance” and “Wah Yo Deh Pan,” helping him earn 22.9 million official on-demand U.S. streams in 2025, according to Luminate. Related 2026 Caribbean Music Awards Nominees: Lady Lava,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/katseye-wild-hearts-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard If it seems like Grammy-nominated international girl group KATSEYE had a wildly rapid rise to fame, don’t worry, they think so too. In the fast-paced first trailer for the vocal group’s upcoming special theatrical release KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS, member Sophia Laforteza wonders, “How did we get to this point…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/savannah-bananas-1800-2026.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Pasek & Paul and Atlantic Records are playing ball for the launch of the Savannah Bananas baseball team’s first-ever original single, “Show Starts Now.” Announced today, July 15, the historic partnership is through Ampersand, the multimedia production company founded by the EGOT-winning songwriting and production duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/02-madonna-2026-Credit-Rafael-Pavarotti-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Six-and-a-half years into the 2020s, and we still hadn’t gotten a new album from Madonna, from whom we last heard in full on 2019’s Madame X set. But on July 3, she finally returned, and with a sequel set to perhaps her most-beloved LP of this century to this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/bts-world-tour-arirang-live-viewing-trailer-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] In Luminate’s annual midyear report for 2026, a few key takeaways are apparent: R&B/hip-hop continues to lose ground, but remains the biggest streaming genre in the U.S.; dance/electronic music is on the come up; and the kids are loving CDs.  In a time when superfans care just “as much about aesthetic ownership…