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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pooh-shiesty-2021-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard New evidence has emerged in Pooh Shiesty’s robbery case alleging that the Memphis rapper forced Gucci Mane to sign his release from 1017 Records at gunpoint while on federal home confinement. After Shiesty’s (born Lontrell Williams Jr.) bail was denied in Texas federal court in May, the “Back in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/P103X85G-e1780157388244.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard In the wake of Clive Davis‘ passing, much has been written by others about the music executive’s accomplishments — but Davis also recently discussed those accomplishments in his own words. Only a few months before his death, the industry legend sat down for a Zoom interview with a former executive…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/P1186H6D-e1782942546230.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Gossip blogger Tasha K has agreed to pay Cardi B $60,000 for violating an earlier settlement by engaging in online chatter about the hip-hop star’s love life. The agreement, docketed on Tuesday (June 30) and obtained by Billboard, resolves contempt of court proceedings that stem from Cardi’s $4 million…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/02-madonna-confessions-era-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Released on November 9, 2005, Confessions on a Dance Floor found Madonna ready to party. “When I wrote American Life,” the singer said, referencing her previous album in a 2005 interview with MTV, “I was very agitated by what was going on in the world around me. I was angry. I had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/alan-jackson-nashville-june-27-2026-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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/joe-bonamassa-2026-press-cr-Kit-Wood-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Joe Bonamassa tops Billboard’s Blues Albums chart for a record-furthering 31st time with the July 4 chart debut of The Spirit of Rory: Live From Cork, his tribute to Irish blues guitar legend Rory Gallagher. Related Shakira, Burna Boy, ‘Toy Story 5’ & More: Highlights of This Week’s Billboard Charts…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/clave-perf-horiz-thumb.jpg?w=1024″] This is partner content. Música mexicana breakout stars Clave Especial deliver an intimate performance of “Ea Ea Ea” from their latest EP, AFTERAFTER, presented by Cerveza Victoria. Clave Especial: [Sings “Ea Ea Ea”] [analyse_source url=”https://www.billboard.com/video/clave-especial-ea-ea-ea-live/”]

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/motionless-in-white-2026-press-atomsplitter-cr-jonathan-weiner-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Motionless in White hits No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart for the third time this year, reaching the summit of the July 4-dated tally with “R.I.P.,” featuring Skylar Grey. In the week ending June 25, “R.I.P.” drew 1.5 million chart-eligible streams and 188,000 radio audience impressions, and sold 1,000…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Not-Equal-Me-photo-by-YOANI_KING-RECORDS.png?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard ≠ME’s (Not Equal Me) “Ai Kudasai Mase” (Please give me your love) soars to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released July 1. The group’s 12th single debuted on the chart at No. 94 last week, powered by the accompanying music video that dropped…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/alan-jackson-nashville-june-27-2026-crowd-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] UPDATE (July 1): Alan Jackson’s final concert, held at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on June 27, helped raise more than $2.25 million to find cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, the rare nervous system disorder that he revealed in 2021 was affecting his performance. Jackson’s donation of a portion of the show’s ticket sales…