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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/prodshushy-fat-papi-2026-1800_03da68.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard MELBOURNE, Australia — Breakout Aotearoa New Zealand artist Fat Papi and Perth, Australia producer prodshushy, the team behind the viral hit “Freaked Out,” are now part of the UNIFIED Artist Management roster. The trans-Tasman pair are the first signings since UNIFIED Artist Management established its New Zealand office, led…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/harry-moore-lowtide-2026-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard MELBOURNE, Australia — Harry Moore is back in business with Lowtide, his new independent booking agency. The Australian agent previously served as general manager at Lonely Lands Agency (LLA), where he led the team to deliver over A$50 million dollars in ticket sales for local artists across 2024-25, reps say.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/desiree-venuto-adam-montgomery-1800-2026.jpeg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard MELBOURNE, Australia — A new artist booking specialist opens for business in the land down under, CORE Talent Agency. The agency is founded by Jaddan Comerford, CEO of UNIFIED Music Group, and Regan Lethbridge, co-founder of Lemon Tree Music, and emerges from Lonely Lands Agency (LLA), which Tash Sultana…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/P107EG22.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Nicole Kidman may have needed a second to place the name, but once a fan mentioned Adéla‘s upcoming song titled after her, the Oscar-winning actress was all in. At the London premiere of Practical Magic 2 on Wednesday (Aug. 26), Kidman was asked by a fan whether she knew…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jay-wheeler-cr-ricardo-whartoon-press-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Jay Wheeler’s “De Lejitos” is no longer distant from the No. 1 spot, as the song jumps 2-1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated Aug. 29). The new chart-topper arrives just five months after the Puerto Rican led the overall Latin radio ranking in March. “’De Lejitos’ is a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/P1064H7R-e1780522330525.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Selena Gomez is hitting back hard against claims that she was involved in fraud at the mental health startup Wondermind, saying she had nothing to do with the situation and calling the lawsuit “egregiously improper and legally deficient.” Gomez’s lawyers filed a motion on Wednesday (Aug. 26), obtained by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/hit-boy-nas-2021-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Hit-Boy revealed that he and Nas have had a falling-out, despite the critically acclaimed work they’ve done together over the past several years. The West Coast beatmaker sat down with DJ Vlad and Elliott Wilson recently and mentioned that he and the Queens legend aren’t on speaking terms anymore…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/jaye-p-morgan-1970-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Jaye P. Morgan, one of the top female recording artists of the 1950s with seven top 40 pop hits in 1954-55 alone, including “That’s All I Want From You,” and who later became a frequent talk show guest and game show panelist, infamously taking off her shirt on The Gong Show,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/media/dolly-parton-live-2018-h-b-billboard-1548.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Dolly Parton built an unparalleled career in country music, charting more than 100 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs ranking and earning 25 No. 1s — the most among women all-time. But Parton, who died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80, also ventured into other genres, even finding success…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tim-curry-rocky-horror-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] The world lost one of its most versatile, captivating performers when Tim Curry died on Wednesday (Aug. 25). The English singer-actor passed away at the age of 80 in his Los Angeles home, about 14 years after he suffered a major stroke that resulted in his use of a wheelchair for the…