When the 19-year-old Halsey uploaded “Ghost,” her debut single, to SoundCloud in early 2014, she “had no interest in being a singer.” The whole exercise was supposed to be a lark; it was the first song she’d ever recorded with a… Read More
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Eminem barrels back… Read More
There's a certain amount of pride Norwegians have about their exports, whether cultural or otherwise. Today, 27-year-old songwriter, producer and artist Peder Losnegård, otherwise known as Lido, is extolling the virtues of seafood. Specifically of the raw variety. "I'm about… Read More
In his 2007 review of Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, film critic Nathan Rubin gave birth to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl as we know her today. In describing Kirsten Dunst’s character, Rubin coined the trope of a fictional woman who exists… Read More
She's the Bond guy…duh. On Thursday (Jan. 17), Stephen Colbert used his "Meanwhile…" segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to spoof Billie Eilish's theme song for the upcoming James Bond flick No Time to Die. After riffing on a series… Read More
Louis Tomlinson is breaking down his walls. On Friday (Jan. 17), the pop star unveiled his latest, appropriately-titled single. On the mid-tempo ballad, the former One Direction-er reflects on breaking up with a former flame shortly after the boy band's indefinite hiatus was announced… Read More
Since Chelsea Cutler dropped her first single "Anything For You" in 2015, the pop singer has built a loyal fan base, particularly by giving them plenty of music: three EPs, a Kygo collaboration, and a duet album with her friend Jeremy Zucker.… Read More
New Orleans-based sextet Sweet Crude unveiled the video for their new single, "Déballez" on Friday (Jan. 17), exclusively via Billboard. In the clip, the jazzy sextet shines a spotlight on the Big Easy's French immersion schools, performing their latest single for… Read More
When will James Corden ever learn? It seems like every time he gets all nostalgic for how music used to be, some huge pop star bum-rushes him with The Filharmonic to lay a vocal smackdown on the Late Late Show host.… Read More
Spoiler alert: he threw wife Emily Blunt under the bus. In addition to admitting that he's an adorkable dad on Wednesday's Ellen, Coldplay's Chris Martin revealed that he came up with a great idea for a sequel to the super-creepy… Read More