For the past week, Young Thug has been dealing with fallout from leaked phone calls recorded while he was incarcerated during his RICO trial. In one call, he seemed to claim that he bought chart placements for Gunna and himself. In another, he called GloRilla unattractive, which led to a public apology. More recently, he admitted to cheating on his …

Usually, when a singer gets COVID, that singer’s upcoming shows are canceled altogether. That’s not what Blues Traveler did over the weekend when John Popper got COVID. The band are currently on tour with fellow ’90s alt-rock mainstays Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms, and so the singers of those bands filled in for Popper at their shows in New Braunfels, …

Rick Davies, singer and keyboardist for the hugely successful UK band Supertramp, has passed away. On their Facebook page, Supertramp revealed that Davies died on Saturday after a battle with multiple myeloma. Davies was 81. In their announcement, the band says, “Rick’s music and legacy continue to inspire many and bears testament to the fact that great songs never die, …

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

Ricky Martin made history at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards tonight (Sept. 7). The Puerto Rican legend received the first-ever Latin Icon award. He also performed a career-spanning set of his classics in Spanish and English. During the Latine pop explosion of the late 90s, Ricky Martin was a leader of the movement. After The post Ricky Martin’s 2025 …

A little over a month ago, Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack that came just two weeks after the Black Sabbath legend performed at his epic farewell concert in Birmingham. One of the many guest performers at that farewell concert was one of Osbourne’s old pal Steven Tyler. At the VMAs tonight, Tyler, his Aerosmith bandmate Joe Perry, Yungblud, …

Fresh off the release of her new album Man’s Best Friend — her second album in a row to debut at #1 — Sabrina Carpenter performed album highlight “Tears” live for the first time at the VMAs tonight. Evoking the retro, Rocky Horror Picture Show-inspired visuals of the song’s music video, the performance began with Carpenter crawling out of a manhole and …

Another one bites the dust: Young Widows are pulling their music from Spotify. The Louisville post-hardcore band, who released their first album in over a decade back in March, announced the news in an Instagram post today that cited CEO Daniel Ek’s recent investment in military AI.

Over the past few days, Charli XCX went from having only portrayed herself or an animated character on screen to making her proper acting debut in not one, but three different feature films. First up was Pete Ohs’ drama Erupcja, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last Thursday in the Centrepiece section.

Last month, Brent Faiyaz announced his third studio album Icon on his Instagram Story. The Maryland R&B singer released “peter pan.” and “tony soprano.” officially, but he dropped “full moon. (fall in tokyo)” on his extremely aesthetically pleasing website, and that’s also how he shared the newest one, “if. (spring in new york).”