This week in dance music: Beatport cited a 25% revenue increase in Mexico over the past year, along with plans to expand in the country, Zeds Dead, David Guetta and GT_Ofice made moves on the dance charts, The Dare tried to crowdsurf at a gig in Bristol and it did not go well, FKA told
Who is Amir “Aura” Khan? That’s the question everyone has been asking as McNeese State’s Men’s Basketball student manager has been taking March Madness and the Internet by storm with his tunnel walkouts. Before each game, Aura leads McNeese State into battle, as he wraps a boombox around his neck that blasts various rap songs
Jae Tips never saw himself as making a “transition” from rapper to sneaker designer. For him, music and fashion have always been intertwined — parallel worlds where influence is currency. “I feel like if you’re big in music, you’ll be big in fashion just because of how influential the voices are,” he explains. “Musicians, from
North Carolina native John Morgan currently has a Billboard Country Airplay top 10 hit with his Jason Aldean collaboration “Friends Like That,” and is gearing up for his debut album, Carolina Blue, out April 25. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news But in a true “only in Nashville”
Playboi Carti has landed his first-ever No. 1 album in the U.K. with Music (March 21). It marks Carti’s first LP in just more than four years, following December 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, which peaked at No. 17. The Atlanta rapper, born Jordan Terrell Carter, also previously saw success on the Official U.K. Albums Chart
Influencer-turned-musician Alex Warren has secured his first No. 1 single in the U.K. with the viral hit “Ordinary” (March 21). The song ends the week as the most-streamed track in the country (5.6 million streams). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news It knocks Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony
New Music Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs and albums recommended by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors. Check out this week’s picks below. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Jay Wheeler, Girasoles (Dynamic Records/Empire) “I have lived so much and now I understand
FKA Twigs‘ “Childlike Things” technically took the longest of all the songs on her album Eusexua to complete, with the finishing touch ending up being North West‘s serendipitous feature on the track. In a video posted to Instagram Thursday (March 20), the British singer-songwriter told the story of how the firstborn daughter of Kim Kardashian
“It’s beautiful, how I have nothing to lose,” Grace VanderWaal says. After winning America’s Got Talent as a precocious, ukulele-toting 12-year-old in 2016, VanderWaal was fast-tracked into a major-label pop career, which stalled following her 2017 debut, Just the Beginning. Eight years later, VanderWaal, now 21, has prepared a very different follow-up: Childstar, out April 4
Balu Brigada’s first song on a Billboard chart is a No. 1, as “So Cold” rises to the top of the March 29-dated Alternative Airplay survey. “So Cold” debuted on the list in October, marking the New Zealand act’s first appearance on any Billboard ranking. Balu Brigada is signed to ARRO, an imprint co-founded by
