Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Zhu, Innellea & More
This week in dance music: It was Mau P weekend in Austin, where the Dutch producer made an appearance at the Billboard House @ SXSW and talked about topics including his hesitations about doing a stadium tour, his Coachella 2025 set and how his career started on GarageBand. Later that night, Mau’s performance at Billboard’s […]
Muse Jets Us Into Space For ‘The Wow! Signal’
Muse’s music is often said to be out of this world. With The WOW! Signal, the British alternative-rock trio once more turns its attention to the stars. The band’s 10th and latest studio album is due out June 26 via Warner Records, and achieves lift-off with the single “Be With You,” a track that manages […]
Shakira Reveals the Dates & Place for Her Record-Breaking World Tour’s Finale
Shakira will close her historic world tour this fall in Madrid, and she will do so in a special way. The Spanish superstar will offer a three-night residency at the “Shakira Stadium,” a temporary 4.2-acre (185,000-square-meter) venue that will integrate cinema, gastronomy, literature and exhibitions curated by the artist herself under the title “Es Latina.” […]
Olivia Dean’s ‘Man I Need’ Is Australia’s Second-Longest Running No. 1
Harry Styles is unmoved at No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart with Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally (via Columbia/Sony), as Olivia Dean enters rare air with “Man I Need” (Universal). Dean’s signature song collects an 18th consecutive week at No. 1 on the national tally, making it the second-longest reigning single since the official ARIA […]
As Hilltop Hoods Complete Biggest Tour Yet, Australian Hip-Hop Legends Reflect on ‘Creativity Outside the Creativity’
Variety, we were reliably told in our youth, is the spice of life. If so, Hilltop Hoods has been cooking with the stuff for decades. The Australian hip-hop trio has enjoyed the type of career that isn’t written in any guidebook, one that’s busted records and consistently tracked up. Hailing from Adelaide, the South Australian capital, […]
BTS, Niall Horan, Lizzo & More: New Music Friday Guide
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. Last week, we featured Noah Kahan, Kacey Musgraves, The Pussycat Dolls and more. This week, BTS is back! […]
Budjerah Sets Debut Album ‘Gentleman’
Almost five years after collecting best newcomer honors at the 2021 ARIA Awards, Budjerah will showcase his talents with a debut full-length album, Gentleman. Produced by Om’Mas Keith (Frank Ocean), the collection is due out Friday, July 24 through Warner Music Australia, and via Warner Records in the United States, through a partnership struck in […]
Linkin Park Smashes Record at Auckland’s Spark Arena
Linkin Park completed their tour down under with a bang, and a box-office record. The nu-metal veterans wrapped-up their From Zero World Tour of Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday night (March 18) with a career-spanning set at Auckland’s Spark Arena. According to reps for Live Nation, which produced the jaunt, Spark Arena welcomed 12,736 […]
Australia’s Recorded Music Business Reports ‘Moderate’ Growth For 2025
SYDNEY — Australia’s recorded music industry posted a gain of just 1.4% to A$727 million ($512 million) in 2025, according to ARIA, a rate of growth that was considerably slower than the global result. The total wholesale sum is the largest ever reported, for the seventh consecutive year of upward progress, and is thanks to […]
‘ABBA Voyage’ Creator Pophouse Buys Majority Stake In Tina Turner’s Music Rights
The company that helped bring the avatars of ABBA Voyage to life, Pophouse Entertainment, said on Thursday (March 19) it bought a majority stake in the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner‘s music rights. BMG retains a significant minority stake in the package of rights it acquired in 2021, which included Turner’s artist’s share […]