Woman Gaga Dominates Dance/Digital Music Classes at Billboard Awards

Pop icon Woman Gaga received huge on the 2021 Billboard Music Awards over the weekend, dominating within the classes devoted to digital dance music.  Whereas some won’t count on to see the star so intently related to digital music, her catalogue deeply breaches into the realm of EDM. Gaga’s newest album, Chromatica, enlisted many elite dance music …

BTS to perform ‘Butter’ for the first time at Billboard Music Awards 2021

BTS are set to perform their upcoming single ‘Butter’ first the first time at the Billboard Music Awards 2021 (BBMAs) later this month. The group announced the forthcoming performance of the as-yet-unreleased English-language single on Twitter. The first-ever performance of ‘Butter’ will come only two days after its scheduled release on May 21. We can’t …

Porter Robinson Debuts At #1 On Billboard Charts With Sophomore Album, “Nurture”

Last week on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Charts, Porter Robinson dominated with twelve out of fourteen tracks from his new album, Nurture, making the list. Thus, it’s no surprise that on this week’s charts, the album debuted at #1, as well. Nurture is also notable as the first #1 debut on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart of …

‘Rolling Stone’ and ‘Billboard’ publisher purchases 50% stake in SXSW

by: Rugby Scruggs Apr 23, 2021 Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety‘s publisher, Penske Media Corporation has purchased a 50% stake in Austin, Texas-based music, technology, and film festival South by Southwest, better known as SXSW. While the founders have owned a majority stake in the festival since 1987, the recent sale makes Penske the largest …

BTS break Psy’s Billboard Hot 100 record with ‘Dynamite’

BTS have broken yet another record with their smash hit ‘Dynamite’. This time, the South Korean boyband have surpassed a record on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as the longest-charting single by a Korean artist. ‘Dynamite’ is currently spending its 32nd week on the Hot 100, surpassing a 31-week run by Psy in 2013 for …

Drake becomes first artist ever to have three songs debut in Top 3 on Billboard

Drake has become the first artist ever to have three songs debut in the Top 3 positions on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Taken from his recent ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP, the Canadian rapper’s new single ‘What’s Next’ has gone straight in at Number One on Billboard. Not only that, the project’s two other tracks, ‘Wants And …

Billboard Charts Will Soon Count Facebook Music Video Streams

Billboard Charts will soon take into account music video streams from Facebook. Leading music chart publication Billboard made the announcement Wednesday to count streams of officially licensed music videos on the social media platform. Data will begin collecting on March 5 with changes reflecting in the charts March 27. This goes for the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, …

Billboard Charts will now count Facebook music video streams

Billboard Charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100, and Billboard Global 200 charts, will now factor in streams of officially licensed music videos on Facebook when compiling its rankings. The publication made the announcement today, with the change set to take effect on March 27, with retroactive data from March 12-18. Facebook …

SAINt JHN Billboard Music Awards Performance Featured Custom Visual Design by deadmau5

Earlier this week on Wednesday, October 14, multi-platinum, rising global artist SAINt JHN performed a fiery rendition of his massive hit single “Roses” at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. Gracing a stage built ‘in the round’, a larger-than-life 3D custom visual of the skeleton on a motorcycle frequented in SAINt’s artwork cruising in flames designed …

The Chainsmokers, Marshmello, & Diplo Win Big In 2020 Billboard Music Awards

No award show is ever going to please everyone or truly represent the greatness of music being released when it’s at least 60-70% also a popularity contest, but the Billboard Music Awards this year truly took that to a new level of popular-kid-winning-prom-king last night. The Chainsmokers won for Top Dance/Electronic Artist, which isn’t entirely …