With Memorial Day Weekend officially here, we have an earful of quality music to check out. This week, Gunna, Migos, and Russ steal the show with their newest releases on Billboard’s First Beat. Take a look and see what they brought to the party below. Gunna, Wunna After recently leaving his handprints on big-time collaborations such […]
Plus: Polo G set to start at No. 2 with “The Goat” & Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit’s “Reunions” rushing towards top 15 after wide release. Future is set for his seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as High Off Life should open in the top slot on next week’s chart, […]
“Classy, bougie, ratchet, sassy, moody, nasty”–the many moods of the badass character Megan Thee Stallion portrays in her new animated “Savage” video. The clip shows the futuristic female fighting crime, riding motorcycles, riding through the wild West, strutting down the catwalk and even doing the song’s viral TikTok dance at the hook. The one-woman army single-handedly […]
“I’m grateful, I can’t believe it,” she tells Billboard. Kehlani captures her third straight No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart as It Was Good Until It Wasn’t enters atop the list dated May 23. The album arrives with 83,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC […]
Landing a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 has long been seen as an ultimate signifier of pop stardom. Here’s another sign that you’ve really arrived: when you get a name-check on another artist’s No. 1 Hot 100 hit. More than a dozen artists have achieved both of these feats. Take a look […]
Lil Durk, long a voice in hip-hop’s trenches, has officially climbed into the mainstream. With the world under quarantine, Durkio has returned to serve up the full-length Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 as an appetizer to his highly anticipated No Auto album. The 15 street tales are packaged with pain and sorrow, and notched the Chicago native […]
As part of Billboard’s Platoon Africa Artist Showcase, emerging star Kwesi Arthur kicked things off Thursday afternoon (May 21) with a fun and vibrant Live-At Home performance from the Ground Up Chale Studios in Ghana. Sporting an I Heart NY hoodie, Arthur’s opening included rousing showings of his popular songs “Kill My Spirit” and “Back […]
While she begins to struggle with productivity at home, Lee is considering traveling to another state for a new engineering gig. Since getting her start through a chance meeting with Gucci Mane, Atlanta-based audio engineer Kesha Lee has worked on chart-toppers like Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” and Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” and is now […]
Diddy shared a heartfelt tribute video on Instagram dedicated to his late ex-girlfriend Kim Porter and fallen friend Andre Harrell on Wednesday (May 20). The touching visual shows Harrell and Porter sharing a dance together at a party. “SAVE ME A DANCE!! @ladykp @andreharrell ,” Diddy wrote on Instagram on Wednesday (May 20). “I PROMISE Y’ALL I’M GOING TO FINISH […]
Twelve tracks of hers appear on Hot R&B Songs. Kehlani debuts at No. 1 on Billboard‘s R&B Songwriters chart (dated May 23), thanks to 12 songwriting credits on the latest Hot R&B Songs chart from her new album It Was Good Until It Wasn’t. The set arrives at No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart […]