When a pop artist follows a specific release pattern over the course of their career, it’s easy to assume that a new album and corresponding promotional...
As we mentioned in our midyear albums list, one of the biggest themes of 2025 on the Billboard charts has largely been about smash 2024 hits...
What a difference 10 years can make. That was the last time Billboard tackled the monumental feat of ranking the top R&B artists, dating back to...
It’s clear that nearly 20 years after she reconfigured the modern understanding of pop stardom, Lady Gaga has virtually nothing left to prove. She’s a veritable...
With RuPaul’s Drag Race bringing back their Rate-a-Queen system for season 17, Billboard decided to rate each of the new queens every week based on their...
Most Billboard readers have at least a rough idea of the top albums and songs of each year but may be less familiar with the top...
Call her Nostradamus, because JoJo Siwa foresaw this: 2024 was, in fact, the year of “gay pop.” While Siwa certainly didn’t create the sub-genre (as she...
“It was the end of an era, but the start of an age.” Taylor Swift sang these words as the final performance of her globe-spanning, blockbuster-selling...
For nearly 40 years, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has made it a tradition to gather together a batch of the biggest stars in...
When Lady Gaga proclaims that she has a new album on the way, it immediately sparks a guessing game among her fervent fan base — what...