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The Descendants franchise returns next month, and in a music video premiering exclusively on Billboard below, the latest Villain Kid is caught red-handed. Descendants: The Rise of Red — coming to Disney+ on July 12 before making its Disney Channel debut on Aug. 9 — introduces Kylie Cantrall (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) as Red, the daughter of the Queen of Hearts (Rita Ora) from Alice in Wonderland. […]

SYDNEY, Australia — Jessica Ducrou is exiting as co-CEO of Australia’s Secret Sounds Group, producer of Splendour in the Grass festival and a slew of live music brands. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news As co-founder of Splendour, Australia’s flagship mid-winter camping festival, Ducrou is the nation’s leading female concert and festival promoter. With co-CEO Paul Piticco, Ducrou built Secret Sounds Group, […]

Maren Morris has joined forces with Julia Michaels for the new song, “Cut!”. The song is featured on Morris’s upcoming five-song project Intermission, which bows Aug. 2. Earlier this week, Morris alerted fans to the upcoming collab by posting a photo on social media. The pic featured Morris and Michaels in a kitchen, with Michaels seated at a table and Morris standing atop the table and wielding a chainsaw. “Can’t wait […]

A federal judge says Megan Thee Stallion didn’t copy her chart-topping “Savage” from an earlier song, ruling there’s no evidence the superstar has ever even heard the little-known instrumental track. In a decision issued Tuesday (June 18), Judge Katherine Polk Failla dismissed a lawsuit filed last year by producer James A. Greene, who claimed that Megan’s mega-hit infringed the copyrights to his own song “It’s About To Be On.” Green […]

Tracks from Tems’ Born in the Wild album light up Billboard’s U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart (dated June 22) as the artist’s genre-crossing debut LP sees its first chart impacts. The set, released on Since ’93/RCA Records, starts with 16,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the tracking week of June 7-13, according to Luminate. It opens at No. 5 on the Top R&B Albums chart and No. 56 […]

In a show called “The Pop Out,” Kendrick Lamar did just that and Inglewood and the culture will forever be grateful. Billboard caught all the action from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and breaks-out five of the highlights. He’s What The “Culture Feelin’”Though the crowd was not in its entirety a Black one, the spirit of Juneteenth was a big part of the evening considering the historical relevance of […]

Migos rapper Quavo’s quest to transform his nephew Takeoff’s tragic shooting into a force for change convened with a summit against gun violence on what would have been the late rapper’s 30th birthday. Quavo held the inaugural Rocket Foundation Summit at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Tuesday (June 18) — the same day as Takeoff’s birthday. The music performer was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris in a fireside chat during […]

James Chance, the singer-saxophonist of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped launch the No Wave scene in the late 1970s, has died. He was 71. News of Chance’s passing was confirmed by his brother, David Siegfried, and shared through the late punk-funk artists’s Facebook page on Tuesday (June 18). “His death was announced by his brother David Siegfried of Chicago, who did not specify a cause […]

Phil Wickham was named songwriter of the year at the 2024 BMI Christian Awards, which were held Tuesday (June 18) at BMI’s Nashville’s office. BMI’s AVP of creative, Nashville, Leslie Roberts hosted the invitation-only ceremony. Wickham, 40, had a hand in writing four of this year’s award-winning songs — “Holy Forever,” “Hymn of Heaven,” “Then Christ Came” and “This Is Our God.” Wickham has received three Grammy nominations in the […]