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Giveon chatted with Lauren-Ashley Beck & Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2025. Source link

Despite the unconscionable runtime and the understandably solemn energy given the anti-ICE protests, as well as the passing of Sly Stone, the 2025 BET Awards tried their best to properly commemorate its 25th anniversary at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre on June 9. To celebrate, BET put together a terrific lineup of performers, including newcomers (Leon Thomas, Ravyn Lenae, Elmiene), industry veterans (Ledisi, Mýa, T.I.) and Ultimate Icon honorees Mariah Carey, […]

Machine Gun Kelly chatted with Lauren-Ashley Beck & Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2025. Source link

At Monday night’s (June 9) 2025 BET Awards, Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee heading into the show, with a whopping nine nods. But who will leave Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles as the biggest winner? Billboard will be updating our winners list all night, in all the top music categories — like album of the year and best new artist — as well as all the movie, TV […]

Am I the first person to feel strange calling you ‘weird’?” John Mayer — bespectacled, grinning goofily, very much nerding out — is sitting across from “Weird Al” Yankovic, interviewing the Hawaiian shirt-clad parody music king, who is sitting across from him for his SiriusXM show, How’s Life With John Mayer. “You can call me Al, like Paul Simon says,” Yankovic says with smile, before adding that the most normal […]

Questions we asked, quips we heard and what we learned backstage at the 78th annual Tonys. Natalie Venetia Belcon at The 78th Annual Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall on June 08, 2025 in New York, New York. Alyssa Greenberg The Tony Awards returned to Radio City Music Hall for the first time in three years on Sunday (June 8) evening, with 2016 Tony winner Cynthia Erivo hosting […]

Check out best pics from the 78th annual Tonys. Cynthia Erivo at The 78th Annual Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall on June 08, 2025 in New York, New York. Alyssa Greenberg The 2025 Tony Awards returned to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (June 8) evening for the first time since 2022, hosted by Tony winner (and recent Billboard cover star) Cynthia Erivo. It’s been an unexpectedly […]

Day three of CMA Fest’s nighttime concert series at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium started right on time at 8 p.m. on Saturday (June 7), following a rain delay the night before. This time, there were clear, but slightly cloudy Nashville skies, with no rain in sight as another round of top artists took to the stage. As with CMA Fest’s past, live music seemingly fills every corner of downtown Nashville with […]

Mariah the Scientist is not taking the stage at Governors Ball 2025 today (Saturday, June 7), even though her name had remained on the day’s reworked schedule after the New York City festival experienced a four-and-a-half hour delay in opening. Billboard learned of the cancellation on the ground at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. No announcement was heard at the event, and the change of plans came with no explanation. Gov […]