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09 Apr 2024

Keith LeBlanc, Session Drummer For Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, NIN Dies at 69

Keith LeBlanc, the multi-talented drummer/producer who helped shape the sound of early hip-hop with his playing on albums by the Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash has died at 69. LeBlanc’s death was confirmed in a statement from his label, On-U Sound, as well as LeBlanc’s wife, Fran LeBlanc, who told Variety that her husband died on April 4 due to an undisclosed illness.

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“All of us at On-U Sound are heartbroken to share the news that the great Keith LeBlanc has passed away,” read a statement from the label.

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Over the course of a four-decade career that began with his gig working along bassist Doug Wimbish and guitarist Skip “Little Axe” McDonald as part of the house band for rap pioneers the Sugarhill Gang in the early 1980s, LeBlanc played with and performed on records that spanned electronica, rock and pop.

LeBlanc’s work can be heard on such landmark Sugar Hill records as “Apache” and “8th Wonder,” as well as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s “It’s Nasty” and the 1982 album The Message. In a nod to his versatility, LeBlanc spent the 1980s and 1990s playing sessions with a wide variety of acts, from Ministry to R.E.M., Seal and Annie Lennox, as well as adding his production and engineering expertise to Nine Inc Nails’ landmark 1989 industrial rock classic debut, Pretty Hate Machine.

Born in Bristol, CT in 1954, LeBlanc also had a robust solo career, drumming on tracks for English producer Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound productions. He snagged an unexpected underground solo hit in 1983 with “No Sell Out,” which sampled the voice of late Nation of figurehead Malcolm X over bouncy synths and drum machine beats and is considered one of the first songs to use samples in a commercial release.

He also performed in the rotating lineup of Sherwood’s industrial hip-hop band Tackhead in the late 1980s and early 1990s alongside Wimbish and McDonald after Sherwood was impressed with LeBlanc’s musicianship, inviting the trio to join him in London for experimental sessions.

“Once ensconced in the studio, they continued their sample-based explorations, with the producer as a fourth member manning the mixing desk. This is something they would also replicate in their live set-up, with Adrian dubbing and processing the musicians in real time as they played on stage,” On U’s memorial read. “Cutting records simultaneously as Fats Comet (for the more dancefloor-oriented material) and Tackhead (for their more aggressive political tracks), they also became the second incarnation of The Maffia, the uncompromising backing band of Mark Stewart [the Pop Group]. The members were additionally involved in solo projects, session assignments, and appearances in other mysterious guises on the On-U roster, such as Barmy Army and Strange Parcels.”

In a statement, Sherwood said, “Keith was a major, major talent ..incredible drummer, producer and musician.. Along with Doug, Skip and also dearly missed Mark Stewart we enjoyed some of the most creative times together that shaped my musical life. Thank you Brother Keith..Love Forever. Heart and Soul.”

LeBlanc also released six solo albums during that period, including his 1986 album Major Malfunction, which was inspired by the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Throughout his musical adventures, LeBlanc folded in hip-hop, spoken word, film/TV samples and a mix of live drumming and programmed beats, releasing material through his Blanc Records label, which also offered fans budget-priced collections of “sample packs” featuring beats and effects.

Among his other notable recordings is an appearance on “Little” Steven Van Zandt’s 1985 anti-apartheid all-star single “Sun City,” as well as collaborations with McDonald’s blues-leaning group Little Axe and writing/producing for Living Colour, Peter Gabriel and The Cure and drumming on songs by James Brown, the Rolling Stones, Stone Roses and Sinead O’Connor, among many others.

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09 Apr 2024

Olivia Rodrigo Explains Why She Thinks Gwen Stefani Is the ‘Prime Example’ of a ‘True Artist’

It’s no secret that the pop-punk influences laced into Olivia Rodrigo‘s Sour and Guts albums can be directly traced back to artists such as Gwen Stefani — she even has No Doubt‘s “Just a Girl” on her pre-show playlist, which blares over the venue speakers before each of her Guts World Tour concerts.

Now, the 21-year-old pop star is opening up about her love for the “Hollaback Girl” singer, telling Nylon for Stefani’s cover story published Tuesday (April 9), “Gwen’s ability to evolve and explore different styles of music, songwriting and aesthetic while still remaining true to herself is incredibly inspiring.”

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“To me, she’s a prime example of an artist who defies stereotypes and preconceived boundaries and just makes stuff that she thinks is cool,” Rodrigo continued. “If that’s not a true artist, I don’t know what is.”

The new interview comes just days ahead of No Doubt’s highly anticipated reunion at this year’s Coachella, which kicks off Friday (April 12). According to the “Drivers License” artist, she first discovered the band when she was 15, pressing play on its 2000 album Return of Saturn nearly two decades after it was first released (and subsequently debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200).

“Gwen sang about being a woman moving about this world in detail that I had never before heard put to music,” Rodrigo recalled of the experience. “She unapologetically sings about things ranging from wanting to make out with someone to fantasizing about having a husband and kids. There’s so much heart in every word she says, and every song feels like it’s ripped from the diary of the coolest girl you know.”

The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum will be on the road for the next four months, most recently playing her third of four scheduled Guts shows at Madison Square Garden. Following her final New York City performance on Tuesday, she’ll head overseas for a European leg beginning April 30 in Dublin.

Stefani’s most recent releases have come in collaboration with her husband, former The Voice co-coach Blake Shelton. The pair released a cover of The Judds’ “Love Is Alive” in 2023, followed by a duet titled “Purple Irises” earlier this year.

“When you’re in love and have truly aligned values, nobody can get to us,” the GXVE Beauty founder told Nylon of the country crooner. “You can say whatever you want to say about our relationship — I mean, a week ago we were getting divorced again or something. It’s just lies. The truth is the truth, and we know what that is. And so that [negativity] would never penetrate just by me being vulnerable and sharing a song that I didn’t write for anybody else but myself and Blake.”

09 Apr 2024

11 Times Bands Replaced One of Their Own: Notable & Notorious Departures

Some exits were amicable, others were not — all made headlines.

Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, Eddie Van Halen, and Alex Van Halen of Van Halen, backstage at the Metro Center, Rockford, Illinois on March 16, 1986.

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Bands are often likened to families, which implies a lot. “Brothers fight,” Graham Nash told Billboard in 2023 about the grandiose dynamics of his associations with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young over the years. “You’re brothers and you love each other, but you fight. You break up. You come back together. You break up again. It’s family. It’s volatile.”

That’s certainly proven true over many decades, as rock bands by the dozens — hundreds, even — have weathered departures, some peaceful and some tempestuous. Many even turn litigious as the principals argue over ownership of music, trademarks, images and the like. Some bust-ups prove to be temporary and are set right – or at least result in — subsequent reunions, and some are better for all parties concerned. It’s a proverbial tale as old as time, and rare is a group like, say, U2, that’s gone through a long career with its band of brothers intact.

The changes are almost always noteworthy, and newsworthy, some erupting into open scandals that can last years and be rehashed by Behind the Music episodes and in scathing memoirs. They become legendary, too, great gifts of lore that bring extra dramatic arc to a band’s legacy. It’s mesmerizing to watch from the sidelines, even if it’s traumatic for those directly involved.

The most impactful and controversial of them? Now there’s a discussion that could incite arguments vehement enough to break up any band. We’ll take our shot, though, and present these as the 11 most notable departures and replacements in rock band history.

Pete Best (The Beatles, 1962)

Pete Best was not the Beatles’ first drummer; he was preceded by Tommy Moore and Norman Chapman before successfully auditioning during August of 1960 and heading off to Hamburg for band’s famed first residency there. But producer George Martin was unhappy with Best’s playing during the Beatles’ first recording sessions for EMI in June of 1962; as it happened the other three members were already considering a change, so they deputized manager Brian Epstein to deliver the bad news and two months later brought in Ringo Starr from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Despite some initial consternation fans embraced the change. The Fab Four was finalized while Best continued playing music with his own bands and on the Beatles fan convention circuit.

This one is less notable for the drama at the time, more so for that “what if” historical element. John, Paul, George and Pete just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones, 1969)

It was Jones who formed the Rolling Stones during 1962 in London and chose the band name from Muddy Waters’ “Rollin’ Stone.” While Mick Jagger and Keith Richards became the group’s primary songwriting team, Jones was its musical adventurer, bringing in unexpected instrumentation (the sitar on “Paint It, Black,” for instance). He also scored the 1967 film A Degree of Murder and produced Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, recorded in Morocco during 1968 and released three years later.

He gradually became estranged from his bandmates over drug use, erratic behavior and creative and personal issues (girlfriend Anita Pallenberg left him to take up with Richards during the spring of 1967). When Jones’ record of drug arrests made it unlikely he’d be able to get a work visa for the Stones’ planned U.S. tour in 1969, the group fired him — though allowed Jones to announce it as a resignation — and added Mick Taylor from John Mayall’s Blues Brothers. Jones died less than a month after his departure, at the age of 27, after being discovered in the swimming pool at his Crotchford Farm estate. The drowning was ruled a “death by misadventure,” though theories that Jones was murdered persisted for decades. Taylor remained with the Stones through 1974 and a golden era that included albums such as Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St. He was replaced by the Faces’ Ronnie Wood, who’s been with the band ever since.
David Ruffin (The Temptations, 1968)

By the end of the ‘60s the Temptations were the Fab Five, with a string of hit singles such as “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “My Girl,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “(I Know) I’m Losing You),” “Cloud Nine” and more. But David Ruffin’s attitude as a first among equals, and his drug use, led to his firing in June of 1968 after he missed a performance in Cleveland. The Tempts brought in Dennis Edwards, previously with the Contours, to take Ruffin’s place, though Ruffin took to appearing at and disrupting occasional concerts afterward. It would be the first of many key lineup changes in short order for the group, with Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams both leaving in 1971 and Edwards moving on in 1977. The group continued to score hits into the early ‘80s, however, and Rick James helped engineer a short-lived reunion with an album of that title in 1982. The Tempts continue today, led by co-founder Otis Williams, whose memoir The Temptations was adapted into a 1998 NBC miniseries of the same name and a 2017 stage musical, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations.
Jermaine Jackson (The Jackson 5/The Jacksons, 1975)

Another Fab 5, also out of the Motown roster, went through an existential change when the band decided to leave Berry Gordy Jr. for a more lucrative offer from Epic Records. Problem was that Gordy owned the Jackson 5 name, while his daughter had married Jermaine Jackson, the No. 2 behind younger brother Michael in terms of profile and popularity. Jermaine stayed behind at Motown to start a solo career while youngest brother Randy joined the rechristened Jacksons. Both experienced success — the group more so by the time of 1978’s Destiny album — and Jermaine himself moved on to Arista in 1984, rejoining his brothers for the Victory Tour that same year. He’s remained with his brothers on and off, most recently in 2020.
Peter Gabriel (Genesis, 1975)

A rare instance where a split led to better things for both parties. Peter Gabriel had fronted Genesis for nearly nine years and the group was at a peak thanks to its concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but he was tired and disillusioned with the music industry. He told his bandmates he was leaving during the tour. They chose to soldier on and, amidst auditions for “a singer for a Genesis-type group,” began making its next album, A Trick of the Tail. Eventually drummer Phil Collins, who sang backup and had one previous lead vocal, stepped up to the mic, and the rest became history. Both Genesis and Gabriel went on to greater heights, peaking with the band’s Invisible Touch in 1986 and Gabriel’s So in 1986. A two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – with Genesis and on his own – Gabriel remains active while Genesis finished a farewell tour in 2022, partly owing to Collins’ health.
Keith Moon, (The Who, 1978)

The madcap drummer’s death in September of 1978, at age 32, was heartbreaking for fans and his bandmates. The decision to go on brought the Faces’ Kenney Jones into the band for five years and two studio albums. It was not an easy transition, however, and frontman Roger Daltrey acknowledged to Billboard that, “I could never forgive Kenney for not being Keith Moon, which wasn’t fair at all.” The Who called it quits, for a first time, in 1982; when it regrouped in 1989, Simon Phillips assumed the drum chair, but since 1996, it’s been Zak Starkey, who received his first drum kit at eight years old from Moon.
Mick Jones (The Clash, 1983)

The Clash had been through a few member changes, mostly drummers, but none was more impactful than singer-guitarist Mick Jones’ ouster in September of 1983. Bandmates Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon became fed up with Jones’ punctuality issues, and while they wanted to ride the success of 1982’s Combat Rock and its hits “Should I Stay or Should I Go” and “Rock the Casbah,” Jones was reticent to tour. In the documentary Westway to the World, Strummer said that, “Mick was intolerable to work with by this time. He wouldn’t show up. When he did show up, it was like Elizabeth Taylor in a filthy mood.” He added in The Rise and Fall of the Clash that, “We had to change the team because the atmosphere was too terrible. We got so much work to do that we can’t waste time begging people to play the damn guitar.” The group replaced Jones with a pair of guitarists — Nick Sheppard and Vince White — but its next album, Cut the Crap, bombed and the group broke up in 1986. Jones, who later acknowledged his counter-productive behavior, went on to have success with Big Audio Dynamite. The Clash never reunited; there were hopes it would happen at the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2003, but Strummer passed away three months before it took place.
David Lee Roth (Van Halen, 1985)

An advanced case of what guitarist Eddie Van Halen called “LSD — Lead Singers Disease” led to a gulf between David Lee Roth and the rest of Van Halen during the mid ‘80s that led to an upheaval that had fans, named Jamie and otherwise, cryin’. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time; Van Halen had reached new heights with its hit album 1984 (No. 2 on the Billboard 200) and its Billboard Hot 100-topping single “Jump,” making VH one of the top-drawing bands in the concert world. But Roth, buoyed by his stature and the success of his solo EP Crazy From the Heat (along with a purported movie deal), began to have creative differences with his bandmates, and left to pursue a solo career. Sammy Hagar came in, giving Van Halen its first No. 1 album with 5150 in 1986, followed by three other chart-toppers. Roth had success with his first two solo albums before being outdistanced by his former band. The Van Halen round-robin would bring him back for Best of Volume 1 in 1996 and full-time in 2007, while Hagar returned for a tour and new tracks for another compilation, The Best of Both Worlds, in 2004. There’s still plenty of verbal sparring, particularly between Roth and Hagar, the latter of whom was proffering a plan to tour with two frontmen prior to Eddie Van Halen’s death in October of 2020.
Rob Halford (Judas Priest, 1992)

The Metal God’s split from the band he’d been in for two decades was, by his account, something of an accident. He’d formed a thrashy side project called Fight but had every intention to remain with Judas Priest. In his memoir Confess, Halford revealed that matters became confused when he sent management a note saying, “I think the band and I need to take a break from each other. I am going to step away and do a solo musical project.” “They took that to mean I was quitting and… didn’t react,” Halford told Billboard while promoting the book, adding that his own aversion to conflict and confrontation at the time prevented him from correcting the course. He went on to continue Fight (and, subsequently, the industrial Two) while Priest soldiered on with Tim “Ripper” Owens, an Ohioan whose membership in a Priest tribute band inspired the film Rock Star. Halford and Priest reconciled in 2003, and the Metal God has maintained his throne ever since — including a 2022 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe, 1992)

Hot off the six-times-platinum success of 1989’s Dr. Feelgood and the subsequent Decade of Decadence 81-91, frontman Vince Neil decided his Crüe days were over. Or was fired. The stories have continued to differ over the years, and Neil told Billboard in 2023 that, “We just weren’t getting along. Maybe I said, ‘I quit!’ Maybe they said, ‘You’re fired!’ We were kind of out of our minds and there wasn’t management or anybody around to say, ‘Hold on a minute.’”

John Corabi stepped in for a self-titled album whose reputation has improved over time, while Neil was back in the ranks by 1997 and has remained ever since.

In 2023, the band and original guitarist Mick Mars became publicly embroiled in a lawsuit, with Mars alleging his bandmates terminated him when he disclosed a chronic illness and announced his intention to retire from touring. In a statement provided to Billboard, his bandmates called the claims “unfortunate and completely off-base.”
Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac, 2018)

You’d need a scorecard — a long one — to keep track of Fleetwood Mac’s departures, firings, resignations and hissy-fit exits during its half-century history. No fewer than 18 musicians have been part of the band, including the likes of Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito and, for a brief time, Dave Mason and Bekka Bramlett. “Change is not an unfamiliar thing in Fleetwood Mac,” drummer Mick Fleetwood told Billboard in 2018. But few members left with the drama that accompanied Lindsey Buckingham’s ouster during the spring of that year — his second time leaving the band, after previously opting out of a tour to promote 1987’s Tango in the Night album. Reasons for the schism varied; one version said he frustrated his bandmates by asking to delay an upcoming tour, while another report indicated that Stevie Nicks would not work with him after she felt he disrespected her during Fleetwood Mac’s MusiCares Person of the Year honor in January 2018.

Regardless of what went down behind the scenes, he was out. Buckingham was replaced by two musicians: Neil Finn (of Crowded House and Split Enz fame) and the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell (his first gig after Tom Petty’s death the previous year). The tour was a success, though Buckingham filed a lawsuit during October of 2018 alleging breach of fiduciary duty, breach of oral contract and other claims; it was settled out of court. By 2021, Fleetwood said he was once again on friendly terms with Buckingham and even talking about working together again (“You’re talking to Mr. Never Say Never” he told Billboard). Christine McVie’s death in 2022, however, may have brought an actual end to the band.

09 Apr 2024

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Collaborators Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy & More Score First Hot 100 Hits

While Beyoncé makes history on Billboard’s latest charts with her new album, Cowboy Carter, many of the set’s featured guests score their first Billboard Hot 100 appearances.

Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Shaboozey, Linda Martell, Willie Jones and Beyoncé’s daughter Rumi Carter all earn their first entries on the chart dated April 13 thanks to their credited billings on the album.

Adell, Spencer, Kennedy and Roberts all debut via their team-up on Beyoncé’s cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbiird.” The song debuts at No. 27 with 14 million U.S. official streams and 7,000 downloads sold in its first week, according to Luminate. It also opens at No. 6 on Hot Country Songs.

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The update is also just the second, and top-charting, version of the song to hit the Hot 100, after the Glee cast’s version spent a week at No. 37 in 2011. (The Beatles’ original, from 1968, was never released as a single and therefore wasn’t eligible to chart at the time.)

Not only does “Blackbiird” earn the four up-and-coming singer-songwriters their first Hot 100 visits, but it’s also their first overall appearances on Billboard’s charts.

Adell, from Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Star Valley, Wyo., released her debut LP Buckle Bunny in July 2023 via Columbia Records. The set’s standout track “Love You a Little Bit” has garnered 27.2 million on-demand official U.S. streams to date. In an interview with Billboard at the CMT Music Awards (April 8), Adell said of singing alongside Beyoncé, “It’s been a grind and just to have someone of that caliber reach down and lift [me] up, it’s really, really special and I’m just very honored.”

Spencer, from Baltimore, released her debut album, My Stupid Life, in January via Elektra Records. She initially broke through with her EPs Compassion in 2020 and If I Ever Get There: A Day at Blackbird Studio in 2022.

Kennedy, an Alabama native, has released more than a dozen songs on streaming services since 2020, including the five-track Tiera in 2021 on Big Machine Label Group. The set includes a collaboration with three-time Hot 100-charting artist Breland.

Roberts hails from Alabama and California, and released her debut studio project, Bad Girl Bible, Vol. 1, in 2023 on ReynaRed Records/EMPIRE. She has been releasing songs since 2019.

Shaboozey lands his first two Hot 100 entries: “Spaghettii” with Beyoncé and Martell, and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin’” with Beyoncé. The tracks debut at Nos. 31 and 61, respectively. Shaboozey has been releasing hip-hop-inspired country/Americana-focused songs for a decade and has dropped two full-lengths in that span: Lady Wrangler in 2018 and Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die in 2022. In 2019, he scored a placement on the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack with “Start a Riot” with Duckwrth.

While Martell is a first-timer on the Hot 100, she’s one of the most commercially successful Black female country stars in history. The country pioneer, 82, became the first Black woman to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1970, and charted three singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in 1969-70: “Color Him Father” (No. 22 peak), her cover of Duane Dee’s “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (No. 33) and “Bad Case of the Blues” (No. 58).

When “Color Him Father” peaked at No. 22, it marked the highest charting song by a Black woman in the chart’s history at the time. She has released one full-length project: Color Me Country, which peaked at No. 40 on the Top Country Albums chart in 1970. In a review of the set, Billboard praised, “She has a terrific style and a true feeling for a country lyric.”

Willie Jones, from Shreveport, La., debuts for the first time with his Beyoncé team-up “Just For Fun.” He has released two studio albums: Right Now in 2021 and Something to Dance To in June 2023, the latter on Sony Music. He also competed on The X Factor in 2012 and appeared on the Netflix reality show Chasing Cameron in 2016.

Beyoncé’s daughter Rumi Carter also debuts on the Hot 100 for the first time thanks to “Protector” with Beyoncé. At six years old, she passes her older sister, Blue Ivy Carter, to become the youngest charting female artist in Hot 100 history.

As previously reported, Cowboy Carter debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts with 407,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States March 29-April 4 – the biggest one-week total of 2024. She becomes the first Black woman ever to lead Top Country Albums in the chart’s 60-year archives.

09 Apr 2024

‘Billboard Hot 100 Challenge’ Mobile Game Will Let Fans ‘Predict the Hits’

On Tuesday (April 9), Billboard announced the launch of the Billboard Hot 100 Challenge: Predict the Hits app.

The first-of-its-kind mobile game lets fans “predict the hits” by applying fantasy-sports-style gameplay to the music business. To play, participants will listen to a new song each day — Monday through Friday — and guess the ultimate peak position each song will attain before the end of the contest on July 16, 2024.

Points will be awarded based on the accuracy of each participant’s respective predictions. Once the season concludes, the winner will receive a grand prize of $25,000 cash; the second-place winner will receive VIP access for two to a 2024 or 2025 Billboard event or conference; and the third-place winner will receive two concert tickets to a show in their area.

“For more than six decades, the Billboard Hot 100 has been the music industry’s top chart for measuring hits,” says Billboard EVP of Charts Silvio Pietroluongo. “We are thrilled to create a new and unique interactive experience for passionate fans. The Hot 100 Challenge provides fans an entirely new way to engage with the Billboard charts and their love of new music. We’re redefining how fans engage with chart-topping hits and ushering in a new music discovery and enjoyment era.”

Players may also answer daily trivia questions for fun, to flex their knowledge of the artists and songs that have defined the Hot 100 since it launched in 1958.

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Contestants must be over 18 and reside in the United States. Download the Billboard Hot 100 Challenge: Predict the Hits app from the app store now.

The app will be promoted on Billboard’s physical and digital media and various partner platforms. Plans for the app include in-app brand activations and sponsorships.

09 Apr 2024

Luke Combs Tops 2024 ACM Awards Nominations: Full List

Luke Combs leads the nominations for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods, including entertainer of the year, male artist of the year, album of the year, song of the year, and single of the year.

Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen are next in line with six nods each. That makes Moroney the year’s most-nominated woman. She is vying for both female artist of the year and new female artist of the year.

Wallen ties Combs for receiving nods in the most categories, including album of the year for One Thing at a Time, which spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, setting a new record for a country album. Wallen is also nominated for single of the year for “Last Night,” which is the longest-running No. 1 solo song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 with 16 weeks on top. Wallen is also nominated for male artist of the year, which he won last year for the first time.

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Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson received five nominations each, followed by Jelly Roll and Jordan Davis with four nods each and Kelsea Ballerini and Zach Bryan with three nods each.

The Academy of Country Music (ACM) and Dick Clark Productions (DCP) announced nominations for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards on The Bobby Bones Show on Tuesday (April 9).

First-time nominee Jelly Roll’s four nods include entertainer of the year. The last artist to be nominated for entertainer of the year as part of his first set of nominations was Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992, the same year he gained fame for his smash hit “Achy Breaky Heart.”

Combs and Wilson are nominees for entertainer of the year. A win by either artist will clinch the ACM’s Triple Crown Award, which consists of an entertainer of the year win, plus wins in an act’s respective new artist and artist categories. Past ACM Triple Crown Award recipients include Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney.

Several acts extended long streaks of nominations in their categories.

Little Big Town receives its 18th nomination for group of the year, which ties Alabama for the most nods in the category. Little Big Town has been nominated in the category every year since 2005, with the exception of 2011.

Brothers Osborne is nominated for duo of the year for the 10th year in a row. The pair has won the award four times, including last year.

Stapleton received his ninth consecutive nomination for male artist of the year, an award he has won three times in the past. Stapleton is also nominated for entertainer of the year, which he won for the first time last year.

Old Dominion is nominated for group of the year for the ninth consecutive year. The group has taken home the award every year for the last six years. Old Dominion is also the year’s only group or duo to receive multiple nominations. They are also nominated for music event of the year.

Kacey Musgraves receives her eighth nomination for female artist of the year. She won the award in 2018, the same year she won album of the year for Golden Hour.

Ballerini is nominated for female artist of the year for the seventh time. She’s also nominated for album of the year for the first time for Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good).

This is the fifth year in a row that Combs has been nominated for both male artist of the year and entertainer of the year.

This is the first time since 2018 that the new duo/group category will be presented at the ACM Awards. The nominees are Neon Union, Restless Road and Tigirlily Gold.

Other first-time artist nominees include Kassi Ashton, Tyler Childers, Ashley Cooke, Hannah Ellis, Flatland Cavalry, Jelly Roll, Kameron Marlowe, Kylie Morgan and Conner Smith.

The single of the year and visual media of the year categories will both have first-time winners in those categories this year, as there are no previous winners nominated in either category.

The eligibility period for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards was Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2023, which explains the absence of such albums as Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Musgraves’ Deeper Well. They will be eligible next year.

In some cases, an artist may receive more than one nomination per category, if they are also credited as a producer, director or songwriter.

Awards are voted on by members of the Academy of Country Music, which boasts a record-high membership this year of more than 5,000 members.

The 59th Academy of Country Music Awards is produced by Dick Clark Productions. Raj Kapoor is executive producer and showrunner, with Patrick Menton as co-executive producer. Damon Whiteside serves as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music, and Barry Adelman serves as executive producer for DCP. John Saade serves as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.

The ACM Awards, which bills itself as “Country Music’s Party of the Year,” will stream live exclusively for a global audience on Prime Video on Thursday, May 16, at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT/5 p.m. PT from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The full rebroadcast will be available directly following the stream on Prime Video and also the next day for free on Amazon Freevee and the Amazon Music app.

A limited number of tickets to the 59th ACM Awards are available for purchase on SeatGeek.

The following is the full list of nominees for the Main Awards, Studio Recording Awards, and Industry Awards categories:

Entertainer of the year

Kane Brown

Luke Combs

Jelly Roll

Cody Johnson

Chris Stapleton

Morgan Wallen

Lainey Wilson

Female artist of the year

Kelsea Ballerini

Ashley McBryde

Megan Moroney

Kacey Musgraves

Lainey Wilson

Male artist of the year

Luke Combs

Jelly Roll

Cody Johnson

Chris Stapleton

Morgan Wallen

Duo of the year

Brooks & Dunn

Brothers Osborne

Dan + Shay

Maddie & Tae

The War And Treaty

Group of the year

Flatland Cavalry

Lady A

Little Big Town

Old Dominion

Zac Brown Band

New female artist of the year

Kassi Ashton

Ashley Cooke

Hannah Ellis

Kylie Morgan

Megan Moroney

New male artist of the year

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Kameron Marlowe

Dylan Scott

Conner Smith

Nate Smith

New duo or group of the year

Neon Union

Restless Road

Tigirlily Gold

Album of the year

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Gettin’ Old – Luke Combs; Producer: Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton, Luke Combs; Record Company-Label: River House Artists / Columbia Nashville

Higher – Chris Stapleton; Producer: Chris Stapleton, Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton; Record Company-Label: Mercury Nashville

Leather – Cody Johnson; Producers: Trent Willmon; Record Company-Label: CoJo Music LLC / Warner Music Nashville LLC

One Thing at a Time – Morgan Wallen; Producers: Joey Moi, Cameron Montgomery, Charlie Handsome, Jacob Durrett; Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Republic Records / Mercury Records

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) – Kelsea Ballerini; Producers: Kelsea Ballerini, Alysa Vanderheym; Record Company-Label: Black River Entertainment

Single of the year

[Awarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)]

“Burn It Down” – Parker McCollum; Producer: Jon Randall; Record Company-Label: MCA Nashville

“Fast Car” – Luke Combs; Producers: Luke Combs, Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton; Record Company-Label: River House Artists / Columbia Nashville

“Last Night” – Morgan Wallen; Producer: Joey Moi, Charlie Handsome; Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Republic Records / Mercury Records

“Need a Favor” – Jelly Roll; Producer: Austin Nivarel; Record Company-Label: Stoney Creek Records / BMG Nashville

“Next Thing You Know” – Jordan Davis; Producer: Paul DiGiovanni; Record Company-Label: MCA Nashville

Song of the year

[Awarded to Songwriter(s)/Publisher(s)/Artist(s)]

“Fast Car” – Luke Combs; Songwriters: Tracy Chapman; Publishers: Purple Rabbit

“Heart Like a Truck” – Lainey Wilson; Songwriters: Dallas Wilson, Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson; Publishers: Sony / ATV Countryside; Songs of Riser House; Songs of Wild Cat Well Music

“Next Thing You Know” – Jordan Davis; Songwriters: Chase McGill, Greylan James, Jordan Davis, Josh Osborne; Publishers: Family Farm Songs; Hold On Can I Get A Number 1 Music; Songs of Universal Inc.

“The Painter” – Cody Johnson; Songwriters: Benjy Davis, Kat Higgins, Ryan Larkins; Publishers: Big Music Machine; BMG Platinum Songs US; Nashblonde Music; Pompano Run Music; Songs for Ellie May; Sony / ATV Tree Publishing; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Group; Well That Was Awkward Music

“Tennessee Orange” – Megan Moroney; Songwriters: Ben Williams, David Fanning, Megan Moroney, Paul Jenkins; Publishers: 33 Creative; Bone Bone Creative; Sony / ATV Tree Publishing

Music event of the year

[Awarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)]

“Can’t Break Up Now” – Old Dominion, Megan Moroney; Producers: Brad Tursi, Geoff Sprung, Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Ross Copperman, Kristian Bush; Record Company-Label: Three Up Three Down, LLC / Columbia Nashville

“Different ‘Round Here” – Riley Green (Ft. Luke Combs); Producer: Dann Huff; Record Company-Label: BMLG Records

“I Remember Everything” – Zach Bryan (feat. Kacey Musgraves); Producer: Zach Bryan; Record Company-Label: Belting Bronco Records / Warner Records, Inc

“Man Made a Bar” – Morgan Wallen (feat. Eric Church); Producer: Joey Moi; Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Mercury Records / Republic Records

“Save Me” – Jelly Roll (with Lainey Wilson); Producers: Zach Crowell, David Ray Stevens; Record Company-Label: Stoney Creek Records / BMG Nashville

Visual media of the year

[Awarded to Producer(s)/Director(s)/Artist(s)]

“Burn It Down” – Parker McCollum; Producers: Christen Pinkston &Wesley Stebbins-Perry; Director: Dustin Haney

“Human” – Cody Johnson; Producer: Christen Pinkston &Wesley Stebbins-Perry; Director: Dustin Haney

“In Your Love” – Tyler Childers; Producer: Kacie Barton, Whitney Wolanin, Nicholas Robespierre, Ian Thorton, Silas House; Director: Bryan Schlam

“Next Thing You Know” – Jordan Davis; Producer: Jamie Stratakis; Director: Running Bear (Stephen Kinigopoulos, Alexa Stone)

“Tennessee Orange – Megan Moroney; Producer: Lauren Starr, Saul Levitz, Laura Burhenn; Director: Jason Lester

Songwriter of the year

Jessie Jo Dillon

Ashley Gorley

Hillary Lindsey

Chase McGill

Josh Thompson

Artist-songwriter of the year

Zach Bryan

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Chris Stapleton

Morgan Wallen

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Bass player of the year

Tony Lucido

Steve Mackey

Lex Price

Jimmie Lee Sloas

Craig Young

Drummer of the year

Fred Eltringham

Evan Hutchings

Greg Morrow

Jerry Roe

Nir Z

Acoustic guitar player of the year

Todd Lombardo

Danny Rader

Bryan Sutton

Ilya Toshinskiy

Charlie Worsham

Piano/keyboards player of the year

Jim “Moose” Brown

David Dorn

Charlie Judge

Billy Justineau

Alex Wright

Specialty instrument player of the year

Dan Dugmore

Paul Franklin

Josh Matheny

Justin Schipper

Bryan Sutton

Electric guitar player of the year

Tom Bukovac

Kris Donegan

Jedd Hughes

Rob McNelley

Sol Philcox-Littlefield

Audio engineer of the year

Drew Bollman

Jeff Braun

Jim Cooley

Jason Hall

Buckley Miller

F. Reid Shippen

Producer of the year

Charlie Handsome

Dann Huff

Joey Moi

Jon Randall

Derek Wells

Casino of the year – theater

Choctaw Grand Theater – Durant, OK

Deadwood Mountain Grand – Deadwood, SD

Foxwoods Resort Casino – Mashantucket, CT

Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort – Thackerville, OK

Resorts World Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV

Casino of the year – arena

Golden Nugget Lake Charles – Lake Charles, LA

Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena – Atlantic City, NJ

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. Louis, MO

Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT

Mystic Lake Casino Showroom – Prior Lake, MN

Festival of the year

Carolina Country Music Fest – Myrtle Beach, SC

CMC Rocks – Ipswich, Queensland

Crash My Playa – Riviera Cancun, Mexico

Tortuga Music Festival – Fort Lauderdale, FL

Windy City Smokeout – Chicago, IL

Fair/rodeo of the year

Auburn Rodeo – Opelika, AL

Cheyenne Frontier Days – Cheyenne, WY

Iowa State Fair – Des Moines, IA

Minnesota State Fair – Falcon Heights, MN

San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo – San Antonio, TX

Club of the year

8 Seconds Saloon – Indianapolis, IN

Billy Bob’s Texas – Fort Worth, TX

Georgia Theatre – Athens, GA

Joe’s Live – Rosemont, IL

Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO

Theater of the year

Beacon Theatre – New York, NY

The Franklin Theatre – Franklin, TN

Moody Theater – Austin, TX

Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN

Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA

Outdoor venue of the year

Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville, TN

Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO

Saint Augustine Amphitheatre – St. Augustine, FL

Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA

The Wharf Amphitheater – Orange Beach, AL

Arena of the year

Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN

Dickies Arena – Fort Worth, TX

Hertz Arena – Estero, FL

KFC Yum! Center – Louisville, KY

T-Mobile Center – Kansas City, MO

Don Romeo talent buyer of the year

Gil Cunningham

Andrew Fortin

Nicole More

Stacy Vee

Ed Warm

Promoter of the year

Jered Johnson

Patrick McDill

Brian O’Connell

Aaron Spalding

Adam Weiser

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09 Apr 2024

BIME Bogotá 2024 Unveils Lineup Featuring 60-Plus International Artists

BIME — an international music industry gathering held in Bilbao, Spain, since 2013 and in Bogota, Colombia, since 2022 — returns for its third edition in the Colombian capital. The event will take place May 8-11 in various venues of the Creative District of Calle 85, including EAN University, Sánchez Cervecería, La Patrona, Egua, Mad Radio and 440 Music Hall. It will feature more than 60 international artists as well as key voices in the music industry.

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The live showcases will be “a unique opportunity to get to know the artistic proposals of the talents of the future with the greatest international projection,” according to a press release.

This year’s BIME Pro will feature Spanish rock legend Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer Lola Índigo, Mexican-American musician DannyLux and Billboard’s own chief content officer, Latin Music & Espanol, Leila Cobo, among other professionals.

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Gathering artists hailing from all over Latin America and Spain, BIME Live includes Anakena and Vera Delacruz from Venezuela; Austin TV from Mexico; Milena Wharton from Peru; and Cromo X and Letón Pé from the Dominican Republic. Also joining the roster are Cuban singer Daymé Arozena; Cali Flow Latino, Diana Burco and La Pardo from Colombia; and Spanish acts such as Baiuca, Barry B, Ben Yart, Ginebras, Navarre, and Izaro as well as producer Gorka Urbizu.

BIME has built a reputation for celebrating emerging talent and prominent music artist, while placing itself at the epicenter of creativity and leisure.

Participating organizations have included Sounds from Spain, Ministry of Culture in Colombia, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the Instituto Distrital de las Artes of Bogotá (IDARTES), Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Instituto Nacional de la Música de Uruguay (INMUS), Navarra Music Commission, TuneCore, and more.

For a full schedule and information, visit the official BIME site here.

09 Apr 2024

Vampire Weekend Celebrate Eclipse With Austin Gig Featuring Cameos From Phoenix, Chromeo Singers

Like many of us, Vampire Weekend turned Monday’s total eclipse into a party. Except in their case they invited about 5,000 friends along for a special afternoon show at the Moody Amphitheatre in Austin, TX for a livestreamed concert that featured the live debut of a handful of songs from the group’s new Only God Was Above Us album and cameos from special guests.

The gig — which took place on singer Ezra Koenig’s 40th birthday in front of a backdrop with an image of the phases of the eclipse — found the band opening with the album’s first track, “Ice Cream Piano,” followed by the live debuts of new songs “Classical,” “Connect,” “Gen-X Cops,” “Capricorn,” “Diane Young” and “Hope.”

The guys took a 10-minute break about an hour into the show to give fans time to experience the eclipse as the skies turned dark over the Lone Star capitol, then stormed back with a back half that included some guests. The first cameo featured Phoenix singer Thomas Mars for a cover of the French group’s “Tonight” from 2022’s Alpha Zulu — which the two singers had never performed live before — followed by a duet with Chromeo singer Dave 1 on that band’s 2004 single “Needy Girl.” Taking advantage of a rare opportunity, singer Koenig asked the two native French speakers to regale the audience with a bit of “French banter,” which included Mars wishing Koenig a happy born day and the two men leading the crowd in a round of “Happy Birthday” in French.

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The set also included some of the band’s most beloved songs as well, including “Unbelievers,” “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” “Harmony Hall,” “Oxford Comma” and “A-Punk,” ending with a nearly 15-minute jam on “Cocaine Cowboys” that folded in bits of their 2019 tune “Married in a Gold Rush,” as well as Larry Gatlin’s “All the Gold in California,” Gram Parsons’ “Sin City” and the Grateful Dead’s “Cumberland Blues.”

The full show streamed on the Veeps platform.

09 Apr 2024

The Roots Plot 2024 Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life Tour With Arrested Development, Digable Planets

The Roots are hitting the road this summer with some special friends. The Tonight Show house band will take a break from playing celebrities onto stage and doing bits with host Jimmy Fallon to play a run of dates from May through September with kindred spirit hip-hop experimentalists Digable Planets and Arrested Development.

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After announcing an initial slate of dates for the Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life outing last week with the message “This is for the ones that really fell in LOVE with this,” the band has filled the roster out with a more robust run. The mostly weekend shows will commence on May 11 with a gig at the Mountain Winery Concert Series in Saratoga, CA and a spot on the Wonderfront Festival in San Diego on May 12 before setting up shop in Philadelphia for this year’s edition of their Roots Picnic festival.

This year’s June 1-2 Picnic will feature André 3000 and his bag of magical flutes, Jill Scott, Lil Wayne, Gunna, Victoria Monét, Method Man, Nas, Redman and Sexyy Red, and others performing in The Mann in Fairmount Park.

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A quick pop-in at the Reggae Rise Up Maryland 2024 festival in Baltimore on June 23 will be followed by a June 29 gig at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and then a pair of dates in July in Denver and Seattle, before a hop over the Atlantic for a couple of dates in England and Germany before a return to U.S. shores in August for shows in Houston and Irving, Texas, Highland Park, IL, Sterling Heights, MI, Atlanta, Vienna, VA and a Sept. 1 show at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston.

In keeping with their job supporting Fallon since 2009 — on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and then, beginning in 2014 on The Tonight Show — the majority of this summer’s dates will be weekend gigs that will allow the group to be in their spots in Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center in New York for their nightly gig.

Check out the dates for the Roots’ Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life 2024 tour below.

May 11 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery Concert Series

May 12 – San Diego, CA @ Wonderfront Festival

June 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Roots Picnic 2024

June 2 – Philadelphia, PA @ Roots Picnic 2024

June 23 – Baltimore, MD @ Reggae Rise Up Maryland 2024

June 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *^

July 20 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom

July 21 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo

August 1 – Tower Of London, UK @ Crystal Palace Bowl

August 2 – Margate, UK @ Dreamland

August 5 – Berlin, DE @ Uber Eats Music Hall

August 16 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall *^

August 17 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory *^

August 24 – Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival *^

August 25 – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill *^

August 29 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park *^

August 31 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap *^

Sept. 1 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *^’July 20 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom

* = w/ Arrested Development
^ = w/ Digable Planets

09 Apr 2024

Olivia Rubini Fires-up Rocket Man Classic on ‘The Voice’ Knockouts: Watch

Season 25 of NBC’s The Voice has entered the cutthroat business of the Knockouts.

It’s time for the contestants to get the job done or get out. And decision time for the coaches, who have to make the hardest of cuts, or choose when to steal.

“It gets so hard to make a decision in the Knockouts,” coach John Legend said on Monday night’s episode (April 8). “Everybody’s so good, everybody survived the Battle. Nobody deserves to go home.”

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If it’s tough for the cast, it’s a blast for viewers at home.

On night one of the Knockouts, newbies Dan + Shay learned that they had some tough calls to make. Teammates Anya True (singing “Runaway” by Aurora) and Kyle Schuesler (“Say You Won’t Let Go” by James Arthur) went toe-to-toe, with True getting the win.

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The country artists had to make a decision on Frank Garcia, who sang El Triste” by José José, and Olivia Rubini, who covered “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John.

Rubini took the Rocket Man’s classic song to another level, by singing it in a higher key, a suggestion of mega mentor Keith Urban. With it, she delivered a one-two. “There’s something special about what Olivia did,” Shay Mooney remarked, “she showed us that she was very coachable, that she was ready to go to that next level.” Her voice, added Dan Smyers, “just inherently has a bit of a retro thing to it. She was spot-on with all of her notes.”

Olivia, remarked Smyers, “I feel like that came such a long way from rehearsals.”

Rubini cruises through.

Dan + Shay served as mentors in season 20, and make their coaching debut on the show this season, where they’re joined by returning coaches Reba McEntire, John Legend and Chance the Rapper.

New episodes of The Voice air Mondays on NBC.

Watch below.

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