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Brian Wilson, leader of The Beach Boys, widely acknowledged as one of America’s all-time greatest composers, a pioneer of advanced studio techniques, and one of the most sensitive chroniclers of the Californian experience, has died at age 82.
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His death was confirmed Wednesday (June 11) by a post shared across his social media accounts. “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away,” the post read. “We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”
Wilson is survived by his daughters Carnie and Wendy from his 1964 marriage to Marilyn Rovell, as well as his five adopted children with his wife Melinda Ledbetter. (Ledbetter herself passed in early 2024.)
Wilson was born in Inglewood, California on June 20, 1942 to Audree Neva and Murry Wilson, a factory worker who became a songwriter and The Beach Boys’ early manager. At Hawthorne High School, Wilson was an athlete, but demonstrated an ear for harmony. In Summer 1961, he formed the Pendletones with younger brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Released on the local Calpix label, their rudimentary “Surfin’” became a regional hit under their new name, The Beach Boys, and their next recordings landed them a contract with Capitol Records.
The following year’s Surfin’ U.S.A. reached No. 2, and The Beach Boys became superstars. From ’63 to ‘65, the band released three studio albums each year while touring nearly nonstop. Earning full producer credit by September 1963’s Surfer Girl, Wilson made speedy progress as an arranger and sonic sculptor: Harmonies were overdubbed and perfected, and he often sang falsetto lead, particularly on ballads like “In My Room.” Although their instrumental chops also strengthened, Wilson soon augmented the Boys with session musicians. Even the British Invasion couldn’t squash their popularity: The Beach Boys were America’s biggest band.
Yet conflicts with Murry Wilson – who’d long bullied his sons – as well as pressure to maintain their constant schedule magnified Wilson’s anxieties. Following an inflight panic attack in late 1964, the songwriter stopped performing. During his first LSD trip, he composed July 1965’s “California Girls,” which marked the studio debut of his touring replacement, Bruce Johnston.
For May 1966’s expansive Pet Sounds, Wilson and lyricist Tony Asher created a song cycle documenting a passage from youthful innocence to mournful adulthood that the composer contrasted with delicately sophisticated yet openhearted orchestrations. Wilson recorded the band’s next single in several studios using even more unconventional instrumentation, but October 1966’s “Good Vibrations” became a worldwide smash.
Meanwhile, he and fellow experimentalist Van Dyke Parks toiled for many months on the even more ambitious Smile, but the project’s complexity overwhelmed its producer, who ultimately abandoned it in favor of September 1967’s simplified Smiley Smile, the first of several creative but commercially far less successful albums of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s in which Wilson typically diminished his input. After 1974’s Endless Summer – the first of three consecutive compilations – unexpectedly reached No. 1, the band suddenly became the era’s top touring draw.
Marilyn Wilson hired celebrity shrink Eugene Landy to cure her husband’s mounting instability and addictions during 1976’s 15 Big Ones and ‘77’s Love You, which he both produced. After Landy’s dismissal, his condition worsened again; an overdose brought Landy back in 1983. The therapist’s control over Wilson’s life extended even to 1988’s debut solo album Brian Wilson and 1991’s autobiography, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, until a 1992 restraining order.
Wilson’s condition gradually improved; he married Ledbetter in 1995, when his output resumed, sometimes with stellar results: 2004’s Brian Wilson Presents Smile, a re-recording of the abandoned album, justly earned universal accolades. He returned to touring solo and, in 2012, with The Beach Boys. That year, the band released the Wilson-helmed That’s Why God Made the Radio, which brought back early guitarist David Marks and celebrated the group’s 50th anniversary.
In December of 2021, Wilson sold his publishing rights to Universal for more than $50 million, according to documents filed in a lawsuit by his ex-wife Mary Wilson-Rutherford. In recent years, Wilson suffered a marked decline in mental and physical health, leading to him being placed under a conservatorship in late 2024.
Although an acclaimed 2014 biopic, Love & Mercy, chronicled the musician’s rise, fall and return to relative stability, the magnitude of Wilson’s work towers above his legend as a troubled genius. Equally adept at celebrating sun, surf, cars, and girls as well as his own vulnerability, Wilson broadened rock’s scope while deepening its spiritual impact. God only knows what we’ll do without him.
Billboard celebrated the genre’s top executives, impact makers and rising artists on Wednesday, (June 4) during the annual Billboard Country Power Players Awards, which were held at venue Category 10 in downtown Nashville. Reyna Roberts hosted the Country Power Players party, which launched with a performance by Latin artist Carín León. Brooks & Dunn’s Ronnie […]
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Hip-Hop’s extended golden era was riddled with many memorable moments and innovative creations from the dawn of the double-CD albums in Hip-Hop (y’all kids don’t know anything about that) to rappers proudly wearing iced-out logos of their record labels on their person. But Raekwon might’ve beaten them all to the creative punch when he released his debut solo album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, in the now classic purple plastic cassette tape.
All these decades later that tape and album holds a special place in the hearts of OG Hip-Hoppers across the globe.
Looking to revisit that moment in time and era in Hip-Hop, Raekwon and his co-host on his Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… album, Ghostface Killah, have released a trailer for their upcoming documentary, Purple Tape Files, which takes us back to the summer of 1995 when the Wu-Tang Clan were the hottest group in the rap game and Raekwon and Ghostface had the streets on lock with their classic purple tape.
Featuring interviews with their fellow Hip-Hop peers such as Nas, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Premier and others, the trailer will give OG Hip-Hoppers all the nostalgic feelings that come with listening to Only Built 4 Cuban Linx in 2025, and we can’t wait to watch and hear our favorite artists from yesteryear and today speak on the impact that Raekwon and Ghostface’s project had on them personally.
“I remember literally n*ggas was getting stabbed in the jail for misplaced purple tapes,” recalled Noreaga in his interview.
We totally believe that. It was that real back in the day.
Continuing with Raekwon saying he put himself in a Martin Scorsese mind frame when he was penning his now classic album, Purple Tape Files seems like a must-watch for any Hip-Hop fan who not only loved Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, but also might appreciate a little history lesson on what went into the making of such a timeless album.
Check out the trailer for Purple Tape Files below and let us know if you’ll be watching it when it premiers sometime in the near future.
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Sabrina Carpenter‘s break between her last album and next LP was short and sweet, with the pop star announcing Wednesday (June 11) that she has another full-length titled Man’s Best Friend coming out this summer. Sharing the news on Instagram, Carpenter unveiled the project’s sensual cover art — a photo of the Grammy winner down […]
Manuel Turizo officially hits the road on Wednesday (June 11), taking his 201 World Tour to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
The CMN and La Industria Inc-produced stint is in support of his latest studio album 201, which is an homage to the apartment number where he grew up in Montería, and “represents all those dreams I had since I was a child, all those young desires,” he previously told Billboard.
In bringing the ultra-personal and intimate album to life, Turizo assures us that “the story [of my album] will be finished telling on the tour.”
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“I was thinking about how to connect Manuel Turizo as a performer with where he comes from and where all these inspirations or all these stories a person lives originate,” he tells Billboard in an exclusive interview at his Miami home. “All of that happens in my house. In [apartment] 201 there were heartbreaks, there were loves, drunken parties with friends, with family—all the stories are there. All the songs are born there, all the ideas are born there. I wanted to tell it in the same way and bring that 201 to the 70 cities where I’m touring.”
He reveals that the stage is inspired by his childhood living room back in Colombia: “201 tour is basically Manuel Turizo’s apartment that we’re going to fill with people and create chaos,” he elaborates.
While on tour, the Colombian artist will visit other Latin American countries like Chile, Costa Rica and Argentina, before launching the North American leg of the trek on Aug. 21 in Chicago. After visiting major markets like New York, Miami and Los Angeles along the way, he will return to Latin America to wrap up, with the last date on Dec. 6 in Guatemala.
Above, check out our exclusive “En Conversación,” where Turizo also opens up about his friendship with Shakira, his No. 1 Billboard hit “En Privado” with Xavi, releasing new music and more.
Miley Cyrus appears to be headed to Paris for a very special concert celebrating some of her biggest hits, with the pop star teasing Wednesday (June 11) that she’ll be performing at Spotify‘s next Billions Club Live concert later this month.
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The news comes via X, on which the streaming giant first posted a lyric to Cyrus’ “End of the World” — “Let’s go to Paris, I don’t care if we get lost in the scene” — and added, “@MileyCyrus, you coming?”
The singer then reposted the message and wrote: “I’ll meet you there. Next week. #BillionsClubLive.”
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Billions Club Live was introduced last December, with The Weeknd playing the first show in the series for about 2,000 people in Los Angeles to celebrate his long roster of songs that have surpassed a billion Spotify streams. The crowd was made up of fans selected for being in the “Blinding Lights” artist’s top percentage of listeners on the music service.
Cyrus has several songs that have reached the ten-digit milestone, including “Wrecking Ball,” “We Can’t Stop,” “Angels Like You” and “Party in the U.S.A.”
The Spotify concert comes on the heels of her new album Something Beautiful, which dropped May 30 and debuted this week at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. The LP marks her first full-length since 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, which spawned eight-week Billboard Hot 100-topper “Flowers” — a song that has garnered more than 2 billion streams on the platform, meaning fans in Paris can almost definitely expect that she’ll perform it during her Billions Club Live show.
The upcoming show will be especially meaningful as Cyrus’ live performances are few and far between these days. When she does perform, it’s usually in an intimate setting — such as the Chateau Marmont, where she recently hosted a Something Beautiful listening party. In 2023, the Hannah Montana alum announced that she had no intention of touring for the foreseeable future.
While promoting Something Beautiful on Apple Music 1 in May, Cyrus elaborated on her decision to skip touring, noting that staying off the road is best for her sobriety and protecting her vocal cords.
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DMX’s “Party Up (Up in Here)” became the biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit of his career at that point in 2000, but many didn’t know the blaring anthem was a response to Kurupt.
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Xzibit, who’s sampled on Kurupt’s “Calling Out Names,” joined DJ HED’s Effective Immediately earlier in June, where he revealed how shocked he was when initially finding out that X’s “Party Up” was a subliminal Kurupt diss, as both rappers had romantic ties to Foxy Brown.
“What was crazy was when I found out that ‘Party Up’ was the answer to ‘Calling Out Names,’” Xzibit said before giving Drake some suggestions for his battle with Kendrick Lamar. “That’s what Drake should’ve did. He should’ve made a ‘Party Up.’ Nah, but he tried to get down and knuckle up with it. I keep telling n—-s, don’t get into fights with n—-s who like to fight.”
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“‘Party Up’ was a response to Kurupt,” Xzibit continued before reciting DMX bars from the track. “You wack, you twisted, your girl’s a ho/ You broke, the kid ain’t yours and everybody know… They were fighting over Foxy Brown. We need to do a hip-hop 101.”
“Calling Out Names” arrived in 1999 and found the West Coast rapper sending several shots at DMX, Irv Gotti and Ja Rule.
“And I’mma start callin’ y’all b–h n—s by name/ Mothaf—k D, Mothaf—k M, only X I know is Xzibit or RBX, extraordinary/ Tryna snatch my b—h/ You can have the b—h,” Kurupt raps.
DMX responded with “Party Up (Up in Here)” on his … And Then There Was X album in December 1999. The Swizz Beatz-produced track became a single in 2000 and went on to reach No. 27 on the Hot 100 and cracked the top 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rhythmic Airplay charts.
Fans of DMX can expect more music, as a posthumous album titled DMX Features from the Yonkers native’s estate is set to arrive this summer.
Listen to Xzibit talk about DMX’s “Party Up (Up in Here)” just shy of the 48-minute mark below.
A collection of remixes of The Cure’s 2024 album Songs of a Lost World is out Friday (June 13), and ahead of the release, electronic duo Daybreakers is exclusively sharing their edit of the group’s “Warsong” from the project.
In Daybreakers’ hands, the steady, heavy, four minute and 17 second original becomes more than six minutes of hypnotic synth and muscular basslines, with a long build releasing into sped up of vocals from The Cure frontman Robert Smith and the entire edit containing the same sense of mystique and style of the legendary U.K. band is known for. Listen to the “Warsong” remix below.
“As long time fans of The Cure, we had always wanted to do a project with them, and via our mutual friend and legendary producer, Mark Saunders, the opportunity arose when Robert got in touch to discuss our interest in doing a remix,” the duo tell Billboard in a joint statement.
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Made up of producers Ric Scot and Alex Hush, Daybreakers previous work includes remixes of U2’s “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In It’s Way” and Madonna’s “I Rise.” “I Rise” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart in Aug. 2019, aided by a package of remixes from artists including Daybreakers, Tracy Young, DJLW, Kue and Offer Nissim. “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In It’s Way” also hit No. 1 on this same chart in July of 2018 on the power of a remix collection that Daybreakers was a part of.
Scot and Hush’s first work together was a 2020 edit of Erasure’s “Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling)” after which they decided to make Daybreakers an ongoing project.
As Mixes of a Lost World project came to life, Smith offered Daybreakers two tracks to choose from, one of them being ‘Warsong” which the pair say “really lent itself to something that we could incorporate our sound with. The song has a conflicted sadness to it but at the same time, we knew we could really make it work with a dance vibe.”
Daybreakers remix of “Warsong” has a real sense of drama,” Smith tells Billboard. “The breakdowns are simple, but far-out, and the vibe is cool, but urgent. It is one of my favorites on the [remix] album.”
Mixes of a Lost World will also feature edits by Four Tet, Orbital, Trentemøller, Chino Moreno, Paul Oakenfold and more. The project is out June 13 via Fiction/Capitol Records. In a statement made when the project was announced, Smith said that The Cure “has a colorful history with all kinds of dance music, and I was curious as to how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.”
“To be chosen to do a remix is a great honor and we are thrilled with how much Robert likes the remix and we hope others do as well,” Daybreakers add. “Being included on the remix album alongside such a great variety of talented artists and producers is a huge privilege. Additionally, with all of The Cure’s recording royalties being donated to the WarChild UK charity, it really is for a wonderful cause.”
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After taking a 15-year hiatus, Clipse is back in full effect. And with an album releasing in just a few weeks, the Virginia duo will be taking their show on the road as they’ve announced some tour dates that their fans can flock to when they come to their city.
According to Variety, Clipse will be giving their new album, Let God Sort Em Out the proper rollout once it hits the streets on July 11. Pusha T and Malice will be hitting the road in August and will be bringing their new project along with them to 25 venues across the U.S. Kicking off their tour in Boston on Aug. 3, Clipse will continue to hit a new city almost every day for the next month and change before ending their tour in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 10.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale Friday (June 13), so if you’ve been dying to see Clipse perform live now is your chance; we don’t know if they’ll take another decade-long break before deciding to hit the studio and the road once again.
Check out the tour dates below, and let us know if you’ll be catching Clipse when they roll into your city in the comments section.
CLIPSE LET GOD SORT EM OUT TOUR 2025
Sun-Aug-03 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Tue-Aug-05 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Thu-Aug-07 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
Sat-Aug-09 – Fairfax, VA – EagleBank Arena
Sun-Aug-10 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
Tue-Aug-12 – Miami, FL – The Fillmore
Wed-Aug-13 – Orlando, FL – The Vanguard
Thu-Aug-14 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Sat-Aug-16 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
Sun-Aug-17 – Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Ballroom
Mon-Aug-18 – St, Louis, MO – The Factory
Tue-Aug-19 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
Thu-Aug-21 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
Sat-Aug-23 – Los Angeles, – CA – The Novo
Mon-Aug-25 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
Wed-Aug-27 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theater
Thu-Aug-28 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
Fri-Aug-29 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels
Tue-Sep-02 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Wed-Sep-03 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Thu-Sep-04 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory
Sat-Sep-06 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
Sun-Sep-07 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
Mon-Sep-08 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Wed-Sep-10 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
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Billboard’s Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard’s many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more.
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This week (on charts dated June 14, 2025), Tate McRae, D.O.D., Sammy Virji and others achieve new feats. Check out key movers below.
Tate McRae
Tate McRae is back at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart with her new song, “Just Keep Watching.” She released the track May 30 via Apple/Atlantic from F1 the Album, the soundtrack to the film F1, starring Brad Pitt. The set arrives June 27, the same day that the movie premieres in North American theaters.
The song opens with 11.4 million official U.S. streams, 1.3 million radio audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold in its opening week (May 30-June 5), according to Luminate. It also debuts at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the highest launch on the chart this week.
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McRae has been one of the top-performing artists on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart dating to its launch in January. She led the inaugural list dated Jan. 18 with “It’s Ok I’m Ok” (which spent four weeks on top) and returned with two-week leader “Revolving Door” in March. The only other artist to top the chart since its start is Lady Gaga, whose “Abracadabra” has ruled for 15 weeks.
D.O.D.
The British DJ and producer tops a Billboard chart for the first time this week thanks to his song “Wrap Yourself Around Me,” featuring NORTH. The track, released in February on Armada Music, rises 3-1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay with an 18% gain in plays among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations’ mix show hours.
D.O.D. charted two other songs on Billboard’s charts before this week: “So Much in Love” reached No. 8 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay in August 2023 and “Somedays,” with Sonny Fodera and Jazzy, also hit No. 8 on the chart in November 2024 (as well as No. 15 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs this April).
As for NORTH, the song grants the singer her first No. 1 with her initial chart entry.
Sammy Virji & Issey Cross
The acts each earn their first Billboard radio chart hit this week with their collaboration, “Nostalgia.” Released April 25 on Polydor/Capitol/ICLG, the song debuts at No. 40 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay (up 12%).
Both artists are up-and-coming on Billboard’s charts. Virji had logged one chart hit before this week: “Summertime Blues,” with Chris Lake and Nathan Nicholson, reached No. 48 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in May 2024. Issey Cross claims her first chart appearance.
Daft Punk
The legendary DJ duo’s 2013 album Random Access Memories spends a 500th week on the Top Dance Albums chart, at No. 20. The LP is just the fourth album to reach the 500-week milestone in the chart’s 24-year history, after Lady Gaga’s The Fame (586 weeks), David Guetta’s Nothing But the Beat (542) and Gorillaz’s Demon Days (539).
