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CMA Fest, June 5-8, Nashville. Performers: TBA
Carolina Country Music Festival, June 5-8, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Headliners: Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Rascal Flatts, Kid Rock
Tailgate N’ Tallboys, June 5-7, Clinton, Iowa. Performers include: Whiskey Myers, Jason Aldean and Riley Green.
The Country Fest, June 11-14, Orrville, Ohio. Headliners: Warren Zeiders, Dierks Bentley, HARDY, Bailey Zimmerman
Tailgate N’ Tallboys, June 12-15, Bloomington, Ill. Headliners: Koe Wetzel, Cody Johnson, Hardy, Bailey Zimmerman
Rock the Country Festival, June 13-14, Hastings, Mich. Headliners: Kid Rock, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Travis Tritt.
Gordys HWY 30 Music Fest, June 21-24, Filer, Idaho. Headliners: TBA
Rock the South, June 19-21, Cullman, Ala. Headliners: Hank Williams, Jr., Kid Rock, Nickelback
Barefoot Country Music Festival, June 19-22, Wildwood, N.J. Performers: Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson
Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 19-22, Telluride, Colo. Performers: TBA
Rock the Country Festival, June 20-21, Little Rock, Ark. Headliners: Kid Rock, Nickelback, Hank Williams, Jr., Travis Tritt.
Winstock Country Festival, June 20-21, Winstead, Minn. Headliners: Jordan Davis, Thomas Rhett
Buckeye Country Superfest, June 21, Columbus, Ohio. Headliners: Jelly Roll, Kane Brown
ROMP Fest, June 25-28, Owensboro, Ky. Performers include: Wynonna Judd, Del McCoury Band, Sam Bush, Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway
Jackalope Jamboree, June 26-28, Pendleton, Ore. Headliners: Midland, 49 Winchester, Paul Cauthen.
Country Jam, June 26-28, Grand Junction, Colo. Headliners: LUke Bryan, Bailey Zimmerman, Cody Johnson
Country Stampede, June 26-28, Bonner Springs, Kan. Headliners: Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Cole Swindell, Ashley McBryde
Hoofbeat Country Fest, June 26-28, Cadott, Wis. Headliners: Brooks & Dunn, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green
Dauphin’s Countryfest, June 26-29, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. Headliners: Jordan Davis, Josh Ross, John Michael Montgomery.
Country Summer Music Festival, June 27-29, Santa Rosa, Calif. Headliners: Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Dustin Lynch
Lakes Jam, June 26-28, Brainerd, Minn. Performers: Bush, Riley Green, Gary Allan
Travis Kelce and Caitlin Clark relived some of the magic of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour on the latest episode of New Heights Thursday (Jan. 2), nearly a month after the global trek ended Dec. 8 in Vancouver, B.C.
While serving as a special guest on the podcast hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, the women’s basketball superstar gushed about the “electric” experience of watching one of Swift’s performances at Lucas Oil Stadium in November, which Travis also attended.
“It’s just a great show and a lot of fun,” Clark said of the pop star’s three-hour-plus show as the Grotesquerie star affirmed, “Ugh, that was so much fun.”
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“My mom was begging me to take her,” the Indiana Fever guard continued. “She’s like, ‘I gotta go, like, everybody’s talking about it.’ I’m like, ‘OK, OK’ … Full Swiftie, turned my mom into a full Swiftie now. Good time, good time.”
Clark added that the show she saw with Travis had been her third Eras Tour concert total, having attended another Indy show the night prior as well as a June 2023 stop in Minneapolis. The Chiefs player previously opened up about hanging with the WNBA star during his famous girlfriend’s Lucas Oil stint in a November episode of New Heights, revealing, “Saw Caitlin Clark there, got to meet Caitlin, she’s awesome … she’s a Swiftie through and through.”
“I wanted to see Tay one more time before this thing got closed up,” Travis also said at the time. “I’ll tell you what, man. The American crowds, they did not disappoint. I heard that it was a lot more rowdy this time around, knowing she was coming back to stop through America one last time before the tour was over with, and I’ll tell you what, man, that thing was rocking. Absolutely rocking.”
Clark also previously shared details about her Indy Eras experience in her TIME athlete of the year cover story. According to the athlete, Swift gifted her with four bags of merch along with a note saying that she and Travis planned on catching a Fever game in the future.
Watch Clark and Travis gush about the Eras Tour on New Heights below.
Lupe Fiasco is adding to his educational résumé as he takes the next step in his teaching career. The Chicago rapper announced on Wednesday (Jan. 1) that he’ll be joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute as a visiting professor. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Lupe […]
Jelly Roll celebrated the end of the year with another homage of one of his musical heroes. During the Nashville’s Big Bash New Year’s Eve special on Tuesday night (Dec. 31), the singer performed Toby Keith’s 1993 debut single, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” as part of a five-song set that also included his own hits […]
In the 2024 calendar year, 761 songs by a total of 404 different artists appeared on the Billboard Hot 100.
Of those 404 artists, 120 appeared on the chart for the first time in 2024. Billboard has been celebrating these Hot 100 first-timers throughout the year, highlighting their first chart appearances and sharing their reactions to the news. As 2024 draws to a close, let’s look back at each act to debut on the ranking for the first time and the songs that helped them become Hot 100-charting hitmakers.
Notably, of the eight acts nominated for best new artist at the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards in February, two hit the Hot 100 for the first time this year: Chappell Roan with “Good Luck, Babe!” in April, and Shaboozey with his featured turns on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii” and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin” from her album Cowboy Carter, also in April. “Good Luck, Babe!” reached No. 4 on the chart in September, and Roan landed six additional songs on the chart this year: “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot to Go!,” “Pink Pony Club,” “Casual,” “Femininomenon” and “My Kink Is Karma.” Shaboozey, of course, later charted with his breakthrough smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which spent a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1, and then with “Good News.”
As for the other best new artist nominees: Benson Boone first charted in 2021 with “Ghost Town,” but his song “Beautiful Things” became his biggest hit to date this year, reaching No. 2; Sabrina Carpenter first charted in 2021 with “Skin,” but earned her first three top 10s this year with “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste”; Doechii arrived on the Hot 100 in 2023 with “What It Is (Block Boy)”; Raye debuted in December 2022 with “Escapism”; and Teddy Swims arrived in August 2023 with “Lose Control,” which topped the chart this March and finished as Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 song of the year. (Khruangbin hasn’t yet appeared on the Hot 100.)
Tommy Richman made a historic first entry on the chart this year with “Million Dollar Baby” when it debuted at No. 2. Since the Hot 100 began in 1958, only five other acts have debuted in the top two with no prior history on the chart: Lauryn Hill, Fantasia, Baauer, Zayn and Oliver Anthony Music. (Hill and Zayn previously charted with Fugees and One Direction, respectively. Fantasia won Season 3 of American Idol. So only Richman, Baauer and Oliver Anthony Music debuted in the top two with no significant previous audience awareness.)
Other notable artists who first reached the Hot 100 this year include Djo, aka actor Joe Keery of Stranger Things, who debuted with his viral hit “End of Beginning”; Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose 2001 song “Murder on the Dancefloor” received newfound popularity after its appearance in the film Saltburn; YG Marley, who debuted with “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” helping him become the sixth member of the legendary Marley family to chart a song on the Hot 100; and Pabllo Vittar, who joined RuPaul as the only drag queens to ever to debut on the chart.
Proving that age is just a number, two artists over the age of 80 earned their first Hot 100 entries this year. Ariana Grande’s grandmother, Marjorie Grande, was credited as a featured act on her granddaughter’s song “Ordinary Things” (under the name Nonna). At 98 years old, she became the senior-most artist ever to appear on the Hot 100. She surpassed Fred Stobaugh, who charted at 96 years old with “Oh Sweet Lorraine” in 2013. Plus, Linda Martell charted for the first time at age 82 thanks to her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii.” In 1969, the country music pioneer became the first Black woman to ever play the Grand Ole Opry.
Plus, the children of two superstars also charted on the Hot 100 for the first time this year: North West, the eldest child of Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Kim Kardashian, charted her first song in February at age 10, with her featured appearance on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Talking.” Two months later, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Rumi became the youngest female artist to ever chart on the Hot 100, at just 6 years old. She debuted with her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Protector.” She surpassed her sister, Blue Ivy Carter, who was 7 years old when she first charted in 2019 (on “Brown Skin Girl”).
In chronological order below is a roundup of every artist who earned a first Hot 100 hit in 2024, encompassing the charts dated Jan. 6-Dec. 28.
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2025 may only be two days old, but Doechii is already hitting the ground running. On Thursday (Jan. 2), the ascendant Tampa rapper released the highly anticipated music video for “Denial Is a River,” a standout cut from her breakout mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. Co-directed by Carlos Acosta and James Mackel, the “Denial” clip […]
Chappell Roan is letting her Gleek flag fly in 2025. In a hilarious video shared to her TikTok account Wednesday (Jan. 1), the 26-year-old pop star recreates an iconic scene from Ryan Murphy’s Glee — taking a slushie to the face in the process.
In the clip, Roan plays the part of Kurt Hummel — portrayed by Chris Colfer on the hit Fox series — speaking into a microphone during an interview with a classmate. “You know what does take some courage? Standing up and singing about something,” the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer mouths along to the Glee audio, sassily pointing her finger at the camera.
“So here’s a message for everyone that reads your blog: Next time, instead of posting an anonymous comment online, say what you have to say to my face,” she continues.
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In the original Glee scene — which is featured in the second season’s first episode — Colfer’s character is then assaulted by a surprise slushie that a William McKinley High School bully throws in his face. For her recreation, Roan maintained the integrity of the source material, bravely committing to the bit as purple icy sludge sails into view from off camera and splashes her in the face.
“New Year New Me New Directions #glee #welcomeback #ladies,” Roan captioned the clip.
The Grammy nominee’s video marks her first post of 2025 on the platform. Just a week prior, Roan shared her thoughts on a different episode of the satirical show-choir sitcom, posting on Instagram Stories that its 2011 Christmas special was “the worst episode of Glee I’ve ever seen.”
Shortly afterward, Roan followed it up with an “apology video for the Gleeks that [she] offended,” which she filmed in front of a Christmas tree as someone off camera aims a pair of scissors at her. “I am so sorry,” she continues jokingly in the video. “I love every episode of Glee …”
Starring Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera, Glee aired from 2009 to 2015. During its run, the cast notched 207 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 — one of the highest amounts on record. It’s a number only a few musicians have surpassed, including Drake, Taylor Swift and Future.
Roan ended 2024 as Billboard‘s fourth-greatest pop star of the year, a testament to the phenomenal career explosion she’s experienced in the past 12 months. Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in August, and the star launched seven tracks onto the Hot 100 over the course of last year.
Watch Roan’s TikTok below.
Wham!’s “Last Christmas” becomes the second holiday song in the one-year history of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart to hit No. 1, lifting 7-1 on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated tally.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Dec. 23-29. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Last Christmas” reigns for the first time after reaching No. 2 a year before on the Jan. 6 survey, behind Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” (Carey’s classic appears at No. 3 on the latest list.)
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Concurrently, “Last Christmas” rises 51% in official Billboard-eligible U.S. streams to 69.6 million listens in the week ending Dec. 26, according to Luminate. It holds at its No. 3 peak on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, which Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” rules for an 18th week.
Holiday-related music occupies 10 spots of TikTok Billboard Top 50, including four of the top 10; Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” re-enters the chart at No. 8, a new peak, while Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” jumps 18-9.
Christmas music dominates the ranking due to the holiday falling amid the tracking period on Dec. 25, begetting a variety of uploads, from dances and lip syncs to creators showing off their gift hauls for the year.
The chart’s top 10 features another newcomer in the top 10, albeit not a Christmas song: Naughty Boy’s “La La La,” featuring Sam Smith, which leaps 19-4 in its second week on the tally.
Though some of the uploads using “La La La” use the original version, a majority of the top-performing clips feature a sped-up sound, generally set to a dance trend.
“La La La” sports a 165% jump in listens to 3.3 million streams in the week ending Dec. 26. It peaked at No. 19 on the Hot 100 in May 2014, Smith’s first appearance on the list.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Ava Max loves her fans, but she doesn’t love it when they leak her music. So on Thursday morning (Jan. 2), the “Sweet But Psycho” singer made a plea to her followers to stop leaking unreleased demos. In an Instagram Story, Max shared a screenshot of what she said was a visualizer for an as-yet-unreleased song called “Phenomenon.”
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“ok yes I have a lot of demos I’ve written that are not finalized records, and I’d appreciate it if you stop leaking these records ^ like this one,” Max wrote alongside a snippet of the mid-tempo dance number with an alluring, Middle Eastern-inspired groove. “It’s a phenomenon-on/ One dance and then it’s gone-on/ One touch can make you wonder, wonder, what’s going on,” she sings on the track.
The note continues: “A lot of records I write do not ever see the light of day and I understand your frustration, but this is not right. I write a lot of records I wish I could put out. This is one of 5 songs I have found today. It’s not right.” Max did not name the other four songs she said she found, but the post ended with a stern warning.
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“I will find out who did this,” she wrote. “Like I usually do. So plz Stop.” A follow-up slide expanded on her plea to fans, adding, “I’ve never posted about this since the leak of my second album prematurely. Plz respect my art so I can keep working on making the songs I wanna put out that make sense for my project, and who I am perfect for you.”
Max broke through in 2018 with her Billboard Hot 100 No. 10 single “Sweet But Psycho,” followed by her 2020 debut studio album, Heaven & Hell. Her sophomore LP, Diamonds & Dancefloors, was released in January 2023 after a several-month delay caused by she said at the time was a leak. She addressed the incident in a since-deleted TikTok in which she explained the delay.
“I wanted to come on here personally and talk about all the leaks that have been happening [with] Diamonds & Dancefloors. I am extremely upset about it, obviously,” she wrote. “I don’t want anyone thinking I am trying to avoid this or anything. I see what is happening. I, personally, haven’t seen the leaks or where they’re coming from online. I just know that it’s out there and — I don’t know… My team and I are trying our hardest to bring it down. We’ve all worked so hard on Diamonds & Dancefloors and I can’t wait for everyone to hear every single song on the album.”
Last May, Max told Billboard that that she was preparing for her third album cycle with “no heartbreak attached and no man attached.” She explained then that those crucial elements are tied to the vibe of the untitled collection’s debut single, “My Oh My,” which she described as feeling like “the beginning of me.”
“For the first time I’m really finding myself, honing in on healing… I really feel like this is everyone’s healing era,” Max said of the in-process album, whose release date has not yet been announced. She released the dance pop banger “Spot a Fake” in September 2024.
Coi Leray is going to be a mom. The Boston rapper kicked off 2025 in a major way, as she and Trippie Redd are expecting their first child together.
Leray revealed her pregnancy in an announcement to social media on Wednesday (Jan. 1). “I’m a rock star mommy we ready for 2025,” she captioned an Instagram carousel of photos of her baby bump, with two photos also featuring Trippie.
Congratulatory messages poured into her comments section from her fellow female artists such as Anycia, BIA, Lady London, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, Ice Spice, Shenseea, Kehlani and DreamDoll, who revealed a pregnancy of her own earlier this week.
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“Congrats! You finally got what you wanted you’re gonna loveee the journey sis,” Shenseea wrote.
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Coi and Trippie dated back in 2019 before breaking things off not long after. During that time, Leray accompanied Redd to the Billboard NYC office for his ! album press run.
The couple went their separate ways, but rekindled their romance in August 2024. Trippie relayed to TMZ that he slid into Coi’s DMs and things flourished from there. “We just been talking. That’s my boo,” he said in September.
Some of their relationship drama was poured into music, as Trippie dedicated “Leray” from A Love Letter to You 4 to his then-ex in 2019. Coi mentioned Trippie years later on 2023’s “Isabel Marant.”
“At first, no, I didn’t like it. It was very like, ‘What the f–k,’ because I always thought we really had something outside of the music,” Coi said of her response to “Leray” in an interview with No Jumper. “So I’m just like, ‘Damn. If you got something to say, let’s get together and you say that s–t to my face.’”
