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14 Dec 2024

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Shares His Theory on New Jersey Drone Sightings

Tom DeLonge is offering his thoughts on the mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey.

On Saturday (Dec. 14), the Blink-182 guitarist and UFO aficionado shared a post on social media, proposing a theory about the mass drone sightings that have been reported across the Garden State in recent weeks.

“The drones that are being discussed, can hover for six hours, and then disappear once they are spotted,” DeLonge wrote on Instagram. “This is why it’s been hard to get facts from any US Agency. Some of them can even move into the ocean, and then back up to the air. Which is called ‘transmedium travel.’ A very hard thing to do.”

The drone sightings, which have also been reported in New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut since late November, are currently under investigation by local, state and federal authorities, who remain puzzled by the flying objects.

On Friday (Dec. 13), White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby downplayed the sightings, suggesting that people may be misidentifying manned aircraft as drones, according to the New York Post. He also assured the public that there was no cause for concern. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy reported nearly 50 sightings in the state alone just last week, NPR reports.

DeLonge, who has dedicated many years to researching and raising awareness about UFOs, compared the current sightings to mass UFO reports from the 1960s.

“There’s a strong possibility that these drones are ‘mimicking’ other aircraft,” the Blink-182 co-founder speculated, sharing a 1960s document about a military base that had “experienced a considerable number of reports of unidentified flying objects.”

He continued, “It’s all something to consider, and [although] we don’t have all the facts yet, we do know that UFOs play with ‘mimicry’ and that has been known for quite some time. Why? To get us to notice them without a major freak out? Who knows… but well, we are noticing nonetheless.”

Check out DeLonge’s full post about the East Coast drone sightings on Instagram here.

13 Dec 2024

U2’s Larry Mullen Jr. Explains Why Dyscalculia Diagnosis Makes Him Feel ‘Pained’ While Drumming

Larry Mullen Jr. may have spent his career drumming, but that doesn’t mean it all comes easily to him. In a new interview with Times Radio published Thursday (Dec. 12), the U2 percussionist revealed that he has long struggled with dyscalculia — a learning disorder related to mathematics — that sometimes interferes with his ability to play.

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While speaking to the publication about his work on the soundtrack for Anna Toomey’s Left Behind documentary, which tells the story of five mothers working to establish New York’s first school for dyslexics, Mullen Jr. said that he’s “always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers.”

“I’m numerically challenged,” he continued. “And I realized recently that I have dyscalculia, which is a sub-version of dyslexia. So I can’t count [and] I can’t add.”

According to Cleveland Clinic, dyscalculia interrupts the areas in the brain that process skills related to numerical comprehension, similar to how dyslexia complicates the brain’s ability to read. For Mullen Jr., the disorder makes it difficult for him to count through measures of music while he’s playing alongside bandmates Bono, the Edge and Adam Clayton.

“When people watch me play sometimes, they say, ‘You look pained,’” he told Times Radio. “I am pained, because I’m trying to count the bars. I had to find ways of doing this — and counting bars is like climbing Everest.”

Featuring music written and produced by Mullen Jr., Left Behind first premiered at Woodstock Film Festival in October. The documentary’s story hit close to home for the U2 band member in more ways than one, he says, as one of his sons also struggles with a learning disability.

“Making the music through the eyes of my dyslexic son felt personal and visceral,” shared Mullen Jr.

The interview comes just a couple weeks after the Nov. 22 arrival of U2’s How to Re-assemble an Atomic Bomb, a special release celebrating the 20-year anniversary of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb that features previously unreleased tracks from the 2004 album’s recording sessions. In September, the rock band premiered V-U2 An Immersive Concert Film at Sphere Las Vegas, an onscreen playback of the group’s historic residency at Las Vegas’ The Sphere.

U2’s most recent album was Songs of Surrender, which arrived in March 2023. The project reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

13 Dec 2024

Myles Smith’s ‘Stargazing’ Shoots to No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart

Myles Smith’s “Stargazing” caps a triumphant 27-week trip to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, rising a spot on the tally dated Dec. 21.

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“Stargazing” reigns with 4.7 million audience impressions, up 15%, on alternative, adult alternative and mainstream rock reporting stations in the week ending Dec. 12, according to Luminate.

The song wraps the lengthiest rise to No. 1 by a solo male, and ties for the fifth-longest overall, since Rock & Alternative Airplay began in June 2009.

Longest Rises to No. 1, Rock & Alternative Airplay:
33 weeks, “Out of My League,” Fitz and the Tantrums (reached No. 1 in 2013)
30, “First, “Cold War Kids (2015)
29, “Running Up That Hill,” Meg Myers (2020)
29, “Trampoline,” SHAED (2019)
27, “Stargazing,” Myles Smith (2024)
27, “All My Favorite Songs,” Weezer (2021)
26, “Way Down We Go,” KALEO (2016)
24, “Broken,” lovelytheband (2018)
24, “Tighten Up,” The Black Keys (2010)

“Stargazing” is Smith’s first Rock & Alternative Airplay ruler, earned with the British singer-songwriter’s first entry on the ranking. He’s the third act to score an initial leader on the chart this year, following The Offspring (“Make It All Right”), Hozier (“Too Sweet”) and Pearl Jam (“Dark Matter”). He’s the first to achieve the feat with a maiden hit since Giovannie & the Hired Guns, with “Ramon Ayala,” in 2022. Before Smith, Alice Merton last achieved the feat among soloists as a lead act, with “No Roots” in 2018.

Along the way to its Rock & Alternative Airplay coronation, “Stargazing” led the Alternative Airplay chart in September. (It ranks at No. 5 on the latest tally.) It also leads Adult Pop Airplay for a second week, following a week atop Pop Airplay. It becomes just the eighth song to have hit No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay, Alternative Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay, joining Hozier’s “Too Sweet” earlier in 2024, Panic! at the Disco’s “High Hopes” (2018-19), Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” (2017), Twenty One Pilots’ “Stressed Out” (2015-16), Lorde’s “Royals” (2013), fun.’s “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monáe (2012) and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” featuring Kimbra (2012).

“Stargazing,” which also reached No. 4 on Adult Alternative Airplay, ranked at No. 3 on the most recently published Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart (dated Dec. 14, reflecting the Nov. 29-Dec. 5 tracking week), with 53.4 million audience impressions across all radio formats, 6.3 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 sold.

“Stargazing” is on Smith’s EP A Minute…, which debuted at its No. 25 high on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated Nov. 23.

All Billboard charts dated Dec. 21 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Dec. 17.

13 Dec 2024

The Head and the Heart’s ‘Arrow’ Flies to No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay Chart

The Head and the Heart notches its fifth leader on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart, vaulting three places to No. 1 on the Dec. 21-dated survey with “Arrow.”

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The band previously topped the Adult Alternative Airplay tally with “Virginia (Wind in the Night)” (2022), “All We Ever Knew” (2016), “Missed Connection” (2019) and “Lost in My Mind,” its first entry on the ranking (2011). The act, which formed in Seattle in 2009, has tallied 11 top 10s.

“Arrow” shoots to No. 1 in its seventh week on Adult Alternative Airplay, tying for the group’s quickest coronation. It matches the sprints of “Virginia” and “All We Ever Knew.”

Concurrently, “Arrow” bullets at No. 17, after reaching No. 16, on the Alternative Airplay list. It’s the band’s top-charting hit since “Honeybee,” which led for a week in 2020.

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Arrow” lifts three spots to No. 16 for a new high with 2.1 million audience impressions, up 25% week-over-week, in the week ending Dec. 12, according to Luminate. The rank is likewise the band’s best since “Honeybee,” which rose to No. 3.

“Arrow” is the lead single from The Head and the Heart’s as-yet-untitled sixth studio album, which does not yet have an announced release date. Its predecessor, Every Shade of Blue, reached No. 21 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart in May 2022 and has earned 61,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated Dec. 21 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Dec. 17.

13 Dec 2024

Watch All the 2024 Billboard Music Awards Performances

From Linkin Park 2.0’s BBMA debut to Teddy Swims, Jelly Roll, Coldplay, Fuerzo Regida and Stray Kids, we’ve got all of Thursday night’s (Dec. 12) sets here for you.

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Jelly Roll at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

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Thursday night’s (Dec. 12) 2024 Billboard Music Awards was a glittering showcase for the artists who lit up our playlists, and the charts, all year. From the rebooted, 2.0 version of Linkin Park to K-pop superstars Stray Kids and SEVENTEEN, country stars Jelly Roll, Shaboozey and Megan Moroney, R&B singers Tyla and Teddy Swims and Coldplay, the night had a bit of everything for everybody.

And, of course, a whole lot for Taylor Swift, who did not perform, but did become the winningest act in the show’s history when she took home 10 more awards, including top artist. Just behind her were Zach Bryan with five, Morgan Wallen with four and four artists with three each: Shaboozey, Bad Bunny, Drake and Elevation Worship.

If you missed any of the performances, or want to re-live them one more time, check out all the 2024 BBMA sets below.

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13 Dec 2024

Which Performance at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards Was Your Favorite? Vote!

The 2024 Billboard Music Awards presented by Marriott Bonvoy are in the books, with multiple artists taking home awards in between memorable performances from Stray Kids, Jelly Roll and more.

Shaboozey was the first star to take the stage at the ceremony Thursday night (Dec. 13) — a fitting kickoff considering his single “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” dominated the Billboard charts this year. The country star got the crowd in a party mood by performing the track — which spent a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year — after which Megan Moroney treated fans to a live rendition of “Man on the Moon” and Tyla brought the heat with “Push 2 Start” and “Shake Ah.” The “Chk Chk Boom!” boy band and SEVENTEEN both brought the house down with high-energy dance numbers, while Teddy Swims, Fuerza Regida and “Son of a Sinner” singer each performed two numbers a piece.

Plus, Coldplay tuned in live from their Music of the Spheres Tour, while Linkin Park shredded on “The Emptiness Machine.”

Hosted by Michelle Buteau, the 2024 BBMAs aired Thursday on Fox and Fire TV channels, as well as on-demand on Paramount+. Performances are available to watch back on Billboard.com and via @BBMAs and @Billboard social channels.

The Billboard Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.

Which performance at the 2024 BBMAs was your favorite? Cast your vote below.

13 Dec 2024

Zach Bryan, Billie Eilish Lead Another Year of Soloist Domination on Year-End Rock & Alternative Charts

In 2017, Imagine Dragons started a trend that has continued every year since on Billboard’s year-end Top Rock & Alternative Artists chart.

It’s never obvious at first. An act has a big year, big enough that they reign supreme above all other rock and/or alternative artists in the U.S. Well and good, but by the time they’re crowned atop Billboard’s year-end charts, the clock has reset anew, and there’s no guarantee they’ll end up on top of the fray yet again the following year.

Except that’s exactly what’s happened in every two-year period since, a trend that continues in 2024, with Zach Bryan the year’s No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists.

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After Imagine Dragons led in both 2017 and ’18, Panic! at the Disco followed in 2019-20. Glass Animals topped the list in 2021 and ’22, with Bryan ascending to the top in 2023, a spot he holds again this year.

Bryan, the folky troubadour whose music blurs the line between rock and country singer-songwriter fare, premiered a new album, The Great American Bar Scene, on July 4. Music from that set – including one-week Hot Rock & Alternative Songs No. 1 “Pink Skies” – certainly helped his fortunes on both the Top Rock & Alternative Artists and Top Country Artists (where he’s No. 2) for the year, but much like fellow country heavy-hitters Morgan Wallen and Chris Stapleton, it’s important to look beyond music that was released during the chart year.

Indeed, “I Remember Everything,” Bryan’s duet with Kacey Musgraves from his 2023 self-titled album, is No. 1 on a variety of year-end charts for 2024, including – but certainly not limited to – the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs lists, as well as the all-genre Streaming Songs survey. Released in September 2023, the song reigned on the weekly Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for 30 weeks through March of this year and didn’t fall off the survey until October. Even as The Great American Bar Scene’s tracklist roared onto the charts in July, “I Remember Everything” persisted; it’s only spent a handful of weeks outside Streaming Songs’ top 20 since release.

Bryan also notches multiple appearances on the year-end Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart; Zach Bryan leads the way at No. 2, followed by 2022’s American Heartbreak (No. 5), The Great American Bar Scene (No. 12), 2020’s Elisabeth (No. 20), 2022 EP Summertime Blues (No. 25) and 2023 EP Boys of Faith (No. 64). And on the year-end Rock Streaming Songs, he boasts the top two (“I Remember Everything” and 2022’s “Something in the Orange”) and 13 of the 50 total entries.

Bryan’s 2024 coronation continues another rising trend on Top Rock & Alternative Artists: the domination of soloists. After years of leads by bands, Bryan’s 2023 rule was the exclamation point on a year when the entire top 10 were solo acts, a first for the genre.

In 2024, soloists are still in vogue, but bands took back some territory, with two of the top 10 groups of two or more. One of those is Fleetwood Mac (No. 9), the classic rock act who remains a streaming force in the ‘20s, with “Dreams” No. 7 on the year-end Rock Streaming Songs survey. The other? Linkin Park (No. 8), which returns to the top 10 for the first time since 2017.

The story of Linkin Park’s resurgence began in 2023, when it vaulted to No. 16 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists after appearing at No. 50 in 2022, mostly on the strength of catalog sales and streams. The band was No. 3 in 2017, but it wasn’t for particularly celebratory reasons; longtime co-frontman Chester Bennington died that year, spurring an outpouring of streams and sales in remembrance of the late iconic singer. In 2023, the band found success via the 20th-anniversary reissue of its 2003 album Meteora, which spurred the year-end No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay Songs and Alternative Airplay Songs in “Lost,” a previously unreleased cut featuring Bennington’s vocals.

A new greatest-hits package, Papercuts, followed this April, boasting a one-week No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay in “Friendly Fire.” In September, Linkin Park officially reformed with a new vocalist in Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong, with comeback single “The Emptiness Machine” topping both Mainstream Rock Airplay and Alternative Airplay for multiple weeks. Despite being released in the 11th hour of the 2024 chart year, the song appears on several year-end rankings, paced by its No. 4 arrival on Hot Hard Rock Songs.

What will 2025 have in store for Linkin Park? Stay tuned, with new album From Zero having been released on Nov. 15, whose chart performance will factor into the year-end 2025 charts.

Further up Top Rock & Alternative Artists, Billie Eilish rises to the highest point she’s ever been on the ranking since the weekly Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts changed from their previous iterations to allow alternative-leaning music not necessarily within the rock genre in 2020. Eilish ends the year at No. 2, the highest rank for a woman since Lorde was No. 1 on the year-end tally in 2014. She’s also No. 1 on Top Alternative Artists, a return for Eilish after she also reigned in 2022.

As in 2022, Eilish released a new album, this time Hit Me Hard and Soft. The set has reigned on Top Rock & Alternative Albums for 18 weeks so far since debuting atop the June 1 list and has paced Top Alternative Albums for even longer (22 frames); though she misses out on the distinction of the No. 1 Top Alternative Albums year-end entry in 2024 (that goes to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season), Hit Me Hard and Soft still ranks at No. 2, while Eilish is the No. 1 Top Alternative Albums Artist in 2024 thanks to a flurry of appearances on the year-end ranking (When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? at No. 11, Happier Than Ever at No. 14 and Dont Smile at Me at No. 47).

Eilish also boasts a coronation as the No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs Artists in 2024, accumulating 11 songs on the 50-position year-end Hot Alternative Songs list. That includes the Nos. 2 and 3: “Birds of a Feather,” from Hit Me Hard and Soft, and “What Was I Made For?,” off the 2023 Barbie film soundtrack.

Neither song could hold a candle to Hozier’s “Too Sweet,” No. 1 on the year-end Hot Alternative Songs. The viral success of the tune fuels Hozier’s appearance at No. 4 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists, an impressive comeback for the Irish singer-songwriter after having last reached the top 10 in 2015, when he was No. 2. “Too Sweet” was a force across all metrics; the song ends 2024 as the No. 1 on the year-end Adult Alternative Airplay Songs, Alternative Streaming Songs and Rock Digital Song Sales lists, while other notable accolades include No. 2 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, No. 4 on Alternative Airplay Songs and No. 4 on Rock & Alternative Airplay Songs.

Hozier’s influence even extended outside the rock and alternative genres, much like his breakout 2014 hit, “Take Me to Church.” “Too Sweet” ends the year at No. 10 on Hot 100 Songs, as well as at No. 4 on Adult Pop Airplay Songs and No. 7 on Pop Airplay Songs.

The year’s No. 1 on Top New Rock & Alternative Artists illuminates TikTok’s continued influence on all charts: Djo, whose “End of Beginning,” originally released in 2022, went viral via multiple trends on the social media app earlier this year. The project of actor Joe Keery also finds its way to No. 10 on Top Rock & Alternative Artists, while “End of Beginning” is the year-end No. 6 on Alternative Streaming Songs and No. 7 on Alternative Airplay Songs.

And Hozier’s not the only resurgent act to top a year-end radio ranking; Sum 41’s “Landmines” leads the Alternative Airplay Songs list, while Daughtry crowns the Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists ranking.

Sum 41 (which relents the Alternative Airplay Artists No. 1 to usual format stalwart Green Day) topped the weekly Alternative Airplay chart for two weeks but ultimately remained on the ranking for 51 weeks from October 2023 to October 2024. The Deryck Whibley-fronted band’s reign was its first since 2001’s “Fat Lip,” marking the longest break between rulers in the chart’s 36-year history.

Daughtry’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists coronation is thanks to a pair of one-week No. 1s on the weekly Mainstream Rock Airplay. This is former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry’s first time topping the chart. “Pieces” ends up at No. 3 on Mainstream Rock Airplay Songs, followed by “Artificial” at No. 5; Nothing More’s “If It Doesn’t Hurt” is No. 1, the rockers’ first time as the biggest song of the year, eclipsing the No. 3 rank of “Ballast” all the way back in 2014.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024. The rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology details, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.

13 Dec 2024

Machine Gun Kelly Sings Emo ‘Last Christmas’ Cover, Says ‘Give It To Someone Special’

Machine Gun Kelly is all up in his holiday emotions this Christmas. The rapper-turned-rocker gave Wham!’s snowy season classic “Last Christmas” a revved-up, skatepark vibe for Wednesday night’s A Motown Christmas special on NBC. With his hair knotted up in a pair of double-dutch braids and rocking a baggy black suit with white flames at the knees, MGK ripped through his amped version of the song while strumming a red acoustic guitar.

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The performance aired a day after news broke that Kelly and longtime off-and-on love actress Megan Fox had broken up again weeks after revealing that she is pregnant with their first child together. According to E! News, MGK shared a snippet of the performance after it aired on his Instagram Story on Thursday (Dec. 12) with the lyric-derived message “give it to someone special” along with a bandaged heart emoji.

In the performance, MGK sang the iconic lyrics, “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart/ But the very next day you gave it away/ This year, to save me from tears/ I’ll give it to someone special.” Though it’s not clear when the special was taped, a number of reports claim that the couple broke up in late November.

The Transformers star announced on Nov. 11 that she was pregnant in a photo of her baby bump and a snap of her positive pregnancy test on Instagram, writing, “nothing is ever really lost. welcome back ??❤️.” She tagged MGK, 34, in the post. The pair previously broke up in February 2023, calling off their engagement around three years after they first started dating in 2020. They reportedly reunited at some point in 2023, with Fox revealing that November that she had lost a pregnancy during their relationship.

The couple’s latest split drew the attention of Fox’s ex, actor Brian Austin Green — with whom she had three sons — who told a TMZ reporter, “He’s in his 30s, right? But in your 30s, I don’t know, grow up. Like, you know, she’s pregnant.”

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12 Dec 2024

Watch Linkin Park Rip Through ‘The Emptiness Machine’ at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards

Capping off an enormous comeback year, Linkin Park tore through their hit single “The Emptiness Machine” at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards, which aired on Thursday (Dec. 12) night.

The band’s Mike Shinoda and new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong led a sprawling crowd through a sing-along of “The Emptiness Machine,” which Linkin Park debuted on Sept. 5 as they unveiled their surprise return. With Colin Brittain pounding away on the drums and Armstrong roaring on the chorus, the band’s newest members demonstrated their natural talents for Billboard Music Awards viewers.

“The Emptiness Machine” debuted at No. 21 on the Hot 100 upon its September release, becoming the best-selling band’s biggest hit in 15 years. From Zero, the song’s host album and Linkin Park’s eighth studio full-length, was released in November, and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Over the course of their career, which kicked off with the mega-selling 2000 debut Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park has scored six No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, including the 2004 Jay-Z team-up Collision Course that recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.

After playing a handful of arena shows this year, Linkin Park will kick off a proper world tour in 2025. The band entered the 2024 Billboard Music Awards as a finalist in five categories: Top Duo/Group, Top Rock Artist, Top Rock Duo/Group, Top Hard Rock Artist and Top Hard Rock Song, competing in the lattermost category with “The Emptiness Machine.”

Click here to read Billboard’s September cover story about the long-awaited return of Linkin Park.

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12 Dec 2024

Which 2024 Billboard Music Awards Performance Are You Most Excited to See? Vote!

The 2024 Billboard Music Awards are right on the horizon, with several of music’s biggest names set to perform some of the year’s most essential hits at the ceremony taking place Thursday (Dec. 12).

The latest act to be added to the lineup is Linkin Park, with the band’s recently announced performance at the BBMAs serving as a fitting cap to an explosive year for the group. As documented in a September Billboard cover story by executive director of music Jason Lipshutz, the surviving members finally made their musical return in 2024 with the addition of vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, dropping a new album, From Zero, in November.

Also on the docket are Fuerzo Regida; Tyla; Teddy Swims; K-pop phenoms Stray Kids and SEVENTEEN; and country stars Shaboozey, Jelly Roll and Megan Moroney. All of those names have made strides on the Billboard charts in 2024, from ‘Boozey’s record-tying 19-week reign at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” to the “Chk Chk Boom” unit becoming the first group to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with its first five charting albums in August.

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Hosted by Michelle Buteau, the 2024 BBMAs will air 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox and Fire TV channels, and on-demand on Paramount+. Performances are available to watch back as they’re uploaded on Billboard.com and via @BBMAs and @Billboard social channels. Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter are the leading finalists for awards.

The Billboard Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.

Which artist are you most excited to see perform at the BBMAs this year? Cast your vote below.