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Billboard announced the host and honorees for the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards. Read more details inside.

The 2021 Billboard Music Awards went on despite the pandemic with a small group of celebrities in attendance.  But one thing that remained the same as years past is the extravagant celebrity fashion on the red carpet!

Public Enemy frontman Chuck D is suing a music publisher alleging he fraudulently took copyright ownership of 28 of the rapper’s recent songs without his authorization. According to Billboard, those include Common’s “Black America Again” and Prophets of Rage’s eponymous single, “Counteroffensive” and “Fired a Shot.” Chuck D (born Carlton Ridenhour) filed a lawsuit Oct. 15 asking a federal […]

After seven years, actress Racquel Bailey has finally received what she’s been praying for: a role in a Tyler Perry production. In 2012, Bailey used her last paycheck to purchase a billboard in Atlanta asking Tyler Perry to cast her in his next movie. The stunt did not garner Perry’s attention in the way that Bailey […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Billboard told rapper Lil Nas X to take his horse and giddy up when they decided to remove his viral hit “Old Town Road” from their country charts because they determined it wasn’t country enough. The song , which debuted on the charts just three weeks ago, has been turned into […]

Nine years after his sudden death in 2009, Michael Jackson returns to the Billboard Hot 100 posthumously for the fourth time, as his featured presence on Drake’s Don’t Matter to Me enters at No. 9 on the chart (dated July 14). The song, from Drake’s album Scorpion, features previously unreleased vocals from Jackson, which were originally recorded in 1983. The […]

My family knows God is good to me. To go from #1 to Top 5 and then back to #1,” said Charlie Wilson about his career first on Billboard Charts – having two #1 hits at the same time. Wilson is an 11-time Grammy nominated performer who started many, many years ago as The Gap Band’s front […]

Singer-songwriter Andra Day will be honored as the recipient of the Powerhouse award at Billboard’s 2016 Women In Music event. Day will also perform at the Dec. 9 event in New York City, which will be broadcast on Lifetime on Dec. 12. Via Billboard.com: Inspired by the raw, honest vocal greats of music history (everyone […]

Paris Jackson has no problem speaking up for what she feels is right – even at the risk of offending family and fans.

Billboard Magazine has apologized for “sexualizing” North West in a bizarre tweet sent out Friday morning.