Variety Artist Hitmaker of 2017 Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith and U2 have been added to the lineup of performers at the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy announced today. Also, Miley Cyrus will join Elton John to perform one of his hits (which  was not specified in the announcement), two days before “Elton John: I’m Still Standing—A GRAMMY Salute,” a tribute concert where John and his longtime writing partner, Bernie Taupin,...

Bruno Mars leads the pack on the weekly recap of top-grossing Hot Tours (see list below) with sales reported from the final 2017 leg of his 24K Magic World Tour that began in the spring of last year. The singer played 10 shows in Latin American markets during November and December to close out the tour for the year, grossing $37.4 million from 408,443 tickets sold. The ongoing trek in support of his November 2016 release 24K Magic kicked off with a European leg that ran from March...

The rapper ties Drake & Kendrick Lamar with a stake in half of the chart’s top 10. Cardi B becomes the third act -- and first woman -- with five of the top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in a single week since the list began in 1958 (when it was called the Hot R&B Sides chart). She places five in the top 10 of the list dated Jan. 20. Among all acts, Cardi B ties Drake and Kendrick Lamar for the most concurrent top 10s. Drake has done...

The Greatest Showman soundtrack hits No. 1 in its fourth week on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 106,000 equivalent album units earned (up 37 percent) in the week ending Jan. 4. Of that sum, 78,000 were traditional album sales (up 28 percent). The soundtrack to the musical drama film was released on Dec. 8 through Atlantic Records and marks the first chart-topping soundtrack since Fifty Shades Darker spent one week at No. 1 on the March 4, 2017-dated tally. The Billboard 200...

  The "super-experimental" song launches at No. 23, marking the highest debut for a male artist since 2015. Justin Timberlake blasts back onto Billboard's Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as "Filthy" launches at No. 23 (on the tally dated Jan. 13). The song is the lead single from Timberlake's first album in over four years, Man of the Woods, due Feb. 2. Two days later, Timberlake will perform at the Super Bowl LII Halftime Show. "Filthy"...

  Celebrities are just like us. They get starstruck over other celebrities. Kelly Clarkson made a follow-up clip to her “Meeting Meryl Streep” video, and this time she recorded a very candid and slightly wine-drunk reaction to her encounter with Streep on the Golden Globes red carpet. “This cheek has been caressed by Meryl Streep,” she gushed in the second episode of her web series Minute + a Glass of Wine. Clarkson edited in some footage of the moment she noticed...

Record streaming numbers led to a 12.8% rise in music consumption, the third consecutive year of growth for the music industry, according to the latest findings from BuzzAngle Music, slated for release on Jan. 3. Audio stream consumption was the major reason for the promising results, with a 50.3% increase to a record 377 billion streams, 127 billion more than in 2016. Subscription streams are now at 80% of total audio streams, up from 76% in 2016. Both album sales and song sales continued...

Justin Timberlake just announced a new album, and unsurprisingly the Internet freaked out. Timberlake tweeted a Youtube video Tuesday morning (Jan. 2) revealing Man of the Woods, the title of his fifth studio album, which will drop Feb. 2.  This will be JT’s most recent full-length project since The 20/20 Experience, which came out over four years ago.   Timberlake’s elusiveness and long wait times in between albums have become somewhat of a joke among...

1. “Havana” music video Cabello's short film is totally a Latino video, highlighting telenovelas, food, dance and even how grandmothers are in real life. Of course, doing a remix with Daddy Yankee with Spanish lyrics is totally a plus.  2. Camila’s Speech at Billboard’s Women in Music The singer could not forget to remind us during her speech that she is a Cuban/Mexican immigrant. 3. Her Support for the Dreamers As an immigrant, Camila Cabello knows...

In Billboard's series "You Should Know," artists share some quick facts about themselves. This time around is singer-songwriter Matthew Koma spilling  some fun tidbits about himself, including his desires to be the best harmonica player and his guilty pleasure. Koma was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, where he says they had "really good bagels." Two of Koma's favorite albums include Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and This Year's...