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Here’s Why Madonna’s All-Hits Celebration Tour Stands Out From Her Past Outings
Over her 40-plus-year career, Madonna has gone on a steady 11 tours, so what is it about her just-announced 12th trek — The Celebration Tour — that is creating so much buzz? Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Well, for one, she’s promising an all-hits setlist – which for Madonna takes some narrowing down, given her 38 Billboard Hot 100 top 10s and 50 Dance Club Songs No. 1s. And while she’s played a lot of her hits in concert before, as far as we know, this is the first time she’s not touring around a new album — so she truly only has her back catalog to choose from. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie peppers Madonna superfan Keith with questions about the buzzy new global tour — like what lesser-known nuggets are fans dying to h...
Vivienne Westwood’s Most Memorable Looks on Musicians
Beloved British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood died on Thursday (Dec. 29). She was 81 years old. The style icon’s fashion house shared the news via Twitter, revealing that Westwood died “peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.” The statement added, “The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better.” The designer rose to prominence in the fashion world in the 1970s, thanks to her anti-establishment punk styles and controversial, androgynous designs. The new wave style icon was also a passionate activist, and frequently channeled issues like climate change into her runway looks. Over the years, Westwood has been the go-to designer for a number of stars, who have turned to her funky, daring collections for their red carpet appearances, m...
Chris Isaak’s Love of Holiday Music Runs Deep: Behind the Setlist Podcast
Chris Isaak doesn’t just dabble in holiday music — he’s loved it since growing up in Stockton, in California’s Central Valley, listening to Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Vince Guaraldi, Gene Autrey’s “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” and Roy Orbison’s version of the Willie Nelson song “Pretty Paper.” Those influences come through on his latest album, Everybody Knows It’s Christmas, released Oct. 14 through Sun Label Group. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I guess whatever you listen to when you’re a kid, that’s in your head and that’s really Christmas — because you’re never going to beat that excitement,” the singer tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast. Everybody Knows It’s Christmas is Isaak’s second studio album of holi...
BTS Movie Chronicling Busan Concert, ‘BTS Yet to Come in Cinemas,’ Due Out in Early 2023 | Billboard News
If you missed out on BTS‘ Oct. 15 show at Busan’s World Expo 2030 bid then you’ll have another chance to re-live the magic in early 2023. The K-pop superstars will release ‘BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas’ in movie theaters worldwide on Feb. 1. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”][flexi-form-tag type=”article” class=”fl-textarea” title=”Description&...
Will Adele Ever Release a Holiday Album? Here Are 12 Acts We’d Love to Make a Seasonal Set
While it may seem like most every major artist has released a full-length holiday album, there are still quite a few superstars that have yet to drop a seasonal project – including such chart-topping acts as Adele, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran. On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), hosts Katie and Keith discuss a dozen artists that are missing from the holiday cannon and debate whether we’ll ever actually get a seasonal album from them. (We’re looking at you, Paul McCartney!) Also on the show, the Pop Shoppers chat about SZA scoring her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with SOS (and securing one of the biggest debuts of 2022) and how Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” reaches double-digits at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, spending i...
16 Hanukkah Songs to Light Up This Year
With the holiday season in full swing, we’re surrounded by the wonderful world of holiday music. Despite the deluge of Christmas tunes such as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Hanukkah music is a lane that not many musicians have jumped into. But some of us surely do have a few star-lit videos, songs and concerts. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news I usually come up with one menorah, or hanukkiah, worth of solid options to put in YouTube rotation, but with the rising antisemitism in recent months by an extremely famous rapper who surely won’t be invited to any Hanukkah parties for the next decade, I came up with two Hanukkahs worth of songs for you. Time to fry up some latkes! 1. Gangs...
Mariah Carey Returns to No.1, Bad Bunny’s Mexico City Ticketmaster Fiasco, LA3C & More | Billboard News
Mariah Carey returns to No.1 on our Hot 100 with ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, Bad Bunny ends his World’s Hottest tour with an unfortunate Ticketmaster fiasco, we’re bringing you all the highlight from Penske Media’s inaugural LA3C and more! [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”][flexi-form-tag type=”article” class=”fl-textarea” title=”Descri...
US senator calls on SEC’s Gensler to answer for ‘regulatory failures’
Minnesota Senator Tom Emmer has slammed United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler for his flawed “crypto information-gathering efforts” and insisted Gensler should appear before Congress to explain the cost of his “regulatory failures.” Emmer’s comments came from a Dec. 10 tweet to his 67,500 Twitter followers, where he made reference to a bipartisan Blockchain Caucus letter he co-authored to the SEC Chairman on Mar. 16. Emmer said, “we now know Gensler’s crypto information-gathering efforts were ineffective” citing the collapses of the Terra ecosystem and bankrupt crypto platforms Celsius, Voyager and FTX. He declined to provide Congress with the information requested in the letter, which would’ve informed Congress of the apparent inconsistencies...
Michael Bublé on Finding a Whole New Appreciation for His ‘Christmas’ Album: ‘Can You Imagine How Lucky I Feel?’
The Billboard charts are getting ever more festive in the march to Christmas. On the Billboard Hot 100 songs and Billboard 200 albums charts (both dated Dec. 10), the lists are looking very merry and bright. On the Hot 100, Mariah Carey’s evergreen chart-topper “All I Want for Christmas Is You” vaults to No. 2 and Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 album Christmas jingles up the Billboard 200 into the top five. Christmas was released in 2011 and spent five weeks atop the list late that year and in early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every subsequent holiday season. Speaking of Bublé, earlier this year on the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, he joined hosts Katie and Keith to discuss his then-new album Higher (a recent Grammy Award nominee for best traditional pop vocal album). Well, the late...
Musicians at Art Basel 2022: Photos From Miami Art Week
As November melted into December, musicians and other celebrities flocked to the warm weather of Miami for Art Basel 2022. Over the course of a week, the annual art festival became a hotspot filled with exhibits, A-list performances, parties and more. One of the most popular locales to spot a famous face during Miami Art Week was Meta House, where everyone from Doja Cat and GloRilla to TOKiMONSTA and Elena Rose hit the stage for thrilling performances, while Becky G, SAINt JHN and more could be found checking out the space’s combination of virtual art galleries, interactive murals, a VR sculpting workshop and other “mixed reality” experiences. Other high-profile soirees included Wayne and Cynthia Bioch’s Art Basel Party, where 50 Cent served as the evening’s entertainment, MAXIM‘s party at...
Despite endless media appearances, SBF unlikely to testify on 13th
Former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has signaled he’s unwilling to testify before the United States Congress until he’s “finished learning and reviewing what happened.” Bankman-Fried was responding to a Dec. 2 tweet from U.S. Representative Maxine Waters inviting him to testify in a scheduled U.S. House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Dec. 13 to discuss “what happened” at FTX. In a Dec. 4 response on Twitter, the former FTX CEO said he feels it is his “duty to appear before the committee and explain,” but only once he’s “finished learning and reviewing what happened,” adding he wasn’t “sure” whether it would happen by the 13th. Rep. Waters, and the House Committee on Financial Services: Once I have finished learning and reviewing what ...
Elon Musk alleges SBF donated over $1B to Democrats: “Where did it go?”
The attempts of mainstream media to water down the frauds committed by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) did not fare well in convincing the crypto community and entrepreneurs. Instead, the misinformation campaign collided with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s drive to position Twitter as “the most accurate source of information.” The world is yet to overcome the shock after witnessing the legal leniency awarded to SBF for misappropriating users’ funds and shady investment practices via trading firms Alameda Research and FTX. Will Manidis, the CEO of ScienceIO, a healthcare data platform, pointed out that SBF made the “highest ROI trade of all time” by donating $40 million to the right people for getting away with stealing over $10 billion. That’s just the publicly disclosed number. His act...
