Music

This may have been the biggest year ever for Christmas music, at least going by the charts. Holiday songs took the top 24 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart week dated Jan. 3, compared to a previous-record top 16 last year. Seasonal hits also accounted for 46 of the chart’s top 50, the top 13 spots ...

Olympic icon Greg Louganis returned to the United States for the holidays — but the American diving legend didn’t stick around for long after announcing his big life change earlier this year. Louganis, 65, traveled to Hawaii to visit his family — including his father, sisters and brother — for ...

Camila, a 16-year-old high school student in Los Angeles, holds her phone out, screen facing up, playing a grainy video of Deftones performing on a late-night talk show in 1999. The clip has the jumpy, staticky, lo-fi quality of VHS tapes from that era. “This popped up on TikTok,” she ...

Ye (formerly Kanye West) has accomplished many eccentric things outside of music, but the rapper says the bucket list attributed to him that’s currently going viral on social media is fake. Chatter around the viral handwritten bucket list made it back to Yeezy this holiday season, so he took to ...

Malcolm in the Middle is being revived with a four-part series — but which stars are and aren’t reprising their roles? The original series, which ran on Fox from 2000 to 2006, starred Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Masterson, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan and Frankie Muniz. Nearly two decades ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Stereophonic sound was all the rage in the second half of the ’60s, but nobody really knew if it would be the future of the music industry ...

There are a record seven holiday albums in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated Jan. 3, 2026), led by Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas, which hits a new peak with a 6-2 climb. The holiday takeover is likely sparked by how, for the first time since 2014, ...

The Life of Chuck came and went in theaters last summer with barely an audience to speak of, because it was only in limited release in the U.S. But the people who have seen this Stephen King adaptation are more than likely to rave about it. This isn’t a horror ...

Name  Rome Ramirez Best known for  Writing and performing songs that make people want to be outside in the water. Current city  Nashville. Really want to be in  I really want to go to Italy. I just want to eat all day and walk around and touch walls. Excited about  Extremely excited about this album I’m working ...

The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday (Dec. 26) fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility. “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response ...