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“Six thousand seats is the sweet spot for Live Nation right now,” company CEO Michael Rapino said during a press conference in Salt Lake City on Tuesday (Aug. 19) to unveil one of the company’s newest venues, a 6,000-seat concert hall being constructed in partnership with Smith Entertainment Group. Live ...

Babymetal just became the first-ever all-Japanese band to land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. The kawaii metal group’s latest album Metal Forth, which just came out Aug. 8, debuted at No. 9 on the chart, making it their highest-charting release in the U.S. since Metal Galaxy landed at No. ...

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Apple’s AirPods Max headphones continue to be a bestseller, more than four years after they were ...

The BBC pulled a scheduled Ozzy Osbourne documentary from their schedule just a day before it was set to debut on Monday (Aug. 18). The documentary, titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, was essentially a chronicle of Ozzy’s final years as he and his family moved from the U.S. back to ...

Soulshine at Sea 3 won’t set sail as planned. The concert cruise was slated to begin its voyage Nov. 4-8, 2025, headlined by Michael Franti & Spearhead and tracing a path from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico. Produced by Sixthman, and billed as Soulshine at Sea 3 With Michael Franti, the ...

Over the past several weeks, plenty of people and organizations have shared fond memories of Ozzy Osbourne following his July 22, 2025 passing. The latest dedication comes from Ozzy’s hometown football (or soccer) team, Aston Villa Football Club, who recently began their new season by paying tribute to – and ...

Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, co-leaders of reunited ’90s rock greats Oasis, are not properly from Ireland — the lads were born and raised in Manchester, England, of course — but it’s hard to imagine them getting a warmer hometown greeting anywhere else than they received in Dublin on Saturday ...

What’s the best death metal album of each year of the 1990s? You’re about to find out! While death metal began five years earlier if you’re among the true believers who agree that Possessed‘s 1985 debut Seven Churches was indeed the subgenre’s very first full length, it enjoyed a much larger ...

Shakira’s ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’ has taken the world by storm, and we’re taking you behind the scenes of her LA stop with special guest Taboo, choreographer JaQuel Knight, her drummer and more! Watch the global latin star show off her vocal and dancing skills and more Have you ...

Our guest on this episode of How I Learned to sing is Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait. The frontman takes us back to his childhood, how he first fell in love with singing, support from his family and the challenges touring presents for a singer. How Lee Jennings Began ...