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The 2027 lineup for the Welcome to Rockville festival features more than 150 artists, including headliners Blink-182, MGK, Korn, Alice in Chains, Bad Omens, $uicideboy$, Ice Nine Kills, Pierce the Veil, the Offspring, Good Charlotte and Faith No More’s first North American show since their 2016 hiatus. The four-day (May 6-9) event at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. from promoter Danny Wimmer Presents will also feature sets from The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Kn

Foo Fighters Week on Jimmy Kimmel Live came to a close in the small hours of Friday morning, with another oldie, but a goodie. The choice of song, a cover of the late Gerry Rafferty’s classic “Baker Street,” well, it was no secret. Foos frontman Dave Grohl told us what to expect earlier in the week, during his interview with Kimmel. For Grohl, “Baker Street” is a proper guilty pleasure. “I don’t know if anyone remembers Gerry Rafferty. ‘Right Down The Line,’ ‘Baker Street’. He was in S

Stand Atlantic is standing tall on the ARIA Chart with GODBREATH (via Virgin Music Group/Inertia), for their first No. 1 on Australia’s national albums tally. The best-seller for the week on vinyl, GODBREATH is the Sydney rock act’s fourth top 30 appearance on the ARIA Albums Chart following Pink Elephant (No. 23 in 2020), F.E.A.R. (No. 10 in 2022) and Was Here (No. 3 in 2024). “Only gone n bloody done it.. GODBREATH is the No. 1 Album in Australia!!,” reads a statement from the

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. Last week, we featured LISA, Miley, Kacey Musgraves & John Mayer. This week, Dominic Fike drops his first LP as a minted hitmaker; Mariah Carey takes another glance at her polarizing Glitter project and Queens of the Stone Age turns down the amps for it

Rosalía used the platform of the WSJ. Magazine’s Innovator Awards to speak for those whose lives were lost in Spain’s shocking train crash.   The pop star’s homeland has entered a three-day period of mourning, after 69 people were killed in a high-speed rail collision, the second this year in Spain. “Sending my condolences to all the people affected by the accident that recently occurred in my country,” Rosalía said from the podium at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, speaking Span

Just three years ago, Fanny Lumsden had an on-stage moment that’s near-impossible to beat. When her last LP, Hey Dawn, collected the prize for best country album at the 2023 ARIA Awards, it was the late Queen of Country, Dolly Parton, who announced the winner. “Dolly Parton said my name,” Lumsden reminisced in a post on Substack, published in July of this year. “Not only was this the high point of my career so far but maybe one of my life.” A high point, yes, but Lumsden has many more highl

Raise a skeptical eyebrow if you will, but Al Jourgensen will swear on any object you put him front of him that Ministry’s new album Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery) is its last, and that the group will be over after touring to support it next year. “It is so — final album, final tour. In 14 months from now I will be just a simple goat herder,” the dreadlocked Jourgensen, who founded Ministry during 1981, tells Billboard via Zoom from his current home in southern Ca

Powderfinger’s reunion odyssey is stretching out.   The beloved Australian rock band unveils an “Encore Run” of shows, nine in total, which will see their tour extend into December 2027. Announced Friday morning (Oct. 30), this last wave of shows will see the Brisbane band play to new locations, including two nights at Cornelian Bay Oval, in Hobart, Tasmania and a show at Stage 88 in the nation’s capital, Canberra.  Also, their stadium-sized tent will be pitched at Melbourne Park

Mary J. Blige is not one to be played with. The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul put a booing heckler on blast during Wednesday night’s (Oct. 28) concert of her My Life, My Story Las Vegas residency. Related Mary J. Blige Slates End of 20-Date Las Vegas Residency at Park MGM

With four victories, Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley were the big winners Wednesday night (Oct. 28) at the 2026 Screen Music Awards, presented at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall. The West Australian composers were honored for their output on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s animated kid’s series Tales from Outer Suburbia, taking home best music for children’s programming, best opening title television theme and best soundtrack album, as well as best original song composed for the

Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 65,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week, Oct. 16-22, according to Luminate. Related Hayden Panettiere's Death Ruled

The investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death is now closed after an investigation found that an accidental overdose was to blame. The Greenville Police Department has confirmed to reporters that the actor’s passing on Aug. 16 was not being treated as suspicious. “Based on the Medical Examiner’s determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere’s death has been ruled accidental,” reads a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly. “The Gr

SINGAPORE — With its combination of speed, glamor, artistry and science, Formula 1 is a spectacle that travels at a speed and sound nothing else can match. It was Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who bagged the 2026 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix earlier this month with a pole-to-checkered flag win, an historic deed for the flying Dutchman who finally conquered a race that had eluded him for a decade. If Verstappen was the king of the track, The Killers, Janet Jackson, Spli

Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris is escalating her legal war with estate executor John Branca, claiming in new court filings he wants to pay himself more than $100 million for just two years of work without a proper explanation. The younger Jackson, who has long sparred with Branca over his longstanding role as Michael’s executor, said in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) filing in Los Angeles court that he has offered only “defective filings” to support that massive payment of fees.

Merck Mercuriadis is combining eight management companies for his new venture, Hipgnosis Artist Partnerships. Mercuriadis, known for popularizing the concept of music as an asset class with his previous suite of Hipgnosis catalog investment companies, detailed plans for his next venture during a keynote conversation at the Music Tectonics conference in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday (Oct. 28). Related

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. Some of George Harrison‘s most personal photos are being revealed for the first time as part of a new coffee table book from the Beatles guitarist. The Third Eye: Early Photographs is billed as an “intimate, beautiful collection of more than 2

CCM artist Forrest Frank is set to release his new album, The Jesus Generation, on Dec. 4 via River House Records. Frank announced the new album on social media, along with new music preview clips that include collaborations with Lecrae & KB (“Go Go Go”), JVKE (“Let The Light In”), Michael W. Smith (“Glory Hallelujah”), ZVC *(“My Little Miracle”) and Elevation Rhythm (“Revival’s in the Air”). New music from the album is s

J. Cole went into The Fall-Off with the intent that the 2026 album would be his last, but he’s had a change of heart following the project and its subsequent sold-out arena tour. Cole sat down with his longtime manager Mark Pitts and GQ‘s Frazier Tharpe in Las Vegas on Wednesday (Oct. 28), where he confirmed retirement isn’t in the plans for him any longer, saying that word is gone from his vocabulary now. Related

Create Music Group has acquired a minority stake in DistroKid, Billboard can confirm. The deal, which went down earlier this year, comes several months after CVC Capital Partners announced it had acquired a majority stake in the DIY distribution platform. That agreement was announced in July; while no terms were disclosed, MBW reported in January that DistroKid was exploring a sale at a valuation of roughly $2 billion. MBW was also first to report the Create deal.

BERLIN, Germany — Parcels is the latest addition to BMG’s music publishing roster. The independent music company will represent the Australian five-piece on a global basis, after signing a deal at the company’s European headquarters in Berlin. Formed 2014 in Byron Bay, the picturesque beach spot on the most easterly point of Australia, Parcels relocated to the German capital in the mid-2010s, where they set about building their audience and shaping their sound. It proved t