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January 10, 2026 Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member Bob Weir's long strange trip comes to an end as he dies following a battle with cancer. He sang lead on "Truckin'" and co-wrote many Dead classics, including "Sugar Magnolia" and "Born Cross-Eyed."
January 2, 2026 Lola Young, who has largely been out of action since collapsing on stage three months earlier, makes a triumphant return at the Grammy Awards, where she performs "Messy" and wins Best Pop Solo Performance for that song.
December 31, 2025 The TV series Stranger Things wraps up with a finale featuring the rarely licensed Prince songs "When Doves Cry" and "Purple Rain" as part of a plotline where Side 2 of the Purple Rain album triggers a device. Like many '80s tracks used on the show (particularly "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush), the songs find a new audience and get a huge boost in streaming.
December 29, 2025 Forbes says Beyoncé is now a billionaire, pushed over the line thanks to her Cowboy Carter tour. She's the fifth musician in the club, joining Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Jay-Z (her husband).
December 22, 2025 Barry Manilow, 82 and in the middle of his farewell tour, reveals that he's been diagnosed with lung cancer. It's treated successfully with surgery, but part of his left lung is removed, making it difficult to sing.
December 18, 2025 At the first US TikTok Awards, Alex Warren wins Breakthrough Artist Of The Year, Katseye are named Global Artist Of The Year, and Global Song Of The Year goes to "Pretty Little Baby," the obscure Connie Francis song that went viral on the platform over the summer.
December 6, 2025 Katy Perry goes Instagram official with Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, posting a series of photos of them coupling up in Japan.More
December 5, 2025 Olivia Rodrigo becomes one of the few modern pop stars to release a big live album when she issues Live From Glastonbury (A BBC Recording), which documents her headlining set at the famed English festival the previous summer. The Cure frontman Robert Smith joins the singer on two covers of his band's songs: "Friday I'm In Love" and "Just Like Heaven."
November 8, 2025 The White Stripes enter the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, with fellow Detroiter Iggy Pop inducting them. Drummer Meg White, intensely private, skips the ceremony but helps Jack with their speech. Their long thank you list includes The Misfits, Loretta Lynn, Fugazi, Jethro Tull, Dick Dale and The Troggs.
November 1, 2025 Xania Monet makes history as the first-known AI artist to appear on a Billboard airplay chart when her viral R&B ballad "How Was I Supposed To Know?" debuts at #30 on Adult R&B Airplay - a sign that radio stations are playing AI-generated music.More
October 30, 2025 Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire announce their separation after 22 years of marriage but push forward as bandmates, joining the ranks of Fleetwood Mac, Abba and The White Stripes as bands with divorced couples as members.
October 25, 2025 Meghan Trainor's trainer posts photos showing the "All About That Bass" singer's 60-pound weight loss, done through diet, exercise and GLP-1 drugs. Trainor takes some heat online for being "too thin," prompting her to retort in the song "Still Don't Care."
October 24, 2025 Halle Bailey, the younger half of the sisterly R&B duo Chloe x Halle, releases her solo debut album, Love?... Or Something Like It. It features her first solo single, "Angel," which was nominated for Best R&B Song at the Grammy Awards the previous year.
October 24, 2025 Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the first Bruce Springsteen biopic, opens in theaters, with Jeremy Allen White in the lead role. It's centered on a down time in his personal life: 1981 and 1982, when he was battling depression and working on his plaintive album Nebraska.
October 16, 2025 Ace Frehley, the longtime lead guitarist in Kiss known as the Spaceman, dies at 74. Frehley had a solo hit in 1978 with "New York Groove."
October 7, 2025 The human version of Huntr/x - the animated girl group in the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters - make their live debut on Jimmy Fallon's talk show, where they perform "Golden," which is enjoying its eighth week at #1 in the US. They go on to perform the song at various awards shows, including the Grammys and Oscars.
October 6, 2025 Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announce a Rush reunion tour, with the German drummer Anika Nilles filling in for Neil Peart, who died in 2020. "Following everything that has transpired since our last performance, Alex and I have engaged in deep reflection and concluded that we genuinely miss it," Lee explains.
October 3, 2025 Taylor Swift hypes her latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl, with an extreme marketing campaign that entices fans to unlock musical clues hidden behind orange doors in 12 cities around the world.More
September 27, 2025 Lola Young gets disoriented and collapses backward onstage while performing at the All Things Go Festival in New York City. She shuts down for a few months to deal with addiction and exhaustion, which are contributing factors, returning in February 2026 to perform at the Grammy Awards.
September 27, 2025 Selena Gomez and super-producer Benny Blanco get married. Their relationship started professionally in 2015 when Blanco produced two songs on her Revival album. They started dating in 2023.
September 27, 2025 Zach Bryan breaks the record for largest ticketed concert, drawing 112,408 fans to his show at Michigan Stadium (the "Big House") in Ann Arbor. It's the first concert in the 98-year history of the stadium, which is primarily used for University of Michigan football games.
September 12, 2025 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hits theaters, documenting the group's one-off reunion concert in New Orleans, where they're joined by Elton John on "Stonehenge." Unfortunately, Elton is hospitalized after the stone monument lowered onto the stage falls and crushes him.
September 7, 2025 Mariah Carey, long a fixture on MTV but never a VMA winner, finally gets her due with the Video Vanguard Award. Video Of The Year goes to Ariana Grande for Brighter Days Ahead, a 26-minute short film.
September 6, 2025 Rick Davies, who along with Roger Hodgson was the main singer and songwriter in Supertramp, dies at 81 after a battle with blood cancer.
August 16, 2025 "Golden" by the animated group Huntr/x goes to #1 on the Hot 100. Taken from the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters, it's the first K-pop song with female vocalists to top the chart.
August 13, 2025 Florence Welch suffers internal bleeding from a ruptured fallopian tube while performing with Florence + the Machine at the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall, England. She makes it through the show but requires emergency surgery to save her life.
August 2, 2025 Jack White, a huge baseball fan, completes his quest to see a game at every Major League stadium when he watches the Phillies play the Tigers in Philadelphia.
July 25, 2025 The Adam Sandler movie Happy Gilmore 2 is released on Netflix. Bad Bunny plays Happy's caddy, Eminem is a heckler, and Post Malone shows up as an announcer.
July 22, 2025 George Kooymans, guitarist and founder of Golden Earring ("Radar Love"), dies at 77. He performed with the group until 2019, when he was sidelined with ALS.
July 22, 2025 Horn player Chuck Mangione, known for his 1977 hit "Feels So Good," dies at 84. Mangione appeared several times on the animated series King Of The Hill, where he often performed his hit.
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