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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
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 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 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.
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.
May 30, 2025 Taylor Swift buys the master recordings to her first six albums from the private equity firm that bought them in 2020. Swift's former label, along with her masters, was sold to her nemesis Scooter Braun in 2019, grinding her gears so badly that she started re-recording those albums, releasing four "Taylor's Versions" that all went to #1 and far outstreamed the originals.
May 8, 2025 Zach Bryan buys the church in Lowell, Massachusetts where his literary hero, Jack Kerouac, was an altar boy. He works with the Kerouac estate to turn it into a museum and events center based on Kerouac's life and work.
February 2, 2025 The Beatles win the Best Rock Performance Grammy for "Now And Then," the first Grammy-nominated song made with help from AI, which was used to create John Lennon's vocal. It's their fourth post-breakup Grammy, matching their total from when the band was active.
January 20, 2025 President Donald Trump joins The Village People on stage when they headline the Liberty Ball, part of his inauguration festivities - their song "Y.M.C.A." was a staple at his rallies. Billy Ray Cyrus, Nelly and Jason Aldean also take the stage; other acts performing at inauguration events include Kid Rock, Rascal Flatts, Gavin DeGraw, Parker McCollum and Carrie Underwood, who sings "America the Beautiful" without a backing track at the swearing-in ceremony when there's a technical glitch.
December 8, 2024 Taylor Swift wraps up her Eras Tour with a show in Vancouver, closing out a record-shattering journey that redefines the landscape of live music over the course of 149 concerts on five continents.More
October 25, 2024 Phil Lesh, the bass player in the Grateful Dead for their entire run (1965-1995), dies at 84. His bass was often a lead instrument in the band, creating a distinctive sound that meshed with Jerry Garcia's guitar work.
October 25, 2024 A Spanish version of Brenda Lee's holiday classic "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" ("Noche Buena y Navidad") is released. The song was created using AI trained on Lee's vocals from when she recorded the original at 13. It's the second AI-generated release from a major artist, following Randy Travis' "Where That Came From" six months earlier, and the first use of AI to translate a song to another language.
August 15, 2024 Great White lead singer Jack Russell dies of lewy body dementia at 63. The group was big in the '80s, with the MTV hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." In the 2010s, Russell broke from the band and led a different version called Jack Russell's Great White, which remained active until months before his death.
June 15, 2024 110,905 fans see George Strait perform at Kyle Field, the football stadium on the campus of Texas A&M, setting a record for largest paid crowd at a US non-festival concert. The previous record holder was Grateful Dead, who drew 107,019 to their 1977 show in Englishtown, New Jersey. Strait's record doesn't last long: Zach Bryan breaks it in 2025 when he headlines the first concert ever held at Michigan Stadium (the "Big House"), the largest stadium in America.
May 15, 2024 The new professional hockey team in Athens, Georgia, is christened the Rock Lobsters in honor of the B-52s, who formed in the city and released their classic song "Rock Lobster" in 1979. The name was chosen in a fan vote that nearly went to Classic City Panic in honor of another Athens band, WideSpread Panic.
April 13, 2024 At Coachella, two of the biggest ska bands of the '90s reunite: Sublime and No Doubt. Sublime is fronted by Jakob Nowell, whose father Brad was the group's lead singer until his death in 1996. For No Doubt, it's their first show since 2015.
March 29, 2024 Beyoncé drops Cowboy Carter, a sassy country album (mostly) with 27 tracks and appearances by Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and an unheralded Black country singer named Linda Martell, whose only album was released in 1970. When Cowboy Carter tops the Country chart, it makes Beyoncé the first Black woman to do so.More
March 22, 2024 Kendrick Lamar disses Drake in the song "Like That," igniting a high-profile feud that gets ugly. Lamar wins the popular vote in this rap battle when his diss track "Not Like Us" goes to #1.More
February 4, 2024 Taylor Swift wins the Album Of The Year Grammy for Midnights, making her the first artist to win that award four times. Miley Cyrus gets Record Of The Year for "Flowers" and Billie Eilish takes Song Of The Year for "What Was I Made For?" from the movie Barbie.
January 26, 2024 The RIAA certifies "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey at 18x Platinum, making it the best-selling song of all time in America. It was certified at just 5x Platinum in 2013, but picked up steam as it became a streaming favorite across generations. Newer songs like Post Malone's "Sunflower" are soon certified higher, but "Don't Stop Believin'" stands as the top song from before the streaming era.
December 6, 2023 Taylor Swift is named Time magazine's 2023 Person Of The Year, the first entertainer ever picked.More
November 30, 2023 Shane MacGowan of The Pogues dies of pneumonia at 65. He was known for his pithy lyrics, Celtic influence, and a lifelong drinking problem that took a severe toll on his health.
November 23, 2023 Dolly Parton rocks a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit to perform at halftime of the Thanksgiving game between the Cowboys and Washington Commanders, where she also kicks off the Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign.
November 3, 2023 Sixty-five years after it was first released, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" gets an official music video, with Trisha Yearwood, Tanya Tucker and Santa Claus all joining Lee. The video helps send the song to #1 a few weeks later.
October 13, 2023 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour opens in theaters, blowing away box office records to become the top-grossing concert film of all time. The film documents her wildly popular Eras Tour using footage shot during three Los Angeles shows in August.More
August 26, 2023 Oliver Anthony becomes the first artist with no chart history to debut at #1 in America when "Rich Men North Of Richmond," recorded outdoors in one take with his dogs nearby, shoots to the top.More
August 23, 2023 The first Republican debate opens with a clip of Oliver Anthony singing "Rich Men North Of Richmond," his takedown of venal and incompetent politicians in Washington, with the candidates asked, "Why is this song striking such a nerve in this country right now?" "It was funny seeing my song in the presidential debate, because I wrote that song about those people," Anthony says.
July 21, 2023 Tony Bennett dies at 96 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was still making music at 95, when he released his last album, Love For Sale, a collaboration with Lady Gaga.
February 5, 2023 Harry Styles, the breakaway solo star from One Direction, wins the Album Of The Year Grammy for his third album, Harry's House, the one with "As It Was" and "Late Night Talking."
January 20, 2023 Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner from South Carolina whom The Marshall Tucker Band was named for, dies at 99.
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