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April 24, 2026 Michael, a Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua, debuts in US theaters. With his nephew Jafaar Jackson (son of Jermaine) in the title role, the film follows the King of Pop through his rise to fame in the '60s as a member of the Jackson 5 to his Bad World Tour in the '80s. The movie is a smash hit but attracts criticism for sanitizing Jackson's controversial legacy.More
April 24, 2026 Three years after crashing into the mainstream with his third album, Stick Season, folk singer Noah Kahan releases The Great Divide. Its namesake lead single, a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, is about the distance that fame created in his relationships.
March 21, 2026 With all seven members having completed their mandatory military service, BTS play a free reunion concert in Seoul to promote their new album, ARIRANG, and launch their first tour since 2019. With about 250,000 in attendance it sets a record for the largest public concert in South Korean history. It also draws over 18 million viewers on Netflix, where it's livestreamed.
November 14, 2025 Pacific Northwest troubadour Todd Snider dies at 59 from an undiagnosed case of walking pneumonia. Following in the tradition of John Prine, he leaves a legacy of incisive and humorous story songs like "America's Favorite Pastime," a tune about the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis, who threw a no-hitter while on acid.
November 8, 2025 Salt-N-Pepa, who earned a reputation as The First Ladies Of Rap for hits like "Push It," "Shoop," and "Let's Talk About Sex," are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, who joined the group while she was still in high school, is the first DJ to ever enter the Hall.
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 9, 2025 Diss tracks are protected speech, a judge rules in Drake's defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, which released and promoted Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us," a song where he says very hurtful things about Drake. "The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public fact-checked verifiable content," the judge 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
November 18, 2024 In Orlando, Florida, Pink wraps up her Summer Carnival tour, which earns about $694 million over 97 dates. That's more than Beyoncé hauled in on her Renaissance tour but about a third of what Taylor Swift made on her Eras tour.
May 30, 2024 Lola Young releases "Messy," her breakthrough hit. She says it's about "not being able to make someone you love happy when you're just being you, which actually sucks."
May 11, 2024 Nemo, representing Switzerland, becomes the first non-binary winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with a performance of "The Code," which is about "the realization that I am neither a man nor a woman." It's Switzerland's first win since Celine Dion took the prize for "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi" in 1988.
April 18, 2024 Longtime Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80 after years of health problems. Betts wrote many of their most popular songs, including "Blue Sky," written about his girlfriend, Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig.
October 27, 2023 Adidas issues the Korn collection, finally partnering with the group 27 years after they released their song "A.D.I.D.A.S." The song actually has nothing to do with the company - the title is a play on the phrase "All Day I Dream About Sex."
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.
January 13, 2023 Iggy Azalea launches an OnlyFans account to promote her upcoming album Hotter Than Hell and post photos that are too racy for Instagram. The album never materializes, but Azalea becomes a top earner during her run on the platform, which lasts about a year.
October 14, 2022 After teasing songs on social media for two years, Noah Kahan finally issues his third album, Stick Season, which marks his shift from indie-pop to folk and launches him into the mainstream.More
October 12, 2022 Following years as a featured vocalist for the likes of Jonas Blue, Jax Jones and David Guetta, Raye releases her breakthrough single, "Escapism," a song about "running away from reality as fast as you possibly can." Months later, it's included on her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
May 26, 2022 Pink, who wrote and performed the theme song to The Ellen DeGeneres Show ("Today's The Day"), appears on the last episode, where she sings "What About Us" at Ellen's request.
May 9, 2022 Lola Young posts about her schizoaffective disorder on Instagram. "My mental health condition does not define me," she writes. "It is my superpower."
January 26, 2022 Spotify complies with Neil Young's request to remove his music from the service. Young's issue is with the Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which he feels is spreading false information about vaccines. Joni Mitchell also removes her music, but Spotify stands tall for Rogan, whose subscriber count grows considerably in wake of the controversy. Young returns to Spotify two years later.
July 29, 2021 After postponing the previous year's festival due to the coronavirus outbreak, Lollapalooza returns in full force for a four-day music event in Chicago's Grant Park. But there's a catch: Festivalgoers must provide proof of vaccinations or negative COVID tests to gain entry. Those who have tested negative but are unvaccinated also have to wear a mask.More
March 5, 2021 Kings Of Leon release their album When You See Yourself in a non-fungible token (NFT) auction that also includes digital artwork and "Golden Tickets." Other acts (notably, Grimes) have sold NTF art, but KoL is the first big name to try it with an album and VIP package.More
September 7, 2020 Lily Allen marries David Harbour (Hopper on Stranger Things) at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, with an Elvis impersonator presiding. Their breakup in 2025 inspires her album West End Girl, which is filled with songs about cheating and deceit.
August 15, 2020 Harry Styles lands his first #1 hit in the US with "Watermelon Sugar," a song he later admits is about "the sweetness of life," but also "the female orgasm."
June 14, 2020 BTS draw about 750,000 viewers (in 107 countries) to their Bang Bang Con livestream concert, earning an estimated $20 million in ticket sales, far more than what a traditional concert could earn. It proves that livestream shows, which have mostly relied on donations, can be immensely profitable as ticketed events.
June 10, 2020 Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne takes innovative social-distancing measures on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert: The band sings their tune "Race For The Prize" from inside massive plastic bubbles. Each audience member is also enclosed their own bubble to keep the coronavirus at bay.More
June 2, 2020 The music industry recognizes "Blackout Tuesday" in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Using the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, many record labels and artists cease operations, while broadcasters and streaming services change their programming in support of efforts to address racism and injustice on a wide scale, and more specifically to end police brutality against African Americans.More
May 14, 2020 Keith Urban becomes the first major artist to play a drive-in concert in America during the coronavirus pandemic, performing to an audience of health care workers at the Stardust Drive-In in Watertown, Tennessee.More
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