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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.
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 22, 2025 David Ball, an electronic musician known for his work in Soft Cell and The Grid, dies at 66.
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 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 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 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 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 20, 2025 Sublime, recently re-formed with original lead singer Bradley Nowell's son Jakob on vocals, go to #1 on the Alternative Airplay chart with "Ensenada," their first trip to the top of that chart since "What I Got" in 1996.
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.
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.
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.
July 21, 2025 Tyler, The Creator releases his ninth album, Don't Tap the Glass. Social media and streaming services are quickly flooded with an AI-generated song with that title that comes up in searches, an early indication of how that technology can sow confusion.
July 16, 2025 Connie Francis, one of the most popular singers of the late '50s and early '60s, dies at 87. Her hits include "Who's Sorry Now" and "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," but Gen Z knows her for "Pretty Little Baby," a B-side from 1962 that went viral in 2025.
July 5, 2025 Black Sabbath reunite with their four original members for one last show at the Back To The Beginning concert in their hometown of Birmingham, England. It's also the last show for lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, who does a solo set from a chair, as he's suffering from Parkinson's disease. The celebration lasts 11 hours and includes performances from Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Guns N' Roses, Halestorm, Pantera and Alice In Chains.
July 4, 2025 Oasis play together for the first time since their 2009 breakup when they kick off their reunion tour in Cardiff. The first song in their set is "Hello."
June 28, 2025 Performing from a Cadillac suspended above the stage at a show in her hometown of Houston, Beyoncé gets a scare when the car starts tilting sideways. She's safely lowered into the crowd, where fans help her exit the vehicle. "I knew ya'll would catch me," she says when she takes the stage to finish the song. The car is later replaced with a flying horse.
June 20, 2025 The animated movie KPop Demon Hunters debuts on Netflix with a soundtrack loaded with K-pop songs made by the same people responsible for the likes of BTS and Blackpink. The songs amass billions of streams, and "Golden," sung by the demon hunters Huntr/x, goes to #1 in America.
June 11, 2025 Brian Wilson, the creative engine in The Beach Boys, dies at 82. After a run of hits with jaunty songs like "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Surfin' U.S.A.," he stopped touring with the group to focus on studio work, resulting in masterworks like "Good Vibrations" and "God Only Knows."
June 9, 2025 Sly Stone dies from COPD at 82. With his group Sly & the Family Stone he brought lively funk grooves to the charts with songs like "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" and "I Want To Take You Higher." The band fell apart in the mid-'70s when he battled drug addiction, and Stone remained reclusive and erratic the rest of his life, sabotaging various comeback opportunities.
June 7, 2025 Alex Warren, previously known as a social media influencer, goes to #1 in the US with "Ordinary," a song written for his wife soon after their wedding. It tops the charts in several other countries as well to become one of the biggest hits of 2025.
June 5, 2025 The Velvet Sundown release their debut album, Floating On Echoes. Their songs quickly populate algorithm-driven playlists and amass millions of streams, even though nobody has heard of the band or any of its members. They're later revealed to be an AI-generated act, the first to garner big streaming numbers.More
May 31, 2025 On the Hot 100, 37 songs are from Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem album, breaking a record he set two years earlier when 36 songs from his One Thing at a Time album made the chart at the same time.
May 30, 2025 Miley Cyrus releases her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, featuring the singles "End Of The World" and "Easy Lover." The singer describes the accompanying musical film of the same name as being in the same vein of Pink Floyd's 1982 surrealist film The Wall "but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture."
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