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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
July 22, 2025 Seventeen days after his farewell concert with his band Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76. After launching his successful solo career in the '80s, he became the centerpiece of the metal community with the Ozzfest tour, which ran 1996–2008 and a few years thereafter. Ozzy tried retirement a few times (first in 1992) but always got bored and returned to action.
July 16, 2025 Lady Gaga kicks off her Mayhem Ball tour with a show in Las Vegas. The set resembles an opera house, and the show is infused with that dramatic energy as Gaga battles her alter-ego, the troublemaking "Mistress of Mayhem," throughout. Hailed as a creative triumph, every show on the tour sells out.
July 16, 2025 Coldplay do a jumbotron segment at their concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, that lands on a couple with a very guilty reaction. "Either they're having an affair or they're just really shy," frontman Chris Martin quips. That night the footage shows up on social media and goes viral. The couple are quickly identified as a tech company CEO and one of his employees, both married... to other people.
July 9, 2025 Jack White gets his first cell phone, a gift from his wife on his 50th birthday. "I thought if I could make it to 50 years old at least without ever having one that I could be proud of myself, and I am," he posts.
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.
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 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 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."
May 19, 2025 "Pretty Little Baby," an obscure 1962 B-side by Connie Francis, goes to #1 on TikTok's Viral 50 and Top 50 charts after millions of creators use it in videos, including celebs like Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner. When told by her publicist that she has a viral hit, the 87-year-old Francis replies, "What's that?"
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.
May 3, 2025 Lady Gaga plays a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to an estimated 2.1 million people. Enormous free concerts are a thing on this particular beach: Madonna drew 1.6 million in 2024, and 3.5 million came to see Rod Stewart in 1994. Most of the funding for these shows comes from the city, which uses them to draw tourists during low season.
April 21, 2025 The video for Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" becomes her first to tally a billion views on YouTube, far outpacing "Hung Up," in second place with 531 million. The song is huge with Gen Z thanks to a series of TikTok trends.
April 18, 2025 Sinners opens in theaters, with 88-year-old Buddy Guy playing a character he inspired: a musician who somewhat literally goes through hell to become a blues legend and open his own club in Chicago. The film picks up a bunch of awards, including an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
April 14, 2025 Katy Perry does some space tourism, joining five other women (including journalist Gayle King) on a 10-minute suborbital flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket. "Space is going to finally be glam," she says before liftoff. "We are going to put the 'ass' in astronaut."More
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