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January 16, 2026 "So Sick" superstar Ne-Yo offers details of his polyamorous lifestyle during an appearance on Sherri, where he tells the host he has three girlfriends. When Sherri says it sounds like a lot of work, Ne-Yo replies, "I've never been afraid of hard work."
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 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 24, 2025 Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star who preceded Bob Marley in bringing that sound to an international audience, dies at 81 after having a seizure. In America his song "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" was a minor hit in 1970, but he's best known for his 1993 cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" that was used in the movie Cool Runnings.
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
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