Artist News

Nickelodeon pop star Ariana Grande is on cloud nine, as her debut album Yours Truly is enjoying  spot No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 138,000 copies sold in its first frame, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Billboard had a chat with...

American pop duo Karmin paid a visit to Billboard's Tastemakers rooftop session for a live performance of "Acapella" and "Brokenhearted." Karmin was discovered via YouTube after posting a cover of Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now." After the video went viral,...

Congrats are in order for P!nk. The pop singer is scheduled to appear at the 2013 Billboard Women in Music event on Dec. 10 in New York City to accept the Woman of the Year Award. "I was absolutely shocked...

Prog rock quartet Esper Scout is prepping for the Oct. 14 release of their new EP Poet Curses, which includes their previously released single "Assumpta Tang." Esper Scout are an experimental rock/progressive four-piece based in Leeds, U.K. They are driven by an...

Northampton, Mass.-based quartet Potty Mouth (Abby Weems, guitar/vocals; Ally Einbinder, bass; Phoebe Harris lead guitar; and Victoria Mandanas, drums) released its full-length debut LP Hell Bent via Old Flame (US) /Marshall Teller (UK) records today. The band is set to tour...

Britney Spears released her new single "Work Bitch" early after the track leaked online Sunday. The song was scheduled to drop today (Sept. 16) at 6 p.m. EST, but after a version of the track appeared Sunday morning, the singer pushed...

Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with singer Jill Janus of the Los Angeles-based heavy metal band Huntress during the Hartford, Conn., stop of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Janus talks about the band's upcoming tour...

Twenty-year-old pop star Ariana Grande got a little too excited celebrating the success of her chart-topping debut album Yours Truly (we can't blame her). According to Billboard magazine, Grande screamed a lot during a recent party, which resulted in a hemorrhaged vocal chord....

Katy Perry dropped the music video for "Roar," the hit single off her anticipated and upcoming album Prism, due Oct. 22. The video features Perry making her way through a jungle with a male companion after a plane crash. After he's...

  Former Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen was recently interviewed by France's TV Rock Live to discuss her upcoming album Colours In The Dark, her classical background, and songwriting. Watch the interview below, and visit Turunen's website here for more info.