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Kelly Clarkson Makes Impassioned Plea For Gun Control Action At Billboard Music Awards
Kelly Clarkson made a passionate plea for action regarding gun control in the wake of the Texas school massacre this week, as she opened the 2018 Billboard Music Awards as host.The 36 year old, who...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 21 May 2018
Lana Del Rey To Receive Billboard Awards Honour
The Video Games singer will be presented with the Trailblazer award at the New York ceremony on 11 December (15) in recognition of the "inspiring and interesting path" her career has taken....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 06 November 2015
Demi Lovato To Receive Billboard's Inaugural 'Rulebreaker' Prize
The Cool For The Summer singer will be honoured at the New York City event on 11 December (15). She will also perform at the star-studded ceremony. "Demi Lovato is an artist...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 03 November 2015
One Direction Stunned By Superfans' Billboard Thank You Ad
A group of devotees, calling themselves the #TilTheEndFanProject, started raising money for the print ad in May (15) - and now they've achieved their goal, and their heroes are impressed. The ad,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 22 October 2015
Tori Amos Dreaming Of Broadway Bow For Musical
The singer/songwriter reveals she's seeking out "the right Broadway producers" to take the production, which opened in 2013, overseas. She tells Billboard magazine, "You know if you're going to come to a...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 15 October 2015
Selena Gomez Uncomfortable Discussing Lupus Diagnosis
The Come and Get It star shared the secret with Billboard magazine readers last week (ends09Oct15), when she confessed the real reason behind the cancellation of her 2014 Australian tour. At the time,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 12 October 2015
Lcd Soundsystem Reunion Rumours Shot Down
Frontman James Murphy announced the dance act was "retiring from the game" in 2011, and he and his bandmates played their final concert at New York's Madison Square Garden later that year, but...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 09 October 2015
Selena Gomez Reveals Lupus Diagnosis
In early 2014, the Heart Wants What It Wants singer, 23, was slated to hit the road in Australia, but two months before she was scheduled to embark on the trek, she unexpectedly...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 08 October 2015
Actor Clive Owen Is Patti Smith's Muse For Detective Character
Promoting her new book, M Train, at Hearst Tower in New York on Monday (05Oct15), Smith revealed she has already started work on her next book. She said, "I have my detective....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 07 October 2015
Bob Seger To Be Honoured For Live Shows
The Old Time Rock and Roll singer has been chosen for his significant impact on the touring industry, and will collect the prize on 19 November (15) at a ceremony in New...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 06 October 2015
Lana Del Rey Album Replaced In Pressing Mix-up
Fans ordering the 2012 disc were shocked to discover it had been wrongly labelled and they have received the Baltimore band's debut album Sleep Through It instead. Now bosses of the unnamed...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 04 October 2015
Lady Gaga Is Billboard's Woman Of The Year
The pop superstar has been selected as the latest honouree in recognition of her musical and charitable endeavours and she will receive the prize at a ceremony in her native New York on...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 September 2015
Singer Larry Hernandez Accused Of Assault
The Dame Tu Amor star was taken into custody on Friday (25Sep15) at Ontario Airport in California and is currently being held without bail at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, according...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 September 2015
Cissy Houston Lands Gospel Award
The soul star, mother of tragic singer Whitney Houston, will be feted with the trophy at the awards ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday (26Sep15), according to Billboard.com. Houston began her...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 22 September 2015
Keith Richards: 'Grateful Dead Are Boring'
Just days after taking aim at Metallica and Black Sabbath, admitting he can't take their music seriously, the guitar great has turned on the late Jerry Garcia's rock act. He tells Billboard,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 September 2015
Controversial Nicki Minaj Waxwork To Stay At Madame Tussauds
Sources have told multiple news outlets that complaints about the racy waxwork, which depicts Minaj on all fours, prompted museum chiefs to get rid of the still-life doppelganger, but Madame Tussauds officials insist...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 10 September 2015
Margaret Cho Pens New Song About Rape Ordeal
The funnywoman turned serious during a new interview with Billboard as she explained the inspiration behind her angry new song I Want to Kill My Rapist, and revealed she was sexually molested from...
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 03 September 2015
Courtney Love Faces Second Damages Bill For Online Row
The Hole star was hit with a second lawsuit by Dawn Simorangkir, who won $430,000 (£286,700) from her in 2011 after the pair clashed on Twitter.com and Love made a series of nasty...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 31 August 2015
Chief Keef Naming Son After Website - Report
Earlier this week (24Aug15), the hip-hop star, real name Keith Cozart, was embroiled in a new baby drama after a woman, identified as Lauren Woods, filed court documents alleging she has given birth...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 August 2015
Nicki Minaj Gig Blighted By Technical Issues
The Starships hitmaker arrived onstage in Long Island, New York 30 minutes after her scheduled start time, reportedly due to technical difficulties, and she suffered problems with her microphone when she began her...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 24 August 2015
Two Fans Injured In Fetty Wap Stage Jump
The Trap Queen hitmaker leaped from the stage during his set in Long Island, New York to perform nearer to his fans, but several of the crowd surged forward and caused the steel...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 24 August 2015
Pavement Refused To Bend To Cybersquatter's Demands
The cult band split in 1999 and by the time they reunited for a comeback tour in 2010, social networking websites were the preferred route for band promotion and they wanted to set...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
British Journalist Peter Jones Dead At 85
The writer passed away on 10 July (15), according to Billboard.com. Jones began his journalism career at the Portsmouth Evening News in 1948 and worked under the pseudonym Pete Goodman for...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 23 July 2015
Late Mexican Singer Joan Sebastian Scores Triple Album Success
The beloved star died at his ranch in Guerrero, Mexico last week (13Jul15) after a long battle with bone cancer, and fans have paid tribute to their hero by buying his music....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 23 July 2015
Joan Jett Unaware Of Manager Rape Accusation
Fox, former member of the Jett-fronted 1970s rock band, told The Huffington Post that Kim Fowley assaulted her after a roadie insisted she take a Quaalude pill. Fox also claimed that Jett, and...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 July 2015
Rapper Yg In Car Crash After Shooting Incident
The Who Do You Love? MC, real name Keenon Jackson, was leaving a recording studio in the early hours of 12 June (15), when an unidentified gunman shot three bullets into the rapper's...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 25 June 2015
J. Balvin Pulls Out Of Miss USA Performance Over Donald Trump Remarks
Balvin announced he would not be part of the 12 July (15) show on Wednesday (24Jun15) - even though it was set to be his first performance on mainstream U.S. television. The...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 25 June 2015
Eddie Van Halen Plays Down Michael Anthony's Contribution To The Band
Fans and former frontman Sammy Hagar, who performs with Anthony in Chickenfoot, have been campaigning for Van Halen to reinstate the bassist for years and now the guitar great has revealed why he...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 June 2015
Twenty One Pilots Score First Us Number 1 Album With 'Blurryface'
Indie pop duo Twenty One Pilots are celebrating their first ever US Number 1 album, after the group’s second major label record Blurryface entered at the top of the Billboard 200. It sold 146,000 copies...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 28 May 2015
Daddy Yankee Named Musical Director For Tech Brand
The Gasolina hitmaker announced his new venture at the 2015 Billboard Latin Music Conference in Miami, Florida on Tuesday (28Apr15), revealing he will produce music for the company's global #IAmMetro advertising campaign....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 30 April 2015
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