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Ariana Grande started 2025 by attending the Golden Globes, where she was nominated for her role as Glinda in Wicked. She ended the year by being nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Glinda — this time, in Wicked: For Good. In between, she proved that she hadn't forgotten her day job as a pop star.-- In late March, Ari released the deluxe version of her hit 2024 album, Eternal […]

Taylor Swift cheers while watching the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 15, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images) When it comes to charities, Taylor Swift is the gift that keeps on giving.After donating $1 million each to the American Heart Association and Feeding America prior to Christmas, Taylor has now made a donation of an undisclosed amount to Operation […]

Chappell Roan attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards, February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) If anyone had enough standout fits to create a top 10 list of the best ones this year, it's Chappell Roan, who creates a moment every time she steps onto a stage or a red carpet.In rounding up her personal top 10 looks of the year on Instagram, she […]

Ellie Goulding appears on ABC (Disney/Chris Willard) Ellie Goulding has received a special honor, not for her music, but for her environmental work.Ellie was included on King Charles III's annual New Year's Honours List, which appoints citizens to various honors and orders, such as knighthoods, for their good works. Ellie has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire aka MBE for services to biodiversity and the […]

Alex Warren's song "Burning Down" became his first song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024, peaking at #69.  But even he couldn't have predicted that in 2025 he'd end up spending 10 weeks at #1 on that same chart.The song that did it for him was "Ordinary," which first took off in the U.K. In June it became the longest-running #1 song of the 2020s to date, spending 12 […]

Lady Gaga had a magical 2025. --She started the year off right when her Bruno Mars duet "Die With a Smile," which had been on the chart since August 2024, reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in January. It made Gaga only the third artist to have scored multiple number ones on the Hot 100 in three distinct decades — only Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson had done it before. The song ended […]

Rick Springfield performs onstage during the Above Ground 4 concert benefiting Musicares at The Fonda Theatre on October 26, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) Rick Springfield will help ring in the new year with a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, and the experience certainly isn’t new to the singer.In fact, Springfield told ABC's On the Red Carpet during rehearsals […]

Backstreet Boys, 'Into the Millennium' at Sphere Las Vegas (Live Nation) Backstreet Boys will be spending New Year's Eve onstage at Sphere Las Vegas, performing their Into the Millennium residency show for a crowd of 20,000 fans. The songs in the concert are synced to the custom, immersive video projected on the venue's giant screens, but Backstreet's AJ McLean says they're going to try to change things up when the clock strikes […]

'Kpop Demon Hunters' (Courtesy Netflix) The Billboard Hot 100 may be completely dominated by Christmas songs, but over on another of the publication's charts, "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters has just made some history.As Billboard notes, the song, performed by the voices of HUNTR/X — Audrey Nuna, EJAE and Rei Ami — tops the Radio Songs chart, which measures radio airplay across all musical genres. It's now the first K-pop song ever to take […]