• Wiz Khalifa 'See You Again' Crowns Hot 100 for Fourth Week: Walk The Moon & T-Wayne See Gains

    Wiz Khalifa can say "See You Again" to the No. 1 spot in the United States. For the fourth week in a row, the rapper's Charlie Puth collaboration for the Furious 7 soundtrack tops the Billboard Hot 100. Overall, it's a good week for male rappers on the chart as Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" ascends to a new high and T-Wayne's viral hit "Nasty Freestyle" breaks into the top 10.
  • Bumbershoot Announces 2015 Lineup

    Just as Chicago's Labor Day weekend festival, Northcoast Music Festival announced its lineup yesterday; Seattle's Bumbershoot has unveiled a musical billing of its own. The three-day festival, which runs from Saturday to Monday, instead of the typical Friday to Sunday affair, will host a wide variety of artists from across the world of music. Acts like The Weeknd, Hozier, Zedd, Ellie Goulding, Faith No More and Chance The Rapper will all get headlining slots at Bumbershoot.
  • Wiz Khalifa ‘See You Again’ Leads Hot 100 Beating Fetty Wap, Jason Derulo

    The Fast and the Furious franchise cannot be stopped, and seemingly neither can Wiz Khalifa's new song "See You Again." For the third week in a row, the soundtrack single has topped the Billboard Hot 100, ahead of hits from Mark Ronson, The Weeknd and Fetty Wap. Meanwhile, Jason Derulo has notched another top 10 hit with his Everything Is 4 single "Want to Want Me."
  • Hard Summer Announces 2015 Lineup

    Live Nation's Hard Events has announced the lineup for its major summer festival Hard Summer. Headlining the 2015 lineup will be Skrillex and Diplo's duo Jack Ü, who will be taking a break from the Mad Decent Block Party tour, The Weeknd, who returns to Southern California after two stellar performances at Coachella, Porter Robinson with his live show, Ratatat as they continue on the comeback trail in 2015 and many more.
  • Coachella Tweets Drop 83 Percent During Weekend Two (Because of Nicki Minaj and DMX?)

    Coachella's second weekend featured a massive drop off in social media mentions, despite being an easy sell-out, like the first weekend. Billboard reports that while 3.5 million tweets mentioned Coachella directly during the event's first rendition the previous weekend (with Nicki Minaj and AC/DC driving traffic), only 600,000 mentions went out over the past weekend. What's the story?
  • The Weeknd Brings Out Kanye West As Surprise Guest At Coachella

    As Coachella has become bigger and bigger as a festival, it is has become more about the spectacle and which artist can pull off the bigger stunt with some sort of marketing gimmick or special guest that will have more people write and talk about it over the next few days. The Weeknd understood the magnitude of his role as the final performer on the main stage at Coachella Saturday night and brought out a very special guest for the occasion. The "Earned It" crooner invited Kanye West to perform four tracks alongside him.
  • Summer Set Music Fest '15 Lineup Announced

    Summer Set Music & Camping Festival has announced its 2015 lineup. Bassnectar, deadmau5, The Weeknd, Big Gigantic, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and others will headline the three-day event. The festival features a wide variety of different acts across electronic music, hip-hop and the jam band scene.
  • Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars' 'Uptown Funk' Sets Hot 100 Record

    "Uptown Funk" is gonna give it to ya, all you other songs from the 2010s. For the 13th week in a row, the Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson Uptown Special single tops the Billboard Hot 100, setting the record for the longest-reigning No. 1 song of the decade. And while there seems to be no end in sight for the dominance of the funky throwback anthem, a newcomer, pop singer Natalie La Rose emerges in the top 10 with her single "Somebody" featuring Jeremih.
  • The Weeknd Closing Out Coachella Saturday Night

    The Coachella 2015 countdown clock has hit two weeks until Weekend 1 and the anticipation is at a fever pitch. The lineup has been announced in full and all of the surrounding pre-parties and events during the week, dubbed by those around as "localchella," have been revealed. But the day-to-day schedules and set times have not been unveiled, but one of Saturday's March 28 headliners just gave away when he will be playing. The Weeknd took to Twitter today, March 26, via 'Hot New Hip Hop,' in excitement to share that he is closing out the festival Saturday night. The "Earned It" crooner does not say which stage he is performing on, but he will be the last performer on one of them both Saturday nights.
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