Friday, June 12, 2026

Music

Rod Stewart Latest Rock Star to Get COVID, Postpones Shows for a Week

Even Rod Stewart, a rock deity, can get COVID. Sir Rod has postponed his shows this weekend for a week and says he'll resume work...

Charts: Taylor Swift Bests Kanye West Again, Beating Longtime Rival Handily for Number 1 with 4 Month Old Album

UPDATED Kanye West will probably not like this news. His "Vultures 2" album came in at 82,845 albums. That's around 60,000 fewer than Taylor Swift's...

Popster Shawn Mendes is Back After 4 Years, Kinda, With Two New Songs on Slow Take Off

You'd have to go back five years to remember when Shawn Mendes was hot on the pop charts. It was 2019 when he and Camila...

Atlantic Records Exec Overthrow as Longtime Chief Julie Greenwald Out In Moves OK’d from Warner Music

Wow. There's a coup going on at Atlantic Records, the formerly great music label of Ahmet Ertegun. It's not 1980 anymore. Long time chief Julie Greenwald --...

Philippe Petit Walks the High Wire 50 Years Later Inside Cathedral of St John the Divine, Accompanied by No Less than Sting

Fifty years ago on Wednesday (last night) Philippe Petit made history walking on a highwire between the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center....

Kanye Konquered as “Vultures 2” A Sales Stiff with No Streaming, Toppled by Summer Female Pop Phenom

Kanye West's "Vultures 2" is a bust. Released on Friday night, it's over by Wednesday afternoon. No one is streaming it. The tracks haven't caught...

Surprise Pop Star: Summer of 2024 Is All About Jelly Roll with 9 Singles in the iTunes Top 100

Who's the pop star of summer 2024? Taylor Swift? Chappell Roan? Nope. It's Jelly Roll! The large, gravel voiced singer with tattoos all over his face...

Grammy Awards Get the Squeeze on CBS as Network Adds American Music Awards for May 2025

The endless procession of awards shows on CBS just got longer. The network has now added the return of the American Music Awards to its...