In March 2021, Spotify launched EQUAL, a global music program as a part of its commitment to advancing gender equity in music. The initiative aims to celebrate women pushing the envelope and inspiring the next generation of artists, producers, and executives. Each month, Spotify names an EQUAL Ambassador to honor game changers across the industry […]
Month: June 2022
Last spring, feeling disgruntled by the monotony of her daily routine during the pandemic, Los Angeles native Em Beihold wrote “Groundhog Day,” an endearing pop song reminiscent of early Regina Spektor and Sara Bareilles. She subsequently uploaded a video performing the track to TikTok, which led to her first taste of viral success that June. […]
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” Jim Carrey’s line from the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty is a humorous take on a female’s ability to handle the egos, fish tales and dad jokes that are often part and parcel of their husbands’ public presentations. But the eye rolls are less important than […]
Hot weather plus nostalgia makes for a potent mix(tape). In order to aid your festive flashbacks, we analyzed the Billboard Hot 100 chart for each year dating back to the chart’s 1958 launch. Here’s the definitive list of the top 10 jams each summer that pumped out of your stereo most between Memorial Day and […]
Since the release of his 2018 debut album Platinum Fire, Arin Ray has been moving in silence. During his visit to Billboard’s NYC office last Tuesday (May 31), the L.A.-via-Cincinnati singer makes it known (once or twice) just how excited he is to be back in the city doing press for his sophomore album Hello […]
Jury Selection has begun in the trial for Elizabeth McKeown accused of killing Barbara Foster by running her over with her car. Elizabeth McKeown has been charged with first degree murder and armed criminal action over a road rage incident turned hit-and-run. McKeown described to police that she had grown impatient waiting behind Foster in […]
It’s been three decades. 30 years. Springfield’s Three Missing Women case hits another unwanted milestone Tuesday. One June 7, 1992, Stacy McCall, Suzie Streeter and Sherrill Levitt disappeared from a home on east Delmar near Glenstone in Springfield. Thousands of leads later, the case remains unsolved. There have been multiple suspects over the years, but […]
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Fatal Shooting in North Springfield
One person is dead after a shooting in north Springfield. Police were called around midnight to Bowerman Elementary School on North Grant Avenue for a report of gunshots. When police arrived on the scene, they found one individual with multiple gunshot wounds in the area between the school and the playground. The victim was pronounced […]
Elizabeth II isn’t the only Queen notching up a major milestone. Queen‘s evergreen Greatest Hits reaches 1,000 weeks inside the Official Albums Chart Top 100, becoming just the third album to do so, and the first by a British act or a rock band. Originally released in 1981, Queen’s Greatest Hits enjoyed four weeks at […]
Will Post Malone deliver a U.K. No. 1 with Twelve Carat Toothache? Harry Styles could see to it that he doesn’t. Following its release last Friday (June 3), Posty’s fourth studio album blasts to No. 2 on the midweek U.K. chart, behind Harry Styles’ Harry’s House. If it maintains its position when the chart proper […]