Beth GarrabrantTaylor Swift couldn’t say goodbye to 2023 without setting one more Billboard chart record, right? Taylor’s albums dominate the top four spots on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. It’s the first time any act has done this since the chart was created in 1991. Overall, she has six out of the top 10 titles on the chart, with 1989…… Read More…
DAMEBK/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesAriana Grande has posted a lengthy Instagram Story in which she reflects on 2023 — a year which saw her film Wicked, celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album, split with her husband and find new love with her co-star, Ethan Slater. “One of the most transformative, most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years of my life,”…… Read More…
They weren’t trolling us — *NSYNC banded together for a reunion this year, and we have the Trolls Band Together movie to thank for making it happen. – Rumblings of a reunion started in August, after Justin Timberlake posted a photo with JC Chasez in the studio. About a week later, sources started spilling to publications…… Read More…
ABC/Stewart Cook Ellie Goulding is one of the many stars performing on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, airing on ABC December 31 at 8 p.m. ET. While she’s done the show before, this year she’s the only British artist on the bill. “It’s always such an honor,” Ellie told ABC Audio…… Read More…
Disney/Jennifer PottheiserA special featuring highlights from the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air Monday, January 1, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. The star-studded event took place in November in Brooklyn, New York. Among the inductees were Sheryl Crow, Elton John’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, Chaka Khan, R&B group The…… Read More…
Darkroom/Interscope RecordsSome of the year’s biggest hits — and some lesser-known gems — made Variety’s list of the “Best Songs of 2023.” The list includes a whopping 65 songs, but #1 is Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie movie. Coming in at #4 is that other Barbie hit, “Dance the Night,”…… Read More…
Araya Doheny/FilmMagicSeems like “See you next year” is now the universal phrase for “I’ve got new music coming.” On December 28, a day after Ariana Grande teased her new album with a “See you next year” post, Camila Cabello did the same as part of a lengthy series of Instagram Story posts summing up 2023.…… Read More…
This Barbie released a hit song on the soundtrack for the highest-grossing film of the year, dropped the first single from her upcoming album and made her feature film acting debut — all in 2023. Let’s dance the night away as we look at some of the highlights from Dua Lipa’s year: — On May 1,…… Read More…
L-R: Jameson Moon Hart, Pink; Amy Sussman/Getty Images for dcpPink hasn’t posted anything on Instagram for the past two weeks, but she reemerged on December 27 to wish her son Jameson Moon Hart a happy birthday. She posted a slow-mo video of Jameson going down an indoor slide on a mat and mugging for the…… Read More…
Disney/Tony BeharThanks to his viral hit “Lil Boo Thang,” Paul Russell has done some pretty amazing things in 2023, like performing at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, playing his first headlining shows and singing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Now he’s getting to ring in 2024 by doing another amazing thing: appearing on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’…… Read More…