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KATSEYE hit the bullseye on TikTok in 2025. The short-form video platform today (Dec. 9) shares its year-in review, with KATSEYE crowned as TikTok’s Global Artist of the Year. After debuting in 2024, the girl group “has become one of the biggest bands in the world,” says a rep for TikTok, during which time they […]
Next year’s Sziget 2026 Festival will feature a raft of major headliners, including Florence + the Machine, Lewis Capaldi, sombr and Twenty One Pilots. The Budapest-based event will take place at Óbuda Island between August 11-15. In addition to those headliners, the festival will include sets from Ashnikko, BBNO$, Biffy Clyro, last weekend’s Saturday Night […]
MusicInfra, the rights collection platform founded by an ex-Hipgnosis executive and backed by Raine Group and Peter Thiel’s Snö Ventures, announced on Tuesday (Dec. 9) that interactive gaming music company Reactional Music has joined its growing list of clients. Founded by classical composer Jesper Nordin, Reactional Music makes an interactive music engine that allows video […]
Hundreds of songs have received Golden Globe nominations for best original song since the award was introduced at the 19th Golden Globe ceremony in March 1962. But just 10 of them have topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six or more weeks. Two of them – Blondie’s “Call Me” from American Gigolo and Irene Cara’s […]
In his first year at the helm of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts, The Cure singer Robert Smith has pulled together a stellar lineup for next year’s shows. The spring 2026 gigs will kick of on March 23 with sets from Elbow and MRCY, followed by a night of comedy featuring some of the […]
Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been friends for more than 15 years. But Sunday (Dec. 7) marked the first time the BBFs took in a Kansas City Chiefs game together. Swift was on hand, of course, to cheer on her fiancé, Super Bowl-winning Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, whose team was facing a do-or-die […]
TWICE’s record-breaking This Is For tour is more than a milestone for one of K-pop’s defining girl groups – it’s the clearest sign yet that Asia Pop has moved from the margins to the center of Australia’s live music industry. With more than 50,000 tickets sold across Sydney and Melbourne, and a 360-degree stage setup […]
The music and the tributes were flowing as KISS, Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford were feted at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night (Dec. 7) in Washington, DC. “Billions and billions of people have watched them over the years,” Donald Trump, the first president to host the Honors, said of […]
Sean Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, is pushing back against claims made in the Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, calling the series “intentionally misleading” and “offensive.” In a statement provided exclusively to Deadline (Dec. 6), Janice said the program contains “falsehoods” about her relationship with her son and his upbringing. “I am writing this statement […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday (Dec. 6) presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled. This year’s recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock […]
