Atlantic Records Group chairman and COO Julie Greenwald says she won't forget the day she met singer/songwriter Melanie Martinez. "She walked in and she was wearing this baby-doll dress, her hair was two different colors. She was wearing a crazy-looking necklace made from doll parts and she had made a video for her song "Dollhouse" by pulling in every favor she could get," the executive says. "It was such an impressive commitment, and it was all ...

Aretha Franklin is expressing her relief after a federal judge blocked The Telluride Film Festival screening of a documentary about a 1972 concert without the singer's consent.

Empire fans just got a glimpse into season two of the Fox hip-hop drama.

Darius Rucker has wanted to surprise his hometown of Charleston, S.C., with a concert for a long time, and CMT's Instant Jam series gave him the perfect opportunity.

Google Play Music All Access launched in Japan on Friday, giving the world's second-largest music market -- but a late adopter of music streaming -- subscription services from two huge technology companies. Google Play Music's arrival follows the launch of Apple Music in June but precedes the world's largest music subscription service, Spotify.

Growing up in Rossview, Ga., Lauren Alaina considers herself to be a fan of college football. The Mercury recording artist gets to put that love and passion on full display as ESPN selected the American Idol alumnus to create a track exclusively for this season's college football coverage.

Music industry legend Jimmy Iovine and British model Liberty Ross are engaged, Us Weekly reports.

EuropaCorp's The Transporter Refueled -- hoping to reboot the franchise sans Jason Statham -- may have won the Friday box office in North America with $2.4 million from 3,434 locations, but it could tumble to No. 4 or No. 5 by Labor Day.

Tyga raised a few (more) eyebrows after asking a crowd, "Where All the Little Girls at?" during a pizza festival in Los Angeles on Friday night (Sept. 4).

At a hearing in a Denver federal courthouse, U.S. District Judge John Kane has granted Aretha Franklin's emergency injunction motion to stop the film Amazing Grace from premiering Friday night (Sept. 4) at the Telluride Film Festival.

Billboard's "On the Rise" is a roundup of Latin music's most promising new acts, poised to break through in a big way.