Legacy RecordingsA few days ago, Kesha highlighted the 15th anniversary of her song “TiK ToK” by noting that it had its biggest streaming day ever after she performed it on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Now she’s marking another milestone: the 15th anniversary of the song’s parent album, Animal, which was…

Katia Temkin/Republic While Ariana Grande has made it clear that she plans to focus on acting for the foreseeable future, she apparently has something up her sleeve that she might release to hold fans over until she can turn her attention back to music. Speaking to Access Hollywood, Ariana said that new music is “not…

Stewart Cook/CBS At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, two songs from Selena Gomez‘s film Emilia Pérez were nominated for best original song. But Selena says if they’re nominated for the Oscars, she’s not interested in taking the stage to sing them. At the Golden Globes, the best original song went to “El Mal,” performed in…

Gallery Books While Jon M. Chu has been pretty busy directing both parts of Wicked, he’s also thinking about one of his next projects: a biopic of Britney Spears, based on her memoir, The Woman In Me. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Golden Globes, Chu says Britney is “going to be very involved” in the film. He…

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Harry Styles‘ movie career has been hit or miss: He got mixed reviews for The Policeman, while his other film that year, Don’t Worry Darling, was trashed by critics. His other roles — in Dunkirk and The Eternals — were just cameos. But if things had gone differently, he’d be starring in a film that’s…

Disney/Randy Holmes Myles Smith was a breakout star of 2024, winning a prestigious award in his native U.K. and making former president Barack Obama‘s list of favorite songs twice with “Stargazing.” But he says his biggest moment of 2024 is what led him to his New Year’s resolution for 2025. Looking back on last year,…

Atlantic Records Ed Sheeran has scored his eighth #1 album in his native U.K. — with a record that’s been out since September 2024. The album, +–=÷× [Mathematics] (Tour Collection), features Ed’s biggest hits from his “Mathematics” series of albums — Plus, Multiply, Divide, Equals and Subtract — as well as some of his singles…

Count Justin Bieber among those fans who wish Rihanna would return to her first job: singing. On his Instagram Story Friday, he posted footage of Rihanna singing “Needed Me” during a surprise drop-in at a karaoke bar in New York. He captioned the footage, “Missed seein u sing Queen,” along with goat and crown emojis. Coincidentally,…

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for MTV & DIRECTV NOW One of the five suspects charged in connection to the death of One Direction‘s Liam Payne presented himself to Argentinian police to be put in custody, as ordered by an Argentinian judge Dec. 27. Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, is currently at the police station and will be…

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W Many fans would be starstruck if they met Ariana Grande, but Ari says she gets starstruck, too. In fact, when she was invited to meet her idol, she was convinced it was a plot to kill her. Speaking to W magazine, Ariana says, “Imogen Heap is my idol—my…