RepublicAriana Grande got a nice Christmas present this week: 10 years after its release, her 2014 song “Santa Tell Me” finally reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. It now has the distinction of being the most recently-released Christmas song to chart that high, making it an official modern classic.Ari posted a video…

Capitol Tired of all those year-end “best-of” lists? Well here’s the antidote: Variety has put together a “Worst Songs of 2024” list, and some well-known names are on it. “Been Like This,” Meghan Trainor‘s collab with one of her musical heroes, T-Pain, is on the list. Variety says that it isn’t “offensively awful,” but that…

Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images Is 2025 the year Charlie Puth becomes a bigger artist? In a TikTok video, a fan asked Charlie when his next album was coming out.  “The top of next year,” he replied. And then, referring to the fact that he takes a long time between projects, he added, ” So, not…

Kevin Mazur/One Love Manchester/Getty Images for One Love Manchester Ariana Grande has once again proven that she’s worthy of her status as a honorary citizen of Manchester, England. The singer has donated gifts to the Manchester Foundation Trust Charity, for distribution across its hospital system. “We are so grateful to Ariana for thinking of our…

Legacy/Columbia Talk about a down-to-the-wire Christmas present: Mariah Carey has unwrapped a brand-new Billboard Hot 100 record. Her song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is spending another week at #1 on the Hot 100, bringing its collective run on top of that tally to 17 weeks. That’s longer than Mariah’s previous longest-running #1…

Disne/Frank Micelotta Like everybody else, Barack Obama was at the bar getting tipsy with Shaboozey in 2024. The former president has released his annual year-end playlist of his favorite music of 2024, and included is the chart-topping singer’s track “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” “Here are my favorite songs from this year!” Obama captioned the post.…

Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Just call her Swiftie Claus. Ahead of Christmas, Taylor Swift distributed some generous gifts to some very deserving people. First up was Naya, a young patient who Taylor spent time with when she visited Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, on Dec. 12. In a TikTok video,…

Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation Meghan Trainor and her husband Daryl Sabara celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday, which was also Meghan’s 31st birthday. She commemorated the events with a sweet Instagram post. “8 years of love, 6 years of magic, 4 years of making perfect, beautiful babies,” Meghan captioned a carousel of photos…

Peter Kramer/NBC via Getty Images One of this year’s breakout stars was Dasha, whose song “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)” was a major hit on both the country and the pop charts. Now that her touring is finished for the year, the singer can focus on the holidays, and on her new house, which she began…

Disney/Scott Kirkland Even though Stick Season lasted forever, Noah Kahan fans are already clamoring for new music from the artist, and he’s now hinted that he’s at least started the process of making a new project. On social platform X, he wrote, “Recorded new music for the first time in a long time, album still…