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Billie Eilish will be the first recipient of the Apple Music Award for global artist of the year, one of three honors for the pop singer. Apple announced Monday that Eilish’s “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” has been named album of the year. Eilish and her brother Finneas will also receive songwriter of the year...

LaShawn Daniels, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter who penned songs for Beyoncé, Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga has died. He was 41. Daniels’ wife April said in a statement that her husband died in a car accident Tuesday in South Carolina. He earned a Grammy in 2001 for his songwriting work on Destiny Child’s “Say My Name.” Daniels co-wrote several Grammy-nominated...

Kacey Musgraves’ career has been moving and changing fast over the last couple of years, leaving little time for reflection until she saw her life chronicled behind museum glass.

Feeling “lost” after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, Sara Bareilles found herself in a meditation class to help deal with the new American reality. “I felt like the world was on fire and I didn’t have any tools to just cope with the idea that I was in a catastrophe,” she said. “It was just like apocalyptic for...

Find out which stars went home with the coveted trophy

Nominees include a monster pop song that went country, country songs that went pop, a message song for the #MeToo era and, of course, drinking songs.

Songwriters get the spotlight in a new NBC talent contest.
The network said Tuesday that its 11-episode series, “Songland,” will give undiscovered songwriters the chance to create a hit.

Bruno Mars is expanding his support of a Grammy scholarship for high school students.

Jay-Z’s latest album “4:44” may have gone platinum in less than a week, but it didn’t exactly win 50 Cent over.

Phrases sprinkled throughout the rock legend’s lecture for his Nobel Prize in literature are very similar to phrases from the summation of “Moby Dick” on SparkNotes, a sort of online “Cliff’s Notes” that’s familiar to modern students looking for shortcuts and teachers trying to catch them.

Detroit-raised rocker Jack White is building on a vision to blend music and manufacturing in a part of his hometown that long inspired him. The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and producer is overseeing the launch of a vinyl record pressing plant in the back of his Third Man Records shop north of downtown Detroit. Third Man Pressing holds its...

Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” ”Rock With You” and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.

All of Jesse and Patty Snider’s four children are named after superheroes, but after Patty delivered her own baby in a car on the freeway, it’s clear she’s the superhero in the family.

“Never in my wildest, craziest dreams would I ever have seen this coming”

A Maryland man who visited sick children dressed as Batman died Sunday night after he was struck by his own Batmobile, which had been hit by another driver.

Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder dropped by the Armory Mall in Washington, D.C. to play a surprise pop-up show Monday morning. The Armory Mall is located in front of RFK Stadium.

Old reputations die hard, and “State of Affairs” star Katherine Heigl tells Meredith Vieira she’s ready to put her bad rap to bed.