Lady Gaga, The Weeknd and others whose songs reached 1 billion YouTube views this year
Courtesy of YouTube Music Music videos by Lady Gaga, The Weeknd and more joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club this year. The Weeknd now has five videos with over 1 billion views after “Save Your Tears” and his Daft Punk collab “I Feel It Coming” crossed the
The Year in Music 2022: And in other news …
From cheating scandals to health struggles to K-pop stars going solo, here’s a roundup of some headline-making happenings in the world of pop this year: — Adam Levine, who’s married to Behati Prinsloo and expecting his third
The White House cites a Taylor Swift lyric when reviewing the past year
ABC Taylor Swift was seemingly everywhere in the latter half of 2022 — and now her lyrics are part of the final words coming from the White House. Susan Rice, who is the director of the United States Domestic
The Year in Music 2022: Love, marriage, babies and more
Aside from their professional lives, it was a big year for some of your favorite artists in their personal lives. There were marriages, babies, new romances and more. Here’s a look back at some of them: —
Halsey pays tribute to late designer Vivienne Westwood: “My idol, my icon”
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Pioneering British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood passed away on Wednesday, and Halsey has taken to Instagram to post a heartfelt tribute to the woman who designed many of the looks the chart-topping
Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ helps drive vinyl sales to a 30-year high
Beth Garrabrant/TAS Rights Management You can credit Taylor Swift for a 30-year high in sales of vinyl records last week. Billboard reports that for the week ending December 22, 2.232 million vinyl albums were sold, according to
The Year in Music 2022: Adele craps out in Las Vegas, then hits the jackpot
Raven B. Varona Since she became a global superstar, Adele has rarely put a foot wrong. But in 2022 she experienced backlash after abruptly canceling her Las Vegas residency — something she called “the worst moment in my
Ryan Seacrest: ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ brings you “what was fun this year” in music, songs “everybody can sing along to”
ABC Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Ryan and co-host Liza Koshy will be counting down to 2023 in New York City’s Times Square. They’ll be joined
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ breaks Paramount+ record to become most watched movie premiere
Top Gun: Maverick was already this year’s No. 1 theatrical release with a global box office of $1.48 billion, and now after debuting over the Christmas holiday it has officially become the most-watched movie premiere ever on
Fashion designer and punk icon Vivienne Westwood dies at 81
Dame Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer and activist who was considered an icon of Britain’s punk movement in the 1970s, has died at age 81. A message posted to Westwood’s Twitter read: “Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by