Kiss sells song catalog for more than $300M to company co-founded by ABBA member

Kiss sells song catalog for more than 0M to company co-founded by ABBA member

Legendary rockers Kiss sold their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group in a deal estimated to be over $300 million, it was announced Thursday. This isn’t the first time the band has partnered with Pophouse, which was co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus. When the band’s current lineup — founders Paul … Read more

My pet cockatiel’s favorite song is Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ — listen to him belt it out

My pet cockatiel’s favorite song is Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ — listen to him belt it out

Bird is the word. The hottest new star on TikTok is a crooning cockatiel with killer pipes and a taste for the classics. Kiki, known as @kiki.tiel on the popular social media site, where he boasts 3.6 million followers and counting, has achieved widespread fame thanks to his special skillset, shown in a series of … Read more

No, you’re not just getting old — song lyrics really are getting worse, according to new research

No, you’re not just getting old — song lyrics really are getting worse, according to new research

He may live at the top of the charts, but nobody’s putting The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature. A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk crooner Bob Dylan’s award from the sainted Swedish institution of an example of how much music has … Read more

Travis Kelce jams out to Taylor Swift song on golf course as pals’ plan to ‘rattle’ Chiefs star ‘backfires’

Travis Kelce jams out to Taylor Swift song on golf course as pals’ plan to ‘rattle’ Chiefs star ‘backfires’

Look what you made him do. When golfing with pals this week, Travis Kelce commemorated a stellar shot on the course by rocking out to girlfriend Taylor Swift’s song “Bad Blood,” despite the group — including former NBA star Chandler Parsons — trying to thwart the Chiefs tight end’s game. In a video shared Thursday … Read more

Tommy Shaw of Styx tells all about tour with Foreigner, song origins, more

Tommy Shaw of Styx tells all about tour with Foreigner, song origins, more

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. It’s an almost unbelievable story. The year is 1980 and Styx lead singer Tommy Shaw is sitting in his car, stewing. “I was driving to rehearse with the … Read more

Dylan Mulvaney releases new song ‘Days of Girlhood’ months after Bud Light backlash

Dylan Mulvaney releases new song ‘Days of Girlhood’ months after Bud Light backlash

Girls just wanna have fun.  Dylan Mulvaney has released a new song, called “Days of Girlhood.”  The transgender influencer and TikTok star, 27, released the music video for her new song on Wednesday, which features Mulvaney dancing in a mini dress, a crop top, a green polka dot dress and a hot pink negligee. “Every … Read more

The wackiest Best Original Song performances in Oscars history

The wackiest Best Original Song performances in Oscars history

In the battle of the “Barbie” tunes, “What Was I Made For?” is the far-and-away favorite over “I’m Just Ken” in the Best Original Song race at the 2024 Oscars on Sunday night. Indeed, the Billie Eilish tune already earned the singer and her producer brother Finneas the prestigious Song of the Year prize at the … Read more

Harrison Ford got a colonoscopy to the ‘Indiana Jones’ theme song: ‘Follows me everywhere’

Harrison Ford got a colonoscopy to the ‘Indiana Jones’ theme song: ‘Follows me everywhere’

He just can’t put it in his rearview mirror … Harrison Ford revealed that he can’t escape the music of John Williams, who scored Ford’s “Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars” movies — even during a certain delicate medical procedure. “As I often remind John, his music follows me everywhere I go — literally,” Ford, 81, … Read more

Beyonce’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ sounds an awful lot like the ‘Franklin’ theme song

Beyonce’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ sounds an awful lot like the ‘Franklin’ theme song

This ain’t no Texas, ain’t no Turtle. Fans of Beyonce’s country song “Texas Hold ‘Em” were left dumbfounded when several social media users pointed out similarities between the track and, well, the “Franklin” cartoon theme song. “Millennials trying to figure out why this sounds so familiar,” one TikTok user wrote Monday, playing the song before transitioning to … Read more

Justin Timberlake seemingly confirms new *NSYNC song ‘Paradise’ on his upcoming album

Justin Timberlake seemingly confirms new *NSYNC song ‘Paradise’ on his upcoming album

Wink-wink. Justin Timberlake seemingly confirmed that his *NSYNC bandmates JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey Fatone have again reunited for their second new song in over 20 years, “Paradise,” which will be on his upcoming album, “Everything I Thought It Was,” out March 15. JT fans started asking questions after the 43-year-old “Drown” singer showed off … Read more

Beyonce makes history as first black woman with No. 1 country song thanks to ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’

Beyonce makes history as first black woman with No. 1 country song thanks to ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’

She’s ready for “Act II.” Beyoncé has officially become the first-ever black woman to secure the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs — since its inception in 1958 — following the release of her song “Texas Hold ‘Em.” The achievement was announced by Billboard on Tuesday. Beyoncé’s tune also holds the No. 1 … Read more

Oklahoma country station won’t play new Beyoncé song — here’s why

Oklahoma country station won’t play new Beyoncé song — here’s why

A country music radio station in Oklahoma, KYKC, faced backlash for denying a fan’s request to play Beyoncé’s new country single “Texas Hold ‘Em” — but the station’s general manger is defending the decision. One Beyoncé fan went viral on X after sharing an email from Southern Central Oklahoma Radio Enterprises Broadcasting after she requested … Read more

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss to her song after Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2024 win

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss to her song after Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2024 win

The NFL’s favorite love story is adding a championship chapter. Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce celebrated Kansas City’s Super Bowl 2024 win over San Francisco on Sunday with girlfriend Taylor Swift, with the lovebirds singing and dancing along to a remix of her 2008 single “Love Story,” according to videos shared on social media. Swift, … Read more

Who is Clara Bow? Taylor Swift cites ‘It Girl’ actress with tortured past for new song title

Who is Clara Bow? Taylor Swift cites ‘It Girl’ actress with tortured past for new song title

Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” will be released on April 19, and fans have been trying to decode the 17-track list. There is one song titled “Clara Bow” — a reference to the famous silent film actress who took the Hollywood Golden Age in the 1920s by storm. Bow, the “It Girl” … Read more

Travis Kelce lauds ‘unbelievable’ Taylor Swift, reveals favorite song before Super Bowl 2024

Travis Kelce lauds ‘unbelievable’ Taylor Swift, reveals favorite song before Super Bowl 2024

Travis Kelce has heavy competition for success in his relationship with Taylor Swift. The Chiefs’ superstar tight end wants to make sure he’s not holding them down. “She’s unbelievable,” Kelce said of Swift on Monday night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas during Super Bowl 2024 Opening Night. “She’s rewriting the history books. I told … Read more

Billy Joel performs his new song ‘Turn the Lights Back On’ for the first time at Grammys 2024

Billy Joel performs his new song ‘Turn the Lights Back On’ for the first time at Grammys 2024

Billy Joel is back. The 74-year-old legendary musician performed his first new pop song in decades, “Turn the Lights Back On,” at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday. Hours earlier, Joel walked the red carpet with his wife, Alexis Roderick, and their two young daughters — Della Rose, 8, and Remy Anne, 6 — at the Crypto.com … Read more

Why hasn’t Grammy darling Taylor Swift won Record or Song of the Year?

Why hasn’t Grammy darling Taylor Swift won Record or Song of the Year?

Taylor Swift has seemingly won everything in sight at the Grammys, so it’s no wonder she’s so souped up about her boo thang Travis Kelce bringing home a different kind of coveted prize — the Vince Lombardi Trophy — when the Kansas City Chiefs tackle the San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11. … Read more

‘The View’ celebrate Trump’s 83M defamation verdict with ‘Apprentice’ theme song: ‘The women grabbed back’

‘The View’ celebrate Trump’s 83M defamation verdict with ‘Apprentice’ theme song: ‘The women grabbed back’

They were excited he had to pay the money, money, money, money. The six co-hosts of “The View” got catty Monday when they walked out to “For the Love of Money” by The O’Jays while celebrating the verdict from former president Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit, which cost the media mogul $83.3 million. “Woo,” jeered moderator … Read more

Britney Spears apologizes to ex Justin Timberlake over memoir: ‘I am in love’ with his song ‘Selfish’

Britney Spears apologizes to ex Justin Timberlake over memoir: ‘I am in love’ with his song ‘Selfish’

She’s tired of the media circus. Pop icon Britney Spears issued an apology to ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake on Sunday after she made several claims about the “Cry Me a River” singer in her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” “I wanna apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book. If I offended … Read more

Billy Joel to release first new music in decades with pop song ‘Turn the Lights Back On’

Billy Joel to release first new music in decades with pop song ‘Turn the Lights Back On’

Step aside, “Uptown Girl.” There’s a new Billy Joel pop song in town. For the first time in 30 years, the 74-year-old “Piano Man” singer will release a new pop song, titled “Turn the Lights Back On,” on Feb. 1. Joel teased the new tune at the Dec. 19 show of his 10-year Madison Square … Read more