Garth Brooks to Receive Icon Award at 2020 Billboard Music Awards

Keeping her kids clean! Mariah Carey had her 8-year-old twins wash their hands for 20 seconds during the coronavirus outbreak with the help of her music.

Spirit Music Group has signed a publishing deal with Grammy-winning producer- songwriter and music publisher Christopher “Tricky” Stewart. The deal covers his future works, as Stewart sold his catalog to Hipgnosis Songs in 2018.

March is International Women’s Month, in which we recognize women everywhere and the advancements that have been made for female rights and representation. However, equity and balance in gender representation has a ways to go in both music and society at large.

As Coronavirus continues to spread globally, restrictions on travel and large pulic gatherings has meant major concerts and entertainment events have been postposed on cancelled entirely. 

Welcome to the This Week in Billboard News podcast, where Jordyn Rolling, Billboard News host and producer, and Gary Trust, Billboard senior director of charts, dive into the week's biggest music news stories.This week, Jordyn and Gary cover how, as the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads globally, previously scheduled live music events continue to be postponed or cancelled.

Leave it to Garth Brooks to kick the volume way up on the Gershwin Prize.Not only did the country music superstar, the youngest songwriter ever to receive the Library of Congress’ Prize for Popular Song, open the show — a first for the event— but on a night when fellow artists came out to honor him, he flipped the script and paid tribute to his own songwriting heroes.The invitation-only Gershwin Prize taping, held last night (March 4) at Washington, D.C.’s Constitution Hall, packed plenty of

Justin Bieber is the No. 7 Top Artist of the 2010s, as Billboard continues revealing the decade's top 10 acts, overall and in various genres, as well as in touring.

Country star Shania Twain would love to curate a new VH1 Divas Live concert with Jennifer Lopez and Lizzo leading the line-up.

Garth Brooks’ career is apparently in jeopardy after a good deal of Donald Trump supporters mistook his support of the Detroit Lions for support of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders!

Leave it to the internet to interpret Garth Brooks wearing a Barry Sanders jersey during a concert in Detroit as a political endorsement of a certain liberal presidential candidate.

Mixing football and politics? Garth Brooks received backlash after some fans mistakenly thought he endorsed Bernie Sanders while performing in Michigan.

Garth Brooks has encountered the danger of endorsing Sanders in 2020. Any Sanders.

Garth Brooks‘s Instagram followers had a some criticism for his choice of garb after his concert on Feb. 22.

Garth Brooks was burned by fans who thought he was feeling the Bern.

Country legend Garth Brooks is to receive the ICON accolade at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.

Add another checkmark to Kelly Clarkson’s extensive resume. Alongside hosting “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” acting as a coach on “The Voice” and being a full-time musician, the multihyphenate was just announced as the host for the upcoming 2020 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) this April.

Garth Brooks will receive the Icon Award at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, it was announced today. The country superstar is the only artist to have eight diamond-certified albums, with each one selling more than 10 million units, and is the best-selling solo artist in U.S.

Garth Brooks will be honored with the Icon Award at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards on April 29, dick clark productions and NBC announced Wednesday (Feb. 26).