TobyMac Honors Late Son With Heartbreaking Tribute Song

Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa paid tribute to the late basketball player and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna in a heartbreaking Instagram post after the pair were tragically killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday (January 26, 2020).

Sophie Gault acknowledges that it's taken long time for her band, the Broken Things, to get its first EP together. And she adds that the self-titled set -- from which the track "Johnny" is premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Jan.

Bad Bunny is celebrating the life of one of his heroes the only way he can – with a song. The Puerto Rican rapper released a song on Tuesday, January 28 entitled 6 Rings in honor of Kobe Bryant. The surprise track comes two days after the NBA great, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a tragic helicopter accident. In the song, the 25-year-old alludes to Kobe’s five championship rings and the ring he gave to his wife Vanessa Bryant in honor of their marriage.

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny has paid tribute to the late Kobe Bryant with his new track, 6 Rings.

New dad DJ Khaled, John Legend and Meek Mill will lead a tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle at the Grammy Awards on Sunday (January 26, 2020).

Save the Music and SongFarm.org have partnered to launch the inaugural Hometown to Hometown event in Nashville on Feb. 13. All proceeds raised from the evening will benefit new music technology programs in public high schools across the country.

TobyMac's 21-year-old son Truett Foster McKeehan died following an accidental overdose of fentanyl and amphetamines, according to multiple reports. The Christian rapper’s oldest child passed away at the McKeehan family's Tennessee home last October, with an autopsy subsequently conducted at the Nashville medical examiner's office.

Singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin has announced details for his highly-anticipated debut album and headlining tour. The follow up to his mixtape Narrated For You, the new album These Two Windows will be released April 3.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson posted a heartbreaking tribute to his late father on Jan. 17. The actor took to Instagram to say all of things he didn't get a chance to before his father was "ripped away from me so fast without warning."

Steve Moakler's next album, Blue Jeans, will be full of specific stories from the Nashville singer/songwriter's life. That includes the new single "'72 Winnebago," premiering exclusively on Billboard below and inspired by a cross-country mobile home trip he and his wife took a few years ago to support their respective careers."We were just broke newlyweds," Moakler tells Billboard.

iHeartMedia today announced a “new organizational structure” and “technology transformation” as it modernizes the company, and as often happens during such moves, layoffs are taking place. According to Country Aircheck and All Access, there have been multiple layoffs in the country and other sectors of the largest radio network in the U.S., including top roles at WPOC/Baltimore, KAJA and KRPT/San Antonio, KASE and KVET Austin, WSIX/Nashville and others.

Brittani Boren Leach recently received a very "bittersweet" call.

With the 2020 presidential election around the corner, Crooked Media’s popular podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It are hitting the road. Pod Save America: Live and Lovett or Leave It: Live on Tour will hit a collective 17 dates across the U.S.

Bobby Bones is getting candid about his tough childhood on this week's

Soccer Mommy has announced a new album, color theory. The follow-up to Sophie Allison’s Clean arrives February 28 (via Loma Vista). Soccer Mommy has also shared a new track from the album titled “circle the drain.” Watch its music video below.

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Universal Music Group Nashville knows a thing or two about timing: The country label group waited just a few hours after the Chrissy Metz-sung “I’m Standing With You” was nominated for an Oscar to announce that they’d signed the “This Is Us” star to a record deal.

Matchbox Twenty will hit the road this summer for the Matchbox Twenty 2020 tour with special guests The Wallflowers.The Rob Thomas-led band will kick off the run of arenas and amphitheaters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on July 17 with a show at Wind Creek Event Center, and wind their way across North America with stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Houston, Toronto, Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas before wrapping up with a Sept. 28 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

TobyMac unveiled a somber tribute song in memory of his late son Truett Mckeehan titled "21 Years" on Friday (Jan. 10).