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Believe it or not, there were things that happened in 2023 that didn’t involve Taylor Swift. Here’s a roundup of some of the other music stories that made headlines this year: Jonas Brothers released the long-awaited follow-up to their comeback album, Happiness Begins. Called The Album, it was influenced by the sounds of 1970s soft rock.…

Disney/JC Olivera Doechii‘s breakout year that has been 2023 includes a list of accomplishments that have blasted her to the top of music “favorite” lists. She made her Hot 100 debut with her viral hit “What It Is (Block Boy),” touched the BET Awards’ and other stages for the first time and opened up for Beyoncé‘s history-making…

ABC/Jeff Neira For this year’s edition of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Ryan welcomes a new co-host in Times Square: Rita Ora. But this isn’t Rita’s first rodeo. She revealed to ABC Audio she spent New Year’s Eve in Times Square when she was 13 — something even Ryan didn’t know. “Oh, I was out there.…

Beth Garrabrant Taylor Swift couldn’t say goodbye to 2023 without setting one more Billboard chart record, right? Taylor’s albums dominate the top four spots on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart.  It’s the first time any act has done this since the chart was created in 1991.  Overall, she has six out of the top 10 titles on the chart,…

DAMEBK/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Ariana Grande has posted a lengthy Instagram Story in which she reflects on 2023 — a year which saw her film Wicked, celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album, split with her husband and find new love with her co-star, Ethan Slater. “One of the most transformative, most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years of my…

They weren’t trolling us — *NSYNC banded together for a reunion this year, and we have the Trolls Band Together movie to thank for making it happen. – Rumblings of a reunion started in August, after Justin Timberlake posted a photo with JC Chasez in the studio. About a week later, sources started spilling to publications…

ABC/Stewart Cook Ellie Goulding is one of the many stars performing on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, airing on ABC December 31 at 8 p.m. ET. While she’s done the show before, this year she’s the only British artist on the bill. “It’s always such an honor,” Ellie told ABC Audio…

Darkroom/Interscope Records Some of the year’s biggest hits — and some lesser-known gems — made Variety‘s list of the “Best Songs of 2023.” The list includes a whopping 65 songs, but #1 is Billie Eilish‘s “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie movie. Coming in at #4 is that other Barbie hit, “Dance the…

Araya Doheny/FilmMagic Seems like “See you next year” is now the universal phrase for “I’ve got new music coming.” On December 28, a day after Ariana Grande teased her new album with a “See you next year” post, Camila Cabello did the same as part of a lengthy series of Instagram Story posts summing up…

This Barbie released a hit song on the soundtrack for the highest-grossing film of the year, dropped the first single from her upcoming album and made her feature film acting debut — all in 2023. Let’s dance the night away as we look at some of the highlights from Dua Lipa’s year: — On May 1,…