Singer passes landmark milestone ahead of pop rivals

In addition to the debut of that “new” Michael Jackson song, last night’s inaugural iHeartRadio Music Awards featured performances by Pitbull, Blake Shelton, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Shakira … wait, don’t close your tab yet: there were also appearances by Kendrick Lamar and Arcade Fire. The whole ...

TMZ reports that Gwen Stefani is taking over for Christina Aguilera on the seventh season of The Voice due to her pregnancy. This will be Christina’s second season in a row that she’s let someone sit in for her after Shakira took her spot for the season that’s currently airing. Pharrell is also set to [...]

Veteran singer George Strait won the Entertainer of the Year award late Sunday at the star-studded Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. The event, full of performances by country music's top stars and some surprise cross-genre guest appearances, is an annual show where fans vote for the winners. Miranda Lambert and Kei...

Shakira first entered my consciousness around the turn of the millennium courtesy of my high school Spanish teacher, a friendly young white American woman married to a man from Colombia. She and her husband, she often informed us, were huge Shakira fans, as was all of Latin America. Sometimes, in an effort to expose us [...]