LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three years ago he debuted on the charts with the single "Locked Up." This year, Akon locks up Billboard's top pop artist honor. Sign up ...

has been getting more and more attention, with even the NYTimes writing up the company's decision to pull its sponsorship of Gwen Stefani's tour because of Akon's performance at a club in Trinidad, ...

Akon, under fire for doing a sexually explicit dance onstage with a 14-year-old girl, has offered an apology to the teen and anyone else who was offended. Akon, whose hits include “Don’t Matter,” “I ...

It will be New Jersey's biggest hip-hop concert this summer. It will also be one of the year's biggest hip-hop concerts anywhere. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for Summer Jam 2007, featuring ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. For about five ...