Ryan Beatty Talks Post-Beyoncé Breakout and Sharing Love Songs With His Boyfriend: ‘It’s Awkward at First’

Billboard | 11.08.2026 22:17
It’s the kind of day in Manhattan where subway stations turn into saunas, the air thick with humidity and every other oddity that defines summer in the city. Despite the sticky weather, an undaunted crowd is forming outside of the Lower East Side’s cramped Nightclub 101, a year-and-change-old venue where a fledgling artist might play one of their first gigs. Tonight, however, singer-songwriter Ryan Beatty is taking the stage — an outlier for 101 as Beatty is anything but fledgling.