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What is the ending?
Rick ends up back with his family and back with his band, while Danny keeps the song and the career boost it gives him. The ending makes clear that Rick does not get public credit for the song in the moment, but his daughter later finds proof that he wrote it, and the story closes with him giving money to a busker.
Rick is a wedding singer in Ireland, and he has already stepped away from the dream of being a star. He has a wife, Rachel, and a daughter, Aja, and he has settled into the life he built after leaving his earlier ambitions behind.
At the wedding where the main conflict begins, Danny Wilson, a famous singer trying to restart his solo career after boy-band fame, joins Rick and the band onstage. Afterward, Danny and Rick spend the night together drinking, taking drugs, and sharing songs. During that night, Rick plays Danny an original song, "How to Write a Song (Without You)," and Danny later takes that song back to Los Angeles as he works on his own solo album.
Danny struggles to build the album on his own, and his producer Mac criticizes the material as generic. Meanwhile, Rick's song starts moving through Danny's career and becomes tied to Danny's new identity as a solo artist.
In the ending, Rick returns to Ireland and stops pushing for recognition. He accepts that he is unlikely to receive credit, reconciles with his family, and rejoins The Bride and Groove.
The film then shows both men performing the song separately. Rick sings it at a wedding, while Danny performs it at Madison Square Garden, where the song has become part of Danny's public success.
After that, Aja goes through old photographs and videos on Rick's computer and finds a home video from when she was two years old. In the video, Rick is singing the song to her, and that becomes proof that Rick wrote it.
The final beat comes several months later, when Rick donates a large amount of money to a busker. By that point, Rick is still living as a working musician, Danny has kept the career momentum the song gave him, Rachel and Aja remain with Rick, and the song's authorship has been quietly confirmed within the family even if the public story had gone elsewhere.
Who dies?
No characters are identified in the available sources as dying in Power Ballad, and the plot information in these results does not mention any death scene.
The sources only establish the film's premise: Rick, a wedding singer, meets Danny, a fading boy-band star, and the story centers on music and their relationship, with no reported deaths in the accessible plot descriptions. The review snippet also discusses supporting characters such as Sandy, but it does not indicate that anyone dies.
If you want, I can also help check whether a specific character dies by name if you have the full cast list or a scene you want verified.
Is there a post-credit scene?
No--according to multiple post-credits trackers, Power Ballad does not have any extra scene during or after the credits.
If you are asking whether the film has any hidden stinger, the answer is also no: both sources explicitly say there is no footage "during the credits" and no extras "after the credits."