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Taylor Swift, whose ultra-lucrative Eras Tour is still going, has officially become a billionaire. According to a new analysis by Bloomberg News, the 33-year-old pop superstar now has a net worth of $1.1 billion. The tour is a major component of her fortune, with about $700 million in ticket sales…

Kelly Clarkson will pull double duty at this year’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center NBC special. The Emmy and Grammy Award winner will host and perform at the annual two-hour holiday special which will air live on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and simulcast on Peacock. The historic NYC…

Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, SZA, The Weeknd, Drake and Zach Bryan are top of the list in 2023 Billboard Music Awards nominations revealed Thurdsay, with Swift leading the charge as a finalist in 20 categories, the most of any artist this year. SZA is up for 16 awards with 17 entries, The Weeknd is…

The Beatles have announced the release date of their “last” new song. Over the summer, Paul McCartney told the BBC that he had recorded what he described as the band’s “last song” with the help of AI and we now have a release date. “Now and Then”, based on a 1970s demo recording by John Lennon, was…

EXCLUSIVE: Labid Aziz’s People of Culture (PoC) Studios has formed a management joint venture with New Breed, Inc. The venture will represent New Breed’s international artists in the U.S. New Breed primarily represents music artists from from Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Korea and U.S., and its new…

Gotta feeling ’24 is gonna be a good year, at least for fans of The Who’s Tommy: The acclaimed Chicago stage production directed by Des McAnuff is heading to Broadway. The newly reimagined production, produced by Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pittelman, will begin previews March 8, 2024, at the Nederlander…

UPDATED with teaser trailer for Whitney Houston in Focus below. EXCLUSIVE: The estate of Whitney Houston has resolved its concerns about the documentary Whitney Houston in Focus and is now throwing full support behind the film. The 34-minute film directed by Benjamin Alfonsi is set to hold its world…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Cannon is set to introduce new talent discovered during his Future Superstars Tour 2023. VH1 and Cannon’s Ncredible Entertainment have teamed on Nick Cannon Presents: Future Superstars, a new docuseries slated to premiere next month on VH1. Presented and hosted by Cannon, the…

WME has signed the Estate of Nigerian bandleader, composer, political activist and Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti for management worldwide under its WME Legends division. WME’s Legends division focuses on estate and legacy brand management with the objective of managing and growing the legacies of…

Spotify gave an early peek at its two-week-old Audiobook rollout with chief executive Daniel Ek telling investors, "It's early days, but we feel good." "We just believe it is going to be a great product that will open up more authors to more consumers. And what we have seen is that when we enter a…

Taylor Swift continues to defy the rules in the music industry alongside the Swifties as “Cruel Summer” from her Lover album hits the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was originally released in 2019 alongside the rest of the Lover album. Although Swift had intended for the song to be…

Jeremy Renner has recorded a collection of songs marking various milestones in his recovery from the January 1 snowplow accident that left him with life-threatening injuries. In an Instagram post – see it below – the actor writes, “A collection of music we wrote about different milestones in my…