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…

EXCLUSIVE: Q-Tip, the legendary rapper, producer, singer and lyricist, will be adding his hip-hop know-how to the Broadway-bound Ali, a musical about Muhammad Ali's life in and out of the boxing ring. The acclaimed rhymer has been signed on by Ali lead producer Richard Willis as music producer…

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…

Blink-182 will hit stadiums and arenas for the just-announced North American leg of its 2024 “One More Time” tour, with a stop in Los Angeles (at SoFi Stadium) set for July 6 and in New York on July 21 (at Citi Field). The tour, produced by Live Nation and featuring the original Mark Hoppus, Tom…

On Friday, country star Toby Keith announced two concerts at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Dec. 10 and 11. They are his first official headlining shows since revealing his cancer diagnosis in June 2022. ‘Hey everybody! This is Toby Keith. It's been a while,”‘” he said on the video…

Adele has announced the addition of 32 dates to her Las Vegas residency, with the new shows extending Weekends With Adele at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace through next June. “This residency, these shows have changed my life,” the singer wrote on X today about the residency that began last…