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• Bandcamp to donate 100% of profits for 24 hours to support “racial justice, equality and change”

  01-06-2020 23:48 via nme.com
  
  Music platform Bandcamp have announced that they will be donating 100% of their profits made on June 17 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
  The decision was inspired by ongoing worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death and other instances of racial injustice. It also marks Juneteenth, the anniversary of enslaved African Americans being informed of their liberation in the former Confederate States of America in 1865.
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• Ty Dolla $ign Demands Change in New Song With Skrillex, Ant Clemons & More: Listen to a Snippet

  01-06-2020 23:22
  
  Ty Dolla $ign voiced how apparent police brutality in America continues to be after George Floyd, a Black man from Minnesota who died after a white cop knelt on his neck (the independent autopsy recently ruled it a homicide due to asphyxiation), in a new song he recorded last night (May 31).
  The R&B crooner recorded the anthem for change alongside Skrillex, Ant Clemons, German DJ Virtual Riot and Nia Miranda, an actress and activist who garnered a lot of attention while attending this weeken
  
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• AFM & SAG-AFTRA Owes Session Musicians and Background Vocalists $46 Million — Here’s How Eligible Performers Can Get Paid

  01-06-2020 23:20 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  As part of a proposed settlement with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) & SAG-AFTRA, certain session musicians and background vocalists will receive a total of nearly $46 million in owed, previously unpaid royalties. Each year, AFM & SAG-AFTRA collects and distributes millions of dollars in royalties to session musicians and background vocalists via the […]The post AFM & SAG-AFTRA Owes Session Musicians and Background Vocalists $46 Million — Here’s How Eli
  
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• Former Misfits drummer Joey Image has reportedly died aged 63

  01-06-2020 23:14 via nme.com
  
  Joey Image, drummer for longstanding horror punks Misfits for two of their formative years, has died at the age of 63, according to reports.
  Although no official cause of death has been revealed, he had been battling liver cancer since 2016.
  According to a GoFundMe he had set up in order to pay for medical expenses, Image had been seeking treatment at the University of Miami where he was a possible candidate for a liver transplant.
  News was first reported by the Facebook page ‘The New York
  
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• Gunna’s ‘Wunna’ Debuts at Number One as Atlanta Rap Owns the Albums Chart

  01-06-2020 23:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  The 1975 and BTS member Suga also enjoyed Top Ten debuts
  
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• RS Charts: ‘Rain On Me’ Storms Top 100 Songs Chart

  01-06-2020 23:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  Solid streaming numbers, high digital sales help Chromatica single bump DaBaby, Roddy Ricch's "Rockstar"
  
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• Run The Jewels on George Floyd protests: “It feels like nobody gives a shit when you’re black”

  01-06-2020 22:49 via nme.com
  
  Run The Jewels‘ Killer Mike and El-P have given a new interview in which they discuss the ongoing worldwide protests against police brutality, sparked by the death of George Floyd.
  Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, died on May 25 after being apprehended by a white police officer. Officer Derek Chauvin has since been sacked and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.Read More: Run The Jewels: The heroes we need in Trump’s AmericaSpeaking to The Guardian on th
  
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• Bob the Drag Queen & Peppermint Get Real on Why Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Important

  01-06-2020 22:46
  
  As protestors continue to demonstrate against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, many are calling for people around the globe to join the Black Lives Matter movement. For anyone still hesitant about using that phrase, drag stars Bob the Drag Queen and Peppermint are here to explain why they shouldn’t be.
  In a one-hour conversation posted to Bob’s YouTube channel on Saturday (May 30), the two former Drag Race stars discussed the protests revolving around t
  
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• Bandcamp to Donate All Sales to NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Juneteenth

  01-06-2020 22:40 via rollingstone.com
  
  All proceeds on June 19th this year and every year will be donated in support of recent protests against police racism and brutality
  
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• Tyler, the Creator Couldn’t Care Less About GOLF Store Damage During L.A. George Floyd Protests

  01-06-2020 22:24
  
  Between his fan-favorite GOLF store getting damaged during the Los Angeles, Calif. protests and the four white cops who murdered an innocent Black man named George Floyd last week in Minnesota, Tyler, the Creator is only condemning one of these acts.
  Graffiti marked up the local rapper’s avant-garde flagship store located on 350 N Fairfax Ave. while protesters took to the streets over the weekend to remember Floyd, one of them being Tyler himself, as a Twitter user pointed out ye
  
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• ‘In My Room’ With the Indigo Girls

  01-06-2020 21:52 via rollingstone.com
  
  Duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers plays three songs from their new album, 'Look Long,' including "Country Radio"
  
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• Ash reschedule 25th anniversary tour dates to 2021 due to coronavirus

  01-06-2020 21:52 via nme.com
  
  Ash have announced that a number of shows on their 25th anniversary tour, initially due to take place this year, have been rescheduled for 2021.Read More: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! We put Ash’s Tim Wheeler to the testIt marks the second time that dates have been rescheduled, with original tickets for the band’s shows still valid. A number of shows in August and September are still scheduled to take place
  As gutting as it is to tell you, I don't think anyone wil
  
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• Lorde voices support for Black Lives Matter movement in email to fans

  01-06-2020 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Lorde is trying to strike a balance between "self-serving social media displays and true action".
  
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• Ed Sheeran and Michael Buble to thank frontline workers with livestream concert

  01-06-2020 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Keith Urban, Katy Perry, and Amy Shark are also on the line-up.
  
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• The Nashville Protest Became a Riot. I Was Caught in the Crowd

  01-06-2020 21:41 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Those who came for justice went home," writes singer-songwriter Ryan Culwell, who witnessed Saturday's peaceful rally devolve into violent altercations
  
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• Hayley Kiyoko Thanks Barack Obama for ‘Being a True Leader’ After He Wrote About Enacting Real Change

  01-06-2020 21:38
  
  On Monday (June 1), former President Barack Obama penned a note discussing how to bring real change in the wake of George Floyd’s unlawful murder last Monday (May 25) at the hands of white police officers.
  “I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change — and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action,” he wrote on Twitter.
  He then linked
  
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• Låpsley says it’s been “strange” releasing new music during coronavirus lockdown

  01-06-2020 21:33 via nme.com
  
  Låpsley has been writing new music during the coronavirus lockdown and revealed it has been “strange“ releasing music during a global pandemic.
  The musician, who has also been brushing up on her DJ skills, spoke to All Points Easts to mark the weekend she would have been performing alongside Tame Impala at the postponed festival.Read more: Revisit Låpsley’s first NME interview from 2015During the festival’s online programme, APE 2020 At Home, sh
  
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• Event Designer Bobby Garza in Austin, in a Pandemic: ‘Are There Going to Be the Dance Police?’

  01-06-2020 21:24
  
  When the concert business shut down in mid-March, Bobby Garza abruptly shifted from putting on live events to tearing them down — his company, Austin-based Forefront Networks, had to cancel the California food-and-music festival Yountville Live later that month, and massive productions like December’s Trail of Lights in Austin are in question, too. In early April, his life changed even more dramatically: Forefront furloughed 30% of its staff, including him.
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• Justin Timberlake Faces Severe Backlash After Offering to Bail Out Protesters

  01-06-2020 21:07 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Yesterday, Digital Music News was first to report that Justin Timberlake was among the many artists and entertainment industry professionals who had donated to the Minneapolis Freedom Fund, which is paying protesters’ bail costs. Now, the 39-year-old is facing ample fan scrutiny for doing so. Two days back, Justin Timberlake ignited the controversy by tweeting: […]The post Justin Timberlake Faces Severe Backlash After Offering to Bail Out Protesters appeared first on Digital Music N
  
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• Justin Timberlake Faces Right Wing Backlash After Offering to Bail Out Protesters

  01-06-2020 21:07 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Yesterday, Digital Music News was first to report that Justin Timberlake was among the many artists and entertainment industry professionals who had donated to the Minneapolis Freedom Fund, which is paying protesters’ bail costs. Now, the 39-year-old is facing a serious backlash for doing so. Two days back, Justin Timberlake ignited the controversy by tweeting: […]The post Justin Timberlake Faces Right Wing Backlash After Offering to Bail Out Protesters appeared first on Digital Mus
  
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• Young M.A Confronts Police After Woman Pulled Over in Atlanta: ‘You’re Not Gonna Do That to My Fans’

  01-06-2020 21:04
  
  Rapper Young M.A was taped getting into a heated discussion with Atlanta police over the weekend after she claimed that they pulled one of her fans over for no reason. In a video of the incident reposted by DJ Akademiks, M.A. can be heard asking a white police officer, “What did she do?” as he told her the situation was “fine.”
  “No, it ain’t fine. No, no, no, no, no,” M.A. replied, asking why the police pulled over the woman for reportedly “blockin
  
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• Rock N Roll iconic artist Terry Quirk dies

  01-06-2020 21:04 via music-news.com
  
  Terry Quirk, the artist best known for painting the iconic psychedelic cover for The Zombies’ 1968 album “Odessey and Oracle”
  
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• Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Signals the End of Independent Podcasting – Opinion

  01-06-2020 21:03 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Joe Rogan’s $100 million deal to make his podcast a Spotify exclusive is the end of independent podcasting. That may seem like an extreme statement, but Spotify has been working on boiling this frog for years. In 2019 alone, Spotify spent $400 to $500 million acquiring podcasting companies. It redesigned its music-focused app to be […]The post Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Signals the End of Independent Podcasting – Opinion appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Does Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Signal the End of Independent Podcasting?

  01-06-2020 21:03 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Joe Rogan’s $100 million deal to make his podcast a Spotify exclusive is the end of independent podcasting. That may seem like an extreme statement, but Spotify has been working on boiling this frog for years. In 2019 alone, Spotify spent $400 to $500 million acquiring podcasting companies. It redesigned its music-focused app to be […]The post Does Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Signal the End of Independent Podcasting? appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Mykki Blanco, MNEK & More Stars Start Off Pride Month by Remembering Its Protest Roots

  01-06-2020 20:37
  
  On June 28, 1969, hundreds of queer people fought back against police brutality at The Stonewall Inn in New York City. Many black and brown folks, including pioneers like Marsha P. Johnson, were the catalysts of those protests, and eventually of the LGBTQ rights movement that followed.
  The Stonewall Riots are widely considered to be the beginning of what we now know as Pride Month, which begins today (June 1). As demonstrators around the country gather to mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud
  
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• Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison & Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Postpone North American Stadium Tour

  01-06-2020 20:33
  
  Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett’s North American stadium tour won’t be happening this summer, the artists announced on Monday (June 1).
  “We wanted to continue to communicate with our fans and update you with valid information as it becomes available. The official decision has been made to move all 2020 North American stadium tour dates into the summer of 2021,” the four iconic rock bands said in a joint statement on social media. “
  
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• Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande’s ‘Rain on Me’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

  01-06-2020 20:29
  
  Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s new duet “Rain on Me” storms onto the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart at No. 1. Gaga achieves her fifth Hot 100 leader and Grande earns her fourth, among other honors for each star.
  The duet was released to digital service providers for streaming and purchase at midnight EST Friday, May 22, while its official video premiered that afternoon. The song is the second single from Gaga’s album Chromatica, which arrived Friday, May 29; first single &l
  
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• Ghanaian Star Stonebwoy Shines a Light on ‘Black People’ With Poignant Billboard Live At-Home

  01-06-2020 20:25
  
  Ghanaian Afropop singer Stonebwoy addressed both pandemics plaguing the world, coronavirus and racism, during his poignant Billboard Live At-Home performance Monday (June 1) that raised money for My Friend’s Place, which supports the homeless youth.
  Performing from Ghana’s capital of Accra with his DJ, Stonebwoy (real name Livingstone Etse Satekla) started off his set with none other than “Black People,” a painful and incredibly timely testament to feeling lost
  
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• Twenty One Pilots share eighties themed lyric video for ‘Level Of Concern’

  01-06-2020 20:24 via nme.com
  
  Twenty One Pilots have shared a fun 80s-themed lyric video for their song ‘Level Of Concern’ – watch below.
  The duo, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, released the track back in April but have now followed it up with a video put together with the help of artist Pinot W. Ichwandardi.Read More: Twenty One Pilots – ‘Trench’ reviewIt was made on a Macintosh ES and a Macintosh SE/30, two computers released in 1988 and 1989 respectively.
  The music video for the song h
  
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• NOFX and Frank Turner announce split album ‘West Coast Vs Wessex’, share two singles

  01-06-2020 20:09 via nme.com
  
  NOFX and Frank Turner will join forces for split album ‘West Coast Vs. Wessex’, which will feature the two artists covering each others’ songs.Read More: Frank Turner – No Man’s Land reviewThe longstanding Los Angeles punks and the British singer-songwriter have shared a track each from the forthcoming split LP, both of which you can hear below.
  Turner has taken on NOFX’s 1992 track ‘Bob’, while they have covered his 2006 song ‘Thatcher Fucke
  
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• Sosa Entertainment Moves for Default Judgment Against Spotify

  01-06-2020 19:59 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Indie label Sosa Entertainment has applied to receive a default judgement against leading music streaming platform Spotify, which it began suing in November of last year for allegedly underpaying royalties. Sosa Entertainment CEO Jake Noch reached out to Digital Music News with an exclusive copy of the corresponding legal filing. The straightforward legal document cites […]The post Sosa Entertainment Moves for Default Judgment Against Spotify appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Beach Bunny’s Lili Trifilio ‘Deeply Sorry’ After Her George Floyd Tribute Song Receives Backlash

  01-06-2020 19:57
  
  Beach Bunny frontwoman Lili Trifilio apologized on Sunday (May 31) after a track she wrote to honor the memory of George Floyd stirred up controversy on social media.
  The lilting tribute, titled “George Floyd,” finds the indie rocker ruminating on the current state of the world as protests rock cities across the country following Floyd’s death. “While the privileged mutter/ On headline covers/ The crowd asks the police/ ‘How can you expect us/ To think you protect u
  
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• Mötley Crüe, Poison, Def Leppard Postpone Summer Stadium Tour to 2021

  01-06-2020 19:53 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Your tickets will be honored for all postponed shows and refund policy information will be made available shortly," they wrote in a group statement
  
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• A&R In Africa: The Next Wave Of Superstars

  01-06-2020 19:34
  
  The week of May 10, Universal Music Central Europe & Africa senior vp A&R Joe Chialo’s packed schedule included conference calls with the music company’s offices in Nigeria, Kenya and Ivory Coast. On the agenda: Universal’s recent signing spree in Africa, which over the past few months has included deals with Afropop singer Yemi Alade, Nigeria-based label Aristokrat Group and Kenyan Afropop group Sauti Sol.
  “A huge wave of entertainment is happening,” says C
  
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• Meet African Music’s U.S. Ambassador, Tuma Basa

  01-06-2020 19:31
  
  Tuma Basa says that it was the late Andre Harrell who encouraged him to become a conduit between Africa’s music business and the West. “Andre would always say, ‘Tuma, you’re the African ambassador,’” Basa recalls of the Uptown Records founder, who died May 7. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m from Africa, but…’ and Andre would say, ‘No, you take care of that.’” Basa, in a hoodie, ball cap and bushy beard, smiles at th
  
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• Who Makes It Rain Down In Africa? How African Collecting Societies Are Performing

  01-06-2020 19:30
  
  In 2018, the last year for which data is available, African performing rights societies that collect money for publishers and songwriters took in 72.1 million euros ($85 million at the average 2018 conversion rate) — just 0.08% of the global total, according to the CISAC Global Collections Report 2019. By comparison, Africa accounts for about 3% of global GDP.
  But there are reasons to believe that the value of performing rights in Africa is about to grow significantly. Many of the continen
  
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• This App Is Winning The Streaming Battle For Africa

  01-06-2020 19:30
  
  With 286 million active monthly users and 130 million paid subscribers, Spotify dominates the audio streaming business globally. When it comes to the increasing number of digital service providers vying for hundreds of millions of African ears, however, Boomplay is the brand to watch.
  The streaming platform, which is controlled by two Chinese companies — NetEase, a streaming/mobile gaming competitor to Tencent, and Transsion, Africa’s largest seller of smartphones — launched in
  
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• Africa’s One-Stop Licensing Shop

  01-06-2020 19:29
  
  Streaming is the future of the African music business, but making it work means licensing local music in each of the continent’s very different markets. That isn’t easy on the publishing side, since most African performing rights collecting societies are relatively young, and some don’t have the technology to deal with the vast amounts of data streaming services generate. Also, until relatively recently, many societies had stronger ties to European societies than to their count
  
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• How Sarz Empowered a Generation of Afrobeats Creators

  01-06-2020 19:21
  
  For over a decade, his beats have rung out across the radios and clubs of Lagos, and now the world. At 30, Sarz has been a key collaborator for Nigerian artists like Wizkid and WurlD, who have helped bring the sound of Afrobeats to the U.S. and U.K. pop charts. (He’s one of the half-dozen producers credited on Drake’s “One Dance.”) But, he says, he has never been able to make a living out of his music from domestic revenue, and he is determined to change that for the next
  
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• Diana Ross reschedules UK shows to 2021 due to coronavirus outbreak

  01-06-2020 19:21 via nme.com
  
  Diana Ross has moved her UK leg of her Top Of The World Tour from this June to 2021.
  The singer will now head to arenas in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, London and Birmingham in June and July 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced their postpinement.Read More: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refundHowever, Ross’s shows in Cork and Dublin have not yet been rescheduled, after she was forced to put her tour – which
  
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• This Is Africa’s Biggest Touring Challenge

  01-06-2020 19:20
  
  Nigerian Afrobeats star Naira Marley has become so popular internationally that his home country — Africa’s largest, with a population of over 205 million — doesn’t have a live venue large enough to contain his burgeoning fan base.
  Overseas, the 26-year-old artist’s popularity expands far beyond West Africa’s diaspora. In 2019, he sold out London’s 4,900-capacity O2 Academy Brixton in under three minutes for a show in February, and he’s c
  
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• Here’s How Nigerian Music Producers Are Getting Nollywood to Pay Up

  01-06-2020 19:16
  
  LAGOS, NIGERIA — Only three years ago, most major Nigerian film producers didn’t bother to pay musicians before using their music in films — or even to ask permission. “Nollywood,” a sobriquet for the Nigerian film industry, didn’t think it had to, releasing hundreds of movies each year shot with lousy sound and shoddy picture quality that were typically pirated and sold for $3 or less in the public markets of Lagos.
  But in 2017, Lady Donli, a self-described &
  
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• How The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Affecting Africa’s Music Industry

  01-06-2020 19:15
  
  Thanks to tough measures that included overnight curfews and restricted travel between provinces, health authorities were hopeful that African countries could avoid the worst of the coronavirus outbreaks that have ravaged Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  As of May 28, Nigeria and South Africa — two of the continent’s largest music economies — had 254 deaths and 552 deaths, respectively, according to the World Health Organization. Amid initially slowly ris
  
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• Post-Pandemic, Nigerian Artists May Still Face Visa Challenges

  01-06-2020 19:14
  
  In February, before most of the world had banned cross-border travel to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, four members of Nigerian megastar Davido’s team waited patiently in Lagos, Nigeria, for a response from the U.S. State Department on whether they would be allowed to travel to the United States.
  They had all applied for visas to join the Afrobeats performer on an 18-city swing through the United States. Among the applicants was Davido’s longtime bodyguard, Tijani, who had
  
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• Sony/ATV CEO Jon Platt On Racial Injustice: ‘A Change Must Come’

  01-06-2020 19:05
  
  Black Music Month kicks off today (June 1), amid national outrage over the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police. As protests continue across the country, Sony/ATV Music Publishing chairman/CEO John Platt has shared an open letter reflecting on his own experience as the only black CEO of a major music company, and calling on the music industry to help “lead society out of crisis.”
  Platt joins a surge of calls to action from the music industry over th
  
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• After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Looking to Buy Stake in Warner Music

  01-06-2020 19:05 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Chinese company Tencent is looking to invest $200 million in Warner Music Group ahead of the company’s IPO. The report surfaced in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Warner Music is the world’s third-largest record label and represents artists like Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and Cardi B. The Warner Music IPO will be one of […]The post After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Looking to Buy Stake in Warner Music appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Is Reportedly Looking to Buy Stake in Warner Music

  01-06-2020 19:05 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Chinese company Tencent is looking to invest $200 million in Warner Music Group ahead of the company’s IPO. The report surfaced in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Warner Music is the world’s third-largest record label and represents artists like Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and Cardi B. The Warner Music IPO will be one of […]The post After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Is Reportedly Looking to Buy Stake in Warner Music appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Is Reportedly Looking to Buy a Stake in Warner Music

  01-06-2020 19:05 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Chinese company Tencent is looking to invest $200 million in Warner Music Group ahead of the company’s IPO, according to the latest intel. The report surfaced in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Warner Music is the world’s third-largest record label and represents artists like Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and Cardi B. The Warner Music […]The post After Buying 10% of Universal Music, Tencent Is Reportedly Looking to Buy a Stake in Warner Music appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine accused of stealing ‘GOOBA’ beat from Kenyan producer Magix Enga

  01-06-2020 18:59 via nme.com
  
  Tekashi 6ix9ine has been accused of plagiarism over his recent single ‘GOOBA’, leading to the video temporarily being taken down due to a copyright claim.
  Read More: The response to Tekashi 6ix9ine’s ‘snitching’ exposes some rap fans’ hypocrisy
  Kenyan producer Magix Enga has claimed that the track, which took the record for the most views on a hip hop video in its first 24 hours from Eminem‘s Machine Gun Kelly diss ‘Killshot’, unlawfully used
  
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• Gunna Turns Rooftop ‘Wunna’ Livestream Show Into George Floyd Benefit: ‘Police Have Been Killing Us for Years’

  01-06-2020 18:58
  
  After announcing a Los Angeles rooftop livestream to support his recently released Wunna album, rapper Gunna shared on Saturday morning (May 30) that that’s night show would shift its focus to be a fundraiser for the George Floyd Memorial Fund.
  “This live performance has been scheduled weeks , I was goin to cancel it due to the circumstances of our country!” Gunna tweeted. “But I also want to speak on it and didn’t kno how to start..I never saw my city like thi
  
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