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• LA Judge Extends Britney Spears Conservatorship Until 2021

  21-08-2020 23:58
  
  Los Angeles Judge Brenda Penny ruled after a sealed hearing on Thursday (Aug. 19) to extend Britney Spears conservatorship till Feb. 1, 2021.
  The virtual hearing was attended by Spears’ court appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham, her father James Spears, Lynn Spears, and their respective attorneys. In addition, Spears current temporary conservator Jodi Montgomery.
  Penny also made some findings and orders under seal. In the interim she set a time table for Britney’s attorney to file a pe
  
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• BTS Crave Pineapple on Pizza & Are on a ‘Watermelon Sugar’ High, Thanks to Harry Styles

  21-08-2020 23:30
  
  If there’s one song that BTS has stuck inside their heads, it’s not their explosive new English-language single “Dynamite.”
  The K-pop group chatted with SiriusXM’s Tony Fly and Symon on Friday (Aug. 21) to talk about their new release, which they’ll perform for the first time ever at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. BTS is currently up for three nominations that evening, including best pop, best k-pop and best choreography for “On,” and c
  
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• First Stream Latin: New Music From Sebastian Yatra, Reik, ChocQuibTown & More

  21-08-2020 23:28
  
  “First Stream Latin” is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week’s picks below.
  Sebastian Yatra, Alvaro Diaz, “A Donde Van” (Universal Music Latino)
  Sebastian Yatra and Alvaro Diaz have so many questions in their first-ever collaboration coined “A Donde Van.” The Colombian and Puerto Rican artists teamed up to sing solely about unrequited love. “Where do the ki
  
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• First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Duke Dumont, Clean Bandit, Whipped Cream & More

  21-08-2020 23:25
  
  New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you’re supposed to somehow find the best ones. It’s fun work, but it’s time-consuming — so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams.
  This week we saw Diplo hit the dancefloor at Madonna’s birthday party before playing the Democratic Natio
  
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• Sexy Zone’s ‘RUN’ Leads, Kenshi Yonezu’s ‘Kanden’ Returns to Top 3 on Japan Hot 100

  21-08-2020 23:20
  
  Sexy Zone’s “RUN” sprints its way to the top spot on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Aug. 3 to 9, with 254,983 copies sold in its first week. This single is the first release from Top J Records, a new collaborative label by Johnny’s and Universal Music that will expand the boy band’s reach outside of Japan. Sales-wise, “RUN” celebrated the label’s brand-new start by performing much better than the group’s previous single, &ld
  
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• Vardaan Arora Breaks Down His Debut EP ‘Heartbreak On the Dance Floor’ Track-By-Track

  21-08-2020 23:16
  
  Vardaan Arora will tell you that releasing a long-awaited project in the middle of a global pandemic is not as easy as it looks.
  Take, for example, his new music video for “Heartbreak On The Dance Floor,” the title track off of his debut EP; Arora tells Billboard that shooting the visual became a much more arduous process than he could have anticipated. “We wanted a whole bunch of people to be a part of it, but it’s basically just me in the video,&rdqu
  
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• Neil Young almost made a cameo in ‘Almost Famous’

  21-08-2020 23:10 via nme.com
  
  Neil Young was meant to have a cameo appearance in Almost Famous, director and writer Cameron Crowe has revealed.
  The iconic film, which follows a young music journalist on his first assignment for Rolling Stone, celebrates its 20th anniversary next month.Read more: Why Almost Famous was the best film of 2001In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Crowe said Young was planned to appear as Harry Hammond, the estranged father of Russell Hammond (played by Billy Crudup). “Neil was going to com
  
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• Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali Dead at 68

  21-08-2020 22:50 via rollingstone.com
  
  Drummer, who played on "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health," had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer last spring
  
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• Kelly Clarkson & Brandi Carlile Blew Us Away With This ‘Poison & Wine’ Cover

  21-08-2020 22:38
  
  Kelly Clarkson and Brandi Carlile need to form a musical duo ASAP, especially after they broke our hearts with their cover of The Civil Wars’ powerful “Poison & Wine.”
  On Friday’s (Aug. 21) episode of her Daytime Emmy-winning The Kelly Clarkson Show, the host was joined virtually by Carlile for her popular “Kellyoke” segment.
  “This is one of my favorite moments singing that I have experienced in my entire existence on this planet,” Clarkso
  
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• Behemoth announce immersive ‘In Absentia Dei’ livestream event

  21-08-2020 22:35 via nme.com
  
  Behemoth are set to hold an immersive livestream event next month, dubbed ‘In Absentia Dei’ (or ‘In The Absence Of God’).
  The show, which a press release calls “groundbreaking” and a “theatrical extravaganza” will take place from a secret church location in Poland.Read more: Hail Nergal! Behemoth’s show is a masterclass in sophisticated black metal – and strangely full of joy‘In Absentia Dei’ will be held on September 5 and
  
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• From BTS & TWICE’s English Singles to ITZY’s EP & More, What’s Your Favorite K-Pop Release This Week? Vote!

  21-08-2020 22:29
  
  This week’s explosive K-pop releases involve tons of “Dynamite” and a new girl group blasting onto the scene. But which one blew you away?
  Any move BTS makes online is bound to blow up all over the internet, but their latest English-language single and its accompanying visual is a burst of disco-pop hooks and color.And A-REAL, a brand new girl group under JZ Factory Entertainment, comes in hot with its debut single and music video “WAKE ME UP.” Hyebin, Are
  
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• RS Latin Music Picks: Week of August 17th

  21-08-2020 22:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  Fresh new sounds from Iberoamerica, featuring Maluma, ChocQuibTown, Sech, The Mavericks and Chucky73
  
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• ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ Deluxe Soundtrack Is Now Available

  21-08-2020 22:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  11 additional tracks include many of the performances featured in the 1978 biopic
  
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• Kanye West removed from the presidential ballot in two further states

  21-08-2020 21:56 via nme.com
  
  Kanye West has been removed from the election ballot in Ohio and Illinois after being barred from featuring in Wisconsin.
  The rapper’s 2020 presidential campaign, under the banner of The Birthday Party, has hit several snags since he announced it earlier this year, including missing deadlines to get his name on the ballot in numerous states.Read more: Kanye West’s first Presidential rally: the key pledges, from gun ownership to prescription drugs and abortionAfter today’s (Augu
  
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• How Well Do You Know Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ Music Video? Take Our Quiz

  21-08-2020 21:48
  
  Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have hosted a “WAP”-ping celebration of female sexuality with $1 million cash prizes after their collaboration debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (chart dated Aug. 22).
  And the music video attracted more than 120 million YouTube views (at publishing time of this piece), reeling in tributes to icons before them and ushering in new hotties to join them at the playful, splashy zoo-like house. “WAP” is being heralded as an empowering ant
  
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• Katy Perry frustrated by female singers being pitted against one another

  21-08-2020 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Katy Perry stated that male singers are never compared to each other like females are.
  
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• Brandon Flowers 'relieved' over conclusion of The Killers' crew sexual assault investigation

  21-08-2020 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Brandon Flowers were saddened that the band came under fire on social media.
  
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• Hear Brothers Osborne’s Searing New Song ‘Skeletons’

  21-08-2020 21:38 via rollingstone.com
  
  Title track from duo's upcoming third album is a four-on-the-floor rocker about secrets and infidelity
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly & Blackbear’s ‘My Ex’s Best Friend’ Scores No. 1 Rock Streaming Songs Debut

  21-08-2020 21:33
  
  Machine Gun Kelly and Blackbear’s “My Ex’s Best Friend” becomes the first new song in nearly four months to top Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs chart, debuting atop the Aug. 22-dated tally.
  The track, released Aug. 7, bows with 6.2 million U.S. streams in its first week, ending Aug. 13, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
  “Friend” is the first first-time leader on Rock Streaming Songs since Twenty One Pilots’ “Level of Concern” starte
  
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• These shoes help you feel sound in your feet

  21-08-2020 21:30 via nme.com
  
  Upgrades to shoes that enable wearers to feel the sounds of music, video games and movies have been unveiled.
  DropLabs, the first sonic-sensory footwear designed to enhance the way consumers experience digital entertainment, on Wednesday (August 19) announced the release of its Triple Black Edition as an update to its original EP 01 sneaker.DropLabs’ pulsating Bluetooth-enabled shoes are available in a new color https://t.co/1p69r9SGYn pic.twitter.com/9gwIvQDjao
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• James Blunt Once Got Scurvy From Eating an All-Meat Diet

  21-08-2020 21:26
  
  An attempt to spite the vegans went very, very wrong for James Blunt.
  Chatting with Jessie Ware on her Table Manners podcast, the singer revealed that he actually developed scurvy while eating an all-meat diet during his time at the University of Bristol in the 1990s.
  “On the sociology side of things there were 170 girls and only three boys, of which all the girls were vegetarian or vegans,” he explained. “So out of principle, I decided I’d become a carnivore and jus
  
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• Glass Animals Score First Top Rock Albums No. 1 With ‘Dreamland’

  21-08-2020 21:17
  
  Glass Animals nab their first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart, as Dreamland bows atop the list dated Aug. 22.
  Dreamland debuts with 60,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 13, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that sum, 43,000 units were via album sales.
  The England-based band previously reached a No. 2 high on the chart with Dreamland’s predecessor, How to Be a Human Being, in September 2016.The new LP’s count of 17,000 streaming
  
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• Coachella lawsuit over “restrictive radius booking clause” moving ahead

  21-08-2020 21:08 via nme.com
  
  A lawsuit over Coachella’s radius clause is moving ahead, after the decision to dismiss it was reversed it earlier this year.
  Festival organisers Goldenvoice previously restricted artists booked for the California event from performing at any festival in North America between December 15 to May, or from playing any “hard ticket” concerts in the Southern California region in the same timeframe.Read more: Coachella: 20 Years In The Desert review: a bittersweet reminder of the mag
  
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• Django Django’s Dave Maclean goes solo with house music project

  21-08-2020 21:05 via nme.com
  
  Django Django drummer/producer Dave Maclean has launched a new house music project under the moniker Hugo Paris.
  Maclean, who last released a full-length album with Django Django in 2018 (‘Marble Skies’), revealed that his first love is house and techno music and that he’d always intended to make dance music.
  “I started DJing and making hip hop, dancehall, house and techno beats on a sampler and 4-track in the mid ‘90s,” Dave said [quotes via Dork].
  “My
  
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• Carly Rae Jepsen Drops Two ‘Emotion’ Bonus Tracks for Album’s 5th Anniversary

  21-08-2020 21:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Never Get to Hold You" and "Love Again" get an official release
  
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• The Killers Deliver Dynamic ‘Blowback’ Performance on ‘Colbert’: Watch

  21-08-2020 21:02
  
  The Killers celebrated the release of their new album, Imploding the Mirage, on Thursday night (Aug. 20) by dropping by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
  The group performed the album’s track “Blowback,” socially distanced on a stage featuring a lit-up “K.” “But she’s breathing in the blowback / Born into poor white trash and always typecast / But she’s gonna break out, boy, you’d better know that / It’s just a matter of tim
  
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• BRS Kash Joins LVRN/Interscope Records on Partnership Deal With Team Litty: Exclusive

  21-08-2020 21:00
  
  BRS Kash, formerly known as KashKash, officially inked a deal with LVRN and Interscope Records, Billboard reports. 
  The Atlanta powerhouse, which already serves as a home to 6LACK, Summer Walker, DRAM, and more, hope to help Kash and his Team Litty imprint (led by Trizzy, Deuce, and Trax) blossom into a more potent force. Kash’s rise is powered by his whimsical anthem “Throat Baby (Go Baby),” which has sped its way up the ATL’s ranks due to his sticky melod
  
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• BRS Kash Joins LVRN/Interscope Records on Partnership Deal: Exclusive

  21-08-2020 21:00
  
  BRS Kash, formerly known as KashKash, officially inked a deal with LVRN and Interscope Records, Billboard reports. 
  The Atlanta powerhouse, which already serves as a home to 6LACK, Summer Walker, DRAM, and more, hope to help Kash and his Team Litty imprint (led by Trizzy, Deuce, and Trax) blossom into a more potent force. Kash’s rise is powered by his whimsical anthem “Throat Baby (Go Baby),” which has sped its way up the ATL’s ranks due to his sticky melod
  
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• First Out: New Music From Troye Sivan, Wafia, Carlie Hanson & More

  21-08-2020 20:51
  
  In need of a mid-quarantine pick-me-up playlist?. Look no further than Billboard Pride’s First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new weekly music releases from LGBTQ artists.
  From Troye Sivan’s stellar new EP to Wafia’s major label debut project, check out some of our favorite new releases this week below.Troye Sivan, In A Dream
  When Troye Sivan promised an EP that would depict an “emotional rollercoaster period” of his life, he wasn’t kidd
  
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• Hear Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in the style of Deftones

  21-08-2020 20:41 via nme.com
  
  A YouTuber who performs songs in different styles has uploaded a cover of Radiohead‘s breakthrough 1993 single, ‘Creep’, altered to suit Deftones fans.
  Anthony Vincent of the YouTube channel Ten Second Songs shared his rendition today (August 21) on the same day Deftones released ‘Ohm’, the first single and title track from the alt-metal band’s forthcoming ninth album.In the clip, Vincent employs heavily distorted, reverb-laden guitars to recreate Deftones&rsq
  
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• Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson Perform ‘Lonely Alone’ in New Video

  21-08-2020 20:28 via rollingstone.com
  
  Threads visual features Crow and Nelson singing the song remotely, along with images of Willie on a horse farm
  
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• From BTS’ ‘Dynamite’ Single to Mariah Carey & Lauryn Hill’s Collab and More, What’s Your Favorite New Music Release? Vote!

  21-08-2020 20:22
  
  This week’s new music releases had quite the BOOM! factor while turning back the clock, but which one absolutely blew you away?
  BTS finally lit up this Friday (Aug. 20) like “Dynamite,” the group’s highly-anticipated English single with a “little funk and soul” that’s bound to get you off your feet with a chorus that only gains more fuel and speed.
  While the K-pop boy band contributes to the disco-pop revival, Mariah Carey throws it back to &rs
  
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• Every Song From Troye Sivan’s ‘In a Dream’ EP, Ranked

  21-08-2020 20:20
  
  There are few artists as capable as Troye Sivan at capturing the modern sense of melancholy. So, in the midst of a global pandemic, the 25-year-old pop star is perfectly situated for a pop takeover.
  On his brand new EP In a Dream, Sivan’s gloomy pop is evolved to perhaps its highest form yet, as he stitches mournful lyrics with exuberant dance-pop production. Occasionally veering into the experimental, the entire EP remains true to Sivan’s core musical style, as he studies
  
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• Music at Home: Live Classics

  21-08-2020 20:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  With no concerts for the foreseeable future, here are some of the best live recordings by the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Run-DMC, James Brown and more
  
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• 30 Years of ‘Ritual de lo Habitual’: Looking Back at Jane’s Addiction’s Swan Song LP

  21-08-2020 20:10
  
  While Nirvana usually get all the credit, it’s high time the true terminators of glam rock received their proper due. More than a year before Nevermind dropped like an anvil, taking grunge mainstream and sending flannel sales skyrocketing, a wild, frenetic avant-rock four-piece from Los Angeles began to accelerate hair metal’s demise.
  Jane’s Addiction’s groundbreaking, Dave Jerden-produced sophomore set Ritual de lo habitual was one of the first truly pivotal re
  
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• Hear Mort Garson’s Unreleased Disco Funk Song ‘Dragonfly’

  21-08-2020 20:03 via rollingstone.com
  
  Track appears on Music From Patch Cord Productions collection from upcoming series of Garson reissues
  
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• Megan Thee Stallion Announces Paid Livestream Concert

  21-08-2020 20:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Livestream news follows similar announcement from Lil Uzi Vert
  
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• Tim McGraw Talks ‘Here on Earth’ Album, Being an Empty Nester: ‘I Fall Apart at a Hallmark Commercial’

  21-08-2020 19:58
  
  On Here on Earth, out today (Aug. 21), Tim McGraw examines the rich connections we make as humans throughout our time on this planet (even to our pets). “I wanted to create a tapestry of life in a lot of ways,” the country superstar tells Billboard. “And then each song is a vignette of different stages of life and different scenes of life.”
  For his first full solo album in five years, McGraw, with longtime producer Byron Gallimore, delivers 18 tracks that span our human e
  
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• Busta Rhymes Previews New Album With ‘The Don and the Boss,’ Featuring Vybz Kartel

  21-08-2020 19:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  Rapper's first solo LP in eight years is titled Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
  
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• The Blessed Madonna talks about changing her name: “You know it’s going to suck, but that it’s the right thing to do”

  21-08-2020 19:50 via nme.com
  
  The Blessed Madonna, FKA The Black Madonna, has addressed her recent name change in response to the amplified global conversation on race.
  The US DJ-producer, whose real name is Marea Stamper, said last month that she “should have listened harder to other perspectives” about her stage name – in response to a petition that urged her to change it.Read more: 16 bands who’ve been forced to change their nameNow, in an interview with The Guardian, Stamper said the decision and
  
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• Broadway’s Tony Awards to Go Digital in the Fall

  21-08-2020 19:48
  
  Two weeks after The Hollywood Reporter asked the question “How do you solve a problem like the Tonys?” we have an answer.
  The 74th Tony Awards ceremony, which was scheduled to take place at Radio City Music Hall on June 7 before the pandemic cut short the 2019-2020 Broadway season it was to recognize, will now be held digitally in the fall on a date still to be determined. (The timeline and specifics of the voting process are expected soon.)
  “Though unpreced
  
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• Lenny Tavarez’s ‘La Mujer Traiciona’ Takes a Stand Against Domestic Violence: ‘It’s A Weapon For Women’

  21-08-2020 19:37
  
  Ever since kicking off his music career over a decade ago, Lenny Tavarez has established himself as a singer-songwriter known for his sultry melodies, sugary tender voice, killer dance moves, and for the most part, explicit lyrics.
  Now, he’s giving fans a taste of his sensitive side in his latest single, “La Mujer Traiciona,” featuring the 17-year-old upcoming artist Beéle.
  Taking a stand against domestic violence, “La Mujer Traiciona” narrates the story of a
  
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• How Wafia Transformed the ‘Protest and Rebellion’ of Her Existence Into ‘Good Things’

  21-08-2020 19:37
  
  Each month, Billboard Pride celebrates an LGBTQ act as its Artist of the Month. Our July selection: Wafia.
  For the last five months, Wafia Al-Rikabi, better known to fans by her mononymous stage name Wafia, has experienced a lot of different versions of herself. At the outset of quarantine, she explains, she transformed into “Baking Wafia” and “Reading Wafia.” In the last month or so, “Tennis Wafia” and “Piano Wafia” began to share the sp
  
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• Megan Thee Stallion to hold virtual concert later this month

  21-08-2020 19:32 via nme.com
  
  Megan Thee Stallion will hold a virtual concert later this month, it’s been announced.Read more: Megan Thee Stallion: “I’m really working on my dynasty right now”The rapper has performed livestreamed events since the coronavirus pandemic shut down shows in the US but has yet to hold her own online concert.
  The gig will take place on next Saturday (August 29) and will begin at 6pm EST (11pm BST). According to Pitchfork, the concert will feature creative direction from
  
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• TikTok’s Fate Matters to the Music Industry, But Not For The Reasons You Think

  21-08-2020 19:31
  
  Since early last year, TikTok has become a valuable tool for record label executives like RCA Records senior vp digital marketing Tarek Al-Hamdouni, who has secured partnerships with top influencers on the platform to promote SAYGRACE’s “Boys Ain’t Shit,” Doja Cat’s “Say So” and other songs in their videos. So when President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month effectively banning the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. unless it sells its
  
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• ‘Reverse the Mic’ Initiative Raises Awareness About Voting Super Local

  21-08-2020 19:31
  
  Mike Muse has launched the “Reverse the Mic” initiative to give artists and entertainers the chance to dial in on single-issue voting and ask important questions about how they can vote to end police brutality in their cities.
  Muse, co-founder of Muse Recordings, political commentator and host of SiriusXM’s The Mike Muse Show and co-host of the satellite network’s Sway in the Morning, has long kept his focus on the intersection of hip-hop and politics. Now, with his 
  
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• Calling All Hotties! Megan Thee Stallion to Host First Live Virtual Performance

  21-08-2020 19:24
  
  Calling all the Hotties! Megan Thee Stallion will host her first live virtual performance next weekend.
  This will be the rapper’s first full concert since notching not just one, but two No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: the “Savage” remix, featuring Beyoncé, in May and “WAP” with Cardi B in August, which broke the record for largest streaming debut ever for a song.
  Megan’s virtual concert will be held next Saturday, Aug. 29 at 6:0
  
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• Latin Music Needs a Black Lives Matter Movement

  21-08-2020 19:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Conciencia Collective, whose members include artists such as Becky G and ChocQuibTown's Goyo along with music industry insiders, aims to address longstanding inequities in the Latin music business
  
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• Biffy Clyro end Taylor Swift’s three-week reign at Number One with ‘A Celebration Of Endings’

  21-08-2020 19:15 via nme.com
  
  Biffy Clyro‘s new album ‘A Celebration Of Endings‘ has topped the UK albums chart, landing the Scottish rockers with their third Number One in seven years.
  The band’s ninth album, which was released last Friday (August 14), shifted 26,000 chart sales in a week (including 8,000 copies on vinyl) and ended Taylor Swift’s three-week reign at Number One with her surprise album ‘Folklore’.Read more: In Conversation with Biffy Clyro – “We’ve a
  
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• The Old 97’s’ New Album: Why Dallas Cowboys Legend Roger Staubach Is on the Cover

  21-08-2020 19:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  "He was the touchstone of my childhood," says singer Rhett Miller, who hustled to get an iconic image of the quarterback for the band's 'Twelfth' LP
  
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