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• Music industry revenue hits highest figure since 2002 at $21billion

  23-03-2021 23:52 via nme.com
  
  The recorded music industry made the most money in nearly two decades last year with a revenue of $21.6billion (£15.7billion).
  The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) annual Global Music Report revealed that revenues grew by 7.4 per cent. Acts including BTS, Taylor Swift, Drake, Billie Eilish and The Weekend have helped boost sales.
  As per the report, more than 443million people now pay for a music streaming subscription, meaning that 102million people sign
  
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• Taylor Swift Donates $50,000 to Mother of 5 Whose Husband Died of COVID-19

  23-03-2021 23:30
  
  Taylor Swift is helping another mother impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with a generous $50,000 donation.
  On Tuesday (March 23), Swift and her mom Andrea donated the exact goal amount of a GoFundMe dedicated to Vickie Quarles, the mother of five daughters whose husband, Theodis Ray Quarles, died of COVID-19. Their donation made the fundraiser’s total amount for the Quarles family $61,268 at press time.
  Back in December, the Folklore singer donated a very on-b
  
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• Posthumous Alan Vega single ‘Fist’ released from Suicide singer’s long-lost solo album

  23-03-2021 23:12 via nme.com
  
  Another single from Alan Vega‘s posthumous solo album ‘Mutator’ has been released.READ MORE: The story of post-punk in 15 classic albums‘Fist’ follows last month’s ‘Nike Soldier‘, which was the first taste of the late Suicide singer’s long-lost album that arrives via Sacred Bones next month.
  Jared Artaud, who helped mix and produce ‘Mutator’, said of the track: “‘Fist’ reveals the album’s archetypal so
  
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• Wild Court Case Explores Two Global Pop Hits and a Key Question: Who Owns Remix?

  23-03-2021 23:07
  
  This is a story of two songs three songs, one of them prompting an intellectual property battle that’s unusual but potentially significant insofar as it raises a legal question that rarely comes up: Who owns the song remix? This fascinating case is now at the summary judgment phase in California federal court, and it’s gotten so wild that on Monday, the lead singer of one of the world’s biggest bands, a guy who just weeks ago sold his song catalog for $200 million, is bein
  
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• Fortnite Party Royale Returns – Kaskade Hosting Rocket League Rave

  23-03-2021 22:59 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Fortnite Party Royale returns with an epic Kaskade concert this upcoming weekend. The concert takes place in Fortnite’s Party Royale game mode, which removes the violence. The event is also featuring a tie-in with Rocket League, a game developed by Psyonix and owned by Epic Games. Epic Games is taking advantage of a long-standing partnership […]
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• Dave Grohl on broadening his musical education: “My daughter made me love the Misfits”

  23-03-2021 22:46 via nme.com
  
  Dave Grohl has spoken about his daughter introducing him to music new and old, including bringing him round to the Misfits despite him believing he didn’t like them.THE BIG READ: Foo Fighters – “Our connection is beyond music”The Foo Fighters frontman said in a new interview that his teenage daughter often shares her favourite music with him, and was instrumental in converting Grohl to like the New Jersey punk band.
  “Now when I was young I never really liked the Mis
  
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• This Thalia Project Is Crowned Best Latin Album by a Female Artist in Fan Poll

  23-03-2021 22:42
  
  Thalia has won yet another Billboard poll, thanks to fans. In a poll published on International Women’s Day titled “Which female artist has the best Latin album?,” Billboard highlighted a total of 29 albums by Latina artists that debuted in the top 10 of the Top Latin Albums chart since 2015.
  With over 45 percent of the votes, Thalia’s Valiente, which debuted at No. 7 on the chart dated Nov. 24, 2018, and concurrently debuted at No. 1 on the Latin Pop Albums chart, won th
  
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• NBA YoungBoy Taken Into FBI Custody After LAPD Police Chase

  23-03-2021 22:37 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Rapper NBA YoungBoy was taken into FBI custody yesterday after an LAPD police chase. The rapper, real name Kentrell Gaulden, was in a car that was stopped yesterday by police. The rapper reportedly has an outstanding federal warrant for his arrest. After a short pursuit in the car, the rapper tried to flee on foot. […]
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• After Katy Perry, Which Act Should Do a Las Vegas Residency Next? Vote!

  23-03-2021 22:20
  
  Billboard has learned that Katy Perry is planning a Las Vegas residency for later this year, and we want to know: Which major act do you think should follow her lead?
  Maybe Adele — Perry’s next-door neighbor! — will pop into Vegas to say “Hello”; she was rumored to have been offered £20 million for a yearlong residency at The Wynn in 2017.
  Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters told Las Vegas Residency following their 2018
  
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• Facebook Expands Ticketed Live Streaming Into 24 New Countries

  23-03-2021 22:15 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Facebook is expanding its ticketed live streaming platform to 24 new countries. The new feature debuted in August 2020, amid rising lockdowns during the pandemic. Since then, Facebook says the feature has grown tremendously to give content creators a new way to monetize their presence on the platform. Live podcast recordings, private concerts, virtual tours, […]
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• Warner Music launches label with tech giant Tencent in bid to crack Chinese market

  23-03-2021 22:02 via nme.com
  
  Warner Music has joined forces with Chinese tech company Tencent to form a new record label, with the aim of increasing Warner’s presence in China.
  Tencent Music Entertainment owns a number of music platforms in China including the country’s top three streaming services, QQ Music, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music, and karaoke platform WeSing.
  Warner and Tencent have also struck a major licensing deal that will see the former’s repertoire, which includes the likes of Dua Lipa, Madonna
  
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• Meat Loaf Is Launching a Reality Dating Series Called “I’d Do Anything For Love… But I Won’t Do That”

  23-03-2021 21:54 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Meat Loaf is launching a reality dating series based on his hit song, “I Would Do Anything For Love.” Meat Loaf, real name Michael Lee Aday, has struck a partnership with Nobody’s Hero to produce the show. The relationship competition series will be executive produced by Meat Loaf, who will also feature as the figure […]
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• UK vinyl spending set to overtake CDs for first time since 1980s

  23-03-2021 21:44 via nme.com
  
  Sales of vinyl in the UK are on track to overtake CDs for the first time in decades, with record labels last year seeing a 30 per cent boost in income from the traditional format.READ MORE: How you can help your local independent record shop amid the coronavirus crisisThat’s according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which says income looks to surpass CDs for the first time since 1987 when Rick Astley and Pet Shop Boys topped the charts.
  Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the
  
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• Tencent Music Tops 56 Million Paying Subscribers, Reports 14.3% Quarterly Revenue Jump

  23-03-2021 21:38 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Tencent Music experienced a 40.4 percent year-over-year boost in paid subscribers during Q4 2020, according to the Shenzhen-headquartered company’s newly released earnings report, with an even 56 million premium accounts across its QQ Music, Kugou Music, and Kuwo Music streaming services. China’s largest music-streaming company also relayed in its fourth-quarter earnings analysis that revenue grew […]
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• Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Brings Back Live Audience

  23-03-2021 21:35
  
  The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon brought back a live studio audience last night for the first time since the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down in-studio audiences in March 2020.
  The NBC late-night show also returned to its longtime home of Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City, after previously broadcasting from Studio 6A, the former home of the Today show’s fourth hour Hoda & Jenna when it brought in live audiences on Thursdays and Frida
  
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• Open Sea NFT Start-Up Raises $23MM After Kings of Leon Album Auction

  23-03-2021 21:34 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  OpenSea, the NFT auction start-up behind the Kings of Leon album auction, just raised $23 million in funding. NFT auctions with ‘golden ticket’ real-life benefits are being sold for millions to music fans. Eager to be part of these massively growing platforms, investors are pouring money into cryptocurrencies that power these non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This […]
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• Bad Bunny to compete at WWE’s ‘WrestleMania’

  23-03-2021 21:17 via nme.com
  
  Bad Bunny has agreed to step into the ring at the forthcoming edition of WWE’s WrestleMania next month.
  The rapper will fight former WWE champion The Miz, aka Michael Mizanin, during the event, which takes place on April 10 and 11.
  Although it will be Bad Bunny’s first time competing in a full match, he’s been a regular in WWE this year. In January he performed his track ‘Booker T’ during a Royal Rumble broadcast beside the pro wrestler of the same name.
  Later, afte
  
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• ROSÉ Dances ‘On the Ground’ for Laid-Back Performance Video

  23-03-2021 21:12
  
  ROSÉ is the center of attention in the dance performance video for her hit “On the Ground,” released Monday (March 22).
  The BLACKPINK star is accompanied by background dancers who are all dressed in the same all-black outfit. The performance is rather laid-back and reminiscent of a pre-concert dance rehearsal. At times, the dancers mimic ROSÉ’s dance moves, but primarily yield the spotlight to her.
  “On the Ground” is the lead single off of her two-trac
  
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• Megan Thee Stallion, Dave & Disclosure to Headline Parklife 2021

  23-03-2021 21:08
  
  U.K. music festival Parklife has announced Megan Thee Stallion, Disclosure and Dave as headliners for its 2021 edition. The two-day event is scheduled to run Sept. 11-12 with additional performances from Young Thug, Burna Boy, Skepta, DaBaby and more. 
  After skipping 2020 due to the pandemic, the festival is set to return at Manchester’s Heaton Park with sets from Koffee, Raye, Carl Cox, Four Tet, Kaytranda, Mabel, Becky Hill, Jamie XX and AJ Tracey. The
  
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• Canada’s Biggest Indie CD & Video Distributor Is Shutting Down

  23-03-2021 20:44
  
  Montreal’s Distribution Select, the largest independent distributor of CDs and videos in Canada, is shuttering its operation July 2 due to declining physical music sales exacerbated by the pandemic, says its owner, Quebecor Sports and Entertainment Group.
  The Montreal distributor, which represents a catalog of more than 3,900 physical audio titles, 1,300 DVD titles and 63,000 digital audio titles, struggled to sell physical product when non-essential goods became unavailable for sale in re
  
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• Concord Promotes Bob Valentine to President, Kent Hoskins to CFO

  23-03-2021 20:29
  
  Concord has continued to shuffle its executive ranks, announcing Tuesday (March 23) that chief financial officer Bob Valentine has been promoted to president of the company, while publishing CFO Kent Hoskins has been promoted to replace Valentine as CFO. Both execs will report to CEO Scott Pascucci, with their promotions effective immediately.
  Valentine has been working with Concord in one form or another since becoming CFO of the Concord Music Group in 2005, and worked in top finance and operat
  
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• Teyana Taylor Shares Her Secret to Soft, Moisturized Skin

  23-03-2021 20:26
  
  Teyana Taylor is an artist, actress, fashion guru, choreographer and a mom of two — but no matter how busy she gets, she knows the importance of skincare.
  The 30-year-old star teamed up with Olay Body to promote their new nighttime body care products, the Cleansing & Renewing Body Wash and Rinse-Off Body Conditioner with Retinol. “It’s a good way to keep the skin tight, and keep it nice and young,” Taylor tells Billboard of retinol, a high-end skincare ingredient
  
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• Here’s Why Katy Perry’s Planned Las Vegas Residency Is a Sure Bet

  23-03-2021 20:20
  
  Katy Perry is no stranger to a high-production, high-octane performance — look no further than her kaleidoscopic 2015 Super Bowl halftime set for proof — so the news of her planning a Las Vegas residency is a thrilling prospect.
  On the new Pop Shop Podcast, we talk all about the potential residency, which Billboard reported last week is set to begin later this year at the brand-new Resorts World hotel/casino on the Las Vegas Strip and go into 2022. What could it possibly look like? W
  
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• Making ‘Tusa’: How Two Men Wrote the Karol G & Nicki Minaj Female Anthem

  23-03-2021 20:14
  
  “Tusa,” the song performed by Karol G (and later remixed with Nicki Minaj) which has become a global anthem for heartbroken women ready to get back on their feet, was not originally conceived as a female-performed song.
  In fact, says songwriter Keityn (real name Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno) — who wrote the bulk of the track with his Colombian pal Ovy on the Drums (Daniel Echavarría Oviedo) — the song wasn’t even going to be titled “Tusa.”
  But &ldqu
  
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• Five Burning Questions: Cardi B Climbs ‘Up’ to No. 1 on the Hot 100

  23-03-2021 20:06
  
  For the fifth time since she first broke through with “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” just three and a half years ago, Cardi B has a new single on top of the Billboard Hot 100.
  “Up,” Cardi’s first release of 2021, climbs one spot from No. 2 — where it debuted five weeks earlier, stuck at the time behind Olivia Rodrigo’s eight-week No. 1 “Drivers License” — to the chart’s apex. It becomes just the second of Cardi’s five No. 1s t
  
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• Saweetie Recalls Having ‘PTSD’ From ‘Hot 97′ Interview & ‘Taking Back’ Power

  23-03-2021 19:57
  
  Saweetie stars on the April cover of Cosmopolitan, and in the accompanying interview, she discussed another chat she did early on in her career that gave her “PTSD.”
  The “Icy Girl” rapper reflected on her come-up in late 2017, when car raps over old-school beats made famous by female rappers cemented her status in the rap game. But when Hot 97’s Ebro Darden questioned it during a February 2018 interview, described her freestyle as “basic”
  
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• ‘Starstruck’ will be Years & Years’ first single as Olly Alexander solo project

  23-03-2021 19:53 via nme.com
  
  Years & Years have announced new single ‘Starstruck’, which will be the first release since the band revealed it will now function as a solo project under Olly Alexander.
  The song arrives on April 8 and heralds a new era for the act, which confirmed last week that frontman Alexander now will head things up while other bandmates take backseat roles.
  The synth-pop trio explained that their upcoming third album has been an “Olly” endeavour, although Emre Turkmen and Mike
  
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• 20 Questions With Steve Aoki: Daft Punk’s Influence, Experimentation & Why Elon Musk is His Dream Collaborator

  23-03-2021 19:52
  
  Steve Aoki’s brand is ubiquity.
  Emerging from the hedonistic froth of the late-’00s L.A. party scene, Aoki has become one of the most recognizable faces of global EDM. The SoCal-born, Las Vegas-based producer, now 43, has achieved this position through general relentlessness: more than 200 shows a year for the past 15 years, plus a memoir, a documentary, a celebrated party night (Dim Mak Tuesdays, which ran out of a Hollywood loft from 2003 to 2014), myriad restaurants (Pizzaoki and
  
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• AEG to Begin Rehiring Furloughed Workers Next Week, Full Staff by Fall

  23-03-2021 19:49
  
  AEG, the world’s second largest concert promoter — and owner of marquee properties like Coachella, Staples Center in Los Angeles and the O2 Arena in London (where it has a 100-year lease) — is staffing back up for the return of concerts.
  Billboard has learned that AEG has begun bringing back part-time and full-time employees who had been furloughed or saw their hours reduced during the pandemic with the first phase of employees returning April 1.
  “During the next six mont
  
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• Black Midi announce new album ‘Cavalcade’ with cult-inspired new video ‘John L’

  23-03-2021 19:48 via nme.com
  
  Black Midi have announced their second album ‘Cavalcade’, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed debut ‘Schlagenheim‘.READ MORE: Speedy Wunderground: The cult label on working with Squid, Black Midi and moreAhead of the record, the band have shared proggy lead single ‘John L’, along with chaotic visuals envisaged as “a jet black comedy about what happens to cult leaders when their followers turn on them.”
  The video was directed by directed by chor
  
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• Sebastian Yatra Makes Late-Night TV Debut With ‘Chica Ideal’ on ‘A Late Show With Stephen Colbert’

  23-03-2021 19:37
  
  Sebastian Yatra made his late-night television debut on Monday’s episode (March 22) of A Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
  Joined by Puerto Rican artist Guaynaa, the Colombian pop star performed his party-starting single “Chica Ideal” at the helm of a live band and a group of dancers.
  “I thank God for projects like these, that are born out of emotions and from the heart, and at times, like this particular case, surpass whatever expectation,” Yatra shared on Instagram&
  
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• See Yungblud perform acoustic version of KSI collaboration ‘Patience’ from hood of a car

  23-03-2021 19:25 via nme.com
  
  KSI‘s collaboration with Yungblud and Polo G, ‘Patience‘, has been given the acoustic treatment with a new music video to boot.READ MORE: KSI: “A YouTuber doing music leaves a sour taste in people’s mouths. They despise it”Announcing the new version yesterday (March 22) on Twitter, Yungblud joked that fans shouldn’t alert the authorities to the clip – in which he plays guitar atop the hood of an SUV – because it “wasn’t exact
  
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• Jungle share joyous single ‘Keep Moving’ and tell us about “chaotic and magical” third album ‘Loving In Stereo’

  23-03-2021 19:17 via nme.com
  
  Jungle have returned with joyous new single ‘Keep Moving’, and announced details of their third album ‘Loving In Stereo’. Watch the video for the new track below, alongside our chat with the duo.
  The band’s comeback comes on the one year anniversary of the first UK coronavirus lockdown being announced, and though the band didn’t engineer it as such. “I turned my phone off half way through last year,” the band’s J Lloyd told NME, but ‘Ke
  
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• Jessica Simpson Wrote in ‘Open Book’ Diary Entries She Was ‘Saddened Beyond Belief’ After Nick Lachey Started Dating

  23-03-2021 19:15
  
  Jessica Simpson might be an open book for her memoir Open Book, but she’s relying on a different book to discuss her divorce with Nick Lachey — her diary.
  One handwritten entry that Simpson includes in the new paperback edition of her 2020 memoir Open Book, which is officially out on Tuesday (March 23), expresses how hurt she felt when Lachey moved on so quickly, according to Entertainment Tonight, who received an exclusive sneak peek. He started da
  
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• Watch Griff deliver dramatic performance of breakout single ‘Black Hole’ live on Seth Meyers

  23-03-2021 19:08 via nme.com
  
  Griff gave her debut US TV appearance this week with a dramatic performance of recent single ‘Black Hole’ on Late Night With Seth Meyers.READ MORE: Griff: British pop phenomenon taking control of their destinyYou can watch the footage below, which saw the rising star perform with a live band on a stage covered in black water.
  The track, released in January, is the lead single from Griff’s newly announced debut mixtape ‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’, which wil
  
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• Dave, Megan Thee Stallion and Disclosure lead line-up for Parklife Festival 2021

  23-03-2021 19:00 via nme.com
  
  The likes of Dave, Megan Thee Stallion and Disclosure have been announced for this year’s Parklife Festival.
  The Manchester event will return once more to Heaton Park between September 11 and 12, after coronavirus forced the event’s 2020 cancellation.
  Dave’s Parklife performance will be a UK exclusive headline set, while Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Burna Boy, Young Thug and many more will jet in from across the globe for the event.
  Skepta, Jamie xx, AJ Tracey, Four Tet, Little
  
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• One year of lockdown: Mental health charities on the importance of reaching out for help

  23-03-2021 18:49 via nme.com
  
  Mental health charities for young people and musicians have marked one year of lockdown by speaking to NME about the importance and ease for those struggling to reach out and seek help.
  Today (Tuesday, March 23) marks the one year anniversary of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing the strict measures of the first lockdown to tackle the spread of COVID-19. A recent study found that one in four young people have found themselves “unable to cope” during the pandemic, due to
  
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• Who Should Kali Uchis Recruit For a ‘Telepatia’ Remix? Vote!

  23-03-2021 18:47
  
  If you can’t get enough of Kali Uchis’ “Telepatía,” you’re not alone.
  The Colombian-American singer’s dreamy-pop track, which currently sits at No. 39 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, is making waves thanks in large part to the song taking off as a common video soundtrack on TikTok, a virality that quickly spread to other streaming services.
  Artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, who covered the song on TikTok, and B
  
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• Katy Perry Hints at a Possible Taylor Swift Collab: ‘Can You Imagine?’

  23-03-2021 18:43
  
  Could you imagine if Taylor Swift and Katy Perry worked together? Well, Perry has planted the idea in fans’ heads.
  During American Idol’s Hollywood Week duets episode on Monday (March 22), contestants Camille Lamb and Althea Grace had to put the “weird tension” they addressed earlier on the back burner and fire up their vocals for their performance of Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me.”
  But for the “Firew
  
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• Pop Smoke’s ‘Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon’ Breaks No. 1 Record on Top Rap Albums Chart

  23-03-2021 18:36
  
  The late Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, rewrites the record books atop Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart as the project lands its 20th week on top, the most since the chart began in 2004.
  Moon sets the mark on the chart dated March 27 thanks to 40,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 18, according to MRC Data.
  With its 20th week in charge, Moon passes Eminem’s Recovery as the chart’s longest leader. The latte
  
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• Steve Albini pays tribute to Lil Bub in new book celebrating internet-famous cat’s musical legacy

  23-03-2021 18:33 via nme.com
  
  Producer Steve Albini has written the foreward to Lil Bub: The Earth Years, a new coffee-table book that will look at the late cat’s legacy.READ MORE: From the mixing desk of Steve Albini – five essential albumsAbini, who is also known for playing in Shellac, befriended the internet’s favourite cat via her owner, the audio engineer Mike Bridavsky, whom Albini once worked with at Chicago’s Electrical Audio studios.
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• Amoeba Music Is Reopening Next Week After a Year In COVID Hibernation

  23-03-2021 18:25 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  About 11 months after launching a GoFundMe campaign in a desperate bid to stay financially afloat, Amoeba Music is preparing to open its new Hollywood location. The 21-year-old record-store mainstay just recently announced plans to welcome customers to the new Amoeba Music Hollywood, located at 6200 Hollywood Boulevard. Early last year, Amoeba confirmed (in a […]
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• The Weeknd Returns to No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 Chart

  23-03-2021 18:18
  
  The Weeknd logs a 22nd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated March 27), rebounding from No. 2, thanks to the continued success of his album After Hours and its hit singles “Blinding Lights” and “Save Your Tears.”
  “Blinding Lights,” which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April-May 2020, ranks at No. 6 on the latest list and ties the records for the most weeks spent in the top 20 and top 40. The song has now spent 60 weeks i
  
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• Roku to Launch Branded Content Studio

  23-03-2021 18:16
  
  Roku is getting into the branded content business.
  The streaming platform, which now has over 50 million active accounts, will launch the Roku advertising brand studio ahead of the TV upfronts and IAB Newfronts. The new studio will “produce new creative ad formats and programming, full-fledged TV programming for marketers who want to go beyond that traditional 30 second ad unit,” according to Roku vp of ad marketing Dan Robbins.
  “This might be advertiser-commissioned
  
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• Daniel Avery soundtracks short film ‘VOID’ about clubbing and mental health

  23-03-2021 17:41 via nme.com
  
  Daniel Avery has soundtracked a new short film that seeks to illustrate the mental toll of spending a year away from dancefloors and friends.READ MORE: Daniel Avery – ‘Love + Light’ review: a heartfelt eulogy for the hedonism we’re missing this summerVOID, made by together by London-based filmmakers Tom Andrew and Sam Davis, was released earlier today (March 23) on the one-year anniversary of the start of England’s first coronavirus lockdown.
  The 14-minute film is p
  
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• Post Malone and Ariana Grande hits get Calm remix treatment to lull fans to sleep

  23-03-2021 17:24 via music-news.com
  
  Hits by the likes of Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes' have been remixed specifically for sleep on the Calm app.
  
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• The KLF add singles compilation including unreleased Jarvis Cocker collaboration to streaming services

  23-03-2021 17:22 via nme.com
  
  The KLF have released a new singles compilation on streaming platforms, which includes a previously unreleased Jarvis Cocker collaboration.
  The British electronic duo made a surprise return in January with the release of ‘Solid State Logik 1’, a greatest hits record that marked the first time the band’s music could be heard on streaming services.
  Bandmates Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, who scored a series of global hits in the late ’80s and early ’90s, famously wal
  
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• One of David Bowie’s old suits is going up for auction

  23-03-2021 17:19 via nme.com
  
  A suit once worn by David Bowie is expected to reach between £10,000-£15,000.
  The two-piece suit was worn by the music icon on a single night out at historic New Romantic hang-out The Blitz Club, and was claimed by legendary promoter Steve Strange after it became left in London club’s cloak room.
  Bowie left the Issey Miyake-designed suit behind after noticing several cigarette burns on it, and changed into a fresh outfit.
  The suit eventually made its way into the hand
  
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• SXSW Is Returning to an In-Person Event, Announces 2022 Dates

  23-03-2021 17:17
  
  Following the conclusion of SXSW’s 2021 online edition last week, the Austin festival has announced in-person dates for 2022. Next year the festival will run from March 11-20 in Texas.  
  “We at SXSW are hopeful that once people feel it’s safe enough to return to what will be the new normal of life, there will be a real enthusiasm for getting back to the things that brought them joy or opportunity or just the simple need to be out amongst humanity,” festival
  
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• 8 Times Post Malone Totally Went Country

  23-03-2021 17:17
  
  Post Malone likes to shake it up. The singer and rapper, who busted out a whole set of grungy Nirvana covers for charity last year, went full country on Monday night (March 22) for Matthew and Camila McConaughey’s “We’re Texas” virtual concert, benefitting fellow Texans impacted by February’s winter storms.
  The “Circles” MC fit right in with his dead-on covers of Brad Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her” with Dwight Yoakam’s
  
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