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April 9, 2026
Latin Music’s U.S. Revenue Tops $1 Billion, Per RIAA Report
If Bad Bunny’s galvanizing Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8 didn’t make it crystal clear, new figures from the Recording Industry Association of America released today should: Latin music is Amer...
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April 8, 2026
Janelle Monáe Signs With UTA in All Areas
United Talent Agency has signed “10-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, author, actor, world builder and HalloQUEEN” Janelle Monáe for global representation in all areas. UTA will w...
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April 7, 2026
Music Industry Moves: Daddy Yankee Named Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year; Atlantic Strikes Deal With Fader Label; MusiCares Opens 2026 Wellness in Music Survey
The Latin Recording Academy will honor Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez — a.k.a. Daddy Yankee — as the 2026 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. The legendary Puerto Rican musician, a pioneer and ...
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April 7, 2026
Wireless Festival Canceled After Kanye West Blocked From U.K. Entry; Organizers Say ‘Antisemitism in All Its Forms Is Abhorrent’
The controversial Kanye West-headlining Wireless Festival in the U.K. has been canceled, following the artist’s denial of entry into the country due to his antisemitic hate speech over the past few...
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April 6, 2026
Why the Rehabilitation of Kanye West Says So Much About America
It’s hard not to imagine that, for around 140,000 people over two nights at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium last week, a sort of collective willful amnesia took place — as if the man onstage had never de...
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April 6, 2026
Young Miko Announces ‘Late Checkout’ Tour — 31 Dates, 11 Countries (EXCLUSIVE)
Rising rapper Young Miko has announced the dates for her “Late Checkout,” with 31 dates across 11 countries. Promoted by Live Nation, the tour kicks off July 3 at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, laun...
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April 3, 2026
Sunn O)))’s Beautiful Noise: Crushing Power Chords and Gorgeous Walls of Sound: Album Review
One late night a few weeks ago, a mechanical noise on the floor below my hotel room was keeping me awake — a muffled, wheezing, grinding sound like a garbage truck that would rev for a few minutes ...
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April 3, 2026
Inside the ‘Mania’ of Oasis’ Multi-Million Dollar Merchandise Campaign: ‘The Fandom Is Extraordinary’
“Oasis Live ’25” might have been the hottest ticket of last year, but nearly as intense was the frenzy to buy the reunion tour’s merchandise. The mammoth merch campaign around the band’s first tour...
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April 2, 2026
Pooh Shiesty and His Father Arrested in Connection With Robbery and Kidnapping Involving Gucci Mane
Rapper Pooh Shiesty and his father are among the suspects arrested in connection with a kidnapping and robbery involving Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane and two others at a recording studio in Dallas in ...
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April 2, 2026
Emei Signs With Nice Life-Atlantic Records (EXCLUSIVE)
Chinese-American singer Emei has signed with Atlantic in partnership with Nice Life Records, which is also home to the Marias and Lizzo, the companies announced on Thursday. She will release the ti...
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April 1, 2026
Shakira Announces ‘Intimate’ U.S. 2026 ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’ Tour Dates
Shakira has announced a special limited run of U.S. dates on her “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” world tour, in what is described as “giving fans a rare chance to see her electrifying production up clos...
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April 1, 2026
Warner Music to Acquire Independent Distributor Revelator
In a move that reflects the record industry’s shift toward serving independent artists, Warner Music Group announced Wednesday morning that it will acquire the B2B music platform Revelator, which p...
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March 31, 2026
Universal Latin America Ups Alfredo Delgadillo, Angel Kaminsky and Daniel Luna; ASCAP Unveils Award Winners
Universal Music Latin America has announced three key strategic appointments, under the leadership of Jesús López, chairman & CEO of Universal Music Latin America and Iberian Peninsula. Alfredo...
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March 30, 2026
Rush Performs for the First Time With Drummer Anika Nilles in Surprise Appearance at Canada’s Juno Awards
In a full-circle moment that effectively launched the band’s 50th-ish anniversary tour, Rush performed in public with new drummer, Anika Nilles, for the first time at Canada’s Juno Awards in Hamilt...
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March 30, 2026
Blackpink’s Lisa Announces Las Vegas Residency, ‘Viva La Lisa’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Blackpink’s Lisa has announced her first Las Vegas residency, “Viva La Lisa,” coming to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for two weekends: Nov. 13 and 14 and Nov. 27 and 28. The announcement makes L...
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March 29, 2026
James Blake Asks for His Production Credit on Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ to Be Removed
James Blake has asked for his name to be removed from the production credits of Kanye West’s track “This One Here,” featured on the artist now known as Ye’s new-ish album “Bully.” Blake says his “o...
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March 27, 2026
‘Queen II,’ the Album Where They Truly Became Queen, Gets a Glorious Deluxe Boxed Set Treatment: Album Review
Unlike their flawed first album, Queen’s second effort was nearly perfect to begin with. “’Queen II’ was the single biggest leap we ever made,” guitarist Brian May has said. “That’s when we really ...
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March 27, 2026
Melanie Martinez Skewers Toxic Masculinity, Online Haters, Climate Change and Lots More on the Intense Yet Accessible ‘Hades’: Album Review
Melanie Martinez may be the most reluctant star ever to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Even as she rose to stardom as a teenager on “The Voice” a dozen-plus years ago and platinum st...
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March 27, 2026
Raye Doubles Down on, Well, Everything With the Ambitious, Gloriously Sprawling ‘This Music May Contain Hope’: Album Review
It’s been said countless times that for a new artist, especially a successful one, the second album is exponentially more difficult than the first. There’s the constantly looming threat of the soph...
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March 27, 2026
Robyn Gets Erotic With the Ecstatically Pop-tastic ‘Sexistential’: Album Review
It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and contextual...
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March 26, 2026
Music Industry Moves: Seeker Music Closes $267 Million ABS to Grow Catalog; Warner Records Nashville Promotes Five and Hires One
Seeker Music Group, the music rights, publishing and record company led by songwriter Evan Bogart has successfully closed its inaugural $267 million asset backed securitization, with backing from i...
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March 25, 2026
How I Became a K-Pop Stan, by a Gen-X Alternative Rock Queen
If anyone had told me five years ago that I would be a K-pop stan, I would have snorted with derision and cited my decades of indie-rock cred. I grew up on the Boston music scene of the early ‘80s,...
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March 25, 2026
Olivia Dean, Lola Young, Lily Allen Among Nominees for Ivors Academy Songwriters’ Awards
Olivia Dean, Lola Young, Lily Allen, Coldplay, CMAT and Florence + the Machine are among the top nominees for the 71st annual Ivor Novello Awards, honoring songwriters and composers and taking plac...
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March 24, 2026
Shore Fire Media Names Angela Barkan CEO as Founder Marilyn Laverty Elevates to Chairman
Top communications firm Shore Fire Media has named Angela Barkan CEO as founder Marilyn Laverty moves to chairman of Shore Fire and senior advisor to parent company Dolphin. Laverty will focus on S...
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March 24, 2026
BTS Play First U.S. Concert in Four Years at Chilly but Intimate Invite-Only Spotify Event in New York
Just two days after their epic reunion concert at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, BTS performed a second show some 7,000 miles away — at New York’s Pier 17 for an exclusive fan event with Spotify on Mo...
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March 24, 2026
Jay-Z Says Kendrick-Drake Beef Went Too Far by ‘Bringing People’s Kids In,’ Explains Why He Refused to Settle Sexual Assault Lawsuit: ‘I Would Die’
The past decade has taught us to wake up to surprises, but it’s probably safe to say Jay-Z’s first interview in many years — let alone a sprawling conversation drawn from four hours of interviews —...
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March 20, 2026
Netflix and Warner Music Group to Team Up on Music Documentaries on WMG Artists and Songwriters
Warner Music Group and Netflix have formed a creative partnership under an exclusive multi-year first-look deal that will see the streamer make documentary series and films on the long-running musi...
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March 20, 2026
Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso Return From ‘Earth-Shattering Meltdown’ With the Kaleidoscopic ‘Free Spirits’: Album Review
Argentinian duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso were one of the breakthrough acts of last year, powered by a late 2024 appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert that lofted them into Anglo consciousness and...
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March 19, 2026
Majority Stake in Tina Turner Catalog Acquired by Pophouse
Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based company co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, has completed a transaction that sees Pophouse becoming an owner alongside BMG in “the music interests of the mu...
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March 18, 2026
Live Nation Employee Says He Regrets Calling Customers ‘So Stupid’ as Antitrust Trial Continues
The Live Nation ticketing employee who told a coworker that some of the company’s customers were “so stupid” called his remarks “very immature and unacceptable” during testimony at the company’s an...
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