Photo Credit: Gabriel Gurrola PPL paid out £54.3 million ($73.2 million) to performers and rightsholders this quarter, bringing its total payments in 2025 to £277.7 million ($374.6 million). On December
Photo Credit: Gabriel Gurrola PPL paid out £54.3 million ($73.2 million) to performers and rightsholders this quarter, bringing its total payments in 2025 to £277.7 million ($374.6 million). On December
Photo Credit: The Grammy Museum The Grammy Museum prepares to open a limited-run exhibition dedicated to Selena Quintanilla, launching on January 15, and curated in collaboration with her sister. The
THE VENICE KID pulled up with a grin and a mantra on Say Less, a Christmas Day drop from the Venice Beach-raised wordsmith, producer, and melodic mood-setter. Known by those
Photo Credit: Hot 97 (Instagram) Hot 97 introduces a fresh group of hosts amid the cancellation of “Ebro in the Morning,” and New Yorkers aren’t too happy about it. On
In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list
Photo Credit: Kevin Horvat Hackers say they’ve scraped Spotify’s entire music library – compiling the metadata behind 256 million tracks tied to over 15.4 million artist profiles – and intend
HAWC GRIFFIN turned his pen towards purpose in Share the Gift featuring Harlem Cason and Craig Winfrey, a seasonally harmonic hymn that places faith, unity and reflection back at the
Was it me or was it the medium? 2025 was not the greatest year for television, for me at least, and I felt myself let down more than once by
It’s been another great year for metal its many, many forms. After years of death metal seeming like the extreme metal subgenre of choice, black metal had its biggest year
Gunna delivering a Wun World Tour performance. Photo Credit: Desmond K Ye Photography Despite concerns about rap’s ability to fill venues – and the genre’s 2025 sales-share slip – Gunna’s