The settlement ends a particularly ugly period in the Recording Academy’s history.

On Jan. The academy formally dismissed Dugan on March 2, 2020. While still interim chief, this April, Mason oversaw the decision by the academy to end the nominations review committees, which Dugan had claimed were rife with conflicts of interest. 4, 2020, two weeks after she was put on leave, that said the academy had […]

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna made their relationship more than official with an NYC Barcade date on Wednesday night.

Both fashion killas stepped out in complementary ensembles, with Ri wearing a pink slip dress and matching fuzzy hat while Rocky posed in a leather jacket and pants set, to their PDA-packed date night — but only after she was stopped by a bouncer for forgetting her ID. The A$AP Mob member gushed over his […]

Trick Daddy had some choice words to say about Beyoncé, and the Beyhive buzzing is certainly buzzing about it.

He later took shots at her husband, East Coast hip-hop heavyweight and 23-time Grammy-winning artist Jay-Z, whom he doesn’t believe should be crowned as the greatest rapper alive. “What I said was I don’t think Beyoncé could sing and that Beyoncé is to R&B what Jay-Z is to the state of hip-hop in New York at […]

Billboard’s two worldwide tallies rank songs based on streaming and sales data from more than 200 territories.

The Italian quartet first reached the region with “Zitti E Buoni,” the winning song in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Billboard’s two global charts began last September and rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by MRC Data. 2 after two weeks atop […]

Denis Handlin has exited from Sony Music Australia, the company he has guided since 1984.

As previously reported, The Sydney Morning Herald has detailed allegations of discrimination, bullying and harassment within Sony Music Australia. As reported on the weekend in a fresh article, Sony Music has engaged an Australia-based external counsel to handle ongoing investigations into the company’s workplace culture. Handlin’s epic career with Sony Music began in May 1970 […]

“I got the Foo Fighters’ contract and it said, ‘Compensation: $0.'”

For the first time in 15 months, live music is returning nationwide after the global coronavirus pandemic ravaged the industry. In this installment, Lance Sterling describes the Foo Fighters’ June 15 underplay performance at his venue the Canyon Club in Southern California. The is in this endless loop for why it’s not paid out, and […]

She’ll be the third youngest solo artist to receive a lifetime achievement at the BET Awards.

Queen Latifah is 51 — midlife, perhaps, but hardly the age when you expect to start receiving lifetime achievement awards. The youngest was Whitney Houston, who was just 37 when she was honored at the first BET Awards in 2001. While 37 may be awfully young to get a lifetime achievement award, it’s a good […]