Want to know how to write and perform songs? Shawn Mendes, Madonna, or Diplo are happy to teach you. On Tuesday, talent manager Guy Oseary and entertainment executive Michael Powers launched Bright, a star-studded educational livestreaming platform that pledges classes and lessons from celebrities. Also slated to host sessions are …
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P-MRC, the joint venture of Rolling Stone’s publisher Penske Media Corporation and MRC, announced that it has invested in South by Southwest. The deal will make P-MRC a long-term partner with SXSW, as well as a shareholder, with The Wall Street Journal reporting P-MRC acquired a 50 percent stake in …
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Stevie Nicks has sold a majority of her publishing catalog to publisher and talent management company Primary Wave, the company announced Friday, with the Fleetwood Mac star becoming one of the highest-profile artists to capitalize on the booming song publishing acquisition market to date. Primary Wave didn’t share financial details …
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How do you release new music videos at a time when making them is dangerous? One art form has the answer to the industry’s quarantine woes: animation. For some artists who rushed to animated videos during Covid-19, avatars and CGI may prove a brief fad — but for Dreambear, a …
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“TikTok is the most important thing in music right now.” Statements like that, delivered recently by one industry executive, have become fairly common in the last year. TikTok users have been the jet fuel powering a slew of recent hits, shoving Doja Cat into the deep end of mainstream pop’s …
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Popular video game Fortnite— where Travis Scott hosted his explosive “Astronomical” concert earlier this year — announced on Tuesday a new series of concerts set to air in-game throughout September. Rapper Dominic Fike is kicking off the event, called Spotlight, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on September 12th, and the …
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Starting October 1st, Wiz Khalifa fans will be able to order food from an online menu curated entirely by the Grammy-winning rapper. Khalifa revealed details of “HotBox by Wiz” on Monday, sharing that he’d teamed up with Nextbite — a restaurant company that distributes delivery-only brands nationwide — to launch …
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As K-pop continues to devour the world, the record label and management company that developed BTS — one of the first K-pop groups to reach global superstardom in the streaming era — is looking to expand even further. Big Hit Entertainment first filed for its IPO in May, but on …
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On June 9th, Cumulus Media read out on its 424 radio stations a list of black victims of police brutality, including Breona Taylor, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and George Floyd. Cumulus’s tribute was supposed to air only on its urban-formatted stations. But it switched gears at the last minute and …
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In the last couple of months, United Talent Agency (UTA),which represents artists including Post Malone and Chance the Rapper, has closed 165 brand partnership dealsfor its artists. Co-heads of UTA’s music brand partnerships division Alisann Blood and Toni Wallace say they expect to close twice as many deals as in …
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