Six months ago, Money Man had 400,000 Spotify monthly listeners. Now he’s at 4.9 million. Much of that boost comes from the trap rapper’s Kobe Bryant tribute song “24,” which further soared in popularity after Lil Baby jumped on a remixed version in August. But that collaboration wasn’t just good …
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When you think of West Coast hip-hop, a few things may come to mind — with Cypress Hill and marijuana high on the list. In Covid quarantine, weed dispensaries were deemed essential businesses by every state with a regulated cannabis system; Cypress Hill, despite not having released any new music …
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K-pop‘s world domination seems to get closer by the day. Just months after the folks at Big Hit Entertainment celebrated their star groupBTS‘ chart-topping success with album Map of the Soul: 7 —which became the South Korean icons’ fourth consecutive LP to go Number One in the U.S. — the …
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Producer and songwriter Mark Ronson is selling a stake in his extensive catalog to song acquisition investment company Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Hipgnosis announced on Thursday. This continues the increasingly attention-drawing buying spree for Hipgnosis founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis, who made his career managing the likes of Beyoncé, Elton John …
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In the last week, both Live Nation and AEG — the two biggest live-entertainment companies, in that order — announced refund-related procedures for fans in possession of now-unusable concert tickets. Understandably, people have questions. Can I get a refund for my canceled concert? AEG is automatically refunding patrons for canceled …
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Colbie Caillat, Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday. UnCancelled is the most recent — and one of the larger — of the online …
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In January, the Atlanta-based hip-hop producer TM88 received an urgent call from the rapper Lil Uzi Vert, who was craving a beat reminiscent of his hit “XO Tour Llif3.” Over the next few days, the two men spent hours on FaceTime perfecting a track together. “He’s like, ‘take that out …
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This is the fifth installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read earlier pieces in the series here. From the moment Jacqueline Saturn wakes up — at 4:47 a.m. each day, on …
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In the past few months, Spotify’s reputation within the music industry has hit a new low. Since the company said goodbye to its biggest industry-facing champion, global head of creator services Troy Carter, in September last year, Spotify has: (1) been sued by Warner/Chappell in India for copyright infringement; (2) …
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Homecoming, the Beyoncé concert film documentary that dropped on Netflix Wednesday, arrived with a little (or not little) surprise in tow: a two-hour, 40-track live album, available for immediate listening on all major music-streaming services. The hefty new record, titled Homecoming: the Live Album and featuring recordings from Beyoncé’s headline …
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