Last week, the highly sought after NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club swiftly came to the music industry. On Thursday, UMG-owned label 10:22PM announced it had signed a virtual boy band made up of Bored Ape characters called KINGSHIP, and then on Friday Timbaland launched a new entertainment company, Ape-In Productions (AIP), which uses Bored Ape […]

A man was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday (Nov. 17) for setting fire to a car last year in what authorities said was an attempt to intimidate a potential witness in R. Kelly’s sex trafficking trial. Michael Williams, 38, of Valdosta, Georgia, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn. Williams, who had been

One month before the release of Majid Jordan’s third album, the duo’s vocalist, Majid Al Maskati, was in Dubai — chasing Swae Lee. “For a year, we were trying to get a hold of Swae, and we couldn’t,” says Al Maskati. He and his Majid Jordan partner Jordan Ullman, were racing against time to secure

Adele is officially going country this week with her new “Easy on Me” collaboration, featuring Chris Stapleton. The song, a duet version of her current Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper, will land at country radio first thing Friday, Billboard has learned. The Stapleton rendition is on the deluxe version of Adele’s album 30, also out Friday.

Sting has been quietly shopping a bundle of his publishing, master recording and neighboring rights royalties since the spring. According to sources familiar with the package, the rights boast a combined annual income in the range of $12 million to $13 million. The Sting camp is looking for a pricey multiple floor at 30 times

As clubs have been reopening and shows have been resuming across the country after a year-and-a-half-long COVID-19 pandemic pause on the live music industry, Billboard is asking club and touring DJs about their experience fading between spinning at home to performing back outside. Lala the DJ‘s taste in music is all over the map, just

Spanish powerhouse Beatriz Luengo and Cuban artist Yotuel Romero have tied the knot… again! Both artists, who have been going strong for almost 20 years and have two children together, revealed the big news on social media Wednesday (Nov. 17). Similar to their first wedding in 2008, the couple married for the second time in

The BPM Festival will launch its inaugural Brazil event this February in the coastal city of Camboriú, Santa Catarina. Happening Feb. 25-27, the event will take place at a recently opened massive multipurpose artistic complex called Surreal. For extra festive flavor, the timing of BPM Brazil coincides with the country’s annual Carnival celebrations, and a