If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Ed Sheeran is helping to kick off the 2021-22 football season this week with a special performance at the NFL’s 2021 Kickoff Experience, ahead of the season-opening game between the Dallas Cowboys and defending […]

Performing rights organization BMI released its annual report on Wednesday (Sept. 8), revealing record highs in both distribution to writers and publishers as well as domestic licensing revenue. Despite the ongoing effects of COVID-19, the PRO has reported increasing revenue in both 2020 and 2021. For the fiscal year, ending June 30, 2021, BMI totaled

Justin Timberlake is cherishing the 15th anniversary of his sophomore solo album FutureSex/LoveSounds on Wednesday (Sept. 8). The “4 Minutes” singer wound back the clock on Instagram by posting a throwback photo of JT dramatically gazing toward the camera from his chair perched by the disco ball from the album cover. He also shared snippets of the music

Earlier this year, Maluma announced his Papi Juancho tour, becoming the biggest and most ambitious 2021 tour announced post-pandemic in the United States, for any genre. But amid the COVID-19 and Delta variant spikes, the Colombian superstar admits it was challenging to return to touring. “It was kind of hard and difficult to go back

Travis Barker is opening up about flying for the first time since 2008, and how with girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian makes him feel “invincible” when he’s with her. In an interview with Nylon published on Wednesday (Sept. 8) that praised him as “The Pop-Punk Patriarch,” the 45-year-old Blink-182 drummer and his girlfriend traveled back in time to relive the trips he’s taken

J-pop alternative artist Haru Nemuri performed a virtual live mini-concert on KEXP’s “Live on KEXP at Home,” and the full performance can now be seen on the Seattle radio station’s YouTube channel. The 26-year-old rapper and music producer performed five numbers on the show, including her first live rendition of her upcoming new single “Déconstruction”

Nicki Minaj has been getting back in the booth recording new material, and she’s asking some A-list R&B singers to join her. The superstar rapper shared a snippet of what sounds like new music on her Instagram Story Tuesday night (Sept. 9), but Minaj wasn’t spitting her usual rapid fire bars in the video that

Jerry Blair, the record executive who, as head of promotion at Columbia Records from 1988 to 2000, played a decisive role in the success of artists like Mariah Carey, Will Smith, Wyclef Jean, the Fugees and Ricky Martin, died Wednesday morning (Sept. 8), due to complications from COVID-19. He was 60. “I’m really affected to be

From winning the Pawnee Battle of the Bands to headlining the Edward Philips Senior Center Valentine’s Day Dance (with gigs at Li’l Sebastian’s memorial and the Pawnee Unity Concert in between), Mouse Rat is now officially a Billboard hitmaker. The fictional band from the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy

Nicky Jam captures his third straight top 10 effort as Infinity debuts at No. 9 on the Top Latin Albums chart dated Sept. 11. The set, released via La Industria/Sony Music Latin on Aug. 27, arrives with 5,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 2, according to MRC Data.