Warner Music Group has announced a global partnership with Madonna that encompasses a new agreement for her entire recorded music catalog. The deal that has Madonna returning to her previous longtime label home includes her Sire/Maverick/Warner catalog, plus her three most recent studio albums, MDNA, Rebel Heart, and Madame X, which were released by Interscope […]

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. The hit stage adaptation of Love Actually is returning to L.A., just in time for the holiday season. Love Actually Live is billed as a “multimedia concert celebration of the beloved holiday film,” featuring

Republic Records — home to pop superstars Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd — is launching its first international division in China, as part of a broader strategic expansion by Universal Music Group in the rapidly expanding music market. In creating Republic Records China, the world’s largest music company says it is also re-launching

Ed Sheeran extends his streak atop the Official U.K. Singles Chart into a seventh week with “Bad Habits” (Asylum), while The Weeknd enjoys the highest debut on the fresh frame. “Bad Habits” is the most-streamed and downloaded song during the chart week, to give Sheeran his longest-reigning U.K. No. 1 single since 2019, when “I Don’t

INXS kick another record, this time snagging a piece of chart history in the alternative rock veterans’ homeland, Australia. With the publication of the latest ARIA Albums Chart, dated Aug. 13, INXS – The Very Best lifts 43-33 to notch 468 non-consecutive weeks on the survey, more than any LP currently on the Top 100. In

Johnny Depp says he feels he is being boycotted by Hollywood as his latest film, Minamata, has yet to be released in the United States, calling his fall from Hollywood graces as an “absurdity of media mathematics.” Discussing the film in a new interview with The Sunday Times, Depp discussed the “surreal five years” he

Harvey Mason Jr., who assumed the CEO position at the Recording Academy in May after serving as interim CEO, continues to restructure the organization with the latest changes resulting in some high profile departures. Friday was the last day for Bill Freimuth, longtime chief awards officer; Lourdes Lopez, vp of communications, and Lisa Farris, chief

Farruko, smiling from ear to ear, donning an MLB-styled BBF jersey and bedecked in diamonds that are basically shooting rainbows, is wailing out the chorus to one of the most hard-hitting songs of the summer, the anthemic EDM banger “Pepas.” Before him, a sea of festivalgoers (30,000, to be exact) are losing their minds. It’s

George Harrison’s former No. 1 album All Things Must Pass returns to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart for the first time since 1971, as the set re-enters at No. 7 (on the Aug. 21-dated list) following its 50th anniversary reissue on Aug. 6. The album was newly mixed and reissued in a

Elton John and Dua Lipa’s collaboration “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 13) on Billboard, choosing the expertly created mashup of the Rocket Man’s classics with Lipa’s vocals as their favorite new music release of the past week. Created by Australia’s