After Apple Music and Deezer increased the cost of their individual plans in markets including the U.S. — and as Spotify reportedly plots a bump of its own — Amazon Music is staying put on pricing for the time being. Amazon Music VP Steve Boom shed lig…
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Is TikTok Getting Banned? FCC Commissioner Urges Immediate Shutdown In the US
Is TikTok Getting Banned? FCC Commissioner urges immediate shutdown in the US amid growing national security concerns. Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urges the Council on Foreign Investment in th…
Taylor Swift Takes Positions 1 through 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart
Taylor Swift has dominated the Billboard Hot 100 top ten spots with tracks from her latest album, Midnights. She is the first artist ever to achieve this in Billboard history, but it’s worth noting that it comes with a caveat. Billboard has relax…
Spotify Car Thing Suffers Brutal Hack With Root Achieved — Company Says It’s “Unsupported and End-of-Life”
Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing accessory has been hacked and root achieved thanks to security loopholes. The Car Thing is ultimately a failed experiment from Spotify to try and give those with older cars easy access to music streaming. The devi…
SiriusXM is Now Standard in All Lucid Vehicle Dashboards
SiriusXM is now standard in all Lucid vehicle dashboards — all new and existing Lucid Air owners will receive access to SiriusXM’s platform and a free 3-month trial subscription. SiriusXM and Lucid Group announced that SiriusXM’s audi…
WME Signs Yusuf/Cat Stevens in All Areas
WME has signed legendary British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Yusuf/Cat Stevens in all areas. Leading entertainment agency WME has signed legendary British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, writer, and humanitarian Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Curren…
Artists, Industry Leaders, Legal Experts Join Together to ‘Protect Black Art’
Several artists, industry leaders, and legal experts have released an open letter in a call to Protect Black Art. The open letter was published in The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and urges legislators across the United States to…
Amazon Music Offers Full Catalog Access to Prime Members – In Shuffle Mode
Amazon Music expands its entire catalog of 100 million songs to Prime members in shuffle mode. Amazon Prime subscribers now have access to the entire Amazon Music catalog in shuffle mode and ad-free podcasts. The move comes as both Apple Music and Spot…
Kpop Singer, Actor Lee Jihan Among Victims of Seoul’s Halloween Crowd Crush
South Korean actor and singer Lee Jihan was among the victims of a deadly crowd crush event in Seoul over the weekend. At least 154 people died after a huge crowd gathered in Itaewon, Seoul to celebrate Halloween. More than 100 more people were left wi…
Frank Ocean’s Homer Launches Homer Radio with Apple Music
Frank Ocean is launching a new radio show called Homer Radio on Apple Music 1. The show is named after his luxury jewelry brand and will air every Thursday at 10 pm EST. The first episode hit on October 27 and featured French-born Ivorian/Guadeloupean …