Chance the Rapper’s manager, Pat Corcoran, has signed an agreement with Warner Music. Corcoran’s entertainment company, Nice Works, will now have its artists’ works released with the support of Warner Music Group. Per Corcoran, Nice Works aims to provi…
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Pluto TV Dips Its Toes Into Music Videos With an MTV Deal
Internet-based television platform Pluto TV just announced an agreement with MTV Music. Is this the start of something bigger in music? The deal brings with it three new music-video channels for Pluto users to choose from. These channels — a general ‘…
Chance the Rapper Announces 35-Date North American ‘Big Day’ Tour
Chance the Rapper is set to embark on a 35-stop North American concert series, which will be called The Big Day Tour. Chance the Rapper, aka Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, released his debut studio album, The Big Day, on July 26th. The 22-track record fea…
Kraftwerk Wins Its 20-Year Copyright Infringement Battle — Over a 2-Second Sample
20 years later, Kraftwerk is handed a copyright-infringement win; the decision could affect countless EU musicians. Kraftwerk, the legendary electronic-pop band based out of Germany, has just won a 20-year-long lawsuit over the unauthorized use of a tw…
Prince Once Refused to Collaborate With Nas Because He Didn’t Own His Masters
In the end, Nas says Prince helped his career by refusing the collaboration. During a recent interview, Nas provided music fans with an interesting bit of history: Prince, an all-time great in his own right, opted not to collaborate with the hip-hop le…
Rapper Fabolous Threatens Defamation Lawsuit Against TMZ
TMZ is standing by their story despite legal threats from Fabolous. Rapper Fabolous, whose real name is John David Jackson, is now threatening to sue TMZ for defamation. He issued the threat in response to a TMZ article that provided details and inform…
Russell Simmons’ All Def Digital Edges Dangerously Close to Bankruptcy
All Def Digital, a youth-oriented digital-content platform owned by Russell Simmons, is on the brink of insolvency. It was recently revealed that the company has filed for ‘assignment for the benefit of creditors,’ or ABC, a financial maneuver that is …
Lil Nas X, Sony Music Face $25 Million Infringement Lawsuit Over ‘Carry On’
Lil Nas X and Sony Music are now being targeted in a $25 million copyright-infringement lawsuit. A California-based publisher, The Music Force, claims that Lil Nas X borrowed from “Carry On,” a song written by Bobby Caldwell, a successful 67-year-old p…
Double-Digital Revenue Growth at Universal Music Buoys Vivendi’s Bottom Line
French conglomerate Vivendi saw its revenues increase by close to 14% during the first half of 2019, to just over $8 billion. This growth was due in large part to the company’s music division—namely Universal Music Group (UMG). UMG’s first-half 2019 e…
Live Nation Shows Off Healthy Q2 2019 Earnings — And Says Smaller Artist Tours Are Booming
Live Nation has posted encouraging Q2 2019 profits — and Wall Street is taking notice. Having secured earnings equal to $.41 per share during the second quarter of 2019, Live Nation was able to top the $.39 per-share earnings that experts predicted. It…