Celebrity Deaths Drive Music Sales in 2016 According to Nielsen, the unusually high number of deaths of iconic musicians this year and the rush of fans to scoop up their albums will likely boost the bottom lines of the major record labels. While co... Read More...
Coming to the Stage – “Tina: The Musical” According to The Hollywood Reporter, music legend, Tina Turner, will be the subject of a new theatrical biographical musical being developed in London by Netherlands-based Stage Entertainment. The show's workin... Read More...
Kanye’s Cray Cray Chronicles (Update Edition) After a very l-o-n-g series of psychobabble rants dating back to 2007, drop the mic twenty minutes into a concert moments, exit stage left moments after hitting the stage ninety minutes late with an average $25... Read More...
Prince Sets Another Record According to Billboard, the music industry bible, Prince’s death has made history in a way no other artist, dead or alive has done. The king of Purple Rain has set new standards on the charts as fans worldwide ... Read More...
Nile Rodgers Expands The Musical Fold If you really know music, you know the massive body of the music contributions of Nile Rodgers. After taking home three Grammy® Awards for his 2014 Daft Punk/Pharrell collaboration “Get Lucky,” his mastery of r... Read More...
A New Billboard Chart Today, Billboard and Twitter officially launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts. These new, interactive charts are projected to redefine how fans interact with and influence popular content by ranking the... Read More...
Black Artists: Your Services Are No Longer Needed A letter has been sent out to Black Artists across the industry from "The Industry". In case you didn't notice 2013 was a year that didn't have a single black artist top the Hot 100 on Billboard as a lead p... Read More...
