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James Blake Asks for His Production Credit on Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ to Be Removed

James Blake has asked for his name to be removed from the production credits of Kanye West’s track “This One Here,” featured on the artist now known as Ye’s new-ish album...

‘Queen II,’ the Album Where They Truly Became Queen, Gets a Glorious Deluxe Boxed Set Treatment: Album Review

Unlike their flawed first album, Queen’s second effort was nearly perfect to begin with. “’Queen II’ was the single biggest leap we ever made,” guitarist Brian May has said. “That’s when...

Olivia Dean, Lola Young, Lily Allen Among Nominees for Ivors Academy Songwriters’ Awards

Olivia Dean, Lola Young, Lily Allen, Coldplay, CMAT and Florence + the Machine are among the top nominees for the 71st annual Ivor Novello Awards, honoring songwriters and composers and taking...

Music Industry Moves: Janet Jackson Brings Her Catalog to Believe Music Publishing

Janet Jackson has signed a long-term deal with France-based independent music company Believe that sees her entire catalog moving to the company’s recently launched publishing division. Jackson needs no introduction but...

Netflix and Warner Music Group to Team Up on Music Documentaries on WMG Artists and Songwriters

Warner Music Group and Netflix have formed a creative partnership under an exclusive multi-year first-look deal that will see the streamer make documentary series and films on the long-running music...

Majority Stake in Tina Turner Catalog Acquired by Pophouse

Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based company co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, has completed a transaction that sees Pophouse becoming an owner alongside BMG in “the music interests of the music catalogue” of...

Love Rocks NYC Concert, With Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige, Hozier and More, Raises $6 Million-Plus for Charity

Thursday’s tenth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, featuring Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige, Hozier, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Mavis Staples, Nile Rodgers & Chic and more, raised over $6 million...

Harry Styles Defies Expectations With the Slow-Burning but Satisfying ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’: Album Review

Superstars don’t stay relevant by doing what people expect, or even what their fans necessarily want. Crowd-pleasing is a fast track to becoming a nostalgia act, where an artist is trapped...

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