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Travis Scott has set a new record with his recent "CIRCUS MAXIMUS" tour.Billboard reports that Scott's latest engagement is now the highest-selling tour by a solo rapper in history, grossing $209.3 million USD from 1.7 million tickets across 76 dates. The biggest stop of the tour was in Melbourne with two shows that grossed $12.6 million USD from 115,000 tickets, while his last nine shows accounted for 24% of the tour's total attendance with 415,000 tickets."CIRCUS MAXIMUS" triumphed over La Flame's "Astroworld: Wish You Were Here" tour between 2018 and 2019 as it sold more than twice the tickets of and grossed thrice as much as its predecessor. He sold 53% more tickets per show in comparison to "Astroworld," played more than 20 shows and increased his ticket prices by 65%.JAY-Z has come c...

J. Cole's Dreamville Festival is set to make its return in 2025.The artist and his label announced that the annual event will be returning to Raleigh, North Carolina's Dorothea Dix Park on April 5 and April 6, 2025 for another weekend of music, art, food and more. This year's Dreamville Fest welcomed 100,000 attendees from all 50 US states, Washington D.C. and over 20 countries worldwide, with SZA, Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown serving as headliners alongside Cole himself.The festival generates an economic impact of more than $145 million USD for the greater Wake County area and holds space for dozens of local food trucks, artisans and muralists. A portion of proceeds from the 2025 festival will go to the Dreamville Foundation and Dix Park Conservancy nonprofit organizations.Tickets for Drea...

Kendrick Lamar is looking to open at No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200 with GNX.HITS Daily Double reports that Dot's surprise album is projected to earn 291,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including a whopping 325 million on-demand audio streams. If estimations are correct, the pgLang artist would have averaged 27 million streams per songs, earning 10 million more per track than predecessor Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.Lamar surprised fans with GNX as the weekend hit, with Sounwave producing the record alongside contributions from the likes of Jack Antonoff, Mustard, Kamasi Washington and more. Also joining Dot on the album were Roddy Ricch, SZA, mariachi singer Deyra Barrera. The project marked his first full-length release since departing Top Dawg Entertainment.Click ...

Drake has filed a second legal petition against Universal Music Group in regards to Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track.Billboard reports that Drizzy is now accusing the record label of defamation claiming that it was aware of the song's lyrical content, and it could have stopped Dot from releasing a track "falsely accusing him" of being a "predator" and "certified pedophile." His lawyers wrote, “UMG … could have refused to release or distribute the song or required the offending material to be edited and/or removed,” adding, “But UMG chose to do the opposite. UMG designed, financed and then executed a plan to turn ‘Not Like Us’ into a viral mega-hit with the intent of using the spectacle of harm to Drake and his businesses to drive consumer hysteria and, of course, massive revenues....