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How Much Are Loretta Lynn’s Royalties Worth?
Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday at 90, has long been one of country music’s queens, with 16 No. 1s and 51 top 10s on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart throughout her six-decade long career. All told, the singer and songwriter’s catalog — best known now for “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” — generates about $1.62 million annually, according to a Billboard estimate. Lynn’s recordings — which are largely owned by Universal Music Group through deals she struck with Decca and MCA, before leaving to work with a variety of labels in the 1990s and onward — generated about $1.18 million in revenue last year, based on Billboard’s estimates. Those recordings bring in about $440,000 in publishing revenue. Am...
Kanye West Returns to Twitter After Instagram Restricts His Account: ‘How You Gone Kick Me Off’
Kanye West is back on Twitter after being restricted by Instagram. The 45-year-old rapper and fashion mogul, who now goes by Ye, returned to Twitter after a nearly two-year absence on Friday (Oct. 7) to call out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for placing a hold on his Instagram account. Ye was recently restricted by the Meta-owned social media platform after he made posts that some groups are considering “anti-Jewish,” NBC News reports. Instagram deleted content from Ye’s page and placed a restriction on his account because he violated the company’s rules and guidelines, a Meta spokesperson told the news outlet. “Look at this Mark,” Ye captioned his tweet on Friday, which included a snapshot of himself standing alongside Zuckerberg. “How you gone kick me off instagram. You used to be my n—-.” Bi...
Kanye West Says He’s Going Death Con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE, After He Gets Some Sleep
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West is continuing to spiral and unfortunately, mostly for him, the Internet is keeping all the receipts. After getting silenced on his favorite social media platform of choice, Instagram, Ye returned to Twitter, and on Saturday evening (Oct. 9), he revealed plans to come for Jewish people. But before we get to that impending struggle, as for why he got paused on Instagram in the first place, it was due to the back and forth texts he shared between himself and Sean “Diddy” Combs where he seemed to go Anti-Semitic or Anti-Jewish, allegedly. “Look at this Mark,” Ye wrote on Twitter along with an old photo of him and Meta’s head honcho Mark Zuckerberg. “How you gone kick me off Instagram.” Quite easily, obviously. Yeah, he als...
Kanye West’s Instagram Account Restricted for Policy Violations
Kanye West’s Instagram account has been restricted for policy violations, the Hollywood Reporter reports. Meta, the social media platform’s parent company, restricts user’s accounts for repeated policy violations—preventing them from posting, commenting, or sending messages—but did not specify which content from West’s account was removed. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Meta and Kanye West for comment. West had previously posted screenshots of alleged texts with Sean “Puffy” Combs aka Diddy. In one post viewed by Pitchfork, captioned with “Jesus is Jew,” he says “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” The post is no longer on West’s account. West later posted a plea to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerber...
Ari Lennox Talks New Album ‘Age/Sex/Location’ and Her Bond With Summer Walker
Ari Lennox is putting herself first. Last month, the DMV native released her sophomore album, age/sex/location, after amassing incredible success with the project’s first single and Hot 100 hit, “Pressure.” The 12-track effort highlights Lennox’s liberating road to self-care and is an entrancing listen for R&B lovers and hapless romantics. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “It’s a beautiful thing being single,” Lennox says in her latest Billboard News interview. “Dating is hard. I feel like it’s really responsible to make sure that I’m taking care of myself mentally before I decide to embark on any relationships. So I’ve just been focusing on self-love and pouring into myself.” Lennox admits that her boundless attempt...
‘I Still Find It Hard to Surrender’: 6 Takeaways From Bono’s New Yorker Festival Interview About His New Book
You may know Bono as the lead of one of the greatest rock bands of all time, U2, but the rock star is so much more than that. The 62-year-old Irishman is activist in the fight against AIDS and campaigns for Africa while being a 22-time Grammy Award-winning artist. A man known for his social justice philanthropy and unique voice, Bono kick-started the night at the New Yorker Festival on Friday (Sept. 7) with a performance of “With or Without You,” “City of Blinding Lights,” and “Vertigo.” Then ahead of the release of his debut book, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, in November, Bono chatted with renowned New Yorker journalist David Remnick to discuss the upcoming memoir about his life. He spoke of the loss of his mother, how he came up with the name of the book, his bandmates reading the boo...
Cash Money’s Bryan and Ronald Williams, Charlamagne Tha God Among Honorees at 30th Annual Living Legends Foundation Gala
“The only thing I want to do is create platforms for people who have something to say.” So noted Charlamagne Tha God while accepting the Living Legends Foundation’s Jerry Boulding Radio Executive Award. The co-host of WWPR (Power 105) New York’s syndicated show The Breakfast Club, multimedia entrepreneur and best-selling author was the first of eight honorees saluted at the foundation’s 30th anniversary awards gala, held Friday evening (Oct. 7) at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood. Crediting various mentors in his career, such as iHeartMedia’s Thea Mitchem and Bob Pittman, Frankie Crocker and Tom Joyner, plus his wife (“Strong men are secure enough to get out of the way and let strong women lead” he said, followed by hearty applause), Charlamagne implored the audience to “ask yourself every...
Margot Robbie Would Be ‘So Happy’ to See Lady Gaga Take on the Role of Harley Quinn in ‘Joker 2’
While it hasn’t been officially confirmed that Lady Gaga will play Harley Quinn in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, it’s definitely possible — and Margot Robbie is fully onboard with that potential casting. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Robbie, who most recently played Quinn in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, has portrayed the former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist since 2016’s Suicide Squad and said she’d be “so happy” if Gaga took on the role in the Joker sequel. “It makes me so happy because I said from the very beginning is all I want is for Harley Quinn to be one of those characters, the way, like, Macbeth or Batman always gets passed, you know, from great actor to gre...
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EDM.com Playlist Picks: ACRAZE, Chee, HI-LO and More [10/07/22]
The electronic music community is constantly evolving with new sounds every week, as artists become more innovative with their compositions. EDM.com’s weekly “Playlist Picks” series highlights the top releases in the genre, helping uncover the latest tracks that will soon dominate the dance music scene. EDM.com Top Hits ACRAZE – Believe (feat. Goodboys) Rêve – Whitney Galantis – Runaway (U & I) [Subtronics Remix] Festival Hits 2022 HI-LO – LOKMOTIF Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Subfocus & Dimension – Ready To Fly Chee – Spangled Electronic Avenue ORIKO & St. Levi – Together MitiS & Amidy – It’s All You Au5 & EMME – Another Way These tracks can be accessed on the EDM.com Top Hits Play...
Watch Killer Mike Perform “Run” on Fallon
Killer Mike appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Friday night (October 7) for a performance of his summer single “Run.” He also sat down for a brief interview segment to discuss the track as well as his cameo on Ozark and meeting Laura Linney. Watch it happen below. Killer Mike and El-P just wrapped a tour in support of 2020’s RTJ4, a stint opening for Rage Against the Machine on their long-delayed reunion tour. He released “Run,” his first solo song since his 2012 album R.A.P. Music, in July. Dave Chapelle and Young Thug make guest appearances on the track. A few months later, Killer Mike joined Meek Mill, E-40, and more at a virtual signing ceremony for California’s new statewide law restricting the use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions. His other recent TV appea...
Why Attendees of This Fiji Music Festival Leave the Island With “Feelings They Can’t Quite Articulate”
Whether it’s to a faraway beach or your couch for a weeklong Netflix bender, we all take vacations. But when was the last time you went somewhere that actually changed your life? This year will see the eighth edition of the dance music festival Your Paradise on Fiji’s Mamanuca Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean typically frequented by digital nomads and affluent honeymooners. One of the world’s top destination fests, it’s more akin to a scene out of Nearest to Heaven than a rave. Your Paradise, which returns December 10-16, is what happens when daydreams shed their quixotic layers and become reality. Just a few of the sights and sounds you’ll experience at the festival include breezy beach yoga sessions, sun-kissed Catamaran rides ...
Subtronics Remixes “Runaway (U & I)” On Eighth Anniversary of Galantis’ Dance Anthem
On the eighth anniversary of their biggest hit, Galantis recruited one of the hottest names in bass music to transform the single. For over a year now, Subtronics has been asking fans if they “f*ck with that weird sh*t?” while dropping a heavy remix of the Swedish duo’s dance classic, “Runaway (U & I)” live. Now, just days after announcing his “ANTIFRACTAL” tour, he’s officially released the fan-favorite remix in honor of its namesake’s eighth anniversary. Incorporating the ageless vocals that propelled the original to mainstream success, Subtronics gives fans a moment to take a deep breath before sending them to the upside-down. In tried-and-true fashion, he interpolates some goofy samples from the 2007 video game Te...
