• Taylor Swift Label Head Says She Made Less Than $500K Last Year on Spotify

    Taylor Swift pulled her catalogue from Spotify last week, and the streaming giant's co-founder Daniel Elk responded earlier this week saying that the 1989 songstress would have made $6 million from Spotify streaming by the end of the year. Now Swift's label boss, Scott Borchetta, is claiming in an interview with TIME that last year his label only made $496,044 from her domestic Spotify streams, a number drastically smaller than what Elk suggested they could expect this year. According to a Spotify representative, the global payout last year was $2 million.

  • Culture Club Cancels Reunion Tour, Boy George Cites Health Issues

    Though '80s pop stars Culture Club were set to begin their first tour in over 12 years this Saturday, the band has been forced to cancel the entire tour due to problems with singer Boy George's vocal cords. According to BBC, the 53-year-old singer has discovered a polyp in his throat, and may require surgery to have it removed.

  • Richard Branson Denies Offering Led Zeppelin $800 Million to Tour Days After Robert Plant Called the Story 'Rubbish'

    Virgin billionaire Richard Branson has joined Robert Plant in denying that there was ever an $800 million contract to try and get Led Zeppelin to reunite for a tour. The singer called the "Daily Mail" article "rubbish" earlier in the week, and now representatives for Branson have confirmed the story was fabricated."Forbes" reached out for comment on the matter and here is what the publication got: "There is no truth to the story that Richard Branson offered members of Led Zeppelin £500m[illion, or $800 million] to reform and carry out a tour, nor had Richard been in discussion with the band about any such tour," a representative wrote via email.The fake deal would have earned Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham some serious dough, but, as the story went, the frontman ripped up the contract in front of stunned promoters. Branson also reportedly offered to rename one of his jets "The Starship," in reference to the band's old touring airplane, to shuttle the band from venue to venue. This was also untrue.

  • Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Delivers Spine Tingling Rendition Of "The Star Spangled Banner" [WATCH]

    Hold on your caps and get ready to be moved America, because we now have another guitar great rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Pearl Jam's Mike McCready performed the National Anthem before the Seattle Sounders playoff name on Monday and left not a person in the crowd unmoved. The pioneer of the guitar rendition is Jimi Hendrix, whose version at Woodstock in 1969 remains a shining moment in anthem history and a master class in covering a song.

  • Video of 12-Year-Old Taylor Swift Belting the National Anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers Game Surfaces [WATCH]

    Taylor Swift had the makings of a star even when she was a 12-year-old. Old video footage of the young "Shake It Off" singer performing the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers game in Pennsylvania recently went viral.Swift, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, is shown in the brief clip below belting the last few lines of "The Star-Spangled Banner," including the challenging "o'er the land of the free" part, "The Huffington Post" reports. The singer does a spectacular job, considering her age at the time. I am sure no one knew Swift would one day rule the charts after listening to her performance, but she had plenty of years to improve. The next T.Swift is out there, though, so do not disregard any youngster you see belting out the beloved song.In case you missed it, New Zealand singer Lorde was also an excellent singer at age 12.

  • Azealia Banks Shares 'Chasing Time' Music Video from New Album 'Broke with Expensive Taste' [WATCH]

    Just last week, Azealia Banks surprise-released her debut album "Broke with Expensive Taste," and today she has shared the music video for the album's latest single "Chasing Time," which you can check out below. The vaguely sci-fi-inspired video is shot in black and white and features some intense choreography, making it reminiscent of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" and Madonna's "Vogue" music videos, which gives this clip — and the song itself — a simultaneously modern, retro and futuristic feel.Check out Azealia Banks's — slightly NSFW — "Chasing Time" music video here, via MTV:

  • Paris Hilton Named 'Best New Female DJ of the Year' at NRJ DJ Awards; Deadmau5 Responds

    The votes are in and, according to some, or to many, Paris Hilton is the Best New Female DJ in the world. She has been given this title by the NRJ DJ Awards, an award show done by French radio station NRJ, according to Dancing Astronaut. The award show started in 2012 and takes place each fall in Monaco. The station also just celebrated the 15th year of its original music awards show, The NRJ Music Awards, in conjunction with TF1, one of the major French-government-owned TV networks.Voted by fans, Hilton has found herself on top of the game in France. The award show also gave out plaudits to Steve Aoki for Producer of the Year, David Guetta for Best French DJ of the Year, Avicii for Album of the Year for "True" and Best Male International DJ, Martin Garrix for Best Live Performance and Club Hit of the Year with "Animals" and DJ Oriska for Best Female DJ of the Year.With Hilton's popularity and polarizing nature in dance music, she might soon be topping that poll, though deadmau5 has an opinion on that.

  • David Bowie Shares Music Video for New Song 'Sue (or in a Season of Crime)' [WATCH]

    David Bowie’s career-spanning, greatest-hits album "Nothing Has Changed" is set for release this coming Tuesday, Nov. 18, but today the legendary singer has shared the music video for the album’s opening track “Sue (or in a Season of Crime),” a new song recorded specifically for the compilation.According to "Stereogum," Tom Hingston and Jimmy King directed the film-noir-inspired video, which takes place in a shadowy alley while the song’s lyrics and footage of Bowie in a recording studio are projected across the wall.You can check out Bowie’s music video for “Sue (or in a Season of Crime)” here:
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