Hip hop faces its midlife crisis
The end of Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s global tour has left a void in the most relevant musical genre of the 21st century, which is suffering from low sales and a lack of creativity
The Drake case and ‘fraudulent streams’: What the Spotify lawsuit reveals about the music business
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A complaint against the platform alleges that bots, VPNs, and impossible accounts have artificially boosted streams of the famous rapper’s music 23 hours a day — though the story isn’t really about him
‘Not Like Us’: Kendrick Lamar’s anthem that will blow up the Super Bowl LIX
What was born as a diss track against Drake is now an anthem denouncing appropriation and ‘cultural colonialism’
The resurrection of Luna Luna, the amusement park designed by artists such as Dalí, Basquiat and Keith Haring
A traveling exhibition currently in New York showcases the original installations, restored after being in storage since 1987, with funding from rapper Drake
The biggest hit songs have increasingly simple and repetitive melodies
A study has found that the melodic complexity of the most popular tracks has been declining over the last 70 years, with two steep drops that the researchers link to the rise of disco and hip hop
‘Two old men losing relevance’: Drake and Kendrick Lamar are fighting a ‘rap civil war’
One is a committed Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and the other has outsold Michael Jackson. For months, their rivalry has been rapped through songs that have targeted some of the industry’s biggest names
Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and others may vanish from TikTok as licensing dispute boils over
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Universal has not agreed to terms of a deal with TikTok and plans to stop licensing content from the artists it represents on the social media platform
Assaulting a musician to go viral on TikTok
Adele, Pink and Nick Jonas are just some of the artists who have had to halt performances due to the frequent lobbing of objects from the pit
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the first tour to gross over $1 billion, Pollstar says
The magazine predicts a big 2024 for Swift as well. It projects the Eras Tour will once again reach $1 billion, meaning Swift is likely to bring in over $2 billion over the span of the tour
Flood of AI-made songs sounds alarm bells in music industry
Spotify has deleted tens of thousands of tracks where bots were posing as listeners to increase the number of streams and raise royalty revenues
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