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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Spotify announced earlier this year that it paid out a record $10 billion-plus to the music industry in 2024, bringing its total to nearly $60 billion since its inception in 2006. The company — the world’s largest paid music-subscription service by a wide margin — maintains that it pays out 70% of every dollar it generates to the music industry, a generous percentage for any business.

Boop! The Musical is beginning performances on Broadway TONIGHT (March 11) and the production has released a video of Jasmine Amy Rogers performing the show’s stunning closing song.

Dom Dolla is taking over New York City.

Thania Garcia The Songwriters Hall of Fame will recognize Stephen Schwartz — the arranger and composer behind the music from “Wicked,” “Godspell” and “Pippin” — as the recipient of the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala, slated for June 12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The Johnny Mercer Award is the most prestigious honor bestowed by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, is exclusively reserved for a songwriter or songwriting team who has already been inducted in a prior year and whose body of work is of “such high quality and impact that it upholds the gold standard set by the legendary Johnny Mercer,” per the SHOF.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer George Clinton has filed a $100 million copyright lawsuit against former business partner Armen Boladian and his Bridgeport Music company, alleging that Boladian fraudulently obtained copyrights to approximately 90 percent of his catalog. In the suit, filed today in Florida District Court and reviewed by Variety, Clinton claims that Boladian and Bridgeport, as well as Westbound Records, Nine Records, Southfield Music and Eastbound Records, unlawfully continue to profit off of his music.

Poppy took over Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (March 10) and gave a blistering performance of ‘The Cost Of Giving Up’.The metal singer took the stage – which was adorned with fog and a patch of flowers while sporting a white shaggy dress and red gloves. The performance sees her delicately sing the song and then transform towards the end with her loud blistering vocals screaming: “Can’t push me further down in the trench / Back against the wall / So you wanna test me now?/ While the others beg and fail to repent / They were fit to suffer / And I will dig back out,” during the song’s breakdown.‘The Cost Of Giving Up’ was featured on Poppy’s latest LP ‘Negative Spaces’.

Selena Gomez and her fiancé Benny Blanco shared an update about their upcoming joint album with a romantic post.

Lea Michele is heading on the road this spring to perform a series of intimate concerts!

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Amy Poehler appeared on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast and revealed that she shared a dressing room with none other than Meryl Streep during the “SNL50” special last month. And yes, Meryl Streep took her role in the “Close Encounters” sketch very seriously. “There were so many people that people had to share dressing rooms,” Poehler said.

Ed Sheeran has confirmed that he has a new single coming next month, and has shared numerous titles of songs featured on his upcoming album.The singer, songwriter and guitarist has been dropping hints with fans about new material over recent weeks, and has now taken things to the next level.Last month, the ‘Shape Of You’ hitmaker got fans talking when he changed his profile photo on Instagram and hinted to fans that a new album – seemingly called ‘Play’ – would be “coming soon”. He had also shared suggestions of that title in late 2023, telling fans in the run-up to the new year: “See you sometime next year when we press Play again on pop, and have a good holiday season x.”Now, it looks like new music from Sheeran is imminent, as he has shared lots of details with fans via a private Instagram account.Responding to rumours that music would be coming on March 21, he told one follower: “I gotta be honest, it’s now been pushed back a week and a bit.

Jelly Roll is one of the most popular acts in country music right now and his song “Liar” is his seventh #1 single on country radio.

Drake has begun teasing his “next chapter”, which he claims may leave fans “feeling uneasy” – see what he had to say below.The Canadian ‘Hotline Bling’ rapper took to Instagram last night (March 10) to begin the tease, writing: “U know I grew up non confrontational and always treated this game as a sport where my pen won gold, but my these days the podium has been hard for all of us to ignore.”He goes on to continue: “I understand that this next chapter may leave you feeling uneasy, but I hope you see my honesty as clarity not charity that answers some questions especially about the unanswered texts you’ve been sending me.”Check out the full post below.A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi)While the opening line of his post about growing up “non confrontational” may seemingly refer to last year’s heated beef with Kendrick Lamar – in August Drake teased “round two” in the feud though nothing has stemmed from it so far – the rest of his post is up to interpretation.Drake most recently teamed up with PartyNextDoor for the album ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ on Valentines Day.

Thania Garcia Kendrick Lamar‘s “GNX” — a November release — has notched a third non-consecutive week as the No. 1 album in the United States. Results for the Billboard 200 arrived well over 24 hours behind schedule, likely due to an unusually close finish between the top three albums: Lamar’s “GNX” landed back at No.

At the beginning of March, Yung Lean performed a headlining show at Stockholm's Avicii Arena (also known as Globen). For over two hours, Lean celebrated his decade-plus rise from Swedish internet meme to global rap star, playing cuts from across his catalog as well as a couple of songs from his as-yet unreleased album Jonatan (out on May 2 via Lean's own label World Affairs).

Haim have shared the official release date for their comeback single ‘Relationships’ in a new teaser video.The sister trio – comprised of Este Haim, Alana Haim and Danielle Haim – have been hinting at their return to music this past month. They previously shared a snippet of their forthcoming single ‘Relationships’ with a TikTok of them singing along to the track in a bathroom and shared the single’s cover art on their Instagram.Haim also previewed the song at their fan event in London last Friday (March 7).

Ringo Starr has a concert special airing on CBS tonight, titled Ringo & Friends at the Ryman, and we have all the details about the celebrity guest performers who will be joining him onstage!

’s son Baylee will also be taking the stage in a massive way: He just made it onto American Idol. With an original song, no less.Baylee is 21 (sorry, where did the time go?) and a college student in Georgia, but he shares his father’s passion for music. Not so much for dance, though.

Halsey has shared official footage of the live debut of her new single ‘Safeword’. Check it out below.The single marked Halsey’s first material since their fifth and latest studio album ‘The Great Impersonator’, which was released last October.

Tool have been booed over their two sets at their Tool In The Sand festival in the Dominican Republic.The band kicked off their first-ever destination music bash in the Caribbean this past weekend (March 7) in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic across two resorts; the Hard Rock and Royalton resorts. The stacked line-up for the fest featured the likes of Primus, Coheed and Cambria, Mastodon, and more. Tool were slated to perform two headlining slots.Maynard James Keenan and co.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Simon Fisher-Becker, a British actor known for his roles in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and the series “Doctor Who,” died Sunday. He was 63. Fisher-Becker’s death was announced by the actor’s husband on Facebook, with no cause of death or location revealed.

After months of teasing, Ariana Grande finally has a date for the deluxe version of her 2024 album eternal sunshine. Titled brighter days ahead, the project drops March 28, and will contain six new songs, as well as a completely new album cover of Grande levitating in the air.