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The music industry’s over-reliance on TikTok shows how lazy it has become | Shaad D'Souza
Universal’s decision to remove its artists from TikTok has destabilised both companies – and lays bare how record labels have become reliant on random virality
Shaad D'Souza
01, Mar, 2024 @3:28 PM
Live Nation reports 2023 biggest year ever for concert turnout and ticket sales
Entertainment giant, owner of Ticketmaster, announces soaring revenue, with 145 million fans attending 50,000 events in 2023
Adrian Horton
22, Feb, 2024 @10:24 PM
Grammys 2024: who will win the big categories – and who should
Can Taylor Swift sweep the board after an astonishingly successful year, or will strong songwriting from the likes of SZA and Olivia Rodrigo be acknowledged?
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
31, Jan, 2024 @3:00 PM
Marvel, crypto, Tucker Carlson: eight of 2023’s most spectacular downfalls
Experts on tech, politics and culture weigh in on the year the hype faded and what could come next
Owen Myers
19, Dec, 2023 @9:00 PM
The 50 best TV shows of 2023: No 8 – Top Boy
Adrenaline-packed gangster drama, spot-on political critique and a final scene so stunning it will be talked about for years – this is the revolutionary show’s best outing ever
Alexi Duggins
11, Dec, 2023 @10:00 AM
M1onTheBeat: The Mixtape review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
The producer’s desolate soundscapes have helped define the rap subgenre, and his first mixtape injects the mainstream with even more affectingly warped and ghostly tunes
Alexis Petridis
23, Nov, 2023 @2:51 PM
‘My son was like: what?! Mum!’ Norma Winstone, the British jazz singer being sampled by Drake
After growing up poor in east London, Winstone became one of the UK’s most adventurous jazz performers – and is now unexpectedly on a huge rap hit
Jude Rogers
14, Nov, 2023 @11:00 AM
Drake: For All the Dogs review – repetitive rap titan needs new tricks
Dismal lyrics and wearying misogyny find too much airtime among the Canadian rapper’s most invigorating songs in years
Shaad D'Souza
09, Oct, 2023 @9:59 AM
Drake to take break from music to focus on his health
Rap star follows new album with news of indeterminate sabbatical due to suffering stomach problems ‘for years’
Nadeem Badshah
06, Oct, 2023 @9:51 PM
‘It was freaking bananas!’: rap luminaries on the defining moments from 50 years of hip-hop
From Brooklyn block parties to globe-trotting glory, some of the biggest names in hip-hop share their personal highlights from five decades of rap, rebellion and raising the roof
As told to Thomas Hobbs
25, Aug, 2023 @6:00 AM
Pusha T review – the greatest snowman
The fiery former drug dealer turned US hip-hop star is a sharp, electrifying wordsmith who addresses friends, family and the finer things in life
Kitty Empire
05, Aug, 2023 @1:00 PM
J Hus: Beautiful and Brutal Yard review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Back after three years away, the east Londoner is polarised between feelgood summer tracks and bleak reportage – but he makes it all cohere, despite some terrible sex puns
Alexis Petridis
14, Jul, 2023 @4:00 AM
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