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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 ​T​ikTok ​h​as destabilised both companies – and lays bare how record labels have become reliant on random virality

Shaad D'Souza

01, Mar, 2024 @3:28 PM

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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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