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La T y La M’s “Amor The Vago,” featuring Malandro de América, leads the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart for a 10th consecutive week (chart dated March 15). The song, released Aug. 23 on Zelaya Producciones/ Grace Music, is the second one to rule the tally in 2025, after Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera […]
The 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards Live at took over SXSW in Austin, Texas, this week, celebrating the biggest names in the audio storytelling space. The event, which took place at ACL Live at The Moody Theater, was hosted by Jack O’Brien and Miles Gray of The Daily Zeitgeist, and a number of stars took the stage […]
Harlem weeps. Jim Jones sat down with Ebro on Apple Music’s Rap Life Radio show and talked about the back and forth he’s been getting into with fellow Diplomat Cam’ron recently. When Ebro brought up their recent drama, Jones downplayed the situation, saying, “I don’t want people to think I’m going back and forth, I’m […]
Drake wants to go podding. The Toronto rapper took to his moodboard/finsta account plottttwistttttt and posted a couple of clips from a relatively unknown podcast called TanksGodPod hosted by two young women: Luda Podgorna and Elena De Napoli. The clips show the pair playing a game of “Would You Rather” with one of the captions […]
Lil Yachty didn’t hold back when asked about his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter organization. The Atlanta rapper slammed BLM during an appearance on Quenlin Blackwell’s Feeding Starving Celebrities cooking series earlier this week. “BLM is a scam,” Yachty replied when asked about his philanthropic endeavors in recent years. “BLM was literally a scam.” Blackwell […]
Laura Jane Grace set out to make a point with a recent performance of a new song. It turns out, the song went right over the heads of the people she was hoping would hear it most.
On Friday (March 7), Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted a town hall as part of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour across the country in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and invited Grace to perform on stage. One of the songs she performed — her February released “Your God (God’s D–k)” — caused immediate outrage online over its profane lyrics and religious themes.
In the song, Grace makes a point that while religious conservatives have a problem using the proper pronouns for trans people, they seem to have no problem imposing gender on an omnipresent, non-physical deity. “Does your god have a big fat d–k? ‘Cause it feels like he’s f—ing me,” Grace sings on the track. “Are his b–ls filled with lightning?/ Do they dangle like heaven’s keys?”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Grace said that the purpose of the song was to open people’s eyes to the double standard of gender constructs today. “I’m not being profane to be profane, I’m not just saying ‘d–k’ to say ‘d–k.’ I’m asking a genuine question,” she said. “If you refer to your God as he and him, but you will not refer to a transgender person with the pronouns that are theirs … that’s just insane.”
Grace continued, adding that the outrage itself was representative of the larger problem around the right’s attack on trans people. “It’s such blatant hypocrisy. You can’t prove God exists with biology or chromosomes,” she said. “So if you’re gonna throw science continually in my face, let’s stick to that: Your god doesn’t exist.”
Sanders’ event was aimed at protesting president Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ proposed plans to cut federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid that low-income families rely on. “4,000 people came out to say: NO tax breaks for billionaires,” he wrote on Instagram following his Kenosha event. “NO cuts to Medicaid. NO oligarchy. NO authoritarianism. NO MORE billionaires buying elections.”
The White House has since stated that Trump “will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” but has alleged that there is “waste and fraud in entitlement spending” without providing concrete evidence of where that waste and fraud exists in programs like Medicare or Medicaid.
American Idol contestant Doug Kiker has died at age 32. The singer’s sister, Angela Evans, shared the news with a Facebook post on Wednesday, writing, “It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the passing of my brother Douglas Kiker.” “He was sooo loved and will be missed by so many!” she […]
Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” was hit with a copyright lawsuit in 2024 over Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” and the judge handling the case is unlikely to dismiss it. Billboard took to the streets to gather public opinion about the lawsuit. Keep watching to see what people think. Do you think that Miley Cyrus’ […]
What happens when a beloved pop star, a RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, a lucky fan and one piece of discarded jewelry collide? As Chappell Roan and Violet Chachki proved, that particular formula leads to online chaos.
In a viral TikTok posted over the weekend, one of Roan’s fans revealed that her roommate had a very rare piece of memorabilia — a single earring that Roan wore during her second weekend performance at Coachella 2024. “me everytime I remember my roommate caught Chappell Roan’s earring at the weekend 2 Coachella set and it just lives in my room,” the fan wrote over a video of the earring sitting in a frame on their bookshelf.
The video went so viral, in fact, that Roan herself saw it and decided to comment revealing some key context around the earring. “Ok the tea is I was very much not supposed to throw them because I didn’t realize they were violet chachki’s and she loaned them to me,” Roan wrote. “I apologized profusely& it’s fine loll but Iconic nonetheles [sic].”
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Chachki, never one to waste an opportunity to create some funny drama, posted a video response to Roan’s comment, jokingly threatening to take the singer and her stylist Genesis Webb to court over the missing trinket. “This means f–king war. My long lost earring that I have been searching high and low for has been discovered by the children of the internet,” she said in the clip. “And you will pay Genesis Webb and Mx. Roan!” The caption for her video summed up her feelings: “justice for my bare lobes!!!!!”
At this point, even Webb herself chimed in, commenting on Chachki’s video by apologizing and offering to make amends. “I bend the knee, holding a plate of Swarovski crystals and cheese I can’t pronounce,” the stylist wrote. Chachki responded with a series of thinking emojis, followed by a few knife emojis.
For anyone who was convinced that the fan was in actual trouble, Chachki set the record straight in the comments — they responded to Chachki’s comment on their video saying that if the queen wanted her earring back, “we will make sure it gets back to you queen.” Chachki responded, saying they could keep the jewelry. “No diva it’s fine — Earrings are meant to be lost. Just keep supporting queer art,” she wrote with a purple heart emoji.
All the “drama” comes hours before Roan drops her much-anticipated new single “The Giver.” After initially premiering it on a November 2024 episode of SNL, Roan revealed to Country Heat Weekly that the purpose behind the track was simply not that deep. “I’m not trying to convince a country crowd that they should listen to my music by baiting them with a country song,” she said. “I just think a lesbian country song is really funny, so I wrote that.”
Check out the original TikTok and Chachki’s hilarious response video below:
Word Collections is enhancing its capabilities by offering a new service that will provide global royalty music publishing collections from digital service providers (DSPs) via direct deals.
As part of this new service, called Songwriter Collections, Word Collections is expanding its potential client roster by offering collection capabilities to DIY indie songwriters. It’s an apparent attempt by the firm’s founder/CEO, Jeff Price, to duplicate his earlier successes with TuneCore and Audiam, two digital platforms he co-founded and subsequently sold.
Word Collections currently administers the publishing catalogs for Metallica, Eight Mile style (Eminem), Greta Van Fleet, Jason Mraz, Grace Potter, Silversun Pickups, John Oates, Songwriters Guild Of America, The Offspring’s Bryan “Dexter” Holland, Shriekback, George Carlin, Margaret Cho and Jerry Seinfeld, among others.
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Word Collections says it has direct licensing, data exchange, auditing and royalty collections from digital platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer and Qobuz, which generate over 90% of digital royalties.
The DSP licensing deals facilitate the payment of digital mechanical and performance royalties directly to Word Collections, thus bypassing all the intermediary administration fees deducted by collection societies around the world as the royalties flow through the system back to songwriters and publishers, according to Price.
While Word Collections will charge an administrative fee for this service, Price claims it will provide “faster and higher payouts” than if the songwriters’ digital royalty payout had remained in the traditional global collection system of waiting for payouts from local societies. That’s because freeing digital royalties from the traditional system “untangles it from what’s cumbersome and inefficient” and the retained administration fees that system has. “Besides, the traditional societies are very good at non-digital collections,” Price says.
What’s more, Price says that Songwriter Collections’ proprietary systems reduce “inefficiencies, fraud, inaccurate data, and the possibility of losing royalties” through the black box mechanisms employed by some societies of making distribution payouts by market share when a recording is not matched to the song’s publishers.
Price says that songwriter collections from around the globe go through a number of intermediaries, each taking a fee, before the royalties reach the songwriters and publishers. “In the end, those fees could collectively amount to songwriters losing out on about 30% in Europe; and as much as 50% from royalties flowing from territories outside Europe,” he says. While Word Collections will charge a 20% administration fee, he points out that’s lower than what normally happens when collections are made by other entities, pointing to the cited percentages for Europe and territories outside Europe.
“The existing system is so incredibly complicated and complex and it just doesn’t have to be that way, and that’s what Songwriter Collections does, it eliminates those issues,” Price says. “You get paid all the money; and you can see everything,” due to the removal of all the middlemen in collecting performance and mechanical royalties for digital plays.
While Price says his new service bypasses collection societies around the globe, for the U.S., Word Collections will still need to collect royalties from the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) due to the blanket compulsory license. And while the MLC doesn’t charge a fee for its administration in collecting royalties from U.S. digital services, Songwriter Collections will charge a fee on royalties from the MLC.
But he says songwriters and publishers who sign up with Word Collections will benefit from its “bespoke technology stem called Concello, which is a real-time tracking and audit system built specifically for the MLC.” He adds that this system recovers and extracts all the money the MLC collects for songwriter’s songs.
Other differences that Songwriter Collections offers:
A six-month term, with a 30-day notice after the six months that allows the songwriter to terminate if they are unhappy with the service;
Songwriters/publishers can pick and close the countries they would like to use the service for.
Songwriters/publishers can also choose what songs they want the service to cover. In other words, they don’t have to assign their entire song catalog to the service.
“This project began at TuneCore as I figured out how things worked and how to get this done,” Price says. “This has been my Moby Dick. It took me 14 years to get this done.”
