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Jay Z Sells Tidal Streaming Service to Twitter’s Jack Dorsey: Read Our Original Tidal Scoop from 2015

Back in March 2015, we broke the story that Jay Z had bought a Swedish streaming service and was bringing in heavy hitters...

What Year is It? One Fifth of iTunes Top 100 Is Oldies, from “Sweet Caroline” to “You’re So Vain” to “Call Me Maybe”

Maybe it's a sign of needing comfort food music. Or maybe it's just that the current pop releases are not very satisfying. But 20 of...

Taylor Swift Updated “Love Story” is a Tragedy for Scooter Braun, Shamrock Capital, with 125K in Sales

Taylor Swift's "Love Story" has turned into a tragedy for Scooter Braun. Swift's re-record of her 2008 hit, "Love Story," sold 125,000 copies this week,...

Beach Boys Cash Out: Brian Wilson, Rest of Group, Sells Rights to Everything to Irving Azoff Company

No touring in 2020 and 2021 has put a large crimp in the Beach Boys organization. There's no money coming in. So rock and roll's...

MONDAY UPDATED Taylor Swift Socks it to Scooter Braun, Shamrock Cap with 6 Million Streams in One Day for New “Love Story”

MONDAY FEB 15 2021: The new "Love Story" sales are at around 84,000 just Friday and Saturday. SUNDAY: Wherever Taylor Swift is today. she's...

Taylor Swift’s Re-record “Love Story” Goes to Number 1, Basically Junks Shamrock Cap’s $300 Mil Purchase of Her Masters

Taylor Swift has turned Shamrock Capital's $300 million investment into her masters into junk bonds. Taylor released her first re-record, of her 2008 single "Love...

End of the Michael Jackson Beatles Catalog Saga as Sony Music Publishing Drops “ATV” from Its Name

It's the end of an era that began in 1995. Michael Jackson fans know all too well the saga of how Michael bought what was...

Jeep Pulls Springsteen After Arrest Reveal, Despite Reports Blood Alcohol Level Was Extremely Low 0.02

UPDATE The Asbury Park Press reports that Bruce's blood alcohol level was extremely low-- 0.02-- a quarter of the limit. The legal threshold...

See Bruce Springsteen’s First Ever Commercial, for Jeep, A Two and a Half Minute Soliloquy, No Song

Bruce Springsteen's first ever commercial for a product is for Jeep. It lasts two and a half minutes and has no song. It's called...

Despite Scandal: Country Singer Morgan Wallen Has 20 Singles in the iTunes Top 100, Album Sales Rose 16% This Week

Country singer Morgan Wallen may have really shown us a referendum on stupidity and ignorance. After being exposed by TMZ in a video using the...