An effort to honor officers who have died in the line of duty, Tactical Magic, a branding firm, posted a few billboards in Memphis that reads Blue Lives Matter. Lamar Advertising Company got wind of the efforts and decided to take the stance more worldwide with billboards in Ohio, Michigan, and Georgia. The efforts to show support for law enforcement, however, has taken a slight detour. Find out more down bottom.
(Photos) Universal Music Group Coughs Up 11.5M to Artists for Digital Royalties
The era of the online purchase, digital download, and streaming service definitely threw the music business for a loop and looks like there’s still hiccups in the system. Now Universal Music Group Coughs Up 11.5M to Artists for Digital Royalties Dispute and will forever change the royalty structure for artists from now on. How the money’s getting split and who else was behind the lawsuit besides Hip Hop’s own Chuck D is one thing, but exactly what changes???
Say What You Want, But Iggy Azalea Snagged 12 Billboard Nominations
Despite all of the slack she has received over the past few months, Iggy Azalea is running the Billboard Music Awards. Following Taylor Swift with 14 Billboard nominations and the big Grammy winner, Sam Smith with 13, Iggy Iggs pulls in a strong 12, including Top New Artist, Top Streaming Artist and Top Rap Artist. Lol, I know some people are going to be MAD! I-G-G-Y shares the Top Rap Artist category with J. Cole, Drake, Nicki Minaj and Ra Sremmurd. And because she made the rap artist list, you know she’s on the Top Rap Album list for The New Classic. [Super MAD with a cape] Rap albums include 2014 Forest Hills Drive, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, The Pinkprint and Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Check out the complete Billboard nominations list after the jump.
(Video) Rihanna Reveals Clips From First Digital Magazine Cover!! Available At Colette & Online
Rihanna Reveals Clips From First Digital Magazine Cover. Our Girl RIRI has been very busy theses days. She recently performed at the Grammy’s along side Kanye and Paul McCartney;she just celebrated her 27th birthday and she has fans so excited about her New album “R8”. The “Good Girl Gone Bad” songstress even released 2 teasers from her highly anticipated album.American Oxygen is currently number 5 on Billboard Go RIRI!!!!! Rihanna is no stranger to the camera. She has done countless photo shoots. Now last month Rihanna showed off some of her sexy images from her photo shoot with AnOther Magazine.Friday she posted an actual video from the shoot.It’s a digital limited edition so you better get it quick. Check out the clips after the jump.
Every Song From Drake’s New Mixtape Is Charting On Billboard
Drake Has already started off 2015 better then any rapper we have seen in a very long time . Every single song , like all 17 of the song , ALL OF THEM rank on Billboard and meet before the top 50 mark !!! Hop into the post for the details !!! #IFWT
Billboard’s Top 10 Album Sales, Week Ending 2/15/15 … Congrats To Drake On A #1 Album!
In just 3 days (as Billboard closes out its tally each week on Sunday nights and Drake dropped late Thursday night,) Drake managed to move 495k hard copies of his “mixtape,” If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late, as well as break a Spotify record with more than 17.3 million first-week streams. The project will undoubtedly go gold by next week’s charts (if not already,) and with Billboard’s new SPS (sales plus streaming) methodology, it’s actually already at 535k. No word whether this will ever be available other than digitally, but Drizzy’s official studio album, Views From the 6, is due out later this year. Get the full top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 below!
