The world’s largest video sharing and social media platform YouTube paid over $6 billion between July 2021 and June 2022, to the music industry.

During the 12 months, the revenue contribution to the music industry is estimated to be $2 billion more than what YouTube announced last year. Lyor Cohen, the global head of music at YouTube also shared that they aim to be the biggest contributor to the music industry by 2025 through the twin engine of ads and subscriptions.

“Building a connected music experience across all music formats is great for fans, but it must also be great for artists”. – Lyor Cohen

Amazon will collaborate with NCT 127 to celebrate their upcoming album, featuring a special NCT 127 interview.

“질주 (2 Baddies)” dropping on September 16 will be the band’s fourth album. The collaboration interview is to be streamed on the Amazon Music Japan Twitch channel and will be available on Amazon Music YouTube soon after the airing. The interview will be streamed at 7 am ET on September 19.

NCT 127 has found massive success since their debut album “Regular-Irregular” which topped the iTunes charts in over 22 regions.

Willow Smith shares another taster from her upcoming album COPINGMECHANISM dropping on September 23.

“curious/furious” is the fourth song being shared from the album before its release. In addition to the song’s traditional pop mixing into the punk R&B vibe, its music video is a visual masterpiece. Directed by Jaxon Whittington and edited by Dana Trippe, it will compel you to hit the reply button every time.

The singer’s fifth studio album is the follow-up of 2021’s release, “lately I feel EVERYTHING”.

Marshmello will be remixing the ‘Monday night’ football theme song during the season opener between the Denver Broncos & Seattle Seahawks.

This will be the first ever remix of the ‘Heavy Action’ theme song for NFL which will be broadcast during the season opener on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. ET. As ESPN’s NFT music curator, Marshmello will be also handling the promotional spots at Monday’s game.

Here watch Marshmello’s announcement video for the event

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Devotion, a Korean war movie releasing just in time for thanksgiving will feature an end-credit song by Joe Jonas and Khalid.

Joe Jonas shared the news of his teaming up with Khalid for a new single for the feature film ‘Devotion’ on September 6. The news became public with Joe Jonas’ Instagram post with a sneak peek of what to expect from the song. The track is co-written by Ryan Tedder and Harv.

The Korean war epic is scheduled to be released on Nov. 23. Devotion is also going to be Joe Jonas’ debut on the big screen as fighter pilot Marty Goode.

The NFT market has gathered a lot of attention recently by becoming an 11.3 billion dollar industry in the year 2021. After that most of the mainstream media seems certain to enter the blockchain world. Similarly, Metaverse and NFTs are becoming quite notable in the music and entertainment industry.

In the most recent news, Sony Music has become the most recent entertainment business to embrace NFTs. A trademark application was submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Sept. 6.

The application covers the trademark for NFT Backed  Media Music + Podcast Production Artist Management + Music distribution services and more.

With the upcoming follow-up track to the single Pink venom; BLACKPINK is ready to climb up the charts once again.

The sweet news of the latest future release ‘Shut Down” was shared with the K-pop fans on social media on Sept. 6 with the track’s release date. The shared poster showed four BLACKPINK members posing with the song title written above. The single’s release date i.e. Sept. 16 at 12 a.m. ET was mentioned below Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé looking fierce in sportswear-inspired looks.

Shut Down is the second song yet offered from the album ‘Born Pink’.

During The Weeknd’s concert at Inglewood on Saturday night, fans were left devastated when the show stopped mid-song.

In the middle of just the third song of the night, the superstar unexpectedly walked off the stage. After the song ended, the singer walked back and apologized to the audience, sharing that he will not be able to entertain tonight as he had lost his voice.

“I’m going to make sure everyone is good, you’ll get your money back,” he told the shocked audience. “But I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.”

He later shared the statement on his Twitter that read: “My voice went out during the first song and I’m devastated. Felt it go and my heart dropped. My deepest apologies to my fans here. I promise I’ll make it up to you with a new date.”

The most recent announcement from the BBC about BBC One’s Frozen Planet II is a sweet treat.

The legend Hans Zimmer and insanely talented Camila Cabello have teamed up for the new track “Take Me Back Home” for the docu-series Frozen Planet II. The song will reportedly premiere on BBC Radio 1 on Aug 26.

The news was shared with the first look trailer for the Sir David Attenborough-narrated series. The series takes you through earth’s enchanted icy lands with the environmental challenges that the wildlife is facing there.

The rap queen returns with a raunchy one, just as she is.

Co-produced by Aaron Joseph, Malibu Babie, Dr. Luke, and Vaughn Oliver the R-rated track “Super Freaky Girl” was released on Friday.

The track samples Rick James’ 1981 hit “Super Freak” with a spicy opening verse that goes as:

“I can lick it, I can ride it while you slippin’ and slidin’ / I can do all ’em little tricks, and keep the dick up inside it / You can smack it, you can grip it, you can go down and kiss it / And every time he leave me ‘lone, he always tell me he miss it,”

Now you know that the Girl really is Super Freaky.

Prior to the release, a snippet of the song went viral on TikTok with an accompanying dance challenge building up a great hype for the song.