The recorded music industry made $21.6bn (£15.7bn) last year, the highest figure since 2002.
Revenues grew by 7.4%, driven by the success of artists like Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Drake in the charts.
BTS had the best-selling a…
The world's largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children's charities.
Jafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel's…
Singer, Irene Logan, ‘Adunle’ songstress Abiana and Poetra Asantewaa will perform at the maiden edition of the Entertainment Achievement Awards.
There shall also be performances from Okyeame Kwame, Tulenkey, Kweku Flick, Kofi Jamar, and…
Amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp said it will reopen its theme park in Mexico starting Thursday, and both of its California properties to the public on April 3.
The company, known for roller coaster rides such as the…
Cineworld has announced it will reopen US cinemas next month, followed by the UK in May, after signing a deal with Warner Bros to show films in theatres before they are streamed.
The company will open a handful of its Regal cinemas in t…
Warner Music has signed a deal with China's Tencent to help it break into the fast-growing Asian market.
The US record label said the venture with the Chinese tech giant will help make its artists like Dua Lipa and Ed Sheeran "impossibl…
Bobby Brown Jr died of an overdose of alcohol, cocaine and the powerful opioid fentanyl, according to a coroner's report.
The son of R&B singer Bobby Brown, Brown Jr died at his Los Angeles home on 18 November last year.
The 28-year-…
As humans, we sometimes take certain actions which we wish we hadn't and while some of us call it regrets, actress Moesha Boduong says she prefers to say they are lessons.
According to her, whatever she has been through, both in her car…
Modern African music is altering perceptions of the continent as part of a global cultural shift that marks a “big moment”, Nigerian music artist Burna Boy told Reuters after hailing his first Grammy award.
Burna Boy was awarded a Gramm…
Singer Jennifer Lopez and former New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez said on Saturday they were “working through some things” and that reports of them splitting up after almost four years together were inaccurate.
Celebrity we…
Kylie Jenner is fielding intense criticism after asking followers to donate money to a fundraising campaign for the medical expenses of a makeup artist who was injured last week.
Makeup artist Samuel Rauda was injured in an unspecified …
Nicki Minaj’s mother has filed a civil suit in the death of the rapper’s father, Robert Maraj, who died last month in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
The $150 million lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf of her mother, Carol Maraj, against …
U.S. musician Lizzo is making a reality TV series to find big women to join her on stage.
“It’s time to find my dream team of beautifully talented big grrrls,” the “Good As Hell” singer, a three time Grammy winner and role model for bod…
Although she has parted ways with Rufftown Records, a label she was on for about two years, singer Fantana has revealed that she co-owns the songs she released with the outfit.
Fantana, who released songs So What and Girls Hate On Girls…
The world is losing 10 million hectares of forest each year, about the size of Iceland - which accounts for 12 to 20 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
It is the reason why the United Natio…
One of the MCU’s most beloved characters has always been Loki, as played by Tom Hiddleston. Now Thor’s good for nuthin’ brother is among the first Marvel characters to get his own series on Disney+. In fact, Loki was one of the very first …
Blue Ivy Carter is showing off her first Grammy with style!
On Wednesday, Beyoncé shared a video montage on Instagram which featured a timeline of all 28 of her own Grammy Award wins — the most wins by any female artist — as well as a s…
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is moving from October 2021 to April of 2022, two industry sources with knowledge of the situation tell Variety. It is expected that the country-music themed Stagecoach festival, which takes pla…
Cardi B is not backing down in the face of continued complaints about her spicy performance of “WAP” at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. After laughing off the pearl-clutching response on Fox News to her bump-n-grind routine with Megan Thee S…
Momager Kris has spoken. Kris Jenner finally broke her silence on her daughter Kim Kardashian's divorce from Kanye West.
On Thursday during an appearance on The Kyle & Jackie O Show, Jenner addressed Kardashian and West's split for the …
The Beijing International Film Festival, which typically takes place in mid-April but has yet to announce its plans for 2021, is considering a postponement to August.
Organizers are hoping that by late summer the pandemic will have subs…
Russia’s communications watchdog said on Friday that Twitter had yet to respond to its requests to remove banned content after threatening to block the social media platform in one month unless it complied with its demands, the Interfax ne…
Khloe Kardashian appreciates her fans speaking out in her defense! The 36-year-old reality star commented on a viral TikTok video, in which user Mackin Casey slams a recent story comparing a photo of Khloe from 2007 and one from present da…
Nominees for this year's Oscars have been told that appearing by Zoom will not be an option.
In a letter to nominees, the show's producers said they had gone to "great lengths to provide a safe and enjoyable evening for all of you in pe…
It is no news that comedian Clemento Suarez is soaring in his career; day in day out, he keeps receiving praise from all angles, from followers on social media to players in the entertainment industry.
While it is something that could m…
JAE5 is regarded as one of the Ghanaian UK based most coveted producers and his recent GRAMMY win (for production on Burna Boy’s ‘Twice as Tall’ album) is proof of that! Today, he releases the track and visuals to his debut single ‘Dimensi…
Piers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom.
Some 57,000 complaints have been made about the show's coverage of the Oprah Winfrey intervi…
Walt Disney Co’s two theme parks in California will reopen on April 30 to a limited number of guests, the company said on Wednesday, over a year after they closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attendance will initially be capped at …
Universal Studios Japan (USJ) opens on Thursday its $550 million, pandemic-delayed Mario-themed attraction in a major leap by games maker Nintendo Co Ltd beyond the virtual world.
The addition in Osaka bulks up USJ’s roster of franchise…
Hollywood star Johnny Depp will seek permission on Thursday to appeal against his defeat in a London libel case last year over a tabloid article which labelled him a wife beater.
High Court Judge Andrew Nicol ruled last November that De…
Come 27th March 2021, some personalities in Ghana’s arts and entertainment industry will be awarded for excelling in their various fields of endeavour.
The Entertainment Achievement Awards will celebrate these entertainers and entertain…
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards slumped to less than half of last year's total, continuing a pandemic-fueled slump for live awards shows, once considered one of the few remnants of must-see broadcast television.
The three hour, 43 minute …
The Ghana Music Rights Organization has announced that the date for the Board election will be held on Tuesday, March 30, 2021.
This election would be conducted nationwide to make it relatively easy for all members to vote for their pre…
New licensing agreement will significantly boost the availability of UMG’s African and International repertoire to music fans across Africa ; New markets include South Africa, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal; with UMG catalog…
Spike Lee has again been asked to chair the Cannes Film Festival jury after last year's event was cancelled because of the pandemic.
The Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing director will be the first black film-maker to take on the prestig…
Last year, Covid-19 wiped out the UK's summer festival season. Only a handful of shows were able to take place, and most of them were in car parks or socially-distanced green field sites.
This year, organisers are a little more optimist…
Former Top Gear presenter Sabine Schmitz - famous for being the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours - has died aged 51.
Schmitz said last year that she had been diagnosed with cancer in 2017.
Schmitz had become synonymous with…
In an empty London theatre, producer Nica Burns sits among the once buzzing stalls hoping audiences will soon be back for good to watch live performances.
A year ago, Burns shut the doors to her six theatres, where shows like “Harry Pot…
Britain’s Prince Harry has spoken to his elder brother William for the first time since he and his wife Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview but the talks were “not productive”, a friend of the couple said on Tuesday.
During the interview a…
Yaphet Kotto, best known for playing a villain in 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die, has died at the age of 81.
The actor also played a crew member in 1979 sci-fi movie Alien, and starred in US TV police drama Homicide: Life on the…
Organisers of the Golden Globe film and TV awards have pledged to increase diversity by making sure at least 13% of its membership is black.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been criticised after a report said none of its 87 …
An Ed Sheeran painting has raised more than £51,000 for a cancer charity.
The 30-year-old's colourful abstract artwork, called Splash Planet, was won by Claire Faynor from Vermont in the US, who paid £20 for a raffle ticket.
Ms Fayno…
While he is adept at releasing songs, many of which become hits, Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has been criticised for the poor quality of his music videos.
However, in his usual blunt manner, he has hit back saying he is not a fool to…
French actress Corinne Masiero stripped naked on stage during a scaled-back Cesar Awards ceremony in Paris to protest the government’s months-long closure of theatres and cinemas during the coronavirus pandemic.
She had “no culture no f…
Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish took the top prizes at the Grammy Awards on Sunday but Beyonce was the big winner on a history making night marked by multiple wins for women.
Beyonce’s four Grammys on Sunday - two of them shared with bes…
Christian Longomba, one of Kenya’s legendary urban musical duo dubbed The Longombas succumbed to recurrent brain cancer on Saturday, March 13, 2021 in the USA.
He’s been battling the deadly disease for six years. He was 37.
His death…
THEY broke up for almost seven years, reunited in 2019 and gave Ghanaians new tracks but now it seems Hiplife group, Praye, are on the outs again leading to speculation that the group is dead.
However, a member of the group, Praye Tinti…
Nigeria Afrobeats stars Burna Boy and Wizkid have both won awards at the 2021 Grammys.
Burna Boy won the Best Global Music Album category while Wizkid won the Best Music Video for his song with Beyoncé; Brown Skin Girl, from Lion King: …
GOtv is always striving to make it easier for customers to receive the best service. This is why we are launching the Enhanced Decoder Notification (EDN) functionality to enhance communication with subscribers. GOtv also strives to give su…
According to Page Six, the singer, who's nominated for four awards, has decided against attending the music industry's biggest night because he's still upset that his album "Changes" is nominated in the pop category instead of the R&B cate…
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