Billboard Sells SPIN to Private Equity Group, Stereogum Founder to Buy Back Site

By Bruce Haring

In the red? Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannuli have put their multi-million dollar home on the market after their ongoing legal troubles left them “strapped for cash.”

Following Diddy's speech at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala calling out the Recording Academy for not taking rap and R&B music from black artists seriously, Mase had a few thoughts to get off his chest.

Last weekend, Diddy used his pre-Grammys acceptance speech for the Salute to Industry Icons Award to call out the Recording Academy for its lack of diversity and transparency—particularly with respect to black music. Today, former Bad Boy signee Ma$e posted a lengthy Instagram note piggybacking off the speech and calling out Diddy’s shady business dealings. The Harlem rapper also called out Diddy for not allowing him to buy back his publishing for $2 million.

MADRID —  In news that will move waves in the Spanish-speaking world, international actor, Latin Grammy and Billboard winning recording artist Miguel Bosé looks set to become the subject of a bioseries from Shine Iberia, Elefantec Global and Legacy Rock Entertainment.

In 2002, AC Entertainment co-founded and produced the first Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival alongside Superfly. The sold-out event, which featured headliners Widespread Panic and Trey Anastasio at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tenn., earned the top festival honor at Billboard’s first Live Music Summit and Awards in 2004. (It won again in 2006 and 2008.) 

Next chapter? Ronnie Ortiz-Magro is in the process of selling his Las Vegas home amid ongoing drama with his ex-girlfriend Jen Harley, with whom he shares 21-month-old daughter Ariana Sky.

Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía is confirmed to participate at the 2020 LatinFest+ produced by Billboard and Telemundo in a superstar Q&A taking place the week of April 20-23 in Las Vegas. Formerly known as Billboard Latin Music Week, the now substantially bigger week-long event and panel series will unite La

Summer lovin', happened so fast...

Music publications Spin and Stereogum will no longer be a part of Billboard-The Hollywood Reporter Media Group, parent company Valence Media announced today (Jan. 16).

In her song “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift sings the line, “I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream” -- a fact the new owners of her recordings are learning the hard way as she uses her pulpit to warn the music industry of “potentially harmful” private-equity companies.The object of her scorn: Ithaca Holdings chief executive Scooter Braun, who bought her former label, Big Machine, for $300 million with financing from private-equity companies including The Carlyle Group and other parties.Her

SXSW is adding some big names to its 2020 lineup.Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and Jack Dorsey are among the new speakers revealed for the Austin, Texas festival.Others speakers announced include Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs, musician Diplo, former UN diplomat Gabo Arora, Disney Park's Bob Chapek, Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, writer and researcher Dr. Brené Brown, Amazon's Dr.

Less than two months after his twin brother Zachary and his wife Tori welcomed a daughter Lilah, Jeremy Roloff , 29, and wife Audrey have become parents to a son. The Little People Big World alums took to Instagram on Jan.