Doja Cat and Roddy Ricch named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list

Doja Cat has apologised to Australian guitarist Plini after she used a snippet of his song during her recent performance at the MTV European Music Awards.The singer delivered a hard rock twist on ‘Say So’ at last month’s ceremony, with viewers noticing that she had seemingly used part of Plini’s 2016 hit ‘Handmade Cities’.In a subsequent statement, Plini said of the performance: “The lack of prior communication about it or proper credit upon release is disappointing but not particularly

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorYouTube has unveiled its lists of the Top Songs from 2020, with Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” topping the list. The full tallies appear below, along with other factoids — and check out Variety‘s feature on Ricch from last week’s “Hitmakers” awards, where he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

NEW YORK -- Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year.Apple announced Thursday that Ricch achieved the feat with his hit “The Box” and his debut album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.”Rappers dominated the Top 5 most-streamed albums on Apple Music, with Lil Baby’s “My Turn,” Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake — LUV vs.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Weeknd, Doja Cat, Ty Dolla $ign, Brandy, Bebe Rexha, Nav, Bryson Tiller, French Montana — that’s not the top of a 2020 singles or albums chart. Those are just a few of the artists handled by the rapidly growing Salxco, the management-and-more concern founded by Wassim “Sal” Slaiby.

Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year.

Apple Music just revealed their year end charts for 2020 and Roddy Ricch reigned supreme!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRoddy Ricch — who is Variety’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year in our just-released 2020 Hitmakers issue — topped Apple Music’s 2020 year-end album and songs charts, according to statistics released by the company.

Roddy Ricch, who has enjoyed as good a past 12 months as any 22-year-old rapper could imagine. He won his first Grammy in January, for his appearance on Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle,” and he just racked up six nominations for next year’s ceremony.

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30 Under 30 list, and several young hip-hop artists are representing the genre with a strong showing in the Music category.The 2021 30 Under 30 honors 600 different influential figures in 20 categories, and burgeoning hip-hop super starRoddy Ricch lead the list, which was published on Tuesday.The artist told the publication, «I've made more this year than I have ever made in life--at home,» referring to his $20 million in profits while stuck in quarantine amid the pandemic.Meanwhile, Doja Cat is

Labour and SNP opponents tore into the chancellor ahead of his Spending Review on Wednesday amid reports that Sunak will scarp a rise in the minimum wage paid to many care home staff and frontline covid workers.Sunak looks set to cancel a proposed five per cent rise in the national living wage for two million workers, citing fears that it will put companies already under strain our of business.The hourly legal minimum wage was due to rise from £8.72 to £9.21 in April.

Beyoncé led the field with nine nominations for the 63rd Grammy Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning by the Recording Academy.

Chris Willman Music WriterBeyoncé leads the contenders for the 2021 Grammy Awards with nine — an unexpectedly high profile, given that the superstar didn’t even release a new album during the eligibility period. Her wealth of nods is followed by six apiece for Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch and Dua Lipa.Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes fame, was close behind that grouping with five nominations for her solo debut.

called herself a “white girl” in the past, while Doja Cat is biracial.Those who sat down to watch the American Music Awards were caught by surprise by Rexha’s appearance.“Bebe Rexha is literally white and she's out here looking more brown than me and I’m half Black,” one viewer tweeted.“Why are Bebe Rexha and Doja Cat the same color when Bebe is white and Albanian like me,” another wrote.  Rexha’s deep tan even seemed to trick host Taraji P.

Bebe Rexha and Doja Cat perform their hit song “Baby I’m Jealous” together on stage at the 2020 American Music Awards, which is airing on Sunday (November 22) and taking place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.