Hipgnosis Songs Snaps up Big Deal Music Group

Kylie Jenner is getting a little political. The 23-year-old makeup mogul took to Instagram on Monday to share some sultry bikini photos, but also to encourage her followers to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

Geoff Mayfield Loud Records, the hip-hop label that launched Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep and Big Pun, is about to make noise again, as founder Steve Rifkind revives the brand to launch a nimble indie. The new venture kicks off today — Monday, Sept.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a deal that comes in high $40 millions, Apple Original Films has acquired worldwide rights to Cherry, the first film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo since their Avengers: Endgame became the highest global grossing film of all time. The film is a decidedly different kind of drama, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Nico Walker that is based on his story.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

CMT on Wednesday unveiled the nominations for the 2020 CMT Music Awards, with Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett leading the nominees with three each. Other artists with multiple nominations include Blanco Brown, Carrie Underwood, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion and The Chicks, who landed their first CMT nomination since 2007.

The nominations for the 2020 CMT Music Awards are in.

CMT Music Awards nominations were announced on Wednesday, September 23 — and it’s a cause for celebration for many country hitmakers.Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs, Kelsea Ballerini, Dan + Shay, Sam Hunt and Ashley McBryde are leading this year’s pack with three nods each.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCapping a week that has seen the company acquire Big Deal Music Group and appoint several new top officers, Hipgnosis Songs announced that it has acquired the music catalog of Chrissie Hynde, founding member, lead vocalist and primary songwriter of pioneering rock band The Pretenders.Hipgnosis has acquired 100% of Hynde’s music publishing catalog of 164 songs, including publishing and writer’s share (PRS) from the Pretenders and her other projects. Terms of the deal

Michele Amabile Angermiller Universal Music Group (UMG) and Daddy Yankee have teamed for a strategic global partnership that encompasses music, film and television projects, the company announced today (Sept. 10).

Chris Willman Music WriterSpirit Music Group has picked up the master recordings of three Tim McGraw albums, the publishing company announced Wednesday. The albums being acquired all date back to McGraw’s first stint on the Big Machine label in the mid-2010s, and include the No.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterWarner Music Group announced that Kareem Chin has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations, effective immediately. Chin comes to WMG from iHeartMedia, Inc., where he held the same title.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs founder Merck Mercuriadis named Ted Cockle president and Amy Thomson as chief catalogue officer of the company.Cockle was most recently president of Virgin EMI in the U.K., which under his tenure managed the recorded music for artists including Queen, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, George Michael, Justin Bieber, Emeli Sande, The Killers, Lorde and Lewis Capaldi.

Chairperson of Awards title sponsors IMRO, Eleanor McEvoy, said: ‘In the bizarre times of the COVID-19 pandemic, radio has kept us entertained, kept us informed and kept us sane.‘We now have an obligation to keep everyone safe, so we are very much looking forward to taking the radio awards online on October 2, to celebrate the excellence and creativity of broadcasters from right throughout Ireland.’The IMRO Radio Awards’ Virtual Live Stream event on Friday, 2 October, in place of the usual gala

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen veteran music producer Hal Willner passed away due to complications believed to be associated with Covid-19 on April 7, a day after his 64th birthday, the music community in New York and beyond was devastated.

Salma Hayek is 54 and looking better than ever. The Mexican actress celebrated turning a year older on Wednesday by showing off her gorgeous figure and flawless self in a number of sizzling snaps.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterUniversal Music Group has named Eric Hutcherson, former EVP and chief human resources officer of the National Basketball Association to the newly created role of executive vice president and chief people and inclusion officer, which will see him working across the company’s record labels, publishing division and operating companies worldwide.Hutcherson, whose appointment is effective immediately, will serve on UMG’s Executive Management Board and report

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an effort to rally support for the countless music venues impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of buildings across the U.S. — from New York’s Empire State Building to Seattle’s Space Needle — were illuminated in red light on Tuesday evening (Sept.

actual promo for The Bachelorette, and they fully went for it. And by that I mean what we have here is straight-up making out with to the tune of Keke Palmer singing "Respect" by Aretha Franklin.

Clare Crawley makes out with former NFL star Dale Moss and another Bachelorette contestant in the first footage from her season of the ABC dating show.ABC released a new teaser for the upcoming season, which shows her meeting contestants as Keke Palmer sings Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.”The promo kicks off with a flashback to her explosive final conversation with Juan Pablo Galavis during his season of The Bachelor in 2013.