Musicians made over $4 million from Bandcamp sales on Friday

Andrea Bocelli is delivering a special Easter Sunday performance during an unprecedented time, and the special concert can be watched via livestream, beginning at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.

Andrea Bocelli is to perform a live stream concert from Italy’s historic Duomo di Milano on Easter Sunday (April 12, 2020).

Andrea Bocelli is delivering a special Easter performance at an unprecedented time.

By Chris Willman

In celebration of Easter Sunday (April 12), Andrea Bocelli was invited by the City of Milan, Italy, to deliver a solo performance at the historic Duomo cathedral.In accordance with social distancing amid the coronavirus crisis, there will be no audience and no access for the public. However, you can watch the performance streamed live on the tenor’s YouTube channel here at 1 p.m.

On Thursday morning, Oprah announced she will be donating $10 million to coronavirus relief efforts.Of that amount to "help Americans during this pandemic," as Oprah put it, $1 million will go to America's Food Fund, which will work with established hunger relief organizations, Feeding America and World Central Kitchen.Oprah announced Thursday morning that she will be donating millions to help relief efforts around COVID-19, or coronavirus.

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey said on Thursday she was donating $10 million to coronavirus relief efforts, including a new venture to help get food to vulnerable Americans during the coronavirus epidemic.

AKB48's 57th single, "Shitsuren, arigato," blasts in at No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 16 to 22, with a record-setting 1,414,077 copies sold, making them 2020's first act to sell over a million copies in its first week.The J-pop girl group leads physical sales and rules this week's chart fueled mostly by this metric.

With U.S. theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Disney is releasing Harrison Ford’s “The Call of the Wild” early on digital on March 27.

Netflix have coughed up the eye-watering sum.

While you’re sheltering in place or just trying to observe the proper social distancing, streaming TV is an excellent way to keep yourself occupied and connected.

Yes, it is indeed happening again: Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian are arguing on social media over Kanye West's song "Famous," after a longer video of the full phone call between West and Swift leaked last week.

Mega Italian fashion influencer Chiara Ferragni and husband Fedez have done their part to aid in COVID-19 relief efforts in their home country of Italy — and that’s a serious understatement.

Music fans came out in full force to support acts on Bandcamp last week, when the online music marketplace pledged to waive its revenue share for all sales made on Friday, March 20. On a typical Friday, Bandcamp says that fans buy roughly 47,000 items o

On March 20, Bandcamp waived its revenue shares for a full 24 hours in an effort to help artists whose livelihoods have been impacted by coronavirus. Several companies followed suit, directing all revenue directly to artists on Friday.

Last Friday, Bandcamp waived its service fee on sales for a day, putting more money in the pockets of musicians who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. According to a statement from Bandcamp today, fans spent $4.3 million over the day, with over 800,000 pieces of music and merch sold on the site. "That’s more than 15 times our normal Friday," the company said in a statement, "and at the peak, fans were buying 11 items per second."

NEW YORK -- Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service's miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which sent five black and Latino teenagers to prison for a crime they were later absolved of committing.

Residents of a road now blighted by a cycle track have met with officials in the street.

Bandcamp is responding to the novel coronavirus crisis's catastrophic effect on the music industry with a special one-day event. On Friday, March 13, the site will donate the service fees it receives from each sale of music and merchandise to the artists whose work was purchased.