Republic Records Bans the Term 'Urban' Within Label: 'We Encourage the Music Industry to Follow Suit'

The 2009 teen drama series The Vampires diaries was more than just a story about a couple of blood-sucking vampires co-existing with humans in Mystic Falls. We loved the show because it features some very beautiful relationships between various on-screen pairs, including Stefan and Elena, Damon and Elena, Caroline and Stefan, Bonnie and Enzo, Bonnie, and Elena, Caroline and Elena, and Damon and Stefan’s bromance.

Tuesday (June 23) marks the final primary of the month and Alicia Keys wants you to get out there and vote.

Taylor Swift has joined calls for Juneteenth, the date which marks the official end of slavery in the US, to be made a national holiday.

Taylor Swift, Jessie J and Hozier are among the stars who have donated prizes to Annie Lennox's The Circle Music Auction. Annie's not-for-profit organisation The Circle - which works to empower marginalised women and girls around the world - is raising funds for their Covid-19 Emergency Appeal, 'The Women and Girls Solidarity Fund', through the new charity auction.

Annie Lennox enlisted the help of Taylor Swift, Sting, Emeli Sandé, and more as she launched the Circle Music Auction Tuesday.

Annie Lennox, who founded the feminist NGO The Circle in 2008, launched The Circle Music Auction Tuesday (June 16) to raise funds for women around the world who are disproportionally impacted by coronavirus.

Selena Gomez to Ariana Grande are making sure their fans are getting their ballots in.Grande and Camila Cabello partnered with HeadCount, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works with musicians to help register their fans to vote and participate in democracy.

Megan Thee Stallion has filmed a nine-minute music video medley of her dancing to her own songs to celebrate with this year’s academic graduates — you can watch her special home-filmed video below.Taking part in YouTube’s ‘Dear Class of 2020’ celebration — which also welcomed the likes of Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé — the Houston rapper was among the many star-studded names who featured in the platform’s “virtual commencement celebration”, which sought to “bring together inspirational

Hundreds of members of the music community, including artists, managers, publishers, trade groups, executives and record labels, signed an open letter Monday (June 8) calling for New York state to repeal statute 50-A, the state law that shields police officers’ personnel and disciplinary records from public view.

BBC Music's TV head of commissioning has shared details of their strategy towards live music broadcasting, promising more '... at the BBC' specials.

Taylor Swift, just like many other celebrities, joined YouTube’s Dear Class of 2020 event and she had a wonderful message to share with the graduates that, like never before in recent history, were unable to have a proper graduating ceremony due to the COVID-19 quarantine orders. Here’s what she had to say! The singer started by acknowledging that the online graduating event was not what the Class of 2020 had imagined before the pandemic took over the world.

Each month, we’re running down memorable clips and celebrating artists who are breaking new ground with their visuals or choreography. In May’s edition, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande carry out dance battles in outer space, Bronx rapper 645AR takes an unhinged field trip to Times Square, Kate NV sends a brilliantly campy news broadcast from Russia, and more. Check out the best of the best below.

The forecast for this week's weather involves heavy showers from Lady Gaga's sixth album Chromatica, fire from Rosalía and Travis Scott's "TKN" joint and clear skies from Kygo's Golden Hour LP.

Happy New Music Friday!

With clubs closed across the country and Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart on hiatus, we're asking reporting club DJs what they've been listening to lately, while at home, of course.This week, we spoke with Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico, DJ Eldon; Chicago's RONS; and Los Angeles' The Perry Twins.Eldon Eldon (full name Eldon Feldman) has been moving to Moon Boots' "Tied Up," featuring Steven Klavier (Kenny Dope extended mix).

It looks like Lana Del Rey is not ready to move on yet when it comes to her recent message about her releasing music. As we previously reported, Lana took to social media to release a statement about her releasing music while denying the narrative that she glamorizes abuse in her music.

Another day, another massive collaboration for Ariana Grande! The 26-year-old and her equally talented celeb pal Lady Gaga, 33, dropped the video for their highly-anticipated track “Rain On Me” on Friday, May 22. Ariana & Gaga brought it from a fashion sense where the former stunned in a metallic purple look with a lot of embellishments while the latter brightened things up a bit in her pink ensemble with both having amazing back up dancers to spice things up.

New music Fridays are a thrilling, yet daunting prospect for any music lover.  It's essentially a weekly holiday where fan-favorite artists and fresh faces alike drop their latest offerings for all the world to hear, flooding streaming services and digital retailers with an onslaught of aural goodies.

The music video for Lady GaGa and Ariana Grande‘s much-awaited collaboration is HERE, and it was totally worth the wait!!