Top Artist Managers and More Launch Black Music Action Coalition: Exclusive

Haim scores its first No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart with Women in Music, Pt. III, which bows atop the ranking dated July 11. The set starts with 27,000 equivalent al

Tami Stronach, who famously played The Childlike Empress in 1984 fantasy feature The NeverEnding Story, is to star in and executive produce a new children's fantasy film. Man & Witch, written by Stronach's husbandGreg Steinbruner, will be directed by Rob Margolies (She Wants Me), with fellow 1980s child star Sean Astin (The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings), Emmy winners Rhea Perlman (Cheers), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and Michael Emerson (Lost) also joining the cast.

Billboard hope to uplift and empower African Americans during this cloudy and dubious time. For the month of June, Billboard had artists provide a playlist designed to remedy the heartaches endured by the Black community.Fresh off the release of his latest Lyrics to Go episode No.

Less than a month before the Chicks’ first album in 14 years arrives, the trio has changed artist management.

Anytime there is a royalty for the use of a sound recording in the U.S., the music creator is entitled to receive it, regardless of the creator's nationality and their copyright laws back home. The same is not true around the world -- but rights management agency SoundExchange is trying to change that. SoundExchange today (June 24) launches Fair Trade of Music, an education and

Hans Zimmer will receive the top award for top box office film at the 2020 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, which will be held virtually Tuesday (June 23) through June 25. Zimmer will receive the award for the reboot of The Lion King.

A coalition of artists and music industry executives has come together in the US to demand action is taken to deal with “long-standing racial inequities in the business”.The Black Music Action Coalition wants music and streaming companies to make tangible commitments to address inequities within their own organisations.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterOn the heels of Juneteenth, a group of 30-plus artist managers, attorneys, business managers, agents and other industry executives have joined forces as the Black Music Action Coalition.According to the announcement, “This advocacy organization endeavors to uphold and actualize the mission of Black Lives Matter in the music industry and reach racial justice not just across labels, publishers, agencies, distributors, and DSP’s but throughout society at large.”As

Jamie Foxx is an actor with plenty of experience in the realm of biopics. He’s had roles in “Ali,” “Just Mercy,” and, obviously, “Ray.” The latter of which earned him a Best Actor Oscar win.

Billboard hope to uplift and empower African Americans during this cloudy and dubious time. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the remainder of the month, an artist will provide a playlist designed to remedy the heartaches endured by the Black community.Following the release of their infectious "Count Me In" single earlier this week (June 17), THEY.

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.

Ann-Marie Corvin “If ever there was a time to reimagine the future then we are in it,” said Jamal Joseph, kicking off the 2020 Women in Animation World Virtual Summit by addressing this year’s overriding theme.The Columbia professor, activist and former Black Panther member moderated Wednesday’s first panel, Black Women in Animation: Looking to the Future.Taking place on the third day of Annecy’s online festival and running in the festival’s Carte Blanche section, the panel examined the

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.

Jay-Z and Beyonce are facing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit from Dr L’Antoinette Stines, a Jamaican artist who claims they took her work without giving her proper credit or money. According to TMZ, the couple contacted Steins in March 2018 when they were seeking local dancers to perform in a promotional video for their tour.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEntertainment industry vets Robyn Friedman and Danny Friedman have co-founded Compass Artist Management (CAM), a Toronto-based full-service talent and management agency that will rep clients for film, television, stage, new media, motion capture and voice artists in North America and around the world.