A Delaware judge ordered Faith Evans to pay $12.5 million to Voletta Wallace's trust, rejecting her claim that only $48,612 was owed. How an LLC share passes at death, and why the date decided it.

Cheryl "Salt" James released the AI-animated "Poison Water" video with Elijah Blake seventeen days after the IT'S ICONIC Tour wrapped. It is the song on Salty N Lit that names names, and every piece of it belongs to her.

BigXthaPlug's Better Over Time leads this week's New Music Friday, with Kirk Franklin's first double album and Sampa the Great's Nu Zamrock close behind. GloRilla shows up on two of the three.

Judge Josephine Staton dismissed RBX's streaming-fraud suit against Spotify with prejudice on Friday. The order never weighs the Drake bot allegations; it finds Spotify owed him no duty, and that moves the fight to the Ninth Circuit and the Copyright Office.

Megan Thee Stallion's Interscope partnership is the cleanest live example of a distribution deal. Here is what that structure buys, what it bills back, and the data question regulators forced into the open.

Eric Benét's You Do Tour runs nine headlining shows from Austin on Dec. 1 to Sony Hall in Manhattan on Dec. 22, with tickets on sale now.

Hov once told Roger Goodell to end the conversation if it was about him performing. Seven years and a stadium-sized JAŸ-Z30 victory lap later, he is headlining Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 14.

The artist presale for 2hollis' 23-date Pirouette Tour opened October 27, with the Kia Forum, Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum and an outdoor Brooklyn finale on the 2027 route.

A month after singing with Lady A, Boyz II Men signed with Warner Records Nashville for their first country album, due in 2027. Wanya Morris says they want to be part of the genre, not to become it.

Primary Wave says it will work alongside Mary J. Blige on the compositions and recordings behind Family Affair, My Life and Be Without You. It disclosed no price, no stake and no likeness rights.

Drake kept Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour off the 2027 Grammy ballot one year after losing to Kendrick Lamar. We think he should have entered the room.

Goapele answered fans with "Way You Love Me" on Monday, crediting a close Bay Area circle in the year "Closer" turns 25. Here is where the new song fits in a catalog built on her own label.