Joyce Wrice has finally put a date on her second album. MACHIKO arrives October 9, turning the long wait after Overgrown into a new era centered on intimacy, confidence and the risk of being fully seen.

A fragrance DMX picked himself returned to shelves last Friday. Between his death and that approval sit two rounds of court-appointed administrators, a suspension order, and a ruling on what a divorce agreement transferred.

Tank has announced EXPERIENCE for September 25, giving his rising single “Yes” a full album destination while his 2026 run stretches across stadiums and television.

The Copyright Office sent Congress a new fee schedule on July 14, and the group filing that covers an album's sound recordings goes from $65 to $130. The 120-day clock runs out in the second week of November.

Cam'ron says the 2021 Verzuz against The L.O.X. killed a tour that was already booked. The same week, Rick Ross canceled two anniversary dates and Drake crossed 140 billion streams. Attention has never been cheaper, or harder to convert into a ticket.

Tamia returns with “Forever and a Day,” her first lead single since 2018, and reunites with Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony for a grown relationship ballad that sounds more like continuity than reinvention.

New details from Bino Rideaux show that Prolific was not simply a vault release. Nipsey Hussle conceived the album after Victory Lap as a more vulnerable, relationship-centered turn.

Cardi B takes over Brooklyn, Ice Spice and Lil Yachty get surreal, and Dahi brings Kendrick Lamar and Amber Mark into a stark black-and-white visual. Ciara, Ne-Yo, Dawn Richard, Rob49 and MNEK also land in this week's HitsCulture video roundup.

Badu and Alchemist land the record fifteen years in the making, Dahi shows up with Kendrick and Gambino, and Prince gives up ten songs nobody has heard.

After a release week dominated by other rappers’ names, The Game turns the camera back toward Los Angeles. “The Life” makes hometown identity, not feud speculation, the center of The Documentary 3.

Every major distributor now passes streaming fraud penalties straight through to the artist, and CD Baby says a flag counts whether you meant it or not.

Beyoncé’s 20th-anniversary B’Day edition gathers 27 tracks from an era that was scattered across deluxe discs, regional bonuses and Spanish-language releases. The new configuration is expansive, but it is also selective, revealing how Beyoncé wants the album remembered in 2026.