Katy Perry hasn’t released a new album in two years. But the pop star’s name lit up headlines this week as fervidly as if she had, when a jury unanimously ruled that her 2013 smash hit “Dark Horse” copied an older song from a little-known Christian rapper — a decision …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Earned More on Tour In 2018 Than Anyone Else In 30 Years
Pollstar released its year-end report on Monday, and Ed Sheeran‘s “Divide” Tour sits definitively at the top. The singer’s global tour is the most money-making jaunt in any single year of Pollstar’s 30-year history, according to the box office research group. Sheeran, who performed mostly solo onstage but had Elton …
Read More »Eminem's 'Revival': A Track-by-Track Guide
Eminem, the best-selling rapper of all time, returned at midnight with Revival, his first album in four years. The new LP sprawls across 19 tracks, touching on rock, gospel, pop and, of course, hard-bitten hip-hop. Eminem veers from sassy to self-deprecating, dependent to dismissive, murderous to politically conscious, uncontrollably lusty …
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