Prosecutors involved in the R Kelly trial have moved to seize the disgraced singer’s music royalties from Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Publishing Inc. According to the US government, the 56-year-old, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison on sex trafficking and racketeering convictions, has so far only paid $28,000 out of the $504,549 he was ordered to …
JAY-Z was awarded nearly $7 million in royalties by a Manhattan judge on Thursday (August 25) for his 2013 fragrance Gold by Jay Z. Per the New York Post, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrew Borrok ruled that Jay would be paid $6.78 million with interest in unpaid royalties by perfume company Parlux. “We’ve been awarded and will be receiving …
TikTok is launching a new music platform which will benefit artists. TikTok is launching SoundOn, a new music distribution platform aimed at “empowering” undiscovered artists by giving them the power to upload their music directly to TikTok and earn 100% of the royalties when their work is used. After the first year, this figure will drop down to 90%. In addition to collecting their …
JAY-Z has flipped the script in his fragrance lawsuit with Parlux. According to TMZ, Hov was awarded $4.5 million in royalties on Thursday (February 24) by an appellate court in New York City stemming from past cologne sales that have stacked up, which Jay’s attorneys legally requested last fall. The Brooklyn mogul and Parlux cut a deal in 2012 …
The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) has said it will pay royalties to the family of the late Nana Ampadu for the next 70 years. The “Obra” hitmaker died on Tuesday, 28 September 2021, at the Legon Hospital in Accra where he was receiving treatment for an illness. He was 76. Nana Kwame Ampadu has numerous popular highlife tracks …
RIP, Mac. Mac Miller sadly passed away one year ago after an overdose in his Studio City home. The news came as a shock to his family, friends, collaborators and fans worldwide who were blessed to have received just one more studio album (Swimming) from the musician one month before his death. TMZ now reports that Mac’s estate has filed documents stating the value of …
Over the years, Ghanaian artistes have been complaining about the failure of Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) to pay artistes their deserving royalties. For clarity sake, GHAMRO as an organization is responsible for the collection and distribution of royalties to musicians and all other creative workers inclusive. Now, rapper Desmond Blackmore popularly known as D Black has joined the list …
Ghanaian rapper and songwriter Enoch Nana Yaw Oduro-Adjei better known as Trigmatic has made an appeal to the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) to take seriously the business of collecting and distributing royalties for artistes in Ghana. He believes the time has come to move on from the old structure and way of doing things. The outfit which is responsible …
The contestant sued the rapper for sexual assault & won a $7 million judgment. In 2015, The Game gave reality television a try with his own dating show on VH1 on a show titled She’s Got Game. For nine episodes, about a dozen women competed for the heart of Jayceon “The Game” Taylor, all believing that they were going to his First Lady…or at least …
Veteran hiplife artiste Lord Kenya real name Abraham Philip Akpor Kojo Kainya, has asked made his intention known that he is not interested in any royalties money gotten from the sales of his albums. According to him, though he is not that rich, the Good Lord who called him to do his work would provide food on his table. In …
