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Jason Muvevi is heading back to court after doctors cleared him for trial following his stint at Chikurubi psychiatric ward, where he landed after getting diagnosed with mental illness back in 2023. The former cop faces five murder counts and three attempted murder charges from a wild shooting...

Two Zimbabwean businessmen caught a combined 27 years behind bars after running a massive government scam that grabbed over seven million bucks meant for poor rural families. Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu set up a fake company called Blackdeck Livestock to score a contract that promised goats to...

Zanu PF threw everything at voters in Nkulumane during a rally for Freedom Murechu's campaign, promising 30 tons of rice, cash grants worth 100 grand, borehole drilling, transformer fixes, computers, and WiFi gear. Youth Minister Tino Machakaire basically admitted the whole thing runs on...

A Crown Bank staffer got arrested after allegedly running a loan scam on the Dairibord finance boss for 96 grand using property that belonged to a dead guy. Susan Shamiso Charewa from Aspindale Park showed up at Leonard Mutunga's place asking for money and brought two dudes she claimed were her...

The hologram ABBA show running out of London pulled almost three billion bucks into the British economy over three years since launch. Craig Hartenstine leads ABBA Voyage as CEO and mentioned the concert added over 1.5 billion to the capital while generating close to 10,000 jobs across the...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars hit almost a billion views on Vevo with Die With a Smile even though the track dropped back in 2024, and it stayed the most-watched video through this whole year. JENNIE from K-pop broke records by landing the top premiere spot globally with 33.4 million views in two...

Modern Sky from China teamed up with Steel Wool Entertainment out of California to bring the Strawberry Festival stateside. Kevin Morrow runs Steel Wool and used to handle touring stuff at Live Nation New York before starting his company over a decade ago. The deal stays vague on money but...

Warner Music Group moved Craig Kallman into a Chief Music Officer spot after he spent almost 35 years at Atlantic Records, where he ran things as Chairman and CEO for two decades. The guy will keep signing artists to Big Beat, which he started back in the 80s, and those acts will get worked by...

Believe just scooped up ampd Method and brought its founder, Darya Pourshasb, on board as Chief Marketing Officer. She used to run premium content stuff at Spotify, where she apparently crushed over 300 campaigns for indie artists and labels, plus she did streaming partnerships at Sony before...

Spotify finally brought music videos to Premium subscribers across the US and Canada after testing the feature internationally since March. Charlie Hellman from the company said the rollout gives fans a better discovery experience while creating extra revenue for publishers and songwriters. The...

TikTok crowned KATSEYE as their Global Artist of the Year after the girl group pulled 30 billion views and 12 million user creations on the platform. The HYBE and Geffen joint project got Grammy nods recently, and HYBE's CEO said it proves their K-pop production system works outside Korea. Their...

beatBread just hit the 100 million dollar mark after funding over 1,700 deals with artists and labels spread across 42 countries since 2020. The platform gives advances on catalog music and unreleased stuff, with artists paying back from their streaming revenue on whatever timeline works for...

Min Hee-jin is setting up her first boy group through her new company OOAK after bailing from HYBE-owned ADOR over that whole messy control dispute. The executive behind NewJeans told a YouTube channel she has zero interest in launching another girl group anytime soon, and auditions for the boy...

Matt Pincus and his Trust Records operation just locked down a major deal with Bad Brains that covers everything from their publishing and masters to their name and image rights. The Washington, DC legends formed back in the late 70s and basically invented this whole hardcore punk meets reggae...

Republic Records just grabbed JYT, which is this five-person boy band that producer Freddy Wexler put together with teenagers aged 15 to 17. The group already had half a million followers before dropping any actual music, and their first track came out recently. Monte Lipman from Republic said...

Warner Music India teamed up with Rthyms.Life, which is this creator-focused platform based out of India and Dubai that wants to push Indian artists onto global charts. The deal means Warner handles worldwide distribution while Rthyms keeps its roster of artists like Guru Randhawa and Aastha...

A judge in California seems ready to let a massive group of Ticketmaster users band together for their antitrust case against Live Nation. George Wu heard arguments about class certification and basically brushed off the company's lawyer when he tried claiming you can't lump all these ticket...

The Lipman brothers are getting the Grammy Salute to Industry Icons award at the Pre-Grammy Gala happening at the Beverly Hilton. Monte and Avery started Republic Records back in the '90s, and the label has basically dominated Billboard's rankings for over a decade. Universal Music Group...

Tuned Global just locked down another three years with e&'s Twist Music, and the streaming app is about to blow up across the UAE and Saudi Arabia after getting traction in Egypt. Con Raso from Tuned Global says telcos are basically becoming entertainment hubs themselves, with music acting as...

Spotify says its end-of-year recap hit 200 million people in about a day, which marks a 19% jump from last year when it took over two days to reach that same number. The Sweden-based streaming platform rolled out new stuff like a multiplayer mode where you can compare stats with friends, and...