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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...

Radhika Apte says she has zero fear of missing out on stuff by living in London instead of Mumbai. The actress explained that she travels back and forth for projects when needed, and if something passes her by, then it just passes her by. She thinks nothing is as important as people make it...

A Croatian engineering student from Pazin just placed third at the Eureka IIEC international competition after developing concrete that fixes its own cracks. Ivan Sloković created ConCure through a partnership between Zagreb's Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, plus the National...

Mate Rimac's company finally hit all the checkpoints to unlock 897 million euros from the EU after showing off 60 prototype robotaxis that passed verification tests. The Croatian Vehicle Centre confirmed the prototypes exist and went through some testing at a temporary factory near Zagreb, but...

Zagreb beat out every other major Croatian city in a nationwide quality-of-life survey, and coastal towns didn't even come close. Mayor Tomislav Tomašević picked up the trophy at a regional development conference after Ipsos polling showed residents think the capital delivers better living...

Zagreb's mayor confirmed the city's biggest bus terminal is getting relocated to where the old Gredelj factory used to sit, and the whole thing hinges on finishing an urban development plan plus sorting out details with the national railway company. Tomislav Tomašević wants the new station...

Delyan Peevski's DPS-New Beginning party is throwing a counter-rally to push back against opposition protests that want the government out. The pro-stability event drops one day before. Continue We Change-Democratic Bulgaria holds their third anti-government demonstration in Sofia's Independence...

Road crews are clearing a landslide that blocked the Troyan Pass near Karnare village on the II-35 highway connecting Troyan with the area. Five machines are working the site at the 117-kilometer mark after heavy rain dumped enough water to send rocks and dirt sliding onto the road. Workers from...

Pollster Parvan Simeonov from Measure agency told Bulgarian National Radio that public opinion flipped on whether the government should resign, and more people are warming up to snap elections even though neither option hits 50 percent support yet. The research wrapped up right after the second...

Former defense minister Boyko Noev told Bulgarian National Radio that protesters will keep hitting the streets because the country got hijacked by corrupt politicians who care more about cutting deals with Trump and Putin than fixing anything at home. Noev thinks Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski...

Vazrazhdane MP Tsoncho Ganev trashed the 2026 budget at a press conference and said Bulgaria is basically speedrunning the Greek debt crisis. Twenty percent of the whole thing gets funded through loans that add up to 21 billion leva, and the government is delaying tax hikes because the economy...

Bulgaria's Labor Minister Borislav Gutsanov said his teams are ready to help flood victims in Burgas with cash payouts that go beyond the standard disaster relief cap of 1,914 leva. The government approved an extra 3,000 leva for people whose only home got wrecked, and Gutsanov thinks they can...

Bulgaria's parliament is about to vote on the 2026 budget next week, but Continue We Change-Democratic Bulgaria is already calling it a disaster. Martin Dimitrov from the opposition said the spending plan just kicks tax hikes down the road to 2027 and 2028 without fixing any of the wasteful...