Murda Beatz shares striking visual for ‘No Más’ featuring Quavo, Pharrell, J Balvin, and Anitta: Watch
The Canadian-born producer, Murda Beatz, has returned with the Spanish vibes on the song ‘No Más’. The star-studded single features Quavo, J Balvin, and Anitta with co-production from legendary producer Pharrell. After just one listen, you can hear everyone’s unique contribution to the record.
With Murda Beatz playing quarterback, overseeing everything, Atlanta rapper Quavo delivers the first verse and holds down the chorus as he absolutely floats over the festival feeling record. J Balvin and Anitta both insert authentic Latin vibes. And finally, you can hear the production kick to the Spanish-type beat that you know Pharrell’s genius had a part of.
It’s a record I’m excited about, said Murda Beatz. Bringing four different worlds together; America, Colombia, Brazil, and Canada. And, of course, having the chance to work alongside a legendary producer like Pharrell is incredible. It’s just the perfect record for the Summer.
Find Murda Beatz’s new music video for ‘No Más’ featuring Quavo, Pharrell, J Balvin, and Anitta below.
The NBA board expected to vote to make play-in tournament permanent piece of season moving forward
On Tuesday, the NBA board of governors is expected to vote on making the play-in tournament a permanent part of the season. In the past, the NBA would vote on the play-in tournament on a year-to-year basis, but the vote on Tuesday will end that.
In the past two years, the play-in tournament has given us some of the most exciting basketball throughout the entire playoffs and has grown in popularity. The idea of the play-in tournament was to have the seventh and tenth-seed teams in each conference battle for the final playoff spot, thus hopefully incentivising teams to stop tanking the season and keep fans more engaged.
The board of governors is also expected to pass a rule that penalises the “take foul” on fast breaks with a free throw and possession of the ball for the offense. I believe the NBA is the most progressive professional sports league in the world, largely because they are contently looking for ways to improve the product they’re selling to the fans.
Brent Faiyaz celebrated ‘Wasteland’ with Burberry at the Rodeo Drive flagship
On Friday, GRAMMY Award-winning singer and producer Brent Faiyaz released his highly-anticipated new album ‘Wasteland’ via his own label, Lost Kids.
On Thursday evening, Burberry hosted an exclusive listening party in celebration of the release at the Burberry flagship store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
The cocktail party and evening of music took place on the rooftop of the building, overlooking Rodeo Drive during sunset. Brent Faiyaz and guests including collaborators, artists and friends joined together to mark the official release of Wasteland with a special preview of new songs from the album. Throughout the night, guests also enjoyed a live orchestra performance and DJ set by Zack Bia.
Guests in attendance included Amber Asaly, Big Sean, Che Pope, Clay, Duckwrth, Halle Bailey, Maria Isabel, Malcolm Mays, Nastasya Generalova and Sami Miro.
African music service Mdundo and Universal Music Group announce licensing agreement for key African markets
Mdundo.com A/S, one of Africa’s leading music services, announced that it has reached an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, to license the service across key African territories. Through this new agreement, UMG’s catalog will be available to Mdundo’s seventeen million active monthly users across Africa.
Under this new licensing agreement, Universal Music Group and Mdundo.com will strengthen Mdundo’s music offering for fans by providing them access to the world’s most comprehensive music catalog, as well as further increasing Universal Music Africa’s (UMA’s) reach within the African market in line with Mdundo’s ambitions for rapid market growth across the continent.
Mdundo CEO, Martin Møller Nielsen explains, “Our focus is to provide a relevant service to the hundreds of millions of potential users in Africa that are getting online. In recent years, Mdundo.com has reported explosive growth, from 5 million monthly users in June 2020 to an expected 19-20 million monthly active users in June 2022 and a +225% growth in revenue for the year ending June 2022. As the leading music company globally, we are extremely pleased to work with Universal Music within Africa towards our vision of providing Africa with an easy and legal solution to accessing music that fits the local consumers.”
Mdundo’s growth has primarily been achieved in Nigeria, with additional growth in Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana. The music service has primarily been focusing on securing music rights for local African catalog and has in the last year announced partnerships with leading telecommunication companies, Vodacom Tanzania, MTN Nigeria and Airtel Nigeria.
Over the past decade, UMA has expanded and grown its reach on the continent and has two established regional headquarters facilities in Africain Johannesburg, South Africa and Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire—with additional offices in Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, and Morocco. UMG has also launched a series of labels dedicated to supporting the continent’s rich talents, including Def Jam Africa, Blue Note Africa and Motown Gospel Africa. UMG is committed to helping build out the continent’s entire music ecosystem, helping artists succeed locally and regionally, whilst also introducing African music culture and content to new audiences around the world.
Ulrik Cahn, UMG’s Executive Vice President for Africa, the Middle East and Asia (AMEA) region said, “Martin and his team have built an impressive platform for African artists, and we look forward to working together to expand the footprint for our African and international talent within the continent.”
Sipho Dlamini, CEO of Universal Music South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa said, “We welcome Mdundo as a partner, and are excited for more fans across Africa to have greater access to some of Africa’s most exciting musical talent, as well as UMG’s unrivaled catalog of international artists.”
Stationhead launches official ‘channels’ to elevate artist-fan community
Stationhead, the global live-hosted social audio platform where today’s culture happens, announced the launch of its new product ‘Channels’ which will act as a community hub for artists and fans and highlight the top performing stations on its platform. The initial launch included three ‘Channels’: BTS—Army, Seventeen—CARAT, Nicki Minaj—Barbz. All three artists have already hosted official streaming sessions with BTS hosting over 600,000 fans, making BTS’ channel the largest social audio channel in the world.
Stationhead’s ‘Channels’ amplifies the user experience by driving streams for artists and empowering fans to build community on a global scale. Stations with the most activity, popularity and creativity will be included in the wider thematic channels providing fans with an ongoing listening experience. In addition to the initial launch of ‘Channels’, Stationhead will highlight at least fifteen additional stations who have hit more than 30,000 followers by the end of the year.
We are thrilled to launch Channels, where fandoms can come together and celebrate their favorite artists 24/7, said Founder and CEO of Stationhead, Ryan Star. The future of music and at Stationhead’s core is community streaming, where fans and creators alike can support each other, drive streams and celebrate music.
Since launching out of beta in 2021, Stationhead has continued to deliver the most interactive listening experience to its four million users with 29K stations across 200 countries. Stationhead has democratized the ability for anyone to be a DJ and Channels is another tool for creators to use to stay in touch with loyal fans, host their own streaming parties, release tickets, albums and merchandise.
In addition to keeping creators and fans connected through live chat and direct messaging features, ‘Channels’ provides the capability for in-app tipping. The platform enables creators to generate revenue directly from their music community.
Channels is Stationhead’s latest product innovation developed to meet the growing demand for an ongoing, social audio experience, said Co-Founder and COO of Stationhead, Murray Levison. Unlike traditional radio stations, Stationhead’s Channels are accessible around the world, differentiating itself and in turn creating a global listening community.