Rotten apple alert! A 24-year-old Apple store employee in Queens was arrested for using bogus credit cards to steal about $1 million in gift cards.
Tech giant Apple is putting its best competitive foot forward in the streaming game with Beats Music and its iTunes Radio service. Rumors are swirling that Apple is in talks with Drake, Pharrell Williams, and DJ/Producer Dave Guetta to join Apple as brand personalities.
Fans have been patiently waiting for Chance The Rapper’s jazz hybrid project, Surf, with Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment to be released after hearing the sanctified hymns on “Sunday Candy.” So imagine their surprise when they awoke this morning and realized that the mysterious Surf album had undergone the Beyoncé treatment and was released […]
Apple today released their 2014 iTunes Store awards, highlighting the best music, movies, TV shows, apps, books and podcasts of the year.
Despite Beyoncé’s self-titled album being the hottest musical commodity to hit the market this quarter, every retailer isn’t eager to get in cahoots with the superstar songstress.
So Beyoncé dropped a new album last night. And in case you didn’t know, she pretty much changed the game.
In just three weeks, director Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby film update will hit theaters nationwide. The soundtrack boasts big names such as will.i.am., Q-Tip, Fergie, and others. Jay-Z, an executive producer for the soundtrack, had fans turning heads when it was announced the project would featuring an original song from the rapper. A snippet of the […]
A publishing company has filed a lawsuit claiming rights to Aaliyah’s music. Reservoir Media Management is suing Craze Productions for alleged unlawful use of the late singer’s hits.
Ever since Sweet Brown’s uttered the words “Ain’t nobody got time for that,” she’s been an Internet star. Tons of people have made reference to her “Lord Jesus it’s a fire,” craziness, and now she’s firing back at Apple for using her image without paying up.
Yesterday was a huge milestone for Apple. The technology giant made it to 25 billion iTunes song purchases since its start, a decade ago.
Last summer, Hip-Hop Wired attended a Spotify event in which the music sharing company boasted about the amount of money its paid out to artists. Since 2008 Spotify has worked its way up to become a go-to destination for listeners who want to try out albums before making a purchase. Unlike illegal sharing entities like Napster, […]
Trinidad James plans to stay in the game for way longer than 15 minutes. The flamboyantly dressed Atlanta rapper has teamed with Empire Distribution to make his smash hit “All Gold Everything” and the mixtape it resides on, Don’t Be S.A.F.E. (short for Sensitive As F**k Everyday), available on iTunes.
Future has a lot to celebrate these days. The auto-tune crooner is using his recent wave of celebrity to re-release a revamped version of his debut album now titled Pluto 3D, which is available now in stores or on iTunes.
The meteoric rise from Toronto native Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, will finally come to its peak with the release of Triliogy.
It seems like this song has been in the making forever, but it is finally here. Joe Budden has long teased this collaboration with Lil Wayne and Tank, but now you can be the judge and listen to “She Don’t Put It Down Like You.”
Irv Gotti wants to find the next DMX or someone to bring Hip-Hop back to hits hardcore roots.
One of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar LeBron James' most sought-after kicks will finally be available to the public.
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