Justin Bieber sells music rights for R3.4 billion

Pop juggernaut Justin Bieber has sold his music publishing and record catalog to Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital for $200 million, the company said Tuesday – marking the industry’s latest blockbuster rights deal. The sale has been rumored for weeks and…

MURIC wants Portable’s ‘Kuku Do Ritual’ banned

Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has asked Nigeria’s music governing body to ban ‘Kuku Do Ritual’, a song by Afrobeats singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable. ‘Kuku Do Ritual’ is Portable’s first single of 2023. The…