Songwriters Have Been Waiting Five Years for $373 Million in Royalties: Here’s What You Can Do to Help

Lena Dunham has celebrated her fifth anniversary of being sober. In a Monday Instagram post, the Girls star announced that she had been sober for five years. “5 years ago today, I set foot - trembling like a little kid - into treatment for substance misuse.

A mum is finally to get a hip replacement op – thanks to the Sunday Mail – after waiting more than five years. Mother-of-six Joan Brown was first referred to a specialist in December 2017 by her GP but until last week was still to get a date for surgery.

Rob Lowe played the role of proud parent as he marked a major milestone for his son John Owen Lowe. Despite being attached at the hip while they work together on their new Netflix series, the 59-year-old actor got a chance to surprise his youngest child with a truly meaningful gift during an episode of "The Drew Barrymore Show." Lowe, who has 33 years of sobriety under his belt, gifted John his five-year chip in honor of his commitment to his own recovery efforts. "You guys have supported each other in amazing things, and I’ve been really honest with my kids who are younger, but they know my story," Barrymore by began sharing a few words on her own recovery story.  "They know I can’t drink, like it’s just not for me.

The third season of HBO’s series “Euphoria” may occur after high school.

Media mogul and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to intensive care at a hospital in Milan on Wednesday and is in serious but stable condition according to local media. 

The moment Hilary spotted Pauline Nowell walking along a beach in 1955, she knew she had found the one.

It’s been five years since Neil Diamond was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and only now is he coming to terms with it.

Friends or foes? Scheana Shay and Katie Maloney may have started off as friends, but their relationship has grown complicated over the years.

Neil Diamond was first diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and only now is he coming to terms with it. Parkinson's is a «progressive disorder that affects the nervous system and the parts of the body controlled by the nerves,» according to the Mayo Clinic, and the 82-year-old singer admits he was in denial for several years about having the disease. «I'm still doing it. And I don't like it,» Diamond tells Anthony Mason on. «But … this is me; this is what I have to accept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor BMG posted its strongest year of growth in 2022, with annual revenues of $911 million (up 30% over last year) and made more than $400 million worth of acquisitions in the booming catalog market, the company announced Thursday in its annual earnings report. The company’s annual operating EBITDA was up by more than 35% to $205 million. Founded in 2008, the Berlin-based company has been a steady presence in the music industry, basing its strength on tried-and-true artists and catalogs that range from Adam Lambert to Cypress Hill, from T. Rex to the Trojan reggae label. Its publishing division is one of the biggest in the industry, and it has made bold moves into the music documentary business — including a major stake in the critically lauded David Bowie doc “Moonage Daydream.”

Greater Manchester has a shocking disparity in life expectancy, with children born in some areas predicted to live 10 years longer than in others, figures reveal.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Oleg Stavitsky is co-founder and CEO of Endel, a sound wellness company that utilizes generative AI and science-backed research. Today, when the music industry cautiously expresses enthusiasm for AI, it focuses primarily on AI as a new tool that producers and artists can use in the studio. The rest of generative AI’s capabilities are seen as a threat, or as RIAA President Mitch Glazer put it in a recent op-ed, as “empty knock offs and chatbot impersonations,” from which true, human-made music must be protected.  Meanwhile, The U.S. Copyright Office has put forward new requirements when registering copyright for AI-generated content: they will consider the extent to which the human had creative control over the work’s expression and “actually formed” the traditional elements of authorship. Both perspectives draw a hard line between human creativity and AI activity, rather than looking at ways the two can collaborate and co-create. 

Emmerdale icon John Middleton looks hugely different in recent photographs, with the soap star now sporting a large grey beard. The 69 year old, who portrayed Ashley Thomas in the hit ITV soap from 1996 until 2017, looked nearly unrecognisable in new videos and photographs shared on social media. John is currently starring as Colonel Pickering in the UK tour production of the musical My Fair Lady, and he's appeared on the official Instagram account for the musical on a handful of occasions.

Former CBBC star Jade Alleyne has announced her pregnancy five years after quitting the popular kids show 4 O'Clock Club.The actress, 22, played Clem Burton in the musical children's television series and quit the show in 2018. Jade also appeared in Disney's The Lodge from 2016 to 2017 while more recently she was in Netflix's 2020 series White Lines as Tanit Ward.Taking to Instagram earlier this week, Jade, who is six months pregnant, shared a collection of stunning snaps of her baby bump as she announced she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend. She penned: "‼️OH BABY‼️ This man is my shelter, my rock, my best friend, my confidant, my co-pilot, my greatest supporter and confidence builder, a ray of light in the best times and the times I need it the most, the love of my life and the father of the new generation of family we are building.

her first human child, a baby girl. Cuoco, who has proudly shared her baby bump on her Instagram grid and Instagram Stories throughout the pregnancy, just shared a carousel of black and white snaps featuring her boyfriend, Tom Pelphrey, and current, non-human children: five dogs. In the first pic, Cuoco poses with the dogs and Pelphrey. The second is just the humans.

Jimmy Fallon is as frustrated waiting for something to happen, or not happen, with Donald Trump’s legal situation as a lot of you likely are, and in his monologue on Friday’s “The Tonight Show,” he compared it to it when someone goes into labor and then 4 days later still hasn’t had the baby.Fallon got to that joke by running through several of Trump’s more recent outbursts. “I don’t know if you guys saw this, but late last night Trump threatening the Manhattan District Attorney, saying that if he’s charged, ‘death and destruction’ could follow.

Fever Ray performed live for the first time in five years in Oslo last night (March 23) – check out fan-shot footage and see the setlist below.The Swedish experimentalist and former member of The Knife (real name Karin Dreijer) took to the stage at the Sentrum Scene concert hall in the Norwegian capital, to kick off their 2023 ‘There’s No Place I’d Rather Be Tour’.Dreijer is currently out on the road in support of their long-awaited third album ‘Radical Romantics’, which came out on March 10 via Rabid/Mute.Yesterday’s 16-song set included live debuts of seven tracks from the new record – ‘What They Call Us’, ‘New Utensils’, ‘Shiver’, ‘Kandy’, ‘Even It Out’, ‘Carbon Dioxide’ and ‘Tapping Fingers’ – according to Setlist.FM.See a selection of footage from the gig here:A post shared by Axel Haugan (@axelh)Fever Ray = Karin Dreijer = grym svensk electropop på Sentrum Scene, Oslo

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor In February of last year, as controversy broiled around Joe Rogan’s racially charged language and COVID-related misinformation on multiple editions of his Spotify podcast, the streaming giant’s CEO attempted to defuse the situation by apologizing to his aggrieved staff and pledging $100 million “for the licensing, development, and marketing of music (artists and songwriters) and audio content from historically marginalized groups.” Nearly 14 months later, that $100 million “Creator Equity Fund” has spent less than 10% of its funding on that work,” according to a report in Bloomberg. The initiative was behind schedule in hiring an eight-person staff to oversee the project and “has suffered from shifting priorities,” the report said, citing unnamed people familiar with the effort. At the beginning of this year, the fund had not completed its 2023 budget and had not determined its priority projects, according to a memo the publication said it had obtained, and another fund intended to promote diversity in podcasts suffered after that business was hit by layoffs last year, a union representing workers said.

Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin are rumored to be engaged!

Never on the same page? Lala Kent and Raquel Leviss got off to a rocky start while filming Vanderpump Rules — and the costars never truly recovered.