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Kid Cudi has announced and shared dates for his To the Moon tour, a late-summer U.S. and Canada run followed by an October performance in Tokyo and six November European shows.

We don't know exactly when Brent Faiyaz will share his second solo studio album, but on Monday, the R&B star shared a big hint that it could be coming soon. On Twitter, Faiyaz posted a new trailer detailing the featured artists and producers on his upcoming full-length, a project Faiyaz said in 2021 was titled Make It Our Alive but may now be titled Wasteland.

Kanye West has teamed up with Vory on his new track, ‘Daylight’ – listen to it below.Vory featured as a guest on West’s last two albums, ‘Donda’ and ‘Donda 2’. The new track ‘Daylight’ will feature on Vory’s upcoming album, ‘Lost Souls’, which is released this Friday (June 3) via Dream Chasers/Universal Music Group.West produced the track alongside collaborators 88-Keys, Ojivolta, and Ratatat’s Evan Mast, aka E*vax. The song was mixed by Mike Dean.Vory and West last worked together on ‘Donda2′ track ‘Lord Lift Me Up.’Listen to ‘Daylight’ here:Last week, West‘s collaboration with the late XXXTentacion was released.‘True Love’ appears on West’s recent ‘Donda 2’ album, which until last week had only been available on the Stem Player that was launched to release the rapper’s album in February.

Madonna is celebrating her dance floor domination.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMadonna recently became the first artist to top Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart for the 50th time, making her the first and only recording artist to have 50 No. 1 hits on any single Billboard chart.She is commemorating the event in characteristically outsized fashion with two new compilations: “Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones,” a new 50-track collection that includes her favorite remixes of her dance hits, and an abridged 16-track version, simply titled “Finally Enough Love.” The full tracklists appear below.The collections mark the first album releases to be part of the newly announced partnership between Madonna and Warner Music Group, which will feature an extensive series of catalog releases across her career.

BTS, following a series of tweets where he criticised the septet.On April 4, the night of the Grammys 2022, Dean took a jab at the K-pop boyband by responding to a tweet from the Recording Academy. The Grammy organiser had dared followers to “name a group smoother than BTS”, which Dean replied with “Anyone”.A post shared by thinker (@the.thinkings)Later that night, while responding to BTS fans, the producer added further fuel to the fire by questioning BTS’ songwriting credits.

Producer Mike Dean was apparently irked when Kanye West’s album Donda — which he produced — didn’t win the Album of the Year award at Sunday’s Grammys, and seemed to take it out on BTS.

Shirley Ju Separately from each other, producers Mike Dean (pictured above) and Jeff Bhasker (below) are both synth gods in their own right. As a unit, performing their first show on Friday (April 1) at OffSunset in West Hollywood, the two were otherworldly.The intimate set reunited the Kanye West collaborators, who each have five Grammy Awards, and included an all-star guest list that both teased on socials prior to the event.

BBC Strictly Come Dancing will return to our screens in September this year. Strictly will be back following a break from December, when the last series was won by Rose Ayling Ellis.

ITV I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is returning to Australia this winter. And now the bookies have released their odds for the cast. Danny Dyer heads William Hill’s market of candidates who might enter the jungle for this year’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!.

Ellise Shafer Jack Antonoff is the world’s top music producer, according to Jaxsta’s inaugural list of the 100 most successful producers in the business.Jaxsta, the world’s largest public database of music credits, determined the list by analyzing statistics provided by record labels, publishers, distributors, industry associations and charts from the period of March 2021 to February 2022. Jaxsta’s weighted algorithm calculated each producers’ chart performance, Grammy wins and nominations, Spotify streams, RIAA certifications and number of total credits to determine the world’s 100 most successful producers.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith her just-released “Caprisongs” mixtape and a fresh affiliation with a new label, Atlantic, British singer-songwriter-producer FKA Twigs ups the ante on her eerily experimental sound and intimately nuanced lyrics and goes big. That’s not only because the genre-jumbling, multi-octave performer has invited brand-name featured guests such as Jorja Smith and the Weeknd to the party that is “Caprisongs.” Rather, it’s because the Gloucester, U.K.-born artist — real name Tahliah Barnett — is having any kind of party at all.The bottom line on Twigs has long been that her most ambitious music was deeply emotional and uncompromising.

Lana Del Rey was the recipient of Variety‘s Decade Award yesterday (December 4), receiving the title at its Hitmakers brunch in Los Angeles.After being presented the award by producer Mike Dean, who she collaborated with on recent track ‘Wildflower Wildfire’, she thanked many of the people who helped her on her journey in an emotional acceptance speech.“My managers helped me up the stairs,” she said. “I still haven’t mastered the art of walking in heels.

William Earl Lana Del Rey was presented with the Decade Award during the Dec. 4 Variety Hitmakers brunch held in Los Angeles.

Kyle Eustice Mike Dean is fielding texts from Madonna, promoting his latest solo album, “4:22,” nursing a joint and trying to answer interview questions. But there’s beauty in the chaos.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAhead of his “Astroworld” festival taking place in his Houston hometown this weekend, Travis Scott has dropped two new songs, “Escape Plan.”The songs are likely from his forthcoming album “Utopia,” which he and producer Mike Dean have teased on social media over the past few weeks.Although “Escape Plan” drew most of the initial attention upon the midnight drop — within the first 13 minutes, the audio of “Escape Plan” had 18,000 listens on YouTube and “Mafia” had

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicJustin Timberlake has joined his longtime collaborator Timbaland at Beatclub, an online global marketplace for music makers offering exclusive beats, loops and sounds. Beatclub, founded by Timbaland and his longtime manager and business partner Gary Marella, has already signed up such A-listers as J.

Ghostface Killah has revealed details around his forthcoming album ‘Supreme Clientele 2’, including that Kanye West and Mike Dean will executive produce the record.The Wu-Tang Clan rapper took to the r/hiphopheads subreddit to confirm that the sequel album to 2000’s ‘Supreme Clientele’ would be executive produced by West, Dean and Producer Plug Uni.

Mike Dean has spoken on his experience working with Kanye West on his new album ‘DONDA’, describing it as “gruelling”.Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the producer explained how West would shape the album based on in-person and online reactions after each listening party.“It was interesting. It was gruelling, lots of hours, lots of changes.

Kanye West producer Mike Dean has denied that he has quit working on the rapper’s still-not-released ‘Donda’ album, and also clarified what he meant when he agreed that the build up to the release of the new record had become “toxic”.

Kanye West collaborator Mike Dean has reportedly walked away from the rapper’s frequently delayed new album, ‘Donda’.Dean posted a number of vague but seemingly frustrated tweets, including “fuck it” and “good to be at the house,” before replying to a comment suggesting that West’s album rollout that had seemed “toxic” to those following its progress. “Toxic.

Kanye West, 44, has appeared in a livestream ahead of the release of his new album, Donda. Of course, it wasn’t a regular stream — the rapper seemed to be in his dressing room at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz stadium, where he has reportedly been living for two weeks. During the Apple Music stream, he was masked and wore an array of bizarre, spiked costumes. He was later seen lifting weights and chatting with his producer Mike Dean.

Kanye West has hinted that a collaboration with The Weeknd could emerge on ‘DONDA’.The rapper posted a screenshot of an iPhone call log via Instagram yesterday (August 2), which revealed three calls were made to the R&B/pop giant in the small hours, with time stamps at 1:14 a.m.

William Earl J. Cole has joined the likes of Timbaland, Mike Will Made It, Mike Dean, Scott Storch, Rance Dopson and many other A-list creators at Beatclub, an online marketplace for beats and sounds launching later this year.

Kanye West’s fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, was the culmination of a year in exile after interrupting Taylor Swift during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The project was immediately welcome with critical acclaim and featured standout verses from Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Raekwon, JAY-Z and many more.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterProducer, mixer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Dean, who’s worked with many of the biggest names in hip-hop during an illustrious decades-long career, has entered into a creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group.

Burna Boy's upcoming album Twice As Tall is set to arrive on August 14, and details about the project continue to emerge, including a full tracklist. Recorded mainly in Lagos, Nigeria over the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 15-track album will be executive produced by Diddy, Bosede Ogulu, and Burna himself.

Billboard, the suit claims Scott and his collaborators were “pretending to be interested in a collaboration”, only to “intentionally [break] the rules by exploiting plaintiffs work without consent or a license, masquerading as if plaintiff’s music is their own”.The three plaintiffs are songwriters Olivier Bassil, Benjamin Lasnier and Lukas Benjamin Leth, who filed the suit yesterday (June 9) against Scott and his collaborators, including Oz (Ozan Yildirim), Nik Dejan Frascona, Mike Dean, Jimmy

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