Spotify and Warner Music Group struck a new multi-year licensing deal covering music and music publishing similar to a recent ...

The beef between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar started out in their lyrics but has gotten so big its reached the courts ...

It didn’t last long. In 2013, the Pulitzer Prize winner Lamar was featured on Big Sean’s “Control,” in which he called out a ...

Drake is suing his record label for spreading a “false and malicious narrative” when it released and promoted Kendrick ...

In an era where streaming dominates the way people listen to music, some of the world's most famous artists have publicly ...

In 2025, Drake is showing no signs of slowing down and is continuing to make waves in the music industry.

The lawsuit repeats some of the claims Drake made against UMG in a petition filed in November, when he accused it of conspiring to "artificially inflate" Lamar’s "Not Like Us" on Spotify by ...

Drake’s legal team previously filed a petition in November, which was later withdrawn on Jan. 14, accusing UMG of using payola and bots to boost the popularity of “Not Like Us” on Spotify.

In November, Drake’s Frozen Moments company filed ... including by using ‘bots’ and pay-to-play agreements.” Both Spotify and UMG refuted the claims, with the record label saying the ...

According to court filings, representatives from Drake’s Frozen Moments, LLC engaged in extensive discussions with both UMG and Spotify before finalizing the withdrawal. While Spotify showed no ...

Drake, UMG and Spotify "met and conferred" Tuesday, according to the court documents, and Spotify had "no objection to the withdrawal and discontinuance." ...

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