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Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Impact Fund Partners With Pacsun on Denim Collection
Selena Gomez’s Rare Impact Fund has launched a sixth collaborative denim collection with retailer Pacsun, timed for the back-to-school season, with proceeds supporting youth mental health services. The partnership, which began in 2024, matters as part of a wider trend of celebrity-backed brands using retail tie-ins to fund charitable causes, and has so far raised…
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Spotify to Start Labeling AI Artists
Spotify has announced a new “AI Personas” feature to identify AI-generated artist profiles on its platform, marking one of the streaming service’s most significant efforts yet to improve transparency around AI content. The badge will appear on artist profiles, in search results and on track listings, alerting listeners when an artist’s identity is AI-generated rather…
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Spotify to label artificial artist profiles with AI Persona badge
Spotify has confirmed it will introduce an “AI Persona” badge from mid-September to flag artist profiles that are not human, whether disclosed voluntarily by the artist or identified through the platform’s own review process. The move is intended to preserve trust between listeners and artists as generative AI increasingly enables synthetic musicians and performer identities,…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is ‘Exploring’ A Music Career. His New Video Is a Good Start
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has released a video for “Your Dad,” a new song he co-wrote with Iam Tongi, the Hawaiian singer who won American Idol in 2023. The track features on the newly released album Moana: Voices Across the Ocean, a companion record to the recent live-action Moana film, and marks Johnson’s most personal…
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PS Plus’ Big Walk Hits Big Sales, Surpasses 1 Million Copies Sold in Under a Week
Panic has announced that Big Walk, the co-operative multiplayer game from the makers of Untitled Goose Game, has sold more than one million copies in just six days. The milestone is a notable achievement for an indie title, and the figure reportedly does not include players who accessed the game free via PS Plus Essential,…
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The Mad King: 9 Things We Learned About Westeros From the New Game of Thrones Play
Game of Thrones: The Mad King is the new stage tie-in to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. The play has just opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford theatre in England, and it’s chock-full of new GoT details!
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Inside the furious battle for power: Odds for a Democratic victory REVEALED as more Trump-backed seats added to flip list
The Daily Mail reports on the intensifying battle for control of Congress ahead of the US midterm elections, focusing on the latest odds of a Democratic victory and highlighting additional Republican-held, Trump-backed seats that have been added to lists of races considered vulnerable to flipping. The piece underscores how competitive the fight for the House…
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China’s Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue as Ximalaya Integration Marks New Audio Push
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China’s dominant streaming platform, reported total revenues of RMB8.93 billion ($1.32 billion) for the second quarter of 2026, a 5.8% year-over-year increase. Growth was driven by strong performance in music services and the first quarter of contributions from Ximalaya, the long-form audio platform TME acquired in a deal that closed on…
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Prime Minister announces vape and betting shops crackdown to give towns ‘power to turn things around’
Andy Burnham visited Ilkeston in Derbyshire on Tuesday, where he said high streets ‘have been hollowed out, particularly in former industrial areas’
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On This Day in 1998, Vince Gill Returned to His Roots With an Album of Pure Country and Emotionally Powerful Songwriting
On 11 August 1998, country star Vince Gill released his eighth studio album, The Key, which went on to become his first to top the country album chart. The record marked a deliberate return to traditional country sounds, as Gill sought to move away from the pop-leaning country dominating radio at the time, and he…