Producer and musician Pharrell Williams will take on the role of creative director for the luxury fashion brand’s menswear line, GQ reports. His first collection for LV will be released during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris in June. Pharrell follows in the footsteps of Virgil Abloh, who served as the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection from 2018 until his death in 2021 due to cardiac angiosarcoma. Abloh was the first Black American to be appointed to the role.

Billboard staff picked the 50 greatest producers of this century: the most innovative, impactful and important knob-twiddlers since 2000. The top 5 are:

5. Mike Will Made-It because he loves twisting the familiar into something far weirder and more rewarding

4. The-Dream & Tricky Stewart thanks to their zooming keys, gentle-but-insistent percussion, expansive soundscapes and the era's most lethal toplines.

3. Timbaland - fourth-dimension funk, with rattling drums, squelching bass, unrecognizable and disembodied vocal hooks

2. Pharrell Williams / The Neptunes - Liquid guitars, clanging percussion, and the most intoxicating synth tones you've ever heard

1. Max Martin -  the hooks we crave, the choruses we want to belt out, from the stars that have defined the mainstream over the past two decades

Trent Reznor, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, Kamasi Washington, Beastie Boys are nominated for 2020 Emmy awards, in music categories, uDiscover Music reports. Trent Reznor got his nomination for 'Watchmen', Kamasi Washington is in with 'Becoming', while Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are recognized for their work in 'The Black Godfather'. Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz and their creative partner and director Spike Jonze are nominated for Apple TV’s 'Beastie Boys Story' in five categories, including for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Check all the nominees here.

BBC revealed the 10 most played songs on UK TV and radio of the last decade:

10. 'Sex On Fire' - Kings Of Leon

9. 'Forget You' - CeeLo Green

8. 'Counting Stars' - One Republic

7. 'Uptown Funk' - Mark Ronson, ft Bruno Mars

6. 'I Gotta Feeling' - Black Eyed Peas

5. 'Can't Stop The Feeling!' - Justin Timberlake

4. 'Get Lucky' - Daft Punk, ft Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

3. 'Moves Like Jagger' - Maroon 5, ft Christina Aguilera

2. 'Rolling In The Deep' - Adele

1. 'Happy' - Pharrell Williams

Producers Pharrell and Rick Rubin interviewed each other in a wide-ranging interview, covering various subject - favourite music, racism versus the hip-hop, technology, as well as 'Blurred Lines' lawsuit which changed what makes a song different - "now there's a question on what a song is". Pharrell feels he's the one to blame for that. […]

Pharrell Williams has distanced himself from ‘Blurred Lines’, the 2013 hit he performed alongside Robin Thicke saying he initially didn’t understand the furore surrounding the track’s reception. "There are women who really like the song and connect to the energy that just gets you up", he told GQ. "Then I realised that there are men […]

Listening to death metal music inspires joy, and not violence - a new study by the music lab at Sydney, Australia’s Macquarie University shows. The study involved asking 32 death meal fans and 48 non-fans to listen to death metal (Bloodbath's cannibalism-inspired track 'Eaten'), or pop while viewing unpleasant images (Pharrell Wiliams' 'Happy'). It revealed […]

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have been told to pay $5m in the long-running copyright case over hit song 'Blurred Lines'. Legal battle began in 2013, when Marvin Gaye's family claimed 'Blurred Lines' copied Gaye's 1977 hit 'Got to Give It Up'.

Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell have joined Mike WiLL Made-It on the new song 'The Mantra' (listen to it on YouTube), slated to appear on the soundtrack for 'Creed II', the sequel to 2015’s 'Rocky' reboot 'Creed' starring Michael B. Jordan. The film’s soundtrack is produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and will include music from Bon Iver, Vince Staples, […]

Guardian has an interesting article about how artists are unable to stop politicians to stop playing their songs at political rallies. It just so happens that's it's mostly conservative politicians who played songs that they weren't allowed to: Donald Trump played Pharrell Williams' 'Happy', John McCain played Abba's 'Take a Chance on Me', and so […]