Taylor Swift, a longtime Nashville resident, has handed over $1 million to the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund, the Tennessean reports. She included a link to the Response Fund and encouraged fans to donate to the cause. Also in tornado-related news, Gibson Gives, the charity branch of Gibson Brands, pledged to donate guitars to those whose guitar of any brand was damaged in the natural disaster, Billboard reports. Guitar brands Heritage and Harmony, as well as gear case and accessories brand MONO, are calling for affected artists to get in touch if their gear has been destroyed, damaged or lost due to the disaster, NME reports.

Taylor Swift has opened up about her struggle to overcome an eating disorder in a new documentary 'Miss Americana', which received a standing ovation after its gala screening in Utah on Thursday night. She said that photographs and comments about her appearance had triggered the condition. Swift said she struggled with the condition for several years. Some days, she would "starve a little bit [and] just stop eating". The rest of the time, she kept lists of everything she ate and exercised constantly. And now? - "We do not do that anymore because it's better to think you look fat than to look sick".

Last year's phenomenon Billie Eilish had the biggest-selling album of last year in the USA with 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' selling in 2.5 million total album-equivalent units in 2019, 400,000 more units than any other album.

Dr. Dre hasn’t released an album since 2015, haven't been on tour since the turn of the millennium, and his last production credit on a No. 1 hit was in 2009 (Eminem’s 'Crack a Bottle'), but still he managed to climb to the top of Forbes list of highest-earning musician of this decade. He earned […]

Taylor Swift was named Billboard's woman of the decade on Thursday night, and she used the occasion to criticise "toxic male privilege" in the music industry. "Women in music are not allowed to coast," she observed, and added - "we are held at a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling, standard". She said that in her early days, […]

So, in categories - for Best Original Score – Motion Picture the nominees are Alexandre Desplat for 'Little Women', Hildur Guðnadóttir for 'Joker', Randy Newman for 'Marriage Story', Thomas Newman for '1917', and Daniel Pemberton for 'Motherless Brooklyn'. Best Original Song – Motion Picture nominees include Andrew Lloyd Webber & Taylor Swift‘s 'Beautiful Ghosts' from […]

Taylor Swift has topped Forbes‘ annual list of the world’s highest-paid musicians with $185m made in pre-tax earnings from June 2018 to June 2019. The bulk of Swift’s earnings came thanks to a new record deal, an array of endorsements and the tail end of her recent ‘Reputation’ stadium tour. Kanye West came in second […]

Taylor Swift's old publisher Big Machine Records issued a statement saying it had agreed "to grant all licences of their artists' performances" for "the upcoming American Music Awards", in reaction to Swift's claim that her old record label had forbidden it. However, in the second half of their statement, Big Machine said "that recording artists […]

Taylor Swift is the world’s highest-paid celebrity - according to Forbes, this year she had a pretax income of $185 million. It mostly comes from her Reputation Stadium Tour, that made $345 million overall. Other musicians in the upper echelons of the Celebrity 100 rankings are Kanye West (#3), Ed Sheeran (#5), and the Eagles […]

Taylor Swift's anti-hate anthem 'You Need to Calm Down' has caused an influx of donations to GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, since it has been released on Friday midnight. GLAAD also started a Facebook fundraiser for fans to support the LGBTQ advocacy work for Pride month, with $1300 as a goal since […]

Rihanna has been named the world’s richest female musician by Forbes magazine - her wealth is estimated at $600m (£472m), coming from her music career, her fashion and beauty lines. Forbes’s list of the top five richest female musicians finds Madonna in second place ($570m), Céline Dion in third ($450m), Beyoncé and Barbra Streisand tying […]

A recent study showed how different types of music - metal, classical, pop and hip-hop - affect drivers, with the results suggesting that metal could push motorists to the extremes (they tried with Slipknot's '(sic)'). Classical music was no better - it relaxes the driver to the point of sleepiness (it was Bach). Meanwhile, pop […]

“One of the biggest stars in the world is using it [Instagram aesthetic] in their video – that might mean it’s reached its peak” - Lev Manovich, author of 'Instagram and Contemporary Image', says about Taylor Swift new video 'ME!'. Maddie Raedts, founder of the Influencer Marketing Agency (IMA), believes that perfection is no longer […]

Taylor Swift published a new video today, and it has been watched more than 29 million times in 17 hours after being released. That makes it the fastest music video in history to reach more than 10 million views - reaching the milestone in just 2 hours. BBC lists all the references in the new […]

When Taylor Swift performed at the Los Angeles Rose Bowl venue on 18 May, fans could watch rehearsal clips at a special kiosk. What they didn’t know was that a facial recognition camera inside the structure was taking their photographs and cross-referencing the images with a database held in Nashville of hundreds of Swift’s known stalkers. While […]