Justin Bieber spends sweet family time with his wife Hailey and their 11-month-old son, Jack Blues, in the “Yukon” music video he released Tuesday (Aug. 5).

In the black-and-white Cole Bennett-directed clip, the Biebers bask in the sun while laying out in a yacht that resembles the logo of his new apparel brand Skylrk, caressing their toddler and kissing his toes while painting an adorable family portrait. And of course, JB hit a little one-two when it came to his infamous “Slide City” lyric.

“We shot this a couple weeks back over the course of a few days in Spain & Italy. Shot on FX3 & GoPro, printed on 16mm film. I’ll remember these memories for the rest of my life. Thank you for everything,” Bennett wrote on Instagram while tagging Justin and Hailey.

This video marks Jack Blues’ music video debut, while Hailey has made cameos in a handful of other videos alongside her husband, including DJ Khaled and Drake’s “Popstar,” Dan + Shay and Justin’s “10,000 Hours” and Ariana Grande and Bieber’s “Stuck with U.”

“Yukon” was featured on Bieber’s latest album Swag, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last month. The standout track debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the second-highest-charting track from the LP after “Daisies” sprouted at No. 2. Billboard placed “Yukon” at No. 11 while ranking all 21 tracks on Swag, with senior editor Lyndsey Havens writing, “‘Yukon’ serves a similar purpose to ‘405,’ both of which seem like real-time ruminations that often occupy Bieber’s mind.”

Watch the “Yukon” music video below.

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Decades after lawsuits from record labels killed Napster, Sony Music says the descendant of the industry-shaking file-sharing service is still ignoring copyright law.

Shortly after Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker’s creation took the country by storm in 1999, it was facing infringement lawsuits, including from Metallica and the major labels. Those cases were quickly successful: A federal judge issued an injunction in 2001, effectively forcing Napster to shut down.

But the Napster name never really died. In the years since, it’s been purchased by a series of owners who wanted to capitalize on the name recognition for a fully-licensed music service — first by Roxio, then by Best Buy, and finally in 2011 by Rhapsody, an early music streaming service, which rebranded itself under the Napster banner in 2016.

According to Sony Music, Napster’s pirate spirit never died, either. In a lawsuit filed last week, the music giant claimed that the company owes millions in unpaid royalties after refusing to pay its licensing bills for more than a year. And Sony says Napster has continued to illegally play songs even after the record company terminated the deal.

For more details on the new Napster case — including access to the actual lawsuit filed in court — go read the full story here.

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TURNING THE PAGE – Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page reached a settlement with songwriter Jake Holmes to resolve the latest lawsuit over the disputed credits to the band’s iconic song “Dazed and Confused.” Holmes has claimed for years that he actually wrote the song in 1967 and that Page simply reworked it into the famed 1969 Zeppelin track without credit or permission.

CLEARANCE COMPLEXITIES – Beyoncé’s company, Parkwood Entertainment, was hit with a copyright lawsuit over a sample used as the introduction to her hit 2022 Renaissance track “Alien Superstar.” The case, filed by the owner of indie house music label Soundmen on Wax Records, claims that Bey cleared the sample — but did so with the wrong party.

NO BAIL FOR DIDDY – A month after his stunning acquittal on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges, Diddy was denied bail again, meaning he’ll remain in jail until his October sentencing for interstate prostitution. The star’s lawyers argued it was extremely unusual for a mere customer of prostitution to be denied bail, and got unexpected support from one of his alleged victims. But the judge was unswayed, ruling that the argument might work if the case “didn’t involve evidence of violence, coercion or subjugation in connection with the acts of prostitution at issue, but the record here contains evidence of all three.”

BOOSIE PLEA DEAL – Rapper Boosie Badazz took a plea deal in his federal gun possession case, more than two years after he was first charged. Prosecutors charged the rapper in 2023 after authorities spotted a handgun tucked into his waistband in an Instagram video — a crime because Boosie was previously convicted on drug charges back in 2011. The rapper announced the deal on social media, telling fans he was “tired of fighting” and had made “the right decision.”

UGLY ALLEGATIONS – Kate Bowman, the wife of former Maroon 5 member Mickey Madden, made shocking allegations in court filings seeking a restraining order, claiming the bassist repeatedly physically assaulted her after she confronted him about “sexting with teenage girls.” The filings said that the texts were sent to “at least two high school girls” and included “fantasies” about “raping one of the girls.”

TUPAC MURDER CASE – Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man facing a looming murder trial over the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, filed a petition asking the Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss the charges. Attorneys for Davis say prosecutors lack any hard evidence tying him to the crime and are instead improperly relying solely on statements he’s made about the killing, including a seeming confession in a 2019 tell-all memoir.

SOLO SETTLEMENT – Ty Dolla $ign reached a settlement to escape a copyright lawsuit over an allegedly uncleared sample on Vultures 1. But the case, filed by a group of Memphis rappers, will move ahead against Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), who was not involved in the settlement.

DIVORCE DRAMA – Tyrese’s ex-wife Samantha asked to have the singer thrown in jail over accusations that he still owes almost $500,000 in fees to her attorneys in their never-ending divorce case. The filing claims that the Fast & Furious star has “made no effort whatsoever” to pay the fine and should be held in criminal contempt for his “blatant disregard for this court’s order on fees.”

BRING IN BIGLAW – The organizers of FireAid, the all-star benefit concerts for Los Angeles wildfire relief in January, hired the BigLaw firm of Latham & Watkins to review its grantmaking process amid a growing furor about the distribution of $100 million raised by the events. The blowback has been fueled by allegations from Republican congressman Kevin Kiley, who claims donations were diverted to undeserving non-profits; FireAid has called those claims “misinformation.”

CARDI IN COURT – Cardi B won a key ruling in a civil lawsuit that claims she assaulted a security guard at her OBGYN’s office in 2018. With the trial looming, a judge ruled that the plaintiff’s lawyers cannot dig up dirt from Cardi’s past in front of the jury, including her past work as a stripper or her misdemeanor assault conviction for throwing a bottle at a New York strip club.

DANCE COPYRIGHTS – Fefe Burgos, a dancer who’s worked with Usher, Jennifer Lopez and Selena Gomez, filed a lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games, claiming it stole his copyrighted choreography from a recent Rauw Alejandro music video and then sold it as an add-on within the popular online video game.

BREEZY BRAND BATTLE – Chris Brown and Live Nation were hit with a lawsuit from a Miami-based retailer called Breezy Swim over his Breezy Bowl XX tour — a name that the company claims infringes its trademark rights.

LEGAL BILLS REPAID – An ex-staffer suing Ye (formerly Kanye West) for antisemitism asked a judge to order the rapper to repay nearly $100,000 incurred by her legal team in fending off a “frivolous and absurd” motion he unsuccessfully filed in the case. Ye’s lawyers argued that his offensive outbursts were part of a “provocative performance” protected by the First Amendment, but the judge flatly rejected that argument in June.

STIFF PUNISHMENT – Federal prosecutors urged a judge to sentence Latin music executive Ángel Del Villar to more than six years in prison following his conviction in March on felony charges of doing business with a concert promoter linked to Mexican drug cartels. The feds said the sanctions Del Villar violated were imposed on “one of the world’s most brutal criminal organizations.”

BATTLE OF THE BAND – Chris Beattie, the founding bassist for hardcore band Hatebreed, filed a lawsuit alleging that the group’s frontman, Jamey Jasta, had unceremoniously kicked him out after 30 years so he could get a larger cut of the band’s profits. Beattie claims Jasta used a “false narrative” — that the bassist had harassed a Live Nation security guard at a concert — as a pretext to oust him.

Picking the winner at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards will be a little more challenging this year, since Taylor Swift, who has won the award five times, including the last three years in a row, isn’t in the running this time out. (Her only eligible video was “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”) This means we’ll see someone other than Swift win video of the year for the first time since way back in 2021, when Lil Nas X took the prize for “Montero (Call Me by Your Name.”)

But who will it be? The nominees include three past winners in the category. Lady Gaga, who won in 2010 for “Bad Romance,” is nominated this year for “Die With a Smile,” her smash collab with Bruno Mars. Kendrick Lamar, who won in 2015 as featured artist on Swift’s “Bad Blood” and in 2017 for his own “HUMBLE.,” is nominated for “Not Like Us.” The Weeknd, who won in 2020 for “Blinding Lights,” is nominated for “Timeless,” his collab with Playboi Carti.

Mars has two nominations in the category. In addition to the Gaga collab, he’s also nominated for “APT.,” his collab with ROSÉ (who is the first K-Pop star to receive a video of the year nod). Mars is just the fourth artist to land two video of the year nods in the same year, following David Lee Roth (1985), U2 (1988) and Gaga (2010). Mars, surprisingly, has yet to win in the VMAs’ highest-profile category, despite five previous nominations.

Ariana Grande’s “brighter days ahead” is nominated for both video of the year and best long form video. The latter award has been awarded only three times – to Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection (1991), Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) and Swift’s All Too Well: The Short Film (2022). Swift’s title also won video of the year, as did “Formation” from Lemonade. This is Grande’s fifth nomination in the category. She too has yet to win.

The other nominees in the category are Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild.” This is Eilish’s fourth nomination in the category; Eilish’s second. Again, neither star has won in this category.

“Not Like Us” may be the front-runner in the category: The smash won five Grammys on Feb. 2, including best music video.

But we want to know what you think. What do you think should win the VMA for video of the year? Vote!

Reservoir Media reported on Tuesday (Aug. 5) that its revenue rose 8% to $37.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended on June 30. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), a popular measure of profitability, was $13.9 million, up 10%.

“We achieved healthy top-line growth in the first fiscal quarter, while continuing to manage our costs to generate a 10% year-over-year improvement in our adjusted EBITDA,” said Golnar Khosrowshahi, founder/CEO of Reservoir Media, in a statement. “We are building on strong momentum and are well-positioned to continue focusing on organic growth opportunities for our catalog of high-quality music.”

On the publishing side, revenue grew 4% to $24.9 million in the quarter. Digital, publishing’s largest revenue stream, fell 2% to $14.3 million. Performance revenue dropped 7% to $4.8 million. Sync revenue jumped 48% to $4.2 million and mechanical royalties fell 7% to $600,000.

Recorded music revenue improved 8% to $10.4 million, with digital recorded revenue jumping 23% to $8 million due mainly to price increases and subscriber growth at subscription platforms. Neighboring rights fell 3% to $1.1 million. Physical sales fell 21% to $1.1 million, and sync revenue fell 57% to $300,000.

During the quarter, Reservoir struck a strategic partnership with Fool’s Gold Records to acquire the master rights catalogs of several artists, including A-Trak, Danny Brown and Low Pros. Reservoir also took on exclusive marketing and distribution responsibilities for Fool’s Gold’s past and future releases, while Fool’s Gold joined Reservoir’s roster of independent labels, which includes Chrysalis Records, Tommy Boy Music and New State.

Reservoir also invested in the London-based immersive entertainment company Lightroom, which develops exhibitions and experiences around intellectual property. Lightroom’s past collaborations include features with Coldplay, Tom Hanks and Hans Zimmer. As part of the deal, Reservoir will provide music IP for Lightroom productions.

Reservoir executives said the company is on track to meet its fiscal 2026 financial targets of revenue in the range of $164 million to $169 million, implying a 5% annual growth rate at the midpoint. Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $68 million to $72 million would represent 6% growth at the midpoint.

Reservoir Media shares closed down 3.6% at $7.53.