Hallwood Media has signed imoliver — dubbed in a press release as the top-streaming “AI music designer” on AI music platform Suno — to a record deal, making it the first label ever to sign an AI music creator to such a deal, the company announced Thursday (July 24).

To kick off the deal, imoliver will be releasing “Stone,” a song originally released on Suno, to all streaming services on Aug. 8. To date, the song has more than 3 million streams on Suno, a powerful and controversial platform that can generate songs at the click of a button. Given that some streaming services, including Spotify, still do not have any AI music-specific policies in place, imoliver is expected to generate streams like any other artist, unless he breaks other rules like impersonation, spamming, or artificial streaming.

Through imoliver’s new deal with Hallwood, he will gain new marketing, promotion and artist services to further his AI music to greater success. On Oct. 24, imoliver is also slated to drop his debut album. As the press release states: “In the coming weeks, Hallwood will release a series of new singles from the creator, supported by visual storytelling and audio content that will introduce this exciting new talent as well as help music fans better understand this new medium and appreciate how the role of music designer fits into the tapestry of creative music making in the age of AI.”

Hallwood Media is a multi-faceted music company, servicing talent through its recording, management, publishing, distribution and merch divisions. It is helmed (and founded) by former Geffen Records president Neil Jacobson, who has been a longtime advocate for innovation in the music business. Through his investing arm, Hallwood Media Ventures, which was founded in 2021 with partner Todd Lowen, Jacobson has helped fund Disco, Splice, Soundful and other music tech firms.

News of imoliver’s label deal comes just one day after Billboard published a story detailing the rise of a new class of music makers who earn a living from generating AI music and distributing it to social media and streaming services. Though these creators largely exist as outsiders to the music business — without signing traditional label deals, going on tour or selling merch — their AI-generated or assisted work does compete for royalty dollars with entirely human-made songs on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. imoliver is the first of this class of AI music content creators to sign a record deal with an established music company like Hallwood.

In a statement, Jacobson said of the deal: “imoliver represents the future of our medium. He’s a music designer who stands at the intersection of craftwork and taste. As we share his journey, the world will see the dexterity behind his work and what makes it so special. What he does is exactly why I love music and why we push boundaries at Hallwood.”

imoliver added that “signing with Hallwood is a huge moment, not just for me, but for the future of music. It’s a sign the industry is ready to embrace new ideas and new ways of creating. This isn’t about replacing artists, it’s about expanding what’s possible.”

Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno, adds: “This is a milestone — not just for Oliver, Hallwood and Suno, but for the future of music. A new creator emerging from a new platform, making new kinds of content, shows that the future of music will be more vast and more inclusive than it is today. The boundaries of artistry are ever expanding.”

Travis Kelce just gave fans a rare look into his and Taylor Swift‘s love story, sharing a bunch of unseen photos from their recent adventures on Thursday (July 24).

In the first of the pictures posted to Kelce’s Instagram, he and his superstar girlfriend pose together at night while on a boat, both of them wearing white and pointing to their matching “Captain” caps. In another adorable snap, he holds up finger guns while Swift shows off a pair of glasses, with the couple seemingly out on a dinner date.

Further photos show the athlete and singer on trips with friends, from a group hangout at a snowy escape to a summery expedition to what appears to be a cave. In the latter, Kelce rests a hand on Swift’s hip while she places a hand lovingly on his neck, with the duo’s friends smiling at the camera to their left.

“Had some adventures this offseason, kept it [100],” Kelce wrote in his caption.

Though the Kansas City Chiefs star has been open about being romantically involved with the 14-time Grammy winner, his post marks one of the first times he’s shared photos of himself and Swift on Instagram. The couple has been dating since 2023, but now that the singer’s Eras Tour is over and Kelce has had a break between NFL seasons, they’ve seemingly had more time to spend together.

One event the couple attended together was Kelce’s Tight End University, an annual summit held in Nashville for the NFL’s tight ends. Swift walked the red carpet with her boyfriend at the gathering’s opening ceremonies before delivering a surprise performance of “Shake It Off” at an afterparty.

The musician also recently came up during a discussion between Travis and his brother, Jason Kelce, on their New Heights podcast. While discussing the film Pretty Woman, the younger Kelce joked that he’s living a gender-swapped version of the movie’s plot with Swift.

“I’m wearing nothing but a tie when Taylor comes home,” he quipped on the episode. “I’m just an NFL stripper, that’s it — just an NFL hooker, man.”

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With smash hits like “Iron Man,” “Paranoid” and “War Pigs,” Black Sabbath has been creating iconic cultural moments for more than 50 years. Now, singer and founding member Ozzy Osbourne tells his story during the later years of his life in a new memoir.

Priced at $30 on Amazon and set to be released on Oct. 7, Last Rites chronicles Osbourne’s life and career leading up to a farewell tour, “No More Tours II,” and his struggles with his health that resulted in him leaving the tour in 2018. He also opens up about his more than 40-year marriage to wife Sharon.

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GloRilla has spoken out after being arrested for a pair of felony drug possession charges in Georgia.

The Memphis rapper’s arrest came after law enforcement searched her home following a burglary while Glo was out of town for her performance at the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday (July 20).

GloRilla turned herself in to Forsyth County Jail on Tuesday (July 22), where she was booked on a charge of felony possession of marijuana and a separate charge of possession of a Schedule I controlled substance.

The CMG artist says she doesn’t understand how her home being burglarized could lead to her arrest while she’s not even present. “CRAZY My House got Home Invaded Saturday While I was in Indianapolis performing for the WNBA all star game,” she wrote to X on Thursday (July 24). “Instead of Focusing on finding the Suspects , they focus on some cannabis.”

Glo continued to clear the air: “1. So no I wasn’t  busted 2. My house got robbed 3. I wasn’t home Long story short my house gets home invaded and Im the only one that gets arrested. So that’s tea.”

The suspects fled the scene after being met with gunfire by occupants at Glo’s home, but no arrest warrants have been issued by police.

GloRilla posted a $22,260 bond to secure her release just hours after turning herself in. Glo’s attorney, Drew Findling, slammed law enforcement in a statement to Billboard, calling the arrest “a disturbing window into how warped law enforcement priorities have become.”

Findling concluded with another jab: “This is our tax dollars at work, absolutely unbelievable.”

GloRilla will host her first-ever Glo Bash on Friday (July 25) in her hometown of Memphis at FedEx Forum with performances from Sexyy Red, Rob 49 and Muni Long.

Despite exploring themes of love in her music for years, Ethel Cain says she’s never dated anyone — until now.

While speaking to The Guardian in an interview published Thursday (July 24) — just a couple of weeks ahead of her new album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You — the indie-pop star revealed that she recently began her very first romantic relationship at the age of 27. “Love was always my final frontier,” she told the publication. “I never explored it.”

“I never progressed past the idea of love that I had as a teenager,” she continued, noting that her anxieties surrounding her newfound experiences with romance often made the recording process of Willoughby Tucker difficult — to the point where she would cry every day and beg for the album to feel finished.

“If [2022 album] Preacher’s Daughter was my learning experience of what not to do with trauma and healing, Willoughby Tucker has been my experience of what not to do in love,” Cain added. “The entire Preacher’s trilogy is centered around love. Love lost, love gained, love perverted, love stolen. Love is everything to us. It doesn’t matter what you love or who you love, but that you love something — and that love is what propels you forward every day. For better or worse, I think that is a beautiful thing.”

Dropping Aug. 8, Willoughby Tucker will follow January’s Perverts. Before that came Preacher’s Daughter, which rose to No. 10 on the Billboard 200 this past April after a vinyl reissue — making her the first-ever openly trans artist to reach the chart’s top 10.

The interview comes shortly after Cain released a statement explaining and apologizing for controversial remarks she made many years ago during a period of time she called “shameful.” She also wrote at the time that “transphobic” trolls had resurfaced her past comments as part of a “baseless attempt to assassinate my boyfriend’s character.”

“He will address these claims in his own time on his own terms and I support him wholeheartedly,” she added at the time.