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With San Diego Comic-Con upon us, collectors are flocking to Southern California to get their hands on rare action figures and other toys. However, you don’t have to go down to San Diego to get yourself hot and new collectibles and toys.
Starting on Thursday, July 24, Walmart kicks off Collector Con 2025 with premium action figures from top brands, including Marvel, Masters of the Universe, NECA and others. We rounded up the best picks during Collector Con from some of the most well-known realms of pop culture, such as Venom, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, WWE, Star Warsand more. Walmart Collector Con 2025 ends on Friday, July 25.
But act fast and shop now — these collectibles won’t last long and items are likely to sell out fast.
And because its from Walmart, you’ll get any of these collectibles shipped to your home for free as soon as it’s available if you’re a Walmart+ member.
If you’re not a member, then you’re in luck. You can sign up for a 30-day free trial to take advantage of everything the retailer’s rewards program has to offer with perks such as free, fast delivery; fuel discounts’ streaming access to Paramount+ to watch hit originals such as Halo, Evil, 1883 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; additional savings with early access deals and much more.
n addition, Walmart+ comes with access to SiriusXM for all sorts of talk radio and music — including popular channels like “The Coffee House” for stripped-down songs from Noah Kahan, Kacey Musgraves, The Lumineers, Phoebe Bridgers and others. Learn more about what Walmart+ can offer you here.
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50 Cent threatened to push Dave Blunts down a flight of stairs on Instagram, prompting Blunts to respond with a scathing diss track.
Seemingly unprompted, 50 Cent shared a since-deleted photo of Blunts on his Instagram on Sunday (July 20), writing: “Ye this ya manz, if I catch him im pushing down the stairs.”
Dave didn’t let that insult slide, and targeted 50 Cent’s 2011 film All Things Fall Apart in a response on Instagram. 50 Cent had lost significant weight during his time on that film. “I been going to the gym and been locked in on my health journey the world is watching me lose weight but you lost all that weight for that weak ass movie and nobody watched that shit,” Dave captioned a photo of 50 from the movie.
In a separate post on Monday (July 21), Blunts then hit the studio to record an official diss record aimed at the Power mogul.
“Curtis Jackson wanna diss me, n—a must be smoking on Fent,” Blunts raps in the clip. “Heard ya baby mama caught a c—mshot, nine times, that’s 50 Cent/ And I just got in the rap game but I’m ’bout as big as it gets/ Why the f—k is this old n—a mad, ’cause his baby mama eating s—t.”
Elsewhere on the track, he spits: “Heard ya baby mama eat excrement, heard your baby mama eat poop/N—a’s telling me I should back down, but that’s not what I’m ’bout to do/Curtis Jackson is a actor, nah, he ain’t really ’bout to shoot/Curtis Jackson really don’t want no drama.”
50 Cent has yet to respond to the diss. Check out the posts below.
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This week, BLACKPINK’s “Jump” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts — making it, statistically, the biggest song in the world.
But the K-pop superstars almost didn’t get the chance to record it, with the song reaching the group after a circuitous journey that started when it was originally written by, and for, Major Lazer.
“Then we didn’t release it,” says Major Lazer’s de facto leader Diplo. “And thank God.”
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The origins of “Jump” go back to January 2024, when it came into being during a writing session at Sony Studios in Miami with Diplo, Major Lazer’s Ape Drums and Argentine producer Zecca, who’s worked extensively with Bzrp, including on his 2023 juggernaut “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. #53.” While they were in the session to write Latin music, Diplo also wanted to make a song in the vein of early-’00s electroclash heroes Fischerspooner.
“[I thought] it’d be like an ‘Emerge’ kind of acid song, and Major Lazer would do it, and I’d put a vocal on it, and it’d be fun and happy and we’d find a way to make it work” he says. But via Diplo, the song then landed with Argentinian duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, who worked with Diplo on arranging it, then recorded it.
Then still relatively unknown in the U.S., the pair blew up not long after working on the song, a rise in part fueled by their October 2024 Tiny Desk Concert, which now has 39 million views. “The show they did for NPR went viral, and they had a sound that’s kind of jazz, Latin and Moroccan, so then the song [we did] didn’t make sense for them,” Diplo says.
By this point, the song was already a year old, but Diplo would not be thwarted. “I was courting a lot of people and just kept writing,” he says. “I was like, ‘I’m going to make this f–king idea work. I’m going to take this to the finish line, no matter how hard it is.” He was still contemplating releasing it as a Major Lazer song, calling the group an outlet where “if my crazy music doesn’t find a home, it’s going to be released on a Major Lazer album.”
But kismet interceded when Diplo found himself in the studio with Teddy Park, who’s written dozens of hits for K-Pop acts including 2NE1 and BigBang, and who is the creative director and lead producer for BLACKPINK. “I played him a bunch of stuff that I thought was interesting,” recalls Diplo, “He was like, ‘Cool.’ Then I was about to leave and I pulled this song up. I was like, ‘This is probably the craziest thing I have that could maybe work.’ He was like, ‘That’s the perfect idea. This is what we need to do — something this radical.’”
The song is kind of a weird one, swerving through moments of techno, drill, hardstyle, Eurodance and trance with a chorus melody that evokes the 1997 rave anthem “Meet Her at the Loveparade” by German producer Da Hool. It’s also a song that might not necessarily catch your attention from the start (if you’re not already a BLACKPINK fan, that is), but makes so many inventive shifts that it ultimately demands your attention. Drawing from myriad dance/electronic subgenres, it’s also essentially a club track — and Diplo’s latest venture in juicing up mainstream pop with electronic sounds not widely known in the mainstream.
“I would say it’s speed, garage and trance, and the bass line of the drops is almost like Goa trance,” says Diplo. “It goes into drill and Jersey Club. The fill is from a Brazilian genre called from Bahia. The outro is like hard techno, and the beginning drums are more Euro-pop from the ’90s, with the guitar line and the whistle.”
Having worked with some of the biggest pop acts in the world, he says with authority that such hybridizing would be swiftly rejected by most major artists. But with a predilection for risk taking among K-pop generally and BLACKPINK specifically — along with a famously devoted fanbase that celebrates and elevates most anything the group does — the song had finally landed with the right act.
“If I said to like, Adele, that ‘Hey I’ve got this trance/Jersey Club song… That’s already off limits for somebody like that,” says Diplo. “This was so fun because they’re like, ‘We just want to do something that shocks people, and we don’t care if it’s different.”
Diplo passed the track to Park and BLACKPINK in May, and they released the song and its high-concept video on July 11, with “Jump” being the group’s first new single in three years. He briefly connected with BLACKPINK’s JENNIE (whose 2025 album single “like JENNIE” he co-wrote and co-produced) while the group was recording the song when she FaceTimed him one night while he was in Bulgaria (“or some place like that,” he says), but the connection was bad, so ultimately he didn’t hear the song again until the group finished cutting it, sent him the files and he did the finishing touches.
In its final form, the song now has writing credits from Diplo, Ape Drums, Zecca, TEDDY, South Korean producer and frequent BLACKPINK collaborator 24, Swedish artist Zikai, British singer/songwriter Claudia Valentina, German producer Jumpa, vocalist/writer/producer Malachiii (widely known for his vocals on his Adam Port and Strv collab “Move”) and singer/songwriter Jesse Bluu. Its production credits go to 24, TEDDY and Diplo.
If there was any sort of grand plan in all of this, it’s that Diplo says he intentionally stepped back from touring as heavily this year in order to re-focus on writing and producing music, finding that the house scene he’s been heavily DJing in for years has, for him, gone stale.
“House music is a genre that’s on a loop that just became a contest of bottles and tables and cover songs,” he says. “The main part of the house music industry is to make this sound and situation as comfortable as possible for older, rich people to kind of enjoy a dip into underground culture.”
Having occasionally revamped the sound of pop music over the years — pulling Justin Bieber‘s career off life support with “Where Are Ü Now,” the 2015 collab with the singer and Skrillex (as part of the producers’ Jack Ü project), injecting Major Lazer’s woozy dancehall into worldwide earholes by giving it to Beyoncé as a sample for 2011’s “Run the World (Girls),” putting house into the pop realm with the 2018 Dua Lipa collab “Electricity” via his and Mark Ronson’s Silk City project — he was motivated to just try and do that again.
With “Jump” now dominating charts and streamers, he now seems convinced of his efficacy. “I feel like ‘Jump’ sounds like a song from 2026 or something,” he says. “It’s 2025, but if you look at the charts, every song sounds like a rehashed version of like, an A&R’s dream of what’s interesting.Music should go back to ‘Let’s shock people.’ I think this song does that, and that’s why it’s gotten a reaction like it has.”
Though “Jump” ventures across multiple styles in its two-minute, 45 second duration, the most in-vogue moments are the chorus and outro. Thumping techno drums roll in alongside the stabbing synth lead, which nods to the fashionable sound of the decade’s preferred flavor of techno, currently spearheaded by the likes of Charlotte de Witte and Sara Landry. These producers, and more in their realm of the scene, are pulling in entire festival crowds with this sound — BLACKPINK could be therefore reaching new audiences with “Jump,” while bringing new audiences to techno.
“My sole goal as a producer is to destroy all genres,” Diplo concludes. “Just to kill them all and mix everything that people don’t allow, or push the limits and do genres I shouldn’t be allowed to do. That’s been my whole M.O. since I started music, being the enemy for journalists and even audiences who are confused all the time by what I release.
“But that’s what K-pop is. If you listen to some old BLACKPINK, old BTS or ATEEZ, they’re going to put six genres in a song. They don’t give a f–k.”
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Though Ozzy Osbournedied on Tuesday (July 22) at age 76, the Blizzard of Ozz will be with us forever thanks to his landmark albums with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist, as well as the acres of tape of the heavy metal icon banging his head gleefully on stage and puttering around his house in the beloved MTV reality show The Osbournes.
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And while Ozzy’s memory will never fade for the millions of fans who saw him live over the past half century — or those lucky ones who witnessed his final solo and Sabbath show at July 5’s instant classic Back to the Beginning blowout show in his native Birmingham, England — over the next year the hard rock royal will be honored by a number of posthumous projects.
Osbourne, whose mobility was hampered by a battle with the effects of Parkinson’s disease and the aftermath of a series of spine and neck surgeries, was slowed down in his final years by those struggles. But that apparently didn’t stop him from burning the midnight oil until the very end. The following are the known releases fans can look forward to through early 2026.
Mercury Studio recently announced that the best bits of the epic Back to the Beginning show will be compiled in a 100-minute concert film, Back to the Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow, slated to hit movie theaters in early 2026.
“Presented as a love letter to Ozzy and the pioneering sound of Black Sabbath, the theatrical release will be a distilled version of the epic all-day event held at Villa Park,” read an announcement about the feature that will compile footage from the all-star, all-day heavy metal gathering in Sabbath’s hometown on July 5 at Villa Park. “Featuring thunderous performances of ‘War Pigs,’ ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Children of the Grave’ and a show-stopping ‘Paranoid,’ the film promises a deeply personal and electrifying farewell from the godfather of heavy metal with exclusive behind-the-scenes access and interviews from this iconic live performance.”
The celebration of all things Ozzy featured sets from Metallica, Mastodon, Anthrax, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Gojira and Slayer, as well as a supergroup featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, the Smashing Pumpkins, Limp Bizkit, Judas Priest and Rage Against the Machine, among others. After the movie hits the big screen it will be available in a physical version later in the year.
A feature-length documentary chronicling Ozzy’s six-year struggle to recuperate from a devastating 2019 fall, Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, will debut on Paramount+ later this year.
“This is Ozzy Osbourne like you’ve never seen before: an honest, warm and deeply personal portrait of one of the greatest rock stars of all-time, detailing how the singer’s world shuddered to a halt six years ago, forcing him to contemplate who he really is, confront his own mortality and question whether or not he can ever perform on stage for one last time,” read a release announcing the project directed by BAFTA-winner Tania Alexander (Celebrity Googlebox). “Addressing his health issues and impact of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, the film showcases the central role music continues to play in Ozzy’s life – also proving his mischievous sense of humor remains resolutely intact despite it all.”
In a statement accompanying the announcement, Osbourne added, “The last six years have been full of some of the worst times I’ve been through. There’s been times when I thought my number was up. But making music and making two albums saved me. I’d have gone nuts without music.”
Alexander began filming the doc in 2022 during sessions for the double-Grammy-winning album Patient Number 9, with the cameras continuing to roll this summer as Osbourne prepped for the Back to the Beginning show. The doc will feature Ozzy and wife/manager Sharon Osbourne, as well as the couple’s children and a number of his musical collaborators and friends, including: Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), guitarist Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt and friend/musician Billy Morrison.
Following the Back to the Beginning show, Osbourne announced a new memoir, Last Rites, which is due out on Oct. 7 through Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. The follow-up to the rocker’s 2009 memoir, I Am Ozzy, will reportedly cover the health crises the 76-year-old metal god endured over his final years, including the Parkinson’s diagnosis that forced him to retire from touring.
“At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then disaster,” read the release announcing the book. “In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalized with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour – and all public life – as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.”
Along with bringing fans behind the scenes of Osbourne’s health struggles, the book promises to reflect on his life and career, including his turbulent marriage to wife/manager Sharon Osbourne and his wild days with fellow rock rippers Slash, AC/DC’s Bon Scott, late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and late Who drummer Keith Moon. It will also include Ozzy’s thoughts on the Back to the Beginning concert.
“People say to me, ‘if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything?’ I’m like, ‘f–k no.’ If I’d been clean and sober, I wouldn’t be Ozzy. If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy,” Osbourne said in the book announcement statement. “Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can’t complain. I’ve been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I’ve done good… and I’ve done bad. But right now, I’m not ready to go anywhere.”
Announced just weeks before his death, Osbourne’s Ozzy Osbourne x Jolie Beauty range of cosmetics dropped earlier this month. In light of the news of his passing, the Birmingham-based beauty business said fans have been scrambling to snap up the devilishly dashing range of eyeshadows, makeup brushes and metallic lipsticks and glosses.
According to a July 12 post, the $90 vegan leather Backstage Makeup Bag, Rock Royalty makeup brush kit and vinyl-shaped makeup mirror all sold out within 24 hours of the original drop; the Ozzmosis Palette collection was sold out as of Tuesday.
A collection of demos recorded by Osbourne and his Sabbath mates in their precursor band, Earth, are due for release on Friday (July 25) through Big Bear Records. The first-time release of the tracks recorded in 1969 collected on Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes, will feature songs tracked by Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward and bassist Geezer Butler.
“Before Black Sabbath, the band were known as Earth – a blues-driven powerhouse already making a name for themselves,” said original manager Jim Simpson said in a release. “This new release presents rare early recordings from that era, remastered from long-lost tapes. These recordings clearly demonstrate what fine music they produced right from the very beginning. We recorded these tracks at Zella Studio in Birmingham in 1969, but held back from releasing them as their style was evolving so quickly.”
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After a decade of providing the best of the best in drag performance, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars decided to shake things up — for better or for worse— with their anniversary installment of the franchise.
For All Stars 10, fans were treated to a super-sized cast of past Drag Race performers, featuring 18 queens from all the way back to season two, up through this year’s season 17. Splitting off into three brackets and competing in the “Tournament of All Stars,” the queens sang, acted, designed, danced and most importantly lip-synched their way through the competition, hoping to be one of the elite few to make it to the final showdown.
On last Friday’s (July 18), eight of the remaining queens faced off in the show’s favorite new format — the bracket-style Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza — until only season seven runner-up Ginger Minj and season 14 favorite Jorgeous were left. After a showdown to The Weather Girls’ iconic anthem “It’s Raining Men,” RuPaul declared that Ginger Minj was America’s Next Top All Star, granting her the crown and her cash prize of $200,000.
While the fan reaction to Minj’s victory has been decidedly mixed (and in some cases downright hostile), one thing that fans could agree on was that All Stars 10 boasted some truly excellent lip syncs. From moving performances to beloved queer classics, to jaw-dropping feats from a few of the season’s standout queens, this season of All Stars delivered the goods when it came time for its tried-and-true format.
But which lip syncs exceeded expectations, and which ones didn’t make an impact? Below, Billboard takes a look at all 18 lip sync performances from RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 and ranks them from worst to best.
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Grammy-winning artists Chappell Roan, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, LaPolt Law founder/owner and SONA co-founder Dina Lapolt, Primary Wave founder/CEO Larry Mestel and the organization Girls Make Beats will be honored at the Songwriters of North America’s fifth annual Warrior Awards, to be held Oct. 12 at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center.
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Songwriters Bonnie McKee and Shane Stevens will host and perform, with singer/songwriter Morgan Wade and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Desmond Child also performing.
SONA’s board of directors selects the honorees. “Our board is out in the world seeing the good things that people are doing and so at the beginning of the year, we pool our ideas of who’s doing good work,” says SONA co-founder and CEO and Emmy-winning songwriter Michelle Lewis, adding that the board likes to pick honorees from across sectors, including artists, executives and organizations. “We look at what’s important at the time in terms of issues and advocacy and who is using their platform to make things better for songwriters and music creators. We’re honoring the do-gooders.”
Roan’s outspoken comments advocating for insurance for music creators at this year’s Grammys sparked a chord with SONA. “When she gave that speech, my phone blew up,” Lewis says. “We’ve been trying to deal with getting songwriters health insurance for as long as we’ve been around.”
New at the ceremony this year will be the Emerging Songwriter Warrior Award presented by YouTube Songwriter, which celebrates a SONA member on the rise. SONA members may nominate potential honorees for the award here through Aug. 22. The winner will be announced at the awards show from the five finalists.
SONA, which advocates for songwriters’ and composers’ rights, as well as provides education and opportunities for its roughly 1,000 paid members, was founded 10 years ago. It represents songwriters’ interests before legislative bodies, administrative agencies and courts and provides a unified voice to protect songwriters’ rights and compensation. The organization is based in Los Angeles but expanded to add a New York chapter last year.
The awards will serve as the finale to the second annual SONA Warrior Awards week, which will include a number of activities, including include a wellness fest, hosted by the SONA Foundation, the organization’s philanthropic arm.
Other events include an intimate Oct. 7 house concert at a songwriter’s home, which will benefit the SONA Foundation’s Therapy Access Project. On Oct. 10, SONA will host its annual Songwriters Summit, which takes place at a major recording studio and serves as a state of the union for the songwriting community with panels and sessions on current issues. Following the Summit, the Hotel Café will host The Arena Rock Coffee House, which will feature the songs of Child, who has written numerous hits for Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Cher and more. “Desmond’s going to be there and it’s going to be star-studded,” Lewis says. All the proceeds from the concert, which is open to the public, go to the SONA Foundation.
Lewis says the inspiration for SONA Warrior Awards week is the Ivor Novello Awards in the U.K. “We don’t have that here: by songwriters for songwriters celebration day and week,” she says. “They are completely the inspiration for adding the [Emerging Songwriter] award and the week of programming.”
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PinkPantheress may have dropped out of college after one year to pursue a music career, but the 24-year-old received an honorary doctorate from England’s University of Kent on Tuesday (July 22).
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The U.K. artist was one of eight people to receive a doctorate during a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral earlier this week, as Pink’s honor came in recognition of her “contribution to and achievements in music in the digital age.”
In a red gown, PinkPantheress took to the podium to a round of applause while reflecting on her journey from Canterbury, England, to global stardom.
“Canterbury was the backdrop for the majority of my life. I joined my first band here,” she began her speech. “I had my first-ever job at the cricket ground. I uploaded my first songs to SoundCloud here.”
Pink recalled working on music while her father graded papers as a statistics professor at University of Kent. She even highlighted how budget cuts are impacting music programs across the U.K.
“We’ve seen music departments lose funding all over the country though,” she said. “It’s never been more important to give young people access to different artistic outlets … Trust yourself and lean on those who support you.”
The “Boys a Liar, Pt. 2” singer posted a separate clip to TikTok strolling the hallways in her cap and gown while holding her degree and hitting some dance moves to her “Illegal” track.
“And from now, it’s Dr. Pantheress,” she wrote. “I cannot believe this and legit every single person who graduated with a doctorate or any degree today at kent uni, i am in awe of you, you’re the future you’re everything, i am not worthy of being in your presence.”
The experimental singer-producer released her Fancy That mixtape in May, which reached No. 4 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
i cannot believe this and legit every single person who graduated with a doctorate or any degree today at kent uni, i am in awe of you, you’re the future you’re everything, i am not worthy of being in your presence @University of Kent
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Want to brush up on your dealmaking skills? Here’s your chance to learn from one of the best agents in the biz — Rich Paul. When he’s not booed up with fiancée Adele courtside at NBA games, Paul is running Klutch Sports Group and representing some of the biggest athletes in the NBA, including LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Draymond Green.
Partnering up with MasterClass, the super agent and CEO is launching his own class — the Dealmaker’s Mindset — to provide subscribers with vital information on tactics, strategies and the right mindset to use when building a career and negotiating blockbuster deals.
Three key lessons highlighted in his Dealmaker’s Mindset class include making the first move, the foundations of dealmaking and how to control the narrative. Paul uses his own personal experience building Klutch Sports Group without a law degree or MBA and trusting his instincts on pivotal negotiations early in his career. He also shares how maintaining relationships with his clients, built through consistent communication and support, is one his most effective tools.
“You don’t need to be a lawyer or a business executive to negotiate like a pro,” Paul says in a press release. “In this class, I’m sharing the same strategies I use with my clients — how to build trust, create leverage and walk away with more than anyone thought possible. Whether buying a car or closing a multimillion-dollar deal, members will learn how to bet on themselves and come out on top.”
A few more notable accomplishments in Paul’s impressive career include being named GQ‘s Power Broker of the Year, being recognized on TIME‘s list of Most Influential Companies and reversing the “Rich Paul Rule,” which would have restricted agents without college degrees from representing NCAA athletes.
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The platform starts at $10/month (which works out to $120 a year for a single subscription). The subscription gives you unlimited access to all 200-plus classes, including new courses launched monthly.
There’s also Premium Plan that costs $20/month ($240 a year) and grants users the ability to share this plan with six users in total. That brings the price down to just $3.33/month per user, and makes this the cheapest MasterClass price online. Premium subscribers also get access to downloads to watch classes offline.
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Olivia Rodrigo and Gracie Abrams are both using their platforms to draw attention to an urgent issue: The people impacted by the Israel-Hamas War, especially the children who are suffering from widespread hunger amid the ongoing violence in Gaza.
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Taking to Instagram Stories on Tuesday (July 22), the pop stars both shared the same post from children’s content creator Ms. Rachel, who has long been vocal in her support for Palestinians while calling for relief in parts of Gaza where starvation has run rampant for nearly two years. The population there has been left devastated by Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas, which began after the terrorist organization killed 1,200 Israelis and took 251 more as hostages on Oct. 7, 2023.
“I never thought I’d see babies deliberately starved to death while stockpiles of formula sit untouched, miles away,” the post reads alongside a photo of a malnourished toddler. “I never thought people I respected who have always stood up for children would see them, too, and remain SILENT.”
Both Rodrigo and Abrams also liked the post on Ms. Rachel’s feed.
The two stars aren’t the only ones who have expressed support for Palestinians, about 60,000 of whom have been killed by Israel’s war efforts, according to Reuters. Abrams joined Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa and dozens more in signing an Artists4Ceasefire letter in 2023, and in recent weeks, Lana Del Rey told Instagram followers that “we pray for Palestine every day,” while Billie Eilish slammed Israel’s “horrifying” plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians to a different part of Gaza.
Earlier in July, Rodrigo also shared a personal note condemning the “horrific and completely unacceptable” conditions in Gaza. “there are no words to describe the heartbreak I feel witnessing the devastation that is being inflicted upon innocent people in Palestine,” the singer wrote at the time. “Mothers, fathers and children in Gaza are starving, dehydrated and being denied access to basic medical care and humanitarian aid.”
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Alejandro Duque, the leader of Warner Music Latin America, has been named to a dual role as the new president of ADA, the company announced today (July 23). Based in Miami, Duque will continue to report to Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl, with no changes to his current role as president of Warner Latin.
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Duque takes over from Cat Kreidich, who announced yesterday (July 22) that she would be leaving the company, having served as president of ADA since April 2021. Under her purview, ADA — WMG’s indie distribution division — oversaw successes from Kesha, Flume and Banks, oversaw new deals with Three Six Zero and Rostrum, and helped expand the division’s global footprint.
Duque, who has led Warner Latin since 2021, has worked within the major-indie space through strategic partnerships during his tenure at the company. “Across the globe, there are dynamic, culture-shifting artists with a wide variety of needs to propel their careers forward,” Duque said in a statement announcing his new role. “We’re committed to growing our distribution business and enhancing the ADA brand, through a combination of excellent service, flexible deal-making and tech innovation. We’ve done this successfully in Latin America, and now we’re taking that holistic approach to the entire business by integrating our independent distribution strategy even more tightly with our teams in the U.S. and around the world.”
“Alejandro’s leadership will help us differentiate ADA, providing independent labels and artists with opportunities at a speed and scale they won’t find anywhere else,” Kyncl said in a statement about the new appointment. “He has a proven track record of supporting the indie community, as well as a deep understanding of WMG’s reach and resources as catalysts for global superstardom. This combination is going to bring down barriers for ADA’s clients, plugging them more directly into our infrastructure, and empowering them to build their businesses.”
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Duque spent much of his two decade career at Universal Music Latin, working with artists such as Karol G and Sebastian Yatra. He moved to Warner Latin in the summer of 2021, replacing Iñigo Zabala, and has worked with artists such as Danny Ocean, Myke Towers, Natanael Cano, Tokischa, Yandel and more during the past four years. Initially reporting to WMG international chief Simon Robson, Duque has reported directly to Kyncl since a major restructuring of the company in August 2024.
Duque’s appointment signals the latest move from WMG to address its distribution wing, which it has focused on since Kyncl initially took over, first by exploring an acquisition strategy that ultimately did not lead to a major deal, then through what Kyncl said would be an internal building process. “I’ve looked at all distribution companies over the last 18 months, and what I can tell you is that we’re not willing to grow this at all costs,” Kyncl said at a Morgan Stanley conference in March. “We have an incredible technology team … and they have been building features already for a year and a half. This way you get to the same outcome much more efficiently.”
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