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The hype over KPop Demon Hunters isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Hot off the announcement of a world tour inspired by the hit Netflix film, fans can now pick up official KPop Demon Hunters trading cards online.

Released by the Asian collectibles brand KAYOU, the cards come in two editions: a “Classic” edition with eight rarities and an “Energy” edition with 11 rarities, including serialized rarities designed to cater to collectors and superfans alike. The cards all feature characters, motifs and scenes from the Oscar-winning animated film.

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This “Classic Edition” box set contains 10 individually wrapped packs, with five cards per pack.

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The set includes the chance to pull eight “ZR” cards inspired by the Honmoon, with bold graphics and striking fluorescent ink detailing that matches the “intensity” of the film’s final showdown to seal the energy field. There are also eight “CR” cards, inspired by the HUNTR/X World Tour, with cards showing the girl group in different cities like Paris and Hong Kong.

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The “Energy Edition” box set, meantime, features five individually wrapped packs containing eight cards per pack.

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This set features vivid, pearlized character cards of Rumi, Mira and Zoey, plus Jinu and the Saja Boys. There are 12 different categories of cards to collect in total, with each set ranging from three to 24 types.

The most collectible cards in the “Energy” series are the SE cards, which are inspired by the film’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Golden,” and feature premium laser etching, portrait-style artwork and a shimmery — yes, golden — effect. Each card is individually serialized from numbers 1 to 366, with the so-called “birthday numbering” celebrating a year since the film debuted online. These are expected to be the most coveted pulls.

Another serialized tier is found in the BP cards, which are numbered from 1 to 999 and capture HUNTR/X in performance mode, before “the spotlight hits, the idol steps on stage and the magic starts,” per a product description.

This is an officially licensed merch release from Netflix, joining other products like official character T-shirts, water bottles, toys and accessories. The KAYOU x KPop Demon Hunters trading cards are available to preorder now with a ship date of August 31. Amazon’s preorder price guarantee ensures that you’ll pay whatever the lowest price is for these cards, between the time you place your order and the day it ships.

Previous KAYOU card drops now go for as much as $100 on sites like eBay online, and the brand is no doubt hoping the Demon Hunters cards will be as valuable — and collectible. Shop the new release and see more KAYOU trading card packs and collectibles here.

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Michael Jackson was a megastar for most of his life. Known as The King of Pop, the Grammy Award winner always seemed to find his way into the spotlight. However, he tended to lead a pretty private life, too, or as private as one can get. The “Leave Me Alone” singer rarely shared details about his family, children or personal life, utilizing that privacy as a necessary escape from it all when the camera flashes and tabloids got to be too much.

That is why the book Moonwalk: A Memoir is such a rare piece of music history. It is the only official autobiography from Michael Jackson, offering fans a glimpse into his world in his own words. The book is a great opportunity for new and old fans to dive deeper into his life.

Right now, it’s available on Amazon, retailing for $29 for a hardcover version and $14.99 for the Kindle edition, and at Barnes & Noble for $30 hardcover and $14.99 for an eBook option.

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Jackson’s 1988 autobiography is currently a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.

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Moonwalk: A Memoir covers both the joyful and harder moments of Michael Jackson’s childhood, along with his time in the Jackson 5. The singer touches on his process and inspirations behind some of his biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” and “Thriller.”

A section of the bestselling autobiography focuses solely on anecdotes on Jackson’s famous friends, including Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn and others. Jackson also wrote candidly about the crushing isolation he felt in the spotlight, along with the ever-hot topic of plastic surgery and the “bizarre” rumors that swirled around him. While there are a number of unofficial tellings of Jackson’s life, this one comes straight from the source.

Meanwhile, Michael Jackson is experiencing a resurgence in pop culture, largely thanks to the film about his early years titled Michael. Since its release in late April, the record-breaking film became the second highest-grossing biopic of all time, beating out Elvis, which was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The movie brought in more than $600 million around the globe, according to Deadline, so far.

On the Billboard charts, Jackson had a triumphant homecoming. The singer’s landmark album Thriller returned to the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart dated May 16. This is the first time the album has reclaimed the spot in four decades.

Priced starting at $29, you can shop the 1988 autobiography Moonwalk: A Memoir on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The bitter legal battle between Fuerza Regida and its label Rancho Humilde is heating up, with the band now accusing the company of holding them in “unlawful captivity.”

In a new court filing Thursday (May 14), attorneys for the fast-rising regional Mexican group are urging a judge to let them continue accusing Rancho of violating California’s so-called seven-year rule, which prohibits exclusive services deals like record contracts that run any longer than that.

Fuerza says Rancho is holding them in “unlawful personal services captivity” and is “weaponizing” that illegal control to block the group from playing at major events, including this spring’s MLB World Baseball Classic and the upcoming FIFA World Cup.

“The weapon Rancho has been using to block [Fuerza]’s appearances at seminal events … has destroyed irreplaceable opportunities one by one while this litigation proceeds,” the group’s attorney, Kenneth D. Freundlich, writes in the filing, obtained and first reported by Billboard.

Rancho Humilde, a popular indie label founded by Jimmy Humilde known for fueling the recent boom in corridos tumbados, has been sparring in court for months with Fuerza, one of its top acts. The band’s 111XPANTIA debuted last spring at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the highest ever for a Spanish-language album by a duo or group.

In a September lawsuit, the label accused the band of breaching its record deal by unilaterally doing features for other artists and inking live performance contracts with Apple Music and Live Nation. It claimed the group would owe more than $15 million in damages when the case was over.

Fuerza Regida then countersued a month later, alleging the indie label had withheld millions of dollars in royalties and tried to “sabotage” its success — including by leaving it off Latin Grammy Awards submissions. It has since argued that the alleged retaliation has continued with blocked opportunities for the World Cup and the soundtrack for the popular Grand Theft Auto video games.

Last month, Rancho asked the judge to dismiss much of Fuerza’s case, including its accusations over the seven-year rule (formally California Labor Code Section 2855). Though the band first signed its record deal in 2018, the label argued Fuerza had willingly signed new deals in 2021 and 2022 that had clearly restarted the clock.

“California courts do not mechanically aggregate successive contracts for purposes of Labor Code Section 2855 and California law does not treat successive written contracts … as a ‘single unified transaction’ simply because their terms, added together, exceed seven years,” the label’s lawyers wrote in their April motion.

Rancho argued that the later deals gave Fuerza both a $1.8 million settlement payment and a $300,000 signing bonus, making each one a “discrete, superseding contract” that had reset the seven-year limit.

But in Thursday’s response, Fuerza’s attorneys say Section 2855 is “rooted in California’s constitutional prohibition on involuntary servitude” and cannot be evaded merely by foisting additional contracts on artists that are “stacked infinitely.” And they say the band didn’t really want to sign those new contracts anyway.

“[The band] signed them because it had no choice,” the band’s attorneys write. “The old contract was in force. FRC could not negotiate with anyone else. FRC could not test its market value. FRC was not free.”

The case remains in its earliest stages, as both sides try to dismiss the other’s accusations at the outset. If the judge allows either side’s case to move ahead, the parties will proceed into discovery and toward an eventual trial. Neither side returned requests for comment on Friday (May 15).

As someone who grew up listening to Radio Free Europe under the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, Robert Kyncl understands the capacity of media to connect, open minds and influence history. On Thursday (May 14) night at the Paley Center for Media’s 2026 spring gala at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, the Warner Music Group CEO accepted the organization’s highest honor with a speech that touched on his upbringing, the power of media and the challenges presented by artificial intelligence and how it affects “artists and songwriters” in the current landscape.

“In the world of abundance and our inability to discern what’s real and what’s not with the naked eye, what will become of the utmost importance is trust,” Kyncl told attendees at the glitzy gala. “In other words, institutional and human provenance. If these tools are built and spread without provenance in mind, we’ll find ourselves in a world that none of us will recognize for the worst. This is one of the areas that we, at Warner Music Group, focus on with our partners in the technology companies. Dialogue and trust are also the qualities at the heart of the Paley Center. The work this amazing organization does is vital to our culture to not only celebrate the power of media to connect, educate and entertain, but to foster dialogue, preserve its history and create trust. When reality is threatened, they are more important than ever.”

Josh Groban, a longtime signee at Warner Records, took the stage prior to Kyncl to “offer some perspectives on what it feels like as an artist to work under such incredible leadership.”

“When I was 16, I was very much shot out of a cannon into the music business,” Groban explained. “I was a high school student, I was signed at 16 years old. David Foster heard my voice and he decided to put me on a stage with Celine Dion at a Grammy rehearsal. It was my first ever professional gig and it was insane. I didn’t realize it at the time but it was a test, and I would eventually be asked to sign a major label deal. As somebody who is very shy, a theater kid, the last thing I thought is that this is something that would be in my future. Suffice it to say, I was not the most obvious signing. I had a voice but I didn’t fit neatly into any of the categories that represented a superhighway to success. But they took a chance on me, and 25 years later, 10 albums later, I’m still with Warner Records, a place I’m so proud to call my home.” (Groban, who has three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, recently stopped by the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast to discuss his latest album, Cinematic, which features his takes on classic movie songs.)

Alongside Kyncl, Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine and Charlie’s Angels stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith were feted at the gala, also receiving the Paley Center Honors Award. Cheryl Ladd, their co-star on the groundbreaking TV series, was not present but sent in a note of thanks that her co-stars read out loud.

The Paley Center for Media, which is headquartered in New York City and has a branch in Los Angeles, has an extensive archive of more than 160,000 TV shows, radio programs and commercials, including many cultural artifacts that aren’t available anywhere else. The gala serves as a fundraiser for the cultural center.