Just over 20 years since its release, Mariah Carey has revisited her chart-topping tenth album, unveiling The Emancipation of Mimi (20th Anniversary Edition).

Released April 12, 2005, The Emancipation of Mimi marked a pivotal comeback moment in her career. Spending two weeks atop the Billboard 200, the project won three Grammys and spawned one of the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits of all time, the 14-week leader “We Belong Together.”

One day shy of the record’s 20th birthday, Carey announced its anniversary reissue, with dozens of bonus tracks, remixes and collaborations set to appear on the package. 

“I’m really happy to celebrate ‘Mimi’s Emancipation’ with this special anniversary re-release,” Carey said in a statement at the time. “While working on this edition, I got to relive all the memories from this pivotal moment in my personal and professional life.”

Indeed, the anniversary edition of the album is a walk down memory lane for all Carey fans, with the first half of the record featuring its original 14 tracks, along with an additional five bonus cuts. Almost identical to its 2020 vinyl reissue, the first disc is completed with the addition of “Don’t Forget About Us,” “Sprung,” “Secret Love,” the Jermaine Dupri-featuring “Makin’ It Last All Night (What It Do),” and an additional remix of “We Belong Together.”

The second disc serves as a veritable treasure trove of material for diehard fans, launching with the long-awaited official release of “When I Feel It,” which was reportedly left off the original release due to sample clearance issues. 

Remixes from the likes of Solange, Kaytranada, David Morales, and Scott Storch are also included, along with a cappella renditions of “Shake It Off,” “Circles,” and “Joy Ride,” while her 2024 American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special performance of “We Belong Together” closes the package.

“This album has some of my biggest hits to date, as well as some personal favorites that are very special to me,” Carey added of the new reissue. “Forgotten gems, unreleased bonus tracks and different remixes with incredible collaborators — all of these and more are now available in one place for the first time ever!”

Listen to Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi (20th Anniversary Edition) below.

Miley Cyrus‘ latest work of art is finally here, with the pop star dropping her new album Something Beautiful first thing Friday (May 30).

Featuring 13 tracks, the project — described by Cyrus as a “one-of-a-kind pop opera fueled by fantasy” — was led by singles “Prelude,” “Something Beautiful,” “End of the World” and “More to Lose.” On “Walk of Fame,” the Hannah Montana alum teamed up with Alabama Shakes guitarist Brittany Howard, and for “Every Girl You’ve Ever Loved,” supermodel Naomi Campbell guested.

Something Beautiful is also accompanied by a film, which will premiere in theaters for one night only on June 12 in the United States and Canada, followed by another single-day screening internationally on June 27. Cyrus had long teased that she wanted to make a visual album prior to the project’s release, revealing back in November that her vision was to take inspiration from Pink Floyd’s The Wall — just “with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”

The new record marks the “Flowers” singer’s first LP since 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200. But while performing old tracks and playing new songs from Something Beautiful at an intimate Chateau Marmont show in Los Angeles Wednesday (May 28), Cyrus revealed that she’s already thinking about her next album.

“My next album is about to be extremely experimental, so have fun with that,” she told the crowd of superfans gathered in the room, noting that Something Beautiful is “just the appetizer.”

Listen to Cyrus’ Something Beautiful below.

A documentary about pop superstar LISA is currently in production.

The film was announced Thursday (May 29) during a Los Angeles event previewing forthcoming projects by Sony Music Vision.

Created in partnership with LLOUD CO./RCA Records and Tremolo Productions, the film will follow a year in the life of LISA, as she takes time away from BLACKPINK to pursue her own solo career.

The doc is being directed by Sue Kim, whose recent work includes A24’s award-winning documentary The Last of the Sea Women and the Netflix documentary short The Speed Cubers, which was nominated for Critics Choice and Peabody awards and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Kim was also an executive producer on the docuseries K-Pop Idols.

“Following LISA on this transformative and thrilling year has been a true honor and a cinematic gift,” Kim says in a statement. “There have been so many moments on her journey that I think will surprise people and give a glimpse into her world that no one’s ever seen before. I’m excited for viewers to watch the film and witness this extraordinary moment in her life.”  

“This has been such an incredible year, and I’m so lucky to have the opportunity to capture these special moments on film and share the experience with my fans,” LISA adds. “Working with Sue Kim has been such a joy. We’ve been all around the world together and I know this is just the beginning of many more exciting things to come.”  

Thursday’s event debuted clips of the LISA film, including her 2025 debut solo performance at Coachella and her at home in Thailand. During a conversation about the doc, Kim revealed that the film will focus on showing the superstar in her offstage moments.

The event also included previews of forthcoming documentaries on Barbra Streisand, Oasis and Elvis Presley, with director Baz Luhrman taking part in a conversation on the Elvis doc, the follow-up to his 2022 feature film ELVIS.

The new documentary is called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Speaking on the film, Luhrmann said that “During the making of ELVIS, we went on a search for rumored unseen footage from the iconic 1970s concert films Elvis: That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour. My initial thought was that we may be able to restore the unused footage (if we could find it) and use it in our Elvis feature, starring Austin Butler.

“I had researchers go into the Warners Bros. film vaults buried in underground salt mines and, to the astonishment of all, we uncovered 68 boxes of film negative, as well as unseen 8mm footage,” the acclaimed director continues. “It has taken two years to restore the footage to a quality that it has never been projected at previously, while the team had to meticulously claw back sound from the many, unconventional sources that were also unearthed. One of the great finds has been unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and his music. It was this that gave the inspiration for EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.

Luhrman adds that the film is “not specifically a documentary, nor a concert film: Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, weaving never-before-seen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this way, from the 1970 Vegas show, on tour in 1972 and even precious moments of the 1957 ‘gold jacket; performance in Hawaii. Most importantly, Elvis will sing and tell you about his life in first person, through both classic and contemporary musical prisms.”  

See a preview of this new footage below.

HarbourView Equity Partners has acquired part of Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins‘ royalty catalog, the Newark, N.J.-based entertainment company said on Thursday (May 29).

The deal was facilitated by Chapter Two, a Stockholm-based tech company that gathers royalty data for catalog buyers and sellers to forecast future income and speed up the due diligence process. With backing from Swedish House Mafia‘s DJ Axwell and Sebastian Knutsson, one of the founders of the mobile phone gaming company King, Chapter Two has also facilitated acquisition deals for music rights to tracks by Lil Nas X and BTS.

Jerkins, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame earlier this year, is known for co-writing and producing Destiny’s Child‘s “Say My Name,” which won a Grammy for Best R&B Song in 2000, and producing Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” which won the Record of the Year Grammy in 2014. His list of hit songs also includes “Telephone” by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé, “Déjà Vu” by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z, Brandy and Monica‘s “The Boy is Mine,” Justin Bieber’s “As Long As You Love Me, and H.E.R.’s “Hard Place.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and HarbourView did not specify which songs were included in the acquisition.

Led by Sherrese Clarke and launched in 2021, HarbourView has acquired some 75 catalogs comprising 41,000 songs from artists like T-Pain, Luis Fonsi, Kane Brown and Wiz Khalifa. As of Dec. 31, HarbourView, which also has stakes in production companies MACRO and Mucho Mas Media, had $2.67 billion in regulatory assets under management.

HarbourView’s legal counsel for the deal was Fox Rothschild, while Jerkins was represented by Pamela L. Klein of Rossi Baldivia Klein Fine & Spector, P.C.