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With Apple TV+ rebranding to simply Apple TV, the streaming service has now joined forces with Peacock to give new and returning subscribers more originals, live sports and music programming at one low price.

Prices start at $14.99 per month for the Apple TV and Peacock Premium (ad-supported) bundle, which is a nearly a 38% savings, if you were to subscribe individually. You can also upgrade to the Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus (ad-free) bundle for $19.99 per month, a savings of almost 35% the individual streaming plans.

Apple TV has a great selection of original TV shows, including Severance, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, The Studio, Long Way Up and Long Way Home, Silo, Shrinking, Palm Royale, Slow Horses, Invasion, Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Masters of the Air, Pachinko and others.

The streaming service has music specials and concert series, like Soundbreaking, Behind the Music, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, Jennifer Lopez’s Apple Music Live Concert, The Beatles: A Complete Anthology, Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You and others

If you’re a movie fan, then Apple TV is a good pick for original films, such as Killers of the Flower Moon, CODA, The Gorge, Fly Me to the Moon, Ghosted, Napoleon, Emancipation, Tetris and others.

You can get live sports too with Major League Baseball’s Friday Night Baseball.

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Meanwhile, Peacock is the streaming home for NBCUniversal with hit TV shows, like Poker Face, The Traitors, Couple to Throuple, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Love Island, Yellowstone, Suits, The Office, Modern Family and Parks & Recreation.

In addition, the streaming service has exclusive music programming, such as Girl You Know It’s True, Toby Keith: American Icon, When Metal Ruled the World, America’s Got Talent and others.

Peacock has live sports too with games from the NFL, NBA, Premier League, NCAA College Football and other leagues.

Right now, you can sign up for the Apple TV and Peacock streaming bundle starting at $14.99 per month for the ad-supported plan. However, you can upgrade to the ad-free plan for $19.99 per month.

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YouTube paid more than $8 billion to the music business in the 12-month period of July 2024 to June 2025, Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s global head of music, said Wednesday (Oct. 22) during a fireside chat with Billboard editor-in-chief Hannah Karp at Billboard Latin Music Week.

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The amount the music business receives from YouTube has doubled in just over three years. YouTube paid out $6 billion to the music business — spanning record labels, music publishers and performance rights organizations — in the 12-month period ended June 2022. The $6 billion payout was a big leap from the $4 billion YouTube paid music rights holders over a 12-month period just over a year earlier. 

YouTube doesn’t reveal the number of standalone YouTube Music subscribers, but the company announced in March that it surpassed 125 million global subscribers to both YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, an ad-free version of the video service that includes access to YouTube Music. YouTube also offers a less expensive tier, Premium Lite, that provides ad-free viewing for everything except music videos on the YouTube video platform but excludes ad-free listening on YouTube Music. Royalties are also generated from free, ad-supported music video viewers that totaled 2 billion each month.

The platform has extended its dominance from the smartphone to larger screens. Since February, YouTube has topped Nielsen’s rankings of share of Americans’ TV viewing. In August, YouTube’s 13.1% share was followed by Disney at 9.7%, Netflix at 8.7% and NBCUniversal at 7.6%. 

You can read a full recap of Cohen’s Latin Music Week conversation here.

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Miley Cyrus is channeling a painful memory into music for one of the most highly anticipated films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash.

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As announced Wednesday (Oct. 22), the pop star will contribute an original song to the Avatar sequel’s soundtrack. Sharing a snippet of the track on social media, Cyrus shared that she was inspired by her own experience with losing her Malibu home to a devastating fire in 2018 while working on the track.

“Having been personally affected by fire and being rebuilt from the ashes, this project holds profound meaning for me,” she wrote. “Thank you, [James Cameron], for the opportunity to turn that experience into musical medicine. The film’s themes of unity, healing, and love resonate deeply within my soul, and to be even a small star in the universe the Avatar family has created is truly a dream come true.”

In the sneak peek at the song, Cyrus sings over a lush orchestral arrangement, “Even through the flames, even through the ashes in the sky/ Baby when we dream, we dream as one.”

Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to premiere in theaters in December, more than 15 years after the first film in the franchise came out. The original Avatar — which starred Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana — is considered the highest grossing movie of all time, raking in more than $2 billion in the box office.

Cyrus has been open about how seriously the 2018 wildfire affected her. At the time, she posted that the home she shared with then-husband Liam Hemsworth had been completely destroyed, though all of her animals were safely evacuated.

When wildfires again broke out in California this year, Cyrus again touched on the experience. “It’s a feeling you don’t ever forget,” she said. “Walking up to the door you would pass through daily, looking forward to being greeted by the ones you love like you always do but instead being met by a pile of ash and rubble.”

See Cyrus’ announcement below.


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Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna Barbie doll sold out in under 24 hours, and the story was the same for her last Mattel collaboration.

If you missed it, in celebration of the star’s Bella Donna album’s 43rd anniversary, Nicks collaborated with Mattel to create a Barbie doll inspired by the solo project. The latest doll pays tribute to Nicks’ iconic Bella Donna album, released in 1981, marking the star’s first solo project. The doll quickly sold out overnight on all platforms including Walmart, Amazon, Target, Mattel Shop and Mattel Creations.

The doll is dressed in an extremely detailed replica of the gown seen on the cover of Nicks’ first solo album, capturing the ethereal style and timeless spirit of the garment and the singer wearing it. The dress is flowing and white, worn over a layered skirt. The doll is further accessorized with some of Nicks’ on-stage essentials, including high-heeled boots, her iconic top hat, and, of course, her microphone in hand.

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“I’m so honored to be part of the Barbie universe once again. As I return to the stage and reflect on the
release of Bella Donna, my very first solo album, I’m reminded of the courage it took to step into the
unknown and discover my voice as a solo artist,” Nicks said in a Mattel press release. “My Stevie Nicks Bella Donna Barbie is more than a doll -she symbolizes my musical journey, and the strength that comes from staying true to yourself. My hope is that she inspires fans, and especially young dreamers, to take that leap of faith and believe in their limitless potential,” Nicks added.

If you’re experiencing extreme FOMO from not getting the doll, don’t worry, we feel it too. To fill the void, and hopefully give you a bit of joy, we’ve compiled a few similar Barbie dolls for you to shop below. These collectors dolls are also bound to sell out any day now, so get them while you can.

More About the Doll and Nicks’ Album

Nicks’ Bella Donna album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 charts in Sept., the same year it dropped. The album spent nearly three years on the Billboard 200 charts, from July 1981 to June 1984. The solo project features 10 tracks, including hits like “Edge of Seventeen,” “Kind of Woman” and “The Highwayman.” Nicks enlisted help from fellow artists Tom Petty and Roy Bittan to write and compose certain tracks, including “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” and “Leather and Lace” respectively.

As mentioned, this isn’t the first time Nicks has been given her own doll. In 2023, Nicks’ likeness from the 1977 Fleetwood Mac Rumours album cover was made into a doll. The collector’s item sold out in under 24 hours. The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look inspired by the ever-iconic cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumors, one of the band’s most popular works.

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YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s wife, Jazlyn Mychelle, gifted her husband a very unique chain in celebration of his 26th birthday.

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The Philadelphia jeweler, Shyne Jewelers, posted an Instagram carousel on Tuesday (Oct. 21), showing the intricate details that make up the rapper’s new piece.

The chain’s diamond-encrusted rope includes the names of YoungBoy’s children, with the Baton Rouge rapper expecting his third child with Mychelle.

“The moment Jaz’s vision became reality,” Shyne Jewelers wrote in the caption. “Thank you for commissioning us with creating this masterpiece for your husband!”

“I like it a lot. Very special and meaningful,” Jazlyn told the jeweler in a screenshotted text message. “I think he will like it a lot.”

NBA YoungBoy is currently in the midst of his sprawling MASA Tour but ran into a few issues on some recent dates. The rapper canceled a few shows in Atlanta and Detroit, and no explanation was given for any of the cancellations. However, back in September, YB’s manager called out Chicago’s United Center for canceling their MASA stop. No reason for that cancellation was given either, but the home of the Chicago Bulls had just implemented a stricter bag policy, which would have banned fans from bringing bags of any kind to the YoungBoy show.

“@UnitedCenter b—hed out,” YoungBoy’s manager, Alex Junnier, wrote on his Instagram Story at the time. “Shoutout to Joe Myhra @UnitedCenter. He didn’t want us to have fun. Scary.”

YoungBoy Never Broke Again is set to take the stage at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday (Oct. 22).

Check out YB’s new gift below.

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I know you see, somehow the world’s gonna change for me and be so wonderful.I think we live. Sorry I keep saying, I think a lot, but I’m thinking,

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P1harmony took over Los Angeles. We talked to the boys backstage at the City Walk pop up concert, then got to see the show at the Intuit dome, and we take you there in Billboard All Access.

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LA is feels like, kind of our second home. It’s, you know, we’ve been to a lot, and I feel like we’ve grown up so much. Like we started our first show in state. It’s in like, It’s nearby a soccer stadium, and there’s just a free show for just random peoples. But we’ve grown up so much, and we’re going to perform it Intuit Dome. That’s crazy.

Keeho
Actually, the you know, we’re doing a little thing at City Walk at the end of COVID. Our first ever show was in LA for free, too. So it’s gonna kind of take us back. It’s gonna feel a little nostalgic. So we’re really, really excited to be here at City Walk.

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West Hollywood. We love West Hollywood. Melrose, like Silver Lake. We love Silver Lake. A lot of good vintage and like cafes and stuff like that.

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Oh yeah, I like Melrose too. Actually, yesterday, I’ve been the kind of dance studio. It called the Playground. Yeah, and I have so much time in so much great time in there. So it’s so very interesting.

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Nicki Minaj has continued to troll Jay-Z with various AI-generated images and shots on social media, and 50 Cent has enjoyed the fireworks with his popcorn out.

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The G-Unit mogul reposted an AI-generated video Minaj posted of Jay-Z in a pink wig to his Instagram on Tuesday (Oct. 21), which he’s since deleted, but that didn’t stop 50 from adding his commentary to the feud. “LOL wtf did they do to [Nicki],” he wrote, as captured by Complex. “I like when she get mad.”

50 previously chimed in on Nicki’s business during her catty back-and-forth on social media with Cardi B earlier in October. “I hope the girls stop fighting before things escalate,” he warned.

Earlier this month, Minaj threatened to cancel plans for her sixth studio album and pointed at Jay-Z as a reason to blame. “Ok I’m not going to put out the album anymore. No more music. Hope you’re happy now [JAY-Z],” she wrote. “Bye, Barbz. Love you for life.”

Nicki’s since put the album back on the release calendar, as she’s been promising to drop the project on March 27.

Minaj’s feud with Roc Nation dates back years, and she’s continued to diss Jay-Z and Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez. In the past, the Young Money rapper has accused Roc Nation of blackballing her and also owing her $200 million. It appeared tensions between Minaj and Roc Nation were raised when Kendrick Lamar was chosen for last year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show over the likes of Lil Wayne.

As for 50 Cent, he celebrated “P.I.M.P.” surpassing one billion streams on Spotify. “Not bad for a kid from South Side,” he wrote to IG.


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With the start of the 2025-26 NBA season, teams from around the association are looking to begin the season on the right foot to win their divisions, make the playoffs and win the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy in the NBA Finals.

For the home opener, the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York on Wednesday, Oct. 22. This game could be a preview of the Eastern Conference Finals this season with the Cavs and Knicks expected to lead the pack in the Central and Atlantic Divisions, respectively.

When Does Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks Game Start?

Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks game broadcasts live, with tipoff at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

Where to Watch Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks Online

Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks game broadcasts on ESPN, and it’s also livestreams on Sling Orange. Keep reading for more details on how cord-cutters can watch the Cavs-Knicks game online with Sling TV.

How to Watch Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks With Sling TV

A subscription to Sling Orange, which comes with ESPN, gets you access to live TV from popular cable channels.

You can watch cable networks, including ESPN2, ESPN3, Disney Channel, Freeform, MotorTrend, A&E, AMC, BBC America, BET, CNN, Comedy Central, Food Network, Fuse, HGTV, History Channel, IFC, Lifetime, Nick Jr., QVC, TBS, TNT, Travel Channel, Vice and many others.

Please note: Prices and channel availability depends on your local TV market. You can learn more about Sling TV here.

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It’s likely there will be a number of celebrities and recording artists in attendance during Wednesday night’s game — such as New York Knicks fans Bad Bunny, Cardi B, Ice Spice, Fat Joe, Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz, Timothée Chalamet, Spike Lee and others; as well as Cleveland Cavs fans Usher, Machine Gun Kelly, Drew Carey and others. Tune in to Sling TV to find out who’s sitting courtside on celebrity row.

Starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks broadcast on ESPN, while it’s also available to livestream on Sling TV on Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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Brace yourself for another jump in your monthly bills: Spotify is expected to raise its subscription prices in the U.S. early next year. According to multiple equity analysts, the streaming company is likely to implement a price hike by the first quarter of 2026, continuing a trend that’s changed what consumers pay to stream music and vastly improved the company’s bottom line.  

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In a Tuesday (Oct. 21) investor note, Morgan Stanley analysts pointed to Spotify’s price increases in Australia in September as “the beginning of a pricing cycle in ’26” and a move that “creates a template” for pricing in other markets in which Spotify bundles music and audiobooks. The price increase in Australia amounted to 14% for individual plans and 17% for multi-person family plans.  

Likewise, analysts at J.P. Morgan expect a U.S. price increase will come “by year end or early 2026,” they wrote in an Oct. 14 note. The analysts estimated that recent price increases — which included Germany, Austria and Lichtenstein — represent just 25% to 30% of subscription revenue and could account for incremental annual revenue of 380 million euros ($441 million). A U.S. price increase would be even more impactful, they added, driving 425 million ($493 million) of annual incremental revenue.  

Guggenheim expects a U.S. price increase to be announced by the end of the year, with the financial impact hitting Spotify’s income statement in early 2026, analysts wrote in an Aug. 18 note to investors. The analysts believe that the latest round of licensing agreements with record labels “included pending increases in per-subscriber minimum fees,” which would lead to higher prices paid by subscribers. 

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In the U.S., a Spotify individual plan was raised to $11.99 per month in July 2024. The price had gone unchanged since launching in the U.S. in 2011 until Spotify bumped the price to $10.99 in July 2023. The family plan increased from $15.99 to $16.99 in 2023 and further rose to $19.99 in 2024.   

Spotify executives have not explicitly said they intend to further raise prices in the coming months. Instead, management frequently talks about the company’s efforts to make Spotify a more valuable experience, which gives it the ability to raise prices without losing subscriptions. This “value-to-price” ratio has become a key metric that helps guide Spotify. As co-president Alex Norström explained during a May 1 earnings call, the company “takes steps to balance the value-to-price ratio,” adding value and then adjusting the price “when it makes sense for the market.”  

Raising prices has been instrumental in helping Spotify become a more profitable company. Looking ahead, Morgan Stanley analysts believe Spotify is likely to achieve 14% to 15% compound annual revenue growth through 2028. Analysts Benjamin Swinburne and Cameron Mansson-Perrone “see significant margin potential still ahead as the company follows product enhancements with price increases and diversifies into higher margin products” in its subscription segment. Put another way, the analysts see room for Spotify’s financials to improve as it raises prices and adds additional products such as a “superfan” tier on top of the standard subscription price.  

Guggenheim has a $850 price target, suggesting 19% upside from Tuesday’s $689.21 closing price. Morgan Stanley has an $800 price target while J.P. Morgan is slightly more bullish, forecasting a price target of $805. 

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