Rock band Fall Out Boy and rapper Kid Cudi are going head-to-head for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Industry sources suggest that their latest albums — “Save Rock and Roll” and “Indicud,” respectively — are on course to sell around 145,000 by the end of the tracking week on Sunday,…

Sony/ATV and Kobalt were among the winners of top prizes at last night’s ASCAP Pop Music Awards. Sony/ATV picked up the award for Publisher of the Year while Kobalt Music Publishing America was named Publisher Administrator of the Year. Meanwhile, Pescription Songs LLC was honoured as Independent Publisher of the Year and Max Martin was…

Imagine Dragons have signed an exclusive, worldwide publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in conjunction with Alex Da Kid’s KIDinaKORNER effective immediately. The group’s debut album Night Visions has already earned gold certification from the RIAA and is on its way to platinum. Their current single Radioactive has sold well over one million copies in the US alone and…

Look out, world. B. Smyth has been heating up radio with his debut single “Leggo” featuring 2 Chainz. Now the 19-year-old Florida heartthrob takes cameras along as he embarks on his promising career. Follow him as he heads to a toy drive, races go karts, and shows off his fancy footwork before taking the stage…

This week, Larry King interviewed none other than 50 Cent on his show. The two touched on the usual topics (his rap career, business ventures, his Chelsea Handler fling, etc), but eventually Larry got 50 to open up.