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Yes, you read that right: Clairo and SahBabii have joined forces.Lifted from SahBabii's deluxe edition of Saaheem, dubbed Saaheem (A Lu Bit More), "Show Off" is a surprising melding of the minds of the rapper and songstress.While Sah handles the bars, Clairo offers her ethereal backing vocals to elevate the three-and-a-half-minute track, noticeable instantly as the song begins."She like, 'You're such a show-off' / Got her wrapped around my finger, diamond cold, yeah," SahBabii croons, as Clairo "Oooooohs" in the background.The captivating cut comes accompanied by a just-as-striking Lyrical Lemonade-helmed music video, which sees the rapper traversing through a snowy drive in the backseat surrounded by yetis."Oh and I sang on this song!" Clairo wrote in an Instagram post while SahBabii, in ...

Spotify has legally responded to Drake's legal petition from last month, denying the former's claims that it used bots and payola to boost the numbers of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."The motion was filed in Manhattan court, “The predicate of Petitioner’s entire request for discovery from Spotify is false.” The streaming company's lawyers added, “Spotify and UMG have never had any such arrangement.” Spotify also called The Boy's allegations "far-fetched" and "speculative," further slamming him for filing a legal petition rather than a full lawsuit against Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG). Calling the move "extraordinary," Spotify asserted that he attempted to gain information as his allegations do not hold water and would have been easily dismissed in court.“What petitioner is seek...

It's definitely time — Mariah Carey is back in the top 10 of this week's Billboard 200 with Merry Christmas.Mimi's holiday album, which initially released in 1994, jumps up four spots to No. 10 with 56,000 equivalent album units in the past week. 2024 marks the seventh year in a row that Merry Christmas has reappeared in the top 10; it initially peaked at No. 3 during its release 30 years ago.Elsewhere on the chart, Stray Kids debuts at No. 1 as HOP earns 187,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 176,000 in album sales, 10,000 in streaming equivalent album units and 1,000 in track equivalent album units.Making up the rest of this week's top 10 are Kendrick Lamar at No. 2, Taylor Swift at No. 3, Sabrina Carpenter at No. 4 and Michael Bublé at No. 5. Bing Crosby's Ultimate ...

Spotify — who pays artists between $0.003 and $0.005 every time a track is streamed on its platform — has allegedly been filling out its playlists with tracks from "ghost artists" to minimize its royalty expenditures and increase its profit margins. Per a report from Harper's Magazine following a multi-year investigation, Spotify has been working with what the report describes as a "web" of production companies to pad out its playlists in genres like jazz, lo-fi hip-hop, ambient and classical. Since 2017, these companies have been creating music called "Perfect Fit Content" (or PFC for short) that's shared through hundreds of "artist profiles," making these PFC tracks cheaper to host on the platform as Spotify doesn't have to pay out royalties to external artists when PFC songs are streame...