After more than 500 original song entries and more than 600,000 votes, Aloft Hotels and global youth entertainment brand MTV today revealed the winners of the third annual Asia Pacific edition of music talent discovery competition Project Aloft Star, Amplified by MTV.

  Singaporean pop upstart Linying just can’t seem to do anything wrong. She became the first Singaporean female singer-songwriter to perform at the recent Summer Sonic festival in Japan. Her 2015 debut single ‘Sticky Leaves’ amassed more than 1 million plays on Spotify alone. She has a slew of upcoming dates across Asia, Europe and Australia, and collaborated with Singaporean pop royalty […]

New Jersey indie darlings Yo La Tengo are set for Bangkok – the latest indie act to visit the city as part of the Singha Light Live Series.

We’ve all been to show before where the act hasn’t lived up to the hype… Whether they don’t play your favorite songs, play a short set, most people take it in their stride and accept that sometimes life is full of little disappointments…   Well, not in Israel.    As NY Daily News reports, many punters, who paid 344 Israeli Sheqels […]

Sezairi’s infectious new track ‘Fire To The Floor’, the lead single from his self-titled album, has been lighting up the airwaves, claiming the #1 spot on Singapore Viral 50 chart and #4 on the Philippines Viral 50 chart. And now Singapore fans can hear his new songs live for the first time. 

British pop sensation Ed Sheeran has been placed on vocal rest by doctors and instructed to use a whiteboard to communicate between performances.  

The top entries for Aloft Hotels’ third Asia Pacific edition of “Project Aloft Star, amplified by MTV” are in and it’s not just the entrants that have the chance to score big. Voters stand a chance to win up to US$1,000!

Universal Music Singapore is pleased to announce multi-talented singer-songwriter/producer Charlie Lim as the newest artist to be signed to the label with a 360 degree deal that includes recording & publishing rights, live shows, endorsements, merchandise and co-management with his current team from House of Riot.

There certainly isn’t a lot of ‘Blank Space’ in Taylor Swift’s bank account. The pop diva raked in an incredible $170 million across the past year, earning her the no. 1 spot on the 2016 FORBES Celebrity 100 poll.

Ed Sheeran’s 2015 song “Photograph” was one of the smash hits of 2014, was a top 10 hit in the United States and sold more than 3.5 million copies. But now a pair of California songwriters are claiming that the song borrows heavily from their 2009 song. And they want $20 million to make things right. 

Singaporean singer-songwriter Joel Tan, better known to fans as Gentle Bones, released his new EP ‘Geniuses & Thieves’ today and within one hour it has already charted at #1 on the Singapore iTunes.

Carly Rae Jepsen stunned the world 2015’s E-MO-TION, a surprisingly mature and nuanced follow-up to her breakthrough album Kiss. She’s now revealed she wants to take her next album in a completely different direction – a disco direction.

With music sales dwindling and streaming services being adopted at an increasing rate, Apple is reportedly considering killing off iTunes music downloads altogether.

English pop star Charli XCX has revealed that she once turned up at a barbecue hosted by Katy Perry after a long night partying and passed out in the ‘Roar’ hitmaker’s bathroom.

Back when everyone used to purchase their music in physical form it wasn’t difficult to work out who was the best selling artist in the world. There was a paper trail to follow…  just look at the receipts and the answer was right in front of you.   Now, with the majority of music worldwide being streamed, it’s not quite […]

Some people are in the press for all the wrong reasons, but those people aren’t Taylor Swift. After convincing Apple to pay artists and labels for free streams on its new music service, her latest gesture was so generous it forced crowd funding site GoFundMe to raise its donation limit.

Indonesian music fans have got a reason to celebrate with the news that Spotify has set up operations in the South-east Asian nation.

Malaysian singer-songwriter, Yuna has announced that her highly anticipated third studio album, Chapters, will be released on May 20, 2016 on Verve Records.

In the wake of Kesha’s request to be released from her contract getting denied, a groundswell of support has begun, with celebrities and fans coming out in support of the “Tik Tok” singer including Taylor Swift donating $250,000 to help with legal costs.

Justin Bieber has proven that third time is the charm and taken down his first ever Grammy. But he can’t claim all the credit…