Author: Arabian Media staff

The 2025 Argentina Music Report from the Argentine Chamber of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (CAPIF) shows that streaming is still dominating the country’s music industry, making up 79% of total recorded music revenue in 2024. Within the digital segment, subscription-based streaming leads with 65% of the revenue, solidifying itself as the main source of music monetization in Argentina. Meanwhile, ad-supported streaming accounted for 35% of the total. “For the first time since emerging from the post-pandemic crisis, the numbers in our industry show a decline in 2024 compared to the previous year,” says CAPIF president Diego Zapico in the annual…

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Dakota Johnson has caught a new animal in her web.  Less than a week after her breakup with Chris Martin was revealed, the Materialists star shared that she adopted a new puppy named Tokyo from the Santa Barbara Humane Society in California.  “We rescued her on Saturday from the Santa Barbara pound,” Dakota told host Amy Poehler during the June 10 episode of the Good Hang podcast. “I didn’t plan on it.” The 35-year-old went on to share that she was still coping with the death of her previous dog Zeppelin, who died in December at age 17, when she…

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“In the past, as new variants have come on the scene, there almost invariably have been questions about distinctive symptoms, and after a while, when you gather a lot of data, turns out not to be the case — all of these symptoms have occurred before,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine in the department of health policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.Meaning, the circulating COVID variants tend to produce the same sort of symptoms and disease as the ones from years ago, Schaffner added. “Although the more recent variants, these omicron variants, are less…

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On Monday (June 9), the night before David Israelite’s third annual Music Investor Conference, the National Music Publishers’ Association and Billboard hosted their annual music investor dinner at Manhattan’s Estiatorio Milos Midtown. Over Greek seafood, three dozen of the top figures in the music investment business discussed deals, the larger business environment and how music asset values might change in the years ahead. After brief welcome remarks from NMPA president and CEO David Israelite and Billboard editorial director Hannah Karp, the guests sat down to eat and talk. Among them were investors (Peter Picado-Curtis from Shamrock Capital Advisors), investment bankers…

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Aaron Rodgers is tackling life with someone new.  The NFL player revealed that he’s a married man during a June 10 press conference following his first practice with the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Yes, it’s a wedding ring,” Aaron told a reporter, who congratulated him on the milestone. “Thank you.” As for when the nuptials took place? The quarterback revealed, “It’s been a couple months.” While Aaron has not delved into his relationship with the mystery woman, in a December episode of The Pat McAfee Show, he shared he had a girlfriend named Brittani while discussing Christmas shopping, simply noting, “There was one…

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Trump remained adamant Tuesday that the Los Angeles Police Department was unequipped to handle the protests, which were largely peaceful but involved some vandalism of cars, buildings and other infrastructure.  “Los Angeles was under siege until we got there. The police were unable to handle it,” he said, claiming the city was “out of control when we got there.”He also defended his use of the National Guard because Los Angeles is hosting the Olympics in three years, adding, “You’ve got to remember, we have the Olympics coming, and we don’t want people looking at Los Angeles like it was, like it…

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Katy Perry And Orlando Bloom Tension In Relationship No need to sugarcoat things: The release of Katy Perry’s most recent album, last year’s 143, was…not great. Katy’s seventh album was met with negative reviews (it’s currently Metacritic’s lowest-rated album in more than a decade) and, for the first time since her 2008 debut One of the Boys, failed to crack the top 5 of the Billboard 200. She also received a lot of criticism for working with Dr. Luke, who Kesha has famously accused of drugging and raping her. Dr. Luke has denied the allegations. You also probably know that…

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