HIGHLIGHTED MUSIC NEWS OF THE WEEK

Sir Paul McCartney was "shocked in a very pleasant way" by the contributions to 'McCartney III Imagined'.

Get your tissues ready. In a new trailer for the upcoming documentary Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, the iconic singer shares the emotional story of Kaavan and what moved her to help fight for his release.

Sony Music Publishing announced Wednesday that it acquired Paul Simon’s entire song catalog, which spans his six-decade music career.

Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music rewarding, according to new research published in JNeurosci.

Sophia, a robot designed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics who holds Saudi Arabian citizenship (no, really), shocked the usually unshockable art world last week by selling an NFT for 8,888.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of the singer-songwriter and Minnesota native who spent a summer trying to play music in Fargo. He eventually, of course, ended up in New York City and found mainstream success through his records.

On Sunday March 28, Swedish group Roxette celebrate the 30th anniversary of their third album “Joyride” – the much anticipated follow-up to the band’s spectacular 1989 global break-through “Look Sharp!”.

"Saylists" are being launched on Apple Music to help young people with speech-sound disorders.

Tina Turner discussed the years of horrific abuse she endured during her marriage to Ike Turner as she bade farewell to her legions of fans in a new documentary.

The soul music icon says she is legally entitled to her master recordings, referencing Prince in her tweets

A study of “800 top songs from 2012-2019” finds that less than 23 percent of artists and less than 2 percent of producers were women

Ottens, who also had a hand in developing the CD, helped revolutionize music consumption in the early 1960s

On Tuesday, the country singer Dolly Parton received “a dose of her own medicine,” a shot of the Moderna vaccine

When Barry "Bazza" Morris took up music lessons at 84, he wasn't searching for fame. But the now 88-year-old, who is blind and deaf, has amassed a cult following since uploading an original song and film clip to YouTube called Barry's Isolation Blues.

"Every genre that is born from America has Black roots," says music journalist and podcast host Sidney Madden.

Apple Music is set to introduce a lyric sharing feature in the Australian autumn.

Barry Gibb, the last remaining Bee Gee, has admitted that he feels ‘survivor’s guilt’ at outliving his younger brothers. The 74-year-old said: ‘I’m the eldest, so it should have been me first. I guess it’s a form of guilt. Survivor’s guilt.’

On the fourth anniversary of the death of George Michael, it takes top spot after being streamed 9.2 million times in a week.

The songs are familiar; the arrangements are new. For his latest album, "Greenfields," Barry Gibb has taken the Bee Gees' catalogue to Music City. "I was bitten by Nashville," he said, "because Nashville is about music. It's about real songs."

Paul McCartney has reflected on the death of his Beatles bandmate John Lennon, 40 years on from his killing.