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As part of its dedication to helping the African music industry unlock its full potential, music streaming platform Boomplay's data will now be added to the data that informs the prestigious Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100, and Billboard Global 200 charts, as well as all other Billboard U.S. and global charts that include streaming data. This will be effective with data for the tracking week of October 15 […]

The feature, called View Once, will let photos and videos disappear from the chat after they have been seen, Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday, adding that once the media content has been viewed, the message will be shown as "opened." Snapchat, known for its Stories feature that lets users post updates that disappear after 24 hours, has grown in popularity last year as pandemic-induced curbs kept users […]

I thought that writing my resignation letter was going to be the most difficult part of the process. Little did I know to expect resistance and suspicion from every quarter – what had felt like a relief suddenly became a complex and difficult situation to navigate.' Imagine you just got what feels like a dream position in a different organization. You are excited and looking forward to a new challenge. […]

Spotify is being probed by Congress due to ongoing concerns over the platform’s Discovery Mode feature. Spotify’s Discovery Mode was announced last November as a pilot program for artists to opt in to get paid out partly in exposure. For a fee, Spotify agrees to push music into various personalized playlists, which could arguably be a beneficial tool for lesser known artists — as long as they’re protected. In Spotify’s words, “Labels or rights […]

There are lots of ways to support LGBTQ people during Pride Month, but Lil Nas X is choosing the most direct route to make sure his queer fans are taken care of. On Tuesday (June 1), the rapper sent out a string of tweets to celebrate the beginning of Pride Month by jokingly offering his fans a wide variety of different favors. Starting off his tweets, the rapper gave a […]

The Rastafari Society of Kenya (RSK) has filed a case in court seeking to lift the law criminalizing the use of marijuana. In the case, filed before High Court, they argue that the law is unconstitutional for banning the private use of cannabis by persons professing the Rastafari faith. The legal minds are advocating for the state to let the Rastafarians use cannabis in their houses and places of worship; […]