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Published:Thursday | January 15, 2026 | 12:13 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 per cent from 2024, which held the previous record. The 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that...

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2026 | 12:12 AM

BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Spanish prosecutors are studying allegations that Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The Spanish prosecutors’ office told...

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2026 | 12:05 AM

The Still Here Benefit Concert, held last December at the VH Percy Centre on the grounds of the Kencot Seventh-day Adventist Church, was voted by our panellists as the Best Hurricane Melissa Fundraiser –Gospel for 2025. The reality is that the...

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2026 | 12:09 AMNicola Cunningham/Entertainment Coordinator

It has been more than two months since Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica. While Plantation Cove, which hugs the north coast of St Ann, was impacted by the hurricane, it luckily did not sustain major destruction from the Category Five storm...

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2026 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Trevor Noah will be hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth consecutive year, but this time, it’s being billed as a farewell gig. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the South African comedian is returning “one final time”...

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2026 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid reached a settlement Monday with a former record company executive who alleged in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her and ruined her career. The terms of Reid’s settlement...

Published:Tuesday | January 13, 2026 | 6:33 PM

Today, with input from our panellist, Sean ‘Contractor’ Edwards and Claude Mills, we conclude our Entertainment Year in Review with awards in various categories for those who made a lasting impression throughout 2025. 1. Best New Artiste - Male...

Published:Monday | January 12, 2026 | 12:06 AM

Today, we pause to remember those who made a solid contribution to the music industry and bowed out in the year 2025. This list includes a lot of veterans, some of whom were still active in the business, entertainers who were ailing and those whose...

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:08 AM

This year, as we sat with our panellists, Sean ‘Contractor Edwards and Claude Mills, to reflect on and select the top artistes for 2025, they were asked to ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’. And they tried their best. This is the conclusion of...

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:08 AM

1. Farewell to a legend 2. Veteran reggae singer Cocoa Tea has died 3. Mexican reggae singer Jah Fabio wished to take last breath in Jamaica 4. Six-foot standout Dreanna Williams wins Miss Universe Jamaica Northeast 5. Cocoa Tea’s thanksgiving an...

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:08 AM

We took to the streets for this top-15 and who better than DJ Tom, one of the organisers of the popular Leggo Di Streets Wednesdays, a weekly party that is held in Kencot, St Andrew. 1. Mute – Masicka 2. NY Girl - Chronic Law 3. Passenger...

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:07 AM

Renaissance disc jock, Delano ‘DJ3D’ Thomas put his spin on compiling this exclusive list of dancehall songs for the year 2025. Sitting pretty at the top is Armanii, who also gets honourable mention with the single BB on the Snapchat riddim....

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:07 AM

The year 2025 was a mixed bag musically. It appeared that dancehall was the predominant genre and reggae was lagging behind. It was much easier to have dialogue with selectors who could easily list out the top 15, or 20 or even 25 songs that ruled...

Published:Saturday | January 10, 2026 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Rapper Fetty Wap has been released from a federal prison to home confinement after serving just over half a six-year sentence for his role in a New York-based drug trafficking scheme. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said the Trap Queen...

Published:Saturday | January 10, 2026 | 12:06 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: As Montego Bay recovers from Hurricane Melissa, recording artiste Mitsy ‘Shuga’ Campbell is using music to help reposition the tourism capital, unveiling her remake of Bobby Bloom’s classic, Montego Bay. While the song was recorded...

Published:Saturday | January 10, 2026 | 12:05 AM

The Oliver Samuels Foundation is set to host the official handover ceremony for its inaugural Oliver Samuels Foundation Scholarship on Wednesday, January 14, at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Edward Seaga Resource Centre...

Published:Friday | January 9, 2026 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Harvey Weinstein returned to court Thursday, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared among jurors during deliberations last spring. His landmark #MeToo-era case has spanned...

Published:Friday | January 9, 2026 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees with nine. She is followed by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Alex Warren, who are tied with eight each. The iHeartRadio Music Awards honour the most-played...

Published:Friday | January 9, 2026 | 12:07 AM

Dancehall star Cutty Ranks has retained a new female lawyer in his ongoing battle against Panamanian artiste El Chombo and Juston Records for unpaid compensation and recognition on the viral monster hit, Dame tu Cosita, to secure his rightful...

Published:Friday | January 9, 2026 | 12:06 AMKrysta Anderson/Staff Reporter

Undoubtedly, one of the top dancehall disc jockeys on the international scene, this DJ rose to stardom after joining the family business. And although he was born in the United States, his background is deeply rooted in local history and culture....

Published:Thursday | January 8, 2026 | 12:08 AM

When Legacy Magazine unveiled its 2025 list of Florida’s Most Influential...

Published:Thursday | January 8, 2026 | 12:07 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP): The world’s largest tech showcase does not come without theatrics. Innovations and gadgets like a lollipop that sings to you as you consume it, a laundry-folding robot and a “smart” LEGO brick have stolen the spotlight so far at CES...

Published:Thursday | January 8, 2026 | 12:05 AM

Fusion reggae artiste Stacey Mirander released her latest single, People Don’t Care, produced by Billboard-charting producer John ‘JonFX’ Crawford and arranged by vocal producer Karl Morrison. A biting commentary on the indifference and apathy...

Published:Wednesday | January 7, 2026 | 12:06 AMNicola Cunningham/Entertainment Coordinator

During the Christmas period and moving into the new year, several production houses offered up plays for audiences to savour. Opened on Boxing Day, Jambiz’s Boopsie’s Homecoming has been an instant hit. The initial reaction from theatregoers was...

Published:Wednesday | January 7, 2026 | 12:06 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

With the return of the Avengers, a new epic by Christopher Nolan, and sequels to some iconic films, 2026 has some exciting film prospects. Here are our top nine picks. 1. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man This film picks up where the hit series...

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