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Jon Batiste has abruptly cancelled several upcoming concerts due to “personal circumstances”. The U.S. singer-songwriter has announced that he has had to scrap several August performances across New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, but has not revealed why. Batiste was scheduled to perform at the New Haven Westville Music Bowl in Connecticut on Thursday, the TD Pavilion

To Urban Radio, and to those speaking to the black community What does it mean to be a citizen in this country? Who gets to decide who belongs? On August 6, the Trump administration issued two new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, just weeks after the Supreme Court rejected its broader attempt to end birthright citizenship.

Wyclef Jean has sparked hopes for a new Fugees album after he revealed he’s in an “amazing place” with bandmate Lauryn Hill. The group hasn’t released a studio album since 1996’s The Score, which produced hits including Ready or Not, Fu-Gee-La and Killing Me Softly. Hill and Jean have now reunited to perform at Diaspora Calling!, a

For the sixteenth edition of the Podcast Download series, Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights retained Quantilope to conduct an in-depth study of 600 weekly podcast consumers in April 2026. The Spring 2026 report highlights trends from prior studies and examines topics such as platform preference, the growing trend of video, content trends, advertiser usage of podcast

iHeartMedia continued to dominate Podtrac’s U.S. podcast publisher rankings in July 2026, while “Crime Junkie” remained the nation’s top podcast based on U.S. unique monthly audience. The iHeart Audience Network ranked No. 1 among U.S. podcast publishers and networks with 55.7 million unique monthly audience members and 270.6 million U.S. streams and downloads across 26,463

iHeartMedia reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $977.2 million, an increase of 4.7% from $933.7 million a year earlier, as continued growth in its digital and podcast businesses offset weakness in its Multiplatform Group. Excluding political advertising, consolidated revenue increased 3.5%. GAAP operating income was $35.5 million, essentially flat with $35.4 million in the second quarter of