Justin Bieber performs with Ariana Grande at Coachella Stage during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 21, 2019 in Indio, Calif.
HYBE's $1.05 billion deal to buy Scooter Braun 's Ithaca Holdings will award Braun's artists and staff with more than $40 million in equity, including shares to Ariana Grande , Justin Bieber , J Balvin and Demi Lovato , according to a corporate filing from HYBE, the publicly traded company formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment.
A total of 39 people, including Braun and Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta , will receive shares totaling about $ 161 million , based o n the current exchange rate. Braun will get 462,380 ($86.2 million), while Borchetta will receive 166,537 ($31 .1 million); and Grande and Bieber will each receive 53,557 shares, or almost $11.0 million apiece , the company filing states.
Balvin will get 21,423 shares ($4.1 million) and Lovato will receive 5,355 shares ($1.06 million) . The remaining 33 individuals listed are a mix of artists, executives and existing Ithaca shareholders.
This isn't the first time artists have received shares from HYBE . When the company went public last October on the Korean stock exchange, the seven members of BTS each got shares valued at $8 million . But sources say the equity being award ed to Ithaca 's artists is coming out of Braun's stake.
HYBE, the company behind powerhouse K-pop group BTS, said Friday (April 2) that it would pay $1.05 billion in cash and shares to acquire Ithaca Holdings , in a move designed to help the Korean company establish a strong U.S. presence in music and entertainment while also heightening its profile for American financial investors. According to terms of the deal, which is expected to close in about a month, Braun will join the board of HYBE and Borchetta will remain CEO of Big Machine Label Group.
The deal marries Big H it Entertainment 's management company and labels with Ithaca's entertainment holdings , which include the Big Machine label, the SB Projects management company and its interests in film and gaming through Mythos Studios and 100 Thieves Gaming.
Since going public in October, HYBE has leveraged the global sway of BTS to do a series of acquisitions of smaller labels, joint ventures and strategic partnerships with South Korean and U.S. labels, including with Universal Music Group. The deals have brought the company steadily closer to the U.S. market and to founder and CEO Bang Si-Hyuk 's goal to build HYBE into an international entertainment conglomerate.
In February, HYBE and Universal announced the Korean company would create a joint label with Geffen Records and co-produce an American Idol -like show to search for the next global K-pop boy band . The new label will be run out of Los Angeles, where HYBE plans to open a newly expanded U.S. office later this year .
Justin Bieber Drops 'Freedom' EP on Easter - Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber surprised fans Sunday when he released Freedom , a gospel-themed EP, at 6:00 p.m. on Easter . The singer announced the EP’s arrival with a brief post on Instagram: “ Freedom on all platforms.”
Freedom follows the release of Justice , Bieber’s sixth studio album, which arrived last month. Along with Bieber topping the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart , Justice landed at Number One on the Top 200 albums chart while the track “Peaches” arrived at Number One on the Top 100 Songs chart , making Bieber the first artist to rule all three major charts since Ariana Grande last October. The LP follows his 2020 album Changes .
Last week, Bieber addressed the controversy surrounding his use of a Martin Luther King, Jr. sample on Justice . “I want to keep growing and learning about just all social injustices and what it looks like for me to be better, what it looks like for my friends to be better,” he wrote as part of a longer statement. “And I know I have a long way to go.”
Album Review: Justin Bieber’s ‘Justice’ Presents a Consistent Spiritual Message
The cover of Justin Bieber’s sixth studio album “Justice” shows the pop singer crouched in a highway tunnel. The deluxe version of the album, released March 26, features 22 songs and includes collaborations with Khalid, Daniel Caesar, Quavo and many others.
Justin Bieber’s sixth studio album, “ Justice ,” is a reflective pop album that finds Bieber at a variety of moods and production styles.
The 27-year-old pop icon released the album March 19 under Def Jam Recordings , followed by a deluxe version with six additional tracks just a week later. “Justice: Triple Chucks Deluxe” weighs in at a hearty 22 songs, providing listeners just over an hour of music, compared to 16 tracks on the original.
Bieber’s sound is hard to nail down on this album. The music on “Justice” ranges from Christian-inspired ballads, true-to-form Bieber pop anthems, Afro-pop dancehall bops and radio-friendly hip-hop tracks, featuring everyone from Tori Kelly to Skrillex to DaBaby . While many of the collaborations are fun and dynamic, the mood of the album shifts so drastically from track to track that “Justice” as a whole feels disjointed to listeners.
The cover artwork for Bieber's single, "Anyone," from his new album, "Justice," features Bieber laying down exhausted after a boxing match. In the song, Bieber asserted his love for his wife, Hailey Baldwin Bieber, who he married in 2018.
According to Bieber, there are a few reasons why this album is called “Justice.” In an interview with Vogue, Bieber shared that his first name “Justin” actually means “justice” in Latin, which he felt was an appropriate album title in a year filled with so much pain and racial discrimination. For these reasons, Bieber said he decided to include two Martin Luther King Jr. sound bites in the record.
It seems like Bieber’s decision to include the MLK snippets came from an earnest place. In an interview with the Zach Sang Show , Bieber said his reasoning for including the sound bites was that he wanted to amplify King’s voice to his younger audience. However, because King’s words are lacking context and do not relate to the subject matter of the rest of the record, their inclusion feels performative at best and inconsistent with “Justice” as a whole.
Bieber performs his song "Lonely" with collaborator benny blanco. As of April, the song reached almost 370 million streams on Spotify.
These collaborations work best independently, though, and therein lies the problem. In simple terms, none of these features sound like they go together. Acoustic guitar-driven tracks like “ Name ” featuring Tori Kelly feel worlds away from the dancehall-inspired “ Loved By You ” featuring Nigerian powerhouse Burna Boy . While much of the music on “Justice” revolves around the same themes of love, faith and thankfulness, it is still sonically disjointed.
Hailey And Justin Bieber Head Out For Date Night In Santa Monica | Santa Monica, CA Patch
SANTA MONICA, CA — Hailey and Justin Bieber recently stepped out for date night in Santa Monica at Giorgio Baldi, Harper's BAZAAR reports .
The model wore a long, nude monochrome look, strappy heels and a face mask for the evening out in the pandemic.
The trendy and private Italian restaurant nestled on West Channel Road near the Pacific Palisades serves up seafood, great wine options.
It's a favorite for the Kardashians, Jenners and Venice Beach dancing queen and mogul Rihanna . Even Beyoncé and Jay-Z made their post-Grammy dinner plans at the coastal favorite.
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Pap Pics Leak Drama Explained
San Vicente Bungalows is known for its privacy and reportedly has two very intense rules, which it reminded everyone about in the aforementioned totally chill newsletter:
Shawn Mendes Covers Justin Bieber's 'Peaches' | Billboard
What does Shawn Mendes do when he sitting around the house bored? Break off a little a cappella cover of one of his pal Justin Bieber 's songs, of course.
Mendes posted a 20-second finger-snapping, high-harmony hitting vocal-only take on Justin's "Peaches" on Tuesday (April 6), casually cruising through the opening verse about the source of his Southern fruit, California sticky-icky and where he likes to take his lady love on their getaways.
The song, from Beiber's Justice album is a natural pick for Mendes, who previously brought their talents together for the song "Monster" from Shawn's 2020 album Wonder . Mendes has been keeping busy lately by hopping on the sizzling NFT bandwagon in February, when he became the first major pop star to embrace the trend.
The singer teamed with avatar technology company Genies to create a line of a digital wearables for fans to attach to their own digital avatars, including a guitar, T-shirt, vest, necklace and rings. The digital goods netted Mendes more than $600,000, his team said in a press release, with all proceeds going towards The Shawn Mendes Foundation.
Justin Bieber's new album, 'Justice,' an improvement over his previous album: Review | Music |
Justin and Hailey Bieber at a January 2020 event in Los Angeles. His new album, "Justice," is a pop record of love songs to his wife.
With his new "Justice," Justin Bieber has finally knocked "Dangerous: The Double Album" off of the top of the Billboard charts, where that country release had held the No. 1 position for 11 weeks despite a racist video that emerged of singer Morgan Wallen and got him suspended by his label.
But now here comes Bieber with an album that begins with a sound bite quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" — and continues later with a lengthy appropriation from King's 1967 "But If Not" sermon.
So this must be Bieber's protest album, right? No. It's a pop record of love songs to his wife, Hailey Baldwin — the subject of "Die for You," which follows the clip of the King speech.
Beyond these abominations of performative branding, the album is solid and an improvement over Bieber's lackluster 2020 "Changes," with competent pop songs like "Peaches," which spotlights Daniel Caesar and Giveon and now tops the Billboard Hot 100.
Jamar Felder of EHT fills up his soda at the Tilton movie theater. Northfield, NJ. April 4, 2021 (Kristian Gonyea/For The Press of Atlantic City)
Sammy Rorigues along with her husband Julian and 4 year old son Xander purchase ticketss thru her phone app at the Tilton movie theater to see Godzilla vs King Kong. Northfield, NJ. April 4, 2021 (Kristian Gonyea/For The Press of Atlantic City)
A printed ticket showing the seat and number you are assigned to. Northfield, NJ. April 4, 2021 (Kristian Gonyea/For The Press of Atlantic City)
Derrick Johnson from Milwaukee, Wisconsin purchases tickets for his family to see Godzilla vs king Kong. Northfield, NJ. April 4, 2021 (Kristian Gonyea/For The Press of Atlantic City)
Justin Bieber's 'Peaches' Tops Global Charts for Second Week | Billboard
Justin Bieber 's "Peaches," featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, remains the biggest song in the world, as it spends a second week at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, a week after it debuted atop both tallies.
Billboard 's two global charts (the latest of which are dated April 10) began last September and rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by MRC Data. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S.
Justin Bieber's "Peaches," featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, adds its second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, with 83.1 million streams (essentially even week-over-week) and 17,000 sold (down 19%) worldwide in the March 26-April 1 tracking week.
Masked Wolf's "Astronaut in the Ocean" rises 5-3 on the Global 200; "Leave the Door Open" by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, drops to No. 4 from its No. 2 high; and The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears" slips 3-5, after reaching No. 2.
Justin Bieber's "Peaches," featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, concurrently keeps at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, leading the list for a second week with 56.9 million streams (up 8%) and 6,000 sold (up 7%) in territories outside the U.S. in the March 26-April 1 tracking week.
As on the Global 200, Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" bounds in at No. 2 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart.
The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears" retreats to No. 3 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, from its No. 2 best; Masked Wolf's "Astronaut in the Ocean" repeats at its No. 4 high; and Silk Sonic's "Leave the Door Open" swings 8-5, returning to its peak so far.
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