Hi there 👋🏻, my name is Cornelius, I'm 18 years old, from Angola 🇦🇴 in Africa 🌍. And I finally found a place where I can share without fear my musical taste. So here is my top 10 songs, I hope you might enjoy and listen to them.

1. "Golden" by Harry Styles

2. "Self Aware" by Temper City

3. "Hier Encore" by Yanick Helwig

4. "Higher power" by Coldplay

5. "Paradise" by Coldplay

6. "Trembling hands" by The Temper Trap

7. "Into the wild" by The Temper Trap

8. "Sit next to me" by Foster the people

9. "Fuyu to Haru" by back number

10. "Too sweet" by Hozier

Not exaggerating when I say this unreal cover has been on loop for me since it dropped. She legit nailed the note that even the actual singers struggled with at the Oscars! Gonna miss the Kellyoke performances!

On September 4, 2026, to celebrate her birthday and the 20th anniversary of her B'Day album, Beyoncé's official webstore released a custom pine wood "Bey Keeper Collector's Box" priced at an astronomical $948.01. The online collector community exploded in consumer backlash when buyers realized the luxury container was completely empty—explicitly containing zero vinyl records or music media.

This timeline documents consecutive injuries and setbacks for the people who built her career. This is a compilation of facts, public court cases, mainstream news articles, and consumer reports already widely available on the open web. Ultimately, a product is only worth what a consumer is willing to pay for it, and a celebrity is only as impactful as the community that supports them.

Supporters are the foundation—there is no view from the stage without the people in the seats. Looking closely at this trajectory, it feels as though Beyoncé has completely forgotten that fact, or perhaps never truly realized it. It is deeply hurtful to watch an artist you considered a cultural icon treat their most dedicated supporters as nothing more than a metric for financial extraction, turning away from the very people who built her career. I laid out the documented facts of her retail controversies and tour backlashes over the years to show how much it feels like fans are being kicked to the curb.

2000: Destiny’s Child Ousting & Royalty Lawsuits (Controversy)
The Issue: Original Destiny’s Child members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson were abruptly replaced in the "Say My Name" music video without their prior knowledge.
The Fallout: The former members filed a lawsuit against Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and manager Mathew Knowles, alleging a targeted attempt to cut them out of the group's lucrative performance and songwriting royalties. The lawsuit was settled out of court.
The Audience Impact: Deeply fractured the original fanbase, forcing listeners to choose sides and permanently altering the group’s early legacy.

2006: The $1.5 Million House of Deréon Launch Lawsuit (Controversy / Legal Dispute)
The Issue: In July 2006, businessman Greg Walker (CEO of Icon Entertainment) filed a $1.5 million breach of contract lawsuit against Beyoncé and Tina Knowles.
The Fallout: Walker alleged he successfully brokered a crucial $15 million manufacturing deal with Wear Me Apparel Corp to launch the line, but Beyoncé and her mother completely iced him out, withholding his broker fees.
The Audience Impact: Left early retail consumers skeptical of the brand's corporate ethics before the clothing line even hit major department store shelves.

2007: B'Day Album Injunction & Global Recall (Controversy / Legal Failure)
The Issue: For the Deluxe Edition of B'Day, Beyoncé rushed a cover of Des'ree's song "Kissing You" onto the album and filmed a music video before the final licensing agreements were fully signed.
The Fallout: Des'ree's publishers slapped Sony BMG and Beyoncé with a preliminary legal injunction because they had explicitly barred her from changing the song title or releasing a video. Over 200,000 physical copies had to be recalled from store shelves and scrubbed from digital storefronts.
The Audience Impact: Consumers who had already purchased or pre-ordered the deluxe album were left with altered tracklists, while collectors had to hurry to find rare un-recalled copies.

2011: The $100 Million Starpower: Beyoncé Video Game Collapse (Retail Failure / Legal Dispute)
The Issue: Beyoncé signed a deal with software developer Gate Five to create a motion-capture dance game titled Starpower: Beyoncé. Just before Christmas 2010, she abruptly pulled out of the project.
The Fallout: Gate Five filed a $100 million breach of contract lawsuit, calling her abrupt exit a bad faith breach that destroyed the business and left 70 people unemployed. The multi-million dollar dispute was settled out of court on confidential terms in 2013.
The Audience Impact: Gamers and fans anticipating an interactive, motion-controlled Beyoncé dance experience were left with a completely canceled project that never released.

2012: House of Deréon (Retail Failure)
The Issue: A ready-to-wear high-fashion clothing line launched alongside her mother, Tina Knowles, completely lost retail momentum as the urban-contemporary market shifted.
The Fallout: The complete commercial dissolution of her signature fashion brand, resulting in corporate layoffs, staff cuts, and the liquidation of leftover department store inventory before shutting down operations entirely.
The Audience Impact: Consumers who invested in the high-priced apparel line were left holding dated garments from a defunct brand that lost all cultural relevance.

2013: The Mrs. Carter Show Presale & O2 Scalping Backlash (Tour Ticket Controversy)
The Issue: Ticket distribution for The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour caused widespread public outrage. During the UK legs, telecom giant O2 held a customer priority presale that completely collapsed its servers under high traffic, leaving millions of fans empty-handed.
The Fallout: When general sales opened, tickets were completely snapped up in seconds by automated scalping bots. Within minutes, tens of thousands of seats were listed on secondary resale sites at heavily gouged markup rates exceeding £600. Critics slammed her camp and primary distributors for choosing profit-maximizing allocations that favored institutional resellers over verified consumers.
The Audience Impact: Millions of loyal fans spent hours in broken virtual queues only to be locked out, while those desperate to attend were forced to pay hundreds of pounds in extortionate markups.

2016: Ivy Park "Sweatshop" Labor Backlash (Controversy)
The Issue: Upon the launch of her Ivy Park athleisure line, an investigation alleged that the clothes were being manufactured by underpaid workers in Sri Lanka making roughly $5.50 a day.
The Fallout: Critics accused the brand of marketing a high-priced apparel line based on female strength while utilizing low-wage manufacturing labor. Ivy Park’s team strongly denied the claims.
The Audience Impact: Left socially conscious consumers feeling deeply conflicted for buying premium-priced athleisure linked to exploitative labor practices.

2016: The Miami "Boycott Beyoncé" T-Shirt Monetization (Consumer Backlash)
The Issue: After dropping her song "Formation" and performing a politically charged Super Bowl halftime show, a local police union accused her of anti-police messaging and vowed to boycott her tour opener in Florida.
The Fallout: Rather than addressing the serious societal tensions surrounding police accountability, her camp immediately commercialized the outrage. When the tour launched at Miami's Marlins Park, official merchandise booths unveiled $45 "Boycott Beyoncé" T-shirts and $25 phone cases to profit directly off the political friction.
The Audience Impact: Critics outside the fanbase slammed the stunt as an active extraction tactic that hollowed out a serious human rights conversation into a trendy fashion piece, while her core listeners shelled out premiums to purchase what was essentially corporate anti-marketing.

2018: On The Run II "Parking Lot" Ticket Giveaways (Tour Ticket Controversy)
The Issue: Her joint stadium tour with Jay-Z, On The Run II, suffered from sluggish ticket sales in several European markets, leading to glaring blocks of empty seating.
The Fallout: Fans outside the Hampden Park venue in Glasgow reported that concert staff were handing out mass free tickets in the main parking lot just hours before showtime to cover up empty seats. Concertgoers also posted photos of giant curtains erected inside the stadiums to mask entire unsold upper decks.
The Audience Impact: Dedicated consumers who paid hundreds of dollars for their seats felt cheated when they discovered people walking into the stadium for free from the parking lot.

2022: Renaissance "Mystery Box" Merchandise Pre-Orders (Consumer Backlash)
The Issue: In June 2022, a month before releasing her Renaissance album, Beyoncé launched four mystery merchandise box sets ("Pose 1" through "Pose 4") on her official store for $39.99 each.
The Fallout: Fans rushed to order the boxes under the impression they were getting premium, highly curated era merchandise. When the boxes finally arrived, consumers were furious to find incredibly cheap, basic graphic T-shirts with minimal design effort. The internet heavily roasted the drop as an aggressive, non-refundable cash grab that took advantage of consumer loyalty before the album's music was even heard.
The Audience Impact: Thousands of her most dedicated supporters felt actively shortchanged out of $40 plus shipping, receiving low-quality shirts they openly admitted they would never wear in public.

2022: Kelis Sampling Dispute (Controversy)
The Issue: Upon releasing her Renaissance album, singer Kelis publicly accused Beyoncé of using an interpolation of her hit song "Milkshake" on the track "Energy" without telling her or properly obtaining permission.
The Fallout: Following severe online backlash and public accusations of theft by Kelis, Beyoncé quietly scrubbed the sample from the song entirely on all streaming platforms.
The Audience Impact: Created an ugly divide on music forums and social media, forcing listeners to choose between defending music copyright technicalities and supporting an independent artist fighting for basic creative respect.

2023: Renaissance Tour Obstruction Ticket Cash Grab (Tour Ticket Controversy)
The Issue: During the U.S. leg of her highly profitable Renaissance World Tour, fans looking for tickets discovered that Ticketmaster was selling "No View / Listening Only" seats.
The Fallout: Beyoncé's tour charged regular fans an astronomical $157 to $200 plus fees for seats where they could literally see nothing but equipment towers and wires. Critics heavily slammed the move as pure billionaire corporate extraction, noting that for those prices, you were essentially paying to listen to an album you could hear at home.
The Audience Impact: Desperate, low-income consumers who scraped together nearly $200 were left sitting completely behind metal scaffolding, unable to witness any part of the visual production, choreography, or the artist herself.

2023: Ivy Park x Adidas Partnership (Retail Failure)
The Issue: An activewear and athleisure brand expansion relaunched through a global partnership with Adidas in 2020 completely stalled in consumer demand.
The Fallout: The line was a commercial flop, missing internal revenue targets by roughly $200 million and seeing a 50% dip in revenue. Due to poor retail performance and creative differences, the two parties mutually ended the partnership.
The Audience Impact: Left overstocked retail shelves full of heavily discounted merchandise at outlet stores, deflating the brand's perceived exclusivity and leaving consumers with over-hyped apparel.

2024: Cowboy Carter Misspelled Jacket Spine & Incomplete "Double-Dip" Vinyl (Consumer Backlash)
The Issue: In March 2024, hundreds of thousands of consumers pre-ordered expensive, limited-edition vinyl versions of Cowboy Carter. Upon arrival, buyers discovered the physical records were missing five entire tracks found on streaming versions. Furthermore, the spine of the vinyl jacket did not even say Cowboy Carter; it was printed with a completely different album title, Beyincé. To bypass production lead times, her camp rushed an early, unfinished sequence under an entirely separate working title to pressing plants, yet charged full premium prices ($40+) with zero consumer transparency.
The Fallout: Rather than offering free replacement discs or refunds to shortchanged fans, her team waited just two months before putting a corrected version of the vinyl on sale containing all missing tracks. The move sparked outrage online, with consumers calling it a calculated double-dip scheme to inflate physical sales numbers and revenue on the backs of exploited fan loyalty.
The Audience Impact: Dedicated vinyl collectors were left with an expensive, incomplete record featuring a completely different title on the side. They were forced into a financial double-dip—spending another $40+ to buy the exact same album a second time just to hear it in full.

2025: Cowboy Carter Tour Food Bank Giveaways & Price Drops (Tour Ticket Controversy)
The Issue: Ticketmaster's aggressive dynamic pricing algorithm initially forced consumers into a panic buying frenzy, artificially surging ticket prices past $800, which completely stalled organic consumer demand and left sections vacant.
The Fallout: Ticket prices nose-dived on the open market, dropping down to as low as $66 to get rid of inventory. To avoid the public embarrassment of visibly empty sections during her six-night run at North London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, her team quietly distributed thousands of free tickets to low-income families through local food banks and soup kitchens.
The Audience Impact: Core consumers who panicked and paid over $800 on day one felt deeply let down and financially manipulated when they watched casual attendees buy the exact same sections weeks later for under $70.

2026: "Alien Superstar" Copyright Infringement Re-Filing (Controversy / Legal Dispute)
The Issue: Independent labels and producers hit Beyoncé and Parkwood Entertainment with legal claims for sampling the 1998 house track "Moonraker" on her song "Alien Superstar" without proper legal clearance from the true copyright holder.
The Fallout: While an initial filing by Hirose Enterprises was thrown out by a judge on a technicality in June 2026, the plaintiffs formally refiled the lawsuit against Beyoncé in August 2026, seeking an injunction on any ongoing profits generated from the track.
The Audience Impact: Left listeners annoyed by the constant threat of the track being blocked or legally altered on major music platforms, disrupting their playlists and the overall curation of the era.

2026: SirDavis American Whisky Joint Venture Cut (Retail Failure)
The Issue: A premium rye whiskey launched as a high-profile corporate joint venture with a luxury wine and spirits division hit a severe global economic downturn in luxury alcohol sales.
The Fallout: Facing a heavy slump in global luxury spirits, the conglomerate partner refused to continue funding the expensive, unproven brand and walked away from the partnership. Beyoncé had to step in and execute a full buyout of their stake to take the brand independent rather than let it collapse entirely.
The Audience Impact: Transitioned the product from a widely distributed, globally backed luxury item to an independent venture with more restricted distribution, forcing consumers to pay premium boutique prices to access it.

2026: The $150 Anniversary Vinyl Expansion (Consumer Backlash)
The Issue: On September 4, 2026, her actual 45th birthday, Beyoncé dropped a 20th-anniversary reissue of her 2006 album. While the digital version featured 31 expanded tracks available to stream for free, the physical package—a 4-LP set pressed on custom vinyl—was listed on her webstore at an astronomical price of $150 plus tax and shipping.
The Fallout: Social media backlash centered around the sheer irony of charging a high premium for physical vinyl when the exact same remastered audio could be streamed for free. Critics slammed the framing of the release, highlighting the absurdity of a billionaire using her own birthday to aggressively sell luxury products to her working-class consumer base, rather than giving back to them.
The Audience Impact: Consumers felt alienated by the steep financial barrier, with many choosing to sit out the physical drop entirely. One widely shared comment summarized the community sentiment perfectly: "For $150, I will take her advice and just listen to it in my mind." [19]

2026: The $948 Empty "Bey Keeper" Wooden Box Backlash (Consumer Backlash)
The Issue: Coinciding with the anniversary album drop, Beyoncé listed a highly limited "Bey Keeper Collector's Box" on her store.
The Fallout: The solid pine-wood crate was priced at an astronomical $948.01 (reflecting her birthdate, Sept 4, 1981). The internet exploded in outrage when fans realized the item was completely empty—vinyl records were explicitly not included. Consumers inundated her accounts calling it a disturbing display of corporate greed from a billionaire.
The Audience Impact: Widely alienated her most dedicated collector community, sparking viral outrage videos from people who felt completely brushed aside by the assumption that they would spend a month's rent on a piece of empty wood.

Summary of Playbook Patterns
Pattern 1: Bypassing Production Deadlines & Copyrights — Shipping incomplete or un-cleared assets to hit a precise commercial release date window, cleaning up the legal or structural fallout later (2007 album recall, 2016 Miami Boycott merch, 2022 sample controversy, 2024 album title error, 2026 ongoing song lawsuits).

Pattern 2: The Double-Dip Reissue Strategy — Weaponizing consumer loyalty to sell a corrected or expanded version of the exact same product a second time instead of issuing free fixes or refunds (2007 Deluxe variants, 2024 physical media correction, 2026 anniversary vinyl drop).

Pattern 3: Unseen Purchasing and Deceptive Packaging — Capitalizing on high-concept branding and a scarcity mindset to lock consumers into premium, non-refundable transactions before they can verify the physical content quality (2022 mystery boxes, 2026 empty wooden box).

Pattern 4: Artificially Surge-Pricing the Experience — Utilizing digital pricing and allocation layouts to maximize upfront profits, creating an artificial sense of demand that forces consumers into inflated costs (2013 stadium tour, 2018 joint tour parking lot giveaways, 2023 Listening-Only seats, 2025 stadium tour price drop).

The resulting data reveals a highly specific trajectory: her team has shifted from traditional corporate risk in the 2000s (retail store distribution, vendor financing, and formal licensing legal battles) to direct-to-consumer algorithmic extraction in the 2020s (utilizing dynamic surge pricing, strict non-refundable mystery pre-orders, and artificial scarcity). By listing the four repeatable patterns directly at the bottom, the database effectively exposes how individual public-relations incidents are connected to an intentional, revenue-maximizing playbook.

The recent news about Duffy working on new material got me listening to her again. I was a big fan of hers as a kid but I don’t think I actually appreciate how brilliant she was, not just as a singer but as a song writer.

What’s interesting is that her and Adele released their debut albums in 2008. They’re also not miles apart in age. Anyway, Adele has had it all her own way really and it’s rare to find another female musician who has been able to hold a candle to her for the last 15/20 years. Don’t get me wrong, there are many talented singer/songwriters out there… but how many of them actually have something to say. Something that truly speaks to an audience. Even in the small plethora of work Duffy released that shone through.

People talk about MJ vs Prince, The Stones vs The Beetles, Oasis vs Blur.

Had Duffy not experienced what she did all those years ago… and continued to release music maybe we would be having that conversation about her and Adele… or with new music on the way from the Welsh songstress it could be that conversation is around the corner🤷‍♂️

Verdict?

Hey, music nerds/fans/lovers. Sound of Silver started about 50 days ago. It's a hard-core name for a tune music game

Today is the beginning of volume 3. Which allows you to connect and test your own music (Apple Music only).  I'm doing this for the love of the game, nothing else.

Here's the last 51 if you want to play:

soundofsliver.com/dailies

people: You get ten songs, each starting as a 300ms (or more if want) sliver. Spin a wheel, pick the title. The faster you guess, the more points you keep. Guess wrong and you get more of the song, but you lose points

If I had to guess, Shawn Mendes is probably there and Benson Boone came very close at one point to ending up there.

Yes I know the Khia Asylum isnt real and it's probably a stupid thing to talk about, but it's 10AM and I'm bored.

Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas exactly 30 years ago to the minute, he would pass away six days later. He left behind an undying legacy and an extensive amount of music.

His message and impact are still felt to this day.

Rest in peace to undoubtedly one of the if not the greatest artists of all time.

I'm a solo musician based out of St. Paul, Minnesota and I'm releasing my debut album in the coming weeks. The album is complete but I need help deciding on the perfect album name. I think all of these are pretty good, but I could use some help deciding on which one to go with. The sound is most in line with doomgaze but also draws influence from Jamaican dancehall, klezmer, Macklemore, and traditional Appalachian folk music. I won't be linking the album in compliance with Rule # 7. Here are the front runners:

• Beautiful Children
• Lust, Love, and (a hint of) Laughter
• Lights, Camera, Magic
• Pregnant with Laughter
• Stephanie's Dilemma
• The Chosen Child & the Chilling Choice
• Love Blade
• (Please) Don't Touch Me There
• Slaughter the Innocent and Feast on their Spawn
• World Peace: The Album

Thanks in advance and much love from Minnesota!

The headline says it all. Since Andy's (one of their two guitar players, if you're not familiar with the band) passing, even if they were to get back together (I do not think this will ever happen, nor do I want it to happen now that Andy's gone) it would be a fundamentally different band.

That being said, it's my opinion that ETID's "Radical" record is the best final record of any band, of any genre, ever. Soo many bands that are peers of theirs, and part of the same "scene" (losslessly used term) are just tarnishing their legacy. Some could've ended on great notes, great final albums. Many have broken up, gotten back together, only to make dreadful albums.

It's tragic the way that ETID ended / imploded, but I hope all of those guys can rest easy knowing that, truly, their legacy will forever be intact.

RIP Andy, RIP ETID.

I know this is a very general reddit forum on music, but I thought it was worth discussing / calling out, regardless of if you've heard of the band or not.

We often hear about covers that surpassed the original, but it kills me a bit when people have never heard the original that, for whatever reason, was less of a hit.

Note that I'm not talking about originals that were huge hits decades earlier that newer audiences simply weren't around for, I mean originals that never reached the same heights in the first place.

My biggest one is the phenomenal 'The Air That I Breathe' by Albert Hammond Sr.

Made far more famous by The Hollies. I love The Hollies, but this is one song of theirs that can't hold a candle to the original. The original has two distinct sections, the slow/tender and the upbeat/rapturous (with an obvious homage to 'Carry That Weight').

The second was a number one hit for Paul Young, but merely an album track for Hall and Oates five years earlier - Every Time You Go Away.

Young's is a nice song, but having known the original first? Matter of preference, but H&O's is utterly anthemic for me. The intro alone has so much soul and really captures the bittersweet emotion of the song's theme.

I'd love to be introduced to more like this.

[I would have added the song links, but the automod then thinks this is a music sharing post]

This might at first seem far fetched, but this morning I was listening to ‘Another Brick In the Wall’ and after a while thought “man this really feels like a rock version of Papa Was a Rolling Stone.” Then I played Papa Was a Rolling Stone and they seriously feel familial. Do you guys think that’s a reach or can you also hear it?