Copyrights advocates, producers and artists on Monday requested the government to withdraw its new rating system for online music downloads and streaming services, saying the new plan will not bring fundamental changes to the market and will continue to allow distributors to sell tunes at low prices. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports announced a set of comprehensive plans including a n...

The Russian National Orchestra will visit Seoul next week to hold its first concerts here in three years. Founder and artistic director, Mikhail Pletnev, will conduct the orchestra at the Gangdong Arts Center in Seoul on June 19. The orchestra will hold a second concert at the Incheon Culture and Arts Center in Incheon on June 20. Programs will include Alexander Glazunov’s “Suite From the Middl...

Pop diva Lady Gaga suffered concussion when a dancer accidentally hit her on the head with a metal pole during her final New Zealand show, reports said Monday. The US artist was performing her hit "Judas" at Auckland's Vector Arena on Sunday night when the accident left her seeing stars, 3News reported. Footage of the incident showed her staggering briefly after the pole crashed on the top of h...

NEW YORK (AP) ― Taylor Swift has never revealed her target in the scathing song “Dear John,” but John Mayer is pretty sure it was about him ― and he doesn’t think that’s cool. In a new Rolling Stone interview, Mayer called “Dear John” cheap songwriting and said it made him feel terrible ― and he didn’t deserve it. Swift’s song from the multiplatinum “Speak Now” album dresses down a former boyfr...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Twenty-two percent of Americans think veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen should compose a new U.S. national anthem to replace “The Star-Spangled Banner,” suggests an online poll released Monday. That’s more than the 19 percent who think country legend Dolly Parton is up to the task, or the 18 percent who favor soulman Stevie Wonder, according to the poll for the CBS current affa...