Wireless Festival Faces Sponsor Exodus Over Ye Booking

0:00On April 6th, wireless festival is facing major sponsor pullouts after booking Kanye West, now YAY to headline three nights at Finsbury Park this summer. Pepsi dished its main sponsorship role on April 5th and Diazio followed suit around Easter, both citing YAY's involvement as the issue. Rapper 50 Sin jumped in on Instagram on April 6th, clowning YAY with a post saying he might black out on stage again. But his comments got... Flutter with YAY Wayfans pushing back hard. Leaders are speaking out too, with UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer calling anti-Semitism unacceptable and stressing Britain needs to protect Jewish. Communities. London Mayor Sidi Khan made it clear, YAY's past remarks don't match the city's values. This all stems from YAY Way's history of anti-Semitic comments over recent years, though he did apologize back in January. Meanwhile, his new album Bully dropped on March 28th and hit number two on the Billboard 200, moving 152,000, equivalent units in its first week.

1:08It's unclear if more sponsors bailing will force wireless best to rethink booking YAYY, but the pressure is definitely mounting as the event gets. Closer. That's the story for today, music news today, driven by A.I. I'm Cory with the story.