You don't have to be Stormy Daniels to be glad this week is over. Even so, we thought we'd ease you into the weekend with a gently curated array of trade photos highlighting some of the moment's biggest movers and shakers.

May 2024 is shaping up as a month to remember, with K. Dot’s rollicking return, new sets from Billie and Dua, fresh inkings by March and Mabe and fresh starts for Merck and, um, Marks.

Dance away with HITS List

Parisian Taylor Swift diehards were in the right place at the right time yesterday as the artist restarted her box office-busting Eras Tour with the first of four sold-out shows at La Défense Arena.

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism has scored her the biggest opening week for a British woman since Adele’s 30. Over on the singles chart, Sabrina Carpenter tallies a second week on top.

All 31 tracks from THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT debuted last week on the Song Revenue Chart, and 19 of them remain in the updated Top 50, ringing up another $1.5m+ for the Swift machine. Tommy Richman’s “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” lands at #1 with $172k, while Kendrick Lamar’s “euphoria” opens in the Top 10 with $108k.

Travis Scott is heading back out on the road this summer in Europe and the U.K. as part of his UTOPIA: Circus Maximus Tour, and tickets are moving faster than you can say "telekinesis."

With an epic rap beef playing out publicly, Kendrick Lamar is winning on the charts, holding #1 with diss tracks at Spotify and Apple Music globally and in the U.S. Does Lamar have more wild cards to play as going rogue pays off?

Our own Holly Gleason has been nominated for seven SoCal Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club. Her nominated features on The War & Treaty and Tyler Childers appeared in HITS.

Concord has filed notice that it is withdrawing from the bidding for Hipgnosis Songs Fund.