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I.B. on Kendrick, Drake and the new legal kerfuffle, seasonal smashes, the distro equation and more.
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With Thanksgiving here, all we can think about is turkey and gravy and stuffing and yams and buttered crescent rolls and bottomless tumblers of Beaujolais Nouveau. But we are contractually obligated to feign interest in work, so here's our weekly gallery and its aptly carb-heavy captions for your weekend-adjacent delectation.
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pgLang/Interscope's Kendrick Lamar will score his fourth consecutive #1 album with GNX, projected to generate 291k in activity with 325m on-demand audio streams. In the runner-up spot is Verve/Republic's Wicked: The Soundtrack, anticipating an opening of...
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Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development for TikTok, tells our own Craig Marks that he’s been way too busy over the past six months to let the company’s existential uncertainty weigh on him. Obermann has had his own fires to put out.
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U.K. ACTS TO WATCHRhian Jones takes a look at British acts to keep an eye on including The Last Dinner Party (UMG U.K.), Myles Smith (Sony U.K.), Maisie Peters (WMG U.K.), and RAYE (Human Re Sources).
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If you haven’t yet had a chance to absorb Kendrick Lamar’s monster surprise drop, writer Miles Marshall Lewis has done a deep dive that’ll definitely enhance your listening experience.
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The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake just got a whole lot spicier, with the latter initiating legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly colluding to inflate airplay and streaming for the former's diss track "Not Like Us."
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UMG U.K.’s Rebecca Allen, Sony Music U.K.’s Jason Iley and Warner Music U.K.’s Tony Harlow weigh in on the role radio plays in the British musical landscape.
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As he breaks more Spotify records, The Weeknd has set a 1/24 release date for his XO/Republic album Hurry Up Tomorrow and will celebrate with a gigantic one-off the next day at the Rose Bowl.
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Close attention to this compelling trade shot reveals that Island superstar Sabrina Carpenter’s eyes are closed. That’s because she’s in the middle of a lovely recurring dream in which she’s surrounded by the stalwart professionals who make up her team and they are commemorating the platinum certification of her most recent album, Short n’ Sweet, with a mammoth plaque. Later in the dream...
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Bruno Mars is the secret ingredient on the two biggest songs in the DSP world, sitting atop Spotify's global Top 50 with ROSÉ's "APT." at #1 and the Lady Gaga collaboration "Die With a Smile" at #2.
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The Marías’ new Nice Life/Atlantic single may be titled “No One Noticed,” but pretty much everyone is taking notice of the group, led by Puerto Rican-bred, Atlanta-raised María Zardoya and L.A. native Josh Conway.
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I.B. weighs in on Chappell and Max's next acts, the incoming regime at Sony Music Nashville and the strength of country music in the live sector.
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UMG’s Classics & Jazz division has upped Natasha Baldwin to president of Global Classics, Jazz & Screen, and Deutsche Grammophon President Clemens Trautmann will take on a newly expanded role.
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While Wicked is doing boffo business at the box office, its Republic/Verve soundtrack has become, in its first 24 hours on Amazon Music, the platform's globally most-streamed ST to a musical.
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REPUBLIC puts Ariana Grande's "Popular" atop the Pop and Hot AC add boards this week, while Atlantic takes Most Added honors at Rhythm and Modern Rock, respectively, with Jack Harlow’s "Hello Miss Johnson" and Twenty One Pilots' "The Line."
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Kendrick Lamar's "tv off" f/Lefty Gunplay is Shazam's Biggest Mover this week, bumping Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile" to #2.
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A roundtable with U.K. radio vets: Damian Christian (Warner Music U.K.’s Atlantic Records), Liv Carson (They Do), Steph Wilkinson (Sony Music U.K.’s Columbia Records), and Suzy Walby (UMG U.K.’s Audience & Media Division).
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Paul McCartney joined co-producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi in New York on 11/24 for the world premiere of Beatles ’64, which begins streaming Friday on Disney+.
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