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Post Malone’s country era is off to the races with “I Had Some Help,” which generated the most streams ever in a single day for a country song on Spotify.
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Kendrick Lamar continues to rack up megastreams amid a high-profile beef with Drake, breaking the Spotify record for the most daily streams for a rap song with "Not Like Us." Check out its weekly stream count.
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It’s a week before the Academy of Country Music’s annual awards streamcast—for the third year on Amazon Prime and its platforms—and Raj Kapoor, the Emmy-winning producer and showrunner, is raving about this year’s lineup.
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Sony Music reported more strong results for the fiscal year ending 3/31, with recorded-music revenue topping $10b for the second year in a row—a feat never accomplished before 2023.
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Jonathan Cohen has joined the HITS staff as Senior Editor. He has not yet broken this heartbreaking news to his family.
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Here's a gently curated array of trade photos highlighting some of the moment's biggest movers and shakers.
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Reluctant smooth jazz saxophone deity David Sanborn, who played with everyone from David Bowie and the Rolling Stones to James Brown and Stevie Wonder, died yesterday (5/12) at the age of 78.
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KINGS OF LEON HAVE A "FUN" TOURING SUMMER AHEADWith "Mustang" Top 5 at AAA and its parent album Can We Please Have Fun poised for a #1 debut in the U.K., Kings of Leon are setting the table for extensive worldwide touring this summer and fall.
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With a lineup that imagines what Coachella's Sahara tent would be like if it were transported to the Bay Area's largest cargo terminal, Goldenvoice's dance-music-dominated Portola festival will return 9/28-29 to San Francisco's Pier 80.
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