This year’s round of top-tier noms is, as ever, a combination of on-target choices, insider favorites and a few unaccountable snubs. How will it all shake out on Music’s Biggest Night? 

As the calendar turns to December, Burl is smokin’, Brenda Lee is comin’ on strong, SZA and 21 Savage are bein' gift-wrapped and Cecilia Winter and the radio shows are in season.

Deck the halls with HITS List

Considerable buzz surrounds hot free agent David Dollimore, who most recently served as president of RCA U.K. and Ministry of Sound. Is he about to begin a splashy new chapter?

The 12 Christmas songs on this week's Song Revenue Chart—four of them in the Top 10—collectively take in $662k. Five tracks from Drake's deluxe For All the Dogs make the Top 50 for a total of $275k. New Balance pitchman Jack Harlow repeats at #1.

In which I.B. spills the pop tea (and the Tennessee whiskey), dishes the nominations and the telecast, offers a PRO tip and more.

Taylor Swift received more than 26.1b streams on Spotify worldwide this year, which makes her the DSP’s top global artist of 2023. Bad Bunny was right behind her. Morgan Wallen posted some impressive stats in the U.S.

As head of music industry & culture collaborations at Amazon Music, Phylicia Fant has played an instrumental role in expanding not only the tech giant’s standing in the music world but also its leadership with respect to culture and representation. Her approach to this is informed by...

This year’s Grammy nominations were an improvement over recent years—particularly in their foregrounding of the women who’ve been running the table in the pop world. That said...

As a partner in merchant bank the Raine Group, Fred Davis splits his time between the New York and London locations—when he isn’t circling the globe advising and investing in such music-business entities as SoundCloud, Quality Control, Downtown and Firebird.