TAY’S FORTHCOMING DEBUT: WE ARE TORTURED BY SPECULATION As we’ve been endlessly reminding you, Taylor Swift’s new album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, is going to be big. Very big. Enormously big. Perhaps even frighteningly big. But how big? …Read moreON THE COVER: AARON BAY-SCHUCK AND TOM CORSON The co-heads of a red-hot and fully resurgent Warner Records grace the cover of this issue, having also granted us—likely to their eternal regret—an in-depth interview. …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: PRIMARY NUMBERS Though the catalog-acquisition market has shown signs of slowing, Larry Mestel’s Primary Wave continues to grow the major business he's steadfastly built over the course of nearly two decades while... …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: SURF AND TURF I.B. on Nashville and the coasts, the magic bullet of radio, Island's heat wave and Taylor's seismograph. …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: KICKING UP SAND Taylor Swift, with a new album coming, is ready to suck the oxygen out of the universe in a way that no other pop-cultural force since The Beatles has done. Her appearance in the crowd at Coachella... …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: DESERT SONG I.B. on the business landscape and the Coachella crush, co-starring Doja, Tyler, Taylor, O-Rod, Billie, Ice Spice and many more. …Read moreTOP 20: JUST TRUST US Future & Metro Boomin’s WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU will land at #1 and is expected to record around 145k, giving Sony its fourth consecutive chart-topper and the week's top three albums. …Read moreNOISEMAKERS: THE Q2 KICKOFF In our latest roundup, we present eight rising professionals from various parts of the biz whose dedication and effort make their superiors look good. …Read moreKG’s PDSD Karen Glauber scolds Alt PDs for their “unwillingness to play much new music,” including Marcagi, Mitski and Vampire Weekend, in her latest Post Toasted column. “If I programmed a radio station,” she writes, “I’d feature currents, both new and tested, and do whatever I had to do to set up the next generation of listeners.” Let ’em have it, KG. |
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TIKTOK BANNED!
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THE COUNT: COACHELLA, FROM THE COUCH
The coziest way to experience the fest (4/18a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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Concord has tendered a bid to purchase Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4b. It’s up to Hipgnosis investment adviser HSM to allow the sale to go through, Reuters has reported.
As we’ve been endlessly reminding you, Taylor Swift’s new album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, is going to be big. Very big. Enormously big. Perhaps even frighteningly big. But how big?
Future & Metro Boomin’s WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU will land at #1 and is expected to record around 145k, giving Sony its fourth consecutive chart-topper and the week's top three albums.
Our Q2 batch includes blazing-hot newcomers like Michael Marcagi, Artemas, Tucker Wetmore, Santa Fe Klan, Dasha and Ayra Starr, to name but a few. Which of the fresh talents profiled within will become pop’s next supernovae? We haven’t a clue, but feel free to place your bets.
On the heels of signing a label deal with RCA, buzzy roots group the Red Clay Strays has inked a global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music.
Future and Metro Boomin turn the 93-year-old Los Angeles Theatre into their own personal after-dark playground in the video for "Drink N Dance," directed by Loris Russier.
While watching hours of the Weekend 1 Coachella livestream from our sand-, sun- and wind-free couch, it became abundantly clear that there’s still no substitute for true talent and authentic showmanship.
U.K. music-licensing company PPL has signed Ice Spice for the collection of international neighboring-rights royalties. She joins a host of artists who've signed with the org recently, including Lewis Capaldi, Libianca and Central Cee.
Two songs released by Sony Music’s Ultra are not only getting feet moving, they’ve got thumbs a-poppin’ on Shazam.
Rico Wade, founding member of The Dungeon Family and one-third of Atlanta production team Organized Noize, died 4/12. He was 52.
With songs popping off from Morgan Wallen, HARDY and Dylan Gossett, Big Loud Records has promoted Tyler Waugh to VP of Radio Promotion effective 5/1.
Dickey Betts, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer who penned their biggest hit and was a driving force in the rise of Southern rock, died Thursday. He was 80.
Neil Sedaka is partnering with Primary Wave Music on his music publishing and recording rights for all his recordings. Terms of the partnership may also see Primary Wave participating in branding rights over Sedaka’s name and likeness.
The co-heads of a red-hot and fully resurgent Warner Records grace the cover of this issue, having also granted us—likely to their eternal regret—an in-depth interview.
At a press conference at Miami's Kaseya Center, Miami-Dade County Commission Vice Chairman Anthony Rodriguez, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud, GMCVB President and CEO David Whitaker and Univision Television President Ignacio Meyer announced that the 25th Latin Grammy Awards will return to Miami in 2024. Other important dates include...
Carl Scott, a longtime Warner Bros. Records artist-relations executive, died Wednesday after a protracted illness. He was 85.
The Republic megastar and the sector-leading DSP have joined forces for THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT library installation, today (4/17) and Thursday (4/18) at The Grove in L.A. Sonnet-savoring Swifties will be encouraged to explore an open-air poetry collection curated to represent themes from Tay’s impending album.
I.B. on Nashville and the coasts, the magic bullet of radio, Island's heat wave and Taylor's seismograph.
When you earn 100 million streams as a Big Loud Rock artist, you don't just get a handsome plaque—you also get a densely populated trade photograph, which is ideal for posting on a dubious industry website such as ours. Just ask the prodigiously gifted singer-songwriter-artist known professionally as Jagwar Twin, who was mobbed by adoring team members shortly before BLR and Big Loud President-Partner Greg Thompson unveiled a succulent deli tray. Seen feeling bigger and louder than ever before are…
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