Can Taylor Swift's latest Republic rocket, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, soar into the rarefied air of 2 million+ in first-week activity?

There’s huge, massive and then there’s Swift-sized. By every metric, Taylor Swift is in a league of her own. The megastar's 11th studio album is here, and it’s a double, with 31 tracks. "Take the over" seems to be the consensus.

High-flying all-stars including Taylor, Billie, Future-Metro, Eshak-Majid and Chester are ready to light up the scoreboard, and the crowd’s going wild.

Your HITS List bracket is here.

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.

Eight tracks from J. Cole’s surprise mixtape bow on the Song Revenue Chart, taking in north of $460k. Future & Metro Boomin collect $340k from four WE DON’T TRUST YOU entries, led by the ubiquitous “Like That,” still locked at #1. Hozier (#2) and Artemas  (#12-7) register gains.

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.

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...

I.B. on Nashville and the coasts, the magic bullet of radio, Island's heat wave and Taylor's seismograph.

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...

I.B. on the business landscape and the Coachella crush, co-starring Doja, Tyler, Taylor, O-Rod, Billie, Ice Spice and many more.