The disparity between what’s getting radio airplay and what’s at the top of the streaming charts has created a real disconnect for the biz. The diagnoses vary...

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?

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.

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. 

In our latest roundup, we present eight rising professionals from various parts of the biz whose dedication and effort make their superiors look good.

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.