Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development for TikTok, tells our own Craig Marks that he’s been way too busy over the past six months to let the company’s existential uncertainty weigh on him. Obermann has had his own fires to put out.

With Thanksgiving a full week away, all we can think about is turkey and gravy and stuffing and yams and buttered crescent rolls and bottomless tumblers of Beaujolais Nouveau. But we are contractually obligated to feign interest in work, so here's our weekly gallery and its aptly carb-heavy captions for your weekend-adjacent delectation.

Industry machers are working overtime to get everything just right en route to four blessed days of relaxation, feasting, football and a schlep to the cineplex to catch Wicked. Taylor, Brady and Kevin are setting their tables, while Max and Merck gaze fondly at the Colonies, but the members of ATEEZ are sticking with Seoul food. Take HITS List out of the oven.

Lana Del Rey is heading to stadiums in support of her new country album, Charli xcx gets her own festival in London next summer and Katy Perry has visions of the Great White North.

Paul McCartney joined co-producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi in New York on 11/24 for the world premiere of Beatles ’64, which chronicles the Fab Four’s initial visit to the U.S. and the birth of American Beatlemania.

The 12 songs from Kendrick Lamar's surprise album GNX are dominating Apple Music and Spotify U.S.

What kind of year has it been in the music biz? Let’s start with some wild stats. Taylor Swift’s individual overall market share stands at 1.7%, with 15.6m album units YTD—more than Mercury, Big Loud and Imperial combined. That’s crazy enough, but even without Taylor, the Republic group would still be #1 in current share. Now that is dynastic dominance times two.

Warner Music Group enjoyed a 2.8% increase in revenue to $1.63b amid its fiscal Q4 results, despite a 69% drop in net income. Benson Boone, Zach Bryan, Teddy Swims and Charli xcx were among the top sellers.

The post-CMA Awards buzz around Music City is that former Warner Nashville Co-Chair Ben Kline will soon hitch his wagon to a…

The D-O-Double-G was recently awarded the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Get Engaged Media in front of dozens of USC Marshall students.