Taylor Swift repeats at #1 and will get within 15-20k of 1 million equivalent albums in her second week. eOne’s Brandy is the week’s biggest debut.

For the third week in a row, on-demand audio streams have set a record. 

Sony Music’s revenue from streaming rose nearly 6% to $640.3m in the first quarter of the company’s fiscal year. Effects of COVID-19 were felt across all of the company’s divisions.

Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper found silver linings in the financial results for the quarter that ended 6/30: Streaming and the power of new artists. Cooper spoke at length about moving forward in the pandemic world.

The Grammy discussion has begun in earnest, if the nonstop calls we’ve been getting are any indication. We therefore now offer our first run-through of potential contenders for Album of the Year.

By now you’ve probably seen the graphic on the Instagram story of every exec at Ron Perry's Columbia...

It’s well past time for the most influential charts in the music industry to be taken out of the hands of clueless civilians. 

In a special edition of her Post Toasted column, Karen Glauber directs some urgent questions to the alternative community: Where are the protest songs of 2020? When will male musicians’ inexcusable treatment of girls and women come to an end? And where are the angry women? Essential reading.

On-demand streams for country music are up 21.5% YTD, which beats the overall market by four and a half points. The Godzilla of country streaming is Luke Combs, while...

Behind the scenes at the Bible with Modi, Deanna and the gang.

I.B. on Taylor's triumph and an expected onrush of major releases.

Republic's Taylor Swift has, as expected, earned the biggest chart bow YTD with folklore. The album bows at #1 with a stunning 844k, while Def Jam's Logic has a stong #2 debut...

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