Youngboy Never Broke Again manages to squeak by Republic star Post Malone at the end of this week's race for #1. Post adds 98k to his total, bringing his RTD close to 2.4m. Interscope nabs two of the Top 5.

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Like a Fitbit and an iPhone, the majority of this week’s trending boldfaces seamlessly connect. Consider Summer Walker and LVRN, David Stromberg and Travis Scott, Lee Soo-Man and SuperM, Jeffrey Azoff and Harry Styles, Espo and “10,000 Hours”—and, of course, Post Malone and money.

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You’d expect the single with the second-biggest debut week of 2019 to throw off some serious cash, and the tally for Travis Scott’s “Highest in the Room” comes out to a smokin’ $384k. Travis has company at the top of the Song Revenue Chart, with the top four slots occupied by brand-new tracks. Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber’s “10,000 Hours” is #2, followed by...     

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Vivendi expects to close its deal to sell 10% of UMG to Tencent in the next few weeks and is pursuing the process of potentially selling an additional minority stake to other partners. The timing is right: UMG pulled in nearly $1 billion from streaming in Q3.

ATLANTIC U.K. PREXY COOK RESIGNS

Ben Cook has resigned as President of Atlantic Records U.K., citing rumors and repercussions of Inappropriately dressing as a member of Run-DMC seven years ago at a birthday party.

BNA is the hardest Grammy category by far to predict, and we are fully prepared—when the noms finally come out—to have egg on our faces. It’ll go nicely with all the food already on our clothes.

The 16 nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2020 are...

 WMG DENIES ARTIST ROLE IN COOK'S EXIT

In the wake of Ben Cook's exit as chief of Atlantic U.K., Warner Music Group is denying rumors circulating in the press that artist Stormzy demanded Cook's ouster and even threatened to leave the label if the exec remained.

As we predicted last week, Travis Scott's "Highest in the Room" not only dethroned Lizzo on the Hot 100, but also exploded with the second-biggest debut week for a single in 2019...

Goldenvoice has announced the lineup for their Stagecoach fest in Indio, CA, April 24-26, 2020, and it includes a trip down the Old Town Road.  

Innovator. Iconoclast. Author. Programmer. Husband. Father. Friend. Lover of questionable music. Jay Frank, who died Sunday at the age of 47, was all those things, and so much more...

In this latest snippet from our profiles of industry ballers, we look at a couple of snapshots from the careers of Paradigm's dynamic duo.