Just another day at the office for Lucian’s Uni gang (TikTok deal, $2.8b), Rapino ($3.8b), Billie and Marshall (new albums), Sabrina (#1), Post and Shaboozey (gone country), millionaire Tommy Richman and a euphoric Kendrick. Ho hum.
You want fries with that HITS List?
Warner's Dua Lipa will have the top debut on next week's HITS Top 50 with her third album, Radical Optimism. Taylor Swift secures a third consecutive week at #1.
Karen Glauber is thrilled that her dream of getting Peter Frampton inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame came true, and that her all-time favorite band, The Blue Nile, is name-checked in Taylor Swift’s TTPD song, “Guilty as Sin.” Join KG on a stroll down her musical memory lane in her latest Post Toasted column.
Republic megastar and force of nature Taylor Swift recently added another monumental achievement: the biggest chart debut of the streaming era—and second-biggest of the last decade—with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, which bowed with a staggering 2.6m+.
Madonna added another jewel to her bedazzled headpiece on Saturday (5/4), as her free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro drew a record-breaking 1.6m people.
UMG’s newly announced deal with TikTok, following a fierce and protracted fight between the two giants, is a major win for Sir Lucian Grainge, who will undoubtedly survive the indignity of being featured on the Contents page of our latest print issue.
For those of you keeping score, Drake launched his latest counterpunch at Kendrick Lamar Sunday night (5/5)...
Still shaking the desert dust out of your Louboutins? Perhaps this stimulating selection of industry pics will be just the tonic you require. Who knows? We might even run your picture (if you send it to us).
Dua Lipa took on the enormous task of playing both host and musical guest on SNL this weekend.
NEAR TRUTHS:
CENTERS OF GRAVITY Eilish enters a powerful new creative chapter. (5/6a)
LATEST SCORES: KENDRICK V. DRAKE
Multiple lead changes in this playoff game. (5/6a)
LIVE NATION POSTS (ANOTHER) RECORD QUARTER
More butts in seats than ever before. (5/3a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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