HIGH FIVE: A ROUNDUP OF SMOKIN’ STORIES

Welcome to the HITS High Five, your weekly crop of news worth rolling up. If you weren’t baked beyond belief this week, you’ll remember that:

Apple announced it had hit the 15 million subscribers mark.

Drake prepared to top our Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) chart for an unprecedented seventh straight week, while Nick Jonas had the week's biggest debut.

Rumors flew that L.A. Reid was heading back to the land of swimmin’ pools and movie stars and that the Prince estate might have some new handlers.

The Recording Academy announced amendments to Grammy rules reflecting the changing times.

RCA’s Gentiles-in-Chief Edge and Corson received their UJA Music Visionary honor, kosher chicken was eaten, and their hot streak continued.

WMG Q2 REVENUE UP
NEARLY 7% TO $1.49B
Call it Kyncl culture. (5/10a)
NEAR TRUTHS: INCOMPARABLE
Taylor world is an ecosystem. (5/9a)
HITS LIST: AROUND
THE MAYPOLE
The biz springs into motion. (5/10a)
BEEF BRINGS LAMAR BACK TO SPOTLIGHT
No longer keeping his diss-tance. (5/10a)
TOP 50: TAY'S THREE-PEAT, DUA'S OPTIMISM AND MORE
The most popular POETS in history (5/10a)
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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