HITS' HIGH FIVE: MEMORIAL DAZE

After a week of difficult news, we press rewind and take a look at the music industry’s positive news from the last seven days. Wishing all our HITS’ High Five readers a pleasant and safe Memorial Day weekend.

I.B. Bad takes a look at the current situation at Sony and sees challenges but no disaster looming.

Marketshare rankings reveal that labels committed to focusing their A&R resources on hip-hop and younger-skewing, R&B-flavored pop have a virtual stranglehold on the streaming business.

Irving Azoff sums up the benefit of YouTube to artists in one word. None.

Publication of The History of the Music Biz 2, our forthcoming set of profiles of industry greats, gathered by the brilliant Michael Sigman, is fast approaching.

The City of Hope honored its 2017 Spirit of Life recipient, Red Light chief Coran Capshaw, at a WeHo breakfast Tuesday.

NEAR TRUTHS: SANDSTORM
Thinking of April in October (10/17a)
NOISEMAKERS:
A FALL TREAT
The kids are alright. (10/16a)
WALLEN PROMISES SUN, SAND AT BESPOKE FESTIVAL
Roll Tide meets Tennessee Orange (10/17a)
ON THE COVER: JAY MARCIANO (AND FRIEND)
Friends in high places (10/15a)
HERE COMES HITS' LIVE SPECIAL
Issue dated 10/21 is the first of its kind. (10/17a)
THE GRAMMY SHORT LIST
Who's already a lock?
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
ALL THE WAY LIVE
The players, the tours, the enormous beers.
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