HITS HIGH 5: STAR-GAZING

These days we’re trying to live our own Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, a fairytale where Hollywood Boulevard is easy to navigate, Astros players are punished and the president doesn’t behave like a dictator. Before you flip a coin to decide the sound editing category in your Oscar pool, check out this week’s HITS High 5.

IB Bad dives in on the Grammy kerfuffle, the kind of scandal that brings down institutions and creates serious reform—until it didn’t. Part 1 is here; click here for Part 2.

A week after touting its quarterly financials, Warner Music Group decided an IPO would be a way to keep the profit ball rolling.

We presented our New & Developing Artists roundup for the first quarter.

Music publishing had three major events: Taylor Swift moved over to Universal Music Publishing Group; there’s buzz about a possible sale of Kenny MacPherson's Big Deal Music Group; and Danny Strick is exiting Sony/ATV, quite possibly to join Marty Bandier in a forthcoming venture.

Here’s our annual look at the artists the major label groups in the U.K. are getting behind in 2020. Universal is here, click here for Sony and find Warner here.

Pardon us while we slip into a state of incoherency without traveling to D.C. or Iowa.