RUMOR MILL
Monday, July 3, 2023
ONE TRIUMPH AT A TIME: MORGAN WALLEN
Big Loud/Mercury/Republic’s Morgan Wallen has the biggest album of the year by far, and he has spent most of 2023 at #1 with One Thing at a Time, the rock-fueled country runaway featuring streaming monster “Last Night.”
Wallen is the poster child for country’s streaming ascendancy—and for its cultivation of a giant, young-skewing audience as it ventures well outside the familiar Music Row blueprint. Of course, one Thing the young star wasn’t seeking was this HITS contents shout-out.
CALL MY AGENT:
SAMANTHA KIRBY YOH The latest in a series of live-exec trading cards (9/27a)
NADEL MOVES FROM ELEKTRA TO WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE
WMG reorg hits Music City. (9/24a)
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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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DICKON STAINER rumor mail
