In her newly posted Post Toasted (try saying that three times fast), Karen Glauber predicts the mood and themes that will resonate with your audiences following a year of anxiety and isolation. As Macca once put it, take a sad song and make it better...
The early ’70s saw the first attempts by academics to set pre-1970 jazz in amber as U.S. classical music, the way it should be played—largely without the involvement of Black scholars.
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Michael Rapino’s optimistic words about the return of butts to seats this summer has the biz high-stepping as spring approaches. Adjacent label heads Perry and Rhone are lighting the scoreboard, while it's full stream ahead for Dicus and Gillmer.
Darkroom/Interscope’s Billie Eilish lets fans dive deep into her brain in her new Apple TV+ documentary, The World’s a Little Blurry.
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J. Balvin delivered a surprise performance during Saturday night's PPV boxing event, debuting his new single, "Ma G." The UMLE superstar escorted champ Canelo Alvarez to the ring and performed a mini concert at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.
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Big Loud/Republic’s Morgan Wallen extends his run at #1 on the HITS Top 50 to a seventh consecutive week—the most since Drake’s nine-week tenure in 2016 with Views. House Lipman continues its reign with four titles in the Top 5.
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Recorded music revenues rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2020 as the number of paid subscriptions to on-demand streaming services continued to increase at double-digit rates, the RIAA reported today.
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Michael Rapino has a message for investors and the concert industry: Live Nation has $2b in available liquidity and the road to return is already being paved in the U.K. and Australia.
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This year’s nominations recognize not just emerging talent but artists who’ve made their mark from the margins, Holly Gleason notes.
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