The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake just got a whole lot spicier, with the latter initiating legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly colluding to inflate airplay and streaming for the former's diss track "Not Like Us."
Spotify has released the latest episode of Billions Club: The Series, which highlights songs that hit one billion streams on the platform.
It’s official: Brady Bedard has been anointed EVP Promotion for Atlantic Music Group. AMG boss Elliot Grainge counted the company "extremely fortunate" to have him and hoped Brady would in future take calls from "those nincompoops at HITS."
Industry machers are working overtime to get everything just right en route to four blessed days of relaxation, feasting, football and a schlep to the cineplex to catch Wicked. Taylor, Brady and Kevin are setting their tables, while Max and Merck gaze fondly at the Colonies, but the members of ATEEZ are sticking with Seoul food. Take HITS List out of the oven.
Paul McCartney joined co-producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi in New York on 11/24 for the world premiere of Beatles ’64, which chronicles the Fab Four’s initial visit to the U.S. and the birth of American Beatlemania.
With her Bruno Mars collab "APT." burning up charts all over the world, BLACKPINK's ROSÉ has inked a global admin deal with Warner Chappell Music.
Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development for TikTok, tells our own Craig Marks that he’s been way too busy over the past six months to let the company’s existential uncertainty weigh on him. Obermann has had his own fires to put out.
I.B. weighs in on Chappell and Max's next acts, the incoming regime at Sony Music Nashville and the strength of country music in the live sector.
Michael Kiwanuka is leading this week’s U.K. Official Albums race with Small Changes, though Kendrick Lamar's surprise GNX is lurking close behind.
With Thanksgiving a full week away, all we can think about is turkey and gravy and stuffing and yams and buttered crescent rolls and bottomless tumblers of Beaujolais Nouveau. But we are contractually obligated to feign interest in work, so here's our weekly gallery and its aptly carb-heavy captions for your weekend-adjacent delectation.
NEAR TRUTHS: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
One name keeps popping up amid the Roan-related speculation. (11/25a)
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
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.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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