
As UTA-repped Bad Bunny’s stadium tour is now well underway—having kicked off with a sold-out date at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium that now holds the record as the venue’s highest-grossing show—we thought we’d share this photo of his team at the final concert of his arena tour.

With the drop of YoungBoy Never Broke Again's The Last Slimeto, the prolific rapper—who is, pound for pound, a Top 5 most-streamed artist in the U.S.—becomes one of the hottest free agents in the biz. Thanks to heightened interest in his next chapter, the set is expected to debut with...

Olivia Newton-John, a pop fixture of the '70s and multiple Grammy winner who expanded her reach with roles in major film musicals, has died at her Southern California home after a decades-long struggle with breast cancer; she was 73.

Eminem and Beyoncé are battling it out for the U.K.’s Official Albums #1 this week in an extremely tight race. Over on singles, KSI and Tom Grennan’s collaboration is gunning for the top.

As the biz showers love on Mo Ostin, who kept Warner/Reprise on top during rock’s golden age, modern-day dynasties Live Nation and Sony Music rack up ginormous quarterly numbers, Beyoncé dances back to #1, NBA YoungBoy gets ready to ball for a new team and Ryan Tedder’s OneRepublic takes off from the flight deck of the Top Gun: Maverick ST.

We owe our survival (which has been likened to that of cockroaches after a nuclear war more times than we’d care to admit) to you, gentle reader. We look forward to expressing our gratitude in the customary way—with a tree-killing doorstop jammed with old photos and dumb jokes, aka the HITS Anniversary Special.

Sir Elton John and Britney Spears have joined forces for an upcoming collaboration called "Hold Me Closer," due sometime in the near future via Interscope. As Elton fans will surmise, the track is a re-imagining of his 1971 classic "Tiny Dancer."

UTA continues its drive into Atlanta by naming music agent Robert Gibbs partner and co-head of the agency’s Atlanta office.

At Laguna's Festival of the Arts and Pageant of the Masters, two vocal greats, Billy Valentine and Lorna Luft, are joined by someone who is vocally grating, HITS Editor in Chief Lenny Beer, for a photographic summit. In keeping with the festival's tradition of bringing classic works of art to life, Beer later recreated LeRoy Neiman's classic canvas Five-Iron Wrapped Around a Tree in Despair at Augusta.

The class of Q3 2022 includes such beguiling artists as Steve Lacy, Doechii, Bailey Zimmerman, Benson Boone, Nate Smith, Jagwar Twin and Yung Gravy, among other buzzing newcomers. Which of these will be tearing up the charts in the near future?
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RISE OF THE INDIES
How they're reshuffling the biz deck.
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Thoughts on a changing landscape.
KETCHUP
It's everywhere.
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Another stunning return.
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