Republic's Taylor Swift will collect the largest-ever number of total album streams as The Tortured Poets Department is poised to log more than 800m. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter is headed for a Top 5 opening and Republic could hold eight of the week’s Top 10 with...
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With her single "Espresso" having caffeinated the streaming charts, #1 Pop smash "Feather" certified platinum and album Emails I Can't Send gone gold, Island star Sabrina Carpenter joined her team at Nobu Malibu for a plaque presentation that was followed by several rounds of thematically appropriate espresso martinis. Seen just before a wave of exuberance was replaced by ungovernable lassitude are (l-r) Island co-boss Imran Majid, Carpenter, manager Janelle Lopez Genzink and Island co-head Justin Eshak.
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Yeat and Drake collaborator BNYX has signed with Lyfestyle Corporation/Field Trip/Capitol. The producer, songwriter and artist will have the support of Yeat's Lyfestyle Corporation across all music and marketing.
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Universal Music France, in collaboration with its Capitol France division, has enlisted Binetou Sylla, acclaimed producer and founder of leading independent label Wèrè Wèrè Music, to lead Def Jam Africa.
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High-flying all-stars including Taylor, Billie, Future-Metro, Eshak-Majid and Chester are lighting up the scoreboard, and the crowd’s going nuts.
Spotify beat expectations in its fiscal Q1, registering its biggest-ever quarterly profit while growing its subscriber base by 3m to 239m, a 14% uptick.
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As the projections for Taylor Swift’s new set, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, go through the roof , we thought it might be illuminating to look through some global stats on her prior releases.
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WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU, the second Future-Metro Boomin collab of 2024, is also the pair’s second #1 chart bow of the year. The two sets represent the most vigorous commercial showing for hip-hop in recent memory.
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U.K. MIDWEEKS: TAYLOR TAKES OVERTaylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (EMI) is already 2024’s fastest-selling album in the U.K. Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter (EMI) could be the band's highest-charting album in 11 years at #2.
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