BesameMucho
5/21/24

With Shakira at th top of the bill, Live Nation's Latin-leaning Besame Mucho Festival will return to Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium 12/21, following its second visit there last December.


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5/21/24

Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is expected to repeat at #1 for a fifth week, while Billie Eilish's HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is headed for a massive first week...


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5/21/24

UTA has welcomed Lucy Pullin and Virgil Thomas to its Music Crossover division, with the former based in London and the latter in Los Angeles.


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Billie-Eilish
5/21/24

Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (Darkroom/Interscope) is now projected to reach...


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5/21/24

I.B. on what's next for BMG and the shifting landscape of country as Nashville and coastal labels...


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5/21/24

The music biz has stepped on the gas with the arrival of Billie’s latest LP, a supercharged Post/Morgan collab, a 180 from Childish and a high-octane ACM Awards. Meanwhile, newly hired HITS loser Jonathan Cohen finds himself stuck in reverse.

Go to HITS List—and step on it.

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5/21/24

The Grammy Awards have set a 2/2/2025 date for their 67th annual edition, which will emanate from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. CBS will once again broadcast Music's Biggest Night live.


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5/21/24

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, the rapturously received new album from Billie Eilish, finds the 22-year-old star charting new musical and thematic territory. She did not, however, expect that territory to include an appearance on the Contents page of a certain disreputable trade rag.


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5/21/24

At a time when ticket prices are constantly on the rise, guarantees for artists headlining big, brand-name festivals such as Bottlerock, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza and others have more than doubled since the COVID years to $2m-plus.


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5/21/24

Hozier’s massive “Too Sweet” is his biggest song since the powerhouse “Take Me to Church” turned heads a decade ago, but the Irish troubadour has been making consistently compelling music the whole time.


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NEAR TRUTHS: HOWDY, PARTNER
Redrawing the Mason-Dixon Line (5/21a)
HITS LIST: HORSEPOWER
Let's look under the hood. (5/21a)
GRAMMYS SET 2/2/25 DATE FOR NEXT EDITION
It'll be here before you know it. (5/21a)
COULD BILLIE SCORE HER BIGGEST BOW YET?
Art and commerce intersect. (5/21a)
THE COUNT: UPPING THE HEADLINER ANTE
The latest action from the live sector (5/21a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!