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STRINGER TOUTS SONY MUSIC TO SHAREHOLDERS
Rob lays out the company strategy (5/26a)
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SUPERSTAR RELEASES
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MUSIC BIZ SPECIAL
It's Comic-Con for numbers geeks.
THE BIG CHEESE
Theories of evolution from 30,000 feet.
THE NEXT GIANT DEAL
A&R in overdrive.
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Harry Styles takes #1 on the HITS Top 50 with the year's biggest debut, Harry's House. The Columbia set opens with 515k as Styles crushes the one-week vinyl sales record with an expected 170-175k. Warner's Zach Bryan scores the year's top country bow with American Heartbreak.
Gateway to Summer 2022 playlists created by discerning bizzers like Jen Mallory and Andrea Von Foerster are likely to contain generous helpings of Harry, Elvis and Zach Bryan, with a sprinkling of Lauren Spencer-Smith. Now, please join us out back as we fire up the Weber Kettle and pair the Bose SoundLink.
City of Hope Spirit of Life honorees and Republic co-chiefs Monte and Avery Lipman, seen here with Co-Prez Jim Roppo, enjoyed a second big COH breakfast on 5/24, this time at NYC's Tavern on the Green. For more pictures, click below.
As we prep our Pride 2022 special, we revisit this piece on an extraordinary artist who creates soul-rooted music of resistance and liberation.
Harry Styles owns four of the Top 5 and seven of the Top 10 on this week's Overall Song Streams. With formidable assists from Bad Bunny and Future, the Columbia superstar powers Sony to a 69% marketshare.
Matt Pincus has opened a holding company, capitalized with $200m, to take long-term positions in record labels, music publishers, tech firms and enterprises dedicated to Web3 innovation. He's calling it MUSIC.
Now it’s Merck who's bringing sexy back, thanks to the Hipgnosis acquisition of the song catalog of Justin Timberlake.
Harry Styles has sold out all 42 dates on his Live Nation-presented Love on Tour 2022 run and pledged proceeds equaling $1m+ to the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund.
Even if you’ve been avoiding the news, word has probably reached you of the mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, on 5/24 that left at least 21 dead, 19 of them elementary-school children. And you’re probably feeling some combination of apoplexy, despair and exhaustion. Which is entirely understandable.
Lizzo takes over the cover of Spotify's TTH, while new entries from Stephen Sanchez, Ye & XXXTENTACION and Calvin Harris f/Dua Lipa & Young Thug crash the playlist.