KAROL CORRALS RECORDS AS SHE WRAPS WORLD TOURLatin star KAROL G concluded her Live Nation-promoted MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO Tour earlier this week after four shows in Madrid, pushing the gross for the yearlong trek to $300m on 2m tickets sold.
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Live Nation and Music Forward are teaming up to further the musical dreams of five talented college students via their 2024 scholarship program.
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DEBUT ALBUMS RULE MERCURY PRIZE NOMINEESDebuts dominate the 12 albums nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize, with sets by Portishead's Beth Gibbons, The Last Dinner Party, Cat Burns (pictured) and BERWYN in the mix.
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Dick Asher, the longtime record executive who held top posts at CBS and PolyGram and who, at CBS, played a key role in curtailing payments to the informal alliance of independent record promoters known as the Network, died on 7/23 at age 92.
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Universal Music Group enjoyed an 8.7% uptick in revenue in Q2, with recorded-music revenue increasing 5.8%.
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Stray Kids will debut at #1 with ATE as seven new entries place in the Top 20 this week, including...
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Spotify racked up record profits in Q2. Its earnings report shows €3.81b ($4.13b)—a 20% YOY increase resulting in a net profit of €274m. The numbers were fueled by a 16% drop in operating costs stemming from layoffs and a "lower marketing spend."
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First-round voting for the 25th Latin Grammy Awards, 11/14 in Miami, is now open. The nominations will be announced on 9/17.
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The Summer Olympics in Paris have a theme song, courtesy of Ryan Tedder, Gwen Stefani and Anderson .Paak, who've teamed with Coca-Cola and Sony Music Publishing to create the anthemic "Hello World."
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Guitarist Jerry Miller, a founding member of the great San Francisco band Moby Grape, died on 7/21 at the age of 81.
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