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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
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WHAT IT IS: This NYC-born pop/soul singer, actor and dancer has been making waves since being signed to Pete Wentz’s DCD2 Records. His current single—a riveting song that features gnash, recently became RIAA-certified gold and boasts 200m+ global streams—is exploding at Top 40 radio with more than 150 Pop stations on board. MAX broke into the music scene, amassing more than 400k SEA for “Gibberish”—his first release on DCD2/Crush, which accrued 50m+ streams worldwide. A lifelong entertainer, music is not his only talent; he starred in the acclaimed Beach Boys biopic, Love & Mercy, as Van Dyke Parks and modeled for a Dolce & Gabbana campaign featuring Madonna. Currently, he’s out promoting the release of his album.
ALBUM: Hell’s Kitchen Angel
RELEASE DATE: 2016
SINGLE: “Lights Down Low”
TV: Performed on NBC’s Today
LIVE: North American tour starting in October
INTERNET: 1.5m+ YouTube subscribers, 408k Twitter followers, 923k+ Facebook likes; more than 200m global streams across all platforms; #56 on Shazam U.S. Top 200; at almost 3m streams per week globally (and growing); maintained the #1 spot on Hawaii’s Shazam chart for more than four weeks; added to many of Spotify’s biggest playlists (including Today’s Top Hits)
RADIO: #27 at Pop radio; airplay on SiriusXM Hits 1, Z100, KISS FM Chicago, Radio Disney, WNCI, WSMX, WNFN, WWHT; major feature on iHeartMedia’s nationally syndicated John Jay & Rich Show, among many others; named KIIS-FM’s Artist of the Week
PRESS: MTV (“Artists to Watch” Summer Class list), Teen Vogue (“His voice is perfect for the kind of piercing falsetto that is the mark of a true male pop star”), Interview; named Elvis Duran’s Artist of the Month
BOOKING: Ira Goldenring, Evan Hancock, Devin Landau/Paradigm
MANAGEMENT: Jonathan Daniel, Bob McLynn, Ian Planet/Crush Music