WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: A CONVERSATION WITH THE RIAA’S MICHELE BALLANTYNE
She knows what "RIAA" stands for. (3/24a)
IFPI: MUSIC REVENUE HITS $26.2B
Streaming accounts for more than two-thirds of the income. (3/22a)
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HIP-HOP AT 50
The astonishing first half-century of a world-rocking genre.
K-POP'S NEW ARRIVAL
Who's next to grow the profile of Seoul music?
FESTIVAL SEASON
Are we about to see new attendance records set?
RAINMAKERS: GEORGE SANTOS
He signed Elvis.
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WHAT IT IS: Emerging from a small town in Alabama, 17-year-old rising songstress Jessie Murph boasts a velvet-and-sandpaper voice and a fiercely emotive delivery, enabling her to build an online audience of 10m+ fans. She recently teased “Always Been You” on TikTok, and since its official release, the track has become her biggest launch to date with more than 50m streams globally and 350k+ TikTok creations, leading to her first Hot 100-charting song. With multiple other tracks featuring her seductive vocals and candid lyrics, Murph is forging her brand and a building the foundation for a long-term career.
SINGLE: “Always Been You”
LIVE: Bonnaroo 2022
INTERNET: 7.2m TikTok followers, 4m+ monthly Spotify listeners, nearly 500k Instagram followers, 25m+ combined YouTube video views; 50m+ global streams on “Always Been You,” 33m+ U.S.; single consistently doing 25-30k in consumption weekly in the U.S.; 2.5m+ video views; hit Top 10 iTunes; Cover of Spotify’s Pop Rising; featured on Apple Music’s Today’s Hits, Amazon Music’s All Hits, more
PRESS: Stereogum (“2022’s Potential Pop Hits”), FLAUNT, Untitled, Ones to Watch, UPROXX, E!Online, Consequence, more
BOOKING: Cheryl Pagilerani & Jeffrey Hasson/UTA
MANAGEMENT: Adam Alpert & Julie Leff/Disruptor