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: Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Stacey Ryan is a true pop anomaly. A trained jazz pianist who also plays guitar, bass, ukulele and trumpet, the 21-year-old matches her musicality with a sharp instinct for crafting emotionally potent pop tracks—evident with her debut single, “Don’t Text Me When You’re Drunk.” What started as a TikTok collaboration earlier this year with Zai1k, the track translated into over a quarter million pre-saves and hundreds of millions of views in the first few weeks of release. Newly signed to Island, the Montreal native is poised to deliver a body of work showcasing the full extent of songwriting prowess and musical imagination.
ALBUM: TBA
RELEASE DATE: 8/19
SINGLE: “Fall in Love”
LIVE: Recently supported Lawrence this Spring; performing Montreal Jazz Festival this summer; forthcoming EP release headline shows late summer
INTERNET: "Don't Text Me When You're Drunk" challenge reached 1/3rd of TikTok's entire audience in six weeks (300m+ people); nearly 500m monthly Spotify listeners; added to Spotify’s New Pop Picks, Next Gen Singer-Songwriters, more; TikTok duet with Jimmy Fallon
PRESS: Rolling Stone India, iHeart.com, more
BOOKING: James Wright, Jbeau Lewis, Joe Wohlfeld, Kyle Levinson, Sophie Roberts/UTA
PUBLISHING: Self Published
MANAGEMENT: Nils Gums/The Complex Group