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4/18/24

The disparity between what’s getting radio airplay and what’s at the top of the streaming charts has created a real disconnect for the biz. The diagnoses vary...


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Hipgnosis
4/18/24

Concord has tendered a bid to purchase Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4b. It’s up to Hipgnosis investment adviser HSM to allow the sale to go through, Reuters has reported.


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4/18/24

As we’ve been endlessly reminding you, Taylor Swift’s new album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, is going to be big. Very big. Enormously big. Perhaps even frighteningly big. But how big?


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4/18/24

Future & Metro Boomin’s WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU will land at #1 and is expected to record around 145k, giving Sony its fourth consecutive chart-topper and the week's top three albums.


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RedClayStrays
4/18/24

On the heels of signing a label deal with RCA, buzzy roots group the Red Clay Strays has inked a global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music.


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4/18/24

Future and Metro Boomin turn the 93-year-old Los Angeles Theatre into their own personal after-dark playground in the video for "Drink N Dance," directed by Loris Russier.


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4/18/24

While watching hours of the Weekend 1 Coachella livestream from our sand-, sun- and wind-free couch, it became abundantly clear that there’s still no substitute for true talent and authentic showmanship.


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4/18/24

Rico Wade, founding member of The Dungeon Family and one-third of Atlanta production team Organized Noize, died 4/12. He was 52.


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ice spice
4/18/24

U.K. music-licensing company PPL has signed Ice Spice for the collection of international neighboring-rights royalties. She joins a host of artists who've signed with the org recently, including Lewis Capaldi, Libianca and Central Cee.


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Jaxomy
4/18/24

Two songs released by Sony Music’s Ultra are not only getting feet moving, they’ve got thumbs a-poppin’ on Shazam.


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TOP 20: JUST TRUST US
A second sonic Boom (4/18a)
ON THE COVER:
AARON BAY-SCHUCK
AND TOM CORSON
Bunny's hoppin' again. (4/17a)
NEAR TRUTHS:
PRIMARY NUMBERS
Hats off to Larry (4/17a)
TAY’S FORTHCOMING DEBUT: WE ARE TORTURED BY SPECULATION
So many questions (4/18a)
THE COUNT: COACHELLA, FROM THE COUCH
The coziest way to experience the fest (4/18a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!