Taylor and her DEPARTMENT are off the launchpad and generating out-of-this-world numbers. Her supernova is emblematic of a remarkable year in the music biz, as Hozier rockets to #1, country stars—and Nickelback—shine in the desert night, Myke Towers prepares to add his name to the Latin-music galaxy and Roppo is manning mission control.

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT debuted at #1 around the world, broke the record for most first-week U.S. streams of any album in history and earned the biggest U.S. sales week of Taylor Swift’s career, surpassing 1989 (Taylor’s Version). It also broke the record...

Whether you're scribbling blank verse in your garret in honor of Taylor's massive chart bow, squeezing into your cowboy boots as Stagecoach begins or simply collapsing on the couch while you wait for the refreshments to kick in, we salute you—and we bring you this minimally taxing anthology of hot music-biz photos.

Former Electromode executives Nick Ghelakis and Nicole Thomas have been named co-Country Managers of Virgin Music Group, South Africa.

Todd Hensley hails from small-town Texas. He's spent lots and lots of time in Nashville. He knows tons of people in the country-music and Americana worlds. So you'd think he'd be ideally situated to sail into Stagecoach and look right at home—cool, even! Yet somehow, inexplicably, Todd showed up with just one shirt... that shirt.