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.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT debuted at #1 around the world, broke the record for highest 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...
The contentious Hipgnosis Songs Fund saga moved closer to a mutually satisfying resolution after Blackstone upped its bid to $1.57b and the HSF board agreed to the acquisition.
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.
Billie Eilish is packing her bags for a massive world tour in support of her upcoming album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
With all 31 tracks debuting in the Top 50 of our Streaming Songs chart—six of them logging 40m+ streams—Taylor Swift's THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT has set a new record for most streams in a week.
Surely against his better judgment, Clive Davis allowed HITS into his home for a genial chat on a rainy spring morning in New York, just hours before his 92nd birthday.
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.
PARTYNEXTDOOR will have the top debut on next week's chart. Taylor Swift will no doubt hold at #1.
SONG STREAMS: SWIFT SETS STREAMING RECORD
Another triumph for the master marketer (4/29a)
CLIVE CHATS CLIVE, CARNEGIE HALL TRIBUTE AND MORE
The ageless one is feted. (4/29a)
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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!
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