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.
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.
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.
Republic’s Taylor Swift has notched the second-biggest album debut of all time with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT.
WCM has partnered with BandLab Technologies’ ReverbNation, bringing music-publishing services to the platform's songwriters, artists and digital creators.
With Stagecoach about to gallop into action, Team AEG hosted a desert BBQ and welcomed an array of influential industry people. So how the hell did we get in?
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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