THE FEELS
OF HITS LIST
Hip-hop and R&B aren’t just genres, they’re the overlapping galaxies at the center of the modern-day music business, as our latest gathering of trending topics emphatically indicates. Topping HITS List is the wholly original activist rapper Logic, an altogether new breed of pop star. Then there’s A&R starmaker Tunji Balogun, Post Malone handler Dre London, the tag team of Max Lousada and Tom Corson, who won the Lil Pump sweepstakes, and Apple Music, whose growing subscriber base is dominated by urban-skewing fans.
Among the other themes referenced this week are the upcoming ACM Awards, country’s biggest night; The Six and John Poppo, who represent the issues pulling on the embattled Recording Academy; the prime-time battle of the music-competition shows; and Noisemakers, our inaugural gathering of behind-the-scenes industry movers and shakers.
