Def Jam megastar Kanye West took to Twitter to reveal that his album is seven songs. It also appears that the set is expected to drop on 6/1. And it looks like a second album, apparently a collaboration Kid Cudi, will be released under the name Kids See Ghost the very next week (6/8).

Perhaps we misheard over the din at Citizen, but we could’ve sworn someone said that Jason Owen’s Sandbox Entertainment will step in as new management of Nashville breakout Kelsea Ballerini.

Sir Lucian Grainge’s UMG, already in a commanding marketshare position, is due to drop sets from J. Cole, Kanye, Post Malone and Drake—which, in combination with...

"It's not just my turn," said City of Hope Spirit of Life honoree Jon Platt at Wednesday's kickoff breakfast at the Viceroy L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. "It's my culture's turn to do our part."

This week’s Top 20 features a lot of moving parts. 

Well aware that you can’t autograph an MP3, Post Malone has unlocked the digital pre-order for his second full-length album beerbongs & bentleys (Republic) by posting a picture of something he could put his John Hancock on—a CD.

MARKETSHARE IN
THE U.K., Q1 2018

The Q1 2018 marketshare stats for U.K. labels are in. Universal Music and the indie sector are up; Sony and Warner are down.

Let’s throw it around the horn and look at Q1 2018...

MIDiA Research got out their abacus, sharpened their No. 2 pencils and did the math on the global recorded music business. They discovered that the biz rose 8.5%—$1.4b—in 2017 on revenues of $17.4b.

Between them, Drake and Cardi B took all the big bucks and left the rest of the field scrambling for the Benjamins they dropped on the way to the bank.

A firestorm erupted last week at Germany's Echo Awards after rap collaborators Kollegah and Farid Bang won album of the year for Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend (“Young, Brutal, Good-looking”), which contains the line, “My body’s more defined than that of Auschwitz inmates.”