Drake’s Scorpion (YMCMB/Republic) is #1 on the HITS Top 50 Chart for a third consecutive week. Down a mere 18%, it pulls in another 266k. Meanwhile, the highest-charting debut—and the only one to make the Top 20—belongs to Atlantic’s Wiz Khalifa.

Jacqueline Saturn discusses heading both Caroline Distribution and Harvest Records, breaking the ceiling and working with the likes of Steve Barnett, Michelle Jubelirer, Ethiopia Habtemariam and Elliot Grainge.

Our inside man on the stratospheric rise of music valuation, co-starring Sir Lucian, Len Blavatnik, Irving, Mubadala, Tencent and more.

The story of the first six months of 2018 is the take-no-prisoners offensive of Sir Lucian Grainge’s UMG, which has ridden the streaming wave aggressively and with impressive precision, giving new meaning to the term “dominance.”

Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys was on top at the midpoint of the year, but labelmate Drake, whose new Scorpion had dropped the previous week, was breathing down his neck.

One label and two artists racked up four of the Top 5 most-streamed songs of the last six months. Care to take a wild guess as to who hogged all the prime real estate?

Now that David Massey has been officially announced as the head of the relaunched Arista, with a JV pub and management deal also part of Rob Stringer’s Sony, the biz is buzzing over...

AT THE HALF:
U.K. MARKETSHARE

How are the British major labels faring marketshare-wise at 2018's halfway point? Year-on-year, Universal is up, and Sony and Warner are down, while the independent sector—including “fourth major” BMG—is up by 2.6%.

Now that the Recording Academy has expanded the number of nominees in the “Big Four” categories from five to eight, how will the move affect the nominations that will be announced in December?

Ariana Grande, Weezer channeling Toto, ABBA and Arnold Schoenberg, creator of the 12 Tone method of musical composition, provide the eclectic soundtrack for this week’s star-studded episode of Let’s Make a Deal: Music Biz Edition. Without further ado, let's meet the contestants...

Our forthcoming special issue, History of the Music Biz, Vol. 3: The Rainmakers, takes the series into new territory: This time out we profile the top contemporary players who are making history right now.