Top 5 tease

WORDS & PICTURES: Back in December, we sat down with the heads of 2013’s top five labels by frontline marketshare. Six months later, we did it again, asking each about what has transpired since our last conversation. But for this update, we did something we’d never done before: We put all of our subjects on the cover of our latest issue—separately. That’s right, we made five covers, making this special issue that much more special. Here’s the first, complementing an in-depth interview with Republic’s Lipman brothers. We’ll continue running the Q&As and covers throughout the week. All are must-reads. (6/23a)