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5/18/24

Darkroom/Interscope's Billie Eilish will have the top debut with HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.


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5/17/24

It's a rare thing indeed to find several of the most influential rock artists who ever lived in a single photo, so the air-guitarist geek who lives inside our feverish brains is pretty excited right now. That's right, this photo finds The Black Crowes' Robinson brothers with none other than Steven Tyler and Jimmy Page. The occasion was the Crowes' rhapsodically received show at London's Hammersmith Apollo, the encore of which saw…


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5/17/24

Taylor Swift’s streak at #1 on the HITS Top 50 has stretched to a fourth week. Gunna lands the top debut, and Morgan Wallen has two albums in the Top 5.


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5/17/24

We’ve exhausted every possible coffee and caffeine pun, so we’ll just state the fact: Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is the U.K.’s #1 pop song for a third week. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT by Taylor Swift is the #1 album.


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dick van dyke
5/17/24

We're hitting you hard and soft with this week's aggregation of industry photos featuring the biz peeps you love to peep. You'll find a vintage Billie (with Justin and Janick), a genre-spanning ACMs moment, a Virgin family portrait, a couple of rock legends, Guy and Carianne and much more.


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5/17/24

Sony Music Publishing Chairman/CEO Jon Platt has weighed in on Spotify's decision to reclassify its subscription product as a bundle, allowing it to pay a reduced mechanical royalty rate.


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5/17/24

The first video from Billie Eilish's acclaimed new set is here, a sexed-up electro jam in which she sings, "I could eat that girl for lunch."


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5/17/24

Chatter abounds about the news that Taylor Swift is doing a new D2C push expressly intended, it seems, to...


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5/17/24

The music biz has jammed the pedal to the metal with the arrival of Billie’s latest long player, a supercharged Post/Morgan collab, a surprise 180 from Childish and a high-octane ACM Awards. On the other hand, newly hired HITS loser Jonathan Cohen finds himself stuck in reverse.

Go to HITS List—and step on it.

Rob Tannenbaum
5/17/24

Rob Tannenbaum has joined the HITS editorial staff as senior editor, grievously tarnishing a once-sterling reputation.


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HITS LIST: HORSEPOWER
VRRMMMM (5/17a)
NEAR TRUTHS: VARIANTS
Celebrity death match underway on album chart (5/17a)
OH, TANNENBAUM! ANOTHER GREAT CAREER HITS THE SKIDS
Another talented journalist trapped in the career cul de sac (5/17a)
THE COUNT: LIVE NATION TAPS TYLER, POST, BLINK FOR TOP U.S. FESTS
Cornering the market on surefire headliners (5/17a)
STAPLETON, WILSON BIG WINNERS AT THE ACMs
A genre mash-up at the home of the Cowboys (5/17a)
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!