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Waylon Jennings notches his first top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart with the debut of the from-the-vaults collection Songbird. The set flies in at No. No. 6 on Top Album Sales (dated Oct. 18), while also entering the top 10 on four more charts: Top Current Album Sales (No. 6), Indie Store Album […]
Lowell is embarking on a new creative partnership with Universal Music Canada. The Canadian songwriter and producer, born Elizabeth Lowell Boland, has struck up a strategic collaboration with the major label, fusing her creative knowledge and hitmaking prowess with UMC’s A&R team. Related Meet Nathan Ferraro, One of the Canadian Songwriters Credited on Beyoncé’s ‘Texas […]
Slipknot says a cyber-squatter has been using the URL slipknot.com to advertise counterfeit merchandise for more than two decades — and the heavy metal band is now waging a legal battle in pursuit of the domain name. A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday (Oct. 15) alleges that an anonymous web operator has held the domain […]
Sebastian Zar, an attorney whose clients included Post Malone, died suddenly on Sunday (Oct. 12). He was 36. The New York-based Zar worked for Theo Sedlmayr & Associates. “We’re received an outpouring of messages from people in our industry sharing their thoughts about Sebastian,” Sedlmayr told Billboard. I like to believe that’s because he was […]
Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl (via Republic/Universal) isn’t moving from the spotlight on the ARIA Charts. After snagging the entire top 12 of the national singles chart last week, Taylor dominates once again with eight of the top 10, led by The Fate Of Ophelia which locks up the top spot for a […]
All Time Low notch up double digits with Everyone’s Talking!, which arrives today, Oct. 17, through the alternative rock veterans’ own label Basement Noise Records. Everyone’s Talking! is the 10th full-length studio LP from the Maryland quartet, comprising Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Rian Dawson and Zack Merrick, and features the previously-released “Sugar,” a collaboration with […]
Kevin Parker winds back the clock, tunes up the dancefloor and reminds us to get our arms out wide (or up high) on Deadbeat, Tame Impala’s fifth and latest full-length studio album. Dropping at midnight, Oct. 17, Deadbeat is the production maestro’s first Tame Impala album in five years, and the first through the Sony […]
Ty Dolla $ign dropped his fourth studio album Tycoon on Friday (Oct. 17) via Atlantic Records. “A tycoon is a boss. It came from a Japanese word ‘tycoon,’ which means ‘great lord.’ It’s the same thing — great boss, the best at your craft. The top of your game, right?” he told Billboard in a […]
Underpinning The Last Dinner Party’s polished, Rococo-era aesthetic is an epic striving for greatness. When the London-formed five-piece crashed into the indie consciousness two years ago, they arrived seemingly fully-formed, with a fairytale arc to their origin story. Major record labels had clamoured over them after YouTube footage of a set at the tiny Windmill […]
Ninajirachi‘s breakthrough year continues with a red-hot chance to win the coveted Australian Music Prize. The Australian singer and songwriter’s debut full length album I Love My Computer (via NLV Records) is one of nine titles shortlisted for the 2025 AMP, awarded to the outstanding Australian album of original work from the previous year, as […]
