1989 (Taylor’s Version) will return to #1 for a 66th week as Taylor Swift closes in on Elvis Presley as the artist with the second-most cumulative weeks on top. Republic could become the first label group to hold the entire Top 5, though Reprise’s Michael Bublé...

In which I.B. spills the pop tea (and the Tennessee whiskey), dishes the nominations and the telecast, offers a PRO tip and more.

Taylor Swift received more than 26.1b streams on Spotify worldwide this year, which makes her the DSP’s top global artist of 2023. Bad Bunny was right behind her. Morgan Wallen posted some impressive stats in the U.S.

As head of music industry & culture collaborations at Amazon Music, Phylicia Fant has played an instrumental role in expanding not only the tech giant’s standing in the music world but also its leadership with respect to culture and representation. Her approach to this is informed by...

This year’s Grammy nominations were an improvement over recent years—particularly in their foregrounding of the women who’ve been running the table in the pop world. That said...

It must be said that the Recording Academy got a lot of things right with the latest crop of nominations—even if some of its choices have us scratching our heads.

Def Jam Recordings has named Riggs Morales EVP of A&R, reporting to the company’s chairman and CEO, Tunji Balogun. 

As a partner in merchant bank the Raine Group, Fred Davis splits his time between the New York and London locations—when he isn’t circling the globe advising and investing in such music-business entities as SoundCloud, Quality Control, Downtown and Firebird.