HITS Daily Double : HitsList 04-11-2024

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4/18/24

Republic's Taylor Swift has announced that the first single from TTPD will be her collaboration with Post Malone, "Fortnight." The video drops tomorrow. Tay is also already breaking records as TTPD promo draws crowds in multiple cities.
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DICKEY BETTS,
1943-2024

4/18/24

Dickey Betts, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer who penned their biggest hit and was a driving force in the rise of Southern rock, died Thursday. He was 80.
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CONCORD OFFERS $1.4B FOR HIPGNOSIS

4/18/24

Concord has tendered a bid to purchase Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4b. It’s up to Hipgnosis investment adviser HSM to allow the sale to go through, Reuters has reported.
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TAY’S FORTHCOMING DEBUT: WE ARE TORTURED BY SPECULATION

4/18/24

As we’ve been endlessly reminding you, Taylor Swift’s new album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, is going to be big. Very big. Enormously big. Perhaps even frighteningly big. But how big?
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TOP 20: JUST TRUST US

4/18/24

Future & Metro Boomin’s WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU will land at #1 and is expected to record around 145k, giving Sony its fourth consecutive chart-topper and the week's top three albums.
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WARNER CHAPPELL ROPES IN RED CLAY STRAYS

4/18/24

On the heels of signing a label deal with RCA, buzzy roots group the Red Clay Strays has inked a global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music.
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FUTURE, METRO BOOMIN "DANCE" AFTER DARK IN NEW VID

4/18/24

Future and Metro Boomin turn the 93-year-old Los Angeles Theatre into their own personal after-dark playground in the video for "Drink N Dance," directed by Loris Russier.
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NEW & DEVELOPING ARTISTS: Q2

4/18/24

Our Q2 batch includes blazing-hot newcomers like Michael Marcagi, Artemas, Tucker Wetmore, Santa Fe Klan, Dasha and Ayra Starr, to name but a few. Which of the fresh talents profiled within will become pop’s next supernovae? We haven’t a clue, but feel free to place your bets.
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THE COUNT: COACHELLA, FROM THE COUCH

4/18/24

While watching hours of the Weekend 1 Coachella livestream from our sand-, sun- and wind-free couch, it became abundantly clear that there’s still no substitute for true talent and authentic showmanship.
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RICO WADE,
1972-2024

4/18/24

Rico Wade, founding member of The Dungeon Family and one-third of Atlanta production team Organized Noize, died 4/12. He was 52.
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PPL ADDS SPICE

4/18/24

U.K. music-licensing company PPL has signed Ice Spice for the collection of international neighboring-rights royalties. She joins a host of artists who've signed with the org recently, including Lewis Capaldi, Libianca and Central Cee.
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BIG PROMOTION FOR BIG LOUD'S WAUGH

4/18/24

With songs popping off from Morgan Wallen, HARDY and Dylan Gossett, Big Loud Records has promoted Tyler Waugh to VP of Radio Promotion effective 5/1.
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TAG, THEY'RE IT! SHAZAM'S BIGGEST MOVERS

4/18/24

Two songs released by Sony Music’s Ultra are not only getting feet moving, they’ve got thumbs a-poppin’ on Shazam.
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SEDAKA JOINS THE WAVE

4/18/24

Neil Sedaka is partnering with Primary Wave Music on his music publishing and recording rights for all his recordings. Terms of the partnership may also see Primary Wave participating in branding rights over Sedaka’s name and likeness.
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CARL SCOTT,
1938-2024

4/18/24

Carl Scott, a longtime Warner Bros. Records artist-relations executive, died Wednesday after a protracted illness. He was 85.
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iHEART PROGRAMS TAY TAKEOVERS, POETS PREMIERE

4/17/24

iHeartRadio has announced special Taylor Swift programming on CHR, AC and Hot AC formats to celebrate the Republic megastar’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT.
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LATIN GRAMMYS SET A DATE, ANNOUNCE RETURN TO MIAMI

4/17/24

At a press conference at Miami's Kaseya Center, Miami-Dade County Commission Vice Chairman Anthony Rodriguez, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud, GMCVB President and CEO David Whitaker and Univision Television President Ignacio Meyer announced that the 25th Latin Grammy Awards will return to Miami in 2024. Other important dates include...
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ON THE COVER:
AARON BAY-SCHUCK
AND TOM CORSON

4/17/24

The co-heads of a red-hot and fully resurgent Warner Records grace the cover of this issue, having also granted us—likely to their eternal regret—an in-depth interview.
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NEAR TRUTHS:
PRIMARY NUMBERS

4/17/24

Though the catalog-acquisition market has shown signs of slowing, Larry Mestel’s Primary Wave continues to grow the major business he's steadfastly built over the course of nearly two decades while...
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POETS CORNER: TAY, SPOTIFY TEAM UP FOR L.A. HAPPENING

4/17/24

The Republic megastar and the sector-leading DSP have joined forces for THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT library installation, today (4/17) and Thursday (4/18) at The Grove in L.A. Sonnet-savoring Swifties will be encouraged to explore an open-air poetry collection curated to represent themes from Tay’s impending album.
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