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ZACH BRYAN’S The Great American Bar Scene soars to No. 1 on multiple Billboard charts dated July 20 following the set’s first full tracking week, including the nearly 9-month-old Top Streaming Albums list, where it vaults to the pole position from No. 18. The set arrived July 4, the final day of the tracking week reflected on the July 13-dated charts, and reached multiple rankings from that first day of activity. It now leads Top Streaming Albums with 127,500 streaming-equivalent album units earned in the United States July 5-11, according to Luminate. That SEA sum equates to 163.9 million official on-demand streams generated by the album’s 19 tracks. The Great American Bar Scene also commands Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Americana/Folk Albums.…

BAD BUNNY’S MOST WANTED TOUR secures a third consecutive No. 1 on Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart in May. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, he earned $60.4 million and sold 212,000 tickets across 14 concerts during May, before the trek ultimately wrapped June 9. The Puerto Rican superstar joins Beyoncé as the only other act to string together a three-peat atop the list. In total, it’s Bad Bunny’s seventh month leading the chart, tying Elton John for the record since it launched in 2019. Additionally, Latin artists hold the leading two spots on Top Tours for a second month in a row. Karol G followed Bad Bunny at No. 2 in April, and Aventura is the runner-up for May, narrowly ranking ahead of Luke Combs by $30,000,…

FOR THE FIRST HALF of 2024, the stock market was a microcosm of the shifts in the music industry’s balance of power. Streaming stocks soared as investors rewarded companies that grew their paid-subscriber bases; radio stocks plummeted as companies struggled through a soft advertising market. Spotify was the best-performing stock in the 20-company Billboard Global Music Index (BGMI) for the measurement period, Jan. 2-June 28, 2024. Shares of the Swedish company, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange, jumped 67.4% to $314.45 on June 28 and reached as high as $331.08 on June 5 — its highest mark since February 2021, the month that the shares closed at their all-time high of $387.44. Subscribers grew to 239 million at the end of March, up 14% from the prior-year…

DARUMAS What do you get when an Argentine bassist, a Cuban singer-guitarist and a Haitian vocalist unite? DARUMAS — an all-women U.S.-based trio comprising Aldana Aguirre, Ceci León and Vedala Vilmond — defies every stereotype of what Latin girl groups sound like. The three expert musicians play a tight mix of old-school funk, R&B and Motown, with Spanish lyrics and plenty of attitude. Named for the traditional Japanese daruma doll, DARUMAS are not cutting corners when it comes to honing their sound, resulting in an act that puts musicianship at the forefront. IVÁN CORNEJO Though Cornejo and Xavi espouse a new Mexican sound, Cornejo uses traditional Mexican instrumentation as his foundation and also leans into electric guitar for some rock’n’roll angst. The result is a sound that’s weary —…

AHT, AHT, YOU NOT finna embarrass me!” Latto jokingly warns her pet shih-poo, Coca. The fluffy little pup — the first of several in her brood, soon, if Latto has her way — is deciding whether to use a grassy area outside a North Hollywood rehearsal studio as the bathroom. Fresh off a delayed flight and clad in a cheetah-print bonnet, matching maroon sweatsuit set and her trademark cheetah-print thong, Latto is living up to her latest alter ego’s name: Big Mama has arrived. After a two-hour-long, energy-boosting IV drip treatment and a few vitamin C shots directly in her posterior (“It’s OK because I got a lot of cushion back there!”), the Atlanta rap superstar will head straight into hours of rehearsal for her upcoming performances at BET…

What made you decide to pursue music as a career? When I was in school and didn’t like doing work, I was like, “I’m going to be an artist.” From when I was 15, that was the only thing on my mind: Make it happen, no matter what. My mom was always very supportive about it — she understands what it’s like to be a creative because she’s a very creative person herself. I’d try my best at anything that I put my mind to, [and] as long as I was doing that, [she made] sure to have structure in my life. That was always an important thing for her. Tell me about the inspiration behind “Kehlani.” I was watching an interview [with Kehlani on the] Impaulsive With Logan…

HALFWAY THROUGH 2024, it’s once again Taylor Swift’s world and we’re all just living in it. The Tortured Poets Department is the biggest release of 2024 so far by a huge margin, having spent nine of the 13 weeks of the second quarter atop the Billboard 200. That helped her label, Republic Records, best the entire Warner Music Group (WMG) in current market share for the year through June 27 — with 15.72% — by far the best among individual labels. Swift is not the only factor, however. Republic’s market share also includes labels Mercury Records, Big Loud Records and Island Records, and each was on fire in the first two quarters. Mercury’s Post Malone collaborated with Swift, Beyoncé, Blake Shelton and Big Loud’s Morgan Wallen on big singles;…

GIVEN THE multitude of distribution, streaming, promotion and marketing options and expectations, the business of becoming an established artist has turned into a seriously heavy lift for music acts and their managers. It’s one reason that Mick Management partner Jonathan Eshak says, “We don’t like to refer to ourselves as a management company anymore. We’re a music company. What we do more than anything else is brand development, artist development — world-building ... We’re not just trying to keep the train on the tracks.” Eshak and his partner, Michael McDonald, the company’s founder, got into management after immersing themselves in other sectors of the business. McDonald served as Dave Matthews Band’s tour manager before co-founding ATO Records in 2000 with Matthews; his manager, Red Light founder Coran Capshaw; and…

JOHN BRANCA stopped collecting his clients’ RIAA gold and platinum record awards decades ago. Those he has that are not in storage or at his office — approximately 20 — are displayed, along with other music memorabilia, in four rooms of his Italian villa-style home in affluent Beverly Park, a gated community in the Los Angeles hills. The records are etched with some of the most recognizable names and album titles in pop and rock history: the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Santana’s Supernatural, The Best of The Doors and others from Elton John, Nirvana, Backstreet Boys, Usher, Alanis Morissette, Enrique Iglesias and Michael Jackson. A partner and the head of the music department at L.A. entertainment law firm Ziffren Brittenham, Branca has represented 30 Rock &…

“NOW I SWEAR THIS GREEN IS JUST everywhere,” Charli xcx jokes. The British pop star is sitting in a crisp leather seat within a black Mercedes-Benz van, a few minutes into the long journey across London from her home to Wembley Arena. Tonight, Charli will be making a surprise appearance at her friend, collaborator and soon-to-be tourmate Troye Sivan’s late-June concert there — but right now, she’s focused on the neon green hue of both the tissue box across the seat from her and my laptop case. Outside, I spot a car of the same color passing by, then a man in a neon green construction vest. Has this color always been so prominent, or are we only just now noticing it? Everything about Charli’s sixth studio album, brat,…

ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’s May 18 season finale, Sabrina Carpenter appeared in a sketch as Daphne from Scooby-Doo, watching in horror as Jake Gyllenhaal’s Fred tore the face off James Austin Johnson’s villain. (The gag: Apple Face ID — Never Get Ripped Off Again!) The sketch was a prelude to Carpenter’s two theatrical performances as musical guest. First, she sang her then-new single, “Espresso,” which had debuted the month prior before her main-stage Coachella set and had already soared into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200; then a medley of her first two Pop Airplay top 10 singles, “Feather” (No. 1) and “Nonsense” (No. 10), both released in the preceding year-and-a-half. Two days later, Justin Eshak and Imran Majid — the co-CEOs of her…

THE PATH TO 50 has not always been easy for Journey, whose members have been celebrating the milestone on the road, including a summer stadium tour with Def Leppard. Over the decades, there has been rancor amid the music, lineup changes and lawsuits, periods of uncertainty and open-ended hiatus. And yet the wheel — in the sky and elsewhere — keeps on turning for the group whose first show, at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, ushered in 1974. Legacy has a lot to do with it, of course. Journey’s catalog features a dozen platinum-or-better sellers, including two albums — 1981’s Escape and 1988’s Greatest Hits — that are certified diamond by the RIAA for sales (including downloads and streams) exceeding 10 million units. The band has notched 18 top 40…