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Oct 18, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Jim Asker |David Penn |Chris Eggertsen |Elizabeth Marshall
Gospel music icon Kirk Franklin earns his 14th No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart, as Father’s Day debuts atop the Oct. 21-dated list. In the tracking week dated Oct. 6-12, the set earned 9,000 equivalent album units, with 6,000 in album sales, according to Luminate. Franklin boasts the most No. 1s on the chart since he led for the first time in December 1993, Kirk Franklin and the Family.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Chris Eggertsen |David Penn |Elizabeth Dilts Marshall |Jim Asker
Billboard‘s data partner Luminate is improving the way it collects and reflects album sales data from independent music retailers. This week, Luminate revealed to all clients that in week 1 of 2024 (the reporting week that begins Dec. 29, 2023), data on physical sales (vinyl, CDs and cassettes) will reflect a direct representation of those reported from indie retailers in the United States and Canada.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Elizabeth Dilts Marshall |David Penn |Chris Eggertsen |Jim Asker
Round Hill Music Royalty Fund’s shareholders voted on Wednesday to sell the fund’s assets to U.S.-based music company Concord in a deal that values the company at $469 million.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Leila Cobo |Elias Leight |David Penn |Yael Penn
R Rosalía has a new manager. The Spanish superstar has signed with Jaime Levine of Seven Mantles for global management, sources tell Billboard. Rosalía was previously managed by Rebecca León of Lionfish Entertainment, with whom she parted ways this past February after a five-year relationship. Levine spent over a decade managing global superstar Shakira but recently transitioned from management into a senior advisor role for the Colombian star on ongoing projects, sources say.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Elias Leight |David Penn |Yael Penn |Marc Schneider
In August, Travis Scott fans on Reddit sprang into action. “$5 VINYL GO!” one user wrote in r/travisscott (234,000 members). The call-to-arms post came with a photo of a discount code that made buying the rapper’s double-LP Utopia — once$50 — about as costly as a gallon of milk in New York City. That price point proved irresistible: “This gon be my first vinyl why tf not,” one devotee responded. “Travis … gonna be selling 100k [in] his 4th week,” another added.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | David Penn |Yael Penn |Marc Schneider |Elias Leight
With summer over — not officially until Sept. 23, but for chart purposes, given that Billboard has announced the season-end 2023 Songs of the Summer chart, which measures performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day — a look at the season’s biggest hits reveals what the average summer smash sounded like this year. Here is an analysis of compositional characteristics of the survey’s top 10 titles at the season’s close.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Jim Asker |Melinda Newman |David Penn |Yael Penn
Anthony Oliver Music’s viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” arrives on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 2) at No. 45. In the tracking week ending Aug. 24, the song, released Aug. 11 (after the singer-songwriter had previewed it on TikTok), drew 2 million audience impressions, up 294%, according to Luminate. The single, which the Farmville, Va.-based artist (born Christopher Anthony Lunsford) solely wrote, marks his first chart entry. On the Aug.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Melinda Newman |David Penn |Yael Penn |Marc Schneider
Three weeks ago virtually no one knew who Oliver Anthony was. But in the 18 days since radiowv published a video of the Virginia singer/songwriter performing his everyman anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” to YouTube, he has become a household name.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | Glenn Peoples |Jim Asker |Melinda Newman |David Penn
Live music companies’ stocks fell an average of 4.4% on this week’s Billboard Global Music Index despite their optimism about sustained consumer spending and healthy revenue and ticket sales in the second half of the year. While Live Nation shares rose 0.5% to $84.79, the other promoters and ticketing companies in the index had down weeks: Madison Square Garden Entertainment fell 2.7%, CTS Eventim dropped 5.7% and Sphere Entertainment Co. plunged 9.6%.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
blbrd.cm | David Penn |Yael Penn |Marc Schneider |Colin Stutz
iii Skip to main content Thanks to only guitar and vocals, and lyrics that have commanded the attention of the both the right and left politically, Anthony Oliver Music’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 29). How do the song’s characteristics compare to those of other hits that have topped the Hot 100 this year? Here is a comparison of the nine songs that have notched their first weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2023, including “Richmond,”...
