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2 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Kyle Denis |Angel Diaz |Angel Díaz |Jason Lipshutz |Andrew Unterberger
After reclaiming it for a third total week, Playboi Carti’s Music vacates the top spot of the Billboard 200 albums chart this week. But Carti likely won’t be too mad about the album replacing his at No. 1: More Chaos, the latest LP from his Opium imprint signee Ken Carson. The rising rapper’s 21-track new set becomes his first album to top the Billboard 200, following predecessor A Great Chaos peaking at No. 11 in 2023.
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1 week ago | 
billboard.com | Kristin Robinson |Tom Roland |Melinda Newman |Mackenzie Cummings-Grady
EMPIRE Publishing has hired !llmind as a senior vp of A&R. As part of his duties, the tech entrepreneur and Grammy-winning producer, who has worked with Drake, The Carters, Eminem, Ye, Nicki Minaj, Nathy Peluso, Romeo Santo and more, will screen songs and provide feedback, based on his production expertise. !llmind will also act as a bridge between EMPIRE’s publishing and label arms.
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1 week ago | 
billboard.com | Tom Roland |Melinda Newman |Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Chris Eggertsen
Fiddler Deanie Richardson was about to go onstage for a sound check at the Grand Ole Opry in 2023 when she got word that her father had died. He had abused Richardson verbally, physically and — during her teens — sexually. She had longed for his passing for years, but now that the moment had come, she experienced a complicated mix of emotions. She was sad to have never had the kind of supportive dad that she deserved. But she simultaneously sensed something new and hopeful.
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1 week ago | 
billboard.com | Melinda Newman |Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Chris Eggertsen |Jessica Nicholson
Los Angeles-based Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) Records has set down roots in Nashville with the relaunch of the iconic Lost Highway imprint. Former Thirty Tigers executive Robert Knotts and Universal Music Group Nashville (UMGN) executive Jake Gear will serve as co-heads and executive vps of the resurrected label. “Lost Highway carved out a special place in the remarkable musical legacy of Nashville.
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1 week ago | 
billboard.com | Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Chris Eggertsen |Jessica Nicholson |Paul Grein
Rapper Tay-K has been found guilty of murdering a photographer in 2017, but was acquitted of capital murder. On Monday (April 14), a jury found the rapper, real name Taymor Mclntyre, guilty of robbing and killing photographer Mark Anthony Saldivar, according to News 4 San Antonio.
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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Mackenzie Cummings-Grady
Playboi Carti officially released off the music video to "Evil J0rdan" on his YouTube channel.
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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Ed Christman |Chris Eggertsen |Marc Schneider |Mackenzie Cummings-Grady
For decades, rock music dominated the sales charts, with bands like the Beatles, AC/DC, the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin among some of the top-selling acts in recorded music history. But while rock music remains the second-biggest genre in the U.S., it lags far behind market leader R&B/hip-hop and third-placed pop when it comes to streaming. For the prior year ended Jan.
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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Marc Schneider |Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Kristin Robinson |Isabela Raygoza
Free Our Art, a new non-profit dedicated to safeguarding First Amendment creative freedoms for artists, has officially launched with widespread support from major arts advocacy groups and creative industry leaders. The nonprofit focuses on the growing trend of creative works being used as confessions in court, advocating for state and federal legislation to limit this practice, supporting legal aid for defendants and funding research.
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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Kristin Robinson |Isabela Raygoza |Glenn Peoples
Key Glock Kivenchy Memphis rapper Key Glock is officially joining Republic Records. As he continues to tease his upcoming album, Glockavelli, Republic announced exclusively with Billboard that Glock will be joining their roster. In addition to this new partnership, he’ll also remain under the late Young Dolph’s label, Paper Route Empire (PRE).
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Mackenzie Cummings-Grady |Marc Schneider |Chris Eggertsen |Glenn Peoples
There’s no denying West Coast rapper AZ Chike had a remarkable 2024. After appearing on two of rap’s biggest releases with ScHoolboy Q’s “Movie” and Kendrick Lamar’s Hot 100 top 15 hit “peekaboo,” Chike announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that he’d be inking a deal with Warner Records, a mere two weeks after K. Dot rapped his bars on the Super Bowl stage. “Everything was just aligned bro. Even right now, it’s so aligned [that] it’s kinda scary,” Chike tells Billboard.
