With nearly all the chart numbers in, Taylor Swift holds a substantial lead over Pop Smoke. NCT may be bound for a Top 5 bow. Thanks to some late reporting, meanwhile, Tom Petty’s Wildflowers & All the Rest grows into the Top 10. 

If trending topics in the music biz were presented as a batting order, Republic would lead off, followed by Arthur Fogel and Scooter Braun, with Lil Nas X batting cleanup, Adele as DH, Jamil Davis completing the meat of the lineup—and Andrew Gertler available to pinch-hit. Going…going…gone!

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Rainmakers 2020, our latest collection of stories about top industry players, is coming soon. Among the careers profiled are those of Michelle Jubelirer, Tom Poleman and Scott Borchetta.

Internet Money’s “Lemonade” has climbed four slots to #1 on our Song Revenue Chart. Not surprisingly, it’s also the most-streamed song of the week. But the biggest gain in earnings was made by Fleetwood Mac’s 43-year-old smash “Dreams,” which improbably skates into the Top 5 behind a 19% uptick.

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Phoebe Bridgers’ universally acclaimed sophomore album, Punisher (Dead Oceans), has thrust the 25-year-old Pasadena native into the thick of Grammy speculation. Here’s what she has to say about such a possibility, making music amid the pandemic and her place in SoCal’s rich musical legacy.

Nov. 3 isn’t the only big day on next month’s calendar; on 11/24 the Recording Academy will announce the nominees for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards during a 60-minute livestream on Grammy.com.

A Universal Music Group IPO will take place in 2022, Vivendi announced Tuesday. UMG continues to be the jewel in the crown of the French company, as revenue rose 5.1% for the first nine months of 2020 and was up 3% in the third quarter, to $2.2b.

On holidays, parades and Columbia's mad run at Pop.

In the first installment of our new series of conversations with leaders in the digital music space, we interrupt the work-from-home flow of Amazon Music’s Steve Boom, who wished he could ask Alexa to make us go away.

Primary Wave has inked a major new deal with pop legends The Four Seasons, the multi-decade hitmakers who inspired the Broadway monster Jersey Boys. The 10-year, multimillion-dollar strategic partnership brings the catalog of Frankie Valli and his group...