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28 Aug 2023

Selena Gomez Reveals She Had to Have Surgery After Breaking Her Hand

Selena Gomez is excited that her new single, “Single Soon,” is poised to make an impressive debut on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. But in response to a fan post on Sunday hyping the predicted top 20 debut, Gomez revealed that she’s psyched, but currently has bigger fish to fry.

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“Broke my hand and had surgery,” Gomez revealed in a response to the post without giving any additional details about the extent or date of the injury. “I don’t care about selling anything. I’m just happy to make music with my friends.” At press time a spokesperson for Gomez had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional details on the injury.

Gomez has been working on her anticipated third studio album and while there is still no update on a release date or title, the Only Murders in the Building star dropped her late summer jam “Single Soon” on Friday, telling her faithful, “Since I’m not quite done with SG3, I wanted to put out a fun little song I wrote a while back that’s perfect for the end of summer.”

Gomez’s most recent full-length album was 2020’s Rare, which was followed up in 2021 with the all-Spanish EP Revalación. After some fans speculated that the new song was possibly aimed at Sel’s ex, The Weeknd (who now goes by his full name, Abel Tesfaye) — who she dated from January to October 2017 — the singer laid the rumors to rest in a comment on Hollywood Life’s Instagram over the weekend, writing, “couldn’t be more false.”

The speculation came after Gomez weighed in on another Weeknd-adjacent story last week, calling an AI reimagining of Abel’s 2016 single “Starboy” featuring her vocals and face on the cover “scary.”

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28 Aug 2023

Selena Gomez Responds to Fan Speculation That ‘Single Soon’ Is About The Weeknd

When Selena Gomez sings about the weekend on her new song “Single Soon,” she’s referring to Friday, Saturday and Sunday — not 33-year-old Canadian superstar The Weeknd.

After coming across speculation that the “Blinding Lights” singer inspired her new single — which finds Gomez happily boasting about her plans to break up with a boyfriend and go partying on her own — the 31-year-old pop star promptly shut it down.

“Couldn’t be more false,” she responded to a HollywoodLife Instagram post about the fan speculation.

Gomez and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) did date for about 10 months, striking up a romance in 2017 before ending it that same year. But even though they’ve been broken up for almost six years, some listeners thought that certain lyrics in “Single Soon” were disguised nods to the Idol star. For instance, “I don’t wanna see a tear” seems to echo Tesfaye’s 2020 smash “Save Your Tears,” which was also rumored to be about Gomez.

She also sings on the track, “And the weekend’s almost here,” which some fans may have thought was a reference to Tesfaye’s stage name.

Regardless of who the song’s about, people have been loving Gomez’s return to music via “Single Soon,” which she released Aug. 25 along with a carefree music video. “Y’all have been asking for new music for a while,” she wrote of the track on Instagram a week prior to its release. “Since I’m not quite done with SG3, I wanted to put out a fun little song I wrote a while back that’s perfect for the end of summer.”

One of those fans is none other than Taylor Swift, Gomez’s fellow pop star and longtime BFF. “WHEN UR BESTIE IS THE BESTEST,” Swift wrote on her Instagram Story, sharing a clip from the “Single Soon” music video. “WILL BE DANCING TO THIS FOREVER METHINKS.”

28 Aug 2023

WME Acquires True Grit Talent Agency, Expands Presence in Austin

WME has acquired Austin, Texas-based True Grit Talent Agency, signing its entire roster including Cody Jinks, Charles Wesley Godwin, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s, Ward Davis, Dexter and The Moonrocks, Bart Crow and Mitchell Ferguson.

True Grit’s team, including agents Mike Krug, Carrie Creasey and Shelby Vanek, have also joined WME and will continue to work out of Austin.

“We are very excited that what we do caught the eye of a company like WME,” Krug said in a statement. “We are proud of all we have built here in Austin and know that joining WME will create exponentially more opportunities for our clients.”

“We’ve long admired the business and roster that True Grit has developed, and we are excited to bring their artists and the team into the WME family and expand WME’s footprint in Austin,” Jay Williams, WME Partner and Nashville office co-head, added in a statement.

The move deepens WME’s presence in Texas, following its acquisition of Red 11 Music earlier this year.

Jinks, known for songs including “Loud and Heavy” and “Hippies and Cowboys,” has been opening shows on Eric Church’s Outsiders Revival Tour. Jinks will headline Red Rocks Amphitheater this fall, and will be among the openers on Luke Combs’ Growing Up and Getting Old Tour next year. Meanwhile, Big Loud artist Godwin is gearing up for the release of his album Family Ties next month, and is opening shows on Zach Bryan‘s Burn, Burn, Burn Tour; Godwin also recently inked a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music.

WME represented all three headliners at Stagecoach in 2023; in 2022, WME clients represented over 60% of all headlining slots at the top-country music festivals. Meanwhile, the company’s country music clients have earned the most categories at the ACM Awards and CMA Awards for multiple years.

28 Aug 2023

Judge Awards ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Victims $10.5 Million For Terrorist Threat In 2018

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A few of R. Kelly’s victims who participated in the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries were subjected to all kinds of threats for exposing the self-proclaimed “R&B thug” and now a judge has decided to award them some monetary compensation for their troubles.

According to documents obtained by TMZ, six of the “I Wish” singer’s victims will be awarded a total of $10.5 million dollars straight from the pockets of R. Kelly and his manager, Donnell Russell, after successfully suing them for shutting down the 2018 screening of Surviving R. Kelly in New York City.

TMZ reports:

They alleged the defendants waged a campaign, starting back in May 2018, to intimidate the women, A&E/Lifetime and the producers to stop screening the docuseries. When those efforts, including legal threats, failed … they claimed Kelly’s camp called producers on the night of the NYC screening and said someone was “going to shoot up the place.”

The fake mass shooting threat worked, as the event was shut down — and according to the victims, it all opened up past trauma and resulted in them suffering PTSD and panic attacks.

Apparently, R. Kelly and his peoples didn’t want the public to hear his victims’ side of their story and will now have to pay dearly for it. Each of the six women will be compensated with a little more than $1 million each for their pain and suffering, but whether or not they’ll ever see a penny of that money is anyone’s guess as Kelly isn’t exactly rolling in it like he was in his very abundant heyday.

Though his music is still generating $500,000 in royalties from Universal Music Group to this day, who knows how long it will take for each woman to get their proper compensation.

What do y’all think of the judge’s decision? Too much or too little? Let us know in the comments section below.

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28 Aug 2023

Holly Humberstone Embraces Uncertainty On Her Surefire Debut

Holly Humberstone has a confession. Despite the title of her forthcoming debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, she has never actually doused her surroundings in darkness. In reality, her bedroom in the London flat she shares with her sister is what she describes as “so girly.”

But when thinking of what she wanted her first album to signify, Humberstone kept considering the memorable debuts that preceded her own. “I feel like so many artists build such a strong world around them and such an identity, and I feel like I’m changing all the time,” the alternative pop artist says. “I’m 23. I probably should sort of know who I am at this point. I just really don’t.”

That familiar uncertainty is not only visualized by the title of the album (out Oct. 13 on Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor Records) but also felt across its 13 songs, which embrace the duality of feeling apprehensive and alive all at once.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, but to me, the album sounds like it’s got two sides to it, like there’s two sides of me that I didn’t realize were coexisting,” Humberstone says. She thinks the consistency comes through in her vulnerability. “There’s something really empowering about being able to share so much of myself with people I don’t know.”

For much of Humberstone’s career, this has been all she knows. She released her debut single, the poignant “Deep End,” in January 2020, just before the world shut down from the pandemic, but worked tirelessly to emerge a household name. She released her first EP, Falling Asleep at the Wheel, in August 2020 on Platoon; after scoring a major-label deal the following year, she released her second EP that fall. By the end of 2021, she had won the BRIT Award for rising star, and by the end of 2022, she had opened on tour for Olivia Rodrigo and Girl in Red.

For a self-described homebody who grew up in rural Grantham, England — where “there’s nothing f–king going on” — the transition was a bit overwhelming. “You just have to adapt, and writing really helped me,” says Humberstone, who wrote and recorded much of Paint My Bedroom Black in between gigs. She describes songs like lead single “Antichrist” and the dancefloor-ready “Flatlining” as more “extroverted,” while the title track and songs such as “Elvis Impersonators” “feel like wanting to shut things out and be on my own.”

That honesty has bolstered some of Humberstone’s most affecting songs and helped establish her voice — from “Deep End,” about supporting her sister’s mental health, to the more uptempo 2022 single “Scarlett,” which mined her best friend’s one-sided relationship and ultimate breakup. On Paint My Bedroom Black, Humberstone looks inward, writing about her own attempts at relationships and the guilt that accompanies being gone so often.

On “Superbloodmoon,” which features Darkroom labelmate d4vd (marking the first time Humberstone has welcomed a collaborator on one of her own tracks), the pair sing of being far from home. “It’s a cold kind of love, from a distance … It’s a desperate kind of love that I’m missing,” they sing in longing harmony. And on “Kissing in Swimming Pools,” she sings of “wanting to hold down some form of relationship with somebody that I really liked” only to realize (and ultimately admit) how her career challenges that.


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No matter the production style or vocal delivery of each song, though, Humberstone’s brash honesty puts her in the same class of current stellar songwriters like fellow emerging artist Gracie Abrams and even her idol, Phoebe Bridgers. (Humberstone says the latter’s Stranger in the Alps is one of her most-loved debut albums; when asked whom she would recruit for her own boygenius supergroup, she picks beabadoobee and Arlo Parks, saying that women in music right now “are running the whole show.”)

“Honestly, I think writing my songs is my way of protecting [my personal life] because I can take control and tell the stories how I want them to be told,” she says. Even so, she does worry about its reception. “I low-key hate releasing music,” she nearly whispers. “I love the writing process, and I love having [songs] in my pocket. I feel like it’s my dirty little secret. And then when it goes out, it’s just scary.”

Her best solution so far? Keep writing through it — she’s already thinking of her next project. Coming off sets at Lollapalooza Chicago, Outside Lands and the Reading and Leeds festivals in England, she may even continue her habit of writing on the road.

“It does feel like I’ve poured a lot of myself into [this album], and I am really, really proud of every song,” she says. “I’m just grateful that I am able to make [an album at all], and it sounds really cheesy, but that people will be waiting for it on the other side.”

This story originally appeared in the Aug. 26, 2023, issue of Billboard.

28 Aug 2023

Elton John ‘Back Home and in Good Health’ After Hospitalization for Fall

Elton John is back at home after spending the night in a French hospital following a fall. A spokesperson for the 76-year-old singer who recently completed his yearslong Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour confirmed to Billboard on Monday morning (Aug. 28) that following a slip at his home in the south of France on Sunday, “Elton visited the local hospital as a precautionary measure.”

The source added that following check-ups, John was “immediately discharged this morning and is now back at home and in good health.” Sir Elton, who has walked with a visible limp for several years, assured fans he was okay after a tabloid claimed he was “frail” alonside a picture of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind helped into a wheelchair at an airport in Germany last June. At the time, John said after a “rousing” two-and-a-half hour show he arrived at a closed Leipzig airport and faced an “extremely long walk” to his plane.

So, he said, he accepted a wheelchair ride to rest his hip; a previous hip injury had caused the postponement of his world tour due to a fall that doctors suggested required surgery. John wrapped the Yellow Brick tour in July after kicking it off in 2018 and, following a COVID-19 delay in 2020, picking it back up last year. After 330 shows that grossed a record $939.1 million and played to six million fans, John took sole control of the title of the highest-grossing tour in Billboard Boxscore history, besting pal Ed Sheeran’s two-year Divide Tour, which is at No. 2 with $776 million in grosses and attendance of 8.9 million.

28 Aug 2023

Jacksonville Shooter Was White Supremacist, Gov. DeSantis Booed At Vigil For Victims

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Racially Motivated Shooting At Dollar General In Jacksonville, Florida Leaves 3 Dead

The shooting in Jacksonville that was enacted by a gunman who targeted Black people was revealed to be a white supremacist by authorities investigating the matter. The shooting took place over the weekend, claiming three victims and officials are still piecing together the evidence leading up to the fatal event.

The shooting took place Saturday afternoon at a Florida Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla. around 2 PM local time.

Jacksonville County Sheriff T.K. Waters shared in a news conference that the shooter left behind disturbing messages on his computer and that he altered his father about where to find his writings ahead of firing a rifle similar in scope to an AR-15 weapon inside the store. The gun, according to reports, was adorned with swastikas, and the shooter was also armed with a handgun.

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“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Sheriff Waters, who is Black, said over the weekend at the news conference. “He wanted to kill n*ggers.”

According to a report from the Associated Press, the 21-year-old white male shooter took his own life shortly after the shooting. While details of his manifestos have not been shared publicly since this is a recent matter, authorities say that his writings were motivated by racist ideology and hate speech.

Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a Sunday afternoon vigil in honor of the three Jacksonville shooting victims but was loudly booed when he took the microphone to speak to the crowd. DeSantis, who is Republican and running for his party’s presidential nomination, has made obtaining high-powered guns easier in the state due to freeing up gun laws and has been critical of issues important to Black people such as critical race theory.

Sheriff Waters identified the names of the victims during the press conference. Angela Carr, 52, was shot while sitting in her care. Dollar General employee A.J. Laguerre, 19, was shot as he tried to run away. Customer Jerrald Gallion, 29, was shot as he entered the Dollar General.

The gunman’s name has not been revealed.

[h/t NewsOne]

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28 Aug 2023

Does Your Artist Want to Be An Activist? A New Social Action Platform Aims to Make It Easier

A new social action platform, ShowUp, wants to make it easy for artists to integrate activism into album releases, touring strategies and other components of their work.

Launching Monday (Aug. 28), ShowUp connects artists with organizations supporting the causes they care about in order to create, support and scale activism in the music industry. The platform is currently linked with more than 300 hand-selected nonprofit organizations across climate justice, social justice, women’s rights, LGBTQ activism and more. (Using a broader search, users can access more than 1.7 million international organizations.)

ShowUp will be activated by artists as the demand for projects that incorporate activism grows within the industry and among fans. This connection to artists is being facilitated by ShowUp’s partners at launch: ADA Worldwide, Downtown, EMPIRE, The Orchard and Symphonic Distribution.

“Ultimately, ShowUp is an artist services tool, and collectively our partners act as a broadcast point for us to over 100,000 artists and growing,” says ShowUp co-founder/CEO Mat Hall. “ShowUp provides timely and forward-thinking, actionable information and tools to our partners to inform and activate artists.”

Hall continues, “How can artists help our neighbors in Maui? What local organizations can artists support during Hispanic Heritage Month? How can an artist support women’s reproductive health in Mississippi? The teams and leaders we work with daily at our partners help us identify artists across their roster interested in this work and help shape the campaigns we create.”

ShowUp also makes it possible for qualifying artists to select an organization to dedicate a portion of their royalties to via a new release or catalog track. Admin for this function happens seamlessly through existing split-share technology on each partner’s backend.

ShowUp will also provide artists with data regarding who gave what, where and when so that artist teams can identify the activism-oriented segments of their fanbases.

“Our goal isn’t to turn every artist into an activist,” says Hall. “This work isn’t for everyone. However, we do want to make sure that any artist practicing activism, or who may be inclined to do so, has the tools and support so that, when they decide to speak out about what’s important to them, their message reaches the broadest possible audience and drives the greatest financial impact possible to the communities and concerns they are supporting.”

Hall adds that this goal makes label and distribution partners essential to ShowUp’s work.

“Providing a scalable platform for artists to raise awareness and engagement while delivering impactful, measurable results for causes they support enhances our value proposition in meaningful ways,” The Orchard president/COO Colleen Theis adds in a press release. “We are proud to partner with ShowUp to make advocacy and fundraising integral components of The Orchard’s client offering.”

“We all know ‘why’ this work is imperative, but many of us get lost at ‘what’ and ‘how,’” added ADA Worldwide president Cat Kreidich. “ShowUp helps answer these questions, and has been a valuable and practical starting point for our artists and teams as we all consider our potential for impact.”

Added Downtown Music Holdings chief commercial officer Tracy Maddux: “Activism is becoming an increasingly important part of how creators interact with their audience and the world around them. ShowUp provides them a platform to do this authentically and effectively and Downtown is a proud partner in helping make their voices heard.”

“Integrating the ShowUp platform allows our artists to seamlessly support the things that matter to them,” said EMPIRE chief product officer Stephen White. “When artists make these commitments, our artist teams have an incredibly powerful new marketing tool that not only drives advocacy and fundraising, but new channels of fan and streaming engagement. Everyone benefits.”

28 Aug 2023

Brandon Flowers Tossed The Killers’ New Album: ‘I Don’t Think You’ll See Us Making This Type of Music Anymore’

The Killers have been filling arenas for nearly two decades with their signature soaring rock anthems about strivers, dead-enders and dreamers searching for the heart of the American spirit. But if singer Brandon Flowers is to be believed, those days are over.

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In an interview with England’s The Times, the 42-year-old frontman said despite just dropping the Depeche Mode-like yearning synth rock single “Your Side of Town,” from now on the band is looking forward and leaving their patented sound in the past.

“Halfway through recording I realized, ‘I can’t do this,’” Flowers told the paper about the song that was meant to appear on the band’s upcoming as-yet-untitled eighth studio album. “This isn’t the kind of record… I think this will be the… I don’t think you’ll see us making this type of music any more.”

Described as being nervous while discussing the creative break with the past — “Your Side of Town” has whiffs of the band’s new wave-inspired smash 2004 debut, Hot Fuss — Flowers admitted that he’s had a change of heart since the Killers released 2021’s concept record Pressure Machine. The latter was a collection of very personal Nebraska-era Springsteen-style Americana story songs inspired by the singer’s childhood in Nephi, Utah.

“This is the crisis I’m in,” Flowers said of the crossroads he finds himself at. “The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like Pressure Machine. I found a side of myself writing it that was strong. This was the guy I’d been looking for! I’m as proud of Hot Fuss as you can be for something you did when you were 20, but I’m not 20. So I’m thinking about the next phase of my life.”

Flowers said he’s simply a “different person” now and that “it’ll be difficult to go back,” suggesting that he’d like to make more emotional music that could play well in smaller rooms. “It is a conflict. It is just, well, at what point do I make that change?” he said. “Who in the band wants to do that too? No matter what, there will always be people who look at me and just think of Somebody Told Me. And I get that. But I’m interested in evolving.”

The interview also touched on a recent incident in Georgia, in which Flowers brought up a Russian fan and caused a bit of an international incident when he asked fans if it was okay and got roundly booed by the citizens of the nation that was partially invaded by Russia in 2008.

“I had to calm an impossible situation. We want our concerts to be communal and I had no idea words I was taught my entire life to represent a unity of the human family could be taken as being pro-Russian occupation,” he said of the attempt at reaching across the divide with a speech about brotherhood that fell flat. “We’re sad how this played out.”

28 Aug 2023

Publishers Quarterly: Sony Sweeps Again While ‘Fast Car’ Drives Tracy Chapman Into the Top 10

Sony Music Publishing earned the top publisher ranking on the Top Radio Airplay, Hot 100 Songs and Country Airplay charts for the first two quarters of 2023. That dominance came thanks, in part, to stakes in “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus (No. 1 on Top Radio Airplay for the second quarter), “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen (No. 1, Hot 100 Songs) and “Dancin’ in the Country” by Tyler Hubbard (No. 1, Country Airplay).

BMG-affiliated Pedro Julian Tovar Oceguera Jr. earned the top songwriter ranking on Hot 100 Songs in the second quarter for penning “Ella Baila Sola” by Eslabon Armado x Peso Pluma. Country hit-maker and SMP signee Ashley Gorley held the top songwriter spot on Top Radio Airplay.

Tracy Chapman’s publishing company, Purple Rabbit Music, made an impressive showing at No. 10 and No. 7 on the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 Songs rankings, respectively, thanks to Luke Combs’ cover of her 1988 hit “Fast Car.” With that song alone, Chapman held 2.32% of all publishing market share for the Hot 100 Songs chart in the second quarter.

SMP once again grew its share of the 100 Top Radio Airplay songs, to 31.46% from 30.26% in the first quarter. The number of shares it held in songs on the ranking also rose quarter to quarter, from 66 to 69. That makes nine quarters in a row that Sony has summited the Top Radio Airplay chart.

Though SMP also remained in the top slot of the Hot 100 Songs ranking, its share fell from 30.56% in the first quarter to 27.67% in the second. The songs it had on that chart also dipped, from 67 to 60.

Universal Music Publishing Group scored big with top songs “Calm Down” by Rema & Selena Gomez and “Kill Bill” by SZA. The publisher held on to its No. 2 spot on both Hot 100 Songs and Top Radio Airplay. While UMPG grew its Top Radio Airplay market share quarter to quarter from 21.26% to 22.59% and increased its song share from 48 to 49, the publisher slipped from 23.45% to 21.32% on the Hot 100 Songs ranking over the same period. Its song count also dropped from 52 to 51. For the second consecutive quarter, UMPG’s top Hot 100 song was “Kill Bill.”

Warner Chappell Music held the No. 3 spot on both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 Songs charts (as well as No. 2 on Country Airplay). The publisher’s Top Radio Airplay market share dropped to 17.21% from 20.71% in the first quarter, and its song count fell from 52 to 45. Its top song was Cyrus’ “Flowers.”

Warner Chappell’s Hot 100 Songs market share also dropped, from 21.73% to 19.94%, even as its song count remained the same at 47.

Kobalt held steady at the number four spot on each of the three lists – with the help of “Last Night” by Wallen and “Creepin” by Metro Boomin. Though it is notably smaller than the three majors, Kobalt held 9.61% of market share on the Top Radio Airplay charts with shares in 36 songs — up from 8.72% and 31 songs in the previous quarter — and 8.80% of the Hot 100, with 31 songs — up from 6.89% and 26 songs.

BMG finished fifth on all three rankings thanks in large part to “You” by Dan + Shay, “Ella Baila Sola” by Eslabon Armado x Peso Pluma and “Boy’s a Liar” by PinkPantheress. BMG earned 2.83% of the second-quarter Radio Airplay market with eight songs on the chart, down from 3.28% and 11 songs from the previous quarter. The publisher ended the quarter with a 4.68% Hot 100 Songs share from nine songs — most notably, the surprise hit, “Ella Baila Sola” — more than double its 2.13% first quarter market share and enough to leapfrog it over Pulse for a fifth-place finish.

Another Latin hit, Peso Pluma’s “Por Las Noches,” put Downtown back on the Hot 100 ranking. The publisher finished the second quarter with a 2.8% share from six songs.

Pulse maintained its No. 6 ranking on Radio Airplay with a 1.93% market share and a share of six songs on the chart; the biggest being Cyrus’ “Flowers.”

Reservoir re-entered the Top Radio Airplay ranking with a 1.62% share after sitting out the first quarter. The publisher’s return had a lot to do with Kane Brown’s “Thank God.” The publicly traded independent fell from No. 9 to No. 10 on the Hot 100 scorecard. It also ranked ninth on country radio airplay aided by its shares of “Snooze” by SZA and “Tennessee Orange” by Megan Moroney, respectively.

Hipgnosis rose two slots from No. 10 to No. 8 on Top Radio Airplay, although it gained only 0.15 percentage points in market share (from 1.40% in Q1 to 1.55% in Q2). This bump resulted largely from the 2020 hit “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals which is still holding strong at pop radio.

Anthem dropped from No. 8 to No. 9 on the Radio Airplay ranking despite a minuscule 0.02 percentage point drop in market share quarter-to-quarter, from 1.47% to 1.45%. Meanwhile, Vim Music made the publisher rankings for the first time thanks to placing two songs on the quarter’s Hot 100 chart, with its top song, Chino Pacas’ “El Gordo Trae El Mando,” coming in at No. 68. That placed Vim Music –the publishing company of Mexican label Rancho Humilde co-owner Jimmy Humilde and Fuerza Regida lead singer JOP — at No. 9 with a 1.48% share.

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For the Top 10 Publishers Top Radio Airplay chart, percentage calculations were based upon the overall top 100 detecting songs from 2,968 U.S. radio stations electronically monitored by Mediabase (and provided through Luminate) 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the period of March 31 to June 29. For the Top 10 Publishers Hot 100 Songs, percentage calculations were based upon the top 100 songs as ranked by Billboard Hot 100 points calculated from Luminate-compiled digital sales and streaming data and Mediabase-tracked radio airplay detections during the same period as above, reflecting the issue dates of April 15 through July 8. Publisher information for musical works on both charts has been identified by the Harry Fox Agency. A “publisher” is defined as an administrator, copyright owner and/or controlling party.