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November 15, 2024

Happy Friday,

The Latin GRAMMYs, Zuck & T-Pain collab, Jelly Roll versus…, and the biggest stadium show ever?

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Rauw Alejandro

New Music Friday

What you need to know about today’s new releases

🎶 New albums and EPs from Linkin Park, Shawn Mendes, Rauw Alejandro, Nessa Barrett, Denzel Curry, Carlita, Cordae, Jon Batiste, Gwen Stefani, FLO, 070 Shake, Poppy, Jin…

♪ Notable singles from Tate McRae, Shaboozey, Lil Baby, Sam Fender, Blake Shelton, Dasha, Lauv, Eyedress, Kygo, Wizkid, Armani White, Mahalia, 347aidan…

Each week, we go through Spotify’s New Music Friday playlists to highlight releases you should know about…

#1 - Linkin Park lands with ‘Two Faced’ off of their first album in seven years From Zero.

#2 - Tate McRae releases ‘2 hands,’ co-written with Amy Allen and Ryan Tedder.

#4 - Rauw Alejandro released an album including track ‘Que Pasaria…’ with Bad Bunny, hours after Bad Bunny’s Latin Grammy win for Best Reggaeton Performance. Both were nominated in the category.

#5 - We got some ‘Good News,’ Shaboozey releases a new single - will it top ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’… to be determined.

#9 - d4vd releases his second track for a television series with ‘Remember Me (from the series Arcane League of Legends).’

#11 - Off of her massive ‘Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)’ TikTok success, Dasha releases new track ‘Heartbreaker From Tennessee.’

#19 - BTS’ Jin releases new album Happy with track ‘Running Wild’ co-written with Gary Barlow.

#21 - Sam Fender returns with his first solo release since 2021, dropping the titular track off his forthcoming album People Watching.

#34 - Elton John and Brandi Carlile release ‘Never Too Late’ from upcoming documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late.”

#61 - New Zealand darling BENEE is back with ‘Animal.’

⭐ #62 - John Glacier lands with ‘Found’, the lead single off her debut album Like A Ribbon.

#88 - pgLang’s Tanna Leone drops his first single in two years with ‘Stuntman.’

⭐ = our pick of the week. Usually an under the radar artist to keep an eye on.

Tate McRae

The Schedule

Notable upcoming releases

Juice WRLD, Father John Misty, Ice Cube, Lil Durk, Searows, TOKiMONSTA, Kim Deal, Bibio & Alice Ivy all have new projects expected to come out next week. This may be the last big week music before holiday releases take over.

Tate McRae, Lil Baby, Sam Fender, Saint Etienne, Max McNown & Ichiko Aoba all announced new albums this week.

ICYMI

Industry news that mattered this week

Q3 news:

Jelly Roll implied that Charli xcx’s team tried to cheat to get her album to #1. Another week, another asset-backed securitization, this time at Hipgnosis. Chris Taylor, former CEO of MNRK Music Group, launched Hall of Fame Artists. Hangout - a reboot of the popular Turntable.fm social listening platform - launched this week (this time with the label on board).

Pitchfork Music Festival will not return to Chicago next year. Congrats Ryley Walker…

German PRO GEMA sued OpenAI for copyright infringement over lyrics. Jerry Garcia’s estate partnered with AI voice compay ElevenLabs to recreate his voice in their app. Imogen Heap partnered with ethical AI music creation platform Jen. Björk collaborated with French artist Aleph on an immersive AI sound piece replicating extinct animal calls that is set to run at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Noel Gallagher created a new 6-hour version of ‘Champagne Supernova’ to be played at London’s National Portrait Gallery in a few weeks. The UK govt backed plans to introduce a voluntary levy on certain venue tickets sold. MTV Canada announced it will go off the air on December 31. Ari Emmanuel raised funds looking to purchase the Miami Open, Madrid Open, Frieze Art Fair & more. Boyz II Men announced a documentary is in the works. Pusha T launched new coffee brand, Grindin. The lyrics to new track from Karol G, Feid, J Balvin and more Colombian superstars ‘+57’ were changed amid controversy over lyrics sexualizing minors. Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine agreed to pay Cory Brennan of 5B Management $1.4M.

small print

Updates on companies, acquisitions, takeovers and more

The Latin Review

Introducing a new section where we focus on the Latin world

The Latin GRAMMYs celebrated its 25th anniversary in Miami last night, with Karol G making history as the first woman to win best urban music album twice in a row. She was also the only woman nominated in the category both years. Carlos Vives was awarded Person of the Year, with over 30 artists taking the stage to pay tribute to him with versions of his hits. Ela Taubert won Best New Artist just over a year after releasing her debut EP.

Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 were the big winners of the night with Album of the Year and Record of the Year, bringing total Latin GRAMMY wins up to 26, only a few behind Residente’s all-time record. This was the first year the Latin GRAMMYs incorporated the best Latin electronic music performance category, which went to Bizarrap and Shakira for their ‘Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 53 (Tiësto Remix).’ Click for more info and the full list of winners.

Group Chat

The section that’ll probably get us in trouble one of these days

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Fresh Ink

Interesting artist signings

Rapper Quavo signed with UTA for touring (fellow Migos member Offset signed with IAG 2 weeks ago).

Singer-songwriter Oliver Tree signed with WME for touring. 

Nashville’s Bailey Zimmerman extended his management deal with The Core Entertainment.

Shoegazers Superheaven signed with Blue Grape Music and released their first single in nine years, ‘Long Gone.’

Argentinian star Maria Becerra expanded her management team to now include Armando Lozano at Big Bad Wolf alongside current day-to-day manager Nathanael Real. 

+120 signings on ROSTR this week

132K cap Narendra Modi Stadium

The Live World

Tour, festival and other live news

🎸 Biggest tours announced this week: Linkin Park, Tate McRae, Duki, My Chemical Romance, Tyler Childers, St. Vincent

Coldplay announced their “biggest-ever” concert at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India (132K capacity venue 😳) in January next year. The announcement comes after Indian police issued a mandate for Indian ticketing company BookMyShow to impose stricter control on secondary sales following controversy with a prior Coldplay show in India.

SXSW’s economic impact on Austin’s community declined last year, according to a study.

Daytona Beach festival Welcome to Rockville announced Green Day, Linkin Park, Korn & Shinedown as headliners for 2025.

CRSSD Festival will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in San Diego with headliners Justice, Jungle, Kavinsky, Fisher & others.

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa also celebrates its 10th anniversary next year, with Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean & Bailey Zimmerman set to join.

Rock the Country and Pepsi Rock the South return with Nickelback and Kid Rock headlining both of the traveling festivals for their 11-city tour.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts tour adds first-ever stadium dates in both Brazil and Mexico next year.

Electronic music festival Creamfields Argentina & Chile takes place this weekend with Swedish House Mafia headlining.

Darina Connolly, Ikenna Nwagboso, Angie Rho

On The Move

New hires, exec moves and other people news

Warner appoints Darina Connolly as GM of Rhino UK1. AEG Presents names Angie Rho as SVP of global touring. Downtown Pub appoints Jedd Katrancha as CCO. Ikenna Nwagboso, Co-Founder of emPawa Africa, to exit company in Jan. CAA names John Storey new CFO. Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei to step down. Gavrielle Chavez named COO at Game Over Media. Phil Choi joins WMG as new Head of Biz Dev for Asia Pacific. Publisher Peter Hebbes retires after 50+ years in the industry. Gary Scott joins Opry Entertainment Group as COO. Gamma has hired Mike Hamilton as SVP of Commercial Partnerships and Casey Compernolle as VP of A&R and Digital Strat.

Dope Jobs

Interesting jobs in music

  • 13 new roles at Live Nation in PA, TX, OH, AZ, CO, LA, NY, CA, IL

  • Vice President, Digital Marketing & Strategy at Roc Nation in NY

  • Sales Manager at Single in Nash

  • Executive Director at dublab in LA

  • Head of Commercial at Tixel in London

  • Social Media Marketing Manager at Beautiful Digital - West Coast

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Too Long / Did Read

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1  Disclosure: Darina is a friend of ROSTR Group’s CEO. However, this is consistent with the types of moves we cover and would have covered it regardless.

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