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Mark Dinerstein Launches New Company Following Marathon Live Purchase

Consultant and veteran music executive Mark Dinerstein has joined forces with investors JPB Partners to purchase Nashville music venue Marathon Live from founder Josh Billue. Dinerstein will serve as chief executive for the new organization while Billue has announce plans to remain at the company and serve as Chief Development Officer. Marathon Live will include […]

Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2025

Long before 2025 even kicked off, many artists were already starting to tease fans, hinting or downright saying they should expect new music in the upcoming year. Take The Weeknd, for example. The artist born Abel Tesfaye began teasing his fans on Jan. 7, 2024, via social media. In an Instagram carousel, he shared the […]

Josh Levi Talks ‘Hydraulic’ Debut Album & Keeping Dance at the Forefront of R&B: ‘To Say Destiny’s Child Gave Me the Green Light Is Amazing’ 

Crafting a debut album is already a daunting task, one that gets more difficult when you enter the entertainment world as a child star whose successes never quite culminated in an indisputable mainstream breakthrough. For Josh Levi, a 26-year-old Houstonian looking to be R&B’s next song-and-dance heartthrob, that journey is intimately familiar, which only makes […]

Morat Signs With WK Entertainment and HYBE Latin America for Global Expansion

Morat has signed an exclusive management agreement with WK Entertainment in partnership with HYBE Latin America, Billboard can exclusively announce today (July 14).  The Colombian pop-rock band, composed of Juan Pablo Villamil, Simón Vargas, Juan Pablo Isaza and  Martín Vargas, joins Walter Kolm’s (WK Entertainment’s CEO and founder) prolific roster that includes Carlos Vives, Emilia, […]