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Zach John King on Pivoting From Behavioral Therapist to Stadium-Opener for Morgan Wallen: ‘You Have to Be Ready, You Have to Be Focused’

Like many aspiring talents drawn to Nashville’s music epicenter, when Zach John King moved to Music City in 2021, he joined a time-honored tradition, pursuing songwriting by day and waiting tables by night. He worked at Broadway-adjacent, upscale bar/restaurant The Twelve Thirty Club off Broadway, where he’d sometimes cross paths with country artists such as […]

Lior Tibon Shares How Duetti Is Reshaping Music Rights

This is partner content. Join Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Billboard‘s senior finance correspondent, as she sits down with Lior Tibon, CEO and cofounder of Duetti, to discuss how the music financing platform is reshaping how music rights are managed and monetized. In this captivating conversation, they explore the challenges and opportunities in the evolving music rights […]

Reservoir Media Faces Competing Takeover Bids From Major Hedge Funds

Two powerful hedge funds are vying to buy Reservoir Media, the publicly traded independent music publishing and recorded music business founded and led by Golnar Khosrowshahi, according to a press release from Reservoir on Wednesday. Reservoir said investors Richmond Hill Investment and Wesbild put in an unsolicited joint offer to acquire all outstanding shares at a […]

Violet Grohl Makes Her Billboard Chart Debut With ‘THUM’

There are two Grohls debuting music on Billboard charts dated March 7. You’ll be fairly familiar with one: Dave Grohl, frontman of Foo Fighters, whose “Your Favorite Toy” reaches multiple rankings, paced by a No. 2 bow on the Hot Hard Rock Songs list. As for the other? It’s Grohl’s daughter Violet, whose “THUM” starts […]

B2K & Bow Wow Talk ‘Boys 4 Life’ Tour, Brotherhood & The Power of Nostalgia

Inside Billboard’s Ground Floor Studios, B2K and Bow Wow are heating things up with their exuberance and youthful spirits on a frigid March afternoon in New York City. After scarfing down three boxes of Gotham’s revered Joe’s Pizza, the early-2000s hitmakers spring from their seats to play unreleased music ahead of their forthcoming Boys 4 […]

Here’s What Courtney Barnett Geeked Out on While Making ‘Creature of Habit’

On a particularly difficult writing morning, Courtney Barnett’s routine was interrupted by a praying mantis hanging upside down from her door frame. A quick internet search informed her that the sighting could symbolize she was on the right path. “There’s a million Google results of random stuff. You take what you want,” Barnett, 38, says […]