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‘Favorite Country Song’ Is Now HARDY’s Longest-Leading Country Airplay Hit Among All His No. 1s

HARDY secures a third total and consecutive week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Feb. 7), as “Favorite Country Song” drew 31.6 million audience impressions Jan. 23-29, according to Luminate. Related Is NFL’s Roger Goodell Expecting Another Anti-ICE Message From Bad Bunny at Super Bowl? ‘This Platform Is Used to Unite People’ […]

JIVE Revived: RCA Reboots Label With Mike Weiss and David Melhado as Co‑Presidents

Fifteen years after being folded into RCA Records, the influential hip-hop, R&B and pop label JIVE Records is being relaunched as a standalone frontline imprint under Sony Music’s RCA, with former UnitedMasters executives Mike Weiss and David Melhado named co-presidents. According to a press release, the revived JIVE aims to honor the label’s storied legacy […]

Billy Strings, Alison Krauss & More to Help Celebrate ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Soundtrack’s 25th Anniversary

The Grand Ole Opry will help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the RIAA 8x Platinum-certified O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack on Feb. 28 with a special Opry show. Billy Strings, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Alaskan Sunnyside Sisters, Chris Thomas King, Colin Linden, and Del McCoury will perform during the special event, as will Emmylou […]

Blackstone Trims Recognition Catalog With $200 Million Sale to Sony Music

Blackstone, the owner of around $4 billion in music assets including through Recognition Music Group, has sold a portion of the Recognition portfolio to Sony Music Group for more than $200 million, according to sources. The deal, which has not been previously reported, includes mostly publishing assets and a smattering of master recording royalty income streams to songs including some by […]