Miranda Lambert Launches Wanda June Home Collection With Walmart

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Miranda Lambert debuted her new Wanda June Home collection on Tuesday (June 14). The collection is designed to help create a “warm, comfortable, casual gathering place where everyone can feel at home” and available exclusively at Walmart.com.

Inspired by three generations of warm and sassy Southern hospitality, Wanda June Home by Lambert is named after the “If I Was a Cowboy” singer’s mother Beverly June Lambert and her grandma Wanda Louise Coker, who taught her everything she knows about entertaining and welcoming guests. From three generations of warm, Southern hospitality, Wanda June is a brand inspired by memories.

“Wanda June Home is named after the two most influential women in my life, my mom Beverly June Lambert and my grandma Wanda Louise Coker, a.k.a. Nonny. They both taught me everything I know about being a woman and how to make a warm home full of laughter, love and memories. That’s really the heart of my Wanda June Home brand,” says Lambert. “The products are a physical representation of a long line of beautiful memories with amazing women. I am thrilled to launch Wanda June Home with Walmart where my grandpa was a greeter back in the day and where I’ve shopped all my life.”

Wanda June Home features more than 80 kitchen, bar, tabletop and home décor items priced from $12.97-$170, although most of the pieces are under $30. This inaugural collection is designed to mix, match and collect, featuring tabletop essentials inspired by Lambert’s own Southwestern retro farm kitchen, such as the Vintage Stripe Porcelain Dish Set ($39.97), fun and feisty barware, including the Saucy Sippers Stainless Steel Stemless Set ($20.98), and home décor that features Lambert’s take on Southern charm.

Shop items from the collection directly through the links below.

Vintage Stripe 12-Piece Porcelain Dinnerware

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A mix of trendy and nostalgic, the Wanda June Home by Miranda Lambert Vintage Stripe 12-piece Porcelain Dinnerware Set is a head-turner. It’s made from porcelain and features hand-painted, vintage-inspired patterns that add a ‘70s mod style to your tabletop. The pieces are dishwasher and microwave safe.

Wanda June Home Where Dreams Are Made Blue 2.3-Quart Stoneware Casserole Dish

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Serve up a signature chili dish, mama’s casserole, and more! The 2.3-quart casserole dish with a matching glass lid bakes and browns evenly, it’s dishwasher and microwave safe and oven safe up to 450 degrees (350 degrees with lid). This stoneware baker is a charming, oven-to-table piece with country-style designs making an easy-going but impressive statement.

Wanda June Home Novelty Porcelain Pedestal Cake Stand

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Let them eat cake! This durable, 10-inch porcelain cake stand is made for everyday baking and special celebrations. Available in blue and orange, this vibrant confection item features a flat top decorated with a sassy surprise that reveals itself after the last slice is gone.

Wanda June Home Novelty Porcelain Pedestal Cake Stand

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For baking delicious casseroles, creamy potatoes, lasagnas, cakes and more, the Big Mistake Orange 11-inch Stoneware Baker Dish gets the job done. It features a thick stoneware build ensuring lasting durability to bake delectable dishes for years.

Wanda June Home Game On Assorted 18-ounce Stoneware Camper Mugs

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The Game On 18-ounce mug set are kitchen must-haves that can perk up any mood, any time. Each durable mug features a wide mouth for convenient sipping and a sturdy handle for a safe and comfortable grip when drinking.

Wanda June Home Textured Zig Zag Pillow

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Add an eye-catching pattern and an extra-comfy accent to your bedroom, living room or another space. The 18-inch x 18-inch pillow features a richly textured, cotton-blend with contrasting zig-zag design on the face and a smooth solid fabric on the back.

Wanda June Home Persian Shag with Fringe Area Rug

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This Persian Shag with Fringe Area Rug offers a stylish and modern update on a traditional motif, with a plush shag construction that delivers cozy softness under your feet and an inviting feel for any space.

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Vanessa Picken Named Chair & CEO of Sony Music Australia/New Zealand

Vanessa Picken has been named chair and CEO of Sony Music Australia and New Zealand, the company announced Tuesday (June 14). Picken will start in the role in September, reporting to Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer.

In her new role, Picken will oversee all operations, artist signings, marketing and business partnerships out of the company’s Sydney office. She will also be responsible for striking new partnerships for artists with other Sony companies and identifying opportunities for artists across various entertainment mediums including music, TV, film, podcasting and gaming.

Picken arrives at SME Australia and New Zealand from [PIAS] in Los Angeles, where she held the role of managing director and led the growth and restructure of the company’s label group and distribution business. During her time in the role, Picken played a key role in repertoire and campaign development for artists including Arlo Parks, Day Wave, Röyskopp, Lykke Li, Mykki Blanco and Geese. Prior to being elevated to managing director, she ran digital strategy at [PIAS] across America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

In addition to her roles at [PIAS], Picken founded digital agency and label services company Comes With Fries, which has provided creative, digital marketing and media services to indie artists, managers, labels, organizations and brands including Powderfinger, Placebo, Support Act, Nettwerk Music Group, Red Bull Records, So Recordings, Jess Mauboy, Strange Talk, The Chats, Confidence Man and Speedy Wunderground. Picken is also the co-curator of Fastforward Sydney, a music technology conference for industry leaders.

Picken kicked off her music industry career in 2006 with a five-year stint at EMI Music Australia, where she worked with the label’s local and international artists.

The new hire comes roughly a year after Pickens’ predecessor in the chair and CEO role, Denis Handlin, stepped down from his post after nearly 40 years of leadership following a bombshell report in The Sydney Morning Herald that detailed allegations of discrimination, bullying and harassment at Sony Music Australia under his leadership. In April that year, SME Australia terminated veteran executive Tony Glover – then serving as the company’s vp of commercial music – after an investigation found that he had engaged in “inappropriate behavior” with staffers.

Handlin’s departure was announced by Stringer, who said at the time, “It is time for a change in leadership. And I will be making further announcements in terms of the new direction of our business in Australia and New Zealand in due course.” It was later reported that Sony Music had hired an Australia-based external counsel to handle ongoing investigations into the company’s workplace culture.

In a statement on Picken’s hire, Stringer noted that the company brought her aboard “after a careful and thorough recruitment process. Her impressive background covers so many areas of the modern music business in Australia and New Zealand and her recent leadership experience in the United States adds a global understanding to those existing skills.”

Added Picken, “I’m delighted to be coming home to join Sony Music Australia and New Zealand to take the company into a transformative next chapter. Our strategies will focus on music, allyship, and innovation, with a global mindset.”

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BTS Hiatus News Sends HYBE Stock Plummeting

Shares of HYBE fell 27.5% in early trading Wednesday morning following Tuesday’s news the Korean company’s cornerstone act, K-pop superstars BTS, will take time off for its seven members to pursue individual opportunities.

HYBE shares opened at KRW 168,000 on Wednesday after closed at KRW 193,000 on Tuesday. Within the first hour of trading, HYBE fell as far as KRW140,000, knocking off about $1.7 billion of market capitalization, before rebounding to KRW 145,5000. In just one hour, HYBE investors exchanged more than six times the stock’s daily trading average on the Korean Stock Exchange.

Wednesday’s selloff put HYBE’s share price down 59.9% year to date. HYBE wasn’t the only music stock to fall sharply in 2022, however. Record labels and music publishers have not been immune to recent stock market volatility. Through Tuesday, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group are down 16.7% and 36.5% year to date, respectively. Two smaller music companies, Believe and Reservoir Media, are down 51.5% and 23.9%, respectively, through Tuesday.

Companywide, BTS accounted for 27% of HYBE’s U.S. album sales and streams in 2021, according to the company’s fourth quarter 2021 investor presentation. In Japan — the world’s second-biggest music market — BTS accounted for about half of HYBE’s album sales, according to the company’s 2021 earnings. On top of that, BTS likely accounted for nearly all HYBE’s touring income that amounted to 191.1 billion ($148 million) in 2019 and 45.6 billion KRW ($36 million) 2021.

BTS ranked fourth on Billboard Boxscore’s mid-year 2022 list of top tours after selling 458,000 tickets for 11 concerts. Nearly 200,000 of those tickets came from just four shows at Allegient Stadium in Las Vegas. BTS’s four-night stand at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles last December sold 200,000 tickets and grossed $33.3 million, according to Billboard Box Score — the sixth-highest grossing engagement in Boxscore history.

HYBE’s 2021 acquisition of Ithaca Holdings from Scooter Braun made the company less reliant on BTS to drive revenue. In terms of U.S. music sales and streams, Ithaca Holdings — which includes label and management clients — made up 45% of HYBE’s U.S. album sales in 2021. Big Machine Label Group, led by Thomas Rhett and Florida Georgia Line, accounted for 4.8 million album-equivalent units. Artists managed by SB Projects accounted for 7.5 million album equivalent units in 2021.

HYBE’s Korean artist roster has also become more diversified in recent years. In 2018, BTS accounted for 100% of the company’s U.S. album sales for its Korean artists. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, BTS’ share declined to 78.5%, 70.3% and 49.0%, respectively, as Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together and Enhyphen gained popularity.

This story will update as Wednesday trading continues. 

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Lady Gaga in Talks to Join Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker 2’ Musical

The Joker is back, and this time he’s bringing a friend.

Lady Gaga is in early talks to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in director Todd Phillips’ sequel to Joker, the 2019 Oscar-winning, $1 billion Warner Bros. hit based on the DC character.

Phillips has been co-writing the script with Joker co-writer Scott Silver for some time and has finally shown it to the studio. Last week, Phillips revealed on social media the title of the new project — Joker: Folie à deux — the title referencing a medical term for an identical or similar mental disorder that affects two or more individuals, usually members of the same family. And while the same social media post showed Phoenix reading the script, the actor’s involvement is not exactly a legal fait accompli just yet — sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Warners has yet to close a deal with the actor, with the two sides deep into it.

Enter Gaga.

Details on her character are being kept under wraps, but Joker is known for his on-off abusive relationship with Harley Quinn, his psychiatrist at the mental institution known as Arkham Asylum who falls in love with him and becomes his sidekick and partner in crime. It is unclear whether Phillips and company are using other DC characters or striking on their own, as they did in many instances with their first movie.

If a deal is made, Gaga would play Quinn. However, this new Quinn exists in a different DC universe than Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, who most recently appeared in 2021’s The Suicide Squad as well as several other films.

But wait, that’s not all: Sources say the sequel is also a musical.

When Warners first made Joker, it was far from a sure thing. A dark and moody character piece, the project was a Taxi Driver-meets-King of Comedy descent into madness set in a late 1970s decaying city. Commercial prospects were deemed nominal, and it was only budgeted at $60 million.

By the time it was released in October 2019, Joker was riding a wave of adulation from the fall film festivals, which helped propel the movie into a record-breaking opening weekend, with box office analysts changing their prediction every day. It ended its theatrical run as the No. 4 highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. It then earned 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture, and won best actor (for Phoenix) and best score (for Hildur Guonadottir).

Phillips previously produced A Star Is Born, the 2018 remake that starred Joker producer Bradley Cooper and Gaga.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

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GAYLE, Rostam, Rob Thomas & More Team to Help ‘Reinvigorate the NYC Music Scene’

Anti Social Producers Club, described as an “underground collective of music producers,” will host its second annual Anti Social Camp in New York City from Monday through Friday (June 13 to 17) in an effort to help rejuvenate the city’s music scene.

“We created Anti Social Producers Club to build community and remind the music industry that there is still a wealth of talent here in New York,” Anti Social Producers Club founder Danny Ross said in a statement. “Anti Social Camp is not only the biggest songwriting camp in recent memory — with 150 signed artists creating 100 songs in 3 days — but it’s a vehicle to reinvigorate the NYC music scene. Thank you to our partners for building this historic event with us. For all those who believe that the music industry has completely shifted to L.A. over the last decade, I have one message — New York is back.”

The camp will see 150 signed artists, producers and writers creating 100 new tracks in three days “with the goal of putting the NYC music scene back on the map,” according to a press release, through sessions taking place both in-person and over Zoom. Notable artists and guests taking part in the camp and its various events include GAYLE, Walk The Moon, Rostam, JP Saxe, Rob Thomas, Linda Perry, NoMBe, Wolftyla, Ant Saunders, Sammy Adams, VÉRITÉ, Tim Atlas, KiNG MALA, Sadie Jean, Madison McFerrin, Annika Wells and Andrea Russett.

Alongside its official distribution partner Amuse, over the course of the week the camp will also host events including a gala at Great Jones Distilling Co. presented by the Recording Academy’s New York Chapter; an industry showcase supported by Spotify Noteable; a “Women Running Music” panel with partners including She Is the Music and Beats by Girlz; an industry day that includes sessions on the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), Chartmetric and Sound Royalties; a Dolby Atmos experiential presentation; and more.

Other companies and organizations partnering for the week-long event include the New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), BMI, Twitch, oeksound, Avid Technologies, Hipgnosis Songs, ABKCO, Spitfire Audio, Milk and Honey, SSL, Music Publishers of Canada, Songtrust, D’Angelico Guitars and Bronx Brewery.

The camp and its events are free for the musicians. You can find the full itinerary here.

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