That Lil Nas X spent all of $30 to purchase the beat for “Old Town Road” has become the stuff of music-industry legend. As the story goes, a 19-year-old Dutch trap producer, Kiowa Roukema, who goes by YoungKio, built the beat from a sample of Nine Inch Nails’ “34 Ghosts…
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Charles Koppelman, a veteran music executive whose career spanned five decades before he became a top executive at Martha Stewart and Steve Madden’s companies, died Friday at the age of 82. The news was posted on social media by his son Brian, co-creator and showrunner of the Showtime series “Billions,”…
Variety is pleased to announce the honorees for its sixth annual Hitmakers celebration. The Nov. 30 issue and accompanying event looks back at the year in music and recognizes the writers, producers, publishers, managers and executives who helped make — and break — the 25 most-consumed songs of the year,…
Halsey has signed a new global publishing administration agreement with BMG. The new deal includes all of their future songwriting compositions, plus the recently released single “So Good,” and their Calvin Harris collaboration “Stay With Me,” which features Justin Timberlake and Pharrell. “I’m thrilled to announce this partnership with BMG,” said…
Hardy was named songwriter of the year Tuesday night at the BMI Country Awards ceremony in Nashville while Luke Combs’ “Forever After All” was tagged as the org’s country song of the year. Publisher of the year honors went to Sony Music Publishing, which represented exactly half of the 50…
The estate of Chicago blues pioneer Muddy Waters has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music Publishing to administer his complete catalog of songs, including legendary hits such as “Mannish Boy,” “Rollin’ Stone,” “Champagne & Reefer,” “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” and more. Waters, real name McKinley Morganfield, is widely considered…
TikTok has promoted Paul Hourican to global head of music operations and Isabel Quinteros Annous to global lead of music partnerships. Hourican will lead a team that works with markets around the world to coordinate the platform’s music campaigns, its work with artists and labels; Quinteros Annous’ staff will collaborate…