HITS HIGH FIVE: A WEEK OF SMOKE

While the water cooler conversations were about Wild Card games, Donald Trump’s tax return (and, later, his grabbing of something other than cash) and the Save the Truffle movement in Italy, there were carryings on in the music business. Here’s this week’s High Five…

Columbia’s Solange pulled up a chair at #1 on the SPS chart with A Seat at the Table.

The Chainsmokers continue to dominate the weekly Revenue Chart.

Coke endorser Taylor Swift is blocked from playing the Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show so she’ll sing the day before the NFL championship for AT&T.

Former NBC Universal Television Chairman Jeff Gaspin joins Primary Wave Entertainment as president.

Beloved music exec Clarence Avant received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

UMG AND TIKTOK
WORK IT OUT
The kerfuffle is in the past. (5/2a)
LUCIAN SOUNDS OFF ON UMG/TIKTOK DEAL
A breakdown from the boss (5/2a)
JAMES KING: THE HITS INTERVIEW (PART ONE)
London calling (5/2a)
TOP 20: IT’S STILL TAYLOR’S WORLD
Large and in charge (5/2a)
THE MUSIC OF CLIVE COMES ALIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
That's what friends are for. (5/1a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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