HITS ' HIGH 5: DOES THIS FONT LOOK RIGHT?

The dog days of summer have us spending most of our time in the company wading pool, sparking a fat one and sipping a mojito while we wait for the pizza guy. Last week, In moments when we toweled off and got out the IBM Selectric, here is what we wrote.

One number really stood out in Sony’s Q2 report—a 27% spike in streaming revenues. Lil Nas X, take a bow.

Maren Morris became the first female artist to hit #1 at country radio in a year and a half. Shortly thereafter, Jody Gerson signed an admin deal with her at UMPG.

Ariana Grande dropped a new single Friday that promptly went to #1 at iTunes; Drake suprprised everyone with a collection of B sides and unreleased material; Taylor Swift will head to GMA for the TV premiere of Lover; and Spotify has us wondering about Rihanna.

Notice how there’s a lot more brown acid listings on eBay? Yea, Woodstock won’t be happening.

Spotify had 108m paying subscribers at the end of June with 232m monthly active users and is now predicting that by year’s end, it will have as many as 125m Premium Subscribers.