Music news you may have missed! (6/23/24)
Music news you may have missed! (6/23/24)
All the relevant news and new music releases from the week you should know about.
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Ed Sheeran bests Taylor Swift for seventh title as U.K.’s Most-Played Artist of the Year
Coldplay announce new album Moon Music. The album is set to drop on October 4th, 2024. Apparently, the vinyl copies will be made from 100% recycled bottles.
Well this is just awesome. George Strait broke the record for the largest ticketed concert attendance held in US history. The concert saw 110,905 fans attend at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. Wow. That’s a lot of plaid and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
And this is very impressive. Billie Eilish becomes the 3rd artist to reach 100M monthly Spotify listeners — and does it with just 82 songs.
Signed copy of early Taylor Swift recording fetches over $12,000 at auction. Is anyone else surprised that this didn’t go for more money? I mean, $12,000 is only the cost of one Taylor Swift Era’s Tour concert ticket.
There’s a new survey about which songs to have sex to. Deftones and Nine Inch Nails make the list.
Fans who sued Madonna over late concert start times voluntarily dismiss own lawsuit. Wasn’t this a dumb lawsuit anyway? I get being mad that you had to wait, but come on!
Whoa! Queen’s music catalog sold to Sony Music for $1.27 billion. The deal is the biggest acquisition of its kind beating out Sony Music’s last deal for at least $600 million for 50% of Michael Jackson’s publishing and recorded masters catalog.
Spotify quietly lets all podcasters upload videos, surpasses 250K shows. So now you Spotify users can expect to be able to watch your favorite podcasts instead of needing to rely on YouTube for the video format.
Watch Hayley Williams and Taylor Swift perform “Castles Crumbling” together live
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