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Why UMG’s Public Debut Boosted Warner & Other Music Stocks Too
Demand for UMG shares may have helped two more music companies: the share prices of French music distributor Believe SA and U.S. music rights company Reservoir Media increased 3.1% and 11.6%, respectively, on Tuesday. Investors also appeared hungry enough for UMG to purchase shares of Pershing Square Holdings, which has a 10% stake in UMG, and drive its share price up 5%. Sensing an opportunity, WMG’s owner, Access Industries, sold 2.34 million shares to Morgan Stanley & Co. on Tuesday for an unspecified amount. WMG could benefit from the added liquidity to the market. Although the shares represent less than 0.5% of WMG’s outstanding shares, WMG’s float – shares available for trading – represent about 19% of its shares, according to multiple financial sources. (UMG says its float is 42...
Here’s How the 2021 MTV VMAs Impact the Billboard 200 & Hot 100
Justin Bieber’s Justice notches a 6% increase (18,000 units; moving 26-27), Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall increase 15% (to 15,000; bumping 42-37) and Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) rises 4% (11,000; 75-64). Rounding out the gainers on the Billboard 200, among the show’s performers, are Jack Harlow’s Thats What They All Say (98-81; 10,000 units – up 8%), Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface (199-194; 7,000 – up 1%) and Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits (re-entry at No. 196; 7,000 – up 2%). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sol...
Steve Aoki and Travis Barker Record Sounds for Messenger’s Soundmojis
Steve Aoki and Travis Barker have joined forces to make your messages a whole lot louder. Released yesterday on Messenger were two new soundmojis from the Dim Mak boss and the famed Blink-182 drummer. Aoki has soundtracked the 🤘 emoji with a custom-made airhorn while Barker has unsurprisingly taken on the “drum with drumsticks” emoji with a short drum solo. For those unfamiliar with Messenger’s soundmojis, they are exactly what you think they would be: an emoji paired with sound. Users can pop them into conversations on the platform to add audio to their messages. In addition to the soundmojis, later in the month Aoki and Barker will be immortalized in an animated sticker pack featuring the duo that can be used in Messenger conversations. A press release shar...
RL Grime, DJ Snake, Swedish House Mafia, More Feature in FIFA 22’s Huge Soundtrack: Listen
FIFA has just raised the bar for video game soundtracks. Gamers and soccer fanatics alike are counting down the days until the next entry in the FIFA series drops. Next month, EA Sports will release FIFA 22, the latest soccer simulator in the top-selling game franchise. In an effort to pump up fans for the thousands of hours of gameplay that await them, the soundtracks for both the traditional FIFA and VOLTA FOOTBALL have been shared. It’s very clear that developers spared no expense when it came to curating their latest game. The upcoming release features 122 songs that represent 27 different countries. Those who frequent EDM.com will be thrilled to hear that like last year’s soundtrack, the songs selected for FIFA 22 are quite electronic-oriented. The soundtra...
LouCii Drops 3 Distinct Dance Music Albums in One Day
Veteran electronic music producer LouCii has done the unthinkable: releasing three albums in a single day. Last month LouCii dropped a triptych of distinct records in one day, a plethora of diverse music that spans 39 tracks and includes lyrics in three different languages. The albums, which arrived by way of Lalee Records, are called Back2BassX, Dark Like Kryptonite, and Global Vibes and they explore many different genres within the overarching scope of electronic dance music. “I have always gone where no man has gone before,” LouiCii said in a press release. “I think the release of my 3 albums with 39 tracks covering 14 music genres, and 3 languages, on the same day speaks louder than words, and clearly puts me in a category ...
Mudvayne’s Chad Gray Tests Positive for COVID-19, Band Cancels Louder Than Life Appearance
Mudvayne singer Chad Gray and a portion of the band’s staff have tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the reunited metal act has pulled out of its performance at Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky, scheduled for this weekend. Louder Than Life announced the news via social media today (September 21st), and Mudvayne shared the festival’s post. Breaking Benjamin will take Mudvayne’s place on the bill. “After taking every precaution to follow CDC Covid protocols during rehearsals and recent performance, Chad Gray and a few staff members have unfortunately tested positive for Covid-19,” the band said in a statement. Advertisement Related Video “The safety of our organization, fans and festival partners must come first,” they added. “We are left no choice but to cancel our p...
Little Simz Announces 2022 North American Tour Dates
British-Nigerian rapper Little Simz sounds incredible on her records, but she will blow you away live. Americans who haven’t gotten the chance to see her perform before are in luck, because Little Simz has just announced a string of tour dates in North America for later in 2022. The tour spans 10 dates in total, all of which will take place in late spring. Little Simz will kick off the trek in Portland, Oregon on May 1st before stopping in major cities Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Finally, the tour will conclude on May 25th in New York City. Fans who score tickets will get to see Little Simz break out songs from her great new album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. It’s stacked with bangers like “Rollin Stone,” “Woman,” and...
illuminati hotties Announce 2022 Headlining Tour
Good news: illuminati hotties spent the past few years making music that’s impossible to stand still to, and soon you will finally be able to dance in person. illuminati hotties has just announced a 2022 co-headlining tour with Fenne Lily that finds the two performing live across North America next spring. Check out the complete list of dates below. Sarah Tudzin, the person behind the indie rock-goes-pop punk project, will hit the road on February 8th for a solo show in Pioneertown, California before taking off for other concerts with Fenne Lily across the US and Canada. Later on, illuminati hotties will wrap up the tour on March 12th in Portland, Oregon. Joining Tudzin and Fenne Lily on tour will be Katy Kirby for the first half of the dates and former Artist of the Month star Pom Pom Squ...
Michael Stipe Says R.E.M. “Will Never Reunite”
In the decade since R.E.M.’s split in 2011, the alternative rockers have shown no intention of ever getting back together. Exactly 10 years to the day of their break-up, lead singer Michael Stipe dispelled any notions of a reunion during an appearance on WNYC’s All Of It. “That’s wishful thinking. We will never reunite,” Stipe plainly told host Alison Stewart after she brought up a Rolling Stone article that gave 30% odds to a R.E.M. reunion. “We decided when we split up that that would just be really tacky and probably money-grabbing, which might be the impetus for a lot of bands to get back together.” Hear Stipe’s full quote below at the 24:25 mark. Back in 2014, Stipe expressed a similar sentiment during an interview with CBS This Morning. “I love those guys very much and I respect...
ROB HALFORD Picks ‘Ride The Lightning’ As His Favorite METALLICA Song Of All Time
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was one of more than 250 artists, journalists, and industry figures who submitted their ballots for Rolling Stone‘s new “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time” rankings He recently caught up with Rolling Stone to break down his picks, singing the praises of Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio and MOTÖRHEAD‘s Lemmy Kilmister, among others. Regarding METALLICA‘s “Ride The Lightning”, which made his list, Halford said: “Old ‘TALLICA. New ‘TALLICA. I’m old school, man. I bet you guys are the same about PRIEST. It’s crazy, isn’t it? It’s usually the first two or three albums that you make in any given band that are the reference points to who you are and what you’re about. And so, for ...
MUNKY Rejoins KORN On Stage In Austin After Recovering From COVID-19 (Video)
Guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer, who sat out some of KORN‘s shows after being diagnosed with COVID-19, rejoined his bandmates on stage this past Saturday night (September 18) at Germania Insurance Amphitheater in Del Valle (a southwest Austin suburb), Texas. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. Shaffer was temporarily replaced by J.R. Bareis, who is also in the band LOVE AND DEATH with KORN guitarist Brian “Head” Welch. Bareis previously stepped in for Shaffer in August 2019 when Munky was forced to miss several KORN shows due to the impending birth of his child. Shaffer was second member of KORN in a month to test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. In early August, singer Jonathan Davis contracted the vir...
EXODUS Singer STEVE ‘ZETRO’ SOUZA On ‘Persona Non Grata’: ‘This Is Not A Nice Album’
EXODUS frontman Steve “Zetro” Souza spoke to Australia’s Heavy about the band’s upcoming album, “Persona Non Grata”, which is scheduled for release on November 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. Asked about the description of the LP’s lyrical content in the official press release as touching on “themes of modern societal disgust and degradation,” Zetro said: “It wasn’t done purposely like that. There just seemed to be so much fodder to pick from, and it seemed like everything that we wrote about on this record lyrically kind of hit a chord with a lot of people. It was written in the middle of everything last year, even though it seems like we’re all still in the middle of it. It was written pretty much at the height of [the...
