Country music is undergoing a reckoning right now, as the music industry peers more closely at the exceedingly male landscape of artists and executives in the genre. Amid all that, former YouTube exec Rachel Whitney announced Thursday that she’s joining Spotify as the Head of Editorial for Nashville. She joins …
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Taylor Swift‘s former label Big Machine Group said it was “shocked” by the pop star’s claim that the label is preventing her from performing her old songs on television, telling her “the narrative you have created does not exist.” On Thursday, Swift posted on social media that Big Machine Label …
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The management company that looks after dance music supremos Calvin Harris and Tiësto has fully acquired the firm that represents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Three Six Zero, which runs offices in Los Angeles and London, has confirmed that it has bought Westbrook Entertainment for an undisclosed fee. Westbrook, …
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Skeptical as the music industry might’ve been at first about Recording Academy’s newly organized Task Force for Diversity and Inclusion, the group has made strides in the year of its existence. In the fall, the task force invited 900 music creators to join the voting community. On Friday, it announced …
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