Also this week: Jeremy Dutcher wins Polaris (again), Shaboozey earns a sweet 16 and Warner Music Canada names a director of national radio promotion.
Also this week: Hipgnosis hires a new creative chief, Downtown promotes a marketing and communications exec and Merlin welcomes back a former colleague.
All Things Go organizers talk to Billboard about doubling down with two locations and how they became "gaychella."
This year’s restructuring plan has reduced WMG’s head count by 750 and will save $260 million annually.
Alemeda has signed with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) and Warner Records, Billboard can exclusively announce Friday (Sept. 20).
Each stop on the 30th-anniversary return will showcase 70 to 100 bands, founder Kevin Lyman announced Thursday.
Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl announced that additional employees will be departing the label as Elliot Grainge prepares to take over as CEO.
Members of his St. Lunatics crew - childhood friends from St. Louis - now say he “manipulated” them into thinking they’d be paid for their alleged work on the album.
Also this week: Sony gets serious in Ghana, Dirty Hit extends its deal with Universal Music UK, Audiomack partners with Mogul and more deals.
Members of NITO say the VPN and proxy tech on display at this month's World Ticket Summit openly violated the federal BOTS Act.
