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/PRNewswire/ -- Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced the acquisition of 300 Entertainment, one of the worlds most successful and influential independent...

/PRNewswire/ -- Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced the acquisition of 300 Entertainment, one of the worlds most successful and influential independent...

WARNER MUSIC GROUP (WMG) has announced the acquisition of 300 ENTERTAINMENT, whose artists include top-charting, multi-platinum stars such as MEGAN THEE STALLION – who won Best New Artist at this year’s Grammy Awards, YOUNG THUG and his label YOUNG STONER LIFE, GUNNA, FETTY WAP, HIGHLY SUSPECT, the newly signed MARY J. BLIGE, and more. Since its launch nearly a decade ago, 300 has been distributed by ATLANTIC RECORDS, and the acquisition represents the expansion of an already ...

When Maryland pop-punk veterans All Time Low (Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Zack Merrick and Rian Dawson) released their eighth studio album Wake Up, Sunshine in April 2020, they couldn’t have predicted it would turn out to produce the biggest radio hit of their career. In September 2020, ”Monsters” became All Time Lows first No. 1 on any airplay chart when it topped the Alternative Airplay listing -- and parked there for 18 nonconsecutive weeks, tying with Foo Fighters’ "The Pretender"...

Laura Ohls, senior editor, folk and AAA, Spotify: I’ve always thought of “alternative” as referring to any artist creating music that challenges what’s being popularized in the mainstream, across all genres. In the ’90s, rock music was still very much at the core of popular music culture, and as a result, “alternative” [was more] guitar-driven in sound. Fast forward to 2020, where hip-hop, pop and Latin are the titans of genre, and you’ll find that the class of artists defying w...