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Dua Lipa Slays ‘SNL’ With “Don’t Start Now” & “Levitating” Dua Lipa is having a better 2020 than you. That, dear reader, is just a fact. The Brit began the year entrenched in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Don’t Start Now” and then followed it up with a string of hits including “Physical,”“Break My Heart” and “Levitating.” They all feature on her critically-adored Club Future Nostalgia by The Blessed Madonna. If that wasn’t enough winning, t...

The 50 albums that saved us from 2020 Updated Dec 20, 2020; Facebook Share What’s left to say? For many of us, 2020 was the worst year of our lives. No need to list all the reasons why. But even as the pandemic snarled just about every aspect of our lives to a screeching halt, music somehow endured. In fact, it was a supremely good year for album releases, due in some part to musicians being kept from touring and allowed ample time to create from home. This year we had gargantuan surprises,...

2020! For many of us, those four simple digits say all that needs to be said about the incredibly difficult year now finally coming to a close. “2020” has come to represent pain and loss on a scale none of us ever could have imagined. We can never forget the suffering that this year inflicted on so many. Likewise, we must never forget that even in the face of historic challenges, so many of you achieved great things—personally and professionally. A little later, I’ll describe the specta...

UMG boss Lucian Grainge shared an optimistic message in his 2020 year end letter to staff. UMG artists and songwriters “brought awareness to worthwhile causes that will help to repair a world so badly in need of repair,” wrote Grainge. [We’ve added the bolding.] Dear Colleagues: 2020! For many of us, those four simple digits say all that needs to be said about the incredibly difficult year now finally coming to a close. “2020” has come to represent pain and loss on a scale none of us ...

Music Business Worldwide December 18, 2020 Universal Music Group CEO and Chairman, Sir Lucian Grainge (credit: UMG) Universal Music Group Chairman & CEO, Sir Lucian Grainge, has reflected on the past year in a memo to staff obtained by MBW. While celebrating UMG’s “spectacular and record-breaking success” in 2020, Grainge also struck a note of contemplation, noting that the past 12 months has “come to represent pain and loss on a scale none of us ever could have imagined”. (Grainge, o...

The Weeknds hit single Blinding Lights has been named the most-played song on Australian radio in 2020. A survey of 31 major stations by AirCheck reveals the track was played 30,006 times from January 1 to December 8 this year. Riarne Gale, AirChecks Client Services Executive, said: To put this kind of airplay into perspective, the total airplay for Blinding Lights is the equivalent of listening to the song on repeat for 70 days straight.  The results are in! The Weeknds hit single Blind...

CREDIT: Bandcamp/Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah In 1969, folk trio Crosby, Stills & Nash recorded and released a cryptic chestnut entitled “Guinnevere.” The next year, two jazz masters tried their hands at the tune: flautist Herbie Mann emerging with a faithful instrumental cover, and trumpeter Miles Davis reinterpreting it as an intergalactic, unrecognizable epic that neared the 20-minute mark. For the live version appearing on Axiom, New Orleans bandleader Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is...

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on July 12, 1979. This violent debacle is a convenient summary of the backlash disco faced, and is often cited as the music’s terminus, which it wasn’t. Disco began as underground music enjoyed in illicit clubs by an allied subculture of gays, women and people of color. In many cases, discos were il...