Thomas Coesfeld to Succeed BMG’s Maximilian Dressendörfer as CFO
Thomas Coesfeld has been named deputy chief financial officer at BMG, effective Oct. 15. He will assume the role of CFO on April 1, 2021,...
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Warner Music CEO Stephen Cooper Discusses the ‘New Era in Music Entertainment’
Warner Music Group (WMG) CEO Stephen Cooper discussed the now publicly-traded company’s streaming-fueled growth and future outlook during Goldman Sachs’ virtual Communacopia conference Thursday, envisioning that...
Apple Music Enlists Lil Baby, Nas & More for Racial Justice Concert & Discussion ‘Rap Life Live’
Rap Life, Apple Music’s leading hip-hop playlist, is going live. Tonight (Sept. 18), Apple Music global head of hip-hop and R&B Ebro Darden, along with...
Venues Closing Across America: An Updating List (And Why It Matters)
Independent music venues across the United States are in dire straits as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep their doors shuttered. Since March, these businesses...
Punch the Clockface: Elvis Costello On Making Albums In a Streaming World
Elvis Costello has always worked in a variety of genres, and he chooses his collaborators accordingly — in the last decade alone, he has teamed...
How Lous and the Yakuza Approached Her Record Contract
At the age of seven, Marie-Pierra Kakoma was writing novels, poems and lyrics. “Every family party I was singing a song [or] reciting a poem that...
Here’s What Kylie Minogue Geeked Out on While Doing ‘Disco’ In Quarantine
When Kylie Minogue approached her 15th album with the goal of “going back to the dance lane,” it should have been an easy task for...
Executive of the Week: WK Entertainment CEO Walter Kolm
When Billboard debuted its new global charts this week, Maluma’s “Hawái” became the first-ever song to lead the brand new chart measuring songs outside the United States....
Documentaries & Other Delights: Inside the Herb Alpert Film
Legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert has been part of John Scheinfeld’s life for a long time. “My mom had all of the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana...
This YA Novel Reveals What K-Pop Stardom Is Like: Exclusive
For her debut young adult novel, Shine (out Sept. 29 on Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), former Girls’ Generation member Jessica Jung offers a...