Record Store Day have announced this year’s Black Friday titles.
Record Store Day Announces Black Friday Titles
The Future of Apple Music
Zane Lowe talked with Wired about the future of Apple Music:
There’s also the matter of how livestreams fit into the picture. After events with Shawn Mendes, French rap group PNL and Tyler the Creator, who did a live performance of his album IGOR, streamed on Apple Music the night before it came out, Lowe says “live music is definitely on the horizon” for the service. It’s all part of the team’s bid to “eventise” – his word – album launches. In the case of Tyler the Creator, “fans can tune in, then after watching it maybe you go to the album.”
When it comes to someone like Billie Eilish, who now has her own Beats 1 show, the Apple Music team realised that their pre-adds, which allow users to register their interest in an album before it’s out, had made people more invested in her March 2019 album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
PlayStation 5 Coming in 2020
The PlayStation 5 will be coming in time for the 2020 holidays.
Since we originally unveiled our next-generation console in April, we know that there’s been a lot of excitement and interest in hearing more about what the future of games will bring. Today I’m proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we’ll be launching in time for Holiday 2020.
DaBaby Tops the Charts
DaBaby has the number one album in the country this week:
The set, which is the hip-hop artist’s second studio effort, starts with 145,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 3, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, just 8,000 were in album sales, as the set was powered largely by streaming activity. Kirk was released on Sept. 27 via SouthCoast/Interscope Records.
Justin Vernon and Ezra Koenig Go Deep in 2-Hour Chat
Justin Vernon is the latest guest on Ezra Koenig’s Beats 1 show.
Person L’s ‘Initial’ Coming to Vinyl
Person L’s Initial is getting pressed to vinyl by EnjoyTheRideRecords.
Remastered by Dave Marino for the vinyl format from the original recordings, Initial is a musically adventurous album featuring a multitude of styles, showcasing Vasoli’s talent beyond what most folks knew him for with his band, The Starting Line.
Limited to 500 copies, 450 copies were created a random color mix, each with a unique color blend. 50 copies of Infinity Rainbow Splatter will also be available, but not for direct purchase – 24 of these will be guaranteed in the bundle – the other 26 will be randomly inserted into Enjoy The Ride Records web store orders.
2019 Ally Coalition Talent Show Pre-Sale
Tickets for Jack and Rachel Antonoff’s 2019 Ally Coalition Talent Show are now up for pre-order for Town Hall members, and the public on-sale begins Thursday, October 10th at 3pm.
Blink-182’s Travis Barker Hits No. 1 on Rock Songwriters Chart
Travis Barker has hit number one on the rock songwriters chart:
Blink-182’s Travis Barker rises to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Songwriters chart (dated Oct. 5) for the first time, thanks to 15 songwriting entries on the latest weekly Hot Rock Songs survey.
Barker’s “I Think I’m Okay,” with Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud, leads the way at No. 3 on Hot Rock Songs, matching its peak, while 14 Blink-182 songs follow, as the group’s new album Nine arrives at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 94,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music.
New Interview With The Menzingers
Greg Barnett of The Menzingers talked with Atwood Magazine about the band’s upcoming album:
Absolutely. I don’t think in this kind of climate, you can not go full in with it. I think we’d be doing a disservice to the song and how we all feel if we didn’t fully go in and make a statement. That was one of the most difficult parts of writing that songs. I wrote like 20 verses-I can’t even count. We wrote them over and over again, because it’s hard to say everything you want to say in three and a half minutes. It’s really tricky. I wanted to stay on theme of who I am as a person. I didn’t want it to come off as pretentious. I wanted it to feel how I typically write songs. It was a challenge to hone in the lyrics to a way that I felt comfortable with and happy with and said as much as I wanted to say. At the end, I was really happy.
Green Day Team Up With NHL
Green Day have teamed up with the NHL:
The league is announcing a two-year partnership with Green Day that includes an opening song for NBC Sports’ “Wednesday Night Hockey.” The song, “Ready, Fire, Aim” isn’t custom-made for the NHL and will be on Green Day’s next album, though it’s likely a matter of time until Green Day or another band follows what Hank Williams Jr. and later Carrie Underwood did for the NFL.
Post Malone Tops the Charts This Week
Post Malone has the number one album in the country this week.
Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding nets a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as it earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 26 (down 25%), according to Nielsen Music. The album is the first to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 in nearly a year.
Blink-182 came in at number three:
Blink-182’s new album Nine bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, granting the rock trio its eighth top 10 effort. Nine bows with 94,000 equivalent album units earned (with 77,000 of that sum in album sales).
Green Day Release New Coffee Bundle
Green Day have released a “Father of All…” coffee blend.
Concord Music Buys Victory Records
Ed Christman, writing for Billboard:
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Billboard estimates that the Victory company had $4.5 million-$5 million a year in revenue and further estimates that Concord paid somewhere in the range of $27 million-$34 million for the Victory company. […]
The Victory catalog will go under Concord’s Craft Recordings catalog team and “to the extent that we put out new albums from existing artists, Fearless is the most likely home” to market such albums, Salm says.
Meanwhile, Victory’s 30-person staff will remain employed by Brummel, who sources say has a “limited” non-compete clause that will allow him to pursue opportunities in the music business going forward, if he so chooses. The staff will work on Brummel’s other businesses which includes a third-party merch business, plus some real estate and other investments. Also, they will be involved in assisting with on-boarding Victory’s catalog and royalty payments onto Concord’s platform over the next few months.
Vacationer Releases New Album
Vacationer’s new album, Wavelengths, is out today on all streaming services.
Foo Fighters Release New EP
Foo Fighters have released a new five song EP on streaming services.