Boys Like Girls Debut Gets New Pressing

Boys Like Girls’ debut album is getting a new vinyl pressing.

MxPx have released a video for “What I Tell Myself.”

Blink-182 will release One More Time on October 20th. The track listing can be found below and some new pre-orders are up. The new single will be out this Thursday and a new album trailer has been released.

Jason Tate 6 days ago

Olivia Rodrigo has the number one album in the country.

In the U.S., GUTS sold 302,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release. Rodrigo is the first female artist in nearly a decade to debut her first two albums atop the Billboard 200 chart. The album also claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Album Sales.

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RIAA Share Mid-Year Revenue Report

Jason Tate 6 days ago

The RIAA have released the 2023 mid-year report:

In the first half of 2023, recorded music revenues continued to set new milestones and reflect the results of more than a decade of industry transformation. Total revenues grew 9.3% at estimated retail value to an all-time first half high of $8.4 billion. At wholesale value, revenues grew 8.3% to $5.3 billion. Paid subscriptions continued to be the strongest driver of revenue growth, increasing by more than $550 million and averaging nearly 96 million subscriptions during the period.

Jann Wenner Removed From Hall of Fame Board of Directors

Jason Tate 6 days ago

Pitchfork:

Jann Wenner has been removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s Board of Directors, a representative for the Hall of Fame confirmed to Pitchfork. The Rolling Stone founder has faced criticism for comments he made about Black and female musicians in an interview published yesterday in The New York Times, wherein he also admitted to letting interview subjects edit their own transcripts while at Rolling Stone.

Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music

Jason Tate 6 days ago

Wall Street Journal:

To keep the “skip rate” as low as possible, musical artists are increasingly moving a song’s hook or chorus to that initial 30-second sweet spot. Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, the hosts of the “Switched on Pop” podcast, have coined the term “Pop Overture” to describe a new trend in which a song “will play a hint of the chorus in the first five to 10 seconds so that the hook is in your ear, hoping that you’ll stick around till about 30 seconds in when the full chorus eventually comes in.”
Creators are modifying more than just the introductory sections of tracks for optimal performance on streaming. Every track that is listened to for more than 30 seconds counts as a play, but whether a listener makes it all the way through a song helps to determine whether a streaming service like Spotify will recommend similar songs in the future.