The Hollywood Basic Crafts are putting the ball firmly in the studios’ court to strike new three-year deals with the below-the-line unions before the clock strikes midnight on July 31.
06.06.2024 - 13:05 / variety.com
Mark Sutherland Rock music and streaming have rarely been a successful combination – but the surprise release of British metal stars Bring Me the Horizon’s new album, “Post Human: Nex Gen”, is bucking that trend. Craig Jennings, CEO of the band’s management company, Raw Power Management, saw the album rack up over 70 million worldwide streams in its first week of availability, landing at No.5 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, despite the lack of a physical release.
Jennings predicts it will pass 100 million streams by the middle of its second chart week. (Read Variety‘s recent interview with Bring Me the Horizon frontman Oli Sykes here.) “This is a band that streams harder than any other rock band in the world,” Jennings claims. “We’re doubling what the last album [2020’s “Post Human: Survival Horror”] did in terms of streaming – all the results are going to be much stronger, so it’s very encouraging.” Jennings, who co-manages the band with Raw Power’s U.S.
head Matt Ash, admits the band’s request to rush-release the album straight after its completion gave “everybody on my team and the key people at RCA/Sony a complete heart attack,” he laughs, but adds the campaign came together very quickly. “In a parallel world, [frontman] Oli Sykes would have probably just put it out on his Instagram account,” Jennings says. “While record companies always want as much time as possible to set records up.
The Hollywood Basic Crafts are putting the ball firmly in the studios’ court to strike new three-year deals with the below-the-line unions before the clock strikes midnight on July 31.
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and Hugh Grosvenor, recently wed in what’s been called the society wedding of the decade.Royal weddings always seem to cast a spell over us—it’s like watching a fairytale come to life—but they’re somewhat rare events. In Great Britain the in 2011 was a major event and the mood board for many dream weddings, of course.
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