Music Industry Moves: Warner Chappell Music Names Rachel Jacobson Senior VP of Creative Sync

Hollyoaks star David Tag, and his long-term partner, beauty therapist Abi Harrison have announced the birth of their second child, a son. The actor, who is most known for playing Sylver McQueen in the soap, was tagged in a series of images on Instagram by Abi, who shared with her followers that the pair were now parents for the second time.

Deadline reported Friday. The Paramount project was originally intended to stream on Paramount+ but will now be released on the big theaters on Jan.

midyear revenue report.Retail revenue, which includes revenue from consumer streaming services, jumped 9.3 per cent to an all-time first-half high of $8.4billion, while wholesale revenue is up 8.3 per cent to $5.3 billion.Streaming revenue increased by 10.3 per cent from last year, reaching $7billion, which makes up 84 per cent of music revenue in the United States. The RIAA explicitly notes that although revenue from paid subscriptions grew 11 per cent to $5.5billion, the total number of paid subscriptions only grew 6 per cent.

The Bling Ring is the focus of a new documentary from Max.

Charna Flam Happy Hunger Games! Lionsgate has dropped the second trailer for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Based on Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel of the same name, the upcoming film follows a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), who strives to revive his family’s legacy. In the midst of his efforts, he is tasked with mentoring District 12’s tribute and Panem’s favorite, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). Coriolanus works with Lucy to keep her alive in the Hunger Games, and he begins to battle between good and evil.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery aims to make all of the sporting events it has developed over the years for cable crowds available to streamers at the same time — so long as they are willing to pay extra for the privilege. The media giant, which enjoys lucrative rights deals with the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NHL and the NCAA “March Madness” tournament, wants to use those properties to bring eyeballs to Max, its streaming service.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Rachel Bloom remembers the exact moment that she decided her latest stage project, “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” couldn’t be the lightweight standup show she was hoping it would be. It was when she stood in front of a white board looking at an outline of the jokes she intended to tell, reading phrases like “pregnancy tests” and “my butthole is like the hurricane.” Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “There’s nothing dumber than seeing standup bits or comedy songs bullet-pointed out,” Bloom says on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Director Sam Jones won plaudits earlier this year for his HBO documentary “Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed,” one of the best-regarded music docs since his own “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco” back in 2001. He also got attention this year for his HBO documentary series “Smartless: On the Road,” with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s been a challenging time lately for Maren Morris in the country music world, as her views on key issues of the day have been in conflict with those of some of country’s more right-leaning artists or fans. She addresses the toll this has taken on her in a music video that came out Friday morning for a new song, “The Tree,” that makes it clear she’s feeling some estrangement from the genre, or even ready to think about moving on — although, ironically, the style of the song couldn’t be more country.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus has claimed that there is a “tidal wave” of sexual abuse cases throughout the music industry that have yet to come to light.The broadcaster described the music business as “a boys’ club” which was “kind of rigged against women” when speaking to a House of Commons committee, and claimed that many women have yet to come forward with their stories out of fear for their careers.“There needs to be some sort of a shift in women feeling like they’re able to speak out without their careers being compromised, [but] I don’t know how that can happen,” the DJ said when speaking to the Women and Equalities Committee (via BBC News).“I feel like there are a lot of revelations that have not been exposed… It’s infuriating, the amount of women who have stories of sexual assault that just kind of buried them and carried them. It’s just unbelievable.”She continued: “So I do think if something were to happen, like if one person was to speak that had enough profile where it got media attention, I think there could be a kind of tidal wave of it.

Owen Warner's mum Polly has opened up about her battle with the congenital heart condition Ventricular Tachycardia, which has left her needing a heart transplant. Polly, 57, was first diagnosed with the condition at just 18 months old, after she was discovered to have a leaking mitral valve and narrowing of the aorta. She has since been suffering problems her entire life, and underwent invasive heart surgery for the first time at the young age of 11.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Range Media Partners has announced that Casey Robison will join the company as the head of its new music publishing division. Robison was most recently executive VP of A&R at Hipgnosis Songs, where he led the company’s pop division, working with songwriters and artists including Monsters & Strangerz (Jordan and Stefan Johnson), John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, Normani, Teddy Geiger, Imad Royal, Dan Wilson and others.

Thania Garcia Jennifer Lopez has signed a new recording and publishing deal with BMG to release her ninth studio album, “This Is Me…Now.“ Lopez announced the project nearly a year ago and said it would be released in 2023, although a release date has yet to be confirmed. It will be the singer’s first full-length effort in nine years and is a nod to her third studio album, “This Is Me… Then.” Similarly, the tracklist includes present-day versions of her songs like “Dear Ben.” The 13-song set is produced by J.Lo, Rogét Chahayed, Angel Lopez, and Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, and was recorded between 2022 and 2023.

Rachel McAdams is headed to Broadway!

Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) will star in the Broadway premiere of Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane in a spring production directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window).

Brent Lang Executive Editor Rachel McAdams will star in the Broadway premiere of “Mary Jane,” a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog. Anne Kauffman, who recently oversaw an acclaimed revival of “The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window,” will direct.

Thania Garcia Latin singer-songwriters Mau y Ricky have launched a new independent label venture called Why Club Records in partnership with Warner Music Latina. The duo are listed on the roster and will continue to be managed by Armando Lozano, who has supported the Venezuela-born and Miami-based Latin Grammy-nominated artists since their first placement and as fresh Warner Latina signees in the early 2010s. They’ve co-written plenty of radio hits for artists like Karol G, Ricky Martin, Maluma and Anitta, with one of their biggest being the Hot 100-charting “Sin Pijama” for Becky G and Natti Natasha.

Rachel Zegler has back hair and she’s not ashamed of it.

As Gogglebox made its triumphant return to our screens with its 22nd series on Friday (8 June), Ellie Warner was given an unexpected surprise when her young son Ezra decided to greet her with a poo. The unexpected gift from baby Ezra, came as Ellie and her sister were sat on the couch at the very beginning of the episode which would kick start the new series of the Channel 4 show.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “I don’t know when we decided to let people write songs about things that they don’t do,” says country star Ashley McBryde. “As far as the singer-songwriter sentiment, I don’t know when we stopped demanding that of ourselves.