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Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicThe Foo Fighters’ latest, “Medicine at Midnight,” is not a product of the pandemic. Although the band was holed up in a house recording it — a rented property in the hills above the San Fernando Valley — COVID didn’t play a role since the album was completed ahead of the March 2020 lockdown.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMusic manager Adam Mersel has brought his Immersive Records label to Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA). First to join the Immersive/Geffen roster is TikTok star LILHUDDY (aka Chase Hudson).

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicChris “CM” Murphy, the longtime manager of Australian band INXS (from 1979 until 1995 and again in the 2000s), has died in Sydney following a battle with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. He was 66.A representative for Murphy Petrol Group shared the news in the early morning hours of Saturday (Jan.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMike Dean has made a name for himself as one of hip-hop’s top producers, having worked on seminal records by the likes of Kanye West (“College Dropout,” “Late Registration,” “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”), Travis Scott (“Astroworld”), Beyonce (“Lemonade”), Pusha T (“Daytona”)  and dozens more.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicJustin Bieber’s New Year’s Eve concert was appointment viewing for his millions of fans, not just because it was available to all for a reasonable fee of $25 (free to T-Mobile customers) on a night when much of the world remains locked down due to the unrelenting coronavirus pandemic, but also because the engagement represented his first show in three years.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicA year ago, the guitar was in dire straits. With songs like Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings,” Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” and Panic! At the Disco’s “High Hopes” among the most consumed of 2019, programmed beats and horns were the sonic flavors of popular music.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMichael Alig, the New York City club promoter who in the early- to mid-1990s made a name for himself as the leader of the “Club Kids,” and was subsequently convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the 1996 death of Andre “Angel” Melendez — the inspiration for the 2003 film “Party Monster” starring Macauley Kulkin — has died of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 54.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicIn a significant and much-needed collaboration, the two leading performing rights organizations (PRO) in the U.S.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicUniversal Music Group chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge was one of the first music industry executives to contract COVID-19 this year, entering the hospital shortly after his 60th birthday celebration at the end of February.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicIt didn’t take long after news broke Saturday that legendary country musician Charley Pride died of complications from COVID-19 for musicians and industry professionals to speculate whether he contracted the virus at the Country Music Association Awards (CMAs), which took place on Nov. 11 in person though socially distant.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicIf chart momentum keeps apace for Columbia Records in these final days of 2020, the label could lay claim to the No. 1 song in the U.S.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicSome 17 months after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings LLC acquired Big Machine Label Group and all of its recorded music assets, sources tell Variety the veteran manager and entrepreneur has sold the master rights to Taylor Swift’s first six albums.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMy heart dropped on August 25 when I looked on Instagram and saw that John Fredericks, aka the musician John the Baptist, was leaving Manhattan.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicBebe Rexha is celebrating her freedom.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicBebe Rexha has signed with Sal & Co. for management, where she will be represented by Wassim “Sal” Slaiby and Dina Sahim.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicSylvia Rhone smashed the C-suite ceiling long before such buzz words as diversity and gender parity came into the lexicon. In 1994 at the age of 42, she was running a major record company as chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group’s Elektra (Metallica, Missy Elliott and Natalie Merchant were among the hit artists on the roster at the time).

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, Music“Dynamite,” the first single recorded entirely in English by South Korean pop sensation BTS, is a bonafide hit in the U.S. following a successful launch at Top 40 radio coupled with key television appearances, like the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicWassim “Sal” Slaiby, CEO of SAL&CO and XO Records and manager of The Weeknd, Doja Cat and French Montana, among others, is helping raise money to aid victims of the Beirut explosion. Slaiby was born in Lebanon and immigrated to Canada as a teenager.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMartin Birch, the British music producer whose credits include albums by Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Black Sabbath, has died. He was 71.News of his death was revealed by Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale on Twitter on Aug.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicCall it a match made in internet heaven. Some six years after JoJo Siwa, 17, first started tinkering with music on her computer and happened upon her pop predecessor JoJo, who, at age 13, had a No.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicIt’s been 25 years since the Grateful Dead played their last show at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995. A month later, on Aug.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe Paley Center for Media’s annual PaleyFest television festival is joining the ever-growing list of events pivoting to virtual production amid the coronavirus pandemic.Among the series taking part in this first-ever PaleyFest are YouTube’s “Justin Bieber: Seasons” (moderated by Variety‘s own Shirley Halperin), NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” FX on Hulu’s “Mrs.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMitch Slater, a trailblazer of the concert promotion business, died on July 21 following an extended illness. He was 59.His brother, former Capitol Records CEO Andrew Slater, commented:“To most people he was one of the architects of the modern concert era, but to me he was my baby brother.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMarc Geiger, WME’s global head of music, is exiting the agency he’s called home since 2003. In addition, WME’s Co-Head of Music Sara Newkirk Simon will transition to a consultant role with WME parent company Endeavor.Lucy Dickins is upped to co-head of WME’s Music division, joining Scott Clayton and Kirk Sommer who also retain the titles of co-heads.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicThree weeks after Jason Derulo came under fire for sampling a piece of music by rising New Zealand musician Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685) without official clearance, the singer has been given the green-light to use “Laxed (Siren Beat),” one of TikTok’s most explosive viral tracks, as the basis for his new single “Savage Love.”Columbia Records, which signed the Auckland high school student, announced on Thursday, June 11, that “Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMusic executive Steven Victor is launching a philanthropic arm of his Victor Victor Worldwide (VVW) venture. With it, the Universal Music Group senior vice-president of A&R is committing $1 million to the newly formed Victor Victor Foundation (VVF).Victor, whose background includes running G.O.O.D.

A day of town halls and conversations is planned with Spike Lee, Kane Brown and the attorney for George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery and Breonna Taylor set to speak.

The tastemaker is a pioneer of music supervision having helmed soundtracks for the "Twilight" franchise and "Grey's Anatomy."

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