Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde Sells Catalog to Hipgnosis Songs

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn a week like this, with a crushing onslaught of strong contenders for the coveted Fri 5, your faithful reviewer feels like an “American Idol” judge, with a whole load of self-imposed rules about what constitutes a great single (as opposed to a great song), trying to disregard considerations like how popular an artist is or isn’t, which record label it’s on, etc. Like…“The new Lil Wayne song ‘Life of Mr.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPrimary Wave has acquired a major stake in the music-publishing catalog of the late Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Allee Willis, which includes such timeless hits as Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and “Boogie Wonderland” among many other songs, the company announced Monday.Also included in the catalog are such songs as “Neutron Dance” by the Pointer Sisters, “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” by the Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, and “I’ll Be There for

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSO. MANY.

 Chrissy Teigan  “accidentally” revealed on her Instagram story that her and hubby  John Legend  are having a baby boy! Teigan uploaded a series of stories documenting a bit of a difficult pregnancy. It started with their sweet daughter Luna bringing mama her water bottle.

air fryers live up to the hype. In doing so, many of us have realized that our assorted kitchenware pieces — pots, pans, serving dishes, even oven mitts — are long overdue for an upgrade.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe $6 plastic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G. at a photo shoot days before his death was auctioned off for $595,000 on Tuesday at the first-ever Sotheby’s auction focused on hip-hop memorabilia.The crown — which was sold by photographer Barron Claiborne — more than doubled the pre-auction estimate of $200,000 to $300,000.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a comparatively slow week leading into the long weekend — which means we only scanned around 100 songs last week instead of the usual 130! — the avalanche of songs is back with a bang.

Twitter to announce the latest showing at the Oppenheim Group lastest showing: Chrissy Teigen’s home!He shared the news in a tweet directed at Chrissy.The tweet read, ‘If you want to see if I’m real, I’ll be showing your house tomorrow morning to one of my clients.’.

Chrissy Teigen appeared unsure as to whether “Selling Sunset” was legit in previous tweets, but star of the show Jason Oppenheim was keen to prove her wrong.

Selling Sunset? There was a lot of —especially when it came to The Oppenheim Group's real estate agents, who fans were convinced had been hired by Netflix.

DEALSHaving bought a whole publishing company earlier this week, Hipgnosis has gone back to signing up individual songwriters – this time Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. “I’m proud to say I have been a vegetarian, now vegan, for 35 years thanks to the influence of Chrissie, and as a result I have four grown children that have never had meat pass through them”, says Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis.

It looks like Jason Oppenheim is showing Chrissy Teigen’s house just weeks after the 34-year-old cookbook author shaded the realtors on Selling Sunset. The 43-year-old president and co-founder of The Oppenheim Group featured in the Netflix series shared the update on Twitter, and fans can’t get enough of the irony.

Jason Oppenheim might have a hand in selling Chrissy Teigen‘s Beverly Hills home after she dissed him and his Selling Sunset team.“@chrissyteigen If you want to see if I’m real, I’ll be showing your house tomorrow morning to one of my clients,” the broker, 43, tweeted on Wednesday, September 9.The Wall Street Journal reported in August that the Cravings cookbook author, 34, and husband John Legend put their 8,500-square-foot property on the market for $23.95 million as they prepare to welcome

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs has acquired Big Deal Music Group and brought board its senior staff, with Kenny MacPherson becoming CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group and reporting directly to founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis. He is joined by Co-Presidents Casey Robison and Jamie Cerreta and Executive Vice President Dave Ayers (New York) as well as Senior Vice President Pete Robinson (Nashville) all of whom have signed new five-year contracts, according to the announcement.

Amanza Smith is actually a big fan of Chrissy Teigen. So, when the cookbook author seemingly doubted the legitimacy of Amanza and her Selling Sunset co-stars’ real estate careers in an Aug. 18 tweet, Amanza had a unique take on what some fans believed was a diss. “I love Chrissy Teigen,” the Oppenheim Group real estate agent stated right off the bat, after we brought up Chrissy’s tweet in an EXCLUSIVE interview on HollywoodLife TVTalk on Sept. 8.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs founder Merck Mercuriadis named Ted Cockle president and Amy Thomson as chief catalogue officer of the company.Cockle was most recently president of Virgin EMI in the U.K., which under his tenure managed the recorded music for artists including Queen, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, George Michael, Justin Bieber, Emeli Sande, The Killers, Lorde and Lewis Capaldi.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCompared with the avalanche of recent weeks, the days leading up to Labor Day weekend were relatively slow for incoming new songs — which means we went through just 80 instead of 120! — providing a great opportunity to shine a light on some lesser-known artists.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor today only — Friday, Sept.