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Thania Garcia The newly created Grammy Award for songwriter of the year is shaping up to be a tight race, with 62 potential nominees in contention, including such major hitmakers as The-Dream, Amy Allen, Natalie Hemby (pictured above, L-R), Justin Tranter, James Fauntleroy, Shane McAnally, Ali Tamposi, Kat Dahlia, Edgar Barrera, Omer Fedi, Scott Harris, Tobias Jesso Jr., Desmond Child, and dozens more. The names might not be familiar to everyone, and that’s exactly the point: the award is intended to “honors the people whose job is to write songs for others,” Evan Bogart, a Grammy-winning songwriter and chair of the Academy’s songwriters and composers wing, told Variety earlier this month (and whose name is also on the list). “It’s for the ones who can say, ‘Hey, I’m not performing at the Grammys; I’m not on the cover of Rolling Stone and you’re not going to know my name — but you’re singing my melodies and lyrics.’” The songwriters on the list have written for artists ranging from Beyonce, Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes to Maren Morris and Blake Shelton, and many others.

Spotify has claimed it has paid $10bn (£7.7bn) in royalties in 2024, the largest payout to the music industry in a single year.The streaming service said 1,500 artists earned over $1 million in royalties, marking a 10-fold increase in its yearly payout figure from 2024, where $1 billion was given overall.In a report looking at payments of royalties, Spotify called their 2024 payouts “the largest in music industry history”, and compared itself to Tower Records at the peak of the CD era in the early 2000s.However, this comes as artists and industry figures continue to criticise the streaming service over streaming earnings. Earlier this year, nominees for the Songwriter Of The Year category at this year’s Grammy Awards decided to boycott Spotify‘s party for the ceremony.The likes of Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon and RAYE – who have all been nominated for Songwriter Of The Year have announced they will be skipping the streaming platform’s celebratory bash and will also not be performing at the event.However, Spotify said it pays royalties to rights holders, explaining that it does not have “visibility” on where the money ultimately goes as it is dependent on the artists’ individual contracts with their labels – according to BBC News.A spokesperson said: “Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly.

BLACKPINK‘s Jennie has released the video for her song ‘Handlebars’ which features an appearance by Dua Lipa.Released today (March 10), ‘Handlebars’ serves as the fifth single from Jennie’s debut solo album ‘Ruby‘. The track was co-written by Lipa, Rob Bisel, Amy Allen, Brittany Amaradio and James Ghaleb.Directed by BRTHR, the music video opens with a shot of the K-pop singer laying on a circular bed wearing a newspaper print ensemble with television screens all around her.She is then seen walking in a rainy alleyway and snaps her fingers, causing the rain to stop in place.

scored the most nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards. 32 gramophone winner Beyoncé leads the list with 11 nominations, while Swift and Eilish scored 6 and 7 nods, respectively.All three pop divas are vying for Album of the Year: Beyoncé for “Cowboy Carter,” Swift for “The Tortured Poets Department” and Eilish for “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” but all eyes are on Queen Bey to see if she finally wins the highly sought-after honor.

Post Malone, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims and Doechii represented the new guard while Joni Mitchell, Barry Manilow, Michael Buble and Chris Robinson delivered for the veterans at a subdued 50th anniversary of music mogul Clive Davis’ annual Pre-Grammy “Event” — the fact that it was called an “event” in addition to the usual “gala” reflected the more-serious tone of the annual party that was transformed into a fundraiser for wildfire relief. The Davis team worked closely with the Recording Academy’s charity-focused partner MusiCares, which has already given out $4 million to more than 3,000 recipients in the music business who had their lives and livelihoods impacted by the fires.

Grammy Awards have decided to boycott Spotify‘s party for the ceremony.The likes of Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon and RAYE – who have all been nominated for Songwriter Of The Year have announced they will be skipping the streaming platform’s celebratory bash and will also not be performing at the event.While speaking to Billboard, Allen (Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Sabrina Carpenter) and Dillon (Jelly Roll, Megan Marooney) confirmed that their absence is due to Spotify’s treatment of songwriters.“After some thought, I couldn’t in good conscience support this initiative given their approach to bundling royalties,” said Dillon in a statement to the publication. “It is very nice to be individually honored, but it is better for me and my entire songwriter community to be paid fairly for our art.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It’s been a challenging year for Warner Music, with a major overhaul at its Atlantic division and change throughout its business and the industry overall, but it’s safe to say the company is ending 2024 on an up note. Its Warner Records has successfully completed a multi-year turnaround with hits from Zach Bryan, Teddy Swims, Benson Boone and more — and saw its chief execs Aaron Bay-Schuck and Tom Corson named Variety’s Hitmakers executives of the year — and Atlantic is coming off a flurry of hits from Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Rose and Variety‘s Hitmaker of the Year Charli xcx. In publishing, its Warner Chappell division has three of its writers up for the songwriter of the year Grammy — Jessi Alexander, Raye, and of course Amy Allen, who was named Hitmakers songwriter of the year.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It may come as no surprise that Jack Antonoff — polymath collaborator with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde and most recently Kendrick Lamar — thinks of his brain as a hard drive. “Yeah, it’s full of folders,” he says, in the middle of talking about the new Christmas single from his band, Bleachers (and a long digression about Christmas songs in general).

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music With no shade to anyone, there really is no other choice for Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Decade than Jack Antonoff. Yes, he’s won the Grammy producer of the year award for three consecutive trips around the sun, but that’s just one indication of his culture-shifting collaborations with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, St.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If a genetic engineer — or a version of AI way better than the ones we’ve got now — could conjure a perfect song of the summer, there’s a good chance it would sound a lot like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”: frothy, effervescent, instantly identifiable and as catchy as poison oak. It even opens with a tinny-sounding intro, as if it were coming out of a tiny speaker on the beach.

ROSÉ is back with her second single, “number one girl,” from her upcoming solo album!

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Variety has announced the next round of honorees for its eighth annual Hitmakers celebration, presented by AFEELA. All recipients are being recognized either for their breakthroughs as rising stars or for their contributions to the Grammy Awards Best New Artist nominees.

Shawn Mendes just released his brand new, self-titled album Shawn!

Tate McRae had a series of big announcements on Thursday (November 14)!

The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been announced!

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Blackpink member Rosé has announced that she’s signed a global solo deal with Atlantic Records, not long after fellow bandmates Jennie and Lisa announced their own solo contracts. In a post on Instagram, the 27-year-old broke the news that she’d joined the Atlantic roster.

Thania Garcia Sabrina Carpenter still has a lot of “Short n’ Sweet” left to give. In the last couple of days, Carpenter’s official webstore has expanded to include alternative digital albums with a series of bonus tracks added: a cut called “Busy Woman,” another dubbed “Needless to Say” and a demo version of her album’s final single, “Taste.” Carpenter announced the sale of “Busy Woman” on Thursday with a social media post, revealing that the single was written with Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen, who appear across the credits for the parent LP.

Shawn Mendes has announced a series of “special” intimate theatre shows for his upcoming album ‘Shawn‘.Following the release of his brand new single ‘Isn’t That Enough‘, the Canadian singer took to Instagram to reveal the news.“For my friends and family,” he captioned the video, continuing in the comments: “I wanted the first shows back to be special and to play this album for you live in the places we recorded it.“I’ve never played an album top to bottom before but it’s already one of my favourite shows I’ve ever rehearsed. I love you guys, the band and I can’t wait to see you! (sic).”Mendes will stop off in London and Woodstock, NY this August, with following dates in Los Angeles, Brooklyn and more.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Shawn Mendes has announced the release of his upcoming album “Shawn,” dropping on October 18. In anticipation of his new project, he’s putting out two singles — “Why Why Why” and “Isn’t That Enough” — on his birthday, August 8.

Shawn Mendes is returning with a new album!

Thania Garcia singer/songwriter Sabrina Carpenter announces her upcoming North American headlining Arena tour. The “Short n’ Sweet” tour, which kicks off September 23rd in Columbus, Ohio and includes headlining dates at New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Amaarae, Griff and Declan McKenna will be supporting Sabrina on this tour.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Following the massive success of her single “Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter has released her new Jack Antonoff-produced single “Please, Please, Please,” a cut co-written with frequent collaborator Amy Allen off her upcoming album “Short n’ Sweet.” The Bardia Zeinali-directed video begins with Carpenter sitting in a holding cell, only to catch sight of her real-life boyfriend Barry Keoghan as he gets hauled into jail. She’s there for him as he gets let out, and we follow them as she aids in his antics kidnapping a man and robbing a bank.