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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As promised, SZA dropped four new songs on Sunday, ahead of her appearance with Kendrick Lamar during the Super Bowl Halftime show, creating a sort of second deluxe edition of her Grammy-winning “SOS” album; the deluxe edition is titled “Lana.” While previously unreleased and technically new, the songs are mostly updated versions of tracks that are at least couple of years old and have been floating around the internet for some time. The updated version includes “Joni” featuring Don Toliver, “Take You Down,” “Open Arms (just SZA)” and “PSA.” Released in December, two years after the original release of “SOS,” the “Lana” version brought the album back to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the 12th non-consecutive week.

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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Is an Exhilarating, Hard-Rocking Documentary of the Band’s First 18 Months

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The world loves a good “rise of” story — one that captures the first months of a now-superstar artist’s meteoric rise, whether it’s Elvis or the Beatles or Madonna or Prince or Nirvana (that sound you hear is keyboards clicking on “Rise of Chappell Roan” biopic scripts). It’s an undeniably compelling premise: seeing how and why the superstar became who they became, before the breakups, crackups and cliches, reliving that first burst of magic almost in real time.

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Cindy Mabe Steps Down as Universal Nashville CEO

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music In a long-rumored move, Cindy Mabe has stepped down from her position as chair and CEO of Universal Music Nashville after nearly 18 years with the company and two in the role, multiple sources confirm to Variety. Mabe took the role in April 2023, a few months after longtime CEO Mike Dungan announced his retirement.

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Was Chappell Roan’s Grammys Speech Naive or Necessary? Why Both Sides of the Debate Are Right, and Sometimes Not

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Late Wednesday evening, an uproar erupted across the music industry over an op-ed published in the Hollywood Reporter, in which Jeff Rabhan (former chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) unpacked some of the implications of Chappell Roan’s passionate statement about music companies owing musicians “a livable wage and life insurance” during her speech accepting the best new artist award at the Grammy Awards. As is the case with many such situations, both sides are right about some things and less right about others.

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Warner Music Announces New Deal With Spotify as Part of Mixed Earnings Report

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Warner Music Group and Spotify have announced a new, multi-year agreement, covering both recorded music and music publishing, that effectively ends the companies’ disputes over the streaming giant’s “bundling” option, which pays rights-holders less in royalties by offering audiobooks and music together for a reduced subscription fee. Universal Music struck a similar deal with Spotify just days ago.

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Black Sabbath Announce ‘Final’ Concert, ‘Back to the Beginning,’ With Metallica, Slayer and More

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Black Sabbath have announced what is being billed as the “final” show by their original lineup — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — a benefit titled ‘Back to the Beginning’ in their hometown of Birmingham, England, taking place on July 5 at the city’s Villa Park. Also performing at “Back to the Beginning” will be Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Mastodon and a supergroup featuring Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, Wolfgang Van Halen and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, who will also act as musical director of the concert.

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Music Publishers Begin ‘Extensive’ Spotify Podcast Takedowns Over Licensing Violations

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Just hours after Spotify announced its first-ever annual net profit, the National Music Publishers’ Association has launched an ongoing takedown initiative against the streaming giant for the unlicensed use of music in podcasts on its platform. Beginning today (Feb.

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Grammy Weekend Raises $24 Million for Wildfire Relief and Other Causes

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Three weeks ago, as wildfires raged across Los Angeles, there was some question over whether it would be in good taste to proceed with Grammy Weekend, even if it were safe to do so. Yet with the go-ahead from local officials, the Recording Academy and its broadcast partner CBS quickly decided to proceed with a reduced schedule of events that would be transformed into fund-raising efforts — and the results of that decision became clear on Tuesday morning, as a rep for the Recording Academy tells Variety that it and its charity-focused partner, MusiCares, raised more than $24 million for wildfire relief and other charitable causes, with almost $9 million raised on Grammy Sunday alone.

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The Grammys Righted Some Glaring Wrongs by Honoring Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Based on purely anecdotal evidence, the common post-show consensus is that the 2025 Grammys were the best in many years on nearly every level: The freshness of the performances, the fittingness of the winners, the heartfelt nature of its efforts to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief, and to an unprecedented degree, the righting of some longstanding wrongs, notably the Recording Academy’s checkered history with Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd. While nearly every presenter on the show referenced the “13,000 voters” who decided the winners — presumably to highlight the enormous number of opinions that are taken into account, and also as a way of publicly dispelling notions of smoke-filled rooms and self-interested machinations — there’s little question that we’re seeing a Recording Academy that has changed dramatically from the haughty, out-of-touch one of two decades ago.

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Read Universal Music Publishing CEO Jody Gerson’s Speech Accepting the Industry Icon Award at Clive Davis’ Pre-Grammy Event

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Jody Gerson is one of the most accomplished music publishers of the last five decades, so it’s no surprise that she was honored with the Recording Academy’s Industry Icon Award at Clive Davis’ Pre-Grammy Event on Saturday night. What is sadly surprising is the fact that as CEO of Universal Music Publishing, she is one of the very few female heads of a major music companies — a number that has been shrinking, rather than rising, in recent years. Gerson took the helm of Universal Music Publishing in 2015, after rising through the ranks at Chappell Music, EMI and Sony Music Publishing, and the company has gone from strength to strength since she took charge.

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Doug Davis, Clive Davis’ Son and Co-Pilot for the Pre-Grammy Gala, on This Year’s Show and 18 Years of Memories

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music In an industry filled with blowhards, Doug Davis flies pretty far under the radar, at least for a major music attorney, son of one of its most legendary executives and, for nearly two decades, co-pilot of that legendary executive’s iconic annual event, the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala. Even those who have known him for years may be surprised to learn that Doug is up for his fifth Grammy this year, as a co-producer of the late President Jimmy Carter’s album, “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration” in the Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording category.

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Three-Fourths of Nirvana Reunite for Bruising FireAid Set With St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett and Violet Grohl

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Fans in the Intuit Dome wondering what hit them may have belatedly realized they were witnessing the closest thing to a Nirvana reunion we’ll get: The band’s three surviving members — Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Pat Smear — blazing through bruising versions of “Breed” with St. Vincent on vocals, “School” with longtime friend and patron Kim Gordon and “Territorial Pissings” with Joan Jett, all filling the lead vocal slot vacated by Kurt Cobain’s death almost 31 years ago.

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The Weeknd Drops New Album, ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow,’ Featuring Lana Del Rey, Travis Scott, Future and More

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Weeknd finally dropped “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the long-awaited third chapter of his “After Hours” trilogy, on Thursday night. While the credits did not initially appear on streaming services, a rep for the artist confirms that it features Lana Del Rey, Travis Scott, Future, Florence + the Machine, Giorgio Moroder, Playboi Carti, Anitta and others — the full tracklist appears below and a full review of the 22-track, nearly 90-minute-long album will appear in Variety in the coming days.

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Billie Eilish Joins Green Day for Soaring Duet on ‘Last Night on Earth’ to Open FireAid Concerts

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music One of the great challenges faced by the events during Grammy Week, including the FireAid benefit, is how to set the proper tone: How do you have a celebratory event like big concert or awards show without seeming tone-deaf to the tragedy and loss so many suffered in the Los Angeles wildfires that ravaged the city earlier this month? Green Day and Billie Eilish provided a perfect answer in the opening song from the FireAid concerts — which are being held simultaneously at the neighboring Los Angeles arenas the Intuit Dome and Forum — by duetting on a 16-year-old Green Day song that, regardless, could have been written for this moment: “I’m here to honor you/ If I lose everything in the fire/ I’m sending all my love to you.” Watch it here

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Taylor Swift to Present at Grammy Awards

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It didn’t seem possible that Taylor Swift would miss the 2025 Grammy Awards, and she won’t: Late Thursday, the Recording Academy announced that Swift will be a presented at the show, which takes place Sunday night, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m.

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Clive Davis Picks Five Favorite Duets From 50 Years of His Pre-Grammy Gala

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music For a half century, the hottest ticket in the music industry has been Clive Davis’ Pre-Grammy Gala, staged in partnership with the Recording Academy, that takes place the night before the Grammys. From Beyonce to Barbra, from Jane Fonda to Jay-Z to Nancy Pelosi, the show has a completely unique guest list and roster of performers that reflect both the past year and the past several decades of popular music.

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AEG Names Adam Wilkes and Alex Hill to Lead Expanded International Business Operations

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music AEG has announced a realignment of its international business divisions. As part of this change, the company will implement a new management structure. Adam Wilkes will assume responsibility for AEG Presents’ regional operations in Asia-Pacific and Europe, in the new position of President and CEO of AEG Presents, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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Spotify Wins Lawsuit Over Bundling Royalties

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Spotify has defeated a lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective that accused the streaming giant of unfairly cutting royalty rates as part of its audiobooks-music “bundling” option announced last year, according to Billboard. Although the MLC claimed that Spotify had “unilaterally and unlawfully” cut its music-royalty payments via the bundle, a federal judge ruled that its move was supported by “unambiguous” regulations.

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Sony Music Publishing Names Katie Welle President, Head of U.S. A&R

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Sony Music Publishing has announced the promotion of Katie Welle to president, head of u.S. A&R, effective February 1. Welle, who most recently served as senior vice president of creative for the company, will succeed Walter Jones, who is leaving Sony Music Publishing.

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Spotify Paid Out $10 Billion to the Music Industry in 2024 — $1 Billion More Than Last Year — and $60 Billion Total

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006. The company made the announcement in a blog post Tuesday morning.

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‘Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music’ Is a Spectacular, Definitive History of the Most Influential Music Stage in America: TV Review

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music No matter how a person might feel about “Saturday Night Live”’s jokes or cast or host choices, there’s absolutely no denying that for the better part of the last half century, it has been the most consistently powerful platform in America for musicians, whether they’re superstars, rising stars or falling stars. Virtually every major artist has performed on it, and for musicians on the rise, it’s a sign that they have almost arrived, that they’ve attained enough popularity or curiosity or — perhaps most important — controversy for the show to take a chance on them.

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