Lorde leaps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with her breakthrough hit "Royals," which claims the summit from Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" after the latter song led for two weeks.

In this edition of Publishing Briefs: Bicycle Music buys the Music Publishing Company of America, Round Hill Music and Mexican Summer team up, Primary Wave and Elm City Music ink a join pub deal, Sony/ATV Music Publishing nabs Lou Reed's catalog, The Weeknd signs with SONGS and much more.

Often thought of as stodgy brick-and-mortar havens for bibliophiles, libraries are trying out a new service that allows patrons to check out streaming movies, music, TV shows and audiobooks from anywhere they want.

When Miley Cyrus appeared in a controversial Vanity Fair photo shoot four years ago, then followed it up with an edgier (and unsuccessful) album, it was considered a career misstep from an artist who we didn't want to grow up so abruptly. Now, Cyrus is astride a "Wrecking Ball" and atop the Hot 100. And why shouldn't it have worked? It worked for Olivia Newton-John 35 years ago. Here's "How Miley Became The One That We Want."

The role of agents will be explored in depth at the “Agents in the New World Order” panel at the 10th annual Billboard Touring Conference in NYC, Nov. 13-14. Moderated by AEG Live/TMG's Ali Harnell, the panel features ICM's Marsha Vlasic, WME's Greg Oswald, AGI's Dennis Arfa, Windish's Tom Windish, CAA's Mitch Rose and Paradigm's Chip Hooper. The panel's followed by the Agency Forum, an informal face-to-face sessions between agents and attendees.

A look at the latest artist signings across the music industry, including label, management, publishing and booking agency deals. Read on for more signings by Downtown Records, Warner Music Group, RCA Records, ICM Partners, the Billions Corp., APA, ole and more.