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Firebird Lays Out Plan for Investments in Red Light, Mick Management and Access to $1 Billion

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What’s In Karol G’s ‘Ambitious’ Deal With Interscope?

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How Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Returned to No. 1: Breaking Down the Numbers

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Country Power Players: Billboard’s 2023 List of Executives Revealed

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Melinda Newman
Jun 2, 2023 10:00 am

The U.S. Recorded Music Business Is Surging — Can It Return to Double-Digit Revenue Growth in 2023?

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27.7B

total on-demand streams week over week

Number of audio and video on-demand streams for the week ending June 1.

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Charts

Billboard Global Excl. US

1

Idol

YOASOBI

2

Cupid

Fifty Fifty

3

La Bebe

Yng Lvcas x Peso Pluma

Emerging Artists

1

Megan Moroney

2

(G)I-DLE

3

Kali

Top Album Sales

1

Midnights

Taylor Swift

2

Where The Light Goes

matchbox twenty

3

SEVENTEEN 10th Mini Album: FML (EP)

SEVENTEEN

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In its newest Deep Dive, Billboard looks at how distribution for indie labels and acts has become the music industry’s new frontier.

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Billboard Women In Music 2023: Photos From the Show

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