Labels are taking the influx of cash and splurging it on one genre in particular: hip-hop. spent $8.7 billion on music - a 17 percent increase from 2017. Thanks to streaming, the recording industry is no longer hemorrhaging money. “Blockbuster films touch corners of the Earth that are hard to get to,” says Mike Caren of Artist Partners Group. Sade made her first song in seven years, for A Wrinkle in Time.
Kendrick Lamar oversaw music for Black Panther, while Lady Gaga acted in and sang for A Star Is Born both albums spent weeks at Number One.
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But pop stars and movie studios are working closely to create these blockbuster moments. Rock is dead? I refuse to hear that!” - Andy Greeneįew predicted that the soundtrack to Hugh Jackman’s The Greatest Showman would be one of the year’s biggest albums, with more than 1.7 million copies sold to date. “You had three generations of fans there. “We just did 14,000 people at Slayer at a soccer field in Sacramento, and then sold them out in San Jose,” he says. They are filling a void nobody even knew existed.” Alex Hodges, CEO of Nederlander Concerts, agrees. We just sold out three nights at the Aragon Ballroom. “In the pop and hip-hop worlds it’s about the song, and many of them don’t seem to age well,” says Andy Cirzan, VP of Jam Productions. While hip-hop scores billions of streams, that doesn’t always translate to ticket sales Post Malone sold fewer tickets in 2018 than Phil Collins or ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. And in 2019, with the Rolling Stones headlining stadiums and Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger, Elton John, Dead & Co., Kiss and Paul McCartney hitting arenas, the trend is unlikely to reverse itself.
And yet, in the first three quarters of 2018, five of the 10 biggest tours were by rock acts. Rock doesn’t produce hits like it did in 1995 or even 2005. L ook at the singles chart and you’ll see lots of rappers and pop stars, a smattering of DJs and country acts, and almost no rock bands. “Sucks us, but I’m glad I can help.” - Jon Dolan “Women are resonating with music that bolsters their courage and validates their experience of censorship in a hostile mainstream,” Phair says. One common thread for these acts is a love for Liz Phair, who recently featured Soccer Mommy as an opening act. Soccer Mommy), 21, and Historian, by Lucy Dacus, 23.
Her debut, Lush, exalted in emotional directness and sharp songcraft - as did Clean, by Sophie Allison (a.k.a. “There was a lot of amazing guitar music from that time,” says Lindsay Jordan, 19, who records as Snail Mail (top). That sound is enjoying a new golden age, thanks to artists too young to remember the Clinton years. Indie Rock Is in the Middle of a New Golden Ageįor some fans, the glory days of indie rock were the early Nineties, when bands like Pavement and Sebadoh made swirly guitars and introspective lyrics seem cool. (Swizz Beatz, meanwhile, made likely the best album of his career with Poison precisely because he didn’t bother competing for oxygen with younger stars - it’s an exercise in aging gracefully.) The game has changed, and it’s for the better. Travis Scott’s Astroworld was a grand, sweeping album that finally got him out of the long shadow of his mentor, West Noname and Tierra Whack produced thrilling breakthroughs without following anyone else’s rules and Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy was a genuine, surprising tour de force that suggested a long career ahead. The generation rushing to fill the vacuum at rap’s top isn’t always getting there on artistic merit - see the empty gestures masquerading as scintillation on Minaj and 6ix9ine’s hit “Fefe,” or Post Malone’s featherweight blockbuster Beerbongs & Bentleys - but, more often than not, the new class made the case that the genre was due for a change. Nicki Minaj needed a duet with embattled rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine to make any real noise. Kanye West executive-produced five albums over the summer, but it took a Lil Pump feature to get him any traction on streaming services. The year in hip-hop made one thing blindingly clear: The old guard is, well, old.