Via Hypebot:  A month after launch, Twitter #Music is certainly not setting the world on fire, In fact ,as of yesterday it had fallen out of the top 100 free music apps. They are, however, already iterating to improve the offering. Today, Twitter added charts that look very similar to those previously found on WeAreHunted, the innovative music…

Terrible Records, the Brooklyn-based label founded by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Ethan Silverman, has begun a worldwide partnership with XL Recordings to manufacture, distribute, market and promote certain future releases. The first release under the partnership, “Embracism,” by Australian new wave/industrial artist Kirin J. Callinan, arrives July 2 and will be followed by…

Kirdis Postelle, the former general manager and 17 year veteran of Dr. Dre’s label Aftermath Entertainment, has been named Capitol Music Group’s new SVP of marketing, it was announced today. “Kirdis is an extremely talented and well-rounded executive who brings an enormous wealth of experience to her new position,” wrote Greg Thompson, EVP at CMG…

IGA retains the top spot for the same reasons it topped last week’s competition: The Great Gatsby soundtrack (93.9k in week two) and its hot-selling Lana Del Rey single (121k), along with Imagine Dragons’ hit album (25.2k) and single (141k)—plus the added firepower of Robin Thicke’s exploding “Blurred Lines” (206k; see next item). Doing the…

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis stay in the top perch, on which they’ve taken a long-term lease, while P!nk, Florida Georgia Line, Selena Gomez, Justin Timberlake and Imagine Dragons and Icona Pop enjoy another week on the leaderboard.  But what’s noteworthy is the influx of newcomers, led by Robin Thicke, whose Blurred Lines” makes a stunning…