As this point, it would probably be easier to list the charts on which The Weeknd isn’t No. 1. As The Weeknd is the top musical act in the U.S. again, logging a sixth cumulative week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Sept. 26), he tops the list thanks to his domination on the Billboard Hot…

If you watched Fox Sports anytime since 2011, there’s a chance you heard music for which the networks didn’t pay. So says composer Deyon Davis in a lawsuit filed Monday over hundreds of uses his songs he says have scored sports on Fox without compensation….

Usher, Common, Tori Kelly, Laverne Cox, Katie Holmes, Connie Britton and Sunidhi Chauhan are among the guest performers added to the bill for the Global Citizen Festival, to be held Sept. 26 on New York’s Great Lawn in Central Park. …

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said his company’s subscriber growth has increased since Apple Music entered the marketplace on 6/30. Although Ek declined to give specific details about growth, Spotify is currently the world’s largest subscription music-streaming service with approximately 20 million paying users. It took five years to reach 10 million paying subscribers, but only one year to double that audience—a milestone the company announced…

Seth Meyers, Ray Romano and Chris Botti are joining longtime Stand Up for Heroes performers Jon Stewart and Bruce Springsteen and returning performer John Oliver at this year’s benefit for wounded veterans….

Apple Music’s head DJ Zane Lowe used Instagramtoday to announce, “Get ready for an announcement on Beats 1 this Friday @applemusic.” …

The first annual Asian Music Network conference was held this past weekend, Sept. 10-13, in Seoul’s Digital Media City district. Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), a major television station in South Korea, and the Record Label Industry Association of Korea (LIAK) jointly organized the event. The modest inaugural effort featured a handful of presentations, with topics…

Over the last few years, the major labels have made small investments in startups, but aside from UMG‘s acquisition of EMI, not made many deals to purchase other labels. Now there are signals that major label tech investments could get larger and indie label and event acquisitions are likely to increase….

So much is written about the major record labels, but for most major booking agencies like CAA, WME, ICM, AGI and UTA. From our friends at The International Talent Buyer’s Association (IEBA), who hold a great conference next month in Nashville, comes an infographic that eliminates a bit of the mystery and shares some surprising stats….

Google founder Eric Schmidt made a thinly veiled dig at one of his company’s rivals, Apple, in a recent op-ed for the BBC. Asked how he envisions artificial intelligence being applied to solve real-world challenges in the future, the ex-Google (now Alphabet) CEO said software companies need to ditch “elitist” taste-making processes and embrace machine learning….