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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE JUNE 29, 2021 Page 1 of 14 INSIDE BTS’ ‘Butter’ No. 1 on Songs of • Canada’s SOCAN the Summer Chart, Doja Cat’s Appoints Jennifer Brown to CEO ‘Kiss Me More’ Hits Top 5 • Jay-Z’s Lawyer and BY GARY TRUST Damon Dash Clash Over Truth, NFTs and Conflict of Interest What will be the No. 1 song of the summer of 2021? 2020 Songs of the Summer recap. (She also ranks at We’re making our way toward the answer, which gets No. 18 as featured on Saweetie’s “Best Friend.”) SZA • Tencent Increases Stake in Indian clearer each week on Billboard’s Songs of the Sum- charts her first contender on the weekly ranking. Streaming Giant mer chart. Meanwhile, one track debuts on the Songs of the Gaana with $40 The 20-position Songs of the Summer running tally Summer chart: Glass Animals’ aptly titled “Heat Million in New Debt tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative Waves,” at No. 20. Funding performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, fin- • Vince Gill Shines sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memo- ished atop the 2020 Songs of the Summer chart, a Light On Growing rial Day through Labor Day (this year encompassing after Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Management Sector charts dated June 12 through Sept. 11). At the end Cyrus, claimed the title in 2019. Drake’s “In My Feel- In Nashville of the season, the top song of the summer will be ings” won in 2018, following triumphs for Luis Fonsi • Olivia Rodrigo revealed. and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Rules Artist 100 For ’ “Butter” holds at No. 1 on the Songs of the Bieber, in 2017 and Drake’s “One Dance,” featuring Fourth Week, Taylor BTS Swift Surges After Summer survey dated July 3, followed by Olivia WizKid and Kyla, in 2016. ‘Red’ Re-Recording Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U”; Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featur- Check out the top 10 summer songs every Announcement ing DaBaby; and Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” featuring year throughout the Hot 100’s history (from the • Maroon 5 Adds Daniel Caesar and Giveon, in place at Nos. 2, 3 and 4, chart’s start in 1958) and the latest Songs of the Sum- Record-Extending respectively. mer chart in its entirety. 15th No. 1 on Adult New to the Songs of the Summer top five, Doja Pop Airplay Chart Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, ascends 7-5. 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GRAMMY.COM Page 3 of 14 IN BRIEF as a representative in their Membership Canada’s SOCAN department, working her way up to vp of Jay-Z’s Lawyer Licensing and senior vp of Operations & Appoints Jennifer Reproduction Rights. She’s credited with and Damon Dash establishing the organization’s Reproduc- Brown to CEO tion Rights presence, setting records with Clash Over Truth, the company’s Licensing department and BY HANNAH DAILEY introducing new customer-facing tools. NFTs and Conflict Having grown up immersed in music, anadian rights management Brown understands the importance of music of Interest organization SOCAN announced and performance royalties — her father was Tuesday (June 29) that Jennifer the principal songwriter for Family Brown, BY TATIANA CIRISANO Brown has been appointed CEO, Canadian country music band. Ceffective immediately. She has held an in- “I know what it’s like to rely on fair n June 22, a judge sided with terim CEO position since April 2020 and has royalties through hard work and I’ve seen Roc-A-Fella Records in the been with the company since 1995. songwriting as a career firsthand,” Brown label’s lawsuit against co-found- Brown was directly selected for the said in a statement. “I will continue to work er Damon Dash, filing a tempo- position by SOCAN’s board of directors in to make SOCAN the organization that our Orary restraining order prohibiting Dash from a move that makes her the first woman to members and licensed organizations so his alleged attempt to sell a portion of the lead “Canada’s largest music and visual arts richly deserve.” copyright to Jay-Z’s 1996 debut album Rea- rights organization,” according to the press SOCAN also recently announced the ap- sonable Doubt as an NFT. The case contin- release. pointment of Jean-Christian Céré as Chief ues to stir up drama, as Dash is now trying “Jennifer Brown’s work at SOCAN is ex- Membership Officer and Vanessa Thomas to to disqualify Roc-A-Fella’s legal counsel. emplary, her leadership abilities are remark- the role of vp, Member & Industry Relations. Roc-A-Fella is represented in the lawsuit able, and her passion for the interests of our by Alex Spiro, a partner at the New York members and stakeholders is unsurpassed,” office of law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart said Marc Ouellette, president of SOCAN’s & Sullivan. Spiro is also Jay-Z’s personal board of directors. “It is a great pleasure to lawyer. In court documents filed on June see her rise to a role that she earned through 25, Dash claims that Spiro is currently decades of constant commitment and per- representing Jay-Z in shareholder gover- sistent determination to do what is right for nance hearings taking place at Roc-A-Fella our more than 175,000 members and nearly (referred to in court documents as RAF), 300 employees.” and that Spiro’s representation of Roc-A- Brown started with SOCAN 26 years ago Fella itself in this case therefore represents a AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS Congratulations, 2021 BILLBOARD COUNTRY POWER PLAYERS Including our very own Diane Pearson and Lori Badgett. Diane Pearson Lori Badgett SVP and Team Leader SVP and Team Leader Entertainment Division, Entertainment Division, Nashville Nashville Discover The way up® at cnb.com. City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. ©2021 City National Bank. All Rights Reserved. 431479 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE Page 4 5OF of 1914 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] IN BRIEF SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country conflictAlbu of interest.ms; Brett Youngfired back ‘Catc in court documentsh’-es filed Fifth on June Bhushan Airplay of Turturro Law, P.C., called “If anyone is getting desperate or franti- 28, claiming that no conflict of interest ex- Spiro’s filing “clearly intended to avoid the cally makingLea moves toder; try and get Travis the inter- istsDenning since Jay-Z’s and Roc-A-Fella’s Makes interests History consequences of their misguided lawsuit.” est at issue, it is Jay-Z,” Dash writes, “and, it are directly aligned. A conflict of interest “There is absolutely no reason why this is he who should be stopped by this Court would only arise, he argues, if he had previ- meritless lawsuit should continue beyond Samfrom Hunt unlawfully’s second using studio his full-length, personal counseland first in overously five represented years, Southside the oppositionsales (up 21%) (meaning in the tracking Thursday,” week. On Country he added, Airplay, “so itwe hops are 18-15 hopeful (11.9 mil- (MCAto file Nashville/Universal lawsuits in the name Music ofGroup RAF.” Nashville), debutsDash at No. himself 1 on Billboard ). ’s lion audience impressions, thatup 16%). the Court will take swift and appropri- TopRoc-A-Fella Country Albums was chartfounded dated in April 1995 18. by In Dash, its first week“Dash (ending was April trying 9), it to steal RAF, Inc.’s prop- ate actions against RAF and its counsel at earned 46,000 equivalent album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingJay-Z and to NielsenKareem Music/MRC “Biggs” BurkeData. , each of erty — to the detriment andof the total company Country Airplayand No.Thursday’s 1 as “Catch” hearing.” (Big Machine Label Group) ascends whomSouthside own marksa third Hunt’s of the second company. No. Dash1 on the its other shareholders. Jay-Z and RAF, Inc.’s 2-1,Reached increasing by phone, 13% to 36.6 Spiro million offered impressions. a single chartwrites and that fourth he does top 10. not It opposefollows freshmanthe prelimi LP- interests are therefore directly aligned,” wordYoung’s response: first “Nonsense.”of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallonary restraining, which orderarrived preventing at the summit him in from No - he writes. “Nor does Quinn Emanuel have out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He vemberselling 2014the Reasonable and reigned forDoubt nine copyright, weeks. To date, “as ‘privileged information concerning the followed with the multiweek No. 1s “In Case You Montevallo has earned 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionI do not in own album the sales.