SEEMS LIKE SUMMER IS DOWN TO JUST THREE OR FOUR SECONDS: It’s already July 10th, but 5 Seconds of Summer’s summer may be just beginning-the boy band’s “Amnesia” opens at Number Four, selling 162,000 copies, on the Digital Songs chart, and its lyric video has snagged nearly 4 million YouTube views over the past nine days. How Adam Scott Mastered the Art of Playing the Straight Man His single “Na Na” (which is both a Fugees throwback and a creepy love song about grannies) seemed to be fading after it came out in March, but the video has accumulated nearly 36 million YouTube views and it’s beginning to surge on Billboard’s R&B chart, hitting Number Five this week. It’s perhaps the silliest opening to a hit album I’ve heard this year, but Songz nonetheless has a chance to hang around on the charts. Trey Songz Keeps R&B Flame Alive on ‘Chapter V’ĮATING CAKE = HAVING SEX, GET IT?: “Cake’s on the menu,” Trey Songz sings in the first song (“Cake”) on his new Number One album, Trigga, which sold 105,000 copies. Also, Trey Songz really, really likes cake (see below). At least Taylor Swift is happy (see below). But there’s good news! Artists’ royalty payments have dropped by only $134 million during the past 13 years. And record-label revenues, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, have dropped by $2.3 billion since 2001.
Mid-year record-business sales numbers: gloomy.
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