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We are not going to chase the announcement cycle. Everyone already covers it, faster, with better access. Dispatch exists for the pieces that need arithmetic: how a mechanism actually works, what a document actually says, and what a number actually means once you divide it by something.
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Rod Wave put 16 songs on the Hot 100 in one week. A week later, 2 were left.
107 entries and zero top 10s, a No. 1 album anyway: the chart data song by song, including the week after.
UMG needed Drake to prove someone knew. Now ignorance "wouldn't be a defense".
The label's 2025 motion against Drake and its 2026 lawsuit against DistroKid, quoted side by side from the filings.
Drake's FOMO tracklist: 17 titles, 5 outlets, no two lists agree
He gave away an hour of new music in a free film, then made the YouTube copy private. Every reported title, tied to who reported it, and why the chart formula discounts a free release.
The 35-year clock
2 Live Crew lost, Salt-N-Pepa are pending, Biggie's estate split. Three catalogue fights, one mechanism: the termination right.
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Reading a distribution statement without the marketing on top
Line by line: what each entry represents, which ones are deductions dressed as categories, and where the money quietly moves.
Independent, semi-independent, and the ones just labelled that way
Ownership is checkable through filings. We check it and publish the chain rather than the adjective.
What a support slot actually costs an artist
Tour settlements from the opener's side, net of production, travel and buy-ons.
The per-stream rate is not a rate
Why the headline number is an average of an average, and what the distribution underneath it looks like.
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