And The Update Is…May the 4th Be With the Charts: Hits, Headlines & Industry Chaos

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Music Creation, Artists, Music Interviews, Education, Interviews, Songwriters, Music, Songwriting

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to And the Update is.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Ross Golden, and this is the news in the music industry for the week of May 4th.
0:31.1	May the 4th be with you.
0:34.7	Okay, here's some stats for you all.
0:40.4	Choose in Texas by Ella Langley is still at number one on the Hot 100 chart. Congratulations to former guest Luke Dick, who always puts out some of the
0:49.6	craziest songs. For those of you've never heard that interview, that one is awesome. Maybe the craziest story
0:56.3	we've ever had. And also
0:58.3	speaking on former guests, The Great Divide
1:00.4	by Noah Khan is number one at Billboard 200.
1:04.2	Beauty and the beat, still
1:05.7	up at the top of the global
1:08.0	200 chart. How crazy is that?
1:10.4	I mean, almost 15 years later.
1:12.5	What the heck?
1:13.6	You know?
1:14.3	What the heck?
1:15.5	Okay.
1:16.0	Other things that are going on on the Global Charts,
1:18.6	Bring Your Love by Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter debuted.
1:22.1	That debuted at number one on Spotify's top songs.
1:25.5	Debut global chart, that is pretty impressive considering that
1:28.8	Madonna and Sabrina are in different generations and Madonna still putting out
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from And The Writer Is, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of And The Writer Is and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.