And The Update Is...Pop Stars, Lawsuits & Billion-Dollar Moves
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I am your host, Ross Golan, and this is the news for the music industry for the week of May 11th, |
| 0:23.4 | 2026. I am still writing 2025 on all my checks, which is not true because I use |
| 0:33.3 | like everybody else. Anyway, here's some Billboard news. Choosing Texas is still number one. |
| 0:39.9 | Ninth week. Holy crap. It's been non-consecutive. But I mean, come on nine weeks. That's just |
| 0:45.8 | wild. The Great Divide by Noah Khan is number one for the second week in a row, maybe even third. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't know. It's just still number one. Amputing the beat by Justin Bieber and Nikki Minaj is number one on the Global 200 chart |
| 0:59.8 | for the 15th year. |
| 1:02.3 | That is insane for all three of those. |
| 1:05.7 | I guess you can't really call it news when it's old. |
| 1:09.6 | We'll call it olds. |
| 1:12.6 | All right. Spotify, Brown by Chris Brown is number one on Spotify's top albums debut Global Chart. |
| 1:20.8 | BTS is back in number one on Spotify's top albums, Global Chart there. |
| 1:25.4 | And Beating the Beat, still number one on Spotify's top songs |
| 1:29.1 | global chart for the third week. Again, not a lot of new news. I guess Chris Brown going number |
| 1:34.8 | one on the Spotify's top album's debut global chart is news of some sort. Rock music by Charlie |
| 1:42.5 | XX debuts at number one in the United States for top songs. |
| 1:47.1 | Charlie X-E-X, former guests on, and the writer is. |
| 1:51.5 | We like Charlie, not to mention that I wrote, |
| 1:55.6 | same old love with her, and she's a lovely human and very, very smart. |
| 2:00.6 | Okay, let's get to some cool stories in the business. |
| 2:04.0 | Here's some news. |
| 2:05.5 | Let's do it. |
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