The Beatles Top U.K. Chart

Bruce Springsteen received the Ivors Academy fellowship Thursday (5/23) night in London. He is the first international songwriter, 27th person overall, to be inducted into the fellowship, which is the awards’ highest honor. Sir Paul McCartney led the induction ceremony joking that “unlike Bruce’s concerts” he would “keep this brief.” The Academy is one of…

According to the BBC a “Houses Of The Holy” album sleeve signed by the members of Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham) has sold for £15,000 ($18.000 U.S.) at auction in the U.K.  Zep’s fifth album, containing “Dancing Days” and “The Ocean,” was released in ’73.  The cardboard sleeve…

Primary Wave Music has partnered with the estate of Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver). The singer and songwriter’s catalog, including publishing copyrights and recording royalties for Weiland’s repertoire recorded for STP and Velvet Revolver, as well as all songs and recordings from his solo career (four albums). “There are few Rock artists that had the impact that Scott Weiland did on music,”…

Queen has been presented with a BRIT Billion Award by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) for surpassing one billion career streams in the U.K. — as calculated by the Official Charts Company. Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor were on hand to accept the award. “I would like to say thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of…

Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” makes its U.K. Top 40 debut, at #22, thirty-six years after the song’s original release. The resurgence is due to the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” a science fiction horror drama, which featured the song in its season four finale.  The series was set in the ’80s and centers around the residents…

The Exies long-awaited comeback EP, “Closure,” containing “Spirits High,” “For “What It’s Worth” and “s.A.D.,” has arrived. “Spirits High” was the band’s first song in fifteen years. “‘Closure’ is about moving from the past so one can walk through the door to the next chapter,” noted frontman Scott Stevens. The Exies formed in ’97 taking their…