Daily Edit | May 28

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To create the cover art for Oasis’ 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe, photographer Michael Spencer Jones spent around 200 hours “trawl[ing] through all 143 outtakes I had of the shoot and painstakingly stitched separate photographs together to make the composite. I didn’t keep track but there are probably over 100 different photos or bits of photos used in the image.” 

Hardcore band Knocked Loose has earned their first Top Hard Rock No. 1 album with You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. Of the album’s 24,000 album equivalent units, 14,000 came from vinyl sales. 

What the UK general election could mean for the music business, ticketing, AI, and big tech: “Unless Sunak achieves an extraordinary turnaround in the next six weeks, Labour leader Keir Starmer is widely expected to be the next resident of Number 10 Downing Street. Should that happen, Starmer has said he plans to make a number of reforms that will impact the world’s third-largest recorded music market, touring and regulation of the tech industry, all of which will reverberate beyond the United Kingdom’s borders.”

Eight months and 10 million users later, AI music startup Suno has raised $125 million in their most recent funding round.

Signings

Kanye West | touring | 33 & West

Vincent Mason | records | Interscope