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Behind almost every hit song is a team of unstoppable writers. And in 2020, you can trace many of them back to a company called Mega House.

Jeremy Levin and David Silberstein founded Mega House to manage songwriters and producers nearly 10 years ago, out of a Northern Virginia abode, with one best friend for a client.

Richie Sambora is selling the rights to his nearly 200-song catalog to song-acquisition investment company Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Hipgnosis announced on Monday.

Financial details between the company and the former Bon Jovi guitarist weren’t specified, but given Merck Mercuriadis’ reputation to overpay for his acquisitions and the number of hits Sambora co-wrote, it’s safe to assume Sambora is walking away with a hefty paycheck. Still, the real winner here is music-manager-turned-investor Mercuriadis, who just added “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” and “Wanted Dead or Alive...

Thomas Rhett looks back fondly on the vehicle that transported him into adulthood in “That Old Truck,” the latest release from his upcoming album Center Point Road. The follow-up to Rhett’s 2017 release Life Changes, Center Point Road will be available May 31st.

A gentle, mostly acoustic number that veers off from the dance-inflected country-pop of Rhett’s current single “Look What God Gave Her,” “That Old Truck” — penned by Rhett with Julian Bunetta, Kamron Kimbro and Ryan Tedder — offers up a series of vivid snapshots from Rhett’s coming of age.

Nick Jonas is breaking free with "Chains." The former Disney Channel star — musically noted as one-third of the wildly popular Jonas Brothers, which disbanded last October— debuted his first solo single off his upcoming Island Records album this week: a silky, seductive track co-written with Jason Evigan, Ammar Malik and Danny Parker that distinctly steers clear of his bubblegum-pop past and his Administration "side project," which he established to intentionally combat the creative limits and commercial success of the Jonas Brothers. Photos And Then There Was One... Music's Most Successful Breakout Solo Acts "What was

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It feels almost unfair to rag on Pitbull’s video for “Wild Wild Love” featuring G.R.L., when it could be so much worse… but we’re not going to let that stop us. Pitbull, who, unlike my colleague Katie Hasty, I have a begrudging fondness for, is calling it in on this folktronica tune that tries to make “Timber’s” success strike again. This time, instead of Kesha, his co-ed counterparts are the members of G.R.L., an assemblage of hair and breasts and legs that that Pussycat Dolls' mastermind Robin Antin cooked up in her music laboratory. Pitbull, who co-wrote the tune with Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Ammar Malik, Alexander Castillo Vasquez and Henry Walter (yes, it took six people to come up with this with Martin sleepwalking through it), is clearly taking one for the team as he surrounds himself with the quintet as...