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Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage. “Faith,” the second posthumous album from Pop Smoke, includes ...
Pop Smoke’s success was sudden, and was far from guaranteed. Before late 2018, he’d never recorded music at all ... everyone was doing the Woo dance. It was pretty special.
Steven Victor‘s Victor Victor Worldwide label had a very strong summer, dropping Pop Smoke‘s “For the Night ... to a cross-label role at Universal Music Group, which distributes VVW ...
Warner Chappell Music has announced it has entered into a global co-publishing agreement with the estate of Pop Smoke. The late New ... growing demand for upbeat dance tunes during the coronavirus ...
It's been five months since Pop Smoke's death and just over a year since ... Then it was joined by the even more irresistible "Dior." That music remains an artifact of the New York summer ...
Following his death, Pop Smoke's one day total streams increased 392%, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data's 2020 Mid-Year Report. His album "Meet the Woo 2" debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.
Nearly two years after the death of beloved NYC rapper Pop Smoke, fans of the artists are finally hearing details on the last words the drill rapper spoke before his death. In an episode of WE tv ...
Pop Smoke’s voice was more than music—it was movement. From the streets of Canarsie, Brooklyn to the top of the charts, he helped define a new era of New York drill and left an indelible mark ...