Dan Rys is the Director of Business News at Billboard. He specializes in the intersection of sports, arts and entertainment, and the music business, with a focus on music genres and the broader publishing and media landscape. Dan's work has been featured in Yahoo News, The Oswegonian, Billboard, Black Promoters Collective, and MSN.
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Dan Rys focuses predominantly on entertainment, with a strong emphasis on music-related topics. He also covers local sports events in Oswego, New York. If you are looking to reach out to Dan Rys, consider pitching stories related to the music industry such as new trends, emerging artists, record labels or developments in African music. For local sports coverage and events in Oswego State University's hockey teams could be of interest to him as well.
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After a day of wildfire smoke that choked the air and thunderstorms that flooded parts of New York City, Sunday, July 19th dawned bright, clear and
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Trending on Billboard Val Pensa Prior to starting Moonstruck, Pensa spent 15 years at RCA, and was named senior vp/head of marketing in 2021.
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Ahead of four new biopics about The Beatles set for a 2028 release, UMG and Apple Corps have a new licensing agreement in place.
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Stray Kids aespa TOMORROW X TOGETHER and Charlie Puth were among the headliners for the 2026 TMElive International Music Awards, held across two days in Hong Kong this week (Aug. 22-23).
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Dolly Parton age of 80 For Parton, her business sense goes back to the very beginning of her career, when she made the decision alongside
The outpouring of grief following Dolly Parton 's death last week at the age of 80 was universal and apt: The country icon was beloved as few are these days, both for her music and her general Dolly-ness.
annual mid-year report And underpinning a significant amount of that growth is Alliance Entertainment, the biggest indie distributor and wholesaler for physical music in the country.
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Billboard reporters answer some of readers' most frequently asked questions about Suno's new v6 roll out.
