Dan Rys is the Director of Business News at Billboard. He specializes in the music business, covering various music genres and the intersection of arts and entertainment, including theater. His work has been featured in Yahoo News, The Oswegonian, Billboard, and the Black Promoters Collective.
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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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It didn't take long for Guns N' Roses to burst onto the scene: the band's debut album in 1987, Appetite For Destruction , ultimately vaulted them to rock royalty and spent 261 weeks on the Billboard 200.
By: Dan Rys
On a bitterly cold, blustery Parisian evening, “It's a mix between ‘I can't wait' and ‘What's going to happen?' ” says Henri Jamet, managing
Trending on Billboard And at the same time, the indie world is thriving. Some of the biggest artists in the world — like this issue's cover
By: Dan Rys
Stick Season Noah Kahan Drew Simmons But that new album, The Great Divide , has met and exceeded those expectations: Following its release
By: Dan Rys
Still, some things don't change: As has been the case for much of the past half-decade, big albums from Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl ) and
By: Dan Rys
To Zach Horowitz , director of A&R and management at Disruptor Records, the latest success for the rising pop-country singer/songwriter has been years in the making.
By: Dan Rys
Ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, USA soccer star Miles Robinson talks with rapper-actor Joey Badass about the global event.
By: Dan Rys
Many Hats Distribution, led by Fred Feldman and Zack Zarrillo, has seen success since launching in 2020 and has paid $50 million to artists.
Trending on Billboard Billboard has been covering and interviewing the late Clive Davis since the 1960s, near the start of his storied
By: Ariel King, Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Dan Rys, Rachel Scharf, Melinda Newman, Kristin Robinson, Bill Donahue
Along the way, ownership of the biggest music company in the world was briefly at stake, as a big investor attempted to move in; the constantly-evolving
