This five-paragraph article with two paragraphs of corrections is a good example of how no one is quite sure what the deal is with that (pretty damn good) RIHANNA album that dropped suddenly and awkwardly THURSDAY night. Not even the industry is completely sure; the RIAA has declared it platinum with the quickness, while BILLBOARD and NIELSEN are saying not so fast. And TIDAL, if I'm reading those corrections correctly, is saying "we didn't screw up and leak the album; her label did." Here's THE ATLANTIC trying to sort out, with only one correction, where exactly the album is available. VULTURE wonders whether "ANTI" Might Be the Beginning of the End for the Big Pop Album, which would be a good article to bookmark and save for the next 20 or 30 times the Beginning of the End for the Big Pop Album happens. In an era in which major TV shows can seemingly drop out of thin air, maybe we can stipulate that what it's really the Beginning-of-the-End-of is the age of the Big, Helpful Press Release... 40 musicians you need to know in 2016 (slightly highbrow)... 20 musicians you need to know in 2016 (normalbrow)... The mysterious fate of the three original CBGB awnings (spoiler: none of them is anywhere near NEWARK LIBERTY AIRPORT)... RIP original JEFFERSON AIRPLANE singer SIGNE ANDERSON, who died the same day as PAUL KANTNER... Programming note: I'm on jury duty this week. GIL KAUFMAN, a great writer/reporter who has been chronicling the music world for two decades for ADDICTED TO NOISE, SONICNET and MTV NEWS, will curate tomorrow's newsletter, after which we'll leave these decisions up to the LA COUNTY court system.