Hits magazine is reporting that James Taylor will be the next artist signed to Starbucks’ Hear Music label.
Starbucks will be announcing its second signing on Wednesday.
The company, which had partnered with other labels to release albums by Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock and others, became a standalone unit with Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full."That album has sold 450,000 copies since it was released on June 5.
Taylor most recently recorded for Columbia. A number of pundits have suggested that free agent Joni Mitchell might also  join the label.

Two days after Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" was indelibly etched into the mind of every fan of  "The Sopranos," the band decides to hang it up for the rest of the year and say good riddance to their fill-in singer.  Neal Schon, Ross Valory and Jonathan Cain will be writing songs while trying to find yet another guy who can sound like Steve Perry.

Their official statement after the jump