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In this week's issue of Billboard, we're following four music industry players throughout a 24-hour period to get a sense of the breadth of the music world in 2015: International pop star Ed Sheeran, Def Jam vp No I.D., DJ Tommy Trash and Sarah Stennett, the power manager behind Ellie Goulding, Iggy Azalea and the newly solo Zayn Malik.

Although Stennett couldn't reveal much about the former One Direction singer's new music, she could do one thing for us: Play a brand new Zayn Malik song for the writer of the piece. Unfortunately, we can't reveal much more about it -- just that we heard it from her phone played over a car stereo while tagging along with her for the day in New York City.

Speaking of Malik's boy band past, Stennett tells Billboard, "The environment he was in was all about compromise." Now that he's trying to become his own artist, she has a clear goal and high hopes: "My job is simple: Make sure nobody gets in the way of him becoming an important artist."

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While in New York this week, Stennett has had “extensive meetings” with RCA Records president Tom Corson about Malik, who’s working on his label debut with Frank Ocean producer Malay.

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Zayn Malik has a new song, and that’s all we can say

After lunch with a music lawyer at midtown red-sauce joint Patsy’s,Stennett is off to see her band Lion Babe rehearse in a midtown studio. En route, she starts raving about Zayn Malik, who set Twitter aflame in March by quitting One Direction, saying he wanted “to relax and have some private time.” Stennett now manages him.

Malik sometimes calls Stennett to play songs in progress over the phone, and now she plugs her device into the car’s stereo to do the same for Billboard. But first, she insists that we say nothing about the song, except that it exists. “You can’t write about it. Do you promise?” she asks forcefully. We nod our agreement.

“Turn it up,” she tells the driver. Billboard can now exclusively report that Zayn Malik has recorded a song that Sarah Stennett has on her phone. But that’s all anyone can say. Double-crossing a lawyer is a bad idea.

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