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In Rolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Katie Vinten studied film at New York University, never thinking she’d go into the …

There was a telling stat buried within the financial results of BMG, the recorded music and publishing company with a $670 million-plus annual turnover, last week. According to its German parent Bertelsmann, BMG’s total recorded music streaming revenue in the first half of 2020 was up by 26% year-on-year — …

Taylor Swift‘s Folklore, which dropped by surprise last week, pulled in more than 72 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. on Friday, putting itself miles ahead of 2019’s Lover. The latterearned 44.3 million first-day streams — even though its standard edition is two tracks longer than that of Folklore. …

Lady A, the Grammy-winning country trio known as Lady Antebellum until a few weeks ago, has sued Seattle blues artist Lady A, whose real name is Anita White, over a dispute for the rights to the name. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of …

InRolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Shane McAnally is a big advocate of finding a crew. When he arrived in Nashville …

InRolling Stone‘s weekly series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. File transferring doesn’t have the most glamorous sheen. But the music business relies on …

This is the ninth installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. Legal battles are brewing between music venues and insurance companies — and Ivy Room is ready to fight. “We’re fighting, fighting, fighting every day to hang …

Some of the largest companies and organizations across the music and entertainment industries have issued a letter to Congress asking for financial relief in light of the economic impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The letter, issued to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate …

What is the path to a Grammy? It’s supposed to go this way: The Recording Academy, the Grammy Awards’ parent organization, receives an avalanche of submissions, organizes them by category, and sends them to its 12,000 eligible voting members, who select around 20 contenders per category by popular vote. That …