RS Pro

TheRecording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards, announced Wednesday amid a number of rule changes that it is renaming the “Best Urban Contemporary Album” category. The category — which was added into the Grammys in 2012 and whose name has been the subject of increasing criticism — will now …

At Workis a Rolling Stoneseries exploring how decision-makers in the fast-changing music business spend their hectic days — as well as what burgeoning ideas they’re keen to explore, what advice they’d give to industry newcomers, and more.Readearlier interviews here. Few people have a résumé as eclectic as Paris Cabezas. He …

Following continued criticism over their refund policies, Live Nation has amended its previously announced plan for concerts canceled or postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported Saturday. “Fans, we hear you. We don’t want you to be waiting in limbo while shows are being rescheduled,” Live Nation …

By and large, major music companies will be thankful not to be Disney right now. The “Happiest Place on Earth” has had fair reason for glumness of late, due to the economic turmoil evinced by, you guessed it, the knock-on effects of COVID-19. Disney’s annual revenue in fiscal 2019 stood …

This is the tenth installment of Rolling Stone’s seriesAt Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Readearlier pieces in the series here. When John Mayer was just a promising new guy with a ton of potential, he needed …

UPDATE (3/16): iMarkkeyz, the producer of “Coronavirus,” has confirmed that he is in contact with Cardi B‘s management team, and this story has been updated to include his comments when reached. Last week, Cardi B began to worry about coronavirus and took to Instagram to zealously announce that “shit is …

In a neck-and-neck finish, Selena Gomez‘s Rare debuts at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, knocking Roddy Ricch‘s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial off its perch by 2,000 album units. Rare, Gomez’s third studio album, moved 108,600 units during the week of January 10th through …

Genius filed a lawsuit against Google in Brooklyn court on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Genius, a site known for crowd-sourcing hip-hop lyrics (and related annotations) from listeners and occasionally artists, is accusing the massive search engine of “misappropriating content from Genius’s website” and using it “for [Google’s] …

It’s an exciting time for the owners of Universal Music Group. Paris-based Vivendi, parent to the world’s biggest recorded music company, updated its shareholders this month with the news that a $3 billion–plus deal with China’s Tencent — the latter company is set to acquire 10%–20% in UMG – should …

Most residents of Los Angeles view their daily commute as a traffic-clogged nightmare. Anne Kavanagh sees all that dead time as opportunity. Kavanagh is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Steereo, a two-year-old startup that pays ride-sharing drivers to play independent artists’ music, effectively turning drivers into indie promoters. …