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I was being puckish when I first wrote that, thanks to Peloton, “fitness classes are the new music festivals” — but it seems the exercise company may have taken me seriously. On Tuesday morning (June 29th), the at-home fitness company announced All For One Music Festival, a three-day, virtual event …

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story compared the first-day sales of 2020 Record Store Day, which has been divided into three days, to 2019’s Record Store Day, which took place on one day. This story has been updated to more accurately reflect the comparison. Rolling Stone regrets the …

At Workis a weeklyRolling 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. When attorney Dina LaPolt called Tammy Brook early in the morning …

Live From Out There — a subscription-based digital music festival — didn’t have superstars on the bill for its first weekend near the end of March. There were no special discount codes, no merchandise bundles, no particular gimmicks to draw attendees in. It still raked in $100,000 in one weekend. …

This is the third installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first here and the second here. Of Spotify’s thousands of employees, there are few more sought-after by the music …

We already knew Shakira and Jennifer Lopez‘s Super Bowl Halftime Show had enormous cultural impact. The numbers back it up as well: Streams and sales for Jennifer Lopez and Shakira soared on Sunday and Monday well after the lights had gone out at Miami’s Hard Rock stadium, according to Alpha …

In January, Spotify‘s Viral 50 chart, which logs the fastest-growing songs on the streaming platform, was overrun by imposters. It started with “Blueberry Fweigo” by 73bands, which debuted at Number Eight on the U.S. Viral 50 a few days after Christmas. That song only lasted a day before it was …

Jody Gerson knew she had a knack for identifying future stars even when she was just “Xeroxing sheet music and lead sheets” for a publisher in her first post-college job. She went on to prove it at major publishing companies like Warner/Chappell and Sony/ATV, signing 14-year-old Alicia Keys in 1996 …

What does it mean to be popular? That’s a question that music fans and music makers alike have asked for ages — but recently with more urgency than ever before, as listening patterns in the digital age shift and splinter. There are now dozens of ways to tally listeners’ music …

Think of the biggest-earning artists on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the usual megastars might come to mind. Drake, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran and Billie Eilish and Khalid, for example, have all featured at the top of the biggest global charts on the biggest global services …