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”Labels or rights holders agree to be paid a promotional recording royalty rate for streams in personalized listening sessions where we provided this service,” Spotify writes.

Surfer, the iconic magazine which has chronicled surfing and surf culture since 1960, has shut down after 60 years in publication, another victim of the COVID economy.

Competing juggernauts in their respective industries, like Billboard and Rolling Stone, and Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, will now fall under the umbrella of the same partnership between their parent companies.

Vinyl and CD sales also fell below ad-supported streaming services for the first time, according to the RIAA's 2020 mid-year report.

A new monthly digital subscription offers ”unlimited access to RollingStone.com on any device.”

"We’ve been a lean operation for all of my tenure, employing a variety of ways to help keep our head above water in an extremely challenging print market," wrote editor Ted Kessler. "COVID-19 wiped all that out."

The 2020 edition of Coachella, which had been postponed from April to October due to the coronaviru and had already not seemed too likely to happen, has now been canceled...

The 30-day window will begin May 1 and will only be available for shows that have already announced rescheduled dates. If something has just been ”postponed” with no new date, ticket holders will will get 30 days to request a refund once the new date has been announced.

CMJ held their last NYC “music marathon” in October of 2015 but have now been bought by British company Amazing Radio who plan on relaunching the festival this fall.

Billboard-The Hollywood Reporter Media Group announced today that they have sold SPIN and Stereogum, which they acquired in 2016. Stereogum has been bought back by founder Scott Lapatine...