The surge of sexual-abuse lawsuits that hit some of the music industry’s most powerful figures last week isn’t over yet, several lawyers tell Rolling Stone. Last week, as the window for New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was nearing a close, it brought forward one of the widest sets of …
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After weeks of rumors and industry reports, Spotify officially announced a significant change in the way its royalty system works on Tuesday, bringing in several new policies that the company hopes will help it combat streaming fraud as well as the sheer volume of content that now lives on the …
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Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) opened with one of the most dominant weeks on the charts in years, as the album takes seven of the Top 10 slots on Billboard‘s Hot 100, the publication announced on Monday. Combined with the Lover hit “Cruel Summer,” Swift took eight of the Top …
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1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart, the publication announced on Sunday, marking Swift’s third album to top the album chart this year. Coming in second this week was K-pop group Seventeen’s Seventeenth Heaven, while Drake’s For All The Dogs took third, Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo …
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Christine McVie’s estate and Pat Benatar have both closed deals to sell rights to their music to the acquisition firm HarbourView Equity Partners, the company tells Rolling Stone. McVie’s estate has sold her stake in Fleetwood Mac’s recorded music, which includes shares in hits like the McVie-sung tracks “Songbird” and …
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Just as music licensing service Songtradr officially closed its deal to buy beloved music distribution platform and marketplace Bandcamp from Fortnite creator Epic Games, the platform’s new parent company confirmed on Monday that half of Bandcamp’s staff has been laid off. “Over the past few years the operating costs of …
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A newly proposed bipartisan senate bill seeks to bring greater legal protection to actors and recording artists by discouraging the use of AI-generated deepfakes without their permission. If passed, the “Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act — or NO FAKES Act — would hold those who produce …
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Hipgnosis Songs Group CEO Kenny MacPherson has been placed on leave, the company confirms to Rolling Stone, a day after the publishing executive was accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague nearly two decades ago when he was president of music publishing company Chrysalis. “Hipgnosis Songs Fund has a policy …
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A top executive at Hipgnosis Songs — the company that helped drive the music industry’s copyright acquisition boom while buying catalogs from stars like Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake and the Red Hot Chili Peppers — has been accused of sexual assault, according to a new lawsuit filed in Los Angeles …
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Concert promotion giant Live Nation is ending merchandise fees for artists at all of its club-sized venues across the country, the company announced Tuesday as part of a new developing-artist program that it has launched with Willie Nelson. The “On the Road Again” program, named after Nelson’s famous song, will …
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