Amid attendance cancellations from major companies across the technology, film and music industries in light of health fears from the ongoing coronavirus, representatives for the city of Austin announced that it would be cancelingthe South by Southwest festival in a press conference on Friday afternoon. With hundreds of thousands of …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Wayne's 'Funeral' Beats Out Roddy Richh, Eminem for Number One
Lil Wayne’s 13th album, Funeral, debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart for the week of January 31st through February 6th. The album racked up 138,000 album-equivalent units and 118.2 million streams, outpacing the debut from Compton rapper Roddy Richh, which fell to Number Two. …
Read More »Future 25: Dominic Houston, Head of Music at Netflix
Watch a few Netflix titles back to back and you’ll notice a common theme: They tend to be peppered with good tunes. Stranger Things made waves for its brooding electronic-Eighties score; the rom-com Someone Great cast a Lorde song before it cast any actors; and Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Bruce …
Read More »Amazon and Google Are Making Music Free — And That Could Be a Big Headache for Spotify
Spotify‘s free tier is one of the modern music industry‘s most controversial talking points — and one of the Swedish company’s strongest competitive advantages. Spotify has regularly proffered the following justification for its “freemium” model: In a world where YouTube and piracy sites allow any of us to access most …
Read More »R. Kelly Hasn't Really Been 'Dropped' by Anyone in Music
In the short time since Lifetime’s release of a bombshell documentary detailing R. Kelly‘s alleged years-long history of sexual assault, everything has changed for the R&B singer — and nothing has. Around 20 million TV viewers watched the six-part series, titledSurviving R. Kelly,within thefirst week of its January 3rd debut, …
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