Ethan Millman

Los Angeles-based reporter specializing in business and features writing currently writing about the music industry for Rolling Stone.

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Feds Indict Musician on Landmark Massive Streaming Fraud Charges

Federal investigators have indicted a North Carolina man over a scheme in which he allegedly used bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to earn more than $10 million in royalty payments from the major streaming services. The case is a landmark development in the still-developing music streaming market, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York calling it the first criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming. In the i...
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Chappell Roan's 'Midwest Princess' Spotify Streams Doubled This Summer

With Chappell Roan in the midst of her pop superstar breakthrough this summer, streams on her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess have doubled over the past two months, according to data from Spotify. From June 1, the album’s streams rose 100 percent in the U.S., Spotify said, affirming the major moment your favorite artist’s favorite artist has enjoyed on the festival circuit this summer, playing a viral show at Governor’s Ball the first weekend of June and drawing a massiv...
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How Taylor Swift Took Over Your Local Record Store

As a Rolling Stone analysis of the 100 bestselling vinyl albums of each year since 2012 shows, pop is taking over from rock as the medium’s dominant genre. As vinyl has once again become a mainstream listening and collectible format, vinyl buyers are getting increasingly younger, and the most popular albums have shifted from indie rock to mainstream pop records from the likes of Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Lana Del Rey.
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