The lead gets 150–250 words in our own voice: what happened, why it matters, and what we think it means for artists and fans. Facts reported elsewhere are credited and linked — always.
Reported by Billboard · Music Business Worldwide
Two or three sentences in our own words. Every item names and links its source.
via Rolling Stone
Roundup items run 40–80 words — enough to inform, short enough to send readers to the source.
via Pitchfork
The column closes with one item from the independent-artist world — our beat, our angle.
via Stereogum
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The feature write-up opens here: who the artist is and why they matter, followed by the news element and the virtual interview.
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The feature write-up opens here: who the artist is and why they matter, followed by the news element and the virtual interview.
Read the SpotlightEvery Spotlight published gets its own page and its own card here — the archive is the platform's growing proof of coverage.
Read the SpotlightThe feature opens here: two or three paragraphs introducing the artist in Music America's voice — where they come from, what they sound like, and why they matter. This is the write-up portion of the Spotlight format.
The news element covers what the artist is releasing or doing right now: the new single, the upcoming shows, the milestone. One or two paragraphs, present tense, dated facts.
The virtual interview: Robin sends a short list of written questions; the artist answers in writing, on their own time, in their own voice. The best answers run here.
"The single best line from the artist's answers gets pulled out and set as the display quote."
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Chart data: Spotify Charts via kworb.net · as published
Our take runs above the table each week: one short paragraph on what the movement means — the commentary is ours, the data is credited.
Pick a year and month — who topped the chart in April 1963? Look it up.
Number-one data: Billboard Hot 100 (factual chart positions) · served from the MusicAmerica.com archive, compiled from Wikipedia's year-by-year number-ones lists · chart is a trademark of Billboard Media
The weekly Top 10 is the Spotify Weekly Top Songs chart for the United States, published every Friday at charts.spotify.com. We display positions, movement, weeks on chart, and peaks, refreshed when you open the page, via the public aggregator kworb.net.
The archive covers the Billboard Hot 100 era — August 1958 to today. Chart positions are facts of music history; we report them with attribution. What we don't republish is full historical chart tables, which are licensed Billboard property. Who was number one, when, and for how long — that's the history this repository keeps.
Everything above the tables — what the movement means, who's breaking through, why a record matters — is Music America's own reporting and analysis.
The lead gets 150–250 words in our own voice: what happened, why it matters, and what we think it means for artists and fans.
Reported by Billboard · Music Business Worldwide
Two or three sentences in our own words.
via Rolling Stone
Roundup items run 40–80 words.
via Pitchfork
The closing item comes from the independent-artist world.
via Stereogum
One- or two-sentence summary: what happened, why it matters, link out.
Robin writes these as material arises — releases, shows, milestones from the slate.
Past This Week in Music columns archive on this page as they publish.
Every artist-design purchase splits net proceeds 50/50 with the artist. They provide the voice; we amplify it — and buying their merch here supports them directly.
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Music America is a media platform for American music.
We find independent artists making great work and give them a national stage: professionally presented videos, written spotlights and interviews, release news, and merch collections where every sale splits evenly with the artist.
We're not a label, an agency, or a manager. Artists keep every right they walk in with. We're the platform that amplifies the voice.
If you're an independent artist with original music and at least one professionally produced video, we want to hear from you. Being featured costs nothing — and you keep all your rights.