Radio Country: A Message from Billboard

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

A Message from Billboard

Dear Billboard members,

Right now, the live music industry is grappling with unprecedented uncertainty while the most influential leader of today's recorded-music business, Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge, is in the hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9335310/lucian-grainge-coronavirus Our thoughts are with him, his family and his UMG colleagues this week, as they are with countless musicians and the touring professionals who are facing the dire prospect of a month or more without income as concerts grind to a halt across the globe.

As the industry's most trusted source of news and insight, Billboard is committed to providing the news, information and insight to help it come through this pandemic and emerge healthy. In our next issue, we will examine COVID-19's effects on every part of the music world, highlighting both the challenges and opportunities these unsettling new global conditions present. To that end, please send us your stories, your coping strategies, your inventive new business ideas and your calls to action — we want to share your wisdom with our community at a time when we've never needed each other more.

In the meantime, we are continuing to make the Billboard experience available to you through multiple channels so that you can still access our music world coverage as usual:

— Web and Mobile: www.billboard.com

— Digital Edition: A digital experience that is an exact replica of Billboard magazine. All subscriptions include access to the digital edition. If we have your email address on file and you have an iPad, then you can find instructions here. If you do not have an iPad and are not already receiving digital alerts, then please email membership@billboard.com for instructions.

— Print Edition: If your subscription includes the print magazine, then please keep your eye out for another email from us in the next couple of days. We'll be providing a link for you to quickly change your magazine delivery to your home address until you're back to working in your office.

For all of its power struggles, the music business is a remarkably interconnected and resilient family that not only comes together to weather its own crises but also reaches out to help the larger world. We're honored to serve you through these trying times, and we thank you for your support.

Hannah Karp, editorial director