Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Music Industry

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 3:28 p.m.

From livestreams and quarantine albums, to cancelled tours and shuttered venues, alongside a national uprising and a proliferation of protest songs, 2020 was an exceptional year for the creation and consumption of music. Pitchfork editor-in-chief Puja Patel joins us to look back on the ways musicians and the industry experienced the last year, and look ahead to what the new year may hold.