Billboard Magazine - January 28, 2017

In this issue

In this issue: Pandora’s Risky Business Streaming’s original music service remains an online radio giant, but amid layoffs and acquisition rumors, chief Tim Westergren
opens up about its ambitious new bid, Accessorize with these aesthetically pleasing marijuana accoutrements, The National Music Publishers’ Association celebrates its 100th birthday, Bobby Brown dominated 1989 with his second solo LP, Don’t Be Cruel and much more...

pandora's risky business

with 78 million users, streaming’s original music service remains an online radio giant — but increasingly threatened by subscription blue chips like spotify and apple music. now, amid layoffs and acquisition rumors, co-founder/ceo tim westergren is about to launch an ambitious bid for subscribers of its own: “the other products out there are unsatisfying”

10+ mins

smoking in the backroom with 2 chainz

perusing the plants and product at the local dispensary with the stoner rapper royalty and “executive boss"

3 mins

California's Hero Of Cannabis Legalization

Lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom has rock star friends, his own clubs and a progressive agenda that got his state’s landmark Proposition 64 legislation passed — and the music industry rallying behind him

7 mins

The Green Album

As vinyl sales hit a nearly 30-year high, Slightly Stoopid’s managers create a novelty that music-loving potheads could only dream of: an LP made entirely of hash

1 min

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