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A crowd gathers at a fictional London club show.

The 90-Second Single Is Eating Pop — and Artists Are Split

Average track length has fallen for six straight years. Inside the incentive structure that is quietly rewriting how a pop song is built.

By Jonas Okafor · Oct 4

A stage floor during a stripped-back fictional arena load-out.

The Arena Tour That Runs on 40 People and No Pyrotechnics

No confetti, no hydraulic lifts, no forty-truck load-in. A deliberately stripped-back arena show is quietly becoming the template everyone else is studying.

By Jonas Okafor · Oct 3