Billboard’s robust and immediate (within hours) defense of Pandora founder in the wake of revelations that he and other top executives contributed to anti-gay politician raised eyebrows in artists’ rights circles.
Hypebot is reporting that Billboard editor Glenn Peoples is leaving for a job at Pandora. Under his leadership Billboard seemed to exhibit a bias towards the streaming services and against artists. We suspect it came from him. Here is one of his personal tweets:
Here’s our advice to Glenn: Avoid the cliff to nowhere and get monthly vesting.
What little credibility Billboard magazine had from a journalistic integrity standpoint, is completely gone. What we already knew, Billboard magazine is in the tank for the Pandoras of the world, not the American music creator.