In our new report, “Same Heart. New Beat. How Record Labels Amplify Talent in the Modern Music Marketplace”, we examine how modern record labels have remade themselves to thrive in the era of streaming music. Based on almost 50 interviews with top-level executives at both major and independent record labels and commissioned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), we dig in to the changes that have taken place in the past decade to make labels an indispensable partner for the most ambitious new, developing, and superstar artists.