Whether their eyes are blinded by photographers’ flashing lights or by whatever last night’s press release writing grind was, music industry professionals often see their work romanticized. The...

Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have dominated the industry over the past decade, leading to a total shift in the way artists create, release and promote their music. While musicians used to rely solely on the good fortune of record executives to produce and advertise their work, now those jobs have fallen heavily on the artists themselves.

Record labels are discussing a big change in the world of rerecording albums as the success of Taylor Swift’s “Taylor’s Version” releases increase. With Swift’s fourth re-recorded album released on Oct. 27, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” record labels are discussing adding a clause to contracts for new signees to ensure that they do not rerecord albums for 10 to 30 years after they depart from the label. In some cases, labels are not allowing for artists to rerecord albums at all.