SRG chart of the week: Live streams can help ease a music business crisis

LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES and artist tours came to a halt in March due to government-imposed restrictions to try and curb the spread of COVID-19. No shows of any major scale — especially indoors — are expected until 2021, at best. Artists, their crews, venues and others in the music industry have seen incomes and revenues decimated, and many artists have streamed performances online through a variety of platforms to keep their names out there and earn some money for themselves or charities through PayPal tip jars or services such as StageIt or NoonChorus that sell tickets. It may be paying...