Pop Takes A Back Seat To Rock On Summer Tour Circuit

Rock and country are heating up the summer tour season while pop and rap warm the bench. “We’re seeing a changing of the guard and a shift to harder music,” Ray Waddell of Billboard tells USA Today. “There’s a real bare spot in pop this year,” Waddell says, dubbing the co-headlining bill of Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera “the only major pop tour of any significant scope.” Read more.