How to Get Featured in Rolling Stone UK
- ▸Rolling Stone UK is one of the few music mastheads that still carries weight with both audiences and the industry.
- ▸Editorial coverage follows momentum: a release with traction, a tour, or a genuine cultural moment.
- ▸Several agencies sell Rolling Stone UK placements and at least one states publicly that its articles carry an 'in partnership with' disclaimer — ask about the label before you pay.
For anyone in music or entertainment, Rolling Stone is among the few names that still means something to both audiences and the industry. The UK edition carries that weight domestically.
What it covers
Rolling Stone UK covers artists, music, entertainment and the wider creative industries, with the editorial voice the title is known for. Its readership is genuinely interested in the subject rather than passing through, which is unusual and valuable.
What earns editorial coverage
The honest answer is momentum. Editors cover artists who are already doing something: a release with traction, a tour, a genuine cultural moment, or a story that says something beyond "new music out now."
A press release announcing a single is not a story. An artist doing something worth writing about is.
The partnership route, and the label question
This is worth understanding before you spend anything. Several agencies openly sell Rolling Stone UK placements, and at least one states publicly that their articles carry an "in partnership with" disclaimer.
That is not a scandal. Partnership and branded content are normal parts of how modern publishing funds itself, and a well-written partnership feature on a major title is genuinely useful.
But it is a different product from an editor choosing to cover you, and you should know which one you are being sold. Ask directly whether the piece carries a disclosure label. A provider who knows will tell you; one who dodges the question is telling you something too.
Where it fits
A Rolling Stone UK feature is a strong name on a coverage list and a credible, permanent article that surfaces when someone searches you. It is not, on its own, a career. Artists who get the most from it already had something happening that the coverage amplified.
Getting started
Publisive places clients in Rolling Stone UK and across the UK entertainment press. We write the feature to your brief, you approve every word, and we will tell you plainly what we know about how the piece runs.
See how we work in the UK, or the Rolling Stone UK placement page.
