John Summit recently sat down with Billboard‘s Kristin Robinson for an episode of her On the Record podcast to talk about life as a high-flying dance star.
While acknowledging that the dance world functions differently than many other areas of the music industry — from how dance labels work as tastemakers to how the scene is fueled largely by singles rather than albums — Summit also talked about being one of the rare dance artists to headline a major multigenre festival.
Speaking to the question of whether dance artists need to “prove themselves more than pop artists” in order to earn this…