Episodios

  • A flat circle built on flat circles past peak TikTok, and hang on to that publishing.

    A flat circle built on flat circles past peak TikTok, and hang on to that publishing.
    May 21 2025
    "Without You" is this week's viral for the olds. Names in the pod today: Fred Goldring Josh Gruss Universal Music Ashley King Emma Roth Mike Spinella Ryan Redington Amazon Music Soundcloud Spotify TikTok Links UMG Goes Back to Bricks and Mortar https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/umg-to-relocate-new-york-offices-to-penn-2-building-in-manhattan-with-future-premium-retail-experience-dedicated-to-serving-music-superfans/ https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/bookstores-comeback-record-stores-follow-op-ed-1235966827/ Amazon AI Playlisting > Spotify AI Playlisting https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/20/amazon-music-ai-powered-search/ https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/amazon-music-ai-music-discovery Spotify Leans harder into Audiobooks https://www.theverge.com/news/669933/spotify-iphone-app-audiobooks-purchase-apple-ruling Past Peak TikTok? https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/20/tiktok-loses-most-downloaded-app-crown/ A SoundCloud-y Promo https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikespinella_1000bpmremix-1000bpmremix-soundcloud-activity-7329967290274172928-ON0l? Music Services Musicservices.com Hangout.fm Https://hangout.fm Lydia's V30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug
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  • Another wave of layoffs, air quality, and supercomputers versus bachelorettes.

    Another wave of layoffs, air quality, and supercomputers versus bachelorettes.
    May 20 2025
    Drummer Layoffs Problematic artists and supercomputers in Space Names In Today's Pod: Jem Aswad Tressie Macmillan Cottom Ashley King Chriss WIllman Steven J. Horowitz Ted Suh Snap Blue Origin Kyle Orland Shira Gans New York Music Month #musicindustry #musictech #Podcast LINKS: Drummer Layoffs https://variety.com/2025/music/news/foo-fighters-fire-josh-freese-drummer-shocked-disappointed-1236400951/ https://variety.com/2025/music/news/the-who-fires-zak-starkey-again-advance-farewell-tour-1236402638/ Cottom on Wallen https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/country-music-beyonce-lana.html Aswad on Wallen https://variety.com/2025/music/opinion/morgan-wallen-fans-maga-trump-1236400045/ Discord Hacks Kanye https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/19/kanye-west-album-leaked-discord/ https://variety.com/2025/music/opinion/morgan-wallen-fans-maga-trump-1236400045/ Epic Games fights for all of us. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/epic-goes-to-court-to-force-fortnite-back-on-us-ios/ Bachelorettes of Supercomputer in space https://www.theverge.com/news/669157/china-begins-assembling-its-supercomputer-in-space https://www.linkedin.com/posts/musically_weve-just-dropped-the-first-round-of-panels-activity-7330176624056745984-65gX? Ted Suh Exits Snap https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7323052122990641152-KVWJ/? New York Music Month Schedule https://variety.com/2025/music/news/new-york-music-month-2025-full-schedule-1236403359/ Music Services Https://Musicservices.com Hangout.FM Hangout.fm
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  • The atmosphere we breathe, the Olds start at 22, and earnings learnings

    The atmosphere we breathe, the Olds start at 22, and earnings learnings
    May 19 2025
    If you are sleeping on Shorts, wake up! Names in Today’s Pod: Glenn Peoples Rob Stevenson Matt Signore YouTube Resorts World Peter Bjorn and John Lone Wolves Jack Hedges LINKS: Moragan Wallen is everywhere https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-breaks-sreaming-records-1235974784/ Katy Perry OOF https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/entertainment/katy-perry-not-invited-back-to-vegas-after-residency/ Under 21's are coming. https://www.billboard.com/lists/21-under-21-music-2025-list/ And they are doing it on YouTube Shorts https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/15/youtube-shorts-revenue-now-equals-regular-videos/ Earnings Learnings https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-earnings-report-q1-trends-cost-cutting-subscriptions/ RoyFi Hangout.fm
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  • Nine-toed cats in court, Albini drops and Apollo bucks go to work.

    Nine-toed cats in court, Albini drops and Apollo bucks go to work.
    May 16 2025
    Back from MusicBiz! Names in the pod today: Jonathan Vlassopoulous Byron Coley Portia Sabin Mandy Dalugdug Daniel Tencer Bill Ackman Concord Music LINKS: AI Roundup https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/pro/tech-bros-weekly/ Nine toes in court https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/did-anthropics-own-ai-generate-a-hallucination-in-legal-defense-against-song-lyrics-copyright-case/ ALbini Drops stevealbiniscloset.com. Concord On Broadway https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/09/broadway-licensing-global-concord-acquisition/ Aurocorrect Hates this... https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/producer-poo-bear-launches-ttikr-app-allowing-creators-to-monetize-content-without-ads/ Spotify payouts up in UK https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/uk-artists-generated-more-than-1bn-on-spotify-in-2024-up-8-from-a-year-earlier/ Ackman bows out https://www.billboard.com/pro/bill-ackman-resigns-universal-music-group-board-umg/ Next year in Atlanta https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-biz-conference-return-atlanta-2026/ Music Services Https://Musicservices.com Hangout.FM Hangout.fm
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  • Sony earnings doing the right thing. And honey, warm up the defibrillator.

    Sony earnings doing the right thing. And honey, warm up the defibrillator.
    May 15 2025
    Last Day in ATL and my voice is shot! Names in the pod today: Sony Music Elizabeth Dilts Marshall Lone Wolves Community Soundcloud Eliah Seton CBGB Fest Michael Delle Donne Rob Dekker Ricardo Briceno Portia Sabin Ticketmaster Katie Bain #musicindustry #podcast LINKS: Sony done Good in Q1 https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-fiscal-earnings-revenue-profits-streaming/ Doing the right thing 1 https://www.billboard.com/pro/soundcloud-artificial-intelligence-open-letter-terms-ceo/ Doing the right thing 1 https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/12/ticketmasters-all-in-pricing-arrives-nationwide/ Canada Festival soft? https://www.billboard.com/pro/canada-music-festival-market-declining-report/ CBGB Fest Returns https://news.pollstar.com/2025/05/12/cbgb-festival-heads-to-under-the-k-bridge-with-iggy-pop-jack-white-sex-pistols-more/
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  • Too debased, too frightening and too disturbing, and a viral for the olds, for the win.

    Too debased, too frightening and too disturbing, and a viral for the olds, for the win.
    May 14 2025
    Some things are too debased, too frightening and too disturbing to be shared with the public. Names in the pod today: Dick Wingate Universal Music Group Drake Fiona Bloom Jamie Marconette Dylan Smith Bill Rosenblatt Eric West iHeart Media Ashley King Tencent Entertainment Adam Jacobsen Jeremy Sirota Elias Leight Quanisha Madison Connie Francis David Pellum II Links iHeart Earnings https://rbr.com/a-good-start-to-2025-comes-for-iheartmedia/ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/13/iheartmedia-us-radio-advertising-spend-percentage/ Drake suit Too debased, too frightening and too disturbing. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/12/drake-umg-lawsuit-protective-order/ AI strip mining in the dark of night https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/12/house-republicans-ban-on-ai-regulation/ Tencent Earnings https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tencent-musics-super-vip-tier-drives-quarterly-revenues-to-1bn-mark-as-income-from-streaming-subscriptions-jumps-16-6/ Jeremy Sirota Leaving Merlin https://www.billboard.com/pro/jeremy-sirota-leaving-merlin/ Music Services Musicservices.com Hangout.fm Https://hangout.fm Lydia's V30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug
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    10 m
  • Filling a FUGA-shaped hole? Our weekly AI fear and loathing Who are you and why are you here?

    Filling a FUGA-shaped hole? Our weekly AI fear and loathing Who are you and why are you here?
    May 13 2025
    Day One in ATL.. Names In Today's Pod: Bruno Guez Revelator Suno Soundcloud Ed Newton-Rex Wes Davis Kyle Wiggers Jay Gilbert Richard James Burgess Lindsay Montgomery Sam Pritikin Steve Driss Maulin Hermani Craig Gonzalez Joel Andrew #musicindustry #musictech #Podcast LINKS: Revelator Doubles up https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/revelator-hits-15-billion-stream-landmark-looks-to-double-revenues-in-2025/ Suno keeps Rolling https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-upgrades-ai-music-generator-with-enhanced-vocal-capabilities-extended-track-length/ Soundcloud's mixed AI signals https://www.theverge.com/news/664683/soundcloud-denies-training-ai-with-user-music ChatGPTing your way through college https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html Music Services Musicservices.com RoyFi https://www.RoyFI.com
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    10 m
  • An apocalypse hoagie, defenestrating the copy cop, and has Spotify peaked?

    An apocalypse hoagie, defenestrating the copy cop, and has Spotify peaked?
    May 12 2025
    Alright Music Biz Let's do this thing... Names In Today's Pod: Robert Levine Paul Resnikoff Spotify Glenn Peoples Ted Gioia Shira Perlmutter Ghost Sleep Token Rob Dekker Michael Del Donne Ricardo Briceno LINKS: Past Peak Spotify? https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/pro/weekly-spotify-subscriber-2025-decline/ Copy Cop Defenestrated https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/donald-trump-fires-top-us-copyright-official-sending-concerning-message-over-music-and-ai/ Private Equity is problematic but I doubt it's destroying frontline... https://www.billboard.com/pro/private-equity-catalog-market-hurting-new-music/ Rob Levine tells a Ghost Story https://www.billboard.com/pro/inside-alluring-concept-rock-ghost/ RoyFi https://www.RoyFI.com Hangout.fm Https://hangout.fm
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    7 m
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