Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by two people who know all about music 'superfans': Alexander Seidel, the CEO of Aviator, and Lindsay Jones, the COO of Aviator. Aviator, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in serving these superfans rare content from the artists they love – often with archive video that has long gone undiscovered and has been gathering dust. It’s worked with artists including Mark Knopfler, James Taylor, Cliff Richard, Cher, James Brown and Olivia Newt ..read more

Hello and Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Anthony Davenport, the CEO and founder of New York-headquartered Regal Credit Management. Regal Credit, as the name suggests, helps high-profile and high-net-worth individuals with their credit – both in terms of building it and protecting it. Regal Credit, which was recently named on the Inc. 5000 list of companies in the US, counts many clients from across the music business The particular reason we invited Davenport on this podcast was to discuss a tool ..read more

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Scott Cohen, the CEO of JKBX. JKBX is a new platform that enables investors (including so-called ‘retail investors’) to acquire royalty shares in hit songs. It will, in future, also allow you to trade those royalty shares by selling them to others. JKBX launched in September and according to Bloomberg had over $1.7 billion -worth of music assets secured. Right now on the platform, JKBX is offering royalty shares in hit songs like Halo performed by Beyoncé, Rumour Has ..read more

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast we dive head first into one of the most-talked-about topics in the music biz this year. That topic is generative AI music, but more specifically, the fact that vast volumes of music are now being produced by AI platforms and then uploaded onto various streaming platforms. There is arguably no one better placed to talk on this topic than Alex Mubert, founder and co-CEO of the self-titled platform Mubert.  That’s because, in July, Mubert announced that its AI platform had now been used to create mor ..read more

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast Tim Ingham, founder of Music Business Worldwide, and joined by Maria Egan, the Global Head of Music – as well as events – at Riot Games. Riot is home to a number of extremely popular online games, including League of Legends and Valorant. But it’s also a TV and movie producer: Riot made the award-winning Netflix animated series, Arcane. Today, Riot Games is owned by Chinese giant Tencent, which paid $400 million to buy a 93% stake in the company in 2011. Maria Egan joined Riot last year from music ..read more

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe. Paris-headquartered Believe is now well established as one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, both via its Believe-branded artist and label services operation, as well as its subsidiary, TuneCore, which announced the close of last year that it had paid out over USD $3 billion to independent artists to date. Believe currently is valued at around USD $1 billion on the Paris Euronext stock exchange ..read more

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Internet at Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – and is the lead analyst on Goldman’s hugely influential ‘Music In The Air’ paper, a new and updated version of which is released each year. The latest iteration of ‘Music In The Air’ arrived in June 2023, and contained amongst its 72 pages financial and data analysis of all corners of the music business.  It ..read more

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Travis Rosenblatt, founder of the SaaS platform for A&R research and scouting, Meddling. Rosenblatt is a particularly interesting person to speak to because, by his own admission, he spends a lot of his time NOT consumed in his day job. This allows him the bandwidth to think deeply about the music business, its challenges, and where it might be headed in future. Meddling is very clever, gathering data from multiple touchpoints on new artists for clients that have ..read more

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, one of the industry's sharpest minds, Will Page, joins MBW founder Tim Ingham to cover a range of topics including pricing, streaming, royalties – and why the global industry is more local than ever. Page is the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collection society PRS For Music.  These days he’s a consultant and the author of the book Tarzan Economics (aka Pivot), which presents compelling principles for business owners facing uncertain and disruptive times. Will is also the co-author of a ..read more

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. How big can an independent artist get without help from a major record label? It’s been a fierce source of debate at this point for 20 years ever since the likes of TuneCore launched in the early to mid-noughties. These days, though, we have the receipts to answer the question.  Take Bruno Major, a fully independent artist and our guest on this episode of the MBW Podcast. Major, who released his music via AWAL and owns his own recordings, has comfortably more than a billion streams on Spotify, with two of his tr ..read more