Episode 192 On this week's gabtastic episode, your happy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart converse about these important music industry stories: "Artists Are Seeing Their Music Removed From DSPs For Streaming Fraud They Didn’t Commit" (Ari Herstand for Variety); Spotify Plans To Let Subscribers Speed Up Songs – And Pay Rightsholders When Those Modified Tracks Are Streamed" (Music Business Worldwide);  "Everyone Wants To Reach Superfans. It Won’t Be Easy" (Billboard). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 191 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music biz stories: "Is UMG's TikTok Ban Hurting Its U.S. Streaming Numbers? Here's What The Evidence Shows" (Glenn Peoples at Billboard); "An Independent Musician’s Perspective - On The TikTok Legislation Before Congress" (Blake Morgan); "Q1 2024 Music Trend Report" (Jesse Kirschbaum's Beats & Bytes).  Plus audio drops with Jen Jacobson, Executive Director of the Artists Rights Alliance, and Janice Polizzotto, Chief Relationship Officer of Mus ..read more

Episode 190 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your non-AI generated hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart cover these important stories: "How Are Musicians Supposed To Survive On $0.00173 Per Stream?" (The Guardian); "RIAA Report 2023 Takeaways: Is The U.S. Too Reliant on Paid Subscriptions?" (Billboard).   Plus audio examples from AI song generation platform Suno, and AI video generation platform BITH.AI. Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 189 On this week's scintilating episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music biz stories: "IFPI Global Report 2024: Music Revenues Climb 10% to $28.6 Billion" (Billboard); "Why Are IFPI & MIDiA’s 2023 Revenue Figures So Far Apart? The Answer Lies In ‘Expanded Rights'" (Billboard); "Loud & Clear: Spotify Releases Their Annual Music Report: The Top 10 Findings" (Spotify). Plus an audio drop with Jamie Dee Hart from Hart & Songs.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 187 On this week's podtastic show, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk about these important music business stories: "Over 38% Of Music On TikTok Is ‘Modified’, Says Study That Analyzed 100 Million Audio Tracks On The Platform" (Music Business Worldwide); "The Truth About Ticket Prices" (Live Nation); "The Music Industry’s Over-Reliance On TikTok Shows How Lazy It Has Become" (The Guardian). Plus audio drops with Martin Mills from Merlin, and Allison Hagendorf from The Allison Hagendorf Show! Subscriboe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 186 On this week's YMC gabfest, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music industry stories: "With Label Layoffs, Will Artists Get Dropped?"(Billboard); "Blake Morgan And #irespectmusic Return To Washington For The American Music Fairness Act And #musicfairness" (Chris Castle at Music, Technology Policy); "So… Maybe Don’t Bet Your House On Universal Music Group And TikTok Reaching A Deal Anytime Soon" (Music Business Worldwide). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 185 On this week's episode of YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart cover these important stories: "The Label Recovery, Part I: Purpose" (Patrick Clifton); "Show Me the Splits: Tiffany Red Illuminates Stealing Publishing" (Chris Castle); "Anthropic Trained Its AI To Rip Off Copyrighted Lyrics - Music Publishers Allege -  In Escalating Court Battle" (Music Business Worldwide). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more

Episode 184 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz about these important stories: "Music Subscriber Market Shares 2023" (Music Industry Blog); "The Ultimate Guide for Musicians to Have a Kickass Year 2024" (Symphonic); "Record Store Day 2024 Release List Revealed" (Stereogum). Plus audio drops from Fabrice Sergent from Bandsintown, and Megh Vaharia from SymphonyOS. Check out these music videos Jay and Mike talked about: Billy Joel "Turn The Lights Back On" https://youtu.be/UOf6CMbHPuA?si=hkPLVQZ4ixYdNcKP The Dandy Warhol ..read more

Episode 183 On this week's episode, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important stories: "Universal Deflates The TikTok Hype: Does TikTok Have A Napster Problem?" (Chris Castle); "Overnight Success Is Very Rare In Music, And There's Date To Prove It" (Billboard); "Robert Kyncl Is 'Confident' That Universal And TikTok Will Resolve Their Spat...And 3 Other Things We Learned From WMG's Latest Earnings Call" (Music Business Worldwide). Plus audio drops from Jorge Brea, CEO of Symphonic, Christine Asazuwa founder of the Measure of Music Conference, and Chris Castle fro ..read more

On this YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Will Page, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with our friend Will Page about his second in a series of beautifully designed websites that lift the lid on how new models of music streaming serve creators and consumers alike. Getting exclusive access to data (and data scientists) from SoundCloud has allowed Will to surface the relevant engagement metrics that matter to our industry.  Here's a link to the website: https://www.soundcloudrockonomics.com   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee ..read more