All Episodes

The Future of Music + AI Is Already Here - It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

AI, Music, and the Law: Innovation vs Compensation

AI & Music: Tool or Threat?

What's a Superfan?

Catalogs and Capital

Music and Presidential Campaigns

Flash Episode: Music and Two Big Games

Songwriters Take the Stage + Two Rising Music Publishers

Warner Music's big restructuring, UMG earnings, the Labels' showdown with AI platforms, and has on-demand streaming peaked?

Flash episode: DOJ v. Live Nation, Spotify's low churn, $1B for Queen?

Is bundling just a sneaky way to pay lower rates to songwriters?

Here's the Beef (and earnings roundup)

Shira Perlmutter is the foremost expert on copyright in the country

Flash episode: RIAA reports, Hipgnosis valuation resets, Beyoncé unleashes Cowboy Carter and a new venue grows in Brooklyn

Flash episode: Music revenue is up (again)!

Flash episode: The TikTok-UMG Standoff, Striking a Chord, the ELVIS Act and more

Flash Episode: Takeaways, Surprises and Predictions

Fun with Funds: MUSQ, the Music ETF

Key Changes

AI: Collab Tool or Something Much Worse?

The Billion Dollar Needle Drop

How Streaming Impacted the Value of Music

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

George Wein and the Newport Legacy

Brick by Brick: Jon Platt on Creating a Mighty Career and Culture

Valuation Nation: Hipgnosis and the Business of Song Management

Games Without Frontiers

Sync or Swim -- Licensing Music for Podcasts

Go Small & Stay Home: Live Music in the Time of Crisis

From Punk to President (and beyond): Rob Stringer

Mind the (Value) Gap

How a Wall Street equity analyst thinks about the music business

The Mainstreaming of K-Pop

Is Spotify Suing Songwriters?

How Music Got Modernized

Spin Cycle

Home is Where the Smart Is

Is Radio Headed For a Digital Cliff?

It's (Still) a Long Way to the Top: The present and future of the concert and festival business

How China's Music Market is Going Legit

Lyrics, Lyricists and Licenses

Who Cares About Quality?

Bright Lights, Music Cities (and States)

Music, Data and the Blockchain: A Digital Utopia?

The Headwinds Facing Music Startups

The Vinyl Resurrection

Songwriting, Consent and the Age of Discontent

Music in the time of Politics

Music, Money and the Super Bowl

The 3 Most Important Stories of 2015

That Weird Thing That Happened To Recording Studios

YouTube's Big Red Elephant is Loose in the Music Industry's Room

The Transparency Moment

Summer Festival Fever Spreads from Newport to Tennessee

George Wein and the Newport Legacy

Apple, Music, and the Launch of Apple Music

What's a Mixtape Anyway?

Hello, Tidal! The Escalation of the Streaming Wars and the $100 Billion Music Business

Record Store Day, the Vinyl Resurgence and The State of Physical Music Retail