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Musonomics — 62 episodes

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1

Who Wins After the Catalog Gold Rush?

2

5 Billion Reasons to Train AI on the Music Traditions of the Global South

3

Finishing the Unfinished: AI, Schubert, and Who Gets Credit for the Final Note

4

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

5

AI, Music, and the Law: Innovation vs Compensation

6

AI & Music: Tool or Threat?

7

What's a Superfan?

8

Catalogs and Capital

9

Music and Presidential Campaigns

10

Flash Episode: Music and Two Big Games

11

Songwriters Take the Stage + Two Rising Music Publishers

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

Here's the Beef (and earnings roundup)

16

Shira Perlmutter is the foremost expert on copyright in the country

17

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

18

Flash episode: Music revenue is up (again)!

19

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

20

Flash Episode: Takeaways, Surprises and Predictions

21

Fun with Funds: MUSQ, the Music ETF

22

Key Changes

23

AI: Collab Tool or Something Much Worse?

24

The Billion Dollar Needle Drop

25

How Streaming Impacted the Value of Music

26

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

27

George Wein and the Newport Legacy

28

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

29

Valuation Nation: Hipgnosis and the Business of Song Management

30

Games Without Frontiers

31

Sync or Swim -- Licensing Music for Podcasts

32

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

33

From Punk to President (and beyond): Rob Stringer

34

Mind the (Value) Gap

35

How a Wall Street equity analyst thinks about the music business

36

The Mainstreaming of K-Pop

37

Is Spotify Suing Songwriters?

38

How Music Got Modernized

39

Spin Cycle

40

Home is Where the Smart Is

41

Is Radio Headed For a Digital Cliff?

42

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

43

How China's Music Market is Going Legit

44

Lyrics, Lyricists and Licenses

45

Who Cares About Quality?

46

Bright Lights, Music Cities (and States)

47

Music, Data and the Blockchain: A Digital Utopia?

48

The Headwinds Facing Music Startups

49

The Vinyl Resurrection

50

Songwriting, Consent and the Age of Discontent

51

Music in the time of Politics

52

Music, Money and the Super Bowl

53

The 3 Most Important Stories of 2015

54

That Weird Thing That Happened To Recording Studios

55

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

56

The Transparency Moment

57

Summer Festival Fever Spreads from Newport to Tennessee

58

George Wein and the Newport Legacy

59

Apple, Music, and the Launch of Apple Music

60

What's a Mixtape Anyway?

61

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

62

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