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The Live Nation jury is IN, an Axis of Distrust, and a treasure on top of a treasure.

Kids, the 90's weren't all "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls
 
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Names In Today's Pod:
Live Nation
Ben Sisario
Michael Rapino
Dan Wall
Amy Klobuchar
Dylan Smith
NIVA
Bruce Houghton
ChatGPT
Sam Altman
Adam Jacobs
The Internet Archive
 
Live Nation loses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-antitrust-trial-verdict-monopoly.html
the Axis of Distrust
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/10/ticketmaster-integrates-chatgpt/
A treasure on top of a treasure
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
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Executive bounce back week, leak week, and you can't AstroTurf THAT!

Can a generational talent also be an indsutry plant? Well, yes...
Episode #513
 
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Names in the pod today:
Cindy Mabe
Dylan Smith
Geese
Chaotic Good
Kristin Robinson
John Semley
Eliza McLamb
Hybe
Dax Riggs
Acid Bath
Alice Prato
Laufey
Gucci Mane
 
LINKS
Exec bounceback week continues
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/exec-moves/cindy-mabe-joan-of-arc-music-2026
Geese is a Successful Psyop? 1
https://www.wired.com/story/geese-chaotic-good-marketing-industry-plant/
Leak Week!
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/14/euphoria-leaker-subpoena-hbo-x/?
A metal Viral Feel-good story
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/14/louisana-sludge-metallers-a
Know You Fans, Own Your Data
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/built-business-instagram-disappeared-g9w6md87r
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Julie and Max's Marathon Monday, Phil Collins again? and AI has a PR problem.

Episode #512
The AI divide is real. Even Stanford University thinks so.
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Julie Greenwald
Max Lousada
26.2
Suno
Udio
Andrew Unterberger
Ashley King
Sarah Perez
Spotify
 
LINKS
Max and Julie's Marathon Monday
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/max-lousada-and-julie-greenwald-are-in-business-welcome-to-26-2-in-partnership-with-sony-music/
Phil Collins Again?
https://www.billboard.com/lists/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2026-takeaways-snubs-surprises/the-80s-are-the-new-60s-70s/
The High cost of Coachella
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/13/17-lattes-and-28-fries-welcome-to-coachella-2026/
AI has a PR problem
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/
Udio throws everyhting it can at lawsuits
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/10/udio-independent-artist-lawsuits-dismissal-push/
The battle of the walled garden is entrenched
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/suno-universal-music-lawsuit-settlement-impasse/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sunos-licensing-talks-with-major-labels-in-limbo-with-no-path-forward-report/
Spotify
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-gives-users-the-option-to-switch-off-video-content-across-its-platform/
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Coachella Rorschach tests, The jury's out on Live Nation, and Daft Punk meets Primus via Tim Burton

Rorschach tests, math rock goes viral. Oh and streamflation.
 
Episode #511
 
Names in Today's Pod:
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Barry Massarsky
Jake De Vries
Peter Harvey
Matt Barrington
Bennett Henson
Brian Miller
Ashley King
Live Nation
Coachella
Angines de Poitrine
Jonathan Howe
Rick Beato
RoyFi
YouTube Music
 
Birthdays this week
Dale Connone
Portia Sabin
Steve Masur
John Hendrickson
Chris Moon
Nick Maiale
Jump.Global
 
LINKS
Coachella Rohrschach
Sabrina Version
Pro:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/sabrina-carpenter-coachella-headlining-set-recap-1236556670/
Con
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/arts/music/sabrina-carpenter-coachella-apology.html
Justin Version
Pro:
https://www.vogue.com/article/justin-bieber-coachella-2026-set-performance#:~:text=Two%20hours%20before%20Justin%20Bieber,closer%20towards%20the%20main%20stage%2C
Con
:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15726153/justin-bieber-delights-fans-soulful-late-night-set-coachella-day-2.html
Streamflation hits YouTube
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/10/youtube-music-premium-price-hikes/?
Live Nation: The Jury is out
https://www.billboard.com/pro/live-nation-trial-ends-monopoly-or-fierce-competitor/
Angines De Poitrine
https://www.billboard.com/pro/angine-de-poitrine-demand-viral-video-canada-music-news/
Beato was on this weeks ago (it takes 21 times for something to sink in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO8bt94-ybg
13 Queeners in 2025
https://www.billboard.com/pro/citrin-cooperman-music-catalog-valuations-top-13-b/
Hits Home (see ya there!)
https://hitshome.jump.global/
 
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Universal, Ackman, more Ackman, and more Universal.

It's our Ackman-UMG special!
 
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Names in the pod today:
Bill Ackman
Universal Music
Ed Christman
Bob Lefsetz
Darius Van Armin
 
The Unlimited Supply Trucker Cap
 
Links in the comments.
LINKS:
Experts Weigh in
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-pershing-square-offer-investors-execs-bill-ackman-bid/
Lefsetz weighs in
https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/04/07/ackman-universal/
Darius Van Arman Weighs in
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darius-van-arman-5705983_no-single-transaction-has-greater-potential-activity-7447226598292058112-B22O?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAC_y4Bj_55MYX2ryKaHuxhU84V4OgAAeM
 
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We can't quit Kanye, 18-buck beers must be protected, and Eleven labs enters the chat.

The ability to charge a captive audience 18 bucks or more for a beer on a hot day in the desert Needs to be protected jealously.
 
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Names In Today's Pod:
Eleven Labs
Jeremy Sirota
Ariel King
Kristin Robinson
Katie Bain
Dave Brooks
Ashley King
Dylan
Suno
Udio
Wireless Fest
Gamma
Coachella
BMI
 
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Eleven Mobile launches
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/elevenlabs-launches-elevenmusic-ios-app-taking-on-suno-and-udio-on-mobile/
Bully not so Bullish
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/08/gamma-kanye-west-bully-album-sales/
Karma is hard to launder
https://www.billboard.com/pro/kanye-west-wireless-festival-cancellation-what-happens-now/
Coachella shine up
https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-coachella-became-america-s-top-festival/
Coachella Blast Radius
https://www.billboard.com/pro/justin-bieber-coachella-radius-clause-roxy-show-how/
High Prices must be protected from artists and songwriters
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/08/bmi-rate-court-decision/
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Substack nuggets, Ye drags us back in, and that's no way to go viral

Episode #508
 
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Names in the pod today: Substack nuggets,
Ben James
Samantha Matusoff
Andrew Hutchinson
Tom Truitt
Gabrielle Garzotto
Ye
 
 
LINKS
Who needs an Algo?
https://stvdio.substack.com/p/36-ways-to-discover-new-music-without?
Ye Drags us back in
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/07/british-government-denies-kanye-west-visa/
Beware the shallow money trench
https://substack.com/@samanthamatusoff/note/c-236773788?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=lszz
But if you still want to work in the shallow money trench
https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-industry-internships-how-to-get-one-insiders/
Elon strikes back
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/06/x-music-publishers-lawsuit-dismissal-attempt/
That's not way to go viral!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c937kezj03vo
A workflow reduction for Insta
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-chief-debunks-popular-engagement-hack/816781/
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A non-hostile UMG bid, the AI slop-fraud flywheel, and who needs humans?

Episode #507
 
Who Needs Humans?
 
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Names In Today's Pod:
Bill Ackman
Lucian Grainge
Michael J. De La Merced
Michael Ovitz
Universal Music
Spotify
Nathan Brackett
Virginie Berger
Abraham Abushmais
Breaking Rust
Ye
Larry Jackson
Gamma
OpenAI
Seatgeek
 
LINKS
Non-Hostile bid
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/business/dealbook/bill-ackman-universal-music-merger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/seatgeek-launches-chatgpt-integration-bringing-ticket-listings-to-openais-chatbot/
Virginie and Nathan Tag Team 1
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/virginieberger_musicindustry-aimusic-streamingfraud-share-7445884460581179392-WITQ?
Virginie and Nathan Tag Team 2
https://www.stems.media/p/a-look-under-streaming-fraud-s-hood   
AI Scalpers
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/seatgeek-launches-chatgpt-integration-bringing-ticket-listings-to-openais-chatbot/
Kanye Breaks the supply chain
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/06/kanye-west-bully-album-dsp-weirdness/?ches-chatgpt-integration-bringing-ticket-listings-to-openais-chatbot/
 
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The empire strikes back -- more, the codeswitch king, and big comings and goings.

Episode #506. Why Everybody Loves Zohran. Ye, not so much...
 
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Names in Today's Pod:
 
Michael Rapino
SeatGeek
Bill Donahue
Dylan Smith
LiveNation
Eric Budish
Tuma Basa
Ezekiel Lewis
Epic Records
Believe
Universal Music Group
Cardi B
Zohran Mamdani
Ye
Pepsi
Coachella
Hannah Daley
Emma Chan
 
Birthdays this week
Dick Wingate
Tom Muzquiz
David Krinsky
LINKS
 
The Empire Strikes Back More
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-believe-settle-lawsuit-over-kendrick-knockoff-songs/
UMG and Believe settle up
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-believe-settle-lawsuit-over-kendrick-knockoff-songs/
Ye Redemption interrupted
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/pepsi-drops-wireless-festival-sponsorship-kanye-west-1236215480/
Everybody Loves Zohran
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/cardi-b-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-free-childcare-song-contest-1236214247/
Tuma Exits
https://www.billboard.com/pro/youtube-director-black-music-culture-tuma-basa-exit/
Zeke Ascends
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/30/epic-records-names-new-ceo-ezekiel-lewis/
 
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Viral Friday? Don't call Spotify a streaming service, and we've got merch!

You've been asking, now we have merch!
 
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Names in the pod today:
Jaime Marconette
Spotify
Instagram
Lunimate
Cameo
TikTok
Universal Music Group
Larry Mestel
Tim Ingham
Ashley King
Hybe
Jake Basden
Ethiopia Habtemariam
The Unlimited Supply Trucker Cap
 
LINKS:
Cameo X TikTok
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/31/tiktok-cameo-partnership/
Instagram X SuperFans
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaimemarconette_%F0%9D%90%82%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%9E-%F0%9D%90%92%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%AE%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%B2-%F0%9D%90%8B%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AE%F0%9D%90%A7%F0%9D%90%9C%F0%9D%90%A1-%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%A1%F0%9D%90%9E-activity-7444802749025656832-nxmb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAC_y4Bj_55MYX2ryKaHuxhU84V4OgAAeM
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/02/instagram-music-superfans-data/
An "Interactive Multiformat Ecosystem"
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/01/spotify-not-a-streaming-platform/
UMG Stock Buyback: 5 Rods or half a Queener
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-music-group-kicks-off-e500-million-share-buyback-program/
Hybe pours a rod into the USA
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hybe-the-home-of-bts-injects-100m-into-us-subsidiary-hybe-america12/
Larry Mestel takes a victory lap
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/larry-mestel-how-it-started/
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