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Teasing out Sony, indie power randos, and blue dot clap back.

Music Biz already!
 
Names in Today's Pod:
Rob Stringer
Sony Music
Suzy Schultz
Randy Nichols
Dylan Smith
Dave Hanson
Nicki Shamel
Nate Albert
Alan Becker
Lecrae Moore
David, Macias
Steve, Stoute
Annie Ortmeier
Ariel King
Eric Frankenberg
Dan Rys
Tom Truitt
 
Links
Sony earnings Teased out
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/business/sony-q4-earnings-2026-05-08
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/08/sony-music-earnings-q1-2026/
Indie Power Players
https://www.billboard.com/pro/billboard-indie-power-players-2026-list/
Randy Nichols calls BS on Blue Dot Fever
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blue-dot-fever-scalper-narrative-dont-fall-randy-nichols-v9p0e?
 
 
Birthdays this week:
Chris Dunn
Dennis Scheyer
Mike Lembo
Heather Mars
Alyssa Lopresti
 
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Three kinds of bubbles, the Merck redemption arc, and the wizard is wonderful for Sphere

Redemption arcs for Merck and Dolan this week.
 
Names in the pod today:
Robert Kyncl
Ross Walthall
Warner Music Group
Bain Capital
Murray Stassen
Ashley King
Sony Music
Merck Mercuriadis
Recognition Music
Blackstone
Sphere
James Dolan
Bill Ackman
JP Olson
 
LINKS:
Michael realizes Upside
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/michael-jackson-best-streaming-week-after-michael-movie-1236240552/
WMG Earnings
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/07/warner-music-catalog-expenditure-q2-earnings-call/
Merck Redemption Arc
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-negotiating-buy-recognition-music-group-blackstone/
Sphere Redemption Arc
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sphere-entertainment-q1-2026-earnings/
Ackman's Needles UMG
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/06/universal-music-bill-ackman-comments/
 
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Sonng of the week: https://jpolsen1.bandcamp.com/track/crazy-motherfucker-from-shelby-ohio
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Blue dot fever, blame the millennials, and the devil is in the tea leaves.

Blue Dot Fever or Brokeness Fever? And buck up, guys, Nashville isn't really a guitar town.
 
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Names In Today's Pod:
Live Nation
Ashley King
Andy Gensler
Jon Romero
Chris Moon
JR Lind
Rachael O'Connor
 
LINKS:
Live Nation Q1
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/05/05/live-nation-q1-earnings/?
Layoffs always help /s
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/05/06/ticketmaster-cuts-8-of-staff-350-employees-primarily-in-engineering-product-design/
What is Blue Dot Fever?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/06/what-is-blue-dot-fever/
Blame the milennials
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/blue-dot-fever-millennial-nostalgia-11918732
Blue Dot Fever isnt just for milennials
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/03/post-malone-big-ass-stadium-tour-2-dates-canceled/
No Blue Dot Fever Here!
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/03/shakira-copacabana-beach-two-million/
Can NIVA cure Blue Dot Fever?
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/05/06/niva-unveils-conference-programming/
Is Albania the solution
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/01/kanye-albania-concert-go-ahead/
 
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Jazz is not dead. Grab what matters, and impoverishing the culture.

The Internet Archive is important, but that doesn't mean that big AI should just grab it.
 
Names in the pod today:
Syd Schwartz
Adam Block
Paul Sweeting
Ashley King
YouTube Music
Instagram
TikTok
 
 
Links in the comments...
 
LINKS
Jazz is Dead fights AI
https://jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/analog-tape-vs-the-machine
Impoverishing the Culture
https://rightstech.substack.com/p/ai-and-its-discontents
YouTube Music still growing
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/youtube-music-and-premium-saw-largest-quarterly-increase-in-non-trial-subscribers-since-2018-launch-says-alphabet-ceo-as-platforms-ad-revenues-rose-to-9-88b/
Instagram protects creators
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/01/instagram-debuts-more-original-content-protections-for-creators/
AI Scamarama on TikTok
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/ai-generated-scams-surge-on-tiktok/
Podslop is an issue
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/04/podslop-ai-podcast-problem/
"I hate this song" trend
https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=he%20there%20sally&t=1778076084091
Friday is a Deathless Trend
https://www.tiktok.com/music/Friday-6787732499905660929
Boney M Trend
https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=the%20office%20is%20on%20fire%20what%20are%20you%20grabbing&t=1778076212526
 
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/@lydiavalentino/videos 
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Two years of Death Star lasers and thundering hordes, and the big dogs don't sleep

How AI vs. the Industry imitates wrestling...
 
Links in the Comments...
 
Names in the pod Today
Michael Allen
Paul Sinclair
Suno
Udio
Songkick
Dylan Smith
Tim Ingham
YouTube
 
LINKS
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Suno series D
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/04/suno-series-d-reports/
Suno Operationalizes its Songkick investment
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/03/suno-songkick-concert-discovery-ai/?
Udio still arguing fair use
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/udio-admits-to-scraping-youtube-audio-for-ai-training-in-answer-to-sony-music-lawsuit/
YouTube's Magic AI music Button
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/youtube-creators-hit-by-music-copyright-claims-can-now-replace-tracks-with-ai-at-the-touch-of-a-button/
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The kings of old media, interest replaces social, and I'll have the European language, please.

Genuflecting before ensh*ttification!
 
Names in Today's Pod:
Record Store Day
Ed Christman
Kristin Robinson
Rachel Scharf
Paul Grein
Gary Vaynerchuk
Scott Walker
SiriusXM
Tony Brooke
 
Birthdays this week:
Gogi Gupta
Peter Moren
Lauren Blitzer
Tom Silverman
Dominic Pandiscia
Nick Turner
Joans Selenis
Bill Gerdts
 
 
LINKS
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In the Valley of the Kings
https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-grossing-music-biopics-movies/bohemian-rhapsody-2018/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/record-store-day-2026-recap-taylor-swift-katseye-top-seller/
SiriusXM's Up arrow
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/siriusxm-q1-2026-financials/
"I'll have the Euro Language Please"
https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-ai-rights-are-changing-record-contracts/
Don't Call it Social Media
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-media-dead-interest-here-gary-vaynerchuk-v2zoe/
 
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More earnings season, scandals are a lesson in leverage, and oops, I did it again.

The money trench is getting deeper by the week.
 
Names in the pod today:
Murray Stassen
Dylan Smith
Jorge Brea
Michelle Garramone
Denis Ladegaillerie
Suno
Believe
Paul Sinclair
 
LINKS:
 
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Scandals aren't all equal; leverage matters
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/29/study-scandals-streaming-2026/
Symphonic does two new things
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/symphonic-targets-catalog-acquisitions-and-indie-artist-financing-deals-with-launch-of-symphonic-next/
Believe's line in the AI sand
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/believe-and-tunecore-blocking-suno-elevenlabs-and-udio/
BTS is back, profits not yet
https://www.billboard.com/pro/bts-return-earns-hybe-highest-first-quarter-revenue-ever/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/29/hybe-earnings-q1-2026/
Deezer results
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/deezer-revenues-hit-154m-in-q1-down-1-6-yoy-but-direct-subscribers-grew-to-5-7m/
PW does not rest
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/primary-wave-raises-2-2-billion-for-fourth-music-fund/
O-Rod Dads out at Pete's
https://www.hypebot.com/how-to-accidentally-open-for-olivia-rodrigo/
 
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Big Dogs, the Taylor Tax, and no one's forcing you to drink.

Are UMG earnings the harbinger of a sea change?
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Ross Walthall
Universal Music
Spotify
Andy Gensler
JR Lind
Live Nation
NIVA
NITO
 
LINKS:
Spotify Q1 is...OK
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-reports-2026-q1-earnings/
The Taylor Tax
https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-umg-deal-artists-spotify-share-sale-payout/
Live NAtion Now What?
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/04/29/after-the-verdict-now-what/?
No ticket price relief?
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/04/29/why-concert-ticket-prices-wont-drop-if-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-are-split-up/
Ontario says maybe yes...
https://www.billboard.com/pro/ticketmaster-caps-ticket-resale-ontario-canada-music-news/
Live Nation throws crumbs to the other 98%
https://www.billboard.com/music/concerts/live-nation-30-all-in-tickets-4000-summer-shows-list-1236229927/
 
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A bouncing baby major, a Spotify disappointment, competitive birdsong, and dancing cats.

Have a cigar, BMG and Concord!
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Bob Valentine
Thomas Coesfeld
BMG
Concord
Spotify
TikTok
Tracy Gardner
Ross Walthall
Instagram
Cleveland Research
 
 
LINKS
A baby major is born
https://www.billboard.com/pro/bmg-to-buy-concord-in-indie-music-merger/
Spotify beats Guidance and still slumps
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/spotify-stock-spot-earnings-beat-guidance.html
Thanks Ross!
https://www.clevelandresearch.com/about-us/
AI for the worker bees
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-brings-simplified-ai-video-to-edits/818505/
TikTok Flexes
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktoks-add-to-music-app-tool-surpasses-6b-track-saves-in-the-past-year
 
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/@lydiavalentino/videos 
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Are labels obsolete? Taylor AI (TM), and the post-app future.

Brace yourself for the post-app future.
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Joel Gouveia
Dick Huey
Jim McDermott
Russ Crupnick
Bill Donahue
Sam Altman
OpenAI
Ashley King
Ivan Mehta
 
LINKS
Joel Gouveia can pick a topic.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joelgouveia/p/the-death-of-the-record-deal?
Sony and UMG itching to see that Warner-Suno deal
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/24/suno-universal-music-lawsuit/
TaylorTM
https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-files-to-trademark-her-voice-and-image/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/27/taylor-swift-trademark-voice-likeness/
Pants on Fire again!
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/26/sam-altman-bruno-mars-partnership-fake/
Spotify occasionally does the right thing, sort of.
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-to-show-ai-tags-in-song-credits-where-artists-have-chosen-to-disclose-through-their-label-or-distributor/
Our Post-app Future
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/openai-could-be-making-a-phone-with-ai-agents-replacing-apps/?
Russ Crupnick say pay attention to the used vinyl market
https://www.billboard.com/pro/used-vinyl-record-market-shouldnt-overlooked-guest-column/
And Vinyl Bootlegs are back!
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/27/the-vinyl-comeback-counterfeit-vinyl-operation-shut-down/
 
 
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