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Indies react to downtown, kissing the...ring, and this week's New Dylan.

This week's Virals are soooo random. And that's what makes them spectacular.
 
Names in the pod today:
Martin Mills
Helen Smith
Downtown Music
Virgin Music
IMPALA
Gee Davy
AIM
Dario Drastrata
Imogen Heap
Shou Zhi Chou
TikTok
Jesse Welles
 
 
Links:
Indies Vs. Downtown Deal
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/martin-mills-and-impala-accuse-universal-of-land-grab-over-virgin-musics-775m-downtown-acquisition/
TikTok Kisses the...Ring
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/17/tiktok-ban-supreme-by court-appeal/
 
Sigma Boy having a moment
https://www.tiktok.com/@simonbth1/video/7447120696364256534?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7317743953888003630
Jesse Welles Is this week's new Dylan
https://www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles/video/7449039358230859051?q=jesse%20welles&t=1734533401498
Imogen Heap Mouthwashing
https://www.tiktok.com/@gyroalmighty/video/7434161999078001927?q=imogen%20heap%20headlock%20mouthwashing&t=1734533516319
 
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Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug

Downtown's 7. 75 Rods, Where those kids are hiding and tech geeks heart Claude.

Geeks, don't fall in love!
 
Names in the Pod Today:
Justin Kalifowitz
JT Meyers
Nate Roose
Downtown Music
Virgin Music
Fuga
CDBaby
IHeart
Stuart Dredge
Pew
Snapchat
Daft Punk
 
LINKS:
Downtown Sale
https://www.billboard.com/pro/virgin-music-group-acquires-downtown-775-million-universal/
Teens mostly online most of the time
https://musically.com/2024/12/13/nearly-half-of-us-teenagers-are-now-online-almost-constantly/
Daft Snap
https://musically.com/2024/12/12/daft-punk-fans-on-snapchat-get-an-interstella-5555-ar-lens/
iHeart tries t get the internet right
https://musically.com/2024/12/13/iheartradio-mobile-app-gets-its-biggest-redesign-since-2011/
Geeks, Don't fall in Love!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/technology/claude-ai-anthropic.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
RoyFi
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One beef equals 15 million bucks, a sync splainer, and the TikTok train rolls on.

A new $15M Denomination: Introducing the "Beef."
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Tim Cook
Sundar Pichai
Tim Miles
Chris Eggertson
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Daniel Ek
Brady Brickner-Wood
Allison Schlueter
Vicki Stepanenko
 
LINKS:
 
The House Puts App Stores on TikTok Notice
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/prepare-to-remove-tiktok-from-app-stores-by-january-19-us-lawmakers-tell-google-and-apple12/
A Syncsplainer
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-revolution-in-music-consumption-has-really-pushed-sync-up-the-industrys-agenda
Billboards List of Lists
https://www.billboard.com/pro/biggest-music-industry-stories-2024-labels-ai-live-music/
One Beef=$15million
https://www.billboard.com/pro/kendrick-lamar-drake-diss-tracks-how-much-money-generate/
Ek Cashes out 1.86 more Beefs
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/after-spotifys-100bn-market-cap-milestone-daniel-ek-cashes-out-another-28m/
The New Yorker's Spotify Diss track
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-hollow-allure-of-spotify-wrapped
 
 
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TikTok ain't Star Wars. More list season, and high cost, high churn audiences in streaming.

SXM in Streaming retreat. More upbeat stuff form Bandsintown and Create Music
 
Names in the pod today:
Fabrice Sergeant
Chris Herche
SiriusXM
Jonathan Strauss
TikTok
Bandsintown
Will Holland
Glenn Peoples
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
 
 
LINKS:
Star Wars metaphors don't hunt
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/12/tiktok-ban-injunction-motion-government-response/
List Season Bandsintown edition
https://www.company.bandsintown.com/2024-high-notes
Amazon Music Down in US
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/pro/weekly-streaming-subscriber-report-dec-2024/
SXM and Pandora (sigh)
https://investor.siriusxm.com/news-events/press-releases
I've napped on Create
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/1bn-valued-create-music-group-acquires-50-stake-in-uk-label-and-publisher-enhanced/
Billions and Billions
https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-billionaire-music-company-investors-warren-buffett-dolans/
 
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Pick on someone your own size, more high cost of FOMO, and all I want for Christmas is Doom

Festivals dropping like flies, hey UMG Lay off the Internet Archive, and doom.
 
Names in the Pod today:
 
Universal Music Group
The Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle
Tyler Jenke
Josh Gottheimer
Eric Adams
J. Cole
Brian Bauhs
Cloud Taste Satanic
Metallica
Renee Richardson
 
LINKS:
Hey Lay Off, UMG
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/11/artists-vs-umg-internet-archive-lawsuit/
Cooking the Books on Wrapped
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/new-jersey-politican-fakes-spotify-wrapped-results-bruce-springsteen-1235853616/
Festival Doom...
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/11/dreamville-festival-2024-final/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/pro/weekly-music-festivals-2024/
...But Not for everyone
https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/def-leppard-motley-crue-nickelback-boardwalk-rock-festival-1235853701/
Taylor Tips 10%
https://people.com/taylor-swift-gave-eras-tour-crew-usd197-million-in-bonuses-exclusive-8758216
RoyFi
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Waiting for TikTok, two 2005-era trends, and those other social platforms.

Holiday traditions we're not so psyched about.
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Andrew Hutchinson
TikTok
Mariah Carey
Andrew Hutchinson
Bluesky
Snap
 
Links:
All I want for Christmas is my Numbers back up
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/10/mariah-carey-christmas-song-listenership/
An Aughtsies Holiday Tradition slithers Back
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/downtown-confirms-layoffs-at-cd-baby-amid-restructuring/
TikTok Canada Echo
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktoks-canada-unit-seeks-judicial-review-shutdown-orders-2024-12-11/
One Rod of Black Friday Sales at TikTok
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktoks-in-app-sales-on-black-friday-top-100m/734629/
Bluesky Ponders Rev streams
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/bluesky-considers-subscription-elements-bring-cash/735031/
Snap Year End Recap
https://newsroom.snap.com/2024-in-a-snap

The ball's in your Supreme Court and three thinkers thinking thoughts.

Three great reads to set up your 2025...
 
The ball's in your Supreme Court and three thinkers thinking thoughts.
 
Names in the Pod Today:
TikTok
Virginie Berger
Benji Rogers
Keith Jopling
Shane Tobin
 
LINKS:
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/09/tiktok-emergency-injunction-december-2024/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ais-oligarchization-creativity-creators-lose-big-tech-virginie-berger-0k80c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_vi
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-publishers-flip-split-ais-42-billion-licensing-benji-rogers-p9tue?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shanetobin_the-response-to-musics-3-futures-has-been-activity-7270405091801632768-jWqg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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A TikTok setback, more lists, and a fast response murder ballad.

More Lists, Spotify Rapped, and what folks music was meatn to do.
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Lisa Deluca
Glenn Macdonald
Jewel Ham
Kasey Brown
TikTok
Paul Mescal
Joe DeVito
Brain Tohmpson
Concord
Hipgnosis
Legends
 
 
LINKS:
 
TikTok Rejected
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/tiktok-loses-bid-to-overturn-ban-6260388/
Bigest deals of 2024
https://www.billboard.com/lists/biggest-music-deals-2024-queen-michael-jackson-hipgnosis/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-biggest-music-business-deals-of-2024-from-irving-azoff-to-daddy-yankee-hipgnosis-and-queen/
The Rap on Wrapped
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/12/05/spotify-wrapped-2024-backlash-controversy-and-memes/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lisadeluca21_spotifys-most-brilliant-idea-didnt-come-activity-7270790674256379904-Qx3u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Not Funny, but Accurate.
https://youtu.be/5G2sYKQI_28
Fast-Reponse Folk
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brian-thompson-ceo-killing-reaction-b2660294.html
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Daniel Ek's Donuts, it's Rough On Rats, and Perspective is Everything.

How much does it cost to feed 26,00 families for a year? NITO is fun to say.
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Daniel Ek
Spotify
Chris Horton
Universal Music Group
Stuart Dredge
Tim Hortons
Ashley King
Alexis Fisher
Larry Rudolph
 
LINKS:
UMG and AI
https://musically.com/2024/12/05/umg-on-ai-music-licensing-litigation-and-legislation-will-eventually-align/
EK'sDonuts
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/daniel-ek-cashes-out-another-37m-in-spotify-stock-as-total-value-of-shares-sold-this-year-nears-320m/
Your Donuts
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/04/spotify-unwrapped-how-much-did-you-pay-your-favorite-artist/
NITO's Neato report
https://celebrityaccess.com/2024/11/26/nito-breaks-down-where-the-money-fans-spend-on-tickets-actually-goes/
You can always buy a ring light
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/live-nation-just-majority-acquired-a-hollywood-influencer-management-company-heres-why-that-matters/
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The high cost of FOMO, Ultra-confusing, and more Sorry, Drake.

Festivals toppling under their own weight?
 
Names in the Pod today:
Patrick Moxey
Coachella
Sick World
Sony Music Entertainment
Murray Stassen
Ashley King
Ariel King
Tracy Scarlato
Nicole Atkins
Peter Yorn 
 
 
LINKS:
Ultra-confusing
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/patrick-moxeys-ultra-music-publishing-sues-sony-music-for-alleged-copyright-infringement-claims-the-major-is-committing-massive-piracy-of-its-ip123/
Coachella Excess
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/02/coachella-ticket-sales-sluggish-weekend-2-widely-available/
Sick World Canceled
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/02/sick-new-world-cancellation-theories-emerge/
But AC/DC powers on
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/12/02/ac-dcs-power-up-tour-goes-to-north-america/
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