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Bacon, egg, sausage, and AI, German philosophy, AI, and job disruption, AI.

German Philosophy, Monty Python, and AI. Oh, and BlueSky.
 
Names in the Pod Today:
 
Virginie Berger
BlueSky
David Pierce
Suno
Ge Wang
BlueSky
Kevin Lipson
Taylor Lindsey
Ken Robold
Daniel Tencer
Martin Niemoller
Monty Python
 
LINKS:
 
BlueSky Blows up
https://www.theverge.com/24295933/bluesky-social-network-custom-how-to
Suno goes after Industrial uses
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-after-being-sued-by-the-majors-and-hiring-timbaland-as-strategic-advisor-preps-launch-of-v4-claimed-to-be-a-new-era-of-ai-music-generation1/
Virginie's Warning
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/generative-ai-vs-music-why-licensing-dangerous-gamble-virginie-berger-mfloc/
Martin Niemoller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Spam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Ge Wang is an interesting dude
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24297892/ai-music-ge-wang-vergecast
Sony Nashville
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-lindsey-promoted-to-chairman-ceo-at-sony-music-nashville/
RoyFi
Https://www.royfi.com

The Odd present, the rich get richer, and the artists get worms.

The Odd Present, the rich get richer, and the artists get worms...
 
Names In Today's Pod:
 
Tyler The Creator
Spotify
Daniel Ek
Martin Lorentzon
LivenNation
Liberty Media
Claire Rousay
Ryan Dombal
Hearing Things
Elizabeth Lopatto
VEVO
SESAC
Dan Rys
JP Evangelista
Victoria White-Mason
Shel Talmy
 
LINKS:
 
Spotify Cashout
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/daniel-ek-just-cashed-out-35-cashed-in-384-million/
Liberty and Live Nation Cashout
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/15/liberty-media-live-group-spinoff/
Artists Get the worms
https://www.hearingthings.co/claire-rousay-explains-her-credit-card-statement/
AI from the artist perspective
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24294995/spotify-ai-fake-albums-scam-distributors-metadata
VEVO Artists to Watch
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/vevos-artists-to-watch-list-signals-start-of-tipping-season-and-provides-unique-video-promo-platform-for-20-possible-future-stars/
Eye of the high prices
https://www.nme.com/news/music/fans-arent-happy-about-my-chemical-romances-ticket-prices-695-is-nasty-work-3813337y
How Tyler hit #1
https://www.billboard.com/pro/tyler-the-creator-chromakopia-biggest-album-yet-how/
SESAC Awards
sesac.com
RIP Shel Talmy
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/15/shel-talmy-dies-producer-who-kinks-david-bowie
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

Artist Friendly AI, Hipgnosis Says Hold My Beer, and Sorry, Long Tail

Back in The USA and Bodega is a great band especially live.
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Imogen heap
Kristen Robinson
Shara Senderoff
Stuart Dredge
Spotify
Hypnosis
Blackstone
GEMA
Bodega
 
 
 
LINKS:
https://www.billboard.com/pro/imogen-heap-jen-ai-voice-music-models-capture-artist-
https://musically.com/2024/11/13/german-collecting-society-gema-sues-openai-over-song-lyrics/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/14/spotify-video-podcasts-monetization-program-2/
https://www.digital musicnews.com/2024/11/11/hipgnosis-abs-november-2024/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/diy-distribution-reform-weighing-pros-cons-why-analysis/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/11/hipgnosis-abs-november-2024/
Bodega
https://www.bodega-band.com/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

Spotify puffs up, Sphere revenues roll downhill, and let's hang out.

Last Day in Lisbon!
 
 
Names in the Pod today:
Web Summit
Spotify
Sphere
Lawrence Bonk
Hangout
Joseph Perla
Daniel Bedingfield
Stuart Dredge
Ariel King
J.R. Lind
 
 
LINKS:
Spotify Puffs Up
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/13/spotify-stock-q3-2024-earnings/
..But Bundlegate is doubled
https://musically.com/2024/11/13/spotify-reveals-e94m-bundle-impact-on-us-mechanical-royalties/
Hangout Launches
Hangout.fm
Pitchfork Hits snooze on the festival
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/11/11/pitchfork-festival-will-not-return-to-chicago-in-2025/
Sphere rolling downhill
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/11/12/sphere-posts-loss-revenues-slip-in-latest-quarterly-report/
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

It's almost 420 for Spotify, Worker Bee FML; Live Nation up and down at the same time

Names in the pod:
 
Todd Spangler
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Glenn Peoples
Andrew Hutchinson
Live Nation
Spotify
TikTok
 
Links
 
Spotify 400
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/spotify-q3-2024-earnings-premium-subscribers-1236207771/
Live Nation Up and Down
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/11/live-nation-earnings-q3-2024/
Bill Ackman
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-group-stock-listing-u-s-grow-value/
TikTok Politics
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-tiktok-courted-conservatives-before-trumps-win
Lemon8 FML
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-adds-integrated-log-in-for-lemon8/732720/
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

Gobbling up indies, Nietzsche disproved, and a tablespoon of delusion.

Greetings from Lisbon
Beirao, Bifanas and super bock
 
Names in the Pod Today:
Akash Mukerjee,
Chaz Jenkins
Joseph Perla
Daniel Bedingfield
Ralph Boege
Frank Cooper
Jerry Garcia
Elevenlabs
 
LINKS
Eamonn Forde on Indies Vs. Majors
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/indie-gestion-with-universal-ravenously-hungry-is-the-independent-label-sector-facing-an-existential-crisis/
Chartmetric A&R Tool
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/chartmetric-unveils-revolutionary-predictive-artist-discovery-tool-that-examined-data-of-over-10m-artists/
Share From Streamers to TikTok
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/07/share-on-tiktok-announcement/
Germans are Ahead on AI Training Licensing
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/paradise-worldwide-wants-to-help-gen-ai-platforms-become-licensed-and-get-rightsholders-paid-in-the-process1/
God is Not Dead
https://www.billboard.com/pro/jerry-garcia-ai-voice-read-books-articles-elevenlabs/
Web Summit
Https://websummit.com
RoyFi
Https://www.royfi.com

Good morning, Lisbon, a Tidal town hall and the 99 Dollar web browser.

Who else is at Web Summit?
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Paul Grein
Lyndsey Havens
Pharrell Williams
Robert Levine
Ashley King
Beyonce
Mark Andreesen
Diddy
Donald Trump
 
 
LINKS:
 
Grammys
https://www.billboard.com/lists/grammy-snubs-surprises-2025-nominations/surprise-andre-3000/
Tidal's Pool gets Shallower
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/08/block-scales-back-tidal-investment-bitcoin-mining/
Good Luck Babe
https://www.billboard.com/pro/chappell-roan-splits-management-team/
Trump X Music Industry
https://www.billboard.com/pro/will-donald-trump-election-win-affect-music-industry/
Netscape's Launch Announcement
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/netscapes-original-browser-press-release/
Web Summit
https://websummit.com/
The Best Bifana in Town
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MaH8tvec5YRnUXmE9
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

Concord telling stories, a singer in his 20s, and those pesky artists.

Names in the pod today:
 
Mark Williams
Margie Cheske
Richard Smirke
Scott Jungmichael
SESAC
Rob Stringer
Ashley King
Murray Stassen
Sony Music
Hybe
iHeart
V
Bing Crosby
Primary Wave
 
LINKS:
Mark and Margie
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/artist-development-is-the-lifeblood-of-the-new-concord-records/
SESAC Collects More
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sesac-wins-10-4-increase-in-royalties-collected-from-us-radio/
iHeart's Spinning plates
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/07/iheartmedia-restructuring-4-1-billion-in-outstanding-debt/
Spotify 400
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/07/spotify-stock-record-november-2024/
Developing a 120-Year-Old Artist
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/06/bing-crosbys-white-christmas-is-now-a-duet-with-bts-v/
Sony Up
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-earnings-q2-sza-david-gilmour-events-publishing/
Hybe Down
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hybes-revenue-slides-2-in-q3-amid-olympics-impact-internal-challenges/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

Canada blames TikTok, my two rules of music, and it's 2005 in L.A.

In the pod today: Lars Murray's two rules of music
 
Names in the Pod today:
Andy Gensler
TikTok
Meaghan Tobin
Peter Shapiro
Phil Lesh
Nina Nesbitt
Dave Brooks
JR LInd
 
 
 
LINKS:
Canada Kicks TikTok Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/business/canada-tiktok.html?
Nina Nesbitt on DIY
https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-singer-songwriter-nina-nesbitt-started-record-label/
Dont buy Tix on Facebook Marketplace
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/05/ticket-scams-on-facebook-marketplace/
https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/press-releases/2024/lloyds-bank-2024/oasis-fans-hit-by-ticket-scams.html
Post election
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/11/06/live-nation-stock-surges-after-trump-victory-analysts-revisions/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/2024-election-donations-live-nation-aeg-bosses-compared-2020/
Phil and Pete
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/11/05/fare-thee-well-peter-shapiros-unique-relationship-with-the-grateful-deads-phil-lesh/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com

UMG's punch to the TuneCore, iHeart layoffs, and more cheery news.

We still gotta go to work...
 
Names in the pod:
Kristin Robinson
Tunecore
Universal Music Gorup
IHeart Media
Bruno Venditti
X
The Cramps
 
Links
UMG V Tunecore
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-lawsuit-tunecore-infringed-music-rihanna-ariana-grande/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/05/universal-music-believe-lawsuit-breakdown/
IHeart Layoffs
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/05/widespread-layoffs-at-iheartmedia-as-music-radio-downsized/
TikTok Academy updates
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-launches-updated-tiktok-academy-marketing-education-platform/731684/
Tu Boda Keeps going
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/oscar-maydon-fuerza-regida-tu-boda-breakdown-1235818545/
X Brand Destruction
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-decline-in-brand-value-of-x-formerly-twitter/#google_vignette
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com