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Taylor's (Re)version, Publishings 11 Queeners, the Chairman's Bang and Tudum!

"Tudum" and "Chairman Bang" are fun to say.
 
Names in Today's Pod
 
Glenn Peoples
Rob Sheffield
Jem Aswad
Marc Schneider
Bang Si-Hyuk
Adam B. Vazy
Shira Gans
NY Music Month
Netlflix
Shamrock Capital
 
LINKS:
Taylor's Reversion
https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-regains-control-master-recordings-shamrock/
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-timeline-music-rights-battle-1236414186/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-taylor-swift-won-commentary-1235351833/
Pictures of Chairman Bang
https://www.billboard.com/pro/hybe-stock-falls-chairman-bang-investigation/
Gaga Rescues Tudum
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-tudum-lady-gaga-stranger-things-squid-game-1236415155/
11 Queeners
https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-publishing-market-worth-11-billion-globally-report/
NY Music Month
https://www.nymusicmonth.nyc/
 
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Country power diversifies, Hybe's Busy week, and catalogue for cocktail parties.

Country Power Players and HYBE has a busy week.
 
Names in the pod today:
Ashley King
Elizabeth DIlts Marshall
Barry Massarsky
Citrin Cooperman
Golnar Khosrowshai
Reservoir Music
Ghazi
Katie Studley
Marc Schneider
Scott Borchetta
Scooter Braun
HYBE
Tencent
Big Machine
SM Entertainment
Bang Si-Hyuk
Jay Gilbert
Mike Etchart
 
LINKS:
Country Power Players
https://www.billboard.com/p/country-power-players-2025/
Cocktail Party Catalogue
https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-catalog-market-worth-citrin-cooperman-experts/
Reservoir Earnings
https://www.billboard.com/pro/reservoir-media-earnings-q4-revenue-up-subscriptions-sync/
HYBE 1
https://www.billboard.com/pro/hybe-sm-entertainment-sale-tencent-music/
Hybe 2
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/28/hybe-america-sells-big-machine-rock/
Taylor to own all versions?
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/page-6-tay-could-buy-back-her-catalog-with-scooter-encouragement-2025-05-22
Hybe 3
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/29/korean-regulators-investigating-bang-si-hyuk/
Thanks Jay and Mike!
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Double black diamonds, a virtual black diamond and revenge of sorts.

Virtual ABBA and now Virtual KISS complete the 1977 Junior High Perfecta
 
 
Names in the pod today:
Alain Jourgenson
Metallica
Steve Driss
PopHouse
Per Sundin
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Josh Wyatt
Avant Gardener
Gary Richards
Ryan Borba
#musicindustry #podcast
 
LINKS:
KISS Joins Abba In 1977 JHS Holo-fame
https://www.billboard.com/pro/pophouse-kiss-avatars-vegas-show-new-avicii-music/
Brooklyn Mirage makes a change
https://www.billboard.com/pro/brooklyn-mirage-opening-josh-wyatt-out-avant-gardner-ceo/
RIP to some cool Folks
https://news.pollstar.com/2025/05/24/update-sound-talent-group-families-share-additional-information-on-those-who-perished-in-san-diego-crash/
Ministry's Revenge
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Wkf21TuFg0tEVFkCyMQp7?si=Doj3w8t3SvGYalndydFF0g
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Winds of change from the East, score a couple for the rights holders, and a "Messy" trend.

Global Power, ChatGPT Power, and Messy Memes
 
Names in the pod today:
Andrew Hutchinson
ChatGPT
Discord
Sarah Perez
Amanda Silberling
Sarah Moses
Monica Kulkarni
Jacob Geskin
 
Links:
Billboard Global POWER
https://www.billboard.com/pro/billboard-global-power-players-2025-list/
ChatGPT on The March in April
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/chatgpt-traffic-rising-versus-other-top-visited-websites-infographic/749090/
Surf Provides custom feeds
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/open-social-web-browser-surf-makes-it-easier-for-anyone-to-build-custom-feeds/
Score two for the rightsholders
https://www.billboard.com/pro/beastie-boys-social-media-lawsuit-diddy-trial-recap-lil-wayne-case/
How Brands can avoid getting Schooled by the rightsholders
https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-brands-avoid-lawsuits-music-social-posts-op-ed/
Discord Is aware of its issues
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/discord-seeks-to-solve-a-problem-that-it-created/
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Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug
 

Air gapping your brain. What year is this? And the inevitable AI chop shop?

Reasonable AI expectations for rightsholders?
 
Names in Today's Pod
Nick Clegg
Rob Levine
Youtube
Spotify
Gabe Newell
Valve
Shira Perlmutter
Reservoir Music
Roots Picnic
 
 
LINKS:
AMAs
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/amas-winners-2025-list-1235980888/
Spotify Songs of the Summer Nominees
NIck Clegg Simps for Big AI
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/26/former-meta-exec-its-not-reasonable-for-artists-to-opt-out-of-ai/
Content ID is possible
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/23/youtube-content-id-payouts/
Copyright office in Chaos
https://www.billboard.com/pro/what-going-on-chaos-copyright-office-trump/
I'm Keeping my Brain Airgapped
https://www.theverge.com/news/673938/gabe-newell-valve-founder-brain-computer-interface-first-chip-starfish
 
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You can't fire me and I don't quit, Music City under the bus, and a pagan celebration.

Music City Reps throw copyright under the bus. Just Sayin'...
 
Names in the pod today:
Shira Perlmutter
Martin Lorentzon
Marsha Blackburn
Scott Desjarlais
Andy Ogles
John Rose
Mark E. Green
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg
Udio
CTS Eventim
Spotify
 
LINKS:
Perlmutter claps back
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/donald-trump-sued-by-us-copyright-office-director-over-blatantly-unlawful-firing/
A Big Beautiful Copyright sellout
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/22/ai-safe-harbor-provision-big-beautiful-bill-act/
NOFAKES in the Senate
https://www.billboard.com/pro/martina-mcbride-speaks-out-ai-deepfakes-senate-hearing/
CTS has a Big Quarter
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/cts-eventim-revenues-soared-19-1-to-3bn-in-2024/
Remove a Tariff, watch biz boom
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-says-ios-payment-rule-change-boosted-premium-subscription/
UDIO hits the App store
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/udios-mobile-app-launches-on-ios-priced-at-up-to-30-per-month/
 
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Death, taxes and Livenation, more AI-nxiety and what's better than donuts.

A dizzying arrat of Livenation litigation
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Richard Smirke
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Eriq Gardner
Live Nation
Dave Brooks
Richard Grenell
The Josephine Network
 
LINKS:
 
An extra dose of AI-nxiety
https://www.billboard.com/pro/eu-ai-act-code-europe-music-industry-tech-concerns/
The powers that be Live nation
https://puck.news/podcast_episode/taylors-swifties-v-live-nation/
COVID Collusion Kerfuffle
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/live-nation-and-aeg-face-probe-over-pandemic-refund-policies-report/
https://news.pollstar.com/2025/05/19/feds-probe-live-nation-aeg-for-alleged-covid-era-collusion-report/
The Kid is catching on
https://www.billboard.com/pro/live-nation-donald-trump-appointee-richard-grenell-board/
The Tickets are too damn high!
https://www.billboard.com/pro/concert-ticket-prices-studies-spending-debt-consumer-trends/
Handy Dandy cheap tickets resources
https://www.billboard.com/culture/product-recommendations/best-cheap-tickets-sites-1235380283/
The Josephine Network
https://josephinenetwork.bandcamp.com/
RoyFi
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A flat circle built on flat circles past peak TikTok, and hang on to that publishing.

"Without You" is this week's viral for the olds.
 
Names in the pod today:
Fred Goldring
Josh Gruss
Universal Music
Ashley King
Emma Roth
Mike Spinella
Ryan Redington
Amazon Music
Soundcloud
Spotify
TikTok
 
 
Links
UMG Goes Back to Bricks and Mortar
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/umg-to-relocate-new-york-offices-to-penn-2-building-in-manhattan-with-future-premium-retail-experience-dedicated-to-serving-music-superfans/
https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/bookstores-comeback-record-stores-follow-op-ed-1235966827/
Amazon AI Playlisting > Spotify AI Playlisting
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/20/amazon-music-ai-powered-search/
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/amazon-music-ai-music-discovery
Spotify Leans harder into Audiobooks
https://www.theverge.com/news/669933/spotify-iphone-app-audiobooks-purchase-apple-ruling
Past Peak TikTok?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/20/tiktok-loses-most-downloaded-app-crown/
A SoundCloud-y Promo
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikespinella_1000bpmremix-1000bpmremix-soundcloud-activity-7329967290274172928-ON0l?
 
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Another wave of layoffs, air quality, and supercomputers versus bachelorettes.

Drummer Layoffs Problematic artists and supercomputers in Space
 
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Jem Aswad
Tressie Macmillan Cottom
Ashley King
Chriss WIllman
Steven J. Horowitz
Ted Suh
Snap
Blue Origin
Kyle Orland
Shira Gans
New York Music Month
 
#musicindustry #musictech #Podcast
 
LINKS:
Drummer Layoffs
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/foo-fighters-fire-josh-freese-drummer-shocked-disappointed-1236400951/
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/the-who-fires-zak-starkey-again-advance-farewell-tour-1236402638/
Cottom on Wallen
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/country-music-beyonce-lana.html
Aswad on Wallen
https://variety.com/2025/music/opinion/morgan-wallen-fans-maga-trump-1236400045/
Discord Hacks Kanye
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/19/kanye-west-album-leaked-discord/
https://variety.com/2025/music/opinion/morgan-wallen-fans-maga-trump-1236400045/
Epic Games fights for all of us.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/epic-goes-to-court-to-force-fortnite-back-on-us-ios/
Bachelorettes of Supercomputer in space
https://www.theverge.com/news/669157/china-begins-assembling-its-supercomputer-in-space
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/musically_weve-just-dropped-the-first-round-of-panels-activity-7330176624056745984-65gX?
Ted Suh Exits Snap
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7323052122990641152-KVWJ/?
New York Music Month Schedule
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/new-york-music-month-2025-full-schedule-1236403359/
 
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The atmosphere we breathe, the Olds start at 22, and earnings learnings

If you are sleeping on Shorts, wake up!
 
Names in Today’s Pod:
Glenn Peoples
Rob Stevenson
Matt Signore
YouTube
Resorts World
Peter Bjorn and John
Lone Wolves
Jack Hedges
 
LINKS:
Moragan Wallen is everywhere https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-breaks-sreaming-records-1235974784/
Katy Perry OOF
https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/entertainment/katy-perry-not-invited-back-to-vegas-after-residency/
Under 21's are coming. https://www.billboard.com/lists/21-under-21-music-2025-list/
And they are doing it on YouTube Shorts
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/15/youtube-shorts-revenue-now-equals-regular-videos/
Earnings Learnings https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-earnings-report-q1-trends-cost-cutting-subscriptions/
RoyFi
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