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You can learn a lot installing a router for you mother-in-law...
 
Names in the Pod Today:
Glenn Peoples
Joseph Perla
Fancircles
Hangout.fm
Anthropic
Concord Music
Tim Ingham
William Packer
Fan Circles
SM Entertainment
LG
Sonos
Ashley King
 
Tech Tuesday Links
 
I buried the lede Friday
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/this-analyst-has-watched-universal-music-group-closely-for-years-and-hasnt-always-been-mega-positive-he-just-upgraded-umgs-stock-for-the-second-time-in-a-year/
 
Anthropic Stiff Arm
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/27/anthropic-fires-back-against-music-publisher-injunction-demand/
 
LG/SM World Building
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sm-entertainment-and-lg-uplus-collaborate-on-ai-driven-content-for-virtual-artist-naevis/
 
Turntable FM Raises 8.2M
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/turntable-labs-raises-8-2m-to-launch-social-music-streaming-platform-hangout/
 
Sonos Borked Up
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/30/sonos-app-not-working-are-they-fixing-it/

Bundlegate is not over and a big week at BMG...
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Daniel Tencer
Dave Brooks
Thomas Coesfeld
Celine Joshua
David Schulhof
Bill Ackman
Rory McIlroy
Ed Christman
 
 
LINKS
 
Spotify More Bundlegate
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/28/spotify-bundles-mlc-lawsuit/
 
RIAA First Half
https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=342442&title=RIAA%253A-BIZ-GENERATED-%25248.7B-IN-FIRST-HALF-OF-%25E2%2580%259924
 
BMG Results and Celine Joshua
https://www.billboard.com/pro/bmg-earnings-h1-2024-revenue-up-ceo-changes-paying-off/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/28/bmg-earnings-h1-2024/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/celine-joshua-bmg-evp-global-marketing/
 
Beggars and XL
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/29/beggars-group-2023-financials/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/xl-recordings-posted-a-12-8m-profit-last-year-despite-only-releasing-8-new-albums/
 
MUSQ
https://www.billboard.com/pro/etf-fund-musq-invest-music-industry-how-its-doing/?curator=MusicREDEF
 
Ackman
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bill-ackman-unworried-by-universal-music-group-subscription-revenue-blip1234/
 
Tickpick Rory McIlroy
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/xl-recordings-posted-a-12-8m-profit-last-year-despite-only-releasing-8-new-albums/

Are tour cancellations actually healthy?
 
Names in the Pod today:
Stephen Parker
#Oasis
Ticketmaster
Yelp
Ticket
NIVA
#The Struts
Ashley King
 
LINKS:
More Tour Cancellations
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/23/more-tour-cancellations-financial-problems-2024/
 
OASIS Ticket fun
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/28/ticketmaster-limits-oasis-reunion-shows/
 
Hits Moves toward Live
https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=342402
 
Global Citizen batteries
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/08/28/showpower-global-b-v-battery-powers-global-citizen-festival-2024/
 
Yelp Yikes
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/28/yelp-shuts-down-secondary-ticketing-platform/
 
The Struts Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-struts-life/id1752548164

It's a viral Wednesday for the Olds.
 
Names in The Pod Today:
 
#Shaboozey
#Oasis
Min Hee-Jin
Ashley King
Mindy Dalugdug
#Surf Curse
#Addison Rae
#Lance Bass
#Kamala Harris
 
 
Viral Wednesday Links
 
Min Hee-Jin Finally out the Ador
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hybe-owned-label-ador-replaces-ceo-min-hee-jin-amid-legal-dispute/
 
Shaboozey Coming at the King.
 
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/27/shaboozey-war-with-label-publisher/
 
Oasis Cringe Supernova
https://www.tiktok.com/@tpwk.doll/video/7407922124830084384?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7317743953888003630
https://www.tiktok.com/@tpwk.doll/video/7407922124830084384?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7317743953888003630

AI concentrated super garbage and more fun stuff today...
 
Names in the Pod Today:
Aatish Bhatia
Tracy Chan
Ed Newton-Rex
Maria Egan
Jacqueline Saturn
Marisa Jeffries
Karen Allen
Stuart Dredge
Murray Stassen
Cherie Hu
 
Tech Tuesday Links
REQUIRED AI READING HERE!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/26/upshot/ai-synthetic-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
 
Tracy Chan Does the right thing.
https://musically.com/2024/08/23/ai-music-startup-splash-gets-fairly-trained-certification/
 
Former Colleagues do a Gaming deal
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/riot-games-partners-with-virgin-music-for-arcane-season-2-ost/
 
Anime and the Attention economy
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/global-streams-of-anime-music-have-soared-395-on-spotify-since-2021/
 
Water & Music Data Report
https://surveys.waterandmusic.com/stateofdata2024
 
Congrats Marisa Jeffries!
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ex-tiktok-exec-marisa-jeffries-joins-stern-management-as-general-manager/

Names In Today's Pod:
 
Billy Mann
Jay Pritzker
Brian Beck
Kristin Robinson
TikTok
Spotify
Sonos
United Masters
 
LINKS:
 
Post Leans Into the Pickup Trucks
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/post-malone-f1-trillion-debuts-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235760603/
 
TikTok Songs of the Summer
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/20/tiktok-songs-of-the-summer-lists-2024/?utm_source=Daily+Snapshot&utm_campaign=2e4a6d4e86-Daily_Snapshot_August_21st_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-77cac1fdfd-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=2e4a6d4e86&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/over-half-of-tiktoks-biggest-global-tracks-of-the-summer-are-independently-distributed/
 
TikTok Plays Chicken with the Feds
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/16/tiktok-ban-doj-reply-brief/?utm_source=Daily+Snapshot&utm_campaign=1056d76362-Daily_Snapshot_August_19th_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-77cac1fdfd-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=1056d76362&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
Pritzker Signs AI Legislation
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7232023063586914306/
https://www.recordingacademy.com/advocacy/news/illinois-governor-pritzker-hb-4875-law-ai-artist-rights
 
More Spotify Enshittification (or Shufflegate)
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/22/spotify-shuffle-is-not-working-correctly/
 
Sonos UGH
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/16/sonos-layoffs-august-2024/?utm_source=Daily+Snapshot&utm_campaign=1056d76362-Daily_Snapshot_August_19th_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-77cac1fdfd-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=1056d76362&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
Billboard Q2 publisher's report
https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-publishers-quarterly-rankings-taylor-swift-umpg-sony-radio/

It's the last day of vacation week, so we'll be back Monday with the usual mix of relevant Music industry news, links, and dubious assertions. But today we wrap up Axegrinder week, where we turn over UNLIMITED SUPPLY to our friends of the pod, some of the smartest thinkers in the industry, who have an axe to grind about a particular issue in the music industry today.
 
Today we hear from Seth Schachner from Strat Americas, whose Axe to Grind concerns Ticketmaster.
 
LINK: https://www.stratamericas.com/

We are on vacation this week, SO...we have something special. It's Axegrinder week, where we turn over UNLIMITED SUPPLY to our friends of the pod, some of the smartest thinkers in the industry, who have an axe to grind about a particular issue in the music industry today.
 
Today we hear from Syd Schwartz of Linchpin Digital and Jazz and Coffee, whose Axe to Grind concerns exclusives.
 
Check out Syd's Jazz And Coffee Substack HERE
 
Feel free to leave comments, dissents, etc. on our brand new website at www.unlimitedsupplypod.com
 
 

We are on vacation this week, SO...we have something special. It's Axegrinder week, where we turn over UNLIMITED SUPPLY to our friends of the pod, some of the smartest thinkers in the industry, who have an axe to grind about a particular issue in the music industry today.
 
Today we hear from Beatconnect CEO Nicholas Laroche, whose Axe to Grind concerns music collaboaration software.
 
LINK: https://www.beatconnect.com/
 

We are on vacation this week, SO...we have something special. It's Axegrinder week, where we turn over UNLIMITED SUPPLY to our friends of the pod, some of the smartest thinkers in the industry, who have an axe to grind about a particular issue in the music industry today.
 
Today we hear from Digital Music OG, author, professor, and consultant Howie Singer, whose Axe to Grind concerns AI companies training data.