UNLIMITED SUPPLY
Unlimited Supply is your daily music tech and business TL/DR. It’s the industry’s only daily audio briefing. In five minutes you’ll know what should be paying attention to in the Business, Technology and Finance of Music. Music and Industry news are superabundant, and someone needs to sift though that unlimited supply of information for you every day. That’s where Unlimited Supply comes in. Presented by Nodisc and RoyFi.
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Episodes
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
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
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
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/
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
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/
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
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/
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
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
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
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/
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
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.
Monday Aug 19, 2024
Monday Aug 19, 2024
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 Infinite Album founder and CEO Karen Allen, whose Axe to Grind concerns opportunities in gaming.
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Don't Quote me, Candy Crush for smart people, and masterwork or skunk works?
LINKS
Eric Steps in a pile of Schmidt
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai
A Publishing bomb, or not
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-business-music-licensing/
What is going on at Primary Wave
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bruce-springsteen-manager-jon-landau-sells-music-interests-to-primary-wave/
Duolingo is OK at licensing
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-music-strikes-deal-with-duolingo-to-bring-tracks-from-stars-like-hozier-and-meghan-trainor-to-music-courses/
What's going on over at Masterworks
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-music-masterworks-acquires-majority-stake-in-immersive-and-live-entertainment-company-black-sky-creative/
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
The Elliot experiment is gonna be interesting...
Names in the Pod today:
Elliot Grainge
Elias Leight
J.R. Lind
Roblox
Distrokid
Kyle Denis
LINKS:
The Elliot Factor
https://www.billboard.com/pro/inside-warner-elliot-grainge-atlantic-music-group-ceo/
It's Promotional!
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/roblox-strikes-deal-with-distrokid-but-indie-artists-wont-be-paid-any-money-from-it1/
What does brat summer mean?
https://www.billboard.com/music/features/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-pop-music-fandom-chappell-roan-charli-xcx-1235752842/
DOJ Pushback
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/08/14/doj-pushes-back-on-live-nations-venue-change-proposal/
Sphere $1B
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sphere-entertainment-earnings-revenue-dead-and-co/