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Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by two people who know all about music 'superfans': Alexander Seidel, the CEO of Aviator, and Lindsay Jones, the COO of Aviator. Aviator, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in serving these s…

Hello and Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Anthony Davenport, the CEO and founder of New York-headquartered Regal Credit Management. Regal Credit, as the name suggests, helps high-profile and high-net-worth individuals with their credit – both in terms of b…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Scott Cohen, the CEO of JKBX. JKBX is a new platform that enables investors (including so-called ‘retail investors’) to acquire royalty shares in hit songs. It will, in future, also allow you to trade those royalty shares by …

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast Tim Ingham, founder of Music Business Worldwide, is joined by Maria Egan, the Global Head of Music – as well as events – at Riot Games. Riot is home to a number of extremely popular online games, including League of Legends and Valorant. But it’s also a TV…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast we dive head first into one of the most-talked-about topics in the music biz this year. That topic is generative AI music, but more specifically, the fact that vast volumes of music are now being produced by AI platforms and then uploaded onto various streaming…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe. Paris-headquartered Believe is now well established as one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, both via its Believe-branded artist and label services op…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Internet at Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – and is the lead analyst on Goldman’s hugely influential ‘Music In The Ai…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Travis Rosenblatt, founder of the SaaS platform for A&R research and scouting, Meddling. Rosenblatt is a particularly interesting person to speak to because, by his own admission, he spends a lot of his time NOT consumed in hi…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, one of the industry's sharpest minds, Will Page, joins MBW founder Tim Ingham to cover a range of topics including pricing, streaming, royalties – and why the global industry is more local than ever. Page is the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collec…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. How big can an independent artist get without help from a major record label? It’s been a fierce source of debate at this point for 20 years ever since the likes of TuneCore launched in the early to mid-noughties. These days, though, we have the receipts to answer the question…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported byVoly Music. Audius is one of the most talked-about new digital streaming startups in the music business today. Powered by Web 3.0 technology, it describes itself as a “global decentralised music community and discovery platform that puts the artist in control”. What that really means is th…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Austin Daboh (pictured) is one of the UK's most influential and forward-thinking major record company executives. In addition to being EVP of Atlantic Records UK, he was recently promoted to President Of Black Music at the label. A member of the Warner Music UK leadersh…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ola Sars, founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Sars went on to become the co-founder and COO of Beats Music – the music subscription streaming service, associated with Beats By Dre he…

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by Voly Music. ------- As the years tick by, more and more DIY artists will earn a liveable chunk of annual cash from Spotify. That's an inevita…

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by Voly Music. ----- Why is Spotify pursuing a new design that borrows heavily from time-sucking short-form video services like TikTok? That's t…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability AI – and one of the world's foremost experts on generative AI in the field of music. An entrepreneur and inventor, Newton-Rex built the pioneering AI-driven music-making platform Jukedeck…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to AI expert, and the CEO of LyricStudio, Dr. Maya Ackerman. ------ Bloody Elon Musk. Not content with doing beastly things to Twitter (like, erm, marginally improving the user experience), he's also triggered the actual beginning…

Hello and welcome to the first episode of 2023 of Talking Trends – a podcast from Music Business Worldwide, supported by Voly Music. As ever on Talking Trends, we'll be diving behind a major entertainment industry headline to explain what’s really going on. It’s a new year, which means a bucketful of music biz statistics about the prior 12 months –…

Lyor Cohen believes that short-form video poses a major threat to the music business. He also thinks it might be the industry's savior. On this MBW Podcast, Cohen – Global Head of Music at YouTube – explains his fears over short-form video platforms that fail to push users into deeper engagement with music and artist content. "Short-form video that…

If you watch the new Netflix dramatization of the Spotify story – 'The Playlist' – you'll come across an entire episode told from the perspective of Per Sundin. That's because Sundin was the CEO of Universal Music Sweden at the time of Spotify's EU launch (2008), and one of the early believers that Daniel Ek's streaming platform could one day rule …

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by Voly Music. ---------- According to Spotify, Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) was officially its biggest 'Song Of The Summe…

Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music. ---------- Sony Music Group. Warner Music Group. BMG. Hipgnosis. Concord. Primary Wave. They've all been tipped to be at the negotiating table to acquire a career-spanning catalog from legendary British band Pink Floyd. On this episode of the Talkin…

Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music. In this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses the recent quarterly results of music industry giants such as Universal Music Group, Sony Corp, Warner Music Group, and Believe. Ingham notes that Q2 2022 saw something of a consistent slowdown in st…

Some people say the modern music business lacks entrepreneurial new independent record companies. Those people haven't met Stef Van Vugt. The 25-year-old Dutchman founded Strange Fruits (now Fruits Music) in 2016 while studying music as an aspiring DJ. The label-cum-playlist company now has millions of followers on Spotify, where it's racked up ten…

Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music. In this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses the model under which TikTok currently pays the music industry. Music Business Worldwide sources suggest that TikTok's deals with rightsholders are currently 'buy-outs' – i.e. the platform pays a lum…