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Analysing vital music business topics in detail, as they emerge: Joe Sparrow breaks down important stories with expert guests in about 25 minutes. It'll keep you on the cutting edge, and it'll take about the same time as making and eating a good sandwich! (We recommend doing both simultaneously for maximum deliciousness.)🌍 Music Ally provides analysis and context for the global music business: musically.comⓂ️ Music Ally's industry-leading subscription service: https://musically.com/subscribe👋 Music Ally’s free weekly newsletter, The Knowledge: https://musically.lnk.to/knowledgepo

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Recent Episodes
  • beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding
    Apr 9, 2025 – 00:48:19
  • Music Streaming in 2025 – what's the value of music today; and what do superfans want?
    Mar 27, 2025 – 00:38:53
  • Getting tomorrow's music income today – looking back on a decade of music financing with Sound Royalties' CEO and founder Alex Heiche
    Feb 26, 2025 – 00:32:18
  • How music marketing will change in 2025 – with Liam James Ward of Something Something
    Jan 14, 2025 – 00:48:32
  • Retraining for new roles in the music industry – with Music Ally COO Patrick Ross
    Nov 8, 2024 – 00:25:45
  • Music-tech today and tomorrow: Stuart Dredge gets past the hype, gets to grips with Music AI, and gets excited about music fintech, music ecotech, and music healthtech
    Oct 10, 2024 – 00:47:09
  • Selling direct-to-fan and making money even when you're an emerging artist: Mag Rodriguez of D2C platform Even talks about the future of artist commerce
    Sep 30, 2024 – 00:38:10
  • Marketing Focus: Lainey Wilson, The Cardigans, and Peggy Gou's recent campaigns analysed
    Sep 18, 2024 – 00:26:24
  • Making money as a local venue in 2024: Dhruv Chopra, founder of Brooklyn venue Elsewhere, talks memberships, building community, and how Gen Z gig-goers want more than cheap beer
    Aug 30, 2024 – 00:42:01
  • Dirty Hit's Jamie Oborne on managing The 1975, trusting your artists' instincts, and how the power of cringe helps to choose what not to do
    Aug 7, 2024 – 00:40:38
  • Livestreaming in 2024: what do artists and fans want from it now? And what about superfans? On Air CEO Jakub Krampl explains
    Jul 25, 2024 – 00:28:40
  • Super-serving superfans – Jacquelle Horton of Fave on superfandom and superfan strategies for artists of all sizes
    Jun 20, 2024 – 00:37:01
  • The Nations: from YouTube remixes to modern music radio – founder Andre Benz explains how he tries to meet the needs of young music consumers
    Jun 5, 2024 – 00:34:08
  • "This isn't just another #MeToo issue... it's way bigger than that." Sexual violence, NDAs, and the music industry – with Caroline Heldman, PhD and Samantha Maloney of the Sound Off Coalition
    May 23, 2024 – 00:46:20
  • "The music festival industry is suffering and there is something fundamentally wrong at its heart" – so what can be done to revive it?
    May 3, 2024 – 00:40:03
  • "We're not just creating musicians; we're shaping well-rounded individuals" – Young Voices CEO Ben Lewis and violinist Anna Phoebe on the impact of choir singing on children
    Apr 25, 2024 – 00:43:57
  • "The music industry's approach to mental health was disastrous”
    Apr 19, 2024 – 00:43:29
  • How to make disabled people’s access to live events environmentally sustainable – with Suzanne Bull, founder of Attitude is Everything & Dr Teresa Moore, Director at A Greener Future
    Apr 11, 2024 – 00:36:03
  • Local, independent artists want to play gigs – but it's increasingly hard to make money or find a venue. Sofar Sounds CEO Jim Lucchese, talks about the economics of live music – and what should change
    Apr 5, 2024 – 00:30:33
  • Marketing music to Gen Z: hyper-authentic, and always online – how do you connect with this elusive audience? Keturah Cummings of Forward Slash explains
    Mar 28, 2024 – 00:27:31
  • The biggest questions that music streaming platforms face in 2024 – Music Ally's Head of Insight, Stuart Dredge, answers them.
    Mar 25, 2024 – 00:37:47
  • How do people search for music – and what do they really want in their results?
    Mar 21, 2024 – 00:29:07
  • How will AI-generated music be used in virtual spaces like metaverses and video games? And do we lose a communal experience if we all hear different music? Verses' Sean Lee & Kyungtae Kim explain.
    Mar 14, 2024 – 00:34:54
  • Should music streaming platforms charge to store music? Con Raso of Tuned Global explains the potential impacts on indie and major rightsholders.
    Mar 7, 2024 – 00:31:08
  • Marie Clausen, Merlin's Managing Board Director, on mentoring women to help them rise to senior positions in the music industry
    Feb 29, 2024 – 00:30:39
  • The enshittification of music – Cory Doctorow explains how a monopolistic music industry's rush to claw back value might also kill it. PLUS! An exclusive extract from Cory's new audiobook
    Feb 22, 2024 – 01:11:16
  • How can you unlock more value from music catalogues using AI? Harmix CTO Dmytro Lopushanskyy explains how this AI tech works – and how artists should be able to opt music out of AI model training
    Feb 15, 2024 – 00:32:57
  • Will this idea disrupt the record label model? Sherry Saeedi says that her company Verswire – “a venture capital model alternative for signing musicians” – is the future of music. We ask how and why.
    Feb 8, 2024 – 00:37:34
  • What's it like to manage the Black Eyed Peas? Co-manager Rachel Strassberger explains the challenges of managing a household name artist, and how managers will need to change in the coming years
    Feb 1, 2024 – 00:31:49
  • What next for song lyrics? From autonomous cars to AI chats, we discuss lyrics' future with Darryl Ballantyne of LyricFind
    Jan 18, 2024 – 00:36:37
  • Gender representation in the music industry, and how to undertake a "total restructure" – with Marie Fol, of the Keychange initiative
    Jan 11, 2024 – 00:48:48
  • AI and music marketing – how will artificial intelligence help marketers reach new fans and grow audiences? Music tech expert Virginie Berger makes some predictions...
    Jan 5, 2024 – 00:39:57
  • YouTube's Artist & Label Development team for Europe, Middle East & Africa: what does it do, and how do they choose which artists to support? YouTube's Nur Ozdamar explains all.
    Dec 14, 2023 – 00:29:51
  • Lior Tibon, co-founder of Duetti, and former COO of TIDAL, talks  artist-centric payment systems and Duetti's music financing platform
    Dec 7, 2023 – 00:37:09
  • Licensed music: what YouTubers and TikTokers really need, according to Lickd's Paul Sampson (Plus: will generative AI music take a slice out of his business?)
    Nov 30, 2023 – 00:35:33
  • Making vinyl records with 85% lower energy consumption – we get hands on with Sonopress's new EcoRecord
    Nov 23, 2023 – 00:34:15
  • IP Lawyer Eliane Ellbogen answers our questions on how copyright laws will apply to AI-generated music – and the human artists whose music it sounds like.
    Nov 16, 2023 – 00:32:15
  • “It’s common to see fraud between 20-60% of all streams on multiple distributors” – Beatdapp's Andrew Batey and Morgan Hayduk talk streaming fraud
    Nov 8, 2023 – 00:30:05
  • Dan Stein (AKA DJ Fresh) and Declan McGlynn of AI-powered platform Voice Swap on why producers and artists want to change their vocals to sound like another singer’s voice
    Nov 2, 2023 – 00:44:11
  • The MLC's CEO Kris Ahrend on mechanical licensing in 2023, why artists are so eager for data transparency , and the future of royalties for songwriters
    Oct 30, 2023 – 00:37:44
  • AI & the music business: Stuart Dredge breaks down the ambitions, possibilities – plus the ethical & legal issues – that AI music brings to the music business
    Oct 25, 2023 – 00:51:17
  • “I dream of a time when I can turn up at a venue and not need to call them first” – musician Elizabeth J. Birch & Youth Music CEO Matt Griffiths talk about the experiences of disabled people in music
    Oct 17, 2023 – 00:38:12
  • “We drove 50% of Nicki Minaj’s sales in 30 minutes” – Stationhead’s co-founders Murray Levison and Ryan Star on pivoting to being a superfan-centric community audio platform
    Oct 12, 2023 – 00:31:58
  • Streaming fraud whack-a-mole: how do music distributors spot – and stop – fraud on music streaming platforms? Christine Barnum, CD Baby’s Chief Revenue Officer, explains.
    Sep 28, 2023 – 00:29:29
  • "Small venues are places where magic happens" – Cat Henry, executive director of the US-based nonprofit Live Music Society on the challenges that small venues face in 2023
    Sep 21, 2023 – 00:25:58
  • "Mass adoption of generative music will be via content creators" – Alex Mubert talks about how generative AI music platforms – like his own – will change music-making, and the concept of music itself
    Sep 14, 2023 – 00:30:44
  • Classical music on TikTok – and how non-pop music is reaching a new audience, with TikTok's Darina Connolly, Head of Artist & Label Partnerships, and Label Partnerships Manager Lisa Skeppner
    Sep 7, 2023 – 00:29:41
  • The excessive pressures placed on artists – and how to fix it: with Grammy and Juno-nominated artist manager Piers Henwood
    Aug 31, 2023 – 00:38:02
  • Should music streaming be treated like radio? And what does it mean if it is? Expert analysis from Stuart Dredge, Music Ally's Head of Insight, who explores the legal and philosophical consequences
    Aug 24, 2023 – 00:30:09
  • Dequency CEO Keatly Haldeman explains what he thinks the long term impact of web3, crypto, and blockchain tech will be on the music business now that the hype has moved on
    Aug 17, 2023 – 00:37:49
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