Sitemap - 2024 - The Industry Playlist 🎵
Spotify's accruing cultural debt
Tipni Time: three charts, three lessons
30% Creator Tax; DSP-Label grand bargain; and Wynk Music shutdown
A&R: Tuning India's Independent Talent
Megastar residencies and Assistive-AI Creativity
Spotify’s Playlists Play, AI’s Costs, and Copyright Wars: A Perfect Storm for Creativity
Deconstructing All About Music 2024
Spotify's Triumph and the Zero-Sum Reality for Music Business
Major labels still rule; AI's music's youthful edge; and why Spain's live music is surging
Evolution of music search; Spotify copying TikTok; and Undifferentiated digital distribution
Big Tech vs. Big Labels clash; Platform 'enshittification'; and the Upside of arena tour slowdowns
The downside of catalog sales; Innovating live music business, and managing hype indicators
Changing face of nostalgia; Regulating excesses of streaming; and why virality is a bad strategy
Streaming evolution; Redefining genres; Microculture memberships; and Web3's music comeback
Monopolistic power of algorithms; and the Multiple paths to building a bank for creators
Cost of being a music fan; and the US cultural hegemony on the decline