Your Morning Coffee Podcast

Episode 201 On this week's gabfest with your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart, the guys discuss these important music industry stories: "Music Publishers File Complaint With US Federal Trade Commission Against Spotify Over Audiobook Bundle" (Music Business Worldwide); "Spotify Waited Years to Roll Out High-Definition Audio. The Delay Just Might Pay Off" (Billboard); "Robert Kyncl Turns Up Heat On P.R.O. Metadata Matching, And Other Things We Learned From His Latest Interview" (Music Business Worldwide).    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 200! On this 200th episode of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart bring you an action-packed installment of the podcast covering these important stories: "Inside The Growing War Over Merch Fees At Venues: ‘Bands Are Getting Ripped Off’" (Billboard); "Declarations Of Independence: 23 Top Indie Artists’ Share Their Secrets To Success" (Billboard); "PEX Publishes Its Latest Report On ‘Manipulated’ - User Generated Songs (Music Ally).  Plus a cornucopia of music biz info with audio drops from Louis Posen, producer and founder of Hopeless Records, Jeremy Sirota, CEO of Merlin, Steve Knopper, author and Billboard editor at large, and Megh Vakharian, SymphonyOS cofounder!  Subscribe to the newsletter!! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 199 On this week's installment of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz on these important music industry stories: "Sony Music Group Boss Rob Stringer Talks Acquisitions, AI And How Music Streaming Services Should Start Charging Free Users" (Music Business Worldwide); "14 Music-Tech Startups Helping To Shape The Music Business, As It's Shaken Up By AI" (Business Insider); "How Napster Created A Monster That Became Bigger Than The Music Industry" (LA Times).  Plus audio drops with Eamonn Forde, author of the new book 1999: The Year The Record Industry Lost Control and Richard Burgess, President and CEO of A2IM:  the American Association of Independent Music on the upcoming A2IM Indie Week - June 10 - 13 in NYC.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

On this very special YMC episode, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk with their friends Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano from MIDiA about their insightful report "MIDiA Research 2024-2031 Global Music Forecasts - The Rise of the Global South".    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 198 On this episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important stories: "Sexual Violence, NDAs And The Music Industry" (Music Ally);  "Ticketmaster And Live Nation Should Be Broken Up, DOJ Says In New Lawsuit" (Rollling Stone); "Spotify's Battle With Songwriters And Music Publishers Is Getting Complicated. Here's A Recap." (Music Business Worldwide).    Plus an audio drop with Hunter Giles from Infinite Catalog. The Sound Off "Make The Music Industry Safe Report":  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64efea71ba63473425e1aacd/t/65dead83a5613548b681ecf9/1709092432027/SOUND+OFF%3A+Make+the+Music+Industry+Safe+Report+February+2024     Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee  

Episode 197 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart bring you a gab-tastic edition covering these important stories: "Challenges Artists Face in the Modern Streaming Era" (Chatmetric); "The Mechanical Licensing Collective Brings Legal Action For Unpaid Royalties Against Spotify USA Inc." (The MLC); "A Timeline Of The Music Industry’s "Bundling Feud" With Spotify" (Billboard); "The Most Popular Musician You've Never Heard Of? Johan Röhr Has Been Streamed 15 Billion Times On Spotify" (LaMonde News and Rick Beato with Ted Gioia). Plus audio drops with Jay Gilbert and his panel from the Music Biz Conference in Nashville, Beatdapp CEO Andrew Batey, and Ted Gioia from his interview with Rick Beato! Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 196 On this week's YMC yapfest, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "TikTok Sues U.S. Government, Saying Ban Violates 1st Amendment" (LA Times); "Randy Travis' Shocks Music Industry With AI Pairing For 'Where That Came From’ - How The Song Came Together" (The Tennessean); "GENRE ISN’T DEAD, IT JUST SMELLS FUNNY: Rethinking Musical Genre For The Streaming Era" (Pop Matters). Plus an audio drop with Ryan Blakeley from Pop Matters!    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

YMC Special Episode! To celebrate the upcoming 200th episode of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart are excited to share our conversation with music attorney Dina LaPolt.  We have talked about Dina many times in the past on the podcast, so we were especially pleased when she agreed to sit down with for a chat about some of the most important issues facing artists today.   Subscribe to the podcast! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 195 On this week's YMC podcast, your mostly non-AI hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music business stories: "Universal Music And Tiktok Strike New Licensing Deal – Including ‘Improved Remuneration’ For UMG Artists And Songwriters" (Music Business Worldwide); "We Break Down Cleo Abrams YouTube Video “AI Music Simply Explained" (Cleo Abrams at Big If True); "Spotify vs. Songwriters (Again): NMPA Says Spotify's Latest Move To Lower Royalty Rates Is ‘Likely To End Up In A Legal Conflict’" (Music Business Worldwide).  Plus audio drops with Murray Stassen from Music Business Worldwide on the UMG/TikTok agreement, and a clip from Cleo Abrams Big If True podcast on AI music.    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 194 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart wax poetic on these important music industry stories: "A New ‘Music-Only’ Subscription Tier Is Coming To Spotify, Confirms Daniel Ek… And 4 Other Things We Learned On The Company’s Latest Earnings Call" (Music Business Worldwide); "How Vinyl Can Harness the Influence of Superfans" (Billboard - Guest Column by Will Page and Fred Goldring); "Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership" (Billboard).   Plus audio drops with Kris Ahrend, Chief Executive Officer for The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), and Patrick Clifton from the Tunes and Tales blog with Notes From The Fan Economy.    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 193 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz about these important stories: "TikTok Is Talking To UMG Again, But Washington May Hold The Keys To Its Future" (Billboard); "Inside Taylor Swift’s Surprise Return to TikTok" (Wall Street Journal);  "NMPA accuses Spotify Of 'Attacking Songwriters' As It Changes How It Pays Mechanical Royalties In The US" (Music Business Worldwide).   Plus an audio drop with Mark Mulligan, Managing Director and Analyst at MiDIA on their new research report "Bifurcation Theory: How Today's Music Business Will Become Two".    Subscibe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 192 On this week's gabtastic episode, your happy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart converse about these important music industry stories: "Artists Are Seeing Their Music Removed From DSPs For Streaming Fraud They Didn’t Commit" (Ari Herstand for Variety); Spotify Plans To Let Subscribers Speed Up Songs – And Pay Rightsholders When Those Modified Tracks Are Streamed" (Music Business Worldwide);  "Everyone Wants To Reach Superfans. It Won’t Be Easy" (Billboard). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 191 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music biz stories: "Is UMG's TikTok Ban Hurting Its U.S. Streaming Numbers? Here's What The Evidence Shows" (Glenn Peoples at Billboard); "An Independent Musician’s Perspective - On The TikTok Legislation Before Congress" (Blake Morgan); "Q1 2024 Music Trend Report" (Jesse Kirschbaum's Beats & Bytes).  Plus audio drops with Jen Jacobson, Executive Director of the Artists Rights Alliance, and Janice Polizzotto, Chief Relationship Officer of Music Will.  Link to Ohio State Universitie's Music Industry Summit, FREE and open to all!  https://www.ohio.edu/music-industry-summit     Subcribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 190 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your non-AI generated hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart cover these important stories: "How Are Musicians Supposed To Survive On $0.00173 Per Stream?" (The Guardian); "RIAA Report 2023 Takeaways: Is The U.S. Too Reliant on Paid Subscriptions?" (Billboard).   Plus audio examples from AI song generation platform Suno, and AI video generation platform BITH.AI. Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 189 On this week's scintilating episode of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music biz stories: "IFPI Global Report 2024: Music Revenues Climb 10% to $28.6 Billion" (Billboard); "Why Are IFPI & MIDiA’s 2023 Revenue Figures So Far Apart? The Answer Lies In ‘Expanded Rights'" (Billboard); "Loud & Clear: Spotify Releases Their Annual Music Report: The Top 10 Findings" (Spotify). Plus an audio drop with Jamie Dee Hart from Hart & Songs.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 188 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yapped about these important music business stories: "Will Congress Ban TikTok? Here's What's Going On" (Rolling Stone); "Results Of The MusicWatch 2023 Annual Music Study: Record Numbers of Music Streamers and Paid Subscribers" (Music Watch); "Vinyl Sales Keep Growing - So Why Does It Look Like They've Dropped?" (Billboard). Plus audio drops with Russ Crupnick from Music Watch, and the YouTube video Clare Dunn Exposes The Dark Side Of The Country Music Industry.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee 

Episode 187 On this week's podtastic show, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk about these important music business stories: "Over 38% Of Music On TikTok Is ‘Modified’, Says Study That Analyzed 100 Million Audio Tracks On The Platform" (Music Business Worldwide); "The Truth About Ticket Prices" (Live Nation); "The Music Industry’s Over-Reliance On TikTok Shows How Lazy It Has Become" (The Guardian). Plus audio drops with Martin Mills from Merlin, and Allison Hagendorf from The Allison Hagendorf Show! Subscriboe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 186 On this week's YMC gabfest, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music industry stories: "With Label Layoffs, Will Artists Get Dropped?"(Billboard); "Blake Morgan And #irespectmusic Return To Washington For The American Music Fairness Act And #musicfairness" (Chris Castle at Music, Technology Policy); "So… Maybe Don’t Bet Your House On Universal Music Group And TikTok Reaching A Deal Anytime Soon" (Music Business Worldwide). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 185 On this week's episode of YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart cover these important stories: "The Label Recovery, Part I: Purpose" (Patrick Clifton); "Show Me the Splits: Tiffany Red Illuminates Stealing Publishing" (Chris Castle); "Anthropic Trained Its AI To Rip Off Copyrighted Lyrics - Music Publishers Allege -  In Escalating Court Battle" (Music Business Worldwide). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 184 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz about these important stories: "Music Subscriber Market Shares 2023" (Music Industry Blog); "The Ultimate Guide for Musicians to Have a Kickass Year 2024" (Symphonic); "Record Store Day 2024 Release List Revealed" (Stereogum). Plus audio drops from Fabrice Sergent from Bandsintown, and Megh Vakharia from SymphonyOS. Check out these music videos Jay and Mike talked about: Billy Joel "Turn The Lights Back On" https://youtu.be/UOf6CMbHPuA?si=hkPLVQZ4ixYdNcKP The Dandy Warhols "I'd Like To Help You With Your Problem (featuring Slash)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3H2AVm1uD8   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee