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Pexit!
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Amadea Choplin
Pex
Vobile
Chris Castle
Jack Dorsey
David Solomon
Paolo Confino
Ashley King
Marissa Mayer
Dolby
 
LINKS:
Pexit
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amadeachoplin_pex-vobile-activity-7317561716727238657-9H4w?utm_sourcet=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAC_y4Bj_55MYX2ryKaHuxhU84V4OgAAeM
Chris Castle Recognizes Patterns
https://musictech.solutions/2025/04/14/does-publicly-available-ai-scraping-mean-they-take-everything-or-just-anything-thats-not-nailed-down/
Maybe agentic AI will come for the bankers first.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/17/goldman-sachs-ceo-david-solomon-ai-tasks-ipo-prospectus-s1-filing-sec/?utm_source=generativeaienterprise.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=goldman-cuts-time-to-value-by-95
I guess Jack Dorsey wants to give up his patents and Trademarks
https://www. ..digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/jack-dorsey-ip-comments/
Perplexity AI on AI data Training -- How (small m) meta!
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-call-nLediHtgRhudPAtW9n7MDA
A long Apple Tradition
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/13/apple-music-quietly-adds-dolby-atmos-support-for-windows/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

Superfans, Superfans, and...Bernie Sanders
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Nick Holmsten
Tim Ingham
Syd Schwartz
John Semley
Bernie Sanders
Glenn Peoples
Mark Mulligan
Tatiana Cirisano
Dylan Smith
Pollstar
Music Sustainability Alliance
 
 
LINKS:
Bernie Schools the Infuencers
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bernie-sanders-coachella-2025-clairo-1235945316/
Spotify Squeezes the Low Countries
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/11/spotify-price-increases-benelux-april-2025/
Superfan Streaming predictions
https://www.billboard.com/pro/superfan-music-streaming-how-much-money/
A new Superfan Challenger Bank
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nick-holmsten-launches-superfans/
Record Store Day Precaps
https://jazzandcoffee.substack.com/
https://www.billboard.com/lists/record-store-day-2025-best-releases/
https://defector.com/how-record-store-day-became-the-stupidest-day-in-music
Pollstar Live
https://www.pollstar.live/flow/ovg/psl25/landing/page/page
Music Sustainability Summit
https://www.musicsustainability.org/summit
 
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

It's the System, Man!
 
Names in the pod today:
Glenn Peoples
Interscope
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Kate Nash
Jeff Lebowski
David Macias
Oscar Hoglund
Epidemic Sound
Dan Rys
Daniel Tencer
 
LINKS:
West Beats East at UMG
https://www.billboard.com/pro/record-label-market-share-q1-2025-kendrick-lamar-interscope/
Coachella Bargain getaways
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/10/coachella-2025-last-minute-guide-tickets-lodging/
Kate Nash
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/10/kate-nash-spotify-umg-paltry-payments/
Music as a safe haven?
https://www.billboard.com/pro/could-uncertainty-global-markets-boost-music-investments/
Or maybe not?
https://www.billboard.com/pro/trump-tariffs-us-music-business-effects/
GEMA's good year
https://www.billboard.com/pro/gema-2024-results-revenue-up/
Epidemic's very Good Year
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/epidemic-sounds-revenues-jumped-29-to-181-6m-in-2024-as-ebitda-soared-150-yoy-to-13-9m/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.FM
Hangout.fm

Tales of Myth, Legend, and Congress.
 
 
Names in the Pod today:
Robert Kyncl
Jermaine Dupree
HYBE
Warner Music Group
Scotter Braun
Elliot Grainge
Ali Nawaz Khan
Daneil Tencer
Spotify
Daniel Ek
Amy Klobuchar
Gerald Casale
Perry Farrell
Marc Geiger
Richard Bienstock
Tom Beaujour
 
 
 
LINKS:
ScooterXJ.D.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/08/hybe-america-so-so-def-recordings-distribution-deal/
WMG SuperFan
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-group-is-readying-its-superfan-app-with-help-from-ed-sheeran/
Spotify Adding Ads to Premium?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/09/rumor-mill-says-spotify-putting-ads-in-premium-spotify-denies/
The "No Fakes" Act Lives
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/no-fakes-act-aimed-at-cracking-down-on-deepfakes-reintroduced-in-us-congress-this-time-with-support-of-google-and-openai/
The TICKET Act also lives:
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/08/ticket-act-house-committee-approval/
Legends of Lolla 1.0
https://news.pollstar.com/2025/04/04/lollapalooza-the-uncensored-story-of-alternative-rocks-wildest-festival/
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout
Https://hangout.fm

Your Fake news is gonna be easier to find now. And...Rocky Horror for Gen Z?
 
Names in the pod today:
Lauren Hirsch
Tiktok
Instagram
David McCabe
Sapna Maheswari
Adam Mosseri
Sarah Perez
Andy Pulver
Dan Milmo
Minecraft
 
Links:
 
China Weighs in
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-says-tiktok-deal-subject-government-review-2025-04-09
the Tick Tock on the TIKTOK fail
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/trump-tiktok-china-tariffs.html
TikTok for artists
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktok-soft-launches-tiktok-for-artists-platform/
Community Notes now live on Meta
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-community-notes-now-live-US/744679/
TikTok For Artists
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/instagram-is-beefing-up-its-search-to-compete-with-tiktok/
Insta Beefing up Search
https://www..com/film/2025/apr/09/cinemas-minecraft-movie-chicken-jockey-tiktok-trend
Chicken Jockey is Rocky Horror for Gen Z/Alpha
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/09/cinemas-minecraft-movie-chicken-jockey-tiktok-trend
 
Why This Song?
https://whythissong.lnk.to/podcast
https://www.tiktok.com/@whythissong?
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug

An essential AI state of the art-icle linked today.
 
Names In Today's Pod:
David Massey
Virginie Berger
Ashley King
MTV
Declan McGlynn
Aly Gillani
Mark Cuban
Skylight
Sara Perez
Fortnite
 
 
 
LINKS:
David Massey Retires
https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/david-massey-to-retire-from-arista-records-as-rob-stringer-pays-tribute/091739
MTV Joins Matlock
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/04/cbs-snags-mtv-vmas-paramount-pre-show/
Skylight Is here
https://skylight.social/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/mark-cuban-backs-skylight-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-underlying-technology/
Ouchella
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/07/coachella-weekend-2-passes-dropping-below-face-value/
Sabrina on Fortnite
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/07/sabrina-carpenter-headlines-fortnite-festival-season-8/
Was Bandcamp the answer?
https://futurefilter.substack.com/p/was-bandcamp-the-answer-all-along
Virginie Lays out the AI landscape (MUST READ)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/mark-cuban-backs-skylight-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-underlying-technology/?
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

A packed weekend and packed week ahead
 
Names In Today's Pod:
TikTok
Murray Stassen
Tony Blair Foundation
Ashley King
Coachella
Downtown Music
Record Store Day
 
LINKS:
TikTokalypse postponed (Not news)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/trump-says-china-s-objections-to-tariffs-stalled-tiktok-deal
TikTokers say Whatever.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5351788/sale-trump-tiktok-china-creators-fatigue
The New TikTok Business Model
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/06/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams
New Music
Miley
https://mileycyrus.lnk.to/listen
Wet Leg
https://wetlegband.com/
TV Girl (seriously, get a website! UGH!)
https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/
The Dare
https://www.itsthedare.com/
Uncool Brittannia?
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tony-blairs-institute-just-wrote-a-report-calling-for-uk-copyright-law-to-be-ripped-up-heres-what-it-says/
UMG-Downtown EU Scrutinny
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/04/universal-music-downtown-music-deal-eu-investigation/
Inflation proofing redux. and the FOMO recession
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/04/beyonce-tickets-drop-prices-cowboy-carter/
Fomo recession Part 2
https://www.coachella.com/passes
Record Store Day
https://recordstoreday.com/
Me and Joseph Perla Thursday 2PM ET
https://zrgpartners.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jeuh94CiSXK9-_fAGl98Sg#/registration

For this episode we're doing something a little different. 
Music Services, a division of SESAC Music Group, offers a wide range of technology, licensing, and administration services for music publishers, record labels, and artists around the world. That’s a lot under one roof. And with a name like Music Services, it can mean a lot of different things.
To help break it all down, we sat down with John Raso, CEO of Audiam—the division of Music Services that helps artists get paid from YouTube.
This is the first in a series of conversations with key players at Music Services, recorded during their SXSW party—somewhere between bites of what might’ve been the best hotdogs I’ve ever had and sets from some amazing live acts, including UK duo Big Special, who made a huge splash in Austin this year.
In addition to leading Audiam, John’s got serious music cred—more specifically, punk rock cred. But no spoilers. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

A lot of Swedish Richness today...
 
Names in the pod today:
 
TikTok
Amazon
Applovin
Oracle
Amazon
Frank McCourt
Shot Tower Capital
Aisha Malik
Per Vikstrom
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Marc Schneider
Tim Pithouse
Daniel EK
 
LINKS:
The ABCs of the TikTokalypse
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-joins-bidding-war-tiktok-deadline-sale-approaches/story?
The Veep Veeping
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/03/vp-vance-on-tiktok-deal-before-this-weekend/
Youtube posts up
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/youtube-shorts-takes-on-tiktok-with-new-creation-tools/
Superb Swedish Fundraising
https://www.billboard.com/pro/pophouse-raises-billion-catalog-acquisitions-experiences/
BMG's 2024 Queener
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bmg-surpassed-1-billion-revenue-in-2024-up-6-4-yoy-ebitda-surges-to-record-287m/
Unsupberb Swedish cashout news https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/daniel-ek-pockets-another-27-6m-from-selling-spotify-shares/
Congrats Tim Pithouse
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/exec-moves/pithouse-new-gm-of-def-jam-2025-04-02
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.FM
Hangout.fm

Matthew Hawn has an axe to grind about Measurement Obsession.
 
And we check in on some touring thThursday and TikTok News.
 
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Matthew Hawn
Kid Rock
Abby Jones
Linkin Park
Ashley King
TikTok
Amazon
Lauren Hirsch
Maggie Haberman
Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Karen Weise
Sapna Maheshwari
 
 
LINKS:
Amazon to the TikTok Rescue?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html
Linkin Park Bingo
https://www.stereogum.com/2302353/linkin-park-downgrade-dodger-stadium-show-slash-ticket-price/news/
Kid Rock's stopped clock moment
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/31/trump-executive-order-price-gouging-entertainment/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug