Your Morning Coffee Podcast Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart

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.
 
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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". 
 
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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": 
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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!
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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! 
 
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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.
 
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