Episode 179 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important stories: "The Luminate U.S. Year-End Music Report For 2023 Is Here" (Luminate); "UMG Stock Gains On Layoff News, BELIEVE Shares Fall On Possible Takeover Report, K-Pop Stocks Flop" (Billboard); "The Future of Vinyl: Dustin Blocker Breaks Down The Resurgence Of Analog In A Digital World" (Magnetic).  Plus an audio drop from Brianna Schwartz and Alexis Schreiber from...

Episode 178 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these importan music industry stories: "Andreessen Horowitz’s Thoughts On AI Shows What The Music Industry Will Be Up Against In 2024" (Music Business Worldwide); "TikTok Global Head Of Music Ole Obermann On All Things Music" (Forbes); "Spotify’s 138% Gain Leads Billboard Global Music Index’s 31% Improvement In 2023" (Billboard).    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

On this special YMC episode, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart have an in-depth conversation with audio engineer, producer and author Bobby Owsinski on his new book, The Musician's Ai Handbook.     Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 177   Happy New Year to everyone from Jay and Mike! On our first episode of 2024, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk about these important stories: "6 Music Business Stories You Missed Over The Holiday Break" (Hypebot); "2023’s Music By The Numbers: Taylor Swift Dominated, Country Boomed, And Hip-Hop Sunk" (Rolling Stone); "The 10 Biggest Music Business Deals Of 2023" (Billboard).   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 176 On the last YMC podcast episode of the year, your happy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart unceremoniously shove 2023 out the door and cover these important stories: "The 10 Biggest Music Business Stories of 2023" (Billboard); "Mark Mulligan Of MIDiA’s 2024 Music Industry Predictions" (Hypebot); "The Record Label Crisis" (Patrick Clifton).  Plus an audio drop from Billboard editor at large Steve Knopper on the new Immediate Family documentary. Subscribe to the newsletter!...

Episode 175 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your happy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "11 Music Business Predictions For 2024- From Jay Gilbert!" (Hypebot); "2023 Music Economics Report For Independent Artists" (Duetti); "'We’re On TikTok? What’s TikTok?’ The Forgotten Bands Going Supersonic Thanks To Gen Z" (The Guardian).    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

On this very special episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart have a conversation with Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, the authors of the new book "Key Changes - The Ten Times Technology Transformed The Music Industry".  This book is a must-read for anyone in or interested in the music industry, and we are really excited to share this with our listeners.     

Episode 174 On this week's YMC gabfest, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important stories: "Vinyl Industry Opposes ‘Dramatic’ Shift In Music Store Sales Reporting" (Hypebot); "As AI Grows, Artists & Labels Consider: Who Owns a Voice?" (Billboard);  and discussion about "The Senate passing the FANS FIRST ACT and Fair Use and Support for Federal Protections Against AI Voice Cloning & Deepfakes". Plus an audio drop with Jacquelle Amankonah Horton,...

Episode 173 On this week's YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap ahout these important stories: "SPOTIFY WRAPPED IS HERE! The Top Songs, Artists, Podcasts and Listening Trends of 2023 Revealed" (Spotify); "Will AI Be Used To Raise Musicians From The Dead? (Billboard); "Historic Mechanical Royalty Increases, Inflation Adjustments Explained!" (Chris Castle).  Plus an audio drop with Mike Warner, author of Work Hard, Playlist Hard.   Subscribe to the newsletter!...

On this bonus special YMC episode, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk with their good friend and economist Will Page about his article stating the global value of music copyrights for 2022 is hitting the $41.5 BILLION dollar mark!    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 172 On this week's YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important stories: "Everything To Know About Spotify's New Royalties Model: How Does It Work & Who Will It Impact?" (Billboard); "New Study Confirms TikTok Drives Streaming, But There’s No Magic Bullet on Going Viral" (Billboard); "YouTube Launches Test Of AI Music Generator That Can Mimic Demi Lovato, John Legend, Charlie Puth, Troye Sivan, T-Pain And More" (Variety).  Plus an audio...

Episode 171  On this week's YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important stories: "TikTok Strikes Partnership With Spotify, Apple Music And Amazon Music To Link App Directly To Music Streaming Services" (Music Business Worldwide); "Spotify Plans to Charge for Fraud: How It Works & Who It Affects the Most" (Billboard); "YouTube To Require Creators To Flag AI-Generated Content, Will Add New Ways To Request Removal Of Deepfakes Including Music Videos That...

Episode 170 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important stories: "10 Predictions For Music's Future" (Rob Abelow); "The Evolving Roles & Responsibilities Of Artist Management Today" (Chris Nilsson from 10th Street Entertainment); "What Spotify’s New Royalty Model Really Means" (Variety); "The MLC Has Paid Out Over $1.5bn To Songwriters To Date" (Music Business Worldwide).   Subscribe to the newsletter!...

Episode 169 On this week's YMC gabfest, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important stories: "Most Tracks On Spotify Won’t Earn A Royalty Under New Scheme" (Billboard); "It’s Out! The Trapital Report" (Trapital); "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed The Music Industry" (Howie Singer/Bill Rosenblatt).  Plus audio drops with Dan Runice from Trapital, and Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, authors of "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed The...

Episode 168 On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your digital music mavens Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "Spotify Is Changing Its Royalty Model To Crush Streaming Fraud And Introduce A Minimum Threshold For Payment" (Music Business Worldwide); "50 Years Of Music Industry Revenues, By Format" (Visual Capitalist); "Spotify’s Price Hike Didn’t Hurt Subscriptions, And 3 Other Things We Learned On Its Latest Earnings Call" (Music Business...

Episode 167 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz about these important music industry stories: "Music Has Become A ‘Just-In-Time’ Economy" (MIDiA); "Superfans And Supine Fans: The Music Industry Is Getting Its Priorities The Wrong Way Around" (Music Business Wordwide); "UMG Sues AI Company For Using Songs To Train Models: ‘Systematic & Widespread Infringement’" (Billboard).    Subscribw to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 166 On this week's YMC podcast, your happy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music industry stories: "Music Attorney Don Passman On Contracts, AI And What Makes Superstars Different" (Billboard); "Streaming Is Missing Cultural Moments, And Superstars Know It" (MIDiA); "From Points To Publishing, Here’s How — And How Much — Producers Get Paid Now" (Billboard).  Jump Global Summit November 12 - 14 in Los Angeles $200 discount for YMC listeners: promo code...

Episode 165 On this week's wild and rockin' episode, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important stories: "Record Label Market Share Q3 2023: Republic Stays Dominant While Interscope & Atlantic Surge" (Billboard); "5 Observations On… Epic Games’ Sale Of Bandcamp To Songtradr" (Music Business Worldwide); "Does Culture Become A Commodity, Or Do Commodities Become Culture?" (MIDiA).    Jump Global annual summit 2023 Nov 12 - 14 in Los Angeles: Personal and...

Episode 164 On this week's installment of the YMC podcast, your dynamic duo hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important stories: "The Truth Behind Why You Aren't Getting More Streams" (Randall Foster on Hypebot); "The Fans Also Like Nightmare Of September 2023 – Spotify Fans Also Like Update" (Anothony Pacheco -Simpl.); "Live Nation Scraps Artist Merch Fees at Its US Club Venues As Part Of New ‘On the Road Again’ Program" (Music Business Worldwide).  Subscribe to the...

Episode 163 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart kibbitz about these important music industry stories: "Four Takeaways From The RIAA 2023 Mid-Year Report: Prices Rise, Subscriptions Slow & More" (Billboard); "Artificial Intelligence In The Music Business ~ What You Need To Know" (Mulitple Sources); "6 Music Industry Topics Every Musician Should Learn More About" (Symphonic).  Plus an audio drop with Jack Bogdan, co-founder and CPO of...

Episode 162 On this week's YMC podcast, your groovy hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart wax poetic on these important music industry stories: "Streaming Is Changing The Sound of Music" (Wall Street Journal); "If I Ran Spotify, I'd Do These 8 Things" (Rob Abelow); "A New Era Of ‘Fan-Made’ Music Is About To Begin" (MIDiA). Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 161   On this week's YMC gabfest, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important stories: "How to Make Artist Centric, Artist Centric" (Mark Mulligan Via The Music Industry Blog); "Multiple Criminal Gang Members Confirm They've Used Spotify For Money Laundering In Bombshell New Report" (Music Business Worldwide); "Independent artists Deserve An Equitable Music Ecosystem" (A Guest Post By Ben Patterson, President, Artist & Label Services of Downtown...

Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart celebrate their third anniversary of the podcast with a very special episode featuring Tatiana Cirisano and Kriss Thakrar from MIDiA. Tatiana and Kriss break down MIDiA's two recently released reports: The MIDiA Research 2023-2030 Global Music Forecasts (Speed Bump) and The State and Future Of Music Fandom - Unleashing Fan Creativity.    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 160 On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your humble hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart yap about these important music industry stories: "From Madelynn Elyse & Hypebot -Build Fans, Don’t Chase Streams" (Hypebot); "Has TikTok Killed the Music Video Star?" (Billboard); "Economist Will Page Unwraps the Touring Bounceback" (IQ).    Plus audio drops from Madelynn Elyse on her story in Hypebot, and Dimitri Vietze on the upcoming Music Tectonics conference - and with a special...

Episode 159 On this weeks YMC podcast, your gregarious groovy guys Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "Pushing Songs Up the Charts Was a Label Job. Then Fans Took Over" (Billboard); "Up Close And Personal: When The Algorithm Goes Too Far" (MIDiA); "The CD Finds New Life Among Gen Z Collectors" (The Washington Post).  Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee