Startups need to understand (and respect) music and music’s value more, but equally copyright owners need to stop putting unnecessary obstacles.
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Peermusic CEO Mary Megan Peer: “We’re seeing K-pop become part of the rubric of songs”
October 2024: Mary Megan Peer, CEO of Peermusic. K-pop ’n’ roll: the US and the UK provided the lingua franca of popular music for the entire twentieth century. They controlled […]
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Wasserman Music president Lee Anderson: “Festivals need to take more of a risk”
September 2024: Lee Anderson, President of Wasserman’s music division. Festival-ley of darkness: the death spiral of the music festival is simultaneously over- and under-exaggerated. The biggest keep getting bigger, but […]
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Orfium CEO Rob Wells: “If you’re not delivering your information correctly, you’re underserving your constituents.”
August 2024: Rob Wells, CEO of Orfium. He discusses the “creeping issue” of broken data, how a fix today does not always ward off a problem tomorrow, why major labels […]
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SoundCloud global head of music Emmy Lovell: “To have zero plays is soul destroying for musicians.”
July 2024: Emmy Lovell, global head of music at SoundCloud. She discusses how, in an age of plenty, the mythical level playing field of digital is often a cemetery, why […]
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Primary Wave Music Founder & CEO Larry Mestel: “Most of our competitors are only interested in a strategy of buying and then flipping quickly”
June 2024: Larry Mestel, founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music. He discusses why buying a catalogue is the easy part, what is behind a slip in the value of […]
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The Orchard president and COO Colleen Theis: “Anyone who thinks that they can go and conquer the world alone is being penny-wise and pound-foolish.”
May 2024: Colleen Theis, president and COO of The Orchard. She talks about why some type of label (or at least label-like) system remains essential for acts to get beyond […]
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DiMA president and CEO Graham Davies: “We’ve got to be careful with streaming’s success story.”
April 2024: Graham Davies, president & CEO of DiMA (the Digital Media Association). He talks about why heavyweight lobbyists like Apple Music and YouTube still need their own lobbying voice, […]
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NMPA president & CEO David Israelite: music publishing must be the first thought, not an afterthought
March 2024: David Israelite, President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association. He talks about where songwriters are pushed to the margin as recording artists take centre stage in […]
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AIM CEO Silvia Montello: Apple Music Atmos royalty change hurts Indies
February 2024: Silvia Montello, CEO of AIM. She talks frankly about the impact of Apple Music’s royalty-incentivised push for Dolby Atmos adoption and the impact on independent artists and labels.
