Royalties

Last week, UMG and Deezer made an announcement that is set to be the biggest upheaval to the recorded music industry payment structure since the launch of streaming.

This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.

This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.

Established in 2002, Blue Buddha Entertainment is a boutique music licensing firm.

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Discovery Mode is basically a program where Spotify will help get you more listeners by inserting your songs into other artists’ radio stations and general “autoplay” sessions - for an additional commission. More on the commission part in a minute. 

Our guest this week on the New Music Business is the multi-platinum songwriter and producer, Sam Hollander.

In honor of our 100th episode celebration, Ari will be answering more of your music industry questions!

Joining us this week on the New Music Business is Billboard’s music copyright reporter, Kristin Robinson. In this episode, Ari and Kristin dive deep into one of her latest articles ("How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It") and why it's more important than ever for artists to protect their works.

Joining us on the New Music Business is the CEO of Comedy Dynamics, Brian Volk-Weiss, who’s officially our first guest that does not exclusively work in the music industry. Given how parallel these two industries are, there are incredible revelations on how he operates the most successful independent comedy record label in the world.