Music Royalties

This week, Ari hops on for a solo episode to explain how to fairly compensate session musicians without cutting them into your publishing.

This week, Ari is joined by AyseDeniz, a classical pianist who’s using AI music generation tools to compose new music.

Spotify just revealed its annual Loud and Clear report revealing some top level numbers with some granular insights from 2023.

This week, Ari discusses his recent Variety article entitled “Why Spotify’s New Payment Model Falls Short For Emerging Artists.”

Spotify just rolled this out to help you better understand how active your listeners are. But why does it matter and how does it help?

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: www.aristake.com

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.

Part two of Ari answering your music industry questions!