On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Criticism of Spotify from non-superstar artists who say the platform isn't paying them a fair amount in royalties; (2) Taylor Swift unilaterally putting her reco…

On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Milana Rabkin Lewis, the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Stem, a distribution and services company, including financial services for independent artists. Stem has had a big 12 months. A major highlight arrived last summer when the company announced it had secur…

On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined once again by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) BMI's $100 million payout to songwriters following its acquisition by New Mountain Capital; (2) Universal Music Group's investment into HYBE's 'superf…

On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined once again by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Fortnite's 'Festival', built by music gaming experts Harmonix, in which players can purchase music tracks via in-game store; (2) A stat from Spotify s…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment. Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Julius Erving III, better known as J. Erving. Erving is the founder of Los Angeles-based Human Re Sources, a distribution and services company working with premium independent artists. Its successful clients s…

On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends (supported by Voly Entertainment): MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Los Angeles-based music biz seer, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Deezer's decision to remove 26 million music tracks from its library of content; and (2) The amou…

On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by US-based music biz veteran, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) A tough time on the public markets for private members' chain – and music industry favorite – Soho House; and (2) The…

On this Music Business Worldwide Podcast, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, interviews Aaron Bay-Schuck, the CEO and co-Chairman of Warner Records in Los Angeles. Right now, Warner Records is on fire like no other time in its recent history. It's seeing blockbuster success from several artists who, according to Bay-Schuck, are all true artist propositions –…

MBW's Talking Trends is back! On this episode, Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by US-based industry expert, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific topics that have made headlines in recent weeks: (1) A recent wave of lay-off announcements at major music companies, and (2) Universal Music Group's new $240 million investment …

Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Music – now known as Voly Entertainment. On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses a crisis that's rapidly deteriorating the UK live music scene. The Music Venue Trust is a trade body representing the interests of a vital collective of British live music ven…

On this episode of the Music Business Worldwide podcast – supported by Voly Entertainment – MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Rasty Turek. Rasty is the founder and CEO of Pex – which, amongst other things, tracks and analyses copyrighted content on digital services. According to Pex's tech, over a million tracks on audio streaming services like…

Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by two people who know all about music 'superfans': Alexander Seidl, the CEO of Aviator, and Lindsay Jones, the COO of Aviator. Aviator, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in serving these su…

Hello and Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Anthony Davenport, the CEO and founder of New York-headquartered Regal Credit Management. Regal Credit, as the name suggests, helps high-profile and high-net-worth individuals with their credit – both in terms of b…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Scott Cohen, the CEO of JKBX. JKBX is a new platform that enables investors (including so-called ‘retail investors’) to acquire royalty shares in hit songs. It will, in future, also allow you to trade those royalty shares by …

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast Tim Ingham, founder of Music Business Worldwide, is joined by Maria Egan, the Global Head of Music – as well as events – at Riot Games. Riot is home to a number of extremely popular online games, including League of Legends and Valorant. But it’s also a TV…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast we dive head first into one of the most-talked-about topics in the music biz this year. That topic is generative AI music, but more specifically, the fact that vast volumes of music are now being produced by AI platforms and then uploaded onto various streaming…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe. Paris-headquartered Believe is now well established as one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, both via its Believe-branded artist and label services op…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Internet at Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – and is the lead analyst on Goldman’s hugely influential ‘Music In The Ai…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Travis Rosenblatt, founder of the SaaS platform for A&R research and scouting, Meddling. Rosenblatt is a particularly interesting person to speak to because, by his own admission, he spends a lot of his time NOT consumed in hi…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast, one of the industry's sharpest minds, Will Page, joins MBW founder Tim Ingham to cover a range of topics including pricing, streaming, royalties – and why the global industry is more local than ever. Page is the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collec…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. How big can an independent artist get without help from a major record label? It’s been a fierce source of debate at this point for 20 years ever since the likes of TuneCore launched in the early to mid-noughties. These days, though, we have the receipts to answer the question…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported byVoly Music. Audius is one of the most talked-about new digital streaming startups in the music business today. Powered by Web 3.0 technology, it describes itself as a “global decentralised music community and discovery platform that puts the artist in control”. What that really means is th…

Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Austin Daboh (pictured) is one of the UK's most influential and forward-thinking major record company executives. In addition to being EVP of Atlantic Records UK, he was recently promoted to President Of Black Music at the label. A member of the Warner Music UK leadersh…

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ola Sars, founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Sars went on to become the co-founder and COO of Beats Music – the music subscription streaming service, associated with Beats By Dre he…

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by Voly Music. ------- As the years tick by, more and more DIY artists will earn a liveable chunk of annual cash from Spotify. That's an inevita…