Your Morning Coffee Podcast

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A conversation with Jaime Marconette, the VP Music Insights and Industry Relations at Luminate.   Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with Jaime about their just released Mid-Year Report, Trends in Music, TV & film. We discuss the health of the music business, a spike in CD sales, growth areas, music documentaries and, of course, AI.  

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Episode 310

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A conversation with Manuel Moussallam, the VP of Research & Data Science at streaming service Deezer.    Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with Manuel about a variety of topics, including AI detection, their User-Centric model approach, and the challenges all streaming services have to navigate in the marketplace today.   

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Episode 309   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Spotify Slashes Streams of Hit Song after Suspicious Activity on Prediction Market Kalshi •  Viberate Opens Music Data to ChatGPT, Claude and Other AI bots Via Official MCP Server Launch •  Google Says AI Training Is Fair Use and Copyright Should Be Policed on Outputs, Not Inputs •  The Trends Defining Music, Culture & Brand Marketing in 2026   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A conversation with Graham Davies, the prersident of the Digital Media Association (DIMA).   Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with Graham about a variety of topics from their recently released 2026 Annual Report.   

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Episode 308   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Suno Launches Artist Incubator, Offering Grants and Marketing to Indie Talents •  Why Artists Can't Ignore Vanity Metrics •  The Science Behind Ticketing: How Artists & Their Teams Price Tours •  The Label Model Is Training Artists Not to Need Labels   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week second edition live conversations with Jay Gilbert and CD Baby's Molly Neuman, Bandcamp's Aly Gillani, and Sean Johnson from Top Drawer.    

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Episode 307   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  The Music Industry Is Closing In On A Billion Global Subscribers—with Spotify Out In Front •  No Fakes Act, Bill Meant To Curb Unauthorized Digital Replicas, Clears Senate Judiciary Committee •  Warner and UMG are Quietly Asking Artists for Their Stems •  Four Music Datasets Holding Millions Of Tracks Are Being Shared Among AI Developers   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week live conversation with Jay Gilbert and Nettwerk's Mike Jowett and Partisan Records Zena White.   

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Episode 306   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Google Asserts That YouTube's Terms of Service Allow It to Train AI Models •  NMPA Reports Spotify and Amazon Bundling Cost Nearly $500M in Lost Value Since 2024 •  WMG Acquires Sureel AI, a Platform That Aims to Protect Music and Other Assets From Unauthorized Use and   Monetization •  Indie Venues Call For 'Dismantling' the PRO's Blanket Licensing Practice

    All of this plus Jeremy Sirota drops in to talk about "Breaking Into The Music Business"

    Jeremy's list of 100+ music companies: https://tinyurl.com/4zk88n4u

Episode 305   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We're At
•  Will Live Nation & Ticketmaster Really Get Broken Up? •  Meta Launches Paid Subscriptions: Is the Era of Free Social Media at an End? •  Suno Raised $400M Ahead of New AI Model Made in Partnership With Music Industry Establishment

Episode 304   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  TikTok's AI 'Text to Song' Trend May Be a Sign of Music to Come  •  The Midyear Box Score Report Shows Growth — But It Has Finally Slowed Down? •  Clipping campaigns: marketing's next move in a fragmented attention economy •  A Full List of Music-Related Legislation Before Congress Right Now

    Plus an audio drop from Duetti's CEO Lior Tibon

Episode 303   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Live Nation Must Be Broken Up From Ticketmaster After Monopoly Verdict, States Tell Judge •  Spotify and Universal Music Group strike landmark deal to let fans create AI covers and remixes •  Spotify's Head of Music Announces 'Reserved' Ticketing Initiative: •  If I Ran Spotify....   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 302   This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  "Blue Dot Fever" is a scalper narrative. Don't fall for it. •  Sync Is Dying (Quickly) •  Virgin Music Co-CEOs On Downtown Deal, Fighting Fraud With Price and Why They're With a Major •  "The Feed Is Fake"   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

This week, hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Rap On Trial: The Long Battle to Keep Hip-Hop Lyrics Out of Court •  The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Indy music orgs say artists won't be able to afford it. •  Spotify wins motion for arbitration in 'payola' lawsuit •  Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI training in answer to Sony Music lawsuit   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A Conversation With mtheory EVP of Marketing and Digital Strategy Ed Rivadavia.

In this conversation, we talk about his path, audience growth & engagement, tools & tactics, and even AI as it relates to marketing.

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Episode 300

Welcome to another special episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, a conversation with Jeffrey Smith, Vice President of Marketing for Alliance Entertainment.   If you're listening to a vinyl LP today, changes are, it came through Alliance. Jay Gilbert sits down to talk about releases on physical products like CDs and vinyl, Alliance vs Amped, and the truth about vinyl buyers who actually own a record player.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 299

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A Conversation With RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier.   In his 25 years at the RIAA, Glazier has played a vital role in the music industry's transition to streaming and "anywhere, anytime" access to music. 

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Episode 298   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Everything to Know About the Live Nation Verdict, What It Means for Fans, and What's Next •  Universal's Michael Nash takes aim at 'False narrative of artist Replacement' by AI •  Someone Used AI to Steal a Song •  A Love Letter to the Music Industry in 2026   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with Oana Ruxnadra, Chief Executive Officer at PopHatch. 

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Episode 297   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  The State of Music Streaming in 2026 •  As Live Nation Trial Ends, Jury Must Decide If It's a 'Monopolistic Bully' or a 'Fierce Competitor' •  The Music Business Has a Problem. Bill Ackman Just Pounced •  A Folk Musician Had Her Voice Cloned by AI—And Her Recordings Claimed by a Copyright Troll. Welcome to 2026.     Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with Russ Crupnick, Managing Partner of MusicWatch.

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Episode 296   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Inside the Digital Marketing Agency that Creates Your Musical Taste •  The Architecture of Affinity: How Instagram Facilitates Music Superfandom •  The Taylor Swift Effect: Why Music Deals Are Getting Shorter And Smarter   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with 2X Grammy award winning record producer, A&R executive, music publisher, university professor and president of Pure Tone Music Pete Ganbarg.

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This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Inside the Secret Tactics Digital Marketers Use to Make Songs Go Viral in 2026 •  How Music Streaming Saved the Industry but Stifled the Artist. •  How Prediction Markets Are Changing the Music Industry •  Tools, not tricks: How musicians are actually using AI.   Subscribe to the newsletter: YourMorning.Coffee!

This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  10 Quick (and crucial) Takeaways from IFPI's GLOBAL Music Report 2026 •  US Wholesale Recorded Music Revenue Reached $11.5B in 2025, As Paid Streaming Subscriptions Hit 106.5M •  No One Gives a Shit About Your Pre-Save Campaign

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This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Everything You Need to Know About the Live Nation Settlement and What Comes Next •  The Problem with AI Companies 'Starting Fresh' •  80 Artists Generated Over $10M Each From Spotify Last Year. Over 1,500 Generated Over $1M. Here's The Full Breakdown.



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This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • 'The Concert Ticket Industry Is Broken,' Justice Department Says As Ticketmaster Trial Begins •  The 6 Biggest Music Industry Trends of 2026 •  No More Foreplay - How Streaming Has Changed Song Structure


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A Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with Musician, Executive, and Educator, Drew Thurlow, Author of MACHINE MUSIC - How AI is Transforming Music's Next Act.  https://machine-music.ai/  

This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete • Artist Representatives Launch 'Say No To Suno' Campaign • Primary Wave Nears Deal to Acquire Kobalt, Which Would Create a $7B Indie Music  Powerhouse

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The YMC AI Roundtable #3

On this very special episode of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart convene a third edition AI Roundtable special since so much continues to be happening in this space. 

Our panel joining us on this latest special is Kristin Robinson (Billboard), Dani Deahl (Caldecott Music Group), Vickie Nauman (CrossBorderWorks), and Bobby Owsinski (Music 3.0). 

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This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • "The Sinister Question Spotify Has Not Answered About Its AI: What Did They Train On?" • "Open Letter: Irving Azoff Gives Kudos To Billboard Charts For Standing Up To YouTube" • "Noah Kahan Wanted Buying Tickets to Be Fair for Fans — Here's How He Made It Happen"

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This week, Jay Gilbert  & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • "Spotify Eyes AI 'Derivatives' As New Revenue Stream For Artists –Says Its Technology To Let    Fans Make Remixes And Covers Is Ready" • "Songs Are Reaching 1bn Spotify Streams 14x Faster Than A Decade ago:  This, And Other Stats From Chartmetric's 2025 Year In Music Report" • "Could a Combined BMG & Concord Create a Fourth 'Quiet' Major Label?"

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A special episode of the Your Morning Coffee Podcast: A conversation with audio engineer, producer, musician and author Bobby Owsinski.    We discuss how AI is now involved in the recording process, as well as the roles and responsibilities of engineers, mixers and producers in today's studio environment. 

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This week, Jay Gilbert  & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • "Fan Burner Accounts: Music's Latest Dirty Secret" • "Universal and Suno are in a PR battle over 'Walled Gardens' in AI Music" • "iTunes Isn't Just Surviving — It's Becoming a Superfan Powerhouse"

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This week, Jay Gilbert  & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • "Who Is Building the Future of AI Music? Start With These 11 Companies" • "Billboard "Power 100" Honorees Answer This Question: What Are Your Frustrations With the Music Industry Right Now?" • "Could An Upload Fee Help Fix Music Streaming? "   Subscribe to the newsletter: YourMorning.Coffee!

A special episode of the Your Morning Coffee Podcast: A conversation with Lisa Hresko and Ian Harrison from A2IM (American Association of Independent Music). A2IM is the US independent music coalition of more than 700 independent labels.   We discuss A2IM's mission, goals, initiatives and the tireless work they do on behalf of the independent music community.

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This week, Jay Gilbert  & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   • "'Fake as F**k: The Wannabe Rock Star Accused Of Scamming Streamers" • "Suno Is 'The Ozempic Of The Music Industry,' CEO Says—'Everybody's On It And Nobody    Wants To Talk About It'" • "Where Will Spotify's Q4 2025 Monthly Active Users Land? The Week In "Prediction Markets."   Subscribe to the newsletter: YourMorning.Coffee!