Get Ready For A Big Increase In Your YouTube Views

YouTube is increasingly becoming more and more important to artists, producers, songwriters, and podcasters, as the service is now the most watched platform in the world (yes, even more than Netflix). That said, the way it counted views was different from the way every other video platform counted them. Now the company says that’s all […]

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Why New Platforms Can No Longer Access Spotify’s Artist Data ft. Oskar Eichler On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s episode, reliable music data is getting harder to access, and Oskar Eichler explains why the artists and companies that know how to interpret it now have a serious advantage. As CEO of Songstats, Oskar has helped build a real-time music analytics platform that tracks streaming, playlist, chart, radio, and social media performance […]

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Meet Anukari, The Totally Unique 3D Physics Synthesizer ft. Evan Mezeske On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s episode, indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske’s story. Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to create Anukari, the first commercially available 3D physics modeling synthesizer that runs in real time. He discovered that […]

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Good News! Spotify Removed 75 Million AI-Generated Slop Music Tracks

As everyone knows, there are a lot of songs on Spotify, probably more than you can listen to in a hundred lifetimes. I’ve never heard anyone having a problem with that. What we all have a problem with is when AI-generated slop music tracks fill up the pipeline and push legitimate artists out of the […]

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Oeksound’s Hannes Andersson Talks Soothe 3 and More On My Latest Podcast Episode

On this week’s episode, you’ll hear how audio plugin developers who assume machine learning is the right tool find the process used by Hannes Andersson and the team at Oeksound genuinely surprising. Hannes is CEO of Oeksound, the creator of Soothe, the dynamic resonance suppressor that became so dominant on Spotify’s Top 50, yet it’s […]

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Why Your Voice Memo Proves Nothing in a Copyright Dispute ft. Nadim Rahman On My Latest Podcast

Song copyright protection for musicians who record ideas with a voice memo at 3am proves nothing in a dispute. That original moment completely unverifiable. On this week’s podcast episode, I speak with Nadim Rahman about Songproof, a dual-blockchain platform that recognizes that musicians needed an irrefutable timestamp at the exact moment inspiration strikes, not after […]

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The New Hybrid Genres Are Just What The Music Industry Needs

For the longest time music was placed into pre-determined buckets that pretty much worked. Pop, Hip-Hop, Rock, EDM, Latin, Country, K-Pop, R&B/Soul, Indie/Alternative and Classical have been the buckets that dominated music all over the world. But if you drill down a bit, you see a host of hybrid genres that shows where the excitement […]

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Labels, Streaming, YouTube, And Gear News And Views On My Latest Podcast

Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business. On this week’s podcast episode, I break down the data showing UMG and WMG now redirect spending toward catalog acquisitions rather than new careers. . . . . . have made AI licensing deals explicitly […]

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It Looks Like AI-Generated Music Will Finally Get Tagged

If there’s one thing that most of the music industry agrees on, it’s that songs that are AI-generated should be labeled. The amazing thing is that there’s finally a full industry push to do so. According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA and IFPI are leading push to get AI-generated tracks labeled across the world’s streaming services, with […]

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Jeff Graves Talks LUFS Mastering On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s podcast episode, mastering engineer Jeff Graves talks about what happens when independent musicians upload masters that are so hot that they lose transient detail the moment streaming platforms apply loudness normalization. Jeff spent two and a half years measuring 214 audio fingerprints across 15 samples per genre to build a 24-stage AI […]

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Session Vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven Tells How She Charted Without A Manager Or Label On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s podcast episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or label. The common assumption that a major-label infrastructure is required to chart is exactly what her story dismantles, and she walks through the specific decisions that produced number-one worldwide […]

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With All The AI Slop, Is TikTok Even Worth Being On Anymore?

We’re all getting tired of the AI slop that’s being handed to us, and it’s even worse when you have to compete with it. One platform where it’s particularly egregious is TikTok, and a new report from Kapwing outlines the problem in detail. We’ll talk about what we’re seeing first, and then I’ll address how […]

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Why Chasing Algorithms Is Killing Your Music Career With Keith Jopling On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s podcast episode, I speak with Keith Jopling about what separates artists who last from those who burn out chasing the wrong metrics. Keith spent 25 years inside the business, including time at Spotify, before interviewing 80 artists and bands to write Riding the Rollercoaster. The creative director model he extracted from that […]

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If You Upload To YouTube You Give Consent For AI Training

As if artists and bands don’t have enough competition already, AI-generated music has ratcheted the level up to a point that no one could’ve predicted a few years ago. Then the record labels and publishers turn around and sell out their artists by making deals with AI music platforms without the artist’s permission (and not […]

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Erasing Leakage But Keeping The Drummer’s Performance DNA With Dr. Bill Evans On My Latest Podcast

On this week’s podcast episode, I speak with Dr. Bill Evans, audio scientist, producer, educator, and inventor of the Performance Restoration methodology. Bill believes that drum recording has always involved a painful tradeoff, but it doesn’t have to. Most engineers accept mic bleed as an unavoidable character of a drum sound, questioning whether removing it […]

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