Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Ek on Spotify • Superfans ♥ Vinyl • Billboard improves Indie chart • More

Episode 194 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.

Episode 194

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On this week’s episode of the YMC podcast, hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart take on these important music industry stories:

• “A New ‘Music-Only’ Subscription Tier Is Coming To Spotify, Confirms Daniel Ek… And 4 Other Things We Learned On The Company’s Latest Earnings Call” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “How Vinyl Can Harness the Influence of Superfans” (Billboard – Guest Column by Will Page and Fred Goldring)
• “Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership” (Billboard).

Plus, there are audio drops from Kris Ahrend, CEO of The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), and Patrick Clifton from the Tunes and Tales blog with Notes From The Fan Economy.

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