Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Charging for free, top Music Tech Startups, Napster, Indie Week, and more

Episode 199 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast is available here.

Episode 199

On this week’s installment of the YMC podcast, Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk about these important music industry stories:

• “Sony Music Group Boss Rob Stringer Talks Acquisitions, AI And How Music Streaming Services Should Start Charging Free Users” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “14 Music-Tech Startups Helping To Shape The Music Business, As It’s Shaken Up By AI” (Business Insider)
• “How Napster Created A Monster That Became Bigger Than The Music Industry” (LA Times).

Plus audio drops with Eamonn Forde, author of the new book 1999: The Year The Record Industry Lost Control and Richard Burges, President and CEO of A2IM: the American Association of Independent Music on the upcoming A2IM Indie Week – June 10 – 13 in NYC.

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