
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Why songwriters hate Spotify, UMG Spotify deal, Power Players predict, Tony van Veen & More
Episode 234 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE:

Episode 234
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On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chatted about these important stories:
- “Spotify Has Led The Music Business To Record Growth. So Why Are Artists & Songwriters So Angry?” (Billboard)
- “Universal Music Group And Spotify Have A New Deal. It wipes out Spotify’s Infamous ‘Audiobook Bundle’ Royalty Discount In The US” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “18 Music Industry Power Players Share Predictions for 2025” (Billboard).
- An audio drop from Tony van Veen from Disk Makers
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