Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Revenue stalls, AI, Lossless, More

Episode 267 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.

Episode 267

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On this week’s edition of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart dive into these important music business stories:

• “US Streaming Subscriptions Hit 105m In The First Half Of 2025, But Recorded Music Revenue Was Up By Less Than 1% YoY” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “Nearly A Third Of All Tracks Uploaded To Deezer Are Now Fully AI-generated, Says Platform” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “What Would An AI Music License Even Look Like? It’s Complicated” (Billboard)
• “Spotify Is Finally Launching Lossless – But It’s Not Part Of A ‘Super Premium’ Tier” (Billboard).

Plus comments from Kristrin Robinson of Billboard with thoughts on the Spotify Lossless article.

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