Your Morning Coffee Podcast: AI Artists Galore & a Human Artist With 1B Streams

Episode 276 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.

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YMC Episode 276 — November 17, 2025

On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these timely music industry stories:

• “AI Artists May Be on the Charts, But They’re Not That Popular— Yet”
• “50,000 AI Tracks Flood Deezer Daily – As Study Shows 97% Of Listeners Can’t Tell The Difference Between Human-Made vs. Fully AI-Generated Music”
• “The Independent Artist With 1 Billion Streams – Mike Explains How Nic D Does It…”

Plus audio drops from Chris Nolte, COO and Co-founder of Duetti, Rick Beato on the AI artists on the charts, and Eliah Seton, CEO of Soundcloud!

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