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Live Music Industry News Roundup: Caps, Costs Awards & More

This week’s roundup of live music industry news covers topics from ticket resale caps, the financial realities for touring artists, to the recent executive order on ticketing, and more…

Alana Bonilla on 04/21/2025 in Live & Ticketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Orchestras punctuate performances at Coachella and beyond

Orchestras punctuate performance at Coachella in 2025, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing with art Laufey, LL Cool J, and Zedd, highlighting the growing intersection of orchestral music with pop, hip-hop, and electronic genres.

Alana Bonilla on 04/21/2025 in Live & Ticketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Trade, Spotify Royalties & More

Episode 245 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart ‘Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business’ is available now. LISTEN HERE:

Bruce Houghton on 04/21/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Live Music Stocks underperform as markets drop Monday

Live music stocks followed the overall U.S. markets downward last week. On Monday morning, overall U.S. market futures fell as much as another 400 points.

Bruce Houghton on 04/21/2025 in Live & Ticketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Music Business News Last Week: Spotify, AI, Tickets & Trump

A busy week by any definition, music business news last week was no exception, with a debate over Spotify’s 1000 stream royalty rule, a 10% ticket resale cap, AI comments hurting social media, and more…

Alana Bonilla on 04/19/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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DoJ holds closed door meeting on unfair live event practices

Closed door DoJ meeting on ticketing, live events last week

Last week, the Randy Nichols representing the National Independent Talent Association (NITO) was among the stakeholders that attended a closed door discussion at the Department of Justice on unfair practices in the live events industry.

Bruce Houghton on 04/18/2025 in Live & Ticketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Ari Herstand on Spotify royalty debate: ‘Reverse Robin Hood’

Artist advocate and musician Ari Herstand has jumped into the Spotify royalty debate which began on Hypebot earlier this week. “It’s disgraceful and slapped every emerging, independent artist in the face with this backwards policy,” wrote Herstand.

Bruce Houghton on 04/18/2025 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Are View Counts Real on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook?

View counts dominate every social platform – but are view counts real on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram , Facebook and more? Bobby Owsinski explores the truth about views and how misleading metrics are fooling creators, advertisers, and audiences alike.

Alana Bonilla on 04/18/2025 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Is Your Data Safe from AI Scraping? Spoiler: Probably Not.

Is your “public” information and data training Big Tech’s AI without your knowledge? Chris Castle explores AI data scraping and how tech giants often blur the line between “publicly available” and “free for the taking.”

Alana Bonilla on 04/18/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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MORE MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS: GoldState Music raises $500M • Stream ad rev lags • Pollstar Live! wraps • Deezer updates • A24 Music? • More

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Bruce Houghton on 04/18/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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