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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Luminate mid-year report • 8B Spotify playlists • Country music soars • More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/music-business-podcast-2/
- Published: 2024-07-22T13:27:42.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-22T14:43:25.000Z
- Description: Episode 206 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Podcasts, DIY musicians, music, music industry, musician, musicians, Spotify, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 206 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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### Episode 206

On this week’s offering of the YMC podcast, hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart dive into these critical music industry stories:

- “Luminate Releases 2024 Mid-year Music Report” (Luminate)
- “There Are 8B User-curated Playlists On Spotify, 725m Created This Year Alone, Daniel Ek Says” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “Country Music Is Booming Again. This Time, The Fans Are In Charge” (Wall Street Journal).
- An audio drop from Darryl Ballentine, CEO at LYRICFIND.

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