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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Music Saturation, Peak Fandom, Q1 Reports & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/new-your-morning-coffee-podcast-5/
- Published: 2025-05-05T11:50:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-05T11:51:12.000Z
- Description: Episode 247 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE:
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 247 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. **LISTEN HERE:**

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### Episode 247

On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, join your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart as they discuss these important music industry stories:

- “2025 Q1 Earnings: Here’s What Every Music Company Made” (Billboard)
- “The Music Business Saturation Problem Keeps Getting Bigger” (Billboard)
- “Are We Reaching Peak Fandom?” (MIDiA).

Plus audio drops from **Portia Sabin,** President of the Music Business Association, **Russ Crupnick**, Managing Partner of Musicwatch, and **Michael Huppe**, President and CEO at Sound Exchange.

### **Listen on your favorite [podcast platform](https://bio.to/UloQY6?ref=hypebot.com).**

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