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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Why songwriters hate Spotify, UMG Spotify deal, Power Players predict, Tony van Veen & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/new-your-morning-coffee-podcast/
- Published: 2025-02-03T14:12:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-26T19:05:41.000Z
- Description: Episode 234 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE:
- Author: Your Morning Coffee
- Tags: Podcasts, Music Business, Music Tech, DIY musicians, music, music industry, musician, musicians

### Episode 234

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

On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chatted about these important stories:

- “Spotify Has Led The Music Business To Record Growth. So Why Are Artists & Songwriters So Angry?” (Billboard)
- “Universal Music Group And Spotify Have A New Deal. It wipes out Spotify’s Infamous ‘Audiobook Bundle’ Royalty Discount In The US” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “18 Music Industry Power Players Share Predictions for 2025” (Billboard).
- An audio drop from Tony van Veen from Disk Makers

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