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# Your Morning Coffee: Black market streams • Hard truths for indie artists • More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-black-market-streams-hard-truths-for-indie-artists-more/
- Published: 2021-03-16T12:21:18.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-16T12:21:19.000Z
- Description: Episode 31 of the “Your Morning Coffee: Weekly Music News for the New Music Business” podcast with Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart is live. Episode #31 Highlights On this new episode. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/03/your-morning-coffee-black-market-streams-hard-truths-for-indi
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Podcasts, Music Industry News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:51

Episode 31 of the “Your Morning Coffee: Weekly Music News for the New Music Business” podcastwith Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart is live.

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### Episode #31 **Highlights**

**On this new episode of Your Morning Coffee, Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss:**

- Inside The ‘Black Market’ Where Artists Can Pay for Millions of Streams
- What’s the real problem with fake streams?
- 10 Hard & Awful Truths About Being an Independent Artist (And What You Can Do About It)