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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify growth, UMG, WMG, Copyright termination & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-18/
- Published: 2025-02-10T13:34:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-10T13:34:30.000Z
- Description: Episode 235 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Podcasts, DIY musicians, music, music industry, musician, musicians, podcast, Spotify, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 235 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. **LISTEN HERE.**

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### Episode 235

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

On this week’s YMC podcast show, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories:

- “Spotify Adds Highest-Ever 35 Million Monthly Users In Fourth Quarter” (Billboard)
- Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 Memo To Universal Music Group Staff” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “Warner Has A New Deal With Amazon Music… And 4 Other Things We Learned From Robert Kyncl On WMG’s Latest Earnings Call” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “A Judge Says Copyright Termination Is Global. Will That Help Songwriters – Or Cause ‘Chaos’?” (Billboard) with Tim Kappel from music law Firm, Wells / Kappel dropping in to break it all down for us!
- Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance: The Promise of Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Column) VARIETY

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