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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Music subscriptions • Are artists better off? • inside SoundCloud stats • More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-21/
- Published: 2025-03-31T12:54:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-31T12:54:48.000Z
- Description: Episode 242 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE: Episode 242 Listen on your favorite. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/03/your-morning-coffee-podcast-21.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Podcasts, music, music industry, musician, musicians, Spotify, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 242 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 242

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

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

- “Music Subscriber Market Shares 2024: Slowdown? What Slowdown? (MIDiA)\\
- “A Record 100 million Americans Now Pay For A Music Subscription — Is Streaming The Final Format For Fans?” (Sherwood)
- “22,100 Artists Generated Over $50k On Spotify Last Year. The Company Argues That ‘Way More Artists Are Generating Meaningful Money Now Than In Any Previous Era Of The Music Industry’” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “SoundCloud Listener Report Highlights the Platform’s Role As A Gen-Z Tastemaker” (Billboard).

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