> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hypebot.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Do albums matter? •  UMG grows D2F • Best Record Stores • NITO FTC complaint • More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-5/
- Published: 2024-09-23T13:06:39.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-23T13:11:34.000Z
- Description: Episode 215 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: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 215 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. **Listen here.**

![Your Morning Coffee podcast](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/coffee-cup-2317201_1280.jpg)

### Episode 215

On this week’s Episode 215 of the YMC podcast hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart did into these important music industry stories:

- “Do Albums Still Matter, And Which Artists Should Be Releasing Them?” (Chartmetric)
- “Universal’s Direct-To-Fan Business Has Been Growing At A Whopping 33% Rate, And 3 Other Things We Learned At UMG’s Capital Markets Day” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “A Journey Through The Best Record Stores In North America” (My Pack Wizard).

Plus an audio drop with NITO Executive Director Nathaniel Marrow on the trade group’s ticket reseller FTC complaint.

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

Subscribe to the Your Morning Coffee newsletter [here](https://label-logic.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=735771602810b0eb238d4e814&id=1ffaab59d7&ref=hypebot.com).

**FIND MORE GREAT MUSIC BUSINESS AND INDIE MUSICIAN PODCAST EPISODES [HERE](https://www.hypebot.com/tag/podcast-music-biz/)**