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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify, Touring, Gen Alpha, AI, Vinyl
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-53/
- Published: 2026-08-10T13:03:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T13:08:23.000Z
- Description: Episode 314 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is live now.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Your Morning Coffee, Your Morning Coffee podcast, podcast, Music Business

On this week's Episode 314 hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these vital music industry stories: 

**• Spotify Hits 300M Premium Subscribers in Q2, Adding 7M, As Streamer Posts $762M Operating Profit.** 

**• The "Stadium Nations": What's Driving the Global Touring Boom?** 

**• The Music Industry Is Trying to Guess the AI Recipe "After Dinner Was Served".**

**• A 'Pressing' Issue: Why Are Vinyl Albums Becoming So Different From Their Digital Versions?**

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