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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Suno's BMG Deal, Spotify Curators, American Greed, More

Episode 316 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.

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YMC Episode 316 — August 24, 2026

On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these timely music industry stories:

  • Spotify's Playlist Editors Now Explain Their Picks To Listeners, And Get Their Own Public Profiles
  • OP-ED: Blue Dot Fever Isn't a Ticket Sales Problem. It's a Good Old Fashioned American Greed Problem
  • Robert Kyncl Justifies Suno Deal, as UMG and Sony Press on with Lawsuit: 'In My Opinion, You Embrace It.'
  • 5 Things To Know About Suno's BMG Licensing Deal - Download Caps, Watermarks, and More

Plus an audio drop with Kristin Robinson from Billboard on the challenges of labeling AI generated music.

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