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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify, AI Artists, Ticket Prices
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-spotify-ai-artists-ticket-prices/
- Published: 2025-10-06T12:18:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-06T12:24:54.000Z
- Description: Episode 270 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, music, music industry, musician, musicians, Spotify, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 270 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. **LISTEN HERE.**

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### Episode 270

On this week’s edition of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these key music industry stories:

- “Can Spotify Maintain Its Dominance After Daniel Ek’s Departure As CEO?” (Glenn Peoples at Billboard)
- “AI Artists Are Here. Is It Ethical To Sign Them To Record Deals?” (Steve Knopper for Billboard);
- “Michael Rapino Thinks Concert Tickets Are ‘Underpriced.’. Here’s Why He Might Be Right” (Eric Alper)
- “On Spotify, Not All Streams Are Created Equal” (Austin Staubus).

Plus an audio drop from Billboard’s Kristin Robinson’s interview with Atlantic Records CEO Elliot Grange from her new podcast On The Record!

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

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