Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is the leading information and jobs service for the global music industry. It publishes two podcasts: The weekly series, Talking Trends – which dives behind the biggest headlines in the music industry – as well as The MBW Podcast, which sees us interview some of the leading figures in the global business.
Episodes
91 episodes
How will generative AI music ultimately affect the global music business?
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. On this podcast we dive head first into one of the most-talked-about topics in the music biz this year.That topic is generative AI music, but more s...
Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe's game plan... and more
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Denis Ladegaillerie, founder a...
Goldman Sachs' Lisa Yang: Why I'm bullish on music streaming's future
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Inte...
'People really like music. But the music industry lets everyone else capture the value.'
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Travis Rosenblatt, founder of the SaaS platform for A&a...
Will Page on streaming pricing, music's revenue 'pie' – and why the global record industry is more local than ever
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this podcast, one of the industry's sharpest minds, Will Page, joins MBW founder Tim Ingham to cover a ...
This indie artist has over a billion streams on Spotify. 10 years ago, a record label told him his music was 'unreleasable'
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. How big can an independent artist get without help from a major record label?It’s been a fier...
Can Audius change the music industry's relationship with 'superfans'?
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported byVoly Music. Audius is one of the most talked-about new digital streaming startups in the music business today.Powered by Web 3.0 technology, it describes itse...
Austin Daboh on music, tech, AI, and the future of artist marketing
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.Austin Daboh (pictured) is one of the UK's most influential and forward-thinking major record company executives.
Can this entrepreneur unlock $40 billion in new revenue for the music business?
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ola Sars, founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand.A gradua...
Fewer DIY artists generated over $10k on Spotify in 2022 than they did in 2021 (according to Spotify's own figures).
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by
Why is Spotify copying TikTok? To cling on to power.
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by
He built TikTok's music AI tech. But he says robots will never replace human songwriters.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability AI – and one of the world's...
As ChatGPT sets the internet aflame, will AI write the lyrics of tomorrow's hits?
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to AI expert, and the CEO of LyricStudio, Dr. Maya Ackerman.------B...
These worrying stats send a clear message: Give us a Spotify price rise now.
Hello and welcome to the first episode of 2023 of Talking Trends – a podcast from Music Business Worldwide, supported by Voly Music. As ever on Talking Trends, we'll be diving behind a major...
Lyor Cohen: 'The music industry is facing one of our biggest crises to date.'
Lyor Cohen believes that short-form video poses a major threat to the music business. He also thinks it might be the industry's savior.On this MBW Podcast, Cohen – Global Head of Music at YouTube – explains his fears over short-for...
Per Sundin on ABBA, buying Avicii's rights – and why he thinks the smartest music execs will soon be working on catalogs
If you watch the new Netflix dramatization of the Spotify story – 'The Playlist' – you'll come across an entire episode told from the perspective of Per Sundin.That's because Sundin was the CEO of Universal Music Sweden at the time of S...
Where are all the Kate Bush T-shirts?
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by
Who's going to buy the Pink Floyd catalog?
Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music.----------Sony Music Group. Warner Music Group. BMG. Hipgnosis. Concord. Primary Wave.<...
Record labels are seeing slower growth from streaming. But growth is still growth.
Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music.In this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses the recent quarterly results of music industr...
Strange Fruits has tens of billions of streams... but it's not without controversy. Its 25-year-old founder speaks out.
Some people say the modern music business lacks entrepreneurial new independent record companies. Those people haven't met Stef Van Vugt.The 25-year-old Dutchman founded Strange Fruits (now Fruits Music) in 2016 while studying music as ...
When will TikTok start paying the music industry 'properly'?
Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music.In this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses the model under which TikTok currently pays t...
The major labels face a battle for streaming market share. Here's how they might fight back.
Welcome to the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, supported by Voly Music.In this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses the market share threat that the major record...
Meet the AI expert who just patented technology that helps indie artists spend their money smarter.
We've called SK Sharma an 'AI expert' in the headline above, but it hardly does him justice.We could have just as easily called him an expert on theoretical chemical physics, marketing analytics, computational biophysics, or antimicrobia...
I have seen the future of music. It's scary, and utterly brilliant.
Imagine being able to tell an app exactly the type of music you'd like to create – the key, the tempo, the genre, the sub-genre – and then that app just... making it for you.Imagine recording yourself singing a verse and a chorus into y...
Gunnar Greve: Alan Walker, the metaverse, and why Web3 will 'completely change the music industry'
Gunnar Greve believes, with all his heart, that Web3 and decentralized networks are about to turn the music industry upside down. In a good way.Greve is the long-term manager of Alan Walker, the Norwegian-British electronic music sensat...
With Netflix losing subscribers, is music's own streaming party over? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Amy Thomson: How To Fix The Music Business in 3 Easy Steps
Amy Thomson has pretty much done it all as an artist manager, and is now disrupting the modern music industry from another angle as Chief Catalog Officer of Hipgnosis Song Management. Before joining Hipgnosis in 2020, Amy ran her compan...
Spotify Just Dropped A Stat That Changes Everything...
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Is this the REAL reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp?
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Why are major music companies using other people's money to buy copyrights? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the ent...
