Rasty Turek, founder and CEO of Pex, discusses the issue of manipulated tracks on audio streaming services, with over a million tracks not properly attributed to their original artists. These tracks are infringing copyright and pulling royalties away from the rightful artists. Examples include modified versions of popular songs like Halsey's 'Without Me' and Coldplay/The Chainsmokers' 'Something Just Like This'. The podcast explores the impact of this problem and discusses potential solutions to address streaming fraud.

Aviator's CEO and COO, Alexander Seidel and Lindsay Jones, discuss their expertise in serving 'superfans' by providing rare content from artists like Mark Knopfler and Olivia Newton-John. They delve into the challenges of catering to baby boomers and early Gen X, the process of uncovering and clearing rights for music content, the significance of rare performances, and the value of preserving music archives.

Discover the importance of data privacy and how CyberSweep helps protect personal information. Explore the cybersecurity challenges faced by successful artists and the need for credit building services. Learn about the creation of the Social Forum to amplify diverse voices in the music business.

Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music. Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Scott Cohen, the CEO of JKBX.JKBX is a new platform that enables investors (including so-called ‘retail investors’) to acquire royalty shares in hit songs. It will, in future, also allow you to trade those royalty shares by selling them to others.JKBX launched in September and according to Bloomberg had over $1.7 billion -worth of music assets secured. Right now on the platform, JKBX is offering royalty shares in hit songs like Halo performed by Beyoncé, Rumour Has It performed by Adele, Welcome To New York performed by Taylor Swift, and many more.However, as you read this, you can only reserve your acquisition of royalty shares on JKBX. Before it completes any transaction, the company is in the process of attempting to secure regulated approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (aka the SEC).As well as its primary investor, Dundee Partners, JKBX has reportedly attracted strategic investors including Spotify, Live Nation, YouTube, Red Light Management and others. Things to know about Scott Cohen before we get into the podcast? He is the co-founder of The Orchard – which he co-launched with Richard Gottehrer in the second half of the nineties, before selling it to Sony Music for a total of around $250 million, partly in 2012 and partly in 2015.Before joining JKBX, Scott was most recently Chief Innovation Officer at Warner Music Group, where he kept his ear close to the ground on tech such as artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and blockchain.On this podcast, we ask Scott about JKBX’s prospects, the changing nature of technology’s involvement in music, and the lessons he learned building the Orchard into a $250 million company…

Maria Egan, Global Head of Music at Riot Games, discusses the connection between music and e-Sports, including Riot Games' collaboration with New Genes for the World's Anthem. They explore the success of virtual music projects like KDA and the potential of future virtual groups. The chapter also highlights the intersection of music and technology, challenges in the music industry, and surprises within the industry.

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 specifically, the fact that vast volumes of music are now being produced by AI platforms and then uploaded onto various streaming platforms.There is arguably no one better placed to talk on this topic than Alex Mubert, founder and co-CEO of the self-titled platform Mubert. That’s because, in July, Mubert announced that its AI platform had now been used to create more than 100 million music tracks, with an average length of over 4 minutes. As it pointed out, Mubert’s 100 million created tracks were roughly the same size in volume as the entire catalog available on Spotify.Mubert’s sub-platforms include Mubert Render, for online content creators – YouTubers, podcasters etc. – looking to create royalty-free soundtracks for their productions. There’s also Mubert Studio, for artists and composers, which allows musical creators to earn money on tracks, samples and loops. On this podcast, you’ll hear Music Business Worldwide editor - Murray Stassen – ask Alex Mubert all about that 100 million stat, and how AI music is going to change the industry in the years ahead…

Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe, discusses streaming fraud, the Asian music market, Believe's plans to challenge major music companies, and the use of AI in the music industry. The chapter descriptions include the benefits of AI, monetizing superfans, the growing importance of Asia, controversy and support in Russia and Ukraine, and the rise of local artists.

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 & Internet at Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – and is the lead analyst on Goldman’s hugely influential ‘Music In The Air’ paper, a new and updated version of which is released each year.The latest iteration of ‘Music In The Air’ arrived in June 2023, and contained amongst its 72 pages financial and data analysis of all corners of the music business. It also contained headline forecasts, including that the global recorded music industry will be generating over $50 billion dollars by 2030, from some 1.2 billion paying streaming subscribers worldwide.On this podcast we ask Lisa about her team’s latest forecasts in 'Music In The Air', while picking on her brains on other conclusions from the report, and asking more generally about how the global music business will change in the decade ahead of us….

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&R research and scouting, Meddling.Rosenblatt is a particularly interesting person to speak to because, by his own admission, he spends a lot of his time NOT consumed in his day job. This allows him the bandwidth to think deeply about the music business, its challenges, and where it might be headed in future.Meddling is very clever, gathering data from multiple touchpoints on new artists for clients that have included the likes of  Republic Records, Kobalt, Columbia Records, and Atlantic Records.But as a SaaS platform, Meddling largely runs itself – enabling Rosenblatt’s mind to wander toward various crucial topics for the modern music industry.On this podcast, Ingham asks Rosenblatt about Meddling – a bit – but their conversation also dives into PROs, DIY distribution, music’s role on video platforms, and much more besides…

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 range of topics including pricing, streaming, royalties – and why the global industry is more local than ever.Page is the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collection society PRS For Music. These days he’s a consultant and the author of the book Tarzan Economics (aka Pivot), which presents compelling principles for business owners facing uncertain and disruptive times.Will is also the co-author of a new paper published by the London School of Economics and Political Science that focuses on what he calls ‘Glocalisation’ of music. In other words, music has never been more global as an industry, yet when you dig into the most popular tracks in individual markets, they have a decidedly local feel.