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Episode 272 Oct 20, 2025

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Episode 272

On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart cover these important music industry stories: "Spotify To Develop 'Artist-First' AI Music Products In Partnership With Sony, UMG, Warner, Merlin, And Believe" (Music Business Worldwide); "The Average Musician Makes $12 A Month,' Garbage Singer (Shirley Manson) Says In Onstage Rant" (SF Chronicle); "Facing 'Stream-Ripping' Allegations From Labels, Suno & Udio Weigh In" (Music Business Worldwide).

Plus audio drops from Dimitri Vietze on the upcoming Music Tectonics conference; music attorney Dina LaPolt, and Shirley Manson from Garbage.

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Rio Caraeff from Musixmatch Oct 15, 2025

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Rio Caraeff from Musixmatch

On this very special edition of the YMC podcast, your host Jay Gilbert sits down with Musixmatch Co-President Rio Caraeff to chat about the music data platform that allows users to search and share song lyrics, and how music publishers can monetize their lyrics catalogs.

For our YMC podcast listeners, here's a link for an exclusive discount code for Musixmatch Pro:

https://www.musixmatch.com/pro/partners/your-morning-coffee-podcast

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Episode 271 Oct 13, 2025

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Episode 271

On this week's installment of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important music business stories: "First Week Sales in Music: The Most Misleading Stat" (Nathan McCartney); "Spotify Brings Music Recommendations To ChatGPT Via New Integration" (Music Business Worldwide); "I Spent a Day Scrolling On Sora. The Music Industry Should Pay Attention" (Billboard).

Plus audio drops with Travis Rosenblatt from A&R research and scouting platform Meddling, and Kristin Robinson from Billboard on her piece on Sora.

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Doc McGhee Oct 08, 2025

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Doc McGhee

On this very special edition of the YMC podcast, your host Jay Gilbert sits down with the legendary music manager Doc McGhee to chat about his insights and wonderful stories from his decades-long career.

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Episode 270 Oct 06, 2025

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Episode 270

On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important 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!

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Trapital's Dan Runcie Oct 01, 2025

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Trapital's Dan Runcie

On this very special Your Morning Coffee episode, your host Jay Gilbert sits down for a conversation with our friend Dan Runcie, a respected music industry writer and entrepreneur. Dan's company Trapital is a hip-hop media and research firm founded in 2018.

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Episode 269 Sep 29, 2025

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Episode 269

On this week's edition of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "Spotify Has Deleted 75m+ 'Spammy Tracks' – As It Unveils New AI Music Policies" (Music Business Worldwide); "How TikTok Partnered With Luminate To Measure TikTok's Impact On Music Discovery, Monetization And Chart Success"(Luminate); "Denis Ladegaillerie (Believe) Sees The Future Of Music. It Looks Nothing Like The Past." (Music Business Woreldwide).

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Verswire's Sherry Saeedi and Nick Lippman Sep 23, 2025

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Verswire's Sherry Saeedi and Nick Lippman

On this very special episode of the YMC podcast, your host Jay Gilbert sits down with Verswire's founders Sherry Saeedi and Nick Lippman for a conversation about their artist-first music industry disruptor, that empowers artists with a venture capital model that champions fair pay and creative freedom for musicians.

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Episode 268 Sep 22, 2025

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Episode 268

On this week's episode of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories: "AI Won't Replace Artists — It Will Make Them Unstoppable" (Guest column from Lyor Cohen in Billboard); "FTC Sues Live Nation, Ticketmaster for Allowing Ticket Brokers To Break Its Rules for Profit: 'Directly Inflates Prices'" (Billboard); "Ad-Supported Streaming Is Struggling. Is Short-Form Video to Blame?" (Billboard);

Plus audio drops from Kristin Robinson at Billboard, Jardson Almeida from Moises, Rene Ritchie and Johanna Richardson from YouTube, and Stephen Parker from NIVA.

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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With MIDiA's Tatiana Cirisano Sep 16, 2025

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On this very special YMC episode, your host Jay Gilbert sits down with MIDiA's VP of Music Strategy Tatiana Cirisano to discuss their recently released report entitled "All Eyes, No Ears: Why Virality Is Not Building Fandom", which was written by Tatiana and Olivia Jones.

This just-released white paper tackles one of the music industry's biggest questions: how is social media really shaping discovery, streaming, and fandom?

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