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Why SoundCloud Wants Your Live DJ Set: Inside the Streaming Land Grab
A producer I know went live last month from a spare bedroom in Leeds — two controllers, a ring light pointed at the ceiling because direct light washed her out, and a set of unreleased edits she'd…
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Why Music Rights Acquisitions Don't Close on the First Try
The advice you hear at every rights conference is some version of this: a good catalog sells itself. Capital is deep, music is a non-correlated asset, the institutions are lined up around the block…
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AI Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses: The Voice on the Phone Is Not Proof
It is 4:40 on a Friday. Your accounts payable person picks up, and it is the owner — same cadence, same slightly clipped way he says her name, same background hum of a car.
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Prediction Markets Are Coming for Your Song Catalog — and SongPicks Is the First Real Test
I put twenty dollars on a song last month. Not on the artist, not on a stream-count milestone three years out — on a specific question with a specific deadline: would a particular pop single still sit…
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Where Is the Institutional Money in AI Music Generation Actually Going?
You have probably asked yourself some version of this in a Monday meeting: when a private-equity shop or a major label puts real money behind AI music generation, what are they actually buying — and…
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AI Voice Generation for Audiobooks at Scale: Three Production Paths Compared
A mid-size publisher I talked to last winter had 240 backlist titles sitting in a spreadsheet, every one of them text-only, every one of them a candidate for an audio edition that would never get…
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Algorithm Customization Is Quietly Killing the Discovery Plan Your Artist Was Counting On
Here is a claim worth stating before I soften it with caveats: the single biggest threat to your artist's next release is not a competitor, a label, or a bad mix.
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The 40% Problem: A Platform Review of Work-in-Progress Sharing for Artists Who Are Done Begging the Algorithm
There's a number that gets quoted in artist Discords until it loses its edges, and it's worth slowing down on.
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Artist Development When AI Music Generation Is Part of Your Stack: What Most People Do, What Works, What I Actually Do
A label-adjacent "artist development program" emailed me last spring. The subject line promised mentorship, funding, and "platform support." I clicked through three pages of aspirational copy and…
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The Training Data Question: What AI Music Generation Owes the Artists It Learned From
Last month I typed a friend's stage name into the search box of a public dataset that several music models were trained on.
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