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Gen-Z Audience Demographics Live in Gaming, Not Just Streaming — Here's the Map
A label strategist told me last spring that her whole Gen-Z plan was a spreadsheet of playlist editors. Pitch the editor, land the placement, ride the skip-rate. That was the plan.
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Where Music Actually Lands in Esports: Reading Gen-Z Audience Demographics Before You Cut a Check
A label A&R I know spent last quarter obsessing over a mid-six-figure playlist push and never once opened a Twitch stream.
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Ticket Pricing Transparency Won't Kill the Box Office Job — But the Story Everyone Tells About It Might
There is a line you hear at every ticketing panel, delivered with the confidence of a weather report: regulate the resale market and you will destroy jobs.
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Vibe Coding Is a Better Release Tool Than Another Playlist Pitch
A playable browser game that loops your single as its soundtrack will pull more fan attention this month than another cold pitch to a playlist curator who owes you nothing. That is the claim.
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Does Ticket Pricing Transparency Actually Help Venues, or Just Give Ticketmaster Cover?
A promoter I know in the Midwest read the headline about her state's new ticketing law twice, then asked me the only question that mattered to her business: "Is this going to help me, or is this going…
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AI Music Policy Is Being Written Around One Number, and You Should Know What It Doesn't Measure
A distributor made headlines when it said something like a third of the tracks arriving through its pipe each day were AI-generated.
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AI Copyright and the Fine Print: Who Actually Owns the Song Your Generator Just Made
A director I work with sent me a track last spring, generated in about forty seconds from a text prompt, and asked one reasonable question: "Can we clear this for the festival cut?" Not a hard…
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Pro Bono Legal Support for Musicians: Where the "Just Get a Lawyer" Advice Actually Breaks Down
The advice you have heard a hundred times is this: never sign a music contract without a lawyer. It is on every forum, in every "things I wish I knew" thread, repeated by every producer who got burned…
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AI Voice Cloning Fraud Doesn't Break In — It Gets Waved Through
In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup joined a video call with people who looked and sounded like his CFO and several colleagues. He'd been suspicious of an earlier email.
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AI Copyright and the Song You Don't Actually Own: A Producer's Reality Check
Last month I ran a small experiment I should have run a year ago. I generated a track — a slow, smoke-damaged trip-hop thing, roughly 82 BPM in F minor, a detuned Rhodes over a filtered break — and…
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