Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Label market share • TikTok squeezes indies • Tour rider excesses • More

Episode 218 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s music business podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.

Episode 218

On this week’s episode, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important music industry stories:

• “Record Label Market Share Q3 2024: Island Helps Power Republic As Interscope Makes Big Push” (Billboard)
• “Inside TikTok’s Money Squeeze on Independent Labels: ‘This Is a Classic Divide-and-Conquer Situation’” (Variety)
• “Artist Tour Riders: Behind the History, Evolution — And Excess — Of Backstage Life on the Road” (Billboard).

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