Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Do albums matter? • UMG grows D2F • Best Record Stores • NITO FTC complaint • More

Episode 215 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Listen here.

Episode 215

On this week’s Episode 215 of the YMC podcast hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart did into these important music industry stories:

• “Do Albums Still Matter, And Which Artists Should Be Releasing Them?” (Chartmetric)
• “Universal’s Direct-To-Fan Business Has Been Growing At A Whopping 33% Rate, And 3 Other Things We Learned At UMG’s Capital Markets Day” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “A Journey Through The Best Record Stores In North America” (My Pack Wizard).

Plus an audio drop with NITO Executive Director Nathaniel Marrow on the trade group’s ticket reseller FTC complaint.

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