Your Morning Coffee Podcast: TikTok promo & indie battle • Vinyl sales • fake albums on Spotify • Meddling • More

Episode 219 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.

Episode 219

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On this week’s episode of the YMC podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these important stories:

• “Did That Song Go Viral On TikTok Organically – Or Was It Paid For?” (Billboard)
• “No, Vinyl Sales Aren’t Down 33% In 2024. They’re Up 6.2%” (Discogs)
• “Spotify Criticized For Letting Fake Albums Appear On Real Artist Pages” (Ars Technica)
• “Why TikTok’s Decision To Sideline Merlin, Hurts Music Culture” (A2IM’s Richard James Burgess for Billboard).

Plus audio drops from Meddling founder and CEO Travis Rosenblatt and Sam Tornow from Discogs.

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