Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify growth, UMG, WMG, Copyright termination & More

Episode 235 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.

Episode 235

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

• “Spotify Adds Highest-Ever 35 Million Monthly Users In Fourth Quarter” (Billboard)
• Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 Memo To Universal Music Group Staff” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “Warner Has A New Deal With Amazon Music… And 4 Other Things We Learned From Robert Kyncl On WMG’s Latest Earnings Call” (Music Business Worldwide)
• “A Judge Says Copyright Termination Is Global. Will That Help Songwriters – Or Cause ‘Chaos’?” (Billboard) with Tim Kappel from music law Firm, Wells / Kappel dropping in to break it all down for us!
• Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance: The Promise of Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Column) VARIETY

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