Your Morning Coffee Podcast

Your Morning Coffee Podcast: UMG, TikTok talk • Swift’s surprise return • Spotify changes songwriter royalties • More

Episode 193 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Listen here……

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Why musicians should shift their focus from TikTok trends, to using TikTok as a tool

TikTok has much more to offer musicians than a platform to share and create content. It offers marketing tools, engagement trackers, and a plethora of features that could help grow careers behind the scenes…..

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Spotify to help fans edit, speed up songs and promises to pay artists

According to a new WSJ report, Spotify will add tools that allow fans to speed up, mash-up, and edit songs without prior permission…..

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An Independent Musician’s POV on the U.S. TikTok ‘Ban’ [Blake Morgan]

“The vast majority of music on TikTok generates virtually no revenue for the musicians who made it,” writes musician, entrepreneur, and fierce artist advocate Bllake Morngan, and “even more music on the platform is completely unlicensed (stolen), copied (stolen via AI), or pirated (stolen)”……

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A musician’s view of TikTok legislation: Guest post by @TheBlakeMorgan

Musician, artist advocate, and founder of #IResepectMusic, Blake Morgan, cuts through the TikTok mania to offer a musician’s view of legislation that overwhelmingly passed the US. House and is currently. Continue reading

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Never mind the ban, TikTok users are getting bored with the app anyway…

As the Senate begins debate on a forced sale or ban of TikTok, some stats are already pointing to a decline in growth and usage, writes Mike Masnick of Tech. Continue reading

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Five questions to ask yourself before supporting the TikTok ban

Before backing the bipartisan supported ban, maybe ask yourself these questions about the true intentions behind the bill…..

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What would a future in the US look like without TikTok?

The US House passed a bill that may potentially make TikTok unavailable for American users unless TikTok changes its ownership (which looks unlikely). How is this new ban going to affect the music industry…..

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Key U.S. user demo is leaving TikTok as new user growth also slows

Real and threatened bans, UMG, and others pulling tracks, mountains of bad press, and increased competition from Meta and YouTube are taking their toll on TokTok, just as the social platform may be forced to look for a buyer…..

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TikTok & The ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Big Tech and China [Chris Castle]

As TikTok continues to fight bans worldwide, Chris Castle critically examines its backers and where all the money it generates goes…..

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