Oasis are back; The AI-generated band with a million listeners; Indies vs Universal Music spat gets grumpy; and who owns your songs if your label goes bust?
Steve and Stuart are back in the new and - oh yes - improved The Price of Music!
In this episode:
The Velvet Sundown are a fully-AI-generated band that have over a million listeners on Spotify – is this a tipping point – and should human artists worry?
Oasis are back – so how much money did each show make (and how much of it is VAT?
The band Deerhoof have pulled their music from Spotify in protest at co-founder Daniel Ek's investments into a weapons startup
The proposed takeover of indie conglomerate Downtown Music by Universal Music is starting to get tetchy...
Steve wonders: who owns your…
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