Spotify will launch an AI-music service... but what might it be – and will artists get paid? MTV shuts its music video channels; The Irish basic income for musicians; and Stu sings Baby Shark (again)
Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s episode of The Price of Music, Steve and Stu crunch the numbers and figure out...
Exactly how much does a Mercury prizewinner’s streams really go up after a win?
Spotify is going to make a licensed AI music something – but what is it going to be? And will artists get paid?
Is TPOM now a Baby Shark fan-podcast? Steve politely requests that Stu stops singing a mooted Peppa Pig/Baby Shark collaboration.
In Australia, people are listening to less music by Australian artists (and it’s the same in the UK too) … so what are they…
The skinny
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