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Inside the Playbook: Mike Biggane on Why the Current Music Industry Is at a Turning Point
Most conversations about streaming focus on artists or platforms.
This one starts where the pressure shows up first: songwriters, publishers, and the economics underneath the music.
In this clip from The Manager’s Playbook, Mike Biggane and I unpack how the streaming era, personalization, and AI quietly reshaped the value chain of the music industry and why the next phase won’t be driven by louder releases, but smarter systems.
We talk about how Spotify’s personalized listening changed discovery and royalties, why traditional publishing models struggled to keep pace, and how AI is being…
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