Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s action-packed episode of The Price of Music: a bunch of extremely interesting music biz questions are answered by our intrepid duo...

• Stu’s Big Number is 30,000 and relates to the number of AI-generated songs… but why so many songs and where are they going?

• Why are Radiohead’s fans getting angry about tickets (“that don’t exist”)?

• The Great TPOM Record-Filing Debate continues: do you file Van Morrison under ‘V’ or ‘M’? And where does a record by the band 86TVs go?

• Why has Spotify given paying users lossless music for free (and is ‘Lossless’ a long-lost My Bloody Valentine album?

• Did Steve and Stu cause Morrissey to get so many offers for his Smiths songs that he deleted his email address?

• How did King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard fill the entire Top 30 album chart on Bandcamp (and why)?

• What is the (depressing) reason that Bad Bunny has chosen not to tour in the mainland USA?

• How much is Bjork’s VR album re-master?

And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stuart prop themselves at the bar to chat about:

• The UK’s Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced – what do Steve and Stu think of the finalists and why is Steve “flabbergasted” by one specific missing nominee?

• Steve and Stu’s true feelings about lossless audio - is it actually worth it?

• What is the sole record on Steve’s Discogs Want List, and why does he regret not buying it when it came up for sale recently?

• What is Stu’s ideal Christmas gift? And could it possibly be connected to The Black Crowes, much to Steve’s amusement?

• Can you guess Steve’s response to Stu saying “I should now give you a lecture on The Black Crowes’ ‘Amorica’ album”?

• What is the best song about the fans of The Smiths?

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