Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s multi-faceted episode of The Price of Music our intrepid duo get to grips with...

• Stu’s Big Number is One Hundred Billion Dollars… but who has paid it to whom and should that number actually be bigger?

• Ticketmaster is being sued by the US government for ‘illegal ticket resale tactics’ and deceiving artists and fans - but what will happen now?

• Why have Massive Attack also pulled their music from Spotify everywhere? (and how does it relate to AI drone weapons?)

• And why have hundreds of artists pulled their music from streaming platforms in Israel?

• The Great Album Filing Debate: If Ben Folds is filed under "F" is Ben Folds Five filed under "B"? What about Prince when he was a symbol?

• More AI-artists are finding success – including Steve’s nightmare: an AI-generated Country music album.

• Artist Lizzo thinks that music videos are dead and that authentic self-videos are key; meanwhile, major research says that "going viral" on social media may not help artists build their fanbases after all. So who is right??

• Stu once again gets excited by Taylor Swift (and this time it’s a cinema-based launch party)

• Why are people suddenly listening to "My Humps" again?

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:

• Which instrument did Steve (reluctantly) learn at school? (And how did he get tricked into learning it again just after he'd given it up?)

• Which nationality of people travels abroad the most to visit music events?

• How does learning an instrument make you a better doctor?

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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?

As ever, we welcome your feedback, emails and – in particular – any questions you might have about how the music biz works!

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See you next week!

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Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s The Price of Music: an urgent-ish delve into the news that Morrissey has announced he wants to sell his ownership of The Smiths’ songs… including a suggestion from Steve and Stu about how Johnny Marr might buy the songs off Morrissey via a gmail address that Morrissey put online.

And then Steve and Stu take a deep dive into a fantastic question from listener Simon who asked: artists often say that they are not making enough money from music streaming but are artists REALLY worse off today in the music streaming age?

To answer this, Steve and Stu wander down some... interesting pathways. They:

• talk to their Top Secret Sources in the artist and label world, and found out the answer… (which may surprise you);
• hypothesise about both Mazzy Star AND Bonnie Tyler’s record contracts;
• chat to Spotify, which reveals to our dynamic duo about how much they paid Mazzy Star and Bonnie Tyler(!);
• wonder how being a ‘radio artist’ pays compared to a ‘streaming artist’;
• dig into artist deals: because the money paid from streaming doesn’t go to the artist first;
• ask why the artists who ARE doing well from streaming platforms aren’t talking about it?
• …and tangentially… is TPOM better to listen to on a treadmill than Hi-NRG house music? A brief discussion.

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 time Steve worked in a record shop for a day; and he immediately faced a quandary: which letter should he file PJ Harvey under?
• Steve gently chides Stu over his love of a Songs Of The Summer Stats List from TikTok, which includes a load of old nostalgia songs
• Radiohead are back – and how do you sell tickets to shows that will be massively-oversubscribed and make sure those tickets get to real fans?
• After Covid’s impact, money spent on live music is up - and more popular than ever. But what were Steve and Stu’s first gigs after Covid?
• A call for your suggestions of hard-to-file records!

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As ever, we welcome your feedback, emails and – in particular – any questions you might have about how the music biz works!

Email us: ⁠thepriceofmusicpodcast@gmail.com⁠

See you next week!

Steve and Stuart

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