Despite the hosannas at the end of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, the live business is going through a correction. What exactly is the reason? Well, let’s talk about the less than superstar level, those playing rooms with a capacity less than 5,000. The acts have toured too much. This is what I heard over and […]

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https://www.aspenlive.com/speakers We just had an hilarious discussion about the ability of AI to break acts. What we had was an outsider, who’d started a label, trying to break his bands. How many times have we seen this? How come no one ever believes music is a professional business. How come everybody believes that we’re all […]

“At $45.5BM in 2023, Music Copyright Now Worth More Globally Than Cinema, New Report Finds”: https://t.ly/yDfV5 The devil is in the details. My inbox has been blowing up with the above story, it makes a good headline, but what you’ve got to know is… Recorded music revenues eclipsed those of the movies in the seventies. […]