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Latest episodes
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45 min
Is your indie catalogue losing revenue? Fixing the leak with Indie Music Rights
Ep. 188: If you own an indie label, publishing company, or back-catalogue, there is a very high chance your IP is leaking revenue right now. Between messy global metadata, unclaime…
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58 min
Major-label firepower on an indie budget: the rise of the music OS (and closing all your open tabs along the w…
Ep. 187: Back-office admin – from distribution and DSP analytics to neighbouring rights and D2C sales – remains a massive operational drain for indie labels, publishers, and self-r…
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51 min
Forget AI – more humans than ever are making music. So how do you build a DAW that keeps them all happy? FL St…
Ep 186: Forget AI music for a moment: more humans are making music than ever before – and they're using powerful, accessible tools to do it. One of those tools is the digital audio…
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45 min
Bonus Episode: Making records out of recycled plastic bottles for Coldplay and Lorde
Ep 185: We're sharing an episode from our other music biz podcast, The Price of Music (follow it here! https://musically.lnk.to/TPOM) - because we went and had another chat with th…
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38 min
What are the global music biz trends that can help artists break through? Shortform-video-first discovery, liv…
Ep. 184: We’re thrilled to be joined once again by Stuart Dredge, Music Ally’s head of insight, as we chat about our June 2026 Insight Report. This one is the International Issue (…
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51 min
The UK's fan-led live music revolution: saving grassroots venues & fixing ticket rip-off pricing – with Lord K…
A little bonus cross-over episode for you Focus listeners. On our The Price of Music Podcast, we had two very special guests talk about how to actually make important change happen…
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59 min
Running an indie label for 30 years – Hospital Records founder Chris Goss on three decades as a cutting-edge d…
Ep. 182: 30 years of running an indie record label is a monumental milestone. We speak to Chris Goss about exactly that – three decades after he co-founded the highly influential j…
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35 min
Creators’ needs today: how Sacem is adapting to new modes of creation
Ep. 181: This is the second episode in a two-part series about the evolution of CMOs – recorded as collective management organisations undergo their most significant transformation…
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40 min
The Price of Music: Radiohead's secret bunker; the Kanye/Wireless fallout; and how is the world's oldest recor…
Here's a taste of our other podcast, The Price Of Music, presented by Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge – it's your easy weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works, Like what…
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33 min
Rebuilding the collective: how CMOs are scaling globally, collaborating across industries, and rethinking the…
Ep. 180: Music consumption today is borderless, but the systems that manage it have historically been national. Now, collective management organisations are undergoing their most s…
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48 min
AI & music streaming in 2026: it's crunch time for creators
Ep. 179: It's a Very Special Episode of Music Ally’s Focus podcast in which Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow can roll up their sleeves and look at the impact that AI is having on stre…
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39 min
The Open Innovation CMO: Sacem Lab, New Tech, and Creator Tools – with Julien Lefebvre, Head of Innovation and…
Ep. 178: Collective management is no longer just about collecting royalties; it's about innovating infrastructure and offering direct services. So we're joined by Julien Lefebvre,…
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39 min
AI and Sacem: defining the future of music copyright – with David El Sayegh, Deputy CEO of Sacem
Ep. 177: Generative AI, copyright, and collection. Welcome to a special Music Ally Focus podcast series made in collaboration with Sacem, exploring the evolution of collective mana…
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32 min
How artist payouts work in 2026: millions of micro-royalties in hundreds of countries – we speak with Tipalti
Ep. 176: In 2026, labels, artists, musicians and creators are all working differently: generating millions of micro-royalties every month across global campaigns that involve multi…
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40 min
The future of record labels – with Midia's Mark Mulligan
Ep. 175: Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research joins us to talk about labels in 2026. It's jam-packed with great advice for labels of all sizes and ambitions, including:The value shift b…
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54 min
What will the music marketing trends of 2026 be? Post-authenticity, clipping content, fun for fans – and much…
Ep. 174: What's going to give you or your artist cut-through in 2026? At the start of last year we published one of our most popular podcasts of the year: when we asked Liam James…
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30 min
Genius steals: this month's best new music marketing campaigns with Marlen Hüllbrock – including Lily Allen's…
Ep 173: We're refreshing Focus (or should that be re-Focusing?) for our many music marketing listeners – we'll now be publishing regular episodes that spotlights recent excellent m…
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40 min
What are the music-tech trends in 2025 – and where is it going next? Music Ally's Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparro…
Ep 172: Taking the pulse of music-tech in 2025. We asked Music Ally’s head of insight, Stuart Dredge, to chat to our managing editor Joe Sparrow about the state of music-tech – and…
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46 min
Using Aiode's ethically-trained AI as a virtual songwriting collaborator – and the future integration of AI in…
Ep. 171: We speak to Idan Dobrecki, the co-founder of Aiode, an AI music-making platform that emphasises two key features: its ethically-trained system that shares earnings with th…
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43 min
The Price of Music: Music Ally's *other* podcast – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge
A quick bonus episode for you all, in case you have missed our new, other podcast, The Price of Music, your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. (You can follow it h…