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Music Ally Focus

Analysing vital music business topics in detail, as they emerge: Joe Sparrow breaks down important stories with expert guests in about 25 minutes. It"ll keep you on the cutting edge, and it"ll take about the same time as making and eating a good sandwich! (We recommend doing both simultaneously for maximum deliciousness.) 🌍 Music Ally provides analysis and context for the global music business: musically.com Ⓜ️ Music Ally"s industry-leading subscription service: https://musically.com/subscribe 👋

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00:50:16

What does a music "magazine" need to be in 2023? Sean...

Music Ally Focus ·

2023/01/26

Music Ally Focus Ep. 93: What does a music publication need to be in 2023? We talk a lot on the podcast about marketing from the artist-side: getting projects to launch and connecting to as many people as possible. But what about the point after that - when music fans debate and discuss music – and explore and discover music they don’t know that they don’t know? Sean Adams, of Drowned in Sound, explains how he’s going to build a modern music publication. Drowned in Sound was one of the UK’s earliest

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00:34:09

The reality of touring for artists in 2023 – the...

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2023/01/19

Music Ally Focus Ep. 92: We’re joined by Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the Music Managers Forum to talk about the new realities of touring in the post-covid world. The Music Managers Forum recently held a round-table event with its members and it revealed a lot of concerns and issues around touring. Artists are now facing a completely different touring environment: where a transformed economy means that touring is no longer the sturdy income source it was once considered, and artists are

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00:41:48

What is web3 Music, anyway? HIFI Labs' Dan Fowler...

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2023/01/12

Music Ally Focus Ep. 91: WTF is "web3 music"? In this episode we’re joined by Dan Fowler, Director of Open Source Projects at web3 music incubator HIFI Labs, and a man with deep experience working at where crypto, web3 and music meet. Joe Sparrow asks Dan the stupid questions so that we can all find out what web3 music is, and what it will mean for the music industry. Most of us now have a surface understanding of NFTs and web3 stuff, but what is it exactly that classes a song as “web3 Music”, what

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00:33:29

Parenthood In Music's founders talk about how...

Music Ally Focus ·

2023/01/05

Music Ally Focus Ep. 90: This episode, just like the Wu-Tang Clan, is for the children. Or rather, the parents of those children: we’re joined by the founders of Parenthood In Music, which aims to improve working conditions for parents in the music industry. Parenthood, they believe, remains one of the main drivers of inequality in the workplace. We find out why, and what changes they’re hoping to make. Parenthood In Music is an initiative founded by Steffi von Kannemann (founder of the agency

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00:47:07

The best music marketing campaigns of 2022, as chosen...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/12/21

Music Ally Focus Ep. 89: Music Ally has just released its Campaign of the Year report (Get it for free here!) and so we finish the year with our annual podcast that highlights some of the best campaigns from 2022, chosen by the experts at Music Ally. The 2022 issue of ourutterly essentialCampaigns of the Year report has 60 highly-detailed case studies packed with data, KPIs, ideas and learnings – straight from the teams who did the best work of 2022. It’s a huge, vital resource for anyone working in

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00:41:07

Dan Runcie, founder of Trapital, explains how...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/12/14

Music Ally Focus Ep. 88: We’re thrilled to be joined by Dan Runcie, founder of Trapital, which offers music business insight with a strong focus on the business of hip-hop – the world’s pre-eminent genre of pop music. Trapital has recently published its first big report on the business and culture of hip hop –and Dan, a true thought leader in this space, has a lot of interesting things to say: he talks about how the narrow genre boundaries of hip hop are hiding its actual size and success on an

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00:38:14

Kyran de Keijzer, co-founder of Muso.AI, on taking on...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/12/08

Music Ally Focus Ep. 87: In this episode we’re joined by Kyran de Keijzer, co-founder of Muso.AI, the music credits platform that brings together data on the people that make songs, and allows music professionals to edit and manage their legacy metadata. Kyran says he looked at the most popular tracks ever made, and then looked at the metadata that reaches streaming platforms and found lots of gaps: only 60% have songwriting credits, 46% producer credits, and only 29% have engineering credits. We

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00:36:31

Richard Antwi Scholarship recipients Janelle Mitchell...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/12/02

Music Ally Focus Ep. 86: We’re joined in this episode by Janelle Mitchell and Estée Blu - two recipients of the Richard Antwi Scholarship, which aims to support Black and minority ethnic students living in the UK and awards a full scholarship for University of Westminster’s Music Business Management MA course. We wanted to know how these two ambitious young pros see the music industry from their perspectives, and the hurdles that they see in front of them. They told us their frank opinions about:

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00:32:08

Artist Love Ssega on combining a music career with...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/11/28

Music Ally Focus Ep. 85: Artist Love Ssega explains how he combines his music career with climate justice, and whether artists have a responsibility to not be silent on this issue. The climate emergency is the most meaningful challenge of our time, and one that the music industry can make a number of changes in relation to – whether that’s in terms of reducing music businesses carbon footprints, or artists using their influence to encourage fans to make a difference. London based artist Love Ssega

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00:31:43

Gary Helsinger, SVP licensing & creative at Melodie,...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/11/17

Music Ally Focus Ep. 84: We’re joined by Gary Helsinger, SVP, Licensing & Creative at Melodie, who chats to us about the state of library music, but also tells all of the best rock n roll stories we have heard on the Focus podcast thus far. Gary has had a rich and varied background to say the least: for instance, he was Director, A&R at Chrysalis Music Group whilst also a member of platinum-selling rock band Green Jellÿ –plus, he was also a manager, and has deep experience in licensing and

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00:27:29

Last.fm is 20 – VP of Product Michael Horan...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/11/10

Music Ally Focus Ep. 83: We’re joined in this show by Michael Horan, VP of Product at Last.fm, which is just about to hit a remarkable milestone: 20 years as a music tech company. In that time Last.fm has gathered an enormous amount of data on how people listen to music – and we wanted to talk to Michael about what Last.fm has learned from a music business that has changed dramatically in two decades. Last.fm has grown from a company that tracked what you were listening to in your mp3 and CD

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00:34:59

Artist Beardyman explains how he uses Patreon to...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/11/03

Music Ally Focus Ep. 82: We’re joined by multi-award winning UK beatbox champion, and live looping pioneer, Beardyman (AKA Darren Foreman) – who, like a number of artists, has created a significant extra income stream via a subscription model on Patreon. We talk to him about how he has made a model where fans do not merely support him – they collaborate with him: subscribers can present their track ideas and collaborate directly with Beardyman, and if successful, get royalties on the track. Darren

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00:23:41

The international future of Latin music, with Jesús...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/10/27

Music Ally Focus Ep. 81: In this episode we’re discussing the past, present and future of Latin music on a global scale with Jesús Triviño Alarcón, senior director for Latin Global for streaming platform Tidal. Jesús has a deep connection with Latin music and culture: he is a Webby-nominated content creator who has covered music, TV, film and more for over 17 years as a reporter, editor, producer and curator. Latin music has firmly solidified its status as a global superpower, and we spoke to Jesús

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00:44:50

Equitable Remuneration: will it really boost artist...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/10/05

Music Ally Focus Ep. #80: In this episode, we’re going to talk about Equitable Remuneration (ER) and how it works out in practice, IRL, with two people who truly understand the economics and legality of it. What is ER? In the UK and some other countries, it’s the practice of dividing certain radio play royalties 50-50 between artist and label - and in the UK’s long-running parliamentary inquiry into music streaming economics, ER became a widely-requested solution to many artists’ claims that they

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00:31:17

TikTok, influencer marketing, and how artists can go...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/09/22

Music Ally Focus Ep. #79: We're speaking to Sam Saideman, co-founder of Innovo Music Management about TikTok, influencer marketing, and how artists can do it effectively – it's a really interesting conversation, full of good ideas, and free of marketing blah blah. Sam’s a big fan of TikTok – “it has an unlimited upside” he says – but if you get TikTok wrong, you can get it really wrong. “You could easily spend $100,000 on a music marketing campaign on TikTok and not get a single thing you wanted out

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00:34:48

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs on record label...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/09/16

Music Ally Focus Ep. #78: In the second of two episodes where we speak to artists about pressures they have felt from that industry, and the effect it has had on them as people, we speak to the artist Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, or Orlando Higginbottom as he’s known to his family and friends. He talks about his experiences of working with record labels – and discussing the need for them in 2022, based on a decade of experiences that have not been, let’s say, wholly positive. He has just

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00:26:20

How music-tech startups can stand out from the...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/09/14

Music Ally Focus Ep. #77: In this episode, we discuss Music Ally SI:X – our new annual global showcase, contest and mentorship support program for early-stage musicstartups. We chat to representatives of two of the sponsors, Emma Cordell, Senior Communications manager of FUGA, and Gregor Pryor, Partner at Reed Smith – along with Music Ally’s CEO Paul Brindley – about what they consider to be the most exciting and innovative areas in music tech, why big, game-changing ideas are still out there (and

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00:29:22

Independent artist Eurielle talks about social media...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/09/08

Music Ally Focus Ep. #76: Recently we’ve reported a lot about artists being increasingly outspoken about the pressure on them to create content for social media. If big-name artists like Halsey are voicing their concerns and experiencing pressure, what about indie artists, who don’t have a team around them? This is the first of two episodes where we speak to artists about pressures they have felt from the music industry, and the effect it has had on them as people. We chat to independent artist

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00:31:39

Two of the UK's up-and-coming managers talk about...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/08/31

Music Ally Focus Ep. #75: In this episode we’re joined by two up-and-coming managers who are part of the UK’s MMF Accelerator programme. We want to know what opportunities talented young managers are seeing, and how they are going to use them to take their nascent stars onto success. Cecile Dreyer and Pascal Balletti talk to us about the fresh approaches they are using - specifically with regards to Direct to fan, NFT and web3 tech, and TikTok: all areas of interest that any managers, labels, artist

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00:32:52

How streaming fraud works and how to detect it – and...

Music Ally Focus ·

2022/08/23

Music Ally Focus Ep. #74: "We confidently say that at least 10% of all streaming activity is fraud," –that's the opinion of Andrew Batey and Morgan Hayduk of Beatdapp, the streaming analysis platform that aims to uncover streaming fraud. We find out what the fraud looks like, how big it is, who’s doing it and why, how it works … and how much it would cost if we wanted to be the fraudsters. The answers will probably surprise you, and – if you’re an artist – you may be shocked to find that your

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