Musonomics
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Musonomics
Musonomics is a twice-monthly podcast about the business of the music and culture industries. Hosted by Larry Miller and produced with support from the NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program, we use data, music and interviews with newsmakers and analysts to provide insight into what.s happening now -...
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5 Billion Reasons to Train AI on the Music Traditions of the Global South
Artificial intelligence is doing to music what the printing press did to books and what the mp3 did to the album. But as the tools multiply and the in...
Finishing the Unfinished: AI, Schubert, and Who Gets Credit for the Final Note
Most conversations about AI and music collapse into two camps: fear that it will replace artists, or excitement about how much money there is to be ma...
The Future of Music + AI Is Already Here - It's Just Not Evenly Distributed
With apologies to cyberpunk author William Gibson, the technology is out in the wild. The lawsuits are filed. The licensing deals are being signed. T...
AI, Music, and the Law: Innovation vs Compensation
Artificial intelligence is the force reshaping the music industry's future. And the legal battle over who gets paid, and for what, is just getting sta...
AI & Music: Tool or Threat?
Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon for the music industry. It's here, and it's moving fast. But is AI the next great instrument in a...
What is a Superfan?
Superfan is a strong contender for Music Industry Buzzword of 2025-26. But what does it mean, exactly? And what does it mean for the industry?
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Catalogs and Capital
In this episode, we take a look back at the first half of 2025. Larry sits down with Tatiana Cirisano of MIDIA research to discuss underlying industry...
Music and Presidential Campaigns
It is presidential election season and music is back in the thick of it. In 2016 we spoke with Ben Sisario of the New York Times, Professor Chris Spri...
Flash Episode: Music and Two Big Games
In this episode, Larry and Lynn discuss a streaming fraud bust, music meets presidential politics yet again, Kendrick spikes the ball, and protect tho...
Songwriters Take the Stage + Two Rising Music Publishers
We're in a song economy but not yet a songwriter economy, according to a landmark report by MiDiA Research. In this episode: the report's co-author T...
Warner Music's big restructuring, UMG earnings, the Labels' showdown with AI platforms, and has on-demand streaming peaked?
On this episode: Larry And Lynn on Warner Music's big restructuring. Also UMG earnings, the Labels' showdown with AI platforms, and has on-demand stre...
Flash episode: DOJ v. Live Nation, Spotify's low churn, $1B for Queen?
On this episode: Larry and Lynn dive into the DOJ vs. LiveNation, what's behind recent arena tour cancellations, and Spotify's price increase and what...
Is bundling just a sneaky way to pay lower rates to songwriters?
Spotify started offering limited audiobook listening late last year for no extra charge -- after the first price increase in the company's history wen...
Here's the Beef (and earnings roundup)
Larry and Lynn discuss earnings season highlights -- UMG, Live Nation, Hybe and more. They unpack Kendrick v. Drake, and will Spotify's bundling move...
Shira Perlmutter is the foremost expert on copyright in the country
United States Copyright Office Register Shira Perlmutter oversees a team of 500 people and advises the U.S. Congress and the executive branch on copyr...
Flash episode: RIAA reports, Hipgnosis valuation resets, Beyoncé unleashes Cowboy Carter and a new venue grows in Brooklyn
This week we unpack the full year 2023 RIAA data. Are we too dependent on subscription growth? Larry Miller and Billboard Power 100 music lawyer Lyn...
Flash episode: Music revenue is up (again)!
Star music lawyer Lynn Gonzalez of Granderson Des Rochers joins NYU Steinhardt Music Business prof Larry Miller on this Musonomics Flash episode to di...
Flash episode: The TikTok-UMG Standoff, Striking a Chord, the ELVIS Act and more
For this flash edition of Musonomics, Larry Miller is Joined by music attorney Lynn Gonzalez from Granderson Des Rochers LLP. Larry and Lynn unpack so...
Flash Episode: Takeaways, Surprises and Predictions
On Wednesday, Luminate, the data company powering the Billboard charts, released its 2023 year end music report. Larry Miller and guest co-host Britne...
Fun with Funds: MUSQ, the Music ETF
The public stocks of many music companies like UMG, WMG and Spotify now trade on NYSE, NASDAQ and foreign exchanges. But wouldn't it be cool to easil...
Key Changes
AI may be the latest inflection point in the music business as were the introduction of the LP, CD, Napster, track downloads and streaming. NYU Profe...
AI: Collab Tool or Something Much Worse?
Player piano rolls... electric guitars... wah wah pedals... ProTools... AutoTune... and now AI. But is artificial intelligence the next step in creat...
The Billion Dollar Needle Drop
Deep into the streaming era, vinyl outsold CD sales last year for the first time since 1987 and grew for the 16th straight year. We unpack the state o...
How Streaming Impacted the Value of Music
The transition over the last decade from purchases of CDs, vinyl albums and downloads to subscription and ad-supported streaming has had an enormous i...
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Neighboring rights are similar to the public performance rights associated with musical compositions, but they are paid to record labels and performer...
George Wein and the Newport Legacy
George Wein single handedly created the model for the popular music festival. In this episode, host Larry Miller of NYU Steinhardt celebrates George's...
Brick by Brick: Jon Platt on Creating a Mighty Career and Culture
Jon Platt, head of the world's largest music publisher Sony Music Publishing chats with host Larry Miller in a fireside chat in front of a live virtua...
Valuation Nation: Hipgnosis and the Business of Song Management
If it seems like a remarkable number of larger-than-life legacy artists have sold the rights to their catalogs lately for astonishing price tags, it's...
Games Without Frontiers
The evolution of video games has been entwined with the music industry since the 1970s; dependent on related tech developments and targeting a similar...
Sync or Swim -- Licensing Music for Podcasts
Why is licensing music for a podcast like sailing in uncharted seas? In this episode of Musonomics, host Larry Miller of NYU Steinhardt delves into wh...
Go Small & Stay Home: Live Music in the Time of Crisis
Most artists make most of their income from touring. We want and need live music, but even as some states and venues begin to reopen, what will it ta...
From Punk to President (and beyond): Rob Stringer
In this episode of Musonomics, Rob Stringer talks with Larry Miller about his journey from London to the NYC punk scene to the corner office of one of...
Mind the (Value) Gap
In this episode of Musonomics: how is it possible that more people are listening to music than ever, but musicians are earning less? Larry Miller of N...
How a Wall Street equity analyst thinks about the music business
Stock investors looks to equity analysts for guidance on whether to buy, sell or hold stocks in individual companies. Gabelli equity research analyst...
The Mainstreaming of K-Pop
BTS just played SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, marking the first-ever appearance by a Korean pop group in SNL's 44 seasons. On this episode, we examine the eme...
Is Spotify Suing Songwriters?
Spotify supports music and the people who create it, and recently launched "Secret Geniuses," to recognize often-unheralded songwriters. So why did S...
How Music Got Modernized
The most sweeping update of American music copyright in a generation is now law. In this episode of Musonomics, Larry Miller talks to three people th...
Spin Cycle
Music is all around us, all the time -- as we shop in a store, eat in a restaurant -- or work off those calories in a spin class. In this episode of M...
Home is Where the Smart Is
For millions of us, artificial Intelligence got real when we added smart speakers to our homes. Our AI assistants are standing by, ready to play music...
Is Radio Headed For a Digital Cliff?
Digital music services continue to drive recovery of the music industry after a long period of decline, and the AM/FM music radio business is starting...