Musonomics

07/11/2024

I wrote a guest essay for Variety explaining:
- why the DOJ - Live Nation antitrust lawsuit will do nothing to lower concert ticket prices for music fans.
- why the ire of many fans is misplaced.
- how the unregulated secondary market drives pricing in the primary market.
- how all this was foreseeable when the Live Nation - Ticketmaster merger was approved in 2010
- and that although Live Nation executes their business model very well -- much to the frustration of their competitors, this lawsuit will do nothing for consumers.

Fans love to hate Ticketmaster, but their anger is misplaced, argues Larry Miller, director of Music Business at NYU Steinhardt in this guest post.

06/07/2024

Had a blast chatting with Lars MurrayLars Murray on Smartest People in the Room. I'd forgotten for how long Lars and I have known each other. We talked about what radio once was, OG digital music, my NYU origin story, our podcasts and my work as a voice actor. Now on YouTube ICYMI.

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05/04/2024

Susan L. Dodes produced and hosted a huge public talk with superproducer Benny Blanco and hundreds of NYU students for the NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program and NYU-Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. I love this picture of Susan, Judy Tint, Nicholas Sansano and me. Benny was a mensch, hilarious and provocative.

01/13/2024

On Wednesday, Luminate the data company powering the Billboard charts, released its 2023 year-end music report.

It’s no surprise that Taylor Swift had a big year -- with five of the top 10 albums on the US album chart, 1/78th of all the on-demand streams in the US, and a staggering 1.7% of the entire US market; It's also no surprise that Country music had another big year, with over 20 Billion streams.

But there's more...

Guest co-host Britnee Foreman from Exceleration Music and I read and digested the whole 79-page report, so you don’t have to: https://pod.link/985799104

In this mini-episode we share key takeaways and surprises, and make a few predictions based on what we learned.

After you've listened to the podcast, you can access the entire Luminate report HERE:
https://lnkd.in/eexgikFn

Special thanks to Lars Murray for the extra help this episode!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4u8MPTNMBGEibAm24eRt7m?si=9_-Y3ZbPSe6tc0xCQ3GUdA

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