Musonomics

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

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

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11/21/2023

I always loved this image of Muhammad Ali inserting a 45 rpm record into his portable record player, a Philips Highway Hifi, in his '59 Caddie. I was reminded of it while making the new Musonomics pod, "Key Changes: On a Century of Music Tech Disruption," with my friends, co-profs and now co-authors Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt based on their new book "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry." Check out the pod -- and the book!

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04/07/2023

Deep into the streaming era, vinyl outsold CD sales last year for the first time since 1987 and grew for the 16th straight year. Musonomics unpacks the state of vinyl with John T. Kunz, owner of Austin's Waterloo Records; Russ Crupnick, Managing Partner of MusicWatch; John Pette, co-owner of new vinyl pressing plant OUTTA WAX; Gina Williams, Senior Director of Independent Retail and Vinyl Marketing at Warner Music Group; and Larry Jaffee, author of Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century.

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 -...

03/12/2022

US music revenues up 23% to $15 billion in 2021. 83% of it was streaming; +8.5mm paid subs for 84mm total. Vinyl is > a $billion US business and twice the size of what's left of the CD biz. Read the full report from RIAA on the 2021 year end statistics for US Recorded Music in areas like streaming, digital downloads and physical sales at the link in the Musonomics bio.

03/09/2022

In response to a reportedly low financial year for workout brand Peloton, analysts suspect the company may be bought by competitor Apple, leading to possibly even more musician contributions to the exercising platform. In the past, Peloton has partnered with big musicians such as Taylor Swift, Queen and Béyonce (who has collaborated with the exercise company in releasing a line of workout apparel under the name “Ivy Park”) for rights to use their music with their equipment and workout programs. CNBC reports Peloton is temporarily halting production of its bikes and treadmills, as “consumer demand wanes and the company looks to control costs” and even saw its share price tumble by a scary 23.9%. Read the full story from Music Business World Wide at the link in the Musonomics bio.

03/04/2022

Larry Miller was quoted in The Washington Post discussing the recent selling of catalogs by Bruce Springsteen and other large legacy artists. Recent catalog acquisitions of Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Bob Dylan’s music may be signifying a favoring of ease and cash rather than long term creative control by the families of musicians after their passing. Read professor Miller’s take on these sales and more at the link in the Musonomics bio.

02/24/2022

Larry Miller was quoted in The Washington Post discussing the recent selling of catalogs from Bruce Springsteen and other large legacy artists. Recent catalog acquisitions of Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Bob Dylan’s music may be signifying a favoring of ease and cash rather than long term creative control by the families of the musicians after their passing. Read Professor Miller’s take on these sales and more at the link in the Musonomics bio.

02/04/2022

Larry Miller was quoted in The Washington Post discussing the recent selling of catalogs from Bruce Springsteen and other large legacy artists. Recent catalog acquisitions of Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Bob Dylan’s music may be signifying a favoring of ease and cash rather than long term creative control by the families of the musicians after their passing. Read Professor Miller’s take on these sales and more at the link in the Musonomics bio.

12/03/2021

Catch the latest episode of Musonomics which honours 's legacy, featuring some of his friends & colleagues - directors of the famous & ,
and the former Governor of Rhode Island. Link in bio!

Background: solely designed the popular Newport music festival from start to finish. In this episode of Musonomics, host Larry Miller of celebrates George’s legacy with the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals in conversation with a cast of Wein’s friends and colleagues including Newport Jazz Festival Artistic Director , City Winery’s , Newport Festivals Foundation Executive Director and COO , Newport Board Chair Bruce Gordon, Secretary of Commerce, and former Governor of Rhode Island, and Jerry Chazen. https://pod.link/985799104

07/26/2021

Heard what CEO of Sony Music Publishing - Jon Platt has to say on making the reconstruction of culture in the music industry, a worldwide phenomenon? 🗺️
Translated in Spanish 🇪🇸

Tune into the latest episode of Musonomics to learn more - http://pod.link/985799104

07/13/2021

Head of Sony Music Publishing Jon Platt discusses his career path, ways to grow your career and how he created a new culture at Sony Music Publishing in this new episode of Musonomics.

Hear more about Jon, how you can better your career in music and the future of the publishing industry by listening to the full episode now! - pod.link/985799104