CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Epic Games' acquisition of Bandcamp and what a gaming company might want with a direct-to-fan music platform, plus the Entertainment Retailers Association's stats on streaming music in 2021 and what it thinks should happen in the economics of streaming debate.

01: Bandcamp (00:02:57)

02: ERA stats (00:17:43)

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• Epic Games buys Bandcamp

• ERA publishes positive stats galore about streaming, but says industry needs to be “bold” in responding to economics of streaming debate

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• Ukrainian musicians urge streaming services to allow political messaging on their platforms in response to Russian invasion

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