The Price of Music

*How many* AI-generated songs are uploaded to streaming each week? Why are Radiohead's fans angry about tickets? Why has Spotify given users lossless music for free? And much more...


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Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s action-packed episode of The Price of Music: a bunch of extremely interesting music biz questions are answered by our intrepid duo...

  • Stu’s Big Number is 30,000 and relates to the number of AI-generated songs… but why so many songs and where are they going?

  • Why are Radiohead’s fans getting angry about tickets (“that don’t exist”)?

  • The Great TPOM Record-Filing Debate continues: do you file Van Morrison under ‘V’ or ‘M’? And where does a record by the band 86TVs go?

  • Why has Spotify given paying users lossless music for free (and is ‘Lossless’ a long-lost My Bloody Valentine album?

  • Did Steve and Stu cause Morrissey to get so many offers for his Smiths songs that he deleted his email address?

  • How did King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard fill the entire Top 30 album chart on Bandcamp (and why)?

  • What is the (depressing) reason that Bad Bunny has chosen not to tour in the mainland USA?

  • How much is Bjork’s VR album re-master?

And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stuart prop themselves at the bar to chat about:

  • The UK’s Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced – what do Steve and Stu think of the finalists and why is Steve “flabbergasted” by one specific missing nominee?

  • Steve and Stu’s true feelings about lossless audio - is it actually worth it?

  • What is the sole record on Steve’s Discogs Want List, and why does he regret not buying it when it came up for sale recently?

  • What is Stu’s ideal Christmas gift? And could it possibly be connected to The Black Crowes, much to Steve’s amusement?

  • Can you guess Steve’s response to Stu saying “I should now give you a lecture on The Black Crowes’ ‘Amorica’ album”?

  • What is the best song about the fans of The Smiths?

As ever, we welcome your feedback, emails and – in particular – any questions you might have about how the music biz works!

Email us: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

See you next week!

Steve and Stuart

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