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🔵 Why it is getting harder and harder to hire young people into the music industry
Breaking down the issues preventing young people from getting a start
🔵 RIP Nina: a shame, but sadly not a shock
Nina's demise is a sharp reminder of the commercials around digital services
🔵 The music industry's complex relationship with the charts
The business loves them, but do any fans care about charts in 2026?
🔵 Music, AI and the decimation of memory
A more personal take on an under-discussed aspect of AI-gen music.
🔵 My article for The Quietus
A follow-up on Chaotic Good, and some overdue music and book recommendations
🔵 Music's dirty secrets pt. 2: the bot farms driving fake fan engagement
Fan burner accounts - now operating at scale
🔵 Primary Wave/Kobalt. Concord/BMG. Which will be the next big consolidation moment?
The bigger companies are merging or selling - but is that a bad thing?
🔵 Thoughts on the Ninja Tune sale to Concord
The questions we should be asking as an industry now
🔵 "When everyone is super, no one will be"
The rush to layer AI onto everything is underway... and it's exhausting
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A newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
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