How Will Taylor Swift’s Masters Ownership Saga Be Remembered?
Now that the dust has settled on Taylor Swift’s music rights saga, what’s next?
We unpacked the financial impact of all the transactions on key players like Scooter Braun, Scott Borchetta, Shamrock Capital, and Swift herself. While all of those parties made a lot more money, we took a deeper look into the potential losers over the years. And lastly, we tackle an important question: how will history remember this?
Join me and Tati Cirisano as we break it all down.
00:47 Scooter Braun’s Legacy
03:34 Taylor Swift Fans
07:12 Artists Reclaiming Their Music Rights
11:42 Superstar Leverage
24:25 Ticketmaster and the Eras Tour
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Why Artist Development Matters More Than Ever
We’re joined by AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick. In the episode, we broke down why artist development still matters, how AWAL merges traditional record label services with its distribution business, giving artists creative freedom, global reach, and real ownership to AWAL’s artist-first approach often beats major label deals, what it means to be part of the Sony Music family, and how the future of music is being rewritten—deal by deal.
00:13 AWAL Business Model
03:57 Artist Development Focus
10:19 Sony’s Acquisition of AWAL
13:40 Global Expansion and Team Building
25:13 Industry Insights and Future Outlook
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Why Artist Development Matters More Than Ever
We’re joined by AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick. In the episode, we broke down why artist development still matters, how AWAL merges traditional record label services with its distribution business, giving artists creative freedom, global reach, and real ownership to AWAL’s artist-first approach often beats major label deals, what it means to be part of the Sony Music family, and how the future of music is being rewritten—deal by deal.
00:13 AWAL Business Model
03:57 Artist Development Focus
10:19 Sony’s Acquisition of AWAL
13:40 Global Expansion and Team Building
25:13 Industry Insights and Future Outlook
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Does Hip-Hop Still Run Luxury Fashion?
Hip-hop’s has had an outsized impact in fashion for decades, but where are we today? In this episode, I am joined by Fashion Killa author
Sowmya Krishnamurthy. We unpack hip-hop’s relationship with fashion, how these partnerships have evolved, where they stand in 2025, and what we want to see more of.
01:41 Hip-Hop’s Cultural Impact vs. Sales Metrics
11:37 Nostalgia and the Evolution of Celebrity
23:22 The Future of Hip-Hop in High Fashion
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America Streams American. The World Follows.
American music still dominate the global stage, despite the world going local.
In this episode, I am joined by former chief economist at Spotify, Will Page. We explore the powerful global influence of American music and what it reveals about culture, commerce, and control in the streaming era.
From top-down industry power to bottom-up grassroots movements, we unpack how hits spread, why the U.S. music market is still growing despite predictions of global decentralization, and more.
00:28 American Music’s Global Influence
03:40 Glocalization and Market Dynamics
09:42 Hip-Hop an Country Music Trends
13:24 Economic Factors
27:50 Will Page’s Mixcloud
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