Billboard Launching ‘On the Record’ Music Business Video Podcast With SickBird Productions

Billboard has announced the motorboat of On the Record With Kristin Robinson, a caller play video podcast that takes listeners wrong the euphony industry, drafting connected archetypal reporting from the Billboard newsroom and featuring exclusive interviews with apical executives and artists. Created successful concern with SickBird Productions, the archetypal occurrence of On the Record will spell unrecorded Thursday greeting (Sept. 18) connected each podcast platforms. 

The archetypal occurrence was filmed backstage astatine Sphere successful Las Vegas and features a speech with the venue’s caput of booking (Josephine Vaccatello) and caput of Sphere Studios (Carolyn Blackwood) astir however their residencies for artists similar U2, Dead & Company and Eagles travel unneurotic from booking to opening night. Other aboriginal episodes volition see discussions astir however Trump medication policies interaction Latin concerts, and however streaming services volition respond to the onset of the AI euphony gyration and more. Other episodes volition besides diagnostic conversations with artists astir going independent, readying unsocial rollouts and embracing technology.

On the Record has its digit connected the pulse of what the manufacture is really talking astir and volition contiguous the accusation successful a mode that opens up these insider conversations to everyone — whether that’s to different manufacture pros, funny fans oregon aspiring artists.

SickBird Productions is onboard arsenic On the Record’s co-producer. An award-winning planetary accumulation company, founded by Jade Watson, SickBird has launched much than 20 shows to day and has worked connected podcasts like Glory Daze With Johnny Manziel, Working Hard With Grace Beverly, Caps Lock With Sam Fahey and more. 

Since joining Billboard successful 2021, On the Record host Kristin Robinson has go a starring euphony concern and exertion reporter, covering each things AI, streaming, publishing, integer marketing, labels and more. Her newsletter Machine Learnings astir the intersection of euphony and tech is wide work crossed the manufacture and boasts 50,000 integrated subscribers. Since 2021, Robinson has earned 5 journalistic honors for her work, including a National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award information for exposing a $23 cardinal YouTube royalty fraud impacting Daddy Yankee and Julio Iglesias. When not covering the concern broadside of things, she besides writes screen stories and profiles for the publication, including features connected Charli xcx, Addison Rae, Laufey, DJ Mustard, $uicideboy$ and Ghostwriter.

“Covering the euphony concern astatine Billboard has shown maine however intimately the decisions being made successful boardrooms interaction the euphony fans are streaming, buying and experiencing live,” says Robinson. “With On the Record, my extremity is to span that spread — bringing fans, artists and manufacture professionals into the aforesaid country to recognize not conscionable what’s happening successful music, but wherefore it matters.”

“The stories that thrust the euphony manufacture spell acold beyond the charts. With On the Record, we’re creating a abstraction to unpack the decisions, technologies and powerfulness shifts that specify today’s euphony business,” says Hannah Karp, Billboard editor-in-chief. “Kristin has a unsocial quality to link fans, artists and executives successful 1 conversation, making the complexities of the manufacture some engaging and accessible.”

Diona DaCosta, caput of contented astatine SickBird, says: “Listeners tin expect unfiltered conversations that bring them person to the radical and decisions shaping the euphony concern today. Teaming up with Billboar...