How Music Investing Became the Industry’s Hottest Game With Matt Pincus | Billboard On The Record

Are we connected the borderline of a euphony manufacture revolution? Top capitalist and laminitis of indie steadfast SONGS and concern institution MUSIC, Matt Pincus, joins Billboard On the Record big Kristin Robinson this week to sermon however the scenery of euphony catalog investing has evolved.

From the emergence of internet-driven copyright worth to the shifting roles of labels and publishers, Pincus shares his insights connected wherever the manufacture is headed and wherefore we whitethorn beryllium connected the precipice of large change. He and Robinson interruption down however Taylor Swift has reshaped the speech astir catalog sales, whether AI is the adjacent large disruptor for euphony instauration and what each this means for the industry’s future. Plus, Pincus weighs successful connected 1 large question: is the euphony concern genuinely recession proof?  

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Kristin Robinson: The vibes successful the euphony manufacture consciousness off. That mightiness not beryllium the astir eloquent mode of putting it, but that’s however it feels amidst changeless layoffs and restructuring astatine the 3 large euphony companies, Sony, Universal and Warner, since aboriginal 2024 AI becoming a much and much accepted world successful the originative process, Wall Street, progressively buying into the euphony market, trouble breaking done connected TikTok, slowing maturation of streaming work subscriptions and apical markets, and to apical it off, an wide shaky economy. It’s casual to consciousness unsettled, truthful let’s unpack that today.

Welcome backmost to On the Record, a euphony concern podcast from Billboard and Sickbird Productions. I’m your host, Kristin Robinson, and contiguous we are going to tackle a large question, which is, where’s the euphony manufacture going? Right now, if you inquire astir with folks moving successful the euphony concern today, they volition apt archer you that it feels similar we’re successful the mediate of a shift, or, arsenic I precocious enactment it successful a somewhat viral TikTok video, the vibes consciousness off.

So, I called 1 of music’s astir respected entrepreneurs and investors, Matt Pincus, and asked him to travel assistance america recognize what is going on. And successful lawsuit you aren’t acquainted with Matt Pincus, He is possibly champion known for starting the autarkic publishing institution SONGS. It was founded successful 2006 and rapidly became 1 of the astir important players successful the euphony business, moving with artists similar The Weeknd, Lorde, Pharrell, Diplo and more.

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