In this week's show, Steve and Stuart get to grips with government legislation and bands turning down big bucks:

• Stu’s Big Number: after some gentle ribbing from Steve on last week's (small) Big Number, Stu returns with a whopper: 2.5 trillion - but what is it?

• Will Drake face Kendrick Lamar in the witness box?

• Steve takes a 13-point "personality test" to see if he's a music Superfan

• Breaking news from the UK governmental inquiry into streaming payments to artists and songwriters;

• Los Campesinos! turn down a $60,000 offer from Airbnb to use their music in an advert – but why?

• ...and how does music sync – where songs get put into TV ads and movies, etc – work anyway?

• What's the connection between Taylor Swift and Five Finger Death Punch?

And in the special post-show section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stu get classical and chat about:

• Which fanclub Steve was a member of as a 14-year-old;

• Steve visits the First night of the Proms

• Is classical music expensive – or actually cheap in the era of £250 tickets?

• Are too many heritage bands touring now? Will people stop buying tickets?

• What's the average price of a gig ticket now, anyway?

• In the era of no physical tickets, are selfies at the show the new "keeping the ticket stub"?

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Steve and Stuart

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In this week's show, Steve and Stuart cover a lot of ground, including:

• Stu’s Big Number: it seems small (1000), but that’s how many days Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” has topped the Apple Music chart

• How do songwriters actually earn their money – a new report reveals the truth (part of which is that a lot of them are struggling)

• Which well-known bands are also performing as cover bands to make cash?

• Why Spotify are under investigation in Turkey – and what does it have to do with golden toilets?

• How fictional (but not AI!) bands from a Netflix K-Pop animation are getting lots of listeners on streaming platforms

• And much, much more (including Ozzy Osbourne’s chimpanzee collaboration)

And in the special post-show section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stu chat about:

• Steve’s latest new band tip,

• Unusual merch (including poorly-timed mug purchases, and expensive AA batteries),

• Steve’s Noel Gallagher spoon-in-a-champagne-bottle anecdote origin story,

• The duo pitch for podcast sponsorship from the Milk Marketing Board,

• Dad-dancing at gigs, and more…

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

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See you next week!

Steve and Stuart

Steve and Stuart are back in the new and - oh yes - improved The Price of Music!

In this episode:

• The Velvet Sundown are a fully-AI-generated band that have over a million listeners on Spotify – is this a tipping point – and should human artists worry?

• Oasis are back – so how much money did each show make (and how much of it is VAT?

• The band Deerhoof have pulled their music from Spotify in protest at co-founder Daniel Ek's investments into a weapons startup

• The proposed takeover of indie conglomerate Downtown Music by Universal Music is starting to get tetchy...

• Steve wonders: who owns your songs if your record label goes bust?

• and more!

As ever, we welcome your feedback, emails and – in particular – any niggling questions you might have about how the music biz works that Steve and Stuart can answer.

Email us: thepriceofmusicpodcast@gmail.com

Steve and Stuart

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