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IC NEWSLETTER #80 ROUNDUP
💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread
🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest
💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud)
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💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread
🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest
💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud)
infinitecatalog.substack.com
Infinite Catalog Newsletter | Hunter Giles | Substack
Music industry news, company/community updates, new music and more courtesy the royalty nerds at Infinite Catalog. Click to read Infinite Catalog Newsletter, by Hunter Giles, a Substack publication wi...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
IC NEWSLETTER #80 ROUNDUP
💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread
🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest
💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud)
infinitecatalog.substack.com
💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread
🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest
💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud)
infinitecatalog.substack.com
Music Biz Association members, join us for the first exciting webinar in internet history
"Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)"
Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)"
Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Music Biz Association members, join us for the first exciting webinar in internet history
"Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)"
Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)"
Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Staying on brand. They should have learned from Spotify by now that it’s much easier to just do fake artists and payola
Sony Music sues Napster alleging $9.2m in unpaid royalties
Napster may have a new owner, but it also has some new legal troubles: a lawsuit from Sony Music over missing royalties.
Napster may have a new owner, but it also has some new legal troubles: a lawsuit from Sony Music over missing royalties.
Sony Music sues Napster alleging $9.2m in unpaid royalties
Napster may have a new owner, but it also has some new legal troubles: a lawsuit from Sony Music over missing royalties.
musically.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Staying on brand. They should have learned from Spotify by now that it’s much easier to just do fake artists and payola
“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.” - Mariame Kaba
August 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.” - Mariame Kaba
We've added support for a new income source, and that source is ETSY
Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats
Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats
July 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We've added support for a new income source, and that source is ETSY
Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats
Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats
It used to be fun ignoring emails from VCs, now they're all just AI 😢
July 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It used to be fun ignoring emails from VCs, now they're all just AI 😢
more like Infinite Calculator, am I rite
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
more like Infinite Calculator, am I rite
The Amazonification of the music industry is here.
June 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Amazonification of the music industry is here.
heavy sigh
Live Nation says it will spend $1bn on 18 venues in the US
Live Nation is opening its wallet again to the tune of $1bn. That’s how much the company says it plans to invest in 18 venues.
Live Nation is opening its wallet again to the tune of $1bn. That’s how much the company says it plans to invest in 18 venues.
Live Nation says it will spend $1bn on 18 venues in the US
Live Nation is opening its wallet again to the tune of $1bn. That’s how much the company says it plans to invest in 18 venues.
musically.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
heavy sigh
Greetings from Indie Week! Day 1 served up some fascinating (if unsurprising) themes that really hit home for anyone working in the independent music space…
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Greetings from Indie Week! Day 1 served up some fascinating (if unsurprising) themes that really hit home for anyone working in the independent music space…
Three takeaways from Tim Ingham of MBW:
1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders
1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Three takeaways from Tim Ingham of MBW:
1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders
1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders
At the industry conference
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
At the industry conference
Our Summer Special is on! If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading your royalty situation, now’s the time. You can try IC free for 14 days and get 20% off with code SUMMER.
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Our Summer Special is on! If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading your royalty situation, now’s the time. You can try IC free for 14 days and get 20% off with code SUMMER.
Doing royalties and listening to UMO’s new and aptly named IC-02 Bogotá, courtesy @jagjaguwar.bsky.social
IC-02 Bogotá by Unknown Mortal Orchestra on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 8 Songs
music.apple.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Doing royalties and listening to UMO’s new and aptly named IC-02 Bogotá, courtesy @jagjaguwar.bsky.social
Doing royalties and listening to the great Richard Sen on doyou.world
Do!!You!!! World!
Do!! You!!! Radio
doyou.world
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Doing royalties and listening to the great Richard Sen on doyou.world
According to Spotify's latest Loud & Clear Report "The system we've built together is working".
According to the data in that report:
- the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists
- upward mobility is getting harder
- artist income growth is slowing
According to the data in that report:
- the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists
- upward mobility is getting harder
- artist income growth is slowing
Spotify Payouts by Tier, According to Spotify
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March 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
According to Spotify's latest Loud & Clear Report "The system we've built together is working".
According to the data in that report:
- the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists
- upward mobility is getting harder
- artist income growth is slowing
According to the data in that report:
- the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists
- upward mobility is getting harder
- artist income growth is slowing
Both shocking and not
March 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Both shocking and not
Joe Public gets it
I fed over 900 comments on a BBC article about Spotify's payouts into ChatGPT, asking it to perform some sentiment analysis to get a snapshot of how people feel about the platform in 2025. The results are certainly telling....
🔵 Spotify payouts: what Joe Public thinks
I fed 900+ comments into ChatGPT to run a sentiment analysis, and the results are... telling.
networknotes.motiveunknown.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Joe Public gets it
Doing royalties and listening to beloved IC customer Secretsundaze live on NTS1 www.nts.live/shows/secret...
Secretsundaze 7th March 2025
London based DJ, producer, curator, band-leader and 9FINITY label boss Secretsundaze live from the studio for a bi-monthly exploration of carefully filtered house music through the lens of the rave co...
www.nts.live
March 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Doing royalties and listening to beloved IC customer Secretsundaze live on NTS1 www.nts.live/shows/secret...
Doing royalties and listening to Manuel Göttsching's 1981 masterpiece, E2-E4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...
Manuel Göttsching — E2-E4 (1981/Full album)
YouTube video by 12edit
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March 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Doing royalties and listening to Manuel Göttsching's 1981 masterpiece, E2-E4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...
IC Full Service: we're OCD so you don't have to be
March 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
IC Full Service: we're OCD so you don't have to be
Tis the season
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tis the season
Doing royalties and listening to this sick show from Mississippi Records on NTS
www.nts.live/shows/missis...
www.nts.live/shows/missis...
Mississippi Records 21st January 2025
Playing Folk, Soul, Blues, Spiritual Jazz. Mississippi Records is an independent archival record label that has been releasing music by totally original (and as a result, often overlooked) artists for...
www.nts.live
February 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Doing royalties and listening to this sick show from Mississippi Records on NTS
www.nts.live/shows/missis...
www.nts.live/shows/missis...
What we accomplished at work last week
February 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What we accomplished at work last week