Nearly every Lyor Cohen interview makes me question if he knows what company he runs but this rather odd remark that YouTube’s algorithmic recommendations shouldn’t produce an echo chamber feels outright nonsensical. Does Cohen just skip all of the meetings where YouTube execs explicitly state that they need for people to lock into the platform until their eyeballs fall out? Weird, Cohen may wanna start attending those.

TikTok stores really are just a cease pull of sinophobia. Yet, I find this even more annoying because the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) citing Chinese censorship and copyright infringement in the same breath is so tacky. What’s a better way to try to line one’s pockets than evoking racial, Cold War-era, fears?

Is music streaming a viable business model? Each additional piece of information would say no, no it isn’t. However, let’s not rush to judgment.

The anxiety of too many music charts is even ratting brains over at the Economist. Personally, I think this is amazing news and I hope to follow the trend of economics publications getting worked up over incredibly minor music industry concerns.

If you’re reading this and are interested in the market of investing millions into music labels, this is a nice primer of the market. I’d also suggest that if you’re able to just simply throw around such money, then… the Penny Fractions Patreon can be found right here!

I’ll fully admit that the music news I find worthwhile has been rather slim over the last few weeks, but this lawsuit is also exactly what I loathe about how copyright is treated within music, where it’s essentially a moonshot to transfer wealth from the already-wealthy.