Trapital Summit: Sep 10 in LA. A few announcements...
This is the room for the leaders shaping what's next in music, entertainment, and technology. It's Wednesday, September 10 at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA.
Register now. Early bird pricing ends July 24, two weeks from today.
You'll hear from:
Elliot Grainge, CEO, Atlantic Music Group
Steve Pamon, CEO, Verzuz | Board Member, IMAX
Erin Teague, CPO, Character.ai
Kakul Srivastava, CEO, Splice
Andrew Sanchez, Co-Founder and CEO, Udio
...More to be announced soon
Special thanks to our partners who helped make the summit possible:
Platinum: The Raine Group
Gold: Splice, Warner Music Group
Bronze: SoundCloud, Too Lost
Early bird pricing ends July 24. Come join us!
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Record Labels Want Market Share, But At What Cost?
This episode’s a bit different, no guests. I’m going solo to break down a big topic. For record labels, the market share they have relative to peers drives major decisions both macro and micro. They spend a lot to maintain that position. Is it all worth it?
01:33 Market Share’s Financial Impact
05:49 Challenges & Critiques
07:21 Cross-Industry Parallels
12:54 Indies vs. Majors
Trapital Summit is on Wednesday September 10 in LA. Join us!
This episode is presented by State Farm, the home for your small business needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Listen in for our Chartmetric Stat of the Week.
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How Will Taylor Swift’s Masters Ownership Saga Be Remembered?
Now that the dust has settled on Taylor Swift’s music rights saga, what’s next?
We unpacked the financial impact of all the transactions on key players like Scooter Braun, Scott Borchetta, Shamrock Capital, and Swift herself. While all of those parties made a lot more money, we took a deeper look into the potential losers over the years. And lastly, we tackle an important question: how will history remember this?
Join me and Tati Cirisano as we break it all down.
00:47 Scooter Braun’s Legacy
03:34 Taylor Swift Fans
07:12 Artists Reclaiming Their Music Rights
11:42 Superstar Leverage
24:25 Ticketmaster and the Eras Tour
This episode is presented by State Farm, the home for your small business needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Listen in for our Chartmetric Stat of the Week.
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Why Artist Development Matters More Than Ever
We’re joined by AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick. In the episode, we broke down why artist development still matters, how AWAL merges traditional record label services with its distribution business, giving artists creative freedom, global reach, and real ownership to AWAL’s artist-first approach often beats major label deals, what it means to be part of the Sony Music family, and how the future of music is being rewritten—deal by deal.
00:13 AWAL Business Model
03:57 Artist Development Focus
10:19 Sony’s Acquisition of AWAL
13:40 Global Expansion and Team Building
25:13 Industry Insights and Future Outlook
This episode is presented by State Farm, the home for your small business needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Listen in for our Chartmetric Stat of the Week.
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Why Artist Development Matters More Than Ever
We’re joined by AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick. In the episode, we broke down why artist development still matters, how AWAL merges traditional record label services with its distribution business, giving artists creative freedom, global reach, and real ownership to AWAL’s artist-first approach often beats major label deals, what it means to be part of the Sony Music family, and how the future of music is being rewritten—deal by deal.
00:13 AWAL Business Model
03:57 Artist Development Focus
10:19 Sony’s Acquisition of AWAL
13:40 Global Expansion and Team Building
25:13 Industry Insights and Future Outlook
This episode is presented by State Farm, the home for your small business needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Listen in for our Chartmetric Stat of the Week.
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