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  • πŸ”΅ The music industry's complex relationship with the charts
    May 15, 2026
    The business loves them, but do any fans care about charts in 2026?
  • πŸ”΅ Music, AI and the decimation of memory
    May 1, 2026
    A more personal take on an under-discussed aspect of AI-gen music.
  • πŸ”΅ My article for The Quietus
    April 16, 2026
    A follow-up on Chaotic Good, and some overdue music and book recommendations
  • πŸ”΅ Music's dirty secrets pt. 2: the bot farms driving fake fan engagement
    April 2, 2026
    Fan burner accounts – now operating at scale
  • πŸ”΅ Primary Wave/Kobalt. Concord/BMG. Which will be the next big consolidation moment?
    March 18, 2026
    The bigger companies are merging or selling – but is that a bad thing?
  • πŸ”΅ Thoughts on the Ninja Tune sale to Concord
    March 13, 2026
    The questions we should be asking as an industry now
  • πŸ”΅ "When everyone is super, no one will be"
    March 11, 2026
    The rush to layer AI onto everything is underway… and it's exhausting
  • πŸ”΅ Piracy is in rude health in 2026 – and it is all powered by DSPs
    March 3, 2026
    If you thought the Anna's Archive leak was bad…
  • πŸ”΅ Updates/followups on recent articles
    February 26, 2026
    Comments and feedback from my articles of late
  • πŸ”΅ Death by a thousand bots
    February 25, 2026
    The new agentic loop that never stops releasing AI-made music
  • πŸ”΅ Universal/Downtown – a few thoughts now that it's going ahead
    February 17, 2026
    The acquisition passes EU regulator scrutiny, but what does it mean for the future?
  • πŸ”΅ Fan burner accounts: music's latest dirty secret
    February 5, 2026
    Why these accounts are on the rise, and what that means for where social is headed for artists
  • πŸ”΅ The ever-growing management/label push-pull
    February 2, 2026
    That awkward sense of who owns what, and who effects change
  • πŸ”΅ Reappraising our relationship with friction
    January 26, 2026
    It used to be a bad word. Now? Maybe not so much.
  • πŸ”΅ How a 1971 letter anticipated the music business of 2026
    January 22, 2026
    Revisiting Bill Graham’s Plea for "New Blood" in an era of The Constant Now
  • πŸ”΅ Between a bot and a hard place
    January 20, 2026
    Christ, am I sympathising with Sir Lucian Grainge now?!
  • πŸ”΅ Playing with the Sleevenote digital audio player
    December 19, 2025
    A better way to enjoy your music?
  • πŸ”΅ Looking ahead to 2026 – some thoughts on how things will evolve
    December 15, 2025
    The wider trends I see emerging in the next twelve months.
  • πŸ”΅ Analysing the "We Are Charlie Kirk" situation
    November 26, 2025
    A dive into the AI-made song currently sitting at No.1 on 19 Spotify Viral charts worldwide
  • πŸ”΅ "It should surely be about giving people a great, durational experience of music and entertainment"
    November 19, 2025
    Part two of our chat with Aaron Skates, founder of Cantilever
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