🔵 Music's dirty secrets pt. 2: the bot farms driving fake fan engagement

Fan burner accounts - now operating at scale

Apr 2

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March 2026

🔵 Primary Wave/Kobalt. Concord/BMG. Which will be the next big consolidation moment?

The bigger companies are merging or selling - but is that a bad thing?

Mar 18

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🔵 Thoughts on the Ninja Tune sale to Concord

The questions we should be asking as an industry now

Mar 13

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🔵 "When everyone is super, no one will be"

The rush to layer AI onto everything is underway... and it's exhausting

Mar 11

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🔵 Piracy is in rude health in 2026 - and it is all powered by DSPs

If you thought the Anna's Archive leak was bad...

Mar 3

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February 2026

🔵 Updates/followups on recent articles

Comments and feedback from my articles of late

Feb 26

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🔵 Death by a thousand bots

The new agentic loop that never stops releasing AI-made music

Feb 25

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🔵 Universal/Downtown - a few thoughts now that it's going ahead

The acquisition passes EU regulator scrutiny, but what does it mean for the future?

Feb 17

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🔵 Fan burner accounts: music's latest dirty secret

Why these accounts are on the rise, and what that means for where social is headed for artists

Feb 5

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🔵 The ever-growing management/label push-pull

That awkward sense of who owns what, and who effects change

Feb 2

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January 2026

🔵 Reappraising our relationship with friction

It used to be a bad word. Now? Maybe not so much.

Jan 26

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🔵 How a 1971 letter anticipated the music business of 2026

Revisiting Bill Graham’s Plea for "New Blood" in an era of The Constant Now

Jan 22

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