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How much should billionaires pay for music? What would you pay for unheard Oasis gig recordings? How many songs has Peppa Pig made? And when is it too early to listen to Christmas songs?
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This week on The Price Of Music, we end up talking philosophically about the, erm, price of music (as well as the actual philosophical value of it):
→ If you were considering spending up to £1.6m on some unheard Oasis recordings at auction this month, well, we have some bad news for you…
→ Chicago band The Empty Pockets have a special edition of their new album just for billionaires. It’s a snip at just $285,000, with absolutely no extras compared to the $20 edition for the rest of us…
→ 1,300. That’s how many original songs have been released by the world’s favourite precocious, pink, porky pop star…
→ When is it acceptable to start playing Christmas music? Well, people in the Philippines, Colombia and Barbados don’t care what you think: they’re cracking out the tinsel tunes already…
→ Is Elon Musk’s X a friend to the music industry? Not if you take the opinion of global labels body the IFPI, which thinks it’s a piracy haven…
→ Some of Spotify’s biggest playlists are getting smaller – in terms of how many followers they have. But this may not be a bad thing…
→ Next year’s Grammy Awards are going to be missing another huge K-Pop act. Stray Kids have joined BTS in refusing to enter – despite there being a dedicated ‘Asian Pop’ category for the first time. Or rather, they have refused to enter BECAUSE there is a dedicated ‘Asian Pop’ category…
And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Stu and Joe prop themselves up at the bar – in this week's bonus material:
Stu ’n’ Joe go deep on, erm, Christmas songs:
When DO we think it’s acceptable to start listening to Christmas music?
How do you structure your Xmas playlist: is it all pop bangers, Christmas classics, or quirky deep cuts?
And do non-Christmas-related songs that happened to be at #1 at Christmas count as “Christmas songs”?
If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know we love quirky music gadgets on Kickstarter, especially if they let us make weird, bloopy noises and squelchy basslines. You’ll also know we’re still figuring out how we feel about AI. A new crowdfunded device called Engram combines both!
Is all piracy bad - and is it all even piracy? And which pirated / bootlegged gig would you kill to listen to?
A spontaneous update on the single Wu-Tang Clan album that sold for $4m… https://en.wi