IP InterviewPublished October 14, 2020
Major Record Labels: Business Model Evolution
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Executive Bio
Nick Gatfield
Former Chairman and CEO, Sony Music, UK
Why is this interview interesting?
- Evolution of the music industry and parallels between MTV, Apple and Spotify
- How A&R executives scout and sign artists
- How the commercial terms between major labels and artists are changing
- How to think about the risk of a major record label moving from rights owner to pure distributor
- Why artists now have more power and options to come to market
- The competitive moat around record labels in the old physical world
- Spotify’s two-sided marketplace and its role in the ecosystem
- How major record labels need to evolve to serve artists
Interview Transcript
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