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Henry Marsden @hennersM
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AI Will Not Fix Publishing Metadata (Until Publishers Know What They Are Fixing) linkedin.com/pulse/ai-fix-pu…

AI Will Not Fix Publishing Metadata (Until Publishers Know What They Are Fixing)

For all the excitement around AI in music, one of the most important questions for publishers is also one of the least glamorous. What exactly is AI being asked to solve? In recent months, much of...

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Are We Outsourcing Thinking? linkedin.com/pulse/we-outsou…

Are We Outsourcing Thinking?

One of the most important questions around AI is no longer whether it can make individual workers more productive. A well-used AI tool can help a good developer move faster, a good analyst test more...

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Eurgh AI "You're right to push back...."
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Check out my latest newsletter: Exit Strategy linkedin.com/pulse/exit-stra…

Exit Strategy

A significant portion of the last decade in the Music Industry has been spent discussing capital inflows. Billions has poured into catalogs, billions into infrastructure and billions into technology...

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What a Fund wants, what a Fund needs linkedin.com/pulse/what-fund…
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AI: Growth, Control, and the Future of Creative Value linkedin.com/pulse/ai-growth…

AI: Growth, Control, and the Future of Creative Value

For all the noise around AI over the past year- new models, new capabilities, new fear- the most important developments haven’t been technical, but structural. In recent months, the UK government has...

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F*ckin love @MorganWallen open.spotify.com/album/5IZ8s…

I’m The Problem - Album by Morgan Wallen | Spotify

Morgan Wallen · album · 2025 · 37 songs

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Costs and Incentives in Music Publishing linkedin.com/pulse/costs-inc…

Costs and Incentives in Music Publishing

Everyone in publishing knows the simple truth- there shouldn’t be missing royalties in the digital age and there is a tax to identifying and retrieving them. The explosion in the number of recordings...

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"'Algorithm' is arguably the single most important concept in our world" - @harari_yuval
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The MLC’s Next Phase: Identification to Allocation linkedin.com/pulse/mlcs-next…

The MLC’s Next Phase: Identification to Allocation

Since The MLC’s inception in 2018 through to the start of its start of distributions in 2021 and beyond it has been closely watched- by the market at large, by key stake holding publishers and by...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Operational Alpha: The Overlooked Return in Music Catalogs linkedin.com/pulse/operation…

Operational Alpha: The Overlooked Return in Music Catalogs

As we all know, the conversation around music catalog investments has become increasingly sophisticated as the asset class has matured. Investors, operators and the over-burgeoning ‘services market’...

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Songwriters are often called the unsung heroes of the Music Business. And it’s true, without songwriters there would be no jobs in Music. But unsung? Err! We sing their songs every day. It all starts with the songwriter.
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Remajorisation linkedin.com/pulse/remajoris…

Remajorisation

In the past month alone we’ve seen three announcements that are as fascinating individually as they are illustrative collectively: Primary Wave in talks to acquire Kobalt BMG reportedly exploring a...

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Music Rights Market Trends 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/music-rig…

Music Rights Market Trends

There was a moment, not that long ago, when music rights acquisitions felt almost mechanical- streaming growth was steady, capital was abundant. The underwriting conversation revolved around a small...

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Sustaining vs. Disruptive Technology linkedin.com/pulse/sustainin…

Sustaining vs. Disruptive Technology

On Spotify’s latest earnings call, there was a few moments that felt more important than the raw numbers (which were impressive in and of themselves- revenue grew 13%, gross margin 33.1% and over...

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Friction, Friction, everywhere. linkedin.com/pulse/friction-…

Friction, Friction, everywhere.

I recently heard a comment recently relayed by Paul Langworthy, Chief Revenue Officer of Songtradr. He was quoting a Songtradr customer, a CEO launching a new music service, who, partway through the...

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Music Publishing Isn’t Really a Music Business Anymore linkedin.com/pulse/music-pub…

Music Publishing Isn’t Really a Music Business Anymore

Last week, at Music Ally Connect in London, I heard a line that has stayed with me. It wasn’t framed as a provocation, or even as a big idea, but was delivered matter-of-factly, as an observation...

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Music’s Latest Take on AI linkedin.com/pulse/musics-la…

Music’s Latest Take on AI

Last week I was at Music Ally Connect in London- and as you can well imagine AI took it’s usual place as the topic du jour. Despite being well trodden ground there was some fascinating elements- both...

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The Strategic ‘Edge’ linkedin.com/pulse/strategic…

The Strategic ‘Edge’

Since inception, music rights acquisition has been shaped in the main by a relatively simple dynamic: top songs are what attract capital. It’s really a new spin on an old story- that music, and...

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Data Won't Save You linkedin.com/pulse/data-wont…

Data Won't Save You

Competitive advantage in music is often framed around ownership (..

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