IC NEWSLETTER #80 ROUNDUP 💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread 🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest 💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud) infinitecatalog.substack.com

Music Biz Association members, join us for the first exciting webinar in internet history "Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)" Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Staying on brand. They should have learned from Spotify by now that it’s much easier to just do fake artists and payola

“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.” - Mariame Kaba

We've added support for a new income source, and that source is ETSY Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats

It used to be fun ignoring emails from VCs, now they're all just AI 😢

more like Infinite Calculator, am I rite

The Amazonification of the music industry is here.

heavy sigh

Greetings from Indie Week! Day 1 served up some fascinating (if unsurprising) themes that really hit home for anyone working in the independent music space…

Three takeaways from Tim Ingham of MBW: 1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders

At the industry conference

Our Summer Special is on! If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading your royalty situation, now’s the time. You can try IC free for 14 days and get 20% off with code SUMMER.

Doing royalties and listening to UMO’s new and aptly named IC-02 Bogotá, courtesy @jagjaguwar.bsky.social

Doing royalties and listening to the great Richard Sen on doyou.world

According to Spotify's latest Loud & Clear Report "The system we've built together is working". According to the data in that report: - the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists - upward mobility is getting harder - artist income growth is slowing

Both shocking and not

Joe Public gets it

🙏 @lizpelly.bsky.social musically.com/2025/03/13/a...

Doing royalties and listening to beloved IC customer Secretsundaze live on NTS1 www.nts.live/shows/secret...

Doing royalties and listening to Manuel Göttsching's 1981 masterpiece, E2-E4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...

IC Full Service: we're OCD so you don't have to be

Tis the season

Doing royalties and listening to this sick show from Mississippi Records on NTS www.nts.live/shows/missis...

What we accomplished at work last week

Mark of the beast www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/daniel-ek-ha...

Shoutout @subvert.fm, a true inspiration and something we're dying to see IC catalogs jump into This post is brought to you by the recent layoffs at #Bandcamp

vibe goal for IC Full Service offering is basically "what if Mary Poppins did your royalty accounting"

💎 Catalogs Are Forever 💎

Doing royalties and listening to Little Simz as usual

Indie intel from the latest IC Community Newsletter:

Dear algorithm, please connect me with: 💸 Musicians who don’t know where their royalties go 🙈 Label owners who procrastinate royalty accounting ⚖️ Superfans of the artist-centric streaming model 📀 Human curation appreciators 📊 Spreadsheet victims ✨ AI sludge rejecters 🚯 Anyone but Daniel Ek