Interviews with music industry movers and shakers, tips, and news. Learn more at: https://sholink.to/bobbyowsinskidotcom . On this show, music industry guru Bobby Owsinski gives you his personal insights into the industry of music, covering industry news, reviews, analysis, and tips, as well as offering amazing interviews with prominent industry movers and shakers on every show! If you know Bobby, you know you're in for an enlightening and engaging treat. So enjoy the show!
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Why Aspiring Tour Managers Burn Through Artist Budgets So Fast ft. Ryan Goldbacher | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 638
Tour management can burn through an artist’s budget fast when logistics replace leadership, and Ryan Goldbacher, a tour manager and front-of-house engineer, explains what the job actually demands when an artist’s money, crew, and reputation are on the line. Ryan traces his path from Blackbird and Dark Horse Recording, including setting up microphones for a young Taylor Swift in 2006, to Shooter…
Why New Platforms Can No Longer Access Spotify's Artist Data ft. Oskar Eichler | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 637
Reliable music data is getting harder to access, and Oskar Eichler explains why the artists and companies that know how to interpret it now have a serious advantage. As CEO of Songstats, Oskar has helped build a real-time music analytics platform that tracks streaming, playlist, chart, radio, and social media performance across major platforms. Songstats now serves 10,000 active artists and…
Why Genuinely New Plugins Fail When the Market Has No Category ft. Evan Mezeske | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 636
Indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story. Indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story. Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to create Anukari, the first commercially available 3D…
Why Blindly Trusting Your Plugin Will Eventually Ruin the Mix ft. Hannes Andersson | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 635
Audio plugin developers who assume machine learning is the right tool will find the process used by Hannes Andersson and the team at Oeksound genuinely surprising. Andersson is CEO of Oeksound, the creator of Soothe, the dynamic resonance suppressor that became so dominant on Spotify's Top 50, yet it's team rebuilt the algorithm from scratch. Oeksound's secret is two people in a room listening for…
Why Your Voice Memo Proves Nothing in a Copyright Dispute ft. Nadim Rahman | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 634
Song copyright protection for musicians who record ideas with a voice memo at 3am proves nothing in a dispute. That original moment completely unverifiable. Nadim Rahman built Songproof, a dual-blockchain platform, after recognising that musicians needed an irrefutable timestamp at the exact moment inspiration strikes, not after the fact. For 99 cents per song, Songproof issues what Rahman calls a…
Why Betting on Major Labels Will Kill Your Music Career | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 633
Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business. On this week's episode I break down the data showing how UMG and WMG now redirect spending toward catalog acquisitions rather than new careers. . . . . . have made AI licensing deals explicitly designed to reduce artist relationships. . . . . . and then kept…
Why Mastering Too Hot Destroys Your Mix on Streaming Platforms ft. Jeff Graves | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 632
Independent musicians sometimes upload masters that are too hot, so they lose transient detail the moment streaming platforms apply loudness normalization. Mastering engineer Jeff Graves spent two and a half years measuring 214 audio fingerprints across 15 samples per genre to build a 24-stage AI mastering platform, and in this conversation he explains exactly why delivering at the target LUFS…
How Darlene Koldenhoven Hit the Charts With No Manager or Label | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 631
On this week's episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or label. The common assumption that a major-label infrastructure is required to chart is exactly what her story dismantles, and she walks through the specific decisions that produced number-one worldwide radio chart results as an independent artist.…
Why Chasing Algorithms Is Killing Your Music Career ft. Keith Jopling | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 630
Music career longevity is what separates artists who last from those who burn out chasing the wrong metrics. Too many aspiring musicians hand control to social platforms, grinding out content as servants to algorithms while the industry gaslights them with success measures that have nothing to do with real longevity. Keith Jopling spent 25 years inside the business, including time at Spotify, then…
Erasing Leakage But Keeping The Drummer's Actual Performance DNA ft. Dr. Bill Evans | Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Ep. 629
On this week's episode, Bobby speaks with Dr. Bill Evans, audio scientist, producer, educator, and inventor of the Performance Restoration methodology. Bill believes that drum recording has always involved a painful tradeoff, but it doesn't have to. Most engineers accept mic bleed as an unavoidable character of a drum sound, questioning whether removing it could actually alter the drummer's true…
