The Price of Music Twigs Vs Twigs! Just how big is country music in the UK now?; Timbaland's new artist is unreal; Digging for deep cuts; and how much is AI Slop worth?
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This week...
→ Stu's Big Figure is... £50,000 – and it's been donated by that good egg Sam Fender... but to whom?
→ Music’s latest bitter lawsuit is Twigs versus Twigs. (That’s FKA Twigs versus indie band The Twigs, BTW.) So who really owns the name - and can people really lay claim to band names?
→ Superstar producer Timbaland has collaborated with everyone from Jay-Z to Madonna, but his latest musical partner is not so... real.
→ Grab your stetsons: we have a listener question from Pete Feldon, who wants to know if country music is really the fastest growing genre in the UK?
→ A new website called The Hidden Jams to help people discover the obscurities in bands’ catalogues (... so what would you recommend?)
→ AI-generated songs have appeared on some people's Spotify profiles. Now the streaming service is doing something about it…
→ Last week, we reported that BTS had 300 million people watching their concert on Netflix... well, let’s just say that was a little exaggerated…
And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stu prop themselves at the bar – and Steve's getting the first round in – as they discuss this week's bonus material:
→ Talking of Patreon superfans, guess who’s joined us on Patreon this month? It’s only Bob Dylan…
→ Steve's been on the road again to the 6Music Festival and elsewhere... and why was he DJing to a mostly-empty room?
→ A new website called Slop Tracker claims to show you how much money AI tracks are “draining away” from human artists. So how much is slop worth?
→ Steve and Stu dig into some of the rankings on The Hidden Jams looking for deep cuts... and some of them are not exactly an overlooked (obscure b-side ‘Mr Brightside’ is number two on The Killers’ table, for instance...)
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