Los Campesinos! share their streaming money data (and it’s... sobering); Could a new budget policy be ”the death knell for small venues”?; And what are Steve & Stu’s Spotify Wrapped ’listening ages’?

Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s episode of The Price of Music, Steve and Stu get stuck into a late-year flurry of big news:

• "This could be the death knell for small venues" – enormous increases in business rates are coming for UK venues – Steve has a lot to say about how a seemingly-innocuous business rates policy point in the recent UK budget may prove to have a devastating effect;

• UK band Los Campesinos! have laid bare their streaming royalties – by publishing some numbers for their 2024 album ‘All Hell’ – and it's fascinating (and sobering) info;

• The UK government has launched an urgent major inquiry into how the country's live industry works – but why, and what are they trying to find out?

• How safe is the music industry to work in for young people?

• Stu's big number is 200 million – and there's a good chance you're one of them;

• More evidence that the music biz might not be ready to truly deal with AI-music;

• Christmas is coming, so for the heritage-rock-music fan in your life, what stocking-fillers are Mick Jagger and The Kinks selling?

And in the special post-show lock-in section just for our Patreon Superfans, Steve and Stu prop themselves at the bar to chat about:

• In Spotify Wrapped, Stuart’s ‘listening age’ was a sprightly 20... so why is that?

• And what is Steve's 'listening age'?

• Which of Steve and Stu are most anxious about next week's TPOM Christmas Quiz?

• A veteran DJ thinks that phones are ruining dancefloors. His solution... is hardly less dystopian.

• In Stu's quest to make up for insulting the whole of Australia (see last week's show...) he has news of something positive Olivia Dean is doing down under.

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