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Growth in Music Publishing

Sheet music on a wooden table
Photo by Kati Hoehl on Unsplash
Sheet music on a wooden table
Photo: Kati Hoehl on Unsplash

Benjamin James explains music publishing, the rights to a song’s composition rather than its recording, in part one of a series on the STVDIO Substack. His example is Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” which earned an estimated $3.5 million after its 2022 placement in Stranger Things.

The article cites $2.5 billion in distributions from The MLC since 2021, a U.S. streaming publishing rate that rose from 10.5% in 2018 to 15.1%, and a forecast that mobile games will quadruple their music spending by 2030.

Read the original article: “The fastest growing half of music (is also the most confusing)” by Benjamin James, STVDIO

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Music Sharing on Threads

Threads app logo
Threads app logo
Image: Wikimedia Commons

Threads, Meta’s text-based social app, lets users attach a song to a post or reply with a music sticker. Viewers can tap play to hear a 30-second clip in the feed. Posters choose one of three display styles: cover art, art with lyrics, or the song and artist name only, which also allows photos and videos in the post (Social Media Today).

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(Note: the embedded Threads post on this webpage may not display the music share on a mobile phone; click through to the live Threads post, or please view on desktop or tablet.)

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AES Show Nashville 2026

Delta Atrium at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville
Delta Atrium at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville
Image: Wikimedia Commons

The Audio Engineering Society’s AES Show Nashville, the 161st AES Convention, runs Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the first time the AES fall show has been held in Nashville. The technical program runs all three days, and the exhibit hall is open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Badge options are All Access, one-day All Access and Exhibits+ (audioXpress).

Keynote interviews feature Jack White on Sunday, Blackbird Studio owner John McBride, and Vince Gill with producer/engineer Justin Niebank, moderated by Chuck Ainlay, on the 50 Years From Home project (Mix). Marina Bosi gives the Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture on Saturday, “Making Every Bit Count: From Psychoacoustics to the Technologies Enabling the Digital Music Revolution.” The program also includes an interview with Ronnie Milsap, a Dolly Parton tribute hosted by Val Garay, a 3D Masterclass with George Massenburg, Warren Huart sessions with Neumann CEO Yasmine Riechers and a Nashville engineers panel (Piper Payne, Gena Johnson and Reid Shippen), a Jack Douglas tribute with Steve Marcantonio, a METAlliance session on artificial intelligence, and the panel “From Stage to Stream: Delivering Live Entertainment in Dolby Atmos.” A GRAMMY Sound Tables panel on October 31 features Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Alison Brown, Jordan Hamlin and Chuck Ainlay (ProSoundWeb). ADAM Audio and Genelec are hosting immersive listening rooms on the show floor.

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Love Comes Down (Demo, 2001)

Love Comes Down (Demo, 2001)
Love Comes Down (Demo, 2001)

Here’s the original demo of “Love Comes Down” (track 10 on the album This Time), recorded on a Roland VS-880EX Digital Studio Workstation, and burned to a CD-R at the time… I captured into Pro Tools® at 32-bit-float to master here and adjust for level. Vocals, electric guitars, bass, piano and Boss DR-550mkII drum machine. Some very nice harmonies here, which don’t appear on the album release version…

Love Comes Down (Demo, 2001) — WAV, 44.1kHz, 24-bit
File: MS_LoveComesDownDemo2001_MS01_Mastered_44k24.wav

Copyright © 2002 Workplace Music (BMI)
Words and Music by Mike Shupp
Published by Workplace Music (BMI)
Administered by Songtrust
ISWC: T-071.337.486-7

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Paul McCartney on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Paul McCartney performing in 2010
Image: Wikimedia Commons (File:Paul_McCartney_black_and_white_2010.jpg)
Paul McCartney performing in 2010
Image: Wikimedia Commons

Paul McCartney is the guest on “Paul McCartney Is Music,” the October 13, 2026 episode of Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang from The Ringer. The episode runs about an hour and 15 minutes. His daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, joins at the start to ask her father about his first memory, and he describes being born at Walton Hospital in Liverpool. McCartney also talks about his pre-Beatles job winding coils in a factory for £7.15 a week, which he left when John Lennon and George Harrison offered him a gig at the Cavern, and about family life on the farm in Scotland after the Beatles.

Other topics include his songwriting partnership with Lennon, Wings and Linda McCartney, his new album Boys of Dungeon Lane, Morgan Neville’s documentary Man on the Run, his history with Saturday Night Live, and being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Asked whether he has ever smoked “Monkberry Moon Delight,” McCartney explains that “monk” was his children’s word for milk, so the song title refers to a milkshake. In a closing rapid-fire round he names the 1960s as the best decade for music, “Here, There and Everywhere” as his favorite of his own songs, and Bob Dylan as the collaborator he would still like to work with (transcript).

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Sound Credit Becomes Flowthru

Flowthru logo
Flowthru logo
Image: Flowthru

Sound Credit, the music credits platform founded by mastering engineer Gebre Waddell, has renamed itself Flowthru and expanded into music collaboration and release preparation. The company announced the change on October 21, 2026 (ProSoundWeb). Existing Sound Credit links remain available.

Flowthru adds desktop sync from a producer’s workstation, lossless streaming of WAV and FLAC files, timestamped comments and version tracking. Credits and agreed splits collected during production can be used for rights registrations and delivery to supported destinations, and the Business plan includes recording-data exports in the DDEX RIN (Recording Information Notification) format. Sound Credit was the first publicly available software to implement DDEX RIN. Flowthru’s partners include Warner ADA, BMI, The Orchard, Avid, The MLC and Memphis Record Pressing.

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Some UAP Links

File:Gimbal The First Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Release
File:Gimbal The First Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Release
Source and license: Wikimedia Commons file page

Here are some articles and news items, events, films and books I’ve been tracking on the UAP disclosure topic since the 2017 New York Times article:

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Chess Game

Chess Board

Playing the black pieces in a 3-minute (Blitz) game, my aggressive attack paid off (barely)… two “great” moves, ten “excellent” moves, only one blunder. Accuracy: 62.7 (lol)