The Music Business Buddy

Episode 110: How Song Royalties Are Being Miscounted — And How Technology Could Fix It (with Audoo CEO Ryan Edwards)

August 11, 2026·1h 1m
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Your music can be playing in thousands of real-world places right now: cafés, shops, gyms, pubs, restaurants, clubs and grassroots venues. The uncomfortable truth is that public performance royalties are still often calculated from surveys, proxies and best guesses, not from actual usage. That means creators can be underpaid or overpaid, and a lot of value ends up drifting into the black box instead of reaching the people who wrote and performed the work. I’m joined by Ryan Edwards, CE...

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