232. Dustin Lynch: 10 Number one songs and a Vegas residency, the BTS of the ever-changing music industry, protecting artists & writers, and the money behind it all!
Trading Secrets
Audioboom Studios
5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Since his debut country album in 2012, Dustin has solidified his place as one of the country’s biggest recording artists with over 6 billion cumulative global streams. Dustin has earned 10 #1 singles, four top five albums, 10 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certified singles. He’s a moment of the Opry and has earned several high profile awards, wins and nominations.Â
In this episode, Dustin shares why he loves competition, how money can be made playing cover songs in college, and getting his start at Tin Roof. He breaks down how the music industry has changed, landing his record and publishing deals, and the difference between the two. Dustin also talks about protecting writers and artists, the biggest scam in the industry, and the importance of artist leverage. Plus, he dives into the real money behind live shows, the hidden costs of award shows and late-night TV, how his Vegas residency came to be, collaborations with top DJs, his go-to social media platform, influencer partnerships, and wraps it all up with a rapid-fire round!
Dustin reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Dustin Lynch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. I'm your host, Jason Tartick, and welcome to the |
| 0:17.1 | pre-market trading segment where I'm going to tell you a little bit about our guests. And I'm going to give you a little bit of a different type of intro right now. |
| 0:23.2 | You could probably hear a lot of ruckus in the background. |
| 0:26.0 | We are at stagecoach right now. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm looking at Andrew Spencer. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm looking at Justin Glaze, John Gurney, Kelly Flanagan, Blake Horseman. |
| 0:35.2 | The crew is here. |
| 0:36.0 | The crew is loud. |
| 0:37.1 | The crew is viving. |
| 0:38.5 | Now, this is a special episode in which we have Dustin Lynch on, Country Star, an absolute |
| 0:43.3 | legend, and we just had two new people join the villa. |
| 0:48.0 | So, a lot of action here. |
| 0:49.8 | But I'll tell you what, Dustin Lynch is a forced to be reckoned with, a businessman, a unbelievable |
| 0:56.2 | country star, and you are going to hear things about the industry that you have never, ever, ever, |
| 1:01.0 | ever heard before. |
| 1:02.6 | All about where the money's made, how it's made, the different shows, the different track, |
| 1:07.5 | all the stuff. |
| 1:08.3 | Now, before we get into this episode, we're going to do a little tour here |
| 1:12.6 | because the recap is a whole lot of action here. We got John Gurney here. John, how are you doing? |
| 1:17.7 | Doing good. Stage coach, 1 through 10. How would you rate it? I would say so far we got an 8. |
| 1:21.4 | We're going to bump it to a 10 tonight, though. Backstreet boys are going to be there live. |
| 1:25.5 | Andrew Spencer, we're on the intro right here. |
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