How AI is changing the music business
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The world’s largest music streaming service now lets users to monetize music in which they don’t play or sing a single note. How is AI shaping how we make and profit from music?
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| 0:58.1 | This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 1:03.1 | Rick Biato is the consummate musician and consummate music teacher. |
| 1:09.7 | He's also an engineer and music educator whose YouTube channel Everything Music, which is at Rick Biato. |
| 1:13.1 | It's racked up more than 5 million subscribers. |
| 1:18.9 | He's known for dissecting songs like Smoke on the Water or Mr. Brightside and for interviewing musical legends like Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Billy Corrigan of Smashing Pumpkins. And he joins us |
| 1:24.5 | now from Atlanta. Rick, welcome to On Point. |
| 1:29.6 | Thank you, Magna. Appreciate it. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm a super fan of your channel. I just want to say I happened upon it. I watched your video when you dissected Kiss from a Rose by Seal and I've watched that video like 50 times. It's so good. |
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