How AI is changing the music business

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 39 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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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.2	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.0	Delicious.
0:20.1	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken,
0:23.4	a podcast from the Marotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business.
0:27.9	A recent episode asks,
0:29.6	Are boardrooms ready for the new geopolitical reality?
0:33.3	Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode.
0:38.2	WBWR Podcasts, Boston.
0:46.5	This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi.
0:49.6	Rick Biotto is the consummate musician and consummate music teacher.
0:54.0	He's also an engineer and music educator whose YouTube channel Everything Music, which is at Rick Beato. It's racked up more than 5 million subscribers. 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.
1:14.7	And he joins us now from Atlanta.
1:16.7	Rick, welcome to On Point.
1:18.6	Thank you, Magna.
1:19.8	Appreciate it.
1:20.6	I'm a super fan of your channel.
1:22.1	I just want to say I happened upon it when I watched your video when you dissected Kiss from a Rose by Seal,
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