ICYMI - What Next: TBD: The Trouble With TikTok Songs
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
How the music streaming business opened the door to billions of dollars in fraud.
Guest: Ashley Carman, Bloomberg News reporter covering the podcasting, music, and audio beat.
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| 1:06.8 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. And I'm Candice Lem. And you're listening to ICYMI. |
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| 1:38.4 | In this episode, host Lizzie O'Leary brings an Ashley Carmen, a Bloomberg news reporter who |
| 1:44.5 | covers the podcasting music and audio beat. The two discuss how the music streaming business has |
| 1:51.2 | opened the door to billions of dollars in fraud. And without further ado, here's the show. |
| 2:01.7 | I started my interview with Ashley Carmen by asking her to listen to a song or rather a clip of a song. |
| 2:13.8 | So do you do you know what that was? |
| 2:25.3 | Yes, I am very well aware. Can you tell me what it was? |
| 2:32.3 | Yes, so it's a song called Hey Kids by an artist named Molina. She's a Danish Chilean singer. |
| 2:40.9 | And Ashley knows the song because it was a key part of a story she just wrote. |
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