The Trouble With TikTok Songs
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🗓️ 28 May 2023
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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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| 0:17.8 | has an awesome whipped ice cream topping that's covered in gooey sauce and chocolatey chunks. |
| 0:22.1 | Mmm, I'm really loving the new Dolcey Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake. |
| 0:25.5 | Mmm, mmm, oh man, you've got to try this. |
| 0:28.5 | Available now. |
| 0:34.3 | I started my interview with Ashley Carmen by asking her to listen to a song, or rather a clip of a song. |
| 0:50.2 | So do you do you know what that was? |
| 0:52.7 | Yes, I am very well aware. |
| 0:56.7 | Can you tell me what it was? |
| 0:58.8 | Yes, so it's a song called Hey Kids by an artist named Molina. She's a Danish Chilean singer. |
| 1:07.4 | And Ashley knows the song because it was a key part of a story she just wrote. |
| 1:11.9 | Ashley covers all things audio for Bloomberg News. I asked her to humor me and listen to another clip. |
| 1:21.9 | Do you want to get up and kiss me? |
| 1:28.8 | What's this one? |
| 1:30.7 | So that's the same song, Hey Kids, but it's set up. |
| 1:36.0 | If you wanted Hey Kids on a streaming service like Spotify and found that track, |
| 1:41.1 | it might seem like the Molina song, but it's not. Someone else, not the singer, |
| 1:46.7 | not the music label, is making money when you listen to it. |
| 1:50.0 | I met the co-owners of the label that Molina is signed to. They are from Denmark, |
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