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The New Music Business with Ari Herstand

Ari Herstand is the best-selling author of How to Make It in the New Music Business. Forbes calls him “The poster child of DIY music.” In this show, he deconstructs the brightest minds in th...

Episodes

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Artist Manager on Music Marketing, Artist Branding and Gen AI

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Charlie Stent, Founder and CEO of Stent Music Group, to discuss what it take...

1:05:27Nov 4, 2026

How This Indie Publishing Company Got Over 100 #1 Hits

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Chris Farren, Grammy-nominated songwriter and founder of Combustion Music, a...

1:08:47Oct 28, 2026

How the Major Labels Use AI Fans To Market Music

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Joe Lim, founder and CEO of Floodify, a marketing technology company that ha...

58:36Oct 21, 2026

How To Build An Independent Artist Career From The Ground Up

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Toni Nelson, artist manager, business manager, and co-founder of 1990 Record...

53:43Oct 14, 2026

How Deezer is Approaching AI Music And Payments

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Alexis Lanternier, the CEO of global music streaming platform Deezer. Togeth...

54:36Oct 8, 2026

How This Classical Piano/Cello Duo Built a Sustainable Career For Their Family

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Patrick Laird, cellist and co-founder of the classical cover duo, Brooklyn D...

1:11:46Sep 30, 2026

How He Got a Million Monthly Listeners and a Sold Out Tour Independently

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jared Benjamin. Jared broke down how he we...

1:09:12Aug 6, 2026

Artist Manager on Viral Syncs and the State of Music Marketing

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Laurie Lee Boutet, artist manager at Wednesday Management and manager of the...

1:01:34Jul 29, 2026

How To Be a Professional Hit Songwriter

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Andreas Schuller, hit songwriter, producer, and co-founder of music publishi...

1:14:19Jul 22, 2026

How Major Label A&R Has Evolved and How Hit Songs Are Written

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with legendary A&R executive, publisher, and educator Pete Ganbarg. With more tha...

55:18Jul 15, 2026

How a Direct-To-Fan Rollout Secured a Billboard Top 10

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Dee Diaz, Vice President of Marketing at Reach Records. At Indie Week 2026,...

51:42Jul 8, 2026

How Hopeless Records Approaches Influencer and UGC Music Marketing

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Nicole Abea, Director of Influencer & UGC Promotions at Hopeless Records. Ov...

58:20Jul 1, 2026

How CD Baby Is Changing With The Times

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Molly Neuman, President of CD Baby, one of the largest independent music dis...

1:17:01Jun 24, 2026

The Unauthorized AI Remix Became a Global Hit, How This Label Dealt With It

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Adam Gross, the president of Ineffable Records. Adam founded Ineffable Recor...

52:58Jun 17, 2026

How This Manager Sold Out Tours Without Venues and Develops Artists, Songwriters and Producers

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Joseph Pepin, artist manager, producer manager, and founder of a boutique ma...

1:07:40Jun 10, 2026

Has SoundCloud Cracked Superfandom and AI Music?

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Eliah Seton, CEO of SoundCloud. Eliah breaks down how SoundCloud is evolving...

1:09:10Jun 3, 2026

Breaking Hard Rock and Metal Bands with Sumerian Records

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Ash Avildsen, founder of Sumerian Records. Ash shares the story of building...

1:04:46May 27, 2026

Going Viral In The Right Way Allowed Him To Turn Down Record Deals and Sell Out Venues Around The World

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Red Leather, the anonymous artist who turned viral TikTok videos into sold-o...

1:05:46May 20, 2026

He Went from 40K Listeners to 11 Million and a Coachella Slot in Under a Year as an Indie Artist

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Oskar Med K, a breakout Norwegian EDM producer. Oskar breaks down the "overn...

51:08May 13, 2026

New Global Booking Agency from ATC and Arrival Artists Now Reps 800 Artists

This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Ethan Berlin and Skully Kaplan of ROAM Artists for an inside look at the rea...

1:19:17May 6, 2026