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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

IC NEWSLETTER #80 ROUNDUP 💬 The subscriber chat is now open, starting with an AMA thread 🎶 Quick look at Cantilever Music, a ray of sunshine in streaming's Dark Forest 💸 Deep dive into how AI music platforms mainly sell lottery tickets (or enable fraud) infinitecatalog.substack.com

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Infinite Catalog Newsletter | Hunter Giles | Substack

Music industry news, company/community updates, new music and more courtesy the royalty nerds at Infinite Catalog. Click to read Infinite Catalog Newsletter, by Hunter Giles, a Substack publication wi...

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Music Biz Association members, join us for the first exciting webinar in internet history "Do Your Royalties! (With Our Help)" Register -> us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Staying on brand. They should have learned from Spotify by now that it’s much easier to just do fake artists and payola

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.” - Mariame Kaba

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We've added support for a new income source, and that source is ETSY Shoutout everyone slinging vinyl records AND yarn slipmats

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It used to be fun ignoring emails from VCs, now they're all just AI 😢

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

more like Infinite Calculator, am I rite

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Amazonification of the music industry is here.

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Greetings from Indie Week! Day 1 served up some fascinating (if unsurprising) themes that really hit home for anyone working in the independent music space…

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Three takeaways from Tim Ingham of MBW: 1. Rights ownership is becoming more powerful than distribution. Majors are evolving into global service companies that primarily serve independent rights holders

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our Summer Special is on! If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading your royalty situation, now’s the time. You can try IC free for 14 days and get 20% off with code SUMMER.

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Doing royalties and listening to the great Richard Sen on doyou.world

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Do!!You!!! World!

Do!! You!!! Radio

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

According to Spotify's latest Loud & Clear Report "The system we've built together is working". According to the data in that report: - the rich artists are getting richer at direct expense of the less well off artists - upward mobility is getting harder - artist income growth is slowing

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Spotify Payouts by Tier, According to Spotify

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Doing royalties and listening to Manuel Göttsching's 1981 masterpiece, E2-E4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k...

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Manuel Göttsching — E2-E4 (1981/Full album)

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

IC Full Service: we're OCD so you don't have to be

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What we accomplished at work last week

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Shoutout @subvert.fm, a true inspiration and something we're dying to see IC catalogs jump into This post is brought to you by the recent layoffs at #Bandcamp

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

vibe goal for IC Full Service offering is basically "what if Mary Poppins did your royalty accounting"

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Doing royalties and listening to Little Simz as usual

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Indie intel from the latest IC Community Newsletter:

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Infinite Catalog @infinitecatalog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dear algorithm, please connect me with: 💸 Musicians who don’t know where their royalties go 🙈 Label owners who procrastinate royalty accounting ⚖️ Superfans of the artist-centric streaming model 📀 Human curation appreciators 📊 Spreadsheet victims ✨ AI sludge rejecters 🚯 Anyone but Daniel Ek

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