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Daily Edit | Mar 6

Daily Edit | Mar 6

Ora Cogan, soaring ticket prices, YouTube Music hits 125M subs, and a new tax provides a possible lifeline for indie music venues

Radio Edit Team
March 06, 2025

Ora Cogan
“Lucile”
Prism Tongue

3 / 6 / 2025

Headlines

Concert ticket prices are soaring, and busting Gen Z’s budgets [nyt]
SoundCloud leads, TikTok flails in Legitary’s streaming transparency rankings [EDM]
YouTube Music hits 125 million subscribers, adding 2m subs per month on average over the past year [mbw]
Guns, bombs, and needle-drop genius: how AC/DC and Motorhead became the sound of World War II [The Guardian]
Hackers stole $650,000 in Taylor Swift ticket scheme, Queens DA says [nyt]
A lifeline for indie venues: can a new a tax on arena and stadium concert tickets save the UK’s grassroots circuit [Variety]
Universal Music nears deal for offices at NYC's Penn 2 [Bloomberg]
How do you preserve a vanishing music scene? [nyt]
We asked young people what would actually make them happy [Dazed]

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