The Blinding Talent Music Industry Podcast with Mark Adams
Hosted by Mark Adams · Mark Adams
5.0from 36 ratings
- 23
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 36
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 146K
- YouTube views
About The Blinding Talent Music Industry Podcast with Mark Adams
The Blinding Talent Music Industry Podcast, hosted by 28-year music industry veteran Mark Adams, dives into the essential strategies for success in today's music business - with guests including musicians, artist managers, producers, record label executives, and entertainment industry legends. Past guests have included Vanessa Warwick, Simon Jones, Sol Parker, Colin Barlow, and Rich Castillo. Mark Adams is the founder of Blinding Talent, a UK-based artist management and digital marketing consultancy, and a former Director of Music Programming across Channel 4 and Bauer Media, where he worked with brands including 4Music, Kerrang!, Kiss, Q, and Magic. He launched Kerrang TV and The Hits on Freeview, and led Box Network to become the UK's number one music TV network beating MTV in market share. He also created industry-first chart formats with Spotify and YouTube, launching the Official YouTube Chart (2015) and the first ever Spotify-data streaming chart, Box+ (2016). Across his career, Mark has played a pivotal role in breaking and amplifying A-list artists including Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber, Pink, and Ed Sheeran - whose first ever TV appearance he gave on 4Music. He is a certified Artist Manager (MMF, 2026) and has judged the BRIT Awards, BBC Sound Poll, and Music Week Awards. Find out more about Blinding Talent: Website: www.blindingtalent.com (https://www.blindingtalent.com) Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blindingtalent (https://www.linkedin.com/company/blindingtalent) Mark's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markadamsai/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/markadamsai/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlindingTalent (https://www.youtube.com/@BlindingTalent) Podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blindingtalentpod (https://www.tiktok.com/@blindingtalentpod) Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blindingtalentpod (https://www.instagram.com/blindingtalentpod) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blindingtalentinsta/ (https://www.instagram.com/blindingtalentinsta/) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blindingtalent (https://www.tiktok.com/@blindingtalent) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Mark Adams
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 25 Nov 2024
- Latest episode
- 3 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 23 episodes have a transcript.
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Austin Daboh OBE: He Backed Stormzy. Then Central Cee. Then Burna Boy.
29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dr Jo Twist (BPI CEO): AI, the BRITs & Breaking British Talent Globally
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Man Who Named The O2: Inside AEG's Global Live Music Empire
Inside a recent episode
Austin Daboh OBE: He Backed Stormzy. Then Central Cee. Then Burna Boy.
Published 3 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] How has that part of the industry been for you? Do you feel like you've not seen enough movement in that space or do you think we're moving to better pastures? A lot of my lived experience is me seeing the lived experience of others. Right. I've been quite lucky that I had two progressive managers who never made me feel like race was a limiting factor. Right. I myself have never felt like race is a limiting factor. And any time in my career that I felt like race was an issue, I just called it out immediately. And that was the end of it. So me myself, I've actually got quite a positive... spin on race in the music industry and the wider entertainment industry because I've actually felt like as though it's not really held me back. […]
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- Austin Daboh
- Dr Jo Twist
- Paul Samuels
- Atlanta Cobb
- Steve Tannett
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 145,985
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 35 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100
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- Quality
- 16
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 0
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Who hosts The Blinding Talent Music Industry Podcast with Mark Adams?
Mark Adams host the show. Published by Mark Adams.
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