The Price of Music
Hosted by Joe and Stu and Stuart and Stuart Dredge · Music Ally
4.9from 119 ratings
- 147
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 119
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About The Price of Music
The Price of Music: your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow. Become a Price of Music Superfan and get extra content every week – at patreon.com/ThePriceofMusic (https://patreon.com/ThePriceofMusic) Follow Stuart on X - @stuartdredge Follow The Price of Music on X - @PriceofMusicpod For sponsorship email - joe@musically.com The Price of Music is a Music Ally production: https://musically.com/ joe@musically.com
- Publisher
- Music Ally
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 11 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 147 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is music radio making a comeback? Or did it never go away? And what is different about music radio in 2026? We find out...
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How much should billionaires pay for music? What would you pay for unheard Oasis gig recordings? How many songs has Peppa Pig made? And when is it too early to listen to Christmas songs?
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Viagogo gets feisty over new accusations; How much are Oasis tickets selling for?; UK anti-touting laws?; Sylvan Esso reluctantly back on Spotify; and more extreme weather show cancellations
Inside a recent episode
Is music radio making a comeback? Or did it never go away? And what is different about music radio in 2026? We find out...
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But now, when we talk about the impact of radio in a cultural sense, there's also this layer of community radio stations, these smaller ones that are focused around genres or niches or just community culture. Is that a better snapshot of what music radio is now? I think the thing is music radio is still very broad and I think terrestrial stations and these more kind of what we would consider radio stations, you know, like Capitol BBC Radio 2, these still perform a really good role in the zeitgeist and I don't think they should go anywhere necessarily. It's more that On the other side of the music radio spectrum, you do have these niche online community stations which are more independent. […]
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- Laura Fisher
- François Pachet
- Sven Deutschmann
- Lord Kevin Brennan
- Shain Shapiro
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 2,308
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 110 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts The Price of Music?
Joe and Stu and Stuart and Stuart Dredge host the show. Published by Music Ally.
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